Hades' Cursed Luna novel Chapter 451

Chapter 451: A Wave

Eve

"Vampires or at least vampire adjacents will not be adversely affected by the bloodmoon’s radiation."

"And according to Jonathan Blackwell, the historian, the bloodmoon might even amplify his abilities," I added.

Hades nodded. "Hopefully, it will be the same with a hybrid like me. But since I am immune, for months our scientists have gone to work trying to derive a marker, similar to Eve’s Fenrir’s marker. When isolated, a vaccine serum can be concocted. Over the years, I have undergone extensive sessions of bloodletting to allow our laboratories to study and analyze my blood, we have a reservoir of blood,"

"Black vampire blood, always extracted at the height of flux activity in Hades," Kael supplied. "So it has more Vampire cells than Lycan."

Gallinti clapped his hands, in relief murmuring a prayer just as the door opened, letting in a small woman with glasses in a lab coat. A woman I recognized with a tablet in her hand, but by the way her shoulders hunched and she shakily adjusted her glasses, my hope began to dwindle.

She greeted the room and stepped forward. She swallowed before she spoke. "I have learned of our new deadline. And I will say now, that creating a vaccine from the Alpha’s blood is... not what we originally hoped."

Dr. Maya adjusted her glasses nervously, her tablet trembling slightly in her hands. "Let me explain the problem simply. Luna Eve has something called Fenrir’s Marker in her blood—it’s like a special tag that the gods put there to make her immune. We can isolate that marker and use it to create vaccines."

"But the Alpha doesn’t have a marker," she continued. "His immunity doesn’t come from having something special in his blood. He’s immune because he’s part vampire. Vampires simply aren’t affected by the Blood Moon—it’s their nature."

Gallinti leaned forward. "So why can’t we just use his vampire blood directly?"

"Because injecting people with raw vampire blood would turn them into vampires," Dr. Maya said bluntly. "And vampire-werewolf hybrids would be completely unstable. We’d have a different disaster on our hands."

I felt the blood drain from my face as I understood the implications.

"So what’s the neutralization process?" Hades asked.

"We’re trying to keep the immunity part while removing the ’turning people into vampires’ part," Dr. Maya explained. "But they’re deeply connected. The vampire blood fights against our attempts to neutralize it. Each pint takes three days of careful processing to make it safe, and even then, we can only process small amounts at a time."

"How much do we have?" Kael asked.

"Eight pints that are safe to use," she replied. "Maybe twelve pints total by the Blood Moon. Enough for essential personnel, but nowhere near enough for thousands of civilians."

Sweat slicked my palm even as Hades stroked it. "So you are saying that despite those excessive pints of blood, they are basically going to make things worse."

"Exactly what I am saying. If we had more time, like even ten months, it would have been enough," she lamented.

A chill slithered up my spine paralyzing me.

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