God said, "Let there be light."

"Sorry, there is only darkness," Ethan Clark replied in an elegant tone. Pale lightning illuminated a handsome, devilish face, with a refined smile lingering on his crimson lips.

God said, "Day and night must alternate, the world must be in perfect order..."

Ethan Clark maintained his graceful smile and did not answer, but his silent smile had already made his attitude clear...

"Fine, after night falls, everything is up to you..."

...

In a world filled with professions such as warlocks, fighters, clergy, priests, psychics, diviners, wizards, vampires, and more, there exists such a vampire...

He enjoys sunbathing in the afternoon, likes to wear a cross as a necklace, and loves to eat raw, exorcising garlic.

Most outrageously, when drinking holy water, he even specifically instructs the officiating priest—add ice!

Volume One

Chapter 001: The First Spell

It could be said that right now, no one desires a corpse more than Ethan Clark.

He needs a corpse—a freshly dead, intact, and robust one.

Ethan Clark is a novice warlock. In this society, warlocks have always been regarded as evil beings, and almost every so-called "righteous" person feels obligated to eradicate them.

Indeed, warlocks are sinister and wicked. They often deal with strange animals and human corpses. They can refine living people into terrifying skeletons, or turn the dead into mindless zombies. Most terrifying of all are the plagues and curses they command.

Warlocks are powerful and fearsome, yet also the most shunned and hated by the world. Whenever a warlock appears, the clergy will stop at nothing to eliminate them.

And Ethan Clark is just such a shunned warlock. Precisely because this profession cannot see the light of day, he must do everything himself—research and study on his own. It took him ten years to master even the most basic skills of a warlock.

After mastering the basics, he began to attempt his first spell, and that first spell was—corpse resurrection!

Ethan Clark paid a great price to gather the four materials needed for resurrecting a corpse: ghost blood grass, brain marrow worms, preservative, and a woman's menstrual blood...

All four items had been collected by Ethan Clark. His heart surged with excitement to perform the first spell of his life, but he was stuck at the final, crucial step.

Yes, the corpse. Without a corpse for Ethan Clark to experiment on, how could there be any talk of resurrection? That’s why Ethan Clark was so troubled, he even considered killing someone himself and then reviving them!

"Ethan Clark, stop dawdling! If you don’t hurry, we’ll miss Fenluo City!" a woman’s exasperated voice sounded in Ethan Clark’s ear.

Ethan Clark was staring, lost in thought, at a wooden coffin transporting a corpse. It was hard to imagine a man looking at a coffin containing a dead body with the same intense gaze as if he were looking at a sexy woman...

"Grace Bennett, finished your meal so quickly?" Ethan Clark quickly withdrew his gaze, then put on a smile, looking at the elegantly dressed and graceful woman before him.

"Hmph, there’s a funeral going on over there. How could I possibly have an appetite?" Grace Bennett shot a dissatisfied glance at the procession, then turned and tossed her long, wavy brown hair as she walked toward her carriage.

Ethan Clark watched the curves of this woman’s back, his gaze sliding over her perky hips beneath the pale pink pleated skirt, then down to her long legs wrapped in semi-transparent lace. He commented, "Her body is still more attractive than a corpse."

Grace Bennett is the treasured daughter of the Feiai family, one of the four great families of the imperial capital. She is a renowned lady of the kingdom, and rumor has it that even the young prince is enamored with this naturally beautiful woman, planning to make her his princess after she graduates from the Warlock Academy.

As for Ethan Clark, there’s no need to imagine him as the eldest son of the Feiai family, or as some famous and promising youth of the kingdom.

He is merely an adopted son of the Feiai family, barely qualifying as half a young master. Maybe he has a few maids and servants to wait on him, and can just about take a few dog lackeys to the street to flirt with some decent women—but only decent women.

Within the Feiai family, his status is extremely low, essentially that of a dispensable hanger-on. In short, he is not on the same level as Miss Grace Bennett.

The reason he and Grace Bennett appeared in such a small town this time was mainly because Ethan Clark, as a male attendant, was accompanying Miss Grace Bennett to the Warlock Academy.

Besides her looks and figure that make many men’s blood boil, Grace Bennett also possesses an exceptional talent for fire control. She was noticed by the old warlocks of the academy and recruited as a student.

This is the highest honor in the kingdom, and a large part of the reason Grace Bennett became the family’s treasured daughter is because she entered the Warlock Academy.

Ethan Clark has no talent for being a warlock at all. After discovering early on that he had no gifts, Ethan Clark secretly began to study witchcraft. However, in ten whole years, he still hadn’t managed to cast a single spell...