As Maria advanced across the laboratory, which resembled more an underground dungeon rather than the labs she remembered from back in Earth, with labyrinthian passages and many rooms from the dungeon itself, she had already sent over a hundred B Rank Vampires inside her shadows, swiftly and stealthily taking them down one after another.
The Vampires had yet to find out what was actually transpiring, as things were happening incredibly fast. Any accessory left to detect anomalies were covered on "dust" which was actually Maria's own soot produced by her soul, which she delicately placed over the surveillance eye-shaped camera magic items.
However, eventually, some smarter ones would begin to realize something wrong was happening here…
"Just what's going on? Where are the assistants?!" An old-looking Vampire whose left eye was a bionic eye made from technology similar to that of Dwarves complained at the three assistants inside his laboratory. "Just some minutes ago there were dozens of you bastards! Have you ran away while leaving our precious experiments here?! Do you know how precious these things are?!"
"S-Sir Heisen , we don't know what's going on, several of our men have suddenly just… disappeared."
"Have they ran away?!"
"Lady Prospera's death might had divided our forces convictions…"
"Wait, what?! Prospera was merely a tool, another little chimera I made! Who cares about her?! All of you are here serving ME!" The old vampire roared furiously. "Heisen ! The genius scientist and magician of the Vampire Family!"
Although he held a lot of pride over his own position within the Family, he was ranked fifth between all the creative minds that the Vampire Family had given birth to. Of course, he would never admit that.
"Y-Yes sir, we're well aware of your genius creations and inventive mind!"
"But this feels odd! And why aren't the surveillance relics picking up anything?"
One of the three Vampire assistant looked into a purple-colored crystal ball, which showcased a projection of the surveillance relics, and then realized they all looked very blurry for some reason.
"Don't they look too blurry? Has… someone tampered on them? But how come the cameras had not detected that anomaly to begin with?!" Heisen angrily shouted, his three assistants sighed.
"We did heard that the one that killed Prospera could had been that Ghost Woman… M-Maybe she's already here?! But it has been just a couple of hours since Prospera's death! And with the Entity, souls shouldn't be available for her to pick up and ask questions to!"
"U-Unless… She found us nonetheless."
Suddenly, a voice that nobody in that large laboratory room recognized echoed behind the metallic door, their eyes slowly landed in that very gate, as it slowly started to distort.
A huge hole emerged in the middle of the gate as if it was being pierced by something, not something physical, but some sort of powerful magical energy.
Crack, crack…! CRAAASH!
The metallic door was devoured by a miniature distortion on space itself, a tiny black hole everyone saw in horror! And that black hole quickly transformed into a gorgeous ghostly lady.
"Well, now, that door was quite tough, did you use some expensive metals to make it?" She giggled. "Hello there. I've mostly cleaned through your labs. I think you're the very last trash I need to clean in here…"
Maria glanced into the room, analyzing it in a split of a second. It was a huge, damp corridor that led through a hundred-meter-long road towards a large door at the end. There were over ten doors to the left and right walls as well, where she detected a large amount of living beings, most unconscious, and some barely alive.
The three assistants didn't even tried to fight Maria, instantly trying to run away from the place with Heisen. However, their beloved scientist wouldn't let them escape easily, they had to be the bait, of course.
"Tch, to think you bastards would attempt to run away the second she appears! Serve me well for once!" He roared, swinging his claws as threads made of blood appeared from his fingers.
The Blood Threads instantly pierced their necks and connected to their spines, nerves, and then took control over the entirety of their bodies!
"Urgh! P-Please don't!"
"Shut up and become the bait, you pathetic trash! Your sacrifice will be greatly appreciated in the future of our research, kehehehe! [Chimeric Transformation]!!!"
A miasmic power surged from the scientist and reached the three Vampires in a split of a second. Maria swiftly moved to stop him, but she was late by a few seconds, the transformation was almost instant!
All three Vampires unleashed powerful shockwaves of miasmic energy and blood energy, making Maria slightly step back as she glanced the scene, three gigantic and monstrous figures emerged amidst the smoke.
All three Vampires, which were not stronger than B Rank monsters, suddenly jumped in power to almost the same strength as Prospera! It cost their creator, Heisen, a lot of his energy and "resources" which he had stored inside of his own, aberrant, and modified body.
Their appearances and shapes were different from one another, the first of them had become something resembling a gorilla, with three long, purple-scaled snake heads, a second pair of praying mantis scythe-like arms above their shoulders, and red eyes spread across their amorphous appearance.
The second became a four-legged human-like wolf monster, with three heads, one of a cat in the middle of their torso with a huge red eye, and the third one of a black scaled lizard at the tip of their black tail, with bat-like wings.
And the third, the most pitiful, became a mass of amorphous flesh, covered on Demonite spikes and countless limbs of various creatures, with eyes and fleshy tentacles spread throughout their thing of a body…
[The [Aberrant Vampire Scientists: Heisen Crimson Blood (A+ Rank)] has activated his Unique Demonite Heart Core Ability [Chimeric Transformation] on three unfortunate [Vampire Servants (B+ Rank)]!]
[All three [Vampire Servants (B+ Rank)] have transformed into [Aberrant Vampiric Chimera Beasts (A+++ Rank)]!]
[All their Stats have further increased by +100% due to all the Miasma inside their bodies!]
"You're even more trashier than I imagined…"