Vampire Cultivation System in a Hidden World of Monsters

"He's never going to pay the ransom," a man said.

"Sure he will. It's his daughter we're talking about here," a second man said.

"I think he's just going to send his goons after us like that guy who stole Gary's bike and chased me all over town. We'll either die or he'll run out of goons and he's the company president. He's never going to run out of goons," the first man said.

"Give it a few days. If he doesn't comply, we'll just put her to work. Make money off her that way," the second man said.

"Ok, boss. You're the boss, boss," the first man said.

I infused my leg with concentrated Vi and kicked the door open. I aimed my sword at the boss's neck while activating Blood Draw. The sword wasn't long enough to reach him yet, but I pulled blood out of my hand and made a blood blade extend past the end of my sword, making it functionally longer.

I held the blood blade against the boss's neck and said, "Don't move, or he dies."

"Ok, whatever you say man." The other guy said. He dropped his gun to the floor.

While I was looking at the other guy I noticed movement out of the corner of my eye. I looked back at the boss to see that a metal mechanical exoskeletal suit was forming around his body and going over his neck and head. I pressed the blood blade against the neck piece but it was no use, the armor was too strong.

The suit fully encased his body and didn't even look humanoid anymore. It was about two meters tall with mechanical legs, a bulky oval shaped chassis with lights on the front of it, and two arms that were less arms and more bunches of guns attached to the sides of the mechanical suit's body.

A mechanical arm came out of the top of the mech and grabbed the president's daughter. It held her behind it as it ran through multiple walls like they were nothing until making it into the storage section of the warehouse.

The mech activated jets on its back and flew to the other side of the room. It dropped the struggling woman onto the ground behind it and retracted the mechanical arm.

[Main Objective Updated: Defeat the Boss and rescue the president's daughter]

"Help me! I hate to be a damsel in distress, but I'm a damsel in distress over here!" She said.

The left and right sides of the room had crates stacked multiple stories high. The middle of the room had a clear avenue to travel through, which I assumed would be our fighting area.n/ô/vel/b//in dot c//om

"Don't worry! I'll save you! I hate to be a knight in shining armor, but I'm a knight in shining armor over here!" I said.

"Ok! I'm just going go hide in this back corner while you two fight it out," she said as she ran out of view behind some crates.

"Are you ready corporate goon? To face the wrath of an independently operated criminal enterprise?" The Boss said.

"Uh, yeah," I said. "Something like that. Can I start fighting now? Or am I waiting for something?" I tried to activate Daze, but I once again got a system notification.

[Daze does not operate through cameras. Only raw vision]

'What did I even get this thing for? It barely ever works.'

[But when it works it works]

'I suppose that's true. Oh well. Going to have to do this the hard way.'

[Good luck]

'Thanks.'

"I don't have any long range attacks, so I'm going to run at you now. Consider that me starting the fight," I said.

"Ok," The Boss said.

As soon as I started running towards him, the Boss opened fire on me with machine guns. I quickly turned and changed directions. I ran to the right and dove behind the crates.

I could hear his mech suit running over to where I dove into the boxes. Right before he turned the corner, I was able to squeeze myself between two stacks of crates. I could hear him turn the corner.

"Where are you little mouse? Come out, come out, wherever you are!" The Boss said.

I kept pushing deeper and deeper between the stacks. My goal was to make it to the other side and sneak up on him. I wasn't afraid of fighting. I just needed to close the distance so I could actually do damage to him.

I turned a tight corner heading towards the side wall. I popped out of the stacks in this little area between the stacks and the wall that was only a couple feet high. The wall here was angled diagonally to where it made a small tunnel I could crawl through as long as I didn't pull my head up.

I crawled through this claustrophobically small space that seemed to press in on me from all sides. It felt like twenty minutes, but I made to the other side. When I popped out, the president's daughter was right in front of me, hiding.

I put a finger up to my mouth to indicate she should be silent. She had just opened her mouth to say something too. Well, it would have to wait for later.

I slowly creeped along the boxes on my hands and knees until I made it to the corner of the stacks. I peeked around the corner and saw the Boss facing away from me. He started to turn back toward me and I quickly pulled my head back.

Darn it. Now I couldn't put my head out without the risk of him seeing me. The risk had been there before too, but I hadn't thought about it until now. I had to find a way to ensure he was looking away when I snuck up on him.

I reached in my pockets for something, anything I could throw over the stacks to make some noise on the other side when my hand brushed against a bunch of small wooden tokens.