Vampire Cultivation System in a Hidden World of Monsters

We still needed to do something about the monsters that came out of the dragon portals as a result of the dungeon breaks. So now that Maven could defend herself and fight, we walked all over the underground caverns of the dragon territories and killed any monsters we came across.

After a few hours it seemed like our job was done. We had cleared out the dragon territories of all the monsters. I still had the issue of there being unlocked dungeons in the dragon territories, but it would take days, if not weeks for me to clear out and lock every single dungeon down here, even with Maven's help.

I would be much better off going back, grabbing reinforcements and then tackling the dungeons together all at the same time. Then we could finally put this vampire infested town behind us without any regrets.

"Does the Dragon Sect have a quick way to get to the surface? I rode my motorcycle down here, but I'm pretty certain I can't do that to go back up," I said, laughing.

"Oh yeah! There's a freight elevator," Maven said.

She guided me over to a freight elevator that was just built into the rock face of the cavern. Once the freight elevator reached what would normally be the ceiling of the cavern, we entered a shaft and continued up for a while before stopping on the ground floor of a warehouse.

The warehouse was full of crates. "What's in the crates?" I said.

"Gold," she said.

"Of course. I probably should have expected that," I said.

Maven and I walked up to the front of the warehouse where there was a small office with a security guard inside and camera monitors.

"Hey, Maven! What's going on down there? I can't get anyone on the radio or the phone," the security guard said.

"We had multiple dungeon breaks and the sect went off into the far caverns or they took the train somewhere else. They ran away basically, is what I'm telling you," she said, with a stern tone in her voice.

"Oh shit. Dungeon breaks? That doesn't sound good. How many portals had dungeon breaks?" He said.

"All of them," she said.

"Oh shit! We might as well just not use the elevator from now on," he said.

"No, that's fine. Dylan and I cleared out the territories of all the monsters. It's safe to go down there now. The hard part will just be waiting for the sect to come back somehow," she said.

"Oh, ok," the security guard said. "What are you going to do?"

"I'm leaving," she said, as she turned to walk out of the office.

"You're the matriarch of the sect. You can't leave!" He said.

"Not anymore I'm not. Consider this my letter of resignation," she said, as she flipped off the security camera in the office. "Fuck you, Florick! I'm dissolving our marriage! This is my new boyfriend! Good bye!" She grabbed my arm when she said that last part. Experience more on empire

Maven looked back at the security guard and said, "Play that for him when he gets back. Also, we'll be back to lock all the dungeons so more monsters can't break out." Then she walked out with me in tow.

We walked out of the warehouse onto the street, and hailed a cab. I was surprised you could still hail cabs in this city, with how everything was going to phone apps.

"That was… dramatic," I said. "You don't think that's going to come back to bite us?"

"I wanted him to know I'm done and he has no chance of getting me back," she said.

"Where do you want to go?" Said the taxi driver.

Maven looked at me. She didn't know where we were going. "Bella Luna Cucina, please," I said.

"Very good," the taxi driver said.

We traveled in silence. I rubbed Maven's hands in mine and just contemplated the future. We had to get Johnny and his boys and Alice's Theater of Dreams to cover all the portals so we could taken them all down in one swoop. Then we could be out of there in an hour or so and not have to deal with the Dragon Sect coming back in the middle of it.

We got out of the taxi cab when it arrived at the restaurant. I overpaid the driver and we walked into the restaurant. The tables were all set back up in the dining room and Johnny and his boys and Alice and her theater troupe were sitting at tables and talking.

Everything stopped when Maven and I walked in, holding hands. Alice saw us, got up from her table, strode across the room with her heels clacking against the ground, and slapped me across the face.

"Alice! What was that for?" I said. Did Victoria not tell her about the open relationship? She had to. Right?

"The moment! The moment that Victoria turns her back, you could back with some adorable little hussy with antlers? How dare you! I thought you were a good guy, but I was wrong about you Dylan." Alice crossed her arms and turned her head up and away from me.

Alice, always with the theatrics. I really couldn't tell if she was intentionally dramatizing her reaction, or if she was the embodiment of drama herself.

"Did Victoria not tell you? We're not exclusive anymore!" I said, rubbing my face. It was hard because she was a older and well fed vampire, but I was still stronger and more durable. Still stung though.

"Victoria! Is that true?" Alice did a dramatic 180 degree turn to face where Victoria was sitting, eating spaghetti.

Victoria slowly slurped a really long noodle into her mouth for what felt like a minute. "What?" She said. "Was I supposed to?"

"Yes!" Alice and I both said at the same time.

"I'm sorry, ok! I was hungry!" She said in her defense.

"That doesn't make any sense," I said. "I've been gone for like five hours. Are you saying you've been eating that entire time?"

"Yes?" She said, throwing her hands up. "I get really hungry when I kick a lot of ass!"

I looked at Alice who looked back at me. I said, "I don't know what to say."

"Me neither," Alice said. "I'm sorry for slapping you, but you should warn a girl first before you spring a new romantic partner into our midst!" Alice gestured dramatically with both hands at Maven.

"I'm sorry," said Maven. She looked down at her feet.

I lifted her chin. "It's not your fault. Don't worry about it. Dramatic stuff like this happens all the time around us," I said, glaring at Alice over Maven's head.

"I said I'm sorry!" Alice said, crossing her arms.

"That's fine. Let's just get her seated and fed. She must be starving after everything she's been through," I looked Maven in the eyes and smiled.