At that moment, the vampire at the bedside suddenly lifted his head. His entire mouth was smeared with fresh blood, with thick, sticky blood still dripping down, but this did not hide his strikingly attractive features or those bright, lake-blue eyes.

He looked over in Logan Carter’s direction, his gaze meeting Logan Carter’s eyes. That blood-soaked mouth curled into a wicked, seductive smile, and his expression seemed to say: “I’ve noticed you for a while now. There’s no point in running. Just wait for death.”

‘It really is him! The high-ranking vampire Gavin Clark!’

Logan Carter felt his heart nearly shatter under that gaze, unable to control himself as he stumbled backward, his feet thudding against the balcony with a ‘thump~thump~’ sound. In the end, he crashed heavily into the wooden balcony railing with a loud ‘clang’. If the railing hadn’t been high enough, Logan Carter would have fallen straight down!

“How could I be this unlucky? It’s bad enough to transmigrate, but to run into a high-ranking vampire boss like this right away—this is hell mode!”

“What do I do? What do I do? This guy has already spotted me! I have no way to fight back, and there’s no way I can escape. Am I really just supposed to wait for death?”

“Maybe if I die, I’ll return to Earth... but what if I don’t? I only have one life—dead is dead, there’s no way to be reborn!”

“Am I really just going to wait for death? No, no, no, I haven’t lived enough yet. I want to live! I want to survive!”

After staying on the balcony for over a minute, Logan Carter slowly regained his composure. He turned to glance back into the room at the vampire Gavin Clark, and saw that he had once again bitten into Logan Carter’s mother’s neck, continuing to drink her blood.

A thought surged into Logan Carter’s mind: ‘If the prey is a noblewoman, Gavin Clark likes to drink slowly. In his own words, noblewomen’s blood is more delicious, and he has to savor it.’

This judgment wasn’t made out of thin air. In the game, he had tried to defeat the vampire Gavin Clark forty-nine times, using all sorts of methods. He had studied this bloodsucking boss inside and out, and this was now his greatest advantage.

‘Judging by the situation, Gavin Clark will keep feeding for a while. I don’t have the ability to save anyone, but as an alchemist, there’s still a sliver of hope for saving myself!’

With this thought, Logan Carter immediately scrambled over the balcony railing, returned to his own room, and rushed in three quick steps toward the alchemy lab at the corner of the hallway.

‘Vampires are as fast as the wind, incredibly strong, their claws can shatter gold and stone, and their senses are far sharper than humans. If I try to run, there’s no way I’ll escape!’

‘I’m not a master hunter, I don’t have any alchemical weapons, I’m just a rich kid not even fifteen years old, who knows nothing, and is only a beginner at alchemy. I’m absolutely no match for him—not even a hundred of me would be.’

‘Vampire Gavin Clark may be a bloodthirsty fiend, but he’s arrogant and loves to show off. High-ranking vampires’ logic is similar to that of humans, which means I can exploit the flaws in his thinking to set a trap for him... That’s my one hope!’

‘Yes, a trap! But how do I set a trap? What kind of trap works on a vampire?’

Logan Carter almost instinctively ran back to the alchemy lab. During this time, his mind was racing, desperately searching for a way to save himself.

Once back in the alchemy lab, Logan Carter immediately lit all twelve candles on the candelabra. The room instantly became very bright, and even the darkest corners were clearly illuminated.

To the left of the wooden table was a bookshelf, and next to it a decorative wooden rack, on which sat a bottle of red wine, a jar of musk balm, and quite a few bottles and jars of various sizes—at least twenty-five or twenty-six in total.

‘These... are all alchemical potions.’

A sudden jolt ran through Logan Carter’s heart, and a flood of alchemical knowledge surfaced in Logan Carter’s mind—most of it from the previous life’s game “Hunter,” and a small part from the memories of the otherworldly youth Logan Carter. The former consisted of all sorts of alchemical recipes, while the latter was real-world, hands-on alchemical experience.

Theoretical knowledge and practical experience fused perfectly, forming alchemy that could truly be used in this other world!

How could he survive the vampire Gavin Clark?

He certainly couldn’t rely on Gavin Clark’s mercy—he had none. The only thing Logan Carter could depend on now was alchemy and the potions on the wooden rack before him.

Logan Carter strode over to the potion rack and began opening the alchemical bottles one by one.

“Gypsum, alum, quartz, charcoal, saltpeter, artemisia extract, glycerin... Wait, what’s this?”

Logan Carter opened a black bottle, and a faint musk scent drifted into the air. After smelling it for a while, he actually felt a little dizzy.

He recognized it: “It’s datura root extract!”

Datura, also known as angel’s trumpet, has a faint musk scent in its root extract, with a strong anesthetic effect that can cause neural confusion and hallucinations, and in large amounts can even be fatal. This bottle contained about 30 milliliters, very concentrated. If an ordinary person drank it, there was a certain chance of death. Most importantly, this stuff works on vampires too.