Modern World Warlock

During the week of preparation, a small group from the GTS arrived at the Jade Palace to join the training with the vampires and the Jade Dragons.

Lindsey and Curtis were excited, introducing themselves to the vampire clan as the leaders of the Golden Twilight Syndicate.

Before Imera greeted the vampires, she wanted to have a word with Asphodel and Dante, so they walked to the inner garden for privacy.

The two ladies before the warlock didn't know each other. While Asphodel had heard about The Golden Fox in the past, she never had the opportunity to meet her.

Imera, on the other hand, knew nothing about Asphodel, which was the primary reason she wanted to talk to her and get to know her better.

"I see… So, you were a child of Nicodemus," Imera commented as the vampire Mother talked about her past without reservation.

Learning of Nicodemus' demise, the Sacred Beast couldn't help but feel a surge of satisfaction. She revealed that she had encountered him a few times, always finding him to be a despicable person.

However, his clan took such good care of the city of Lumen that people either ignored or didn't know about his terrible deeds.

"Nicodemus always looked at his clan as his own soldier farm… I'm glad that's over," Imera continued.

After learning that Asphodel also used his heart as a catalyst to open the convergence and escape to Earth, Imera's eyes lit up with curiosity.

Unlike Dante and The Golden Fox, who landed on Earth by mistake or coincidence, Asphodel traveled there of her own volition, which made Imera incredibly curious about the process.

"I suppose this means we all approve of our groups?" Dante interjected as the two women kept talking enthusiastically with each other.

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As the week passed by and the groups trained incessantly, the preparations for their plans were finished.

Asphodel ordered her top three vampires to deliver the completed requests to Don Vincent, who would meet up with them on a dirt road that led to the mountain range between the cartel and the GTS' territory.

Imera was displeased at the fact that the cartel was using areas near their territory to conduct their business, but the silver lining was that she had her reinforcements close by.

After the Zeta Team took pictures of Megan's dummy, all bloody and beaten, they sent them to the vampires, who would have to show them to their client as proof of her demise.

They were also given a copy of Megan's heirloom dagger since the clients asked for physical proof.

When the group looked at the picture, they were surprised to see how authentic it looked.

Megan's dummy was impaled against a wall with her guts open, sitting in a pool of blood with her head looking down.

"Honestly, if I didn't know this was a fake, I would've believed it…" Dante commented.

The second request that Vincent gave the vampires was the kidnapping of Lilith, and while they didn't know what the cartel's plans were for her, the vampires had a good guess.

When the vampires were ordered to kidnap Kim Mi-Yun under Vincent's request, they overheard the man saying that he always wanted an idol as a sex slave, so they deduced that he had the same plans for Lilith.

"Sex slaves? In this day and age!?" Zac exclaimed.

Camille interjected the conversation, explaining that the Onyx Cartel had always used threats and intimidation as their main drive for their members.

The west side of Novaria had always been under the cartel's control, as it had the only rainforest in the country, which they used to build illegal drug factories hidden in the dense foliage.

The people who worked in these factories were kidnapped citizens from the small towns in their territory, and the cartel would make them work in exchange for not killing their families.

At one point in the past, the Onyx Cartel and the NSS (Novaria Secret Service) were in the middle of a war, as the government wanted to put an end to the cartel's schemes.

However, the cartel had too many members and resources, so they were able to defend themselves until their war came to a stalemate.

The government of Novaria, not wanting to waste any more of its resources and manpower, decided to keep them in check by preventing them from leaving the west side of the country.

"In other words, the government gave away all of that territory to the cartel…" Camille explained.

While there were still a few big cities that had a police force, they couldn't do anything against the cartel's forces, so they were essentially useless.

Lilith seemed excited the more she heard about their opponents, especially when she heard that the man who wanted to kidnap her was planning on making her a sex slave.

The demon queen wasn't excited about the idea of being a slave, obviously, but she was attracted to the idea of someone trying to enslave her.

'Hmmm, sending the demon queen of lust to punish a rapist sounds like the perfect retribution…' Camille thought.

To prepare the Succubus Queen for her mission, they dressed her up in casual clothing, which had a microphone and a camera tiny enough that they were hard to see with the naked eye.

Still, the scientists were afraid that Lilith would take off her clothes, so they gave her a contact lens for one of her eyes, which would record anything she was looking at.

The video recorded by her contact lens wouldn't be live streamed to the Jade Dragons as usual since the lens didn't have a satellite connection. Still, having a recording of her sightings could be helpful to them later.

Lilith was meant to be delivered to Vincent inside a cargo container, chained by the neck to the back of the crate.

'Sheesh, this guy really is a fucking freak…' Zac thought as he saw the chain and choker inside the dark container.

However, when he spotted Lilith putting on the choker with a slightly sensual expression, he wondered if the demon queen was even more of a freak.