All Chapters of Vermillion Haze (Red Riding Hood Series): Chapter 91 - Chapter 100

I inspected the grounds.I plunged towards the thick snow and buttoned my coat, slowly pacing towards the abandoned tent. I see no sign of human life but a newly built campfire, just as I thought. I looked around."They must have stayed here."The tent was shredded, some of its cloth grazed on the ground. I saw pots, utensils and a few books. I grab the books and skimmed through the pages.There were pictures of weird-looking plants and some alphabets I couldn't understand. Was this the herbalist's textbook?I looked around for footsteps. And yes, there were.However, it wasn't theirs.A huge paw print of a beast trailed from behind the destroyed tent. There was a red substance spreading from the snow. Fresh blood. If Vale was here, he would know who it belonged to.It was only then that I realized that they were attacked.I didn't intend to go this far beyond. It is still early in the afternoon, and I have time before dinner. I will go beyond a little more and see what I can find.Be

“Northern Highlands is my home and my territory. Riftan knew that and forbade humans to enter by creating a wall that would reach from the Western shore to the Eastern. Every entry point is blocked by his men. I wonder how you were able to get inside so quickly?”I couldn’t reply. My body was heavy, vines wrapping tightly around me. My fatigue from the fight with Leurel hit hard. Damn it... I didn't know vampires are this powerful!Under his castle, he pulled me into the catacombs. Skulls, animal corpses, and the remains of flying creatures were among the bones that covered the dirty floor. The smell of rot and dead bodies filled the air.“You've got time to lurk around, but not enough to clean this pit?!”“I ate my janitors already,” he said, deadpan.“Seriously, ever touched a mop?!”“Maintenance is for the lower class.”“Rank doesn’t matter here, idiot. You don’t even have citizens!”“You lost because you were sick and weak.”I snapped my head to the side. The siblings were locke

The vampire observes me meticulously with his blood-red orbs.I wonder what was in his mind? Could he perhaps be planning on what seasoning he would put on me if I were to be prepared on his table?"You and Riftan... are you both, by any chance, fated?"I lifted my eyes to him and crossed my arms. "Fated? Now that's a word I am not familiar with.""You don't believe in fate?" he raiseda a brow questionably. "You don't believe that someone is playing with our lives?""We pull our own strings. Everything is a coincidence. If something happens to me, I don't blame it on these 'gods' you speak of." I answered in a monotone."You remind me of Riftan's answer when I asked him the same question."The very mentioning of his name brought my curiously to rise. "What about his answer..?""Both of you do not seem to care about a god deciding your fate. You're both objective in living your life the way you can." The vampire reached out for a goblet on the table. I could see the stains in the golden

ZEN RIFTANThe vampire sat on his throne with Ruby in his arms, sleeping soundly. My Ruby. Due to the unexpected visit of a mass murderer, he had no choice but to safeguard her before custody would be settled—between him… and me. Whoever wins today’s battle will keep the Scarletflame Assassin.Darkness loomed heavier as slow, deliberate footsteps echoed through the halls. I could feel them. Not fast, not hesitant—just heavy, and dangerous. I stepped forward as the courtroom doors opened.And there he was. Leurel. The vampire I resented my whole life.I didn’t need to speak. My fury showed in my low eyes and pursed lips. Behind me stood Alzack and Zephyl, Vale, a number of pack warriors, General Galland, and the two humans Leurel had kept imprisoned.“R-Ruby!” one of them cried.“Watch out!” the boy, Klaid, I think, grabbed his sister’s arm. “Don’t get too close. Don’t you remember what happened to us?!”Etina backed down behind her brother. Vale stepped closer to me and whispered, “Yo

ZEN RIFTANHis castle reeks of alcohol and blood. He never wants to clean up, doesn't he?I've seen the moat surrounding the castle, and it was much worse since I last visited this place. I didn't remember leaping from the other side to get here. That wooden bridge always seemed to be sturdier than the walls I've built around Baronveil, and yet, I could no longer see anything but the splinters of wood and rope hanging from both sides that became evident of its recent collapse.Leurel Reissfield, one of the Sanguine Princes who originally hailed from another continent, was welcomed in Hezel personally by my late father. He once ruled the Northern Hezel under the Treaty made by the First King.But that Treaty was broken when my brother sought the first embers of destruction.Leurel was not protected, and the descendants of the First King became silent. Hezel removed the Northern Highlands from its jurisdiction. Leurel stopped receiving trades, and as the beasts of the Northern Highlands