Modern World Warlock

When the vampire sentinel, Irina, was taken back to their mansion in the northern mountains, she entered a room where her seven siblings sat around a table with their Mother in the back.

"Irina, I'm glad you are back home safe…" Mother said with genuine concern.

"Thanks, Mother. It was all thanks to you guys not abandoning me," Irina replied, slightly bowing her head.

"As if we would ever do that," Mother said with a cheeky smile, pointing with her hand at one of the chairs and inviting Irina to sit down.

"Now, tell us what you saw…" she continued.

Irina explained that the JADE talent agency did belong to the Jade Dragons, as they suspected, and their security could cast magic.

At first, the pair thought the man was a demon, so they tried using "Demonic Hold" to halt his movements, but the spell didn't activate.

The matriarch of the vampire clan already knew about the existence of a warlock, not because she had confirmed it but because it was the most probable explanation.

"Ah, I did hear his name… He was talking to an ugly imp beside me," Irina commented.

"What was it?"

"I think the imp called him… Dante?" Irina replied with a bit of uncertainty.

While none of the vampires reacted to the name, the Mother widened her eyes in disbelief, asking Irina about the man's looks.

"Umm, he was pretty tall and had dark hair. Also, his eyes were red like ours, but they looked lighter…" Irina replied.

Laurent intervened in the conversation, as he had also seen Dante in person, and said that the warlock had an extremely powerful presence that almost prevented him from moving a muscle.

Irina, on the other hand, literally couldn't move when she stood before him, so the vampire warned the others not to be too careless around him.

While the eight vampires discussed the events with each other, their Mother was silent in deep pondering, prompting her older child, Balthazar, to ask what she was thinking about.

With a mischievous smile, the vampire Mother said that they had received two more requests from the previous clients, the Onyx Cartel.

When she saw who the targets were, Mother thought about declining the offer as she didn't want to involve her children with the mafia after Irina was captured. However, something about Irina's report made her change her mind.

One of the targets was the new supermodel, who was becoming famous all over the world despite only being in the industry for a little over a month.

"Wait, don't tell me… Do they want to kidnap Lilith!?" Ezekiel, another vampire sentinel, asked.

"Do you know her?" Laurent inquired.

"Of course I do… She is like the hottest woman in the world at the moment," Ezekiel confidently replied.

When the vampire sentinel pulled out his phone and started showing the online modeling pictures of Lilith, the siblings looked at it for a brief moment and blushed a bit, wondering how a woman could be so alluring.

"I know… I'm a big fan," Ezekiel commented.

When the Mother looked at the pictures, she placed a hand on her chin and smiled, saying that it looked interesting.

"Who's the second target?" Balthazar asked.

"The leader of the Jade Dragons… A woman named Megan Dunlap," Mother replied, taking out her phone to show the picture to her children.

As soon as Irina looked at the picture, she abruptly stood up from her seat, revealing that she was the one working as security with Dante.

"You shouldn't underestimate her… She is quite skilled," Irina said.

The difference between the jobs was that Lilith was meant to be kidnapped and sent to Vincent, while Megan had to be assassinated.

Irina bit her lips with apprehension, which her Mother noticed.

"What's wrong, Irina?" Mother asked.

"Nothing… I'm just wondering why the cartel wants her dead so badly," the sentinel replied.

Irina spent three days with her captors, and during that time, she wasn't tortured or beaten up for information.

She didn't see anyone other than Dante, Megan, Krom, and Camille, but she knew that there were a lot more people at the building where they held her captive since she could hear footsteps outside her room.

While she was bound alone to a chair, both Dante and Megan would casually speak to her, which confused the vampire as she was meant to be their enemy.

"Are you feeling guilty that we are targeting them after they treated you well?" Mother asked.

"I…" Irina hesitated to answer.

"Good… I raised you guys to be compassionate, not mindless killing machines," Mother confidently said, making all of the vampires turn their gazes toward her.

"We take on these requests because they are lucrative, but I never wanted my children to do something they don't desire…" she continued.

"If there is an option where you fight and die and an option where you talk it out and live, then I would prefer you choose the latter," the Mother said, prompting her children to agree with her wholeheartedly.

The vampires decided to accept the requests from the Onyx Cartel. However, Mother made it clear that she didn't care about the results and only wanted her children to come back alive.

Even though they had failed the previous task they were given, Vincent was surprisingly lenient with the vampires and understood the difficulties of kidnapping a popular idol.

Still, the man decided to hire them again as he believed they were the best choice for the job.

The Mother of the vampires could tell that the cartel was trying to use their clan to destabilize the rival mafia factions, and since she didn't care about the mafia hierarchies, she didn't see a reason to decline their requests.

Nevertheless, after hearing the name "Dante," the woman seemed to have a change of heart.

Not only was she more cautious about the requests, but she showed genuine interest in the warlock.

After the meeting with her children was finished, the Mother stayed in the room for some time, watching the viral video of Dante's encounter with the vampires and chuckling to herself.