Chapter 9: Step-Farther and Son

Jack recognised this voice. This voice was very hoarse, giving you the imagination that he is a person who's hardships and personality has been forged throughout many battles. Jack's mum, Grace, always had a thing for men who were battle maniacs. Take Jack's farther, Davis, for example. He was a general in the army in his city. Grace fell for his personality, not his looks.

<So this is my soon to be step-farther huh? Now if I can just get a look at him, maybe I can check his stats with my 'all-seeing eye'> Jack thought as he started creeping down the stairs. When he was going down the stairs, in his sleepwear which was very ragged as Grace takes all the money from him, not allowing him to buy new clothes, he saw a middle-aged man walked in, with pointed eyebrows, messy hair and dark green eyes and his build, which gave him a sturdy, healthy and masculine vibe.

"So, you're my new step-son huh? You good-for-nothing son, come down on your knees and calmly me daddy" the man said arrogantly with a smirk on his face.

Jack was stood there looking at him, not fazed by how much aura this guy gave of, but just silently stared at him, like a predator hunting it's prey. But the future step-farther was getting angry that Jack wasn't coming downstairs and kneeling in-front of him.

Grace was standing aside, smirking about her future husband's attitude to her stupid son of hers. But she covered this up by walking up to the man, huffing and pouting angrily "this is your new son, Jack. And Jack this is my new husband, Eugeen." Grace happily said while putting on a fake smile in front of Jack.

Jack clearly new this was a façade from Grace, but he shrugged this off. Now he was wandering if he could inspect this Eugeen, his step-farther to see if he was a fake soldier or a real one.

Suddenly, Jack's eyes slowly lighted up, with his pupils going gold, but he hid this from both Eugeen and Grace by looking down, as if he is contemplating.

Jack was astonished by Eugeen's data. Especially his race.

[Identified!

Name: Eugeen Demigrove

Race: Vampire(15%), Human(85%)

Rank: Bronze-3

Stats:

Strength: 15

Stamina: 15

Soul Strength: 7

Aura: 5

Skills: Absorb (Level 1), Blood Manipulation (Level 1)

Companion: N/A

Bloodline: (Weak) Vampire Vessel (Mortal) ]

-Note-

The (weak) in front of the bloodline is how much blood in him is the bloodline. So in this case, he has very little of the Vampire Vessel bloodline.

-End-

Jack, who was looking at the screen, was shocked. He realised that this Eugeen Demigrove was a Vampire. Even a Vampire Vessel.

Jack has learnt about vampires in his high-school. Vampires need a source of blood to survive. So they choose a human or any other race who has tasty blood (for the vampires) and make them a vessel, allowing the vessels to use partial powers of a vampire while the vampire sucks their blood.

<Since he has 'Blood Manipulation', I could probably combat him with 'Void Manipulation' right? Wait, how do I even do it?> Jack thought.

'Okay system, I know I have 'Void Manipulation', but how do I actually use it?' Jack asked the system.

[Jack, are you that dumb, have you learnt about magic in your high-school or not?] the system didn't give a damn about Jack at the moment.

Jack remembered from the back of his mind. It was there because he didn't focus on the mana tutorials as his mutator allowed him to temper his body, not all his body strength got sapped when he fell victim to the kidnapping plot. Magic was all about imagination, you can create stuff with the element you possess. In Jack's case, the void is endless and all around him, so when his void manipulation gets to a high enough level, he can easily drag an infinite amount of power from the void and manipulate it to his will.

"So 'Step-Son' should we get to know each other better" Eugeen shamelessly asked to Jack, while he was thinking <Now's the time to take over this family, get a beauty and the money for myself and kick this shame of a son out of the house and get replacements for him. Even if he pulls something like a miracle out, I'm still a vampire and they have slightly better bodies than humans> Eugeen evilly grinned at the thought of pummelling Jack to the ground.

"With pleasure 'Step-Farther'" Jack replied in a cold voice, when a certain chilling feeling arose through his eyes. The eyes of a killer. When Jack was one of the best mutators in his class, some rich 2nd generation brat managed to call dark forces on him once, which made him a target for assassination, in which the attacker got his legs crippled, which made him a cripple for the rest of his life, so he wouldn't flinch when it came to murder or extreme methods.