High School of Demon Hunting

Chapter 167: Chapter 91 Matthew’s Pride_1

Matthew Karen didn’t hear the low murmurs about him from Zheng Qing and Xiao Xiao.

He held himself upright, his steps dignified. His big red Jiuyou Academy robe was clean and well-pressed, the belt and buttons meticulously fastened. As he walked, he acknowledged each known student or teacher with a nod, his aloof demeanor tinged with indifference.

To perfectly embody the elegance of a Night Noble, he had undergone a year’s intensive training from an old vampire of his family who was said to have served as a protocol officer for the Habsburg Family before coming to the school.

He had forgotten many details of the training, but some words of the old vampire always echoed in his ears.

”First University is a miniature world of wizards, and you are the representative of the Karen Family in it!”

”Every action and word of yours represents the honor of the Karen Family!”

”The crown of honor is woven with thorns, dripping with fresh blood.”

”We are all spirits. If we even lose our honor, what do we have left?”

The orange-red rays of the setting sun broke through the treetops and fell on Matthew’s pale face, interrupting his thoughts.

He frowned, raising his head to disdainfully glance at the uneven gaps between the branches, moving slightly further under the shade of the tree.

Although being a pureblood vampire meant he didn’t care about the ultraviolet rays in sunlight, the faintly scorching sensation it brought still made him uncomfortable.

If the gardener at his home had trimmed the branches like this, he would have been thrown to feed the blood slaves long ago.

Matthew’s visage darkened, his dissatisfaction plainly visible.

Not just because of the messy branches overhead, but also because of Zheng Qing, who had just greeted him.

As a young member of the Blood Race, his mentality hadn’t fully hardened, revealing palpable emotions in response to external stimuli.

If an old-school vampire were to see his behavior, they would surely mock the Karen family’s discipline.

Of course, the Karen Family has always sneered at the worldliness and smooth talk of those decaying families in Europa.

Matthew Karen, a young vampire born to the Karen Family, was still in the infancy stage, according to certain divisions within the Blood Race.

Like a werewolf cub, being young, having poor self-control, and being arrogantly proud were common traits.

Normally at this age, he should be sleeping deeply in Karen Castle after a full serving of fresh blood, slowly amassing the energy to mature.

But a letter of admission caused a dispute among the elders.

A year ago, he received an admission notice from Jiuyou Academy of First University, which sent shockwaves throughout the entire Blood Race society.

As an important member of the Under the Moon parliament, the Blood Race’s image in the wizarding world was always contradictory. In the eyes of wizards, they were both elegant Night Nobles and bloodthirsty mad beasts.

Thus, the Blood Race always maintained a safe distance from the world of wizards.

Vampires had their own private schools, classrooms, textbooks, and rarely were their cubs admitted to First University.

Even if some descendants of noble surnames pursued further studies at First University, they usually only entered Alpha Academy.

According to the elders, he, Matthew, was the first pureblood noble in a long while to enter Jiuyou Academy.

Because of this, the Karen Family had specifically requested to delay enrolment by a year to make all the necessary preparations.

The Jiuyou Academy very generously agreed to their request.

So, not until this September did Matthew Karen set foot for the first time in this prestigious wizard school.

Entering this illustrious institution with immense pride.

As a member of the Karen Family, Matthew had plentiful reasons to be proud.

Although the family had a short history of just over three hundred years, the Karen Family was exceptionally renowned across the entire Blood Race society.

”A young and powerful vampire family.”

This was the brief comment made by the respected principal of First University at a certain meeting.

This evaluation made the Karen Family famous throughout the wizarding world.

”Young” suggested limitless potential, while ”powerful” came from the legacy of the family.

Ever since their patriarch, John Hugh Karen, arrived on the new continent with the Holy Grail on a ragged pirate ship three hundred years ago, this branch of the family has seen enormous growth and now has dozens of members.

Especially in the last three hundred years, the family has produced three powerful elders of the Blood Race.

A hundred years ago, Sir John, with his formidable power, intimidated those European relatives who had been asleep for hundreds of years. After integrating all the Blood Race members under the surname of Karen, the Karen family in the United States instantly became one of the most prestigious families in the Blood Race world.

As a purebred member of the Blood Race, Matthew was rightfully proud.

Unlike those dirty relatives of mixed or half-blood, Matthew had the full ability to transform when he was around three years old.

This meant that his bloodline was remarkably pure.

In the world of Under the Moon creatures, where bloodline trumps all, purity signifies everything.

Under normal conditions, pure members of mystical species possess greater power, more perfect bodies, and more abundant resources.

For instance, pure-blooded vampires are not allergic to sunshine, pure-blooded werewolves do not lose their sanity; even in typical transformations, pure members of the Blood Race can easily transform into giant blood bats, pure werewolves can turn into giant demon wolves; while their mixed-blood relatives can only make simple transformations, turning into various monsters that terrify the common people’s world.

Hence, from this perspective, Matthew Karen was profoundly proud of his pure bloodline.

With this overwhelming pride, Matthew entered the most ancient Jiuyou Academy, the premier university.

An equally proud academy.

Here, for the first time, he felt the unfriendliness of the world.

It was already the second week of the school, and Matthew found that his pride was gradually being lost.

The premier university gathered the elites of the wizard world. Compared to the peers he saw in his family, the peers he met here were all exceptionally capable.

He came from a well-established family. But apart from running into the powerful wizards from the Jiang, Zhang, and Tang elites; just within the Moon Council, peers from the Black family, O’Brien family, and Tabbot family, who were on par with his own family, had leveled his advantage.

He owned an excellent bloodline talent. But the genuine prodigies he saw in the premier university made him blush, especially the twelve-year-old genius student from Alpha Academy this year, who completely overshadowed all the new students’ genius brilliance. Not to mention, there was also a twelve-year-old spiritual wizard in his class.

A spiritual wizard, a being capable of summoning spirits.

If his family had a spiritual wizard, they would definitely be strictly confined in the basement of the castle to prevent assassination by opponents, or an outburst by the wizard.

But in the academy, that twelve-year-old spiritual wizard was running around merrily without a care.

Completely without a trace of vigilance!

The young blood descendant would grind his teeth at this.

But what struck him even more was his supposed outstanding social skills.

When at Karen Castle, he could always gather many friends; during hunting trips with families under the moon, he was always garnering praises from the elders.

He had a noble heritage, excellent social skills, extensive connections, but just over a week since the start of school, he had only received less than ten club invitation letters!

Yet that man who had just brushed past him, with nothing remarkable about him and a complete lack of talent, had already received nearly a hundred invitation letters!

How outrageously unfair!

The only thing that put him at ease was that his appearance still stood out among the students - much better than that guy named Zheng Qing.

However, in a wizard’s university, appearance is the least advantageous attribute.

For a face, as long as the features are symmetrical and the skin is smooth, it will never be entirely hideous. Wizards have hundreds of methods to maintain their appearance.

It’s just that most wizards don’t pay much attention to this.

Matthew felt his pride slowly draining away.

He could tolerate Lin Guo, the genius boy, making a cutesy face in front of him. He could tolerate Jiang Yu, who came from a family comparable to his own, being cold towards him. But he couldn’t stand Zheng Qing, who just nodded at him when they met and walked away as if nothing happened.

Not to mention, this man was now more famous than him in the academy!

What made it even worse, was that this guy had the audacity to make a move on the beautiful girl who transferred to their class!

That was absolutely unacceptable.

She would make a good lover. The moment he saw Elena, Matthew told himself that.

So, she is mine, Matthew clenched his fists in secret.