Infinite Evolution: My Idle Evolution System

"I'll call Father~!!"

"No thanks," Cassius firmly denied before calmly walking away from the delirious girl.

"W-Wait, my love!" Bella called out. "What about the contract!? It states that you have to join my Crestmore Family! You have to!"

Without looking back, Cassius said, "It stipulates that I do indeed have to join your Vampire Duke Family. It does not, however, say when. I'll find some time another day. As for right now, I have more important things I need to attend to."

Color drained from Bella's complexion. "B-But…"

Cassius faintly smiled. "I'll see you around, Bella," he said before disappearing from the empty street, breaking through the |Blood Dome| with ease. Explore stories on My Virtual Library Empire

He had decided something that day. Hating Bella—it was pointless.

There was no way he'd ever be able to escape her incalculable amount of love, and there was also no way he'd be able to find it in himself to kill her. Even if she had essentially ruined the better part of his life, she was also partly to thank for how much strength he had today. Then there was this most recent vial of blood, which surely wasn't an easy thing to convince her father to give to him.

All in all, Cassius figured he'd let bad bridges between them vanish. He saw no point in holding a grudge over something so… mortal.

Starting fresh was for the best.

That, however, didn't mean he'd be all chummy with her right from the get-go. She had to earn his affection.

Then again, Bella had no idea about any of Cassius's thoughts. The only thing she knew was that he had left her right after taking what he wanted from her… and he did so without a second thought.

"So cruel," she murmured, shadows obscuring her vision. "So mean… So... So sexy~!!"

Her depression might as well have not even existed to begin with, for, like a certain hopelessly lost dragon, she was—in her core—too horny for words to properly articulate.

Though, while wiggling in place with a suspicious fragrance filling the air, Bella suddenly recalled who wrote the contract. Her eyes darkened further, and not in the good way this time.

"Daddy… He had only one job," she said coldly, "and yet he couldn't even do it right…"

A chill ran down a certain Vampire Duke's spine as he cautiously turned his head in all directions. Carmilla, who was sitting beside him, could pretty much guess what was happening to him—or, rather, what was about to happen to him. This keen intuition of hers made her signature smirk appear.

Alaric Crestmore had a bad feeling about what was to come.

— Meanwhile, on top of Mount Everest, a shadowy cloaked figure materialized into being —

"It's about time I enter the Nightmarescape again," Cassius said. "None at home have woken up yet, so they won't even realize I've gone somewhere. As for those eerie eyes that follow me everywhere…" He smirked, then lifted his hand.

"!!!" "!!!" "!!!"

Multiple gremlin extraterrestrials felt an irresistible force grab hold of them and pull. Without even the slightest hope for resistance, they were yoinked out of their pockets in space and brought to levitate in front of a demonic man.

"You six are quite a bit stronger than the last ones," Cassius commented casually before tightening his hand. "Yet, seeing as you're still merely of the S++ Rank, the Elders must not see me as much of a threat."

From the memories of dozens of aliens, Cassius had learned a lot. He knew the name of their race, he knew the strict hierarchy of their kind. He even knew the names of several of the most important figures sent down for this 'operation.'

The only things he didn't know—or was unable to find—were how exactly they got to Earth, where they came from, and what precisely their ultimate goal was.

"Perhaps you bunch will give me more insight into your origins," Cassius emotionlessly uttered. "Don't worry; I'll give you painless deaths."

"N–!" the tightly bound aliens shouted, but before they could finish a single word, Cassius's right hand clenched hard on thin air.

POP! POP! POP!

The aliens were first crunched up into progressively tinier balls before exploding into a shower of green blood and guts.

Without wasting a second, Cassius activated his mind-related skills and searched through their brain matter. Many memories similar to the ones he already knew flashed before him, but after a few nanoseconds of searching, he finally found something different. A memory. In that memory, he saw the faint silhouette of something that sort of looked like a fleshy, moving spaceship.

But just as he reached out to access the memory, warning red lights flashed around him. A large, mystically runic lock appeared on the memory. Then every memory behind and around that memory was also barred behind the same locks.

"What the…?"

Before Cassius even knew what had occurred, he was suddenly kicked out of the area where all the aliens' memories were stored. When he tried to go back in, he was even more astonished to realize that all of the memories… had vanished.

He tried a different alien's brain matter.

Yet the same thing happened.

"It seems these dissonants are not as stupid as I once believed," Cassius said with a slight grin. "Well, no matter. As I become stronger, I'll eventually become powerful enough to force all their secrets out of them. Especially those extremely powerful ones on that skull-shaped island. Those are the aliens most likely orchestrating this whole operation centered around me and…"

He was unable to finish that thought because he honestly had no clue what the answer was. The only things he could figure out from the aliens were that he had a major part to play in whatever they were planning. He also knew that aliens exceeding the S-Rank were heavily restricted in this world. But he knew for certain that they all holed up on that skull-shaped island for a reason.

His theory was that the island somehow allowed them to use their power freely—assuming they were below a certain rank. Because past a certain power level, the world would not be able to bear the weight of their presence and would thus forcefully ban them from entering the moment they tried.

However, the SS-Rank was definitely still very much allowed.