My Vampire System novel Chapter 388

Chapter 388 The First trial

Logan now had both of his hands pressed on the terminal, and his expression was one of struggle as he started to sweat a little. This was the first time Quinn had seen him panic like that. This only meant they were in a tough situation.

"I can’t open the door!" Logan shouted. "It can understand me, and it’s listening to me, but it’s the first time a machine has ever been able to outright refuse my request like this. What’s going on?"

He tried and tried again, but it was clear that right now there was nothing they could do to help Vorden. The two girls were not too far from the other doors themselves, and before anything could happen to them, Quinn quickly called them over.

"Come over here!" Quinn shouted. "We don’t want any more surprises."

All of them were now carefully watching one of the screens on the terminal that clearly showed Vorden in the room.

Inside the room, Vorden had felt a very strong force pulling him by the back of his collar. He was practically chucked into the room, but as soon as the door closed, whatever that was pulling him had stopped. He immediately turned around and as he did, he drew out both of the black and white blades, ready for anything.

He had touched Cia before, so he also had her ability, but nothing else, and hers wasn’t an offensive one in the first place, so the only thing he could rely on right now were the weapons.

Now, standing in front of him, he could see one thing in the room. It was a robot. Although not a humanoid looking one, to say the least. Its upper body was like that of a human, having two hands and a chest frame with a head on top, but after that nothing else looked human. Where its head should have been there was a single eye that looked like a pair of binoculars and as for the legs they were non-existent.

Instead, it was a pair of triangle shaped wheels with the tire being a band that would move along with the robot. Emulating a treadmill. Since it was the only thing in the room, Vorden could only guess that it was this robot that had pulled him in.

Although it looked weak, for a brief second, he had felt its strength and was extremely cautious. As he backed up with his blades continually drawn, he didn’t break eye contact even for a second. Then when he felt his back go up against the wall, Vorden lifted his foot and hit it as hard as he could with his heel. But there was no response, he could not move it at all.

When Quinn had used his inspect skill, he had made a note that everything was made of galthrium, which was why he hadn’t tried to even attempt at breaking down any of the doors. And if Quinn couldn’t do it, then Vorden definitely felt like he couldn’t do it either.

"Trial one has been initiated." A voice said from the Robot. "A new participant has been detected. Please state your family number."

"Family number?" Vorden said, looking confused. ’Does he mean my family name?’ "Blade family!" Vorden shouted.

The robot took a few seconds to reply back. "Error, Family Number not found, please try again."

"What do we do?" Layla asked. "Is he going to be okay?"

"I’m not sure." Logan replied. Usually the group always went to him for answers, but with the way things were, he was a bit shell-shocked and had no idea how to proceed in this type of situation. "The only thing I can guess is the robot said this is some type of trial, right? If he passes maybe he can get out. But the machine, it’s got a mind of its own. Usually my ability gives a life to things with a voice, it allows me to communicate and control them, but this machine, it already had its own voice. It was as if I was talking to another human and it’s refusing to do anything I ask it to do."

Hearing this crisis and what the robot was saying, Quinn thought he might be the only one that would be able to help Vorden out of this trial. "System, do you know anything about this place? What is it?"

"I’m afraid not, this whole area is unfamiliar and I’ve never seen anything like this before." The system replied.

Quinn did remember stating that when the system was alive, he lived on earth. So it would make sense to not know about this if the lab was relocated along with the vampires.

"You want a number right?" Vorden said, "Then my lucky number 77."

"Error, family number not found, please try again."

Hearing the robot speak again, Quinn had an idea. If they were in the vampire world, then it must be related to the thirteen vampire families. "Vorden, pick a number between one and thirteen!" he shouted.

Hearing this, Vorden replied. "10"

"Please state your current rank?" For the first time it had asked another question, and they were starting to make progress.

"Vampire!" Quinn shouted, assuming it meant the different evolutions within the vampire circles."