A Mutant Collector Quest

You theorise the bloodbath they are indulging in is amplifying their power, and it is clear that these Five vampires won't relent.

With a deep breath, you summon your energy. Your entire body becomes encased in a Radiant Shield, and an Electric Aura crackles around you as the black metal suit completely envelops your body.

"It's time for my debut," you mutter, focusing on your Clairvoyance ability.

You raise your hand, a glowing orb of white fire forming in your palm. Holy Fire Magic—your ace against these creatures.

"Tonight, you will learn that you are not at the top of the food chain… I am.

APEX."

The vampires lunge towards you, their red eyes burning with savage hunger. You unleash the radiant ball of flame, splitting it into five smaller orbs under your control. Each one streaks toward a different vampire, hitting them squarely.

"AAAAHHH!!!"

All the five of them collectively let out loud desperate screams that pierce the air.

The first male vampire who was rushing gets the Flame ball right at his chest; from the point of impact the white flame starts to burn his chest and starts to expand covering his whole body.

"AHHH! IT BURNSSS!!" He screams in pain collapsing on the floor.

The second, third and fourth balls of fire impacts the male, female and male respectively straight on their faces "AGGHHHHHHHHH!!!!" They seem even more desperate as there whole face starts burning in white hot flames.

The last one hits the male whom you kicked in the ribs, he tries to swat the flame ball with his right hand and hence is writhing on the floor in pain as his right hand is being devoured by your flames.

You yourself are looking at all of this in shock, as you have never heard someone screaming in this much pain, their shrieks are echoing even over the deafening music.

Just as you begin to feel a bit bad from their loud pained screams, the first male's chest starts to turn into ash, the white flames eating away rapidly at his body.

The other three whose head were covered in flames collapse down on the ground and stop screaming as their heads start turning into cinders too.

The last male tries desperately to put out the flame with his other hand but it just results in that hand getting caught in fire too, and in just the next moments his hands start turning into ash as the fire keeps travelling along his body.

"AHHHHH ITTTT HURTSSS MAKE IT STOPPP PLEAASSEE!!!" He keeps on crying for help as his face distorts in agony. You form another smaller flame on your finger and send it to his face not wanting to torture him more.

As you watch his body disintegrate into ash, you gaze at the white flames in awe. You had believed the Holy Fire Magic would be effective against vampires—after all, it bore the name "Holy"—but you never anticipated its sheer potency. While it wasn't instantly lethal, the agonizing, drawn-out pain they endured before death felt even more cruel than the act of dying itself.

All the five Vampires have died as just ash remained on the bloody floor as the proof of their existence.

"HISSSS!"

Suddenly, more hissing echoes from the crowd. Looking ahead you realize that this commotion has not gone unnoticed, as several vampires have stopped dancing and are staring at you with bloodlust in their eyes.

In the seating area nearby, you see a more twisted scene—vampires feasting and defiling humans, both males and females in a grotesque orgy, oblivious to the carnage around them.

Looking at how they were treating human beings as just blood bags and sex toys you felt anger and disgust swell within you.

"Let the Holy Flames cleanse you all," you say coldly. Ignoring the vampires charging at you, you form two big fireballs in your hands and hurl them toward the seating area.

There are dozens of vampires in this orgy with even some vampire ladies who look quite hot, but right now you had no thoughts of sparing them. With the help of Clairvoyance and some effort from you, you split the fireballs in dozen of smaller ones ensuring that they all get hit.

"AGHHHHHH!!!" What followed was a cacophony of screams of pain as the naked bloodied vampires get burned, with even their tits and cocks burning in the white hot flames.

"EEEAHHHH!" The handful of human men and women snapped out of their trance as the vampires continued to perish. They screamed in horror and terror, frantically rushing into a corner to escape the sight of the burning bodies.

"Fressshh Bloodd!!"

You had no time to assist them as a dozen vampires from the dancing crowd have surged towards you, their eyes locked on you, completely ignoring the burning corpses that writhed in agony.

With your Focus rendered useless, you couldn't determine the total number of vampires in the big dancing crowd behind them, but you guessed it was in the hundreds.

As you faced the dozen closing in on you and such a big crowd of vampires who have not attacked yet, you couldn't help but think about how you should have adhered to Elsa's original plan: to retreat after locating their nest, allowing both of you to launch a coordinated attack together.

But there was no point in dwelling on that now. You quickly retrieved a pill from your Utility Belt and swallowed the transparent capsule. It was NZT-48, a crucial aid in this situation, especially since your Focus wasn't providing much support.

Your vision expands instantly, and you are able to immediately calculate the number of vampires in the crowd.

[Vampires: 530 | Humans: 50]

The number of humans were plummeting as the vampires continued to feast on the living, while dancing amidst the pooling blood.

"Bring it on, you fuckers!" You take a deep breath of the blood-soaked air, your hands igniting once more with holy flames.

Just as you are about to clash with them, the music abruptly stops, and the cascade of blood from the ceiling halts.

BOOM!

The nightclub door bursts open, and a man steps in, his black boots splashing in the blood. The room goes deathly silent at his arrival.

"Is that him?"

"No way... really?!"

"Shit!"

The crowd that were dancing and feasting crazily have stopped and are whispering in hushed breaths, while looking at the man wearing an all black attire, which matches his skin colour.

"It's the Daywalker!"

You recognise him instantly—Blade, the Daywalker.

An African-American superhero known for battling vampires in both movies and comics. However, your Focus reveals no trace of him, suggesting he might actually be a vampire himself.

"It really is him the Daywalker!"

The crowd of vampires rushing toward you begins to murmur in hushed, fearful tones. They speak of the Daywalker, a title given to Blade, who is a hybrid of human and vampire and can walk in sunlight.

Sunlight is a primary weakness for most vampires, as Elsa has pointed out, but not for Blade, which is what makes him so formidable. Though his black sunglasses obscure his expression, you can sense that even he is taken aback by the sheer number of vampires gathered before him.

"He's here! Attack the Daywalkerrr!" The DJ on the second floor shouts, shattering the tension in the air. The hesitant, fearful vampires snap to attention, hissing as they rush toward Blade.

Bang! Bang!

The front two vampires drop abruptly as Blade pulls the trigger of his guns, their heads exploding from the impact. You know that normal bullets hardly affect vampires; even bullet holes and severed limbs do little to deter them.

Seeing the two vampires die instantly makes it clear that Blade is using silver bullets. According to Elsa, silver and garlic are like Kryptonite to vampires.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

To your surprise, the vampires on the second floor whip out their own guns and open fire on Blade from above!!