Vampire Race Unlocked

“Hmm…”

I sat perched on a large rock, gazing at the small vial of blood held in my hand.

In Deron, there were many items like this that signaled the start of a quest, but they never told you how to actually begin the quest.

This was the same.

It only said it was a quest-starting item, but this blood didn’t offer me any clues.

Deron’s chubby director said he hid everything for the sake of the joy of adventure.

That piecing together clues from these items to clear hidden quests was part of the fun of MMORPGs.

He wanted players to enjoy the world of Deron more deeply.

Farming or searching for clues to a hidden quest.

I weighed the two options and pondered for a long time.

In the end, I decided to search for clues to the hidden quest.

Once I made up my mind, I had to move.

I got up and opened an internet browser.

Deron is played by many people. Surely, there would be clues about this living blood online.

And so, my information search through the internet continued.

I searched domestic and international community sites and various YouTube channels.

In the process, I discovered a YouTuber’s channel dedicated to tracking down Deron’s hidden quests.

He had obtained the living blood like me and was proceeding with several linked quests.

The last video was uploaded two weeks ago. Considering that video uploads about this item stopped quite a while ago, he must be working on another hidden quest.

The note left on his last video was as follows:

[The clue about the new race was interesting, but I couldn’t proceed with the quest any further because of my aversion to raids. I just hope that someone who does raids will complete this quest.]

A clue about a new race.

I stroked my chin and played the first video about the living blood.

The video begins with a male mage farming in this location, just like me, when he obtains the living blood item.

As a user who specializes in chasing hidden quests, he traveled to various regions in search of clues about this blood.

He visited every place accessible in this expansion pack and read every readable book.

While searching for various clues, he discovered a small inscription in a dilapidated cathedral.

It was a note left by a worshiper of the moon goddess Lunaris just before death.

[My blood feared the bright light.]

He considered this inscription a very important clue.

The ＇My blood＇ here refers to the blood of a worshiper undergoing a vampire transformation.

Bright light.

There were two things that came to mind when thinking about bright light in Deron.

One was the divine power used by priests and paladins, and the other was the brilliantly shining sun god Solaris.

The first video ends here.

It was a video with the charm of stimulating people’s interest and making them play the next video.

The voice of the video creator himself, appearing as the narrator, was also a pleasant baritone, so it didn’t feel boring.

It felt more like watching a documentary than a strategy video.

I shook my head and fast-forwarded the video to 3x speed.

The man in the video began to move quickly and try various things.

He tried purifying the living blood by heading to the Temple of Solaris, and he also poured the heals of paladins and priests onto the living blood itself.

The latter showed a reaction.

The blood, after being showered with dozens, hundreds of heals, suddenly began to bubble, and the dark energy that appeared in the bubbles disappeared as if evaporating.

The quest started from there.

“This is it…”

I knew it.

I knew there would be a vanguard ahead of me.

I immediately took out the living blood from my inventory and reached out my hand over it.

“Hat!”

A small, soft hand reached out.

The sleeve of the red robe slid down, slightly covering the back of my hand.

“Ah…”

Only then did I realize that my job wasn’t a paladin.

The paladin is my main character, Yeon. Right now, I’m Princess Yeon, the youngest Archmage.

But I’m not worried. I have many guild members, don’t I?

Even if the guild members can’t come, I have over a hundred cyber friends waiting in my friend list.

I immediately requested help in the guild chat.

Princess Yeon-[Are there any priests or paladins who can help me for a moment?]

The replies came back immediately.

There were even those who said they would come to help with their priest sub-characters.

I immediately headed to Solaris Holy City, where the guild members were waiting.

In the middle of the Holy City’s plaza.

There, more than 30 guild members were waiting for me.

I ran towards them, hotadak.

“Thank you all for gathering! It’ll only take about 5 minutes!”

The man in the video extracted the dark energy in 20 minutes with two helpers.

If more people helped, I would be able to achieve the quest conditions even faster.

I politely held out both hands to the guild members.

“Please heal here!”

“Is that really all you need?”

“Weren’t you going to ask us to help with hunting or something?”

The guild members seemed a little disappointed that it was such a simple task.

I shook my head.

Bringing in guild members just to make my hunting easier was one of the things I never wanted to do.

“Heal me!”

More than 30 priests and paladins poured brilliant divine power towards my hands, or rather, towards the living blood held in those hands.

About two minutes passed.

Just as my eyes were turning white due to the flashing lights from all directions, the living blood began to show a change.

Bugeul bugeul-

The living blood began to bubble like boiling water.

It was exactly the same as in the video.

After being exposed to healing for about 10 more seconds, the dark energy vaguely appeared from within the bubbling blood and then evaporated with a sereureuk sound.

[Living Blood]

Blood mutated by corrupted power.

Even though the corrupted power has disappeared due to divine power, it is still alive and breathing.

It looks strangely hungry.

※Quest starting item.

[Everything That Breathes]

Request the Adventurer’s Guild to investigate the living blood.

“Ooh…!”

Finally, the item changed and the quest began.

I couldn’t hide my excitement and my eyes sparkled.

The poster of the video said.

This quest holds a clue about a new race.

Maybe I can really be reborn as a new race.

“Thank you, everyone!”

I bowed my head to the guild members and expressed my gratitude.

The bell on the large dunce cap on my head jingled.

“Is that it?”

“That was too easy, no?”

I don’t need the help of the guild members anymore.

The quest content to be carried out from now on was all things that could be done alone.

The video poster’s progress was blocked only because he couldn’t enter the raid dungeon.

I immediately turned around and headed to the Adventurer’s Guild as the quest required.

The place where all adventurers receive quests.

The place where various main quests begin.

The place where everyone meets, newbies and veterans alike, was the Adventurer’s Guild.

Tat tat tat-

I ran vigorously across the Adventurer’s Guild.

The staff stuck in my back swayed, and the hem of the robe I was wearing fluttered.

“Yap.”

I stood on tiptoe and rested my chin on the reception desk as if clinging to it.

Because I was short, this was the only way to show my entire upper body to the NPC.

“Hello, adventurer-nim. Are you here to find a request?”

“No! Please investigate what this blood is!”

I said that and handed the living blood item to the receptionist NPC.

He twitched his eyebrows as he looked at the item I pushed forward.

“This is…?”

“It’s living blood.”

“It’s alive…?”

The receptionist NPC carefully examined the living blood and nodded.

“I understand. We will conduct a basic monster blood test, and the fee is 1 gold.”

I nodded at the NPC’s words and took out a small coin from my pocket and handed it over.

The receptionist NPC, having received the gold from me, smiled brightly and said.

“Please wait a moment until the examination is complete.”

As the NPC said, I went to a small chair in the corner of the Adventurer’s Guild and sat down.

How long had it been?

As I was shaking my short legs back and forth, passing the time, someone approached me.

“Are you, are you the one who requested the examination of that blood…!”

The person who came was a scholar with a long white beard.

[Monster Scholar]

[Haven]

“Yes, that’s me.”

“Please follow me for a moment. It’s a very important matter.”

The quest was updated the moment Haven finished speaking.

[Everything That Breathes]

Follow the monster scholar Haven and listen to the explanation about the ＇living blood＇.

I nodded and followed him.

The place I headed to with Haven was his laboratory on the second floor of the Adventurer’s Guild.

Inside the laboratory, there were rows of huge test tubes, and inside them, parts of monsters’ bodies were floating around.

It was a rather unsettling space.

“What I learned from examining what you brought…”

I walked past Haven.

He’s just an NPC spouting out predetermined lines anyway.

I had already heard what he said in the video I investigated earlier, so there was no need to listen this time.

Haven continued to speak, not caring about my actions.

“It’s not the blood of an ordinary vampire…”

The place I walked past Haven to was his desk.

On it was the living blood that I had requested to be investigated.

“It’s a more evolved… one that doesn’t reject divine power…”

I put the living blood in my pocket and turned around.

I had finished everything I needed to do here, so I was going to move to the next quest area.

“So you…”

I didn’t care what Haven was babbling about behind me.

I left him behind and left the laboratory.

Kkiiik-

Tak-

Haven’s faint voice scattered beyond the closed door.

Skip everything unnecessary.

My play style hasn’t changed even though the character has changed.