Chapter 348 - An Important Decision
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In a royal-like room inside a large manor, which was decorated with red-colored furniture and several gold decorations, a beautiful Vampire woman sat down in a throne-like chair.
Her skin was pale white, resembling candle wax, her eyes were scarlet red, s.h.i.+ning brightly with a deadly light, and her hair was long and red, with small stripes of dark, her hair was so long that it reached her feet. She was currently wearing a tight black dress, with several parts that were semi-transparent, revealing her beautiful and alluring body. Her shoulders, back, belly, and thighs were what was showed the most out of it.
Despite her beauty, she seemed deep in frustration. Her enraged face was unsettling in such a beautiful face, and this intimidated her subordinates and children who gathered around her.
"Lady Aleksandra…?" Asked a young Vampire woman.
Lady Aleksandra Cythiliana, head and matriarch of the Cythiliana Vampire Family of Thanatos was deeply frustrated, but in her rage, there was a hint of fear in her eyes, although this wouldn"t be able to be seen by the ones surrounding her.
"To think that the irregular had done just that!"
Clas.h.!.+
Her delicate-looking hands suddenly transformed, becoming large, muscular, and furry, destroying the furniture and intimidating her subordinates, who ran away from the room before they were affected by their leader tantrums.
"I can"t believe it! Our G.o.ddess! Agatheina-sama! Even with her help… We were completely and utterly defeated…!"
Just some hours ago, Aleksandra had received a report from a surviving Vampire who had managed to escape from the scene in Cilane, although this wasn"t accidental, Kireina herself let this sole Vampire escape, so it could inform to its leader about what exactly happened, seeping fear in her enemies.
All of the Vampire Hideouts, destroyed, 99% of all Vampires, killed, all of the n.o.ble Vampires, either killed or disappeared, and the Elisabetta, Matilda, and Hendrik, her most trusted n.o.ble Vampires, killed mercilessly.
And to top it all, there wasn"t a single loss in the Centaur"s side, aside from the n.o.bles and Centaurs that the Vampires had already killed beforehand to destroy the Kingdom from the inside or to feed themselves.
An utter defeat in every sense of the world.
"And if things weren"t ridiculous enough… Agatheina-sama had been damaged by that irregular, a mortal! This is… this would be impossible! If Agatheina-sama herself did not tell me, I would have never trusted anyone"s words!"
Indeed, when Aleksandra heard the explanation from the Vampire who was let alive to escape, saying about the pained screams of who seemed to be their G.o.ddess, Aleksandra almost ripped off the Vampire"s limbs before crus.h.i.+ng his head like a watermelon… if she wasn"t stopped by Agatheina"s divine message, confirming everything that was reported as the truth.
"T-This irregular! It"s beyond all things… An existence like this should not even exist… But if Agatheina-sama said that it was the truth, who am I to doubt my G.o.ddess words? Sigh…"
Calming down, Aleksandra went back to her original form, her large and muscular furry limbs disappeared, and she sat down in her throne-like chair, sighing.
Seeing that their mother had calmed down, Aleksandra"s children entered the room once again.
"Mother… I know that this may hurt our pride, but we must obey our G.o.ddess orders…"
"Yes, even if we have to… kneel in the ground and ask for forgiveness…"
As she heard her children"s words, Aleksandra face twisted once again, and her Aura expanded wildly like a savage beast, scaring everyone again… However, she calmed down promptly after.
"Sigh… you"re right, my children"
Just what orders had Agatheina given to Aleksandra that it made her so angered and frustrated?
She had ordered her entire family to ask for Irregular"s forgiveness, a figure that they had always growth to hate, the irregulars who have bestowed the powers of Vampires through the System Existence Evolution and not through another True Vampire.
Since Agatheina"s request, Aleksandra had the intention of using every tool given to her to kill the irregular and bring her body to Agatheina, offering it to her G.o.ddess as a sacrifice. However, such intentions will never come to fruition.
Although Aleksandra"s strength was even higher than the Three Vampire n.o.bles, the possibility of winning against someone capable of eating them as snacks and also severely damaging a G.o.ddess with a large scar as if nothing were close to zero. Even her, in her experience, wisdom, and strength, could see that such a possibility was already below 1%.
The transformations, abilities, and powers showcased by the irregular were ridiculous in every sense. The ability to transform into a metal giant that caused hallucinations when seen, which had strength capable of creating tornados with its wings and tremors with its arms, capable of firing Chaos-Attribute Spheres of destruction, capable of shapes.h.i.+fting its body, incredible endurance, and absurd regeneration even for Vampires… It was too much.
Even more, it seemed to have an endless pool of MP and because it was a Vampire, it was tireless. It also possessed such an advanced control of its Aura that it could easily create Domains and trap people inside separate s.p.a.ces like nothing.
It also had countless magic barriers, as if its strange magic armors weren"t enough, it could mold the earth and generate elements and it could summon and an endless amount of Undead and monsters of all kinds, easily being able to create an army and constantly invade any Kingdom it wanted without any loses other than its seemingly endless MP Pool.
Because of this, it could also create endless food supplies and also clean water… possibly being able to support any Kingdom without issues.
This monster was not only tremendously strong and lacked any weakness, but it was also capable of sustaining life and make it flourish, she was a true G.o.ddess to most eyes.
She was called a G.o.ddess several times in Cilane, and the spy, who had tried to Appraise her in the past was blocked by her Appraisal Block Skill, an incredibly rare skill, no one in Thanatos possess such ability. However, everyone already a.s.sumed that she could possess over one hundred Skills and probably over fifty t.i.tles.
Anyone who saw her abilities would a.s.sume that she was either a G.o.ddess or some kind of demon that came from a different Realm.
Not even Agatheina was clear of Kireina"s origins, she only knew her name and that one day she evolved into an irregular. And when she caused all of that ruckus when she stole the Lone G.o.d Omgramid"s dungeon, forcing him to fall off grace, becoming a Fallen G.o.d. Since then, the name "Kireina" was widely known within G.o.ds Pantheons. Some wanted to meet her, others wanted to invite her to their Pantheons, and others wanted to take her life away.
Agatheina, before being damaged, was of the "take her life away" party… but after getting attacked and scared, she only thought about her survivability and that of her children, so she had moved her pride as a G.o.ddess away, and decided to curry flavor the irregular at any cost. Deciding to join her enemy before things became worse.
Aleksandra understood this, yet, her pride, as a mortal, was hard to move away. She was always the prided Head of the Vampire Family, suddenly turning her head down and screaming "Please, forgive me! Don"t kill us, we"ll do anything!" was rather ridiculous.
However, Agatheina was not a fool, and she had chosen an intelligent woman as her successor in the Vampire Family. Aleksandra wasn"t a fool either, she had already decided to do so as her G.o.ddess ordered, not only because these were the divine words of her ancestor, but also because she also understood the situation, they were in.
"But… What will we tell the Pure Demon n.o.ble Families? The Royal Families or the Greedy Queen?! Will we have to run away or be exiled? Where would we run to?" Asked a young Vampire, one of Aleksandra"s children.
"Just as Agatheina-sama as ordered, we will move to the Irregular"s Empire"
"But don"t we belong to Thanatos? What will the demons say?"
"Mother, do you really think that the demons will stay still as we calmly pack things up?"
"The Greedy Queen will come for our heads!"
Aleksandra released a bitter smile.
"Don"t worry, leave it to our G.o.ddess… she had already considered such things…"
The Vampires looked at each other with surprise, and as they talked and asked for their Mother answers, in the Divine Realm of Agatheina, Levana, the Demi-G.o.ddess of Bats Beastmen, was being lectured.
"I understand, grandmother…"
"I"m glad you have come to understand my point of view of the situation… This irregular is not just an abnormally strong mortal… but a being that will bring change to the whole world… sooner or later, everything we know it, even that of the society of the G.o.ds will be destroyed and reformed from scratch… It is better to jump on the boat before that happens and be by her side, she seems very protective of her allies, so our survivability will be increased by dozens of times"
"But grandmother, how are you so sure that she will accept your offers, after all, we did by bothering her with our plans… without our intervention, she would have easily taken the Cilane Kingdom, seeing as how she already was acquittance with the Centaur Princesses"
"Indeed, we will have to go to even greater leaps than even your siblings…" said Aleksandra, as she sat down in her bed, she seemed a little bit healthier, but she was still being feed with blood.
"My siblings… now that where are doing the same as them… Should we try to contact them?"
"Well, I"m sure they have completely forgotten about your existence by now… by how silent you have been for hundreds of years…"
"Haah… T-This will be troublesome…" Levana groaned, she was instinctively a shy girl that always looked for cold and dark places to stay, just like real bats.
Socializing with her siblings, who were all colorful and possessed cheerful personalities was hard for her, who had a gloomy and lazy demeanor.
Perhaps due to her personality, she was thought to have died long ago, or some had already known about her being intimate with the G.o.ddess of Blood, she had so many siblings that the possibility of one or a few to have figured the truth wasn"t impossible.
"Well, it would be better if we approach Kireina separately, and when she had formed enough bonds with the other G.o.ds, that we present ourselves, this way there will be Kireina to bond us forcefully and they won"t be able to complain as much, they would just be forced to work with us" Agatheina a.n.a.lyzed.
Levana was once again enlightened by her grandmother"s words.
"T-That"s true…! I didn"t think about that… I thought that I would have to try to talk to them, and I didn"t want to be discriminated against or something…"
"Levana, you have lived for hundreds of years by now, you should practice more your sociability… maybe speaking more with your mortal descendants? I don"t think that my descendants could help you out, though"
"Awawawa… B-But…"
The Living Deity Vampires had completely merged with the background, silently spectating the conversations in silence. Most of them, however, didn"t particularly have any interest in Levana, whatsoever.
"You mated with a Human Champion in the past to generate the Bat Beastmen, what happened to him? You should have asked me to convert him into a vampire so he could live for eternity at your side…"
"Uwah, grandmother, please don"t start this again… it was only a single night, and he also did the same for several of my other sisters… we weren"t in a relations.h.i.+p at all, he was just doing his work… And he had also gone back to the cycle of reincarnation, so there is nothing to talk about!"
"Hm~ Ah, maybe you could convince Kireina with your body then? Seeing you haven"t produced children for so long…"
"Grandmother!"
"Fufufu, Levana, I think that it is time for you to create a new race!"
"Uwaaah! S-Stop!"
As Grandmother and Granddaughter finished their conversation after several hours, they had finally decided to speak with Kireina through her dreams… However, Kireina was still awake by night, and when Agatheina tried to use her artifact to see the irregular, she managed to catch a glimpse of what she was doing…
Two beautiful young Centaur women moaned in pleasure as they received the gentle thrusts of a beautiful and devilish-looking dark fairy…
Agatheina blushed and released a mischievous smile.
"Oh my…"
While Levana covered her face with her hand, however, her eyes slipped through the gaps of her fingers.
"Uwaah! How unsightly! W-What is she doooing…?!"
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[Bestiary]
[Vampires]
An ageless Race created by Agatheina, the G.o.ddess of Blood.
The origins of their mystical bloodline come from Agatheina"s time as mortal when Genesis was a single planet. In her journey for power and reaching G.o.dhood, she had gone through countless hards.h.i.+ps, gathering the bloodline of powerful beasts and mystical materials.
After dozens of years, when she was in her last years of elderly age, she managed to complete the bloodline, inserting it into her blood and instantly gaining youth once again. However, her skin became pale white, her eyes turned scarlet red, and her hair white silver.
She felt an incredible thirst for blood and a big weakness for Light, Holy, and the Sun. Her entire body went through an evolution, obtaining Monstrous Strength that shouldn"t belong in such a delicate body, amazing abilities like Demon Eyes, masterful Blood Manipulation, and other abilities like the creation of Steel Demon Hair and Thread.
Although she sees this as a curse, Agatheina also gained the ability to transform into a giant Bat-like beast with even more tremendous strength and physical prowess.
After this bloodline was obtained, she easily ascended to G.o.dhood and created her children by mating with strong human mortals.
Her first children inherited most of her abilities, but as they had their own children, the abilities started to separate between more, and each Vampire was only born with a single power, either a Demon Eye, Demon Thread/Hair, Transformation, Monster Summoning, etc.
She also could make almost any other race into a Vampire, but she rarely practiced this, only making her children convert other mortals, gaining hundreds of subordinates, which she welcomed as her own children as well.
When the Demon G.o.ds gathered and created the Thanatos Kingdom in the Realm of Vida, she was invited to join, as she had good relations.h.i.+ps with them.
Her family then became one of the n.o.ble Families, and even though they weren"t Demons, they were greatly recognized by their strength, becoming the secret agents for royalty, directly serving the King and Queen through the years.
Most Vampires develop a weakness to Light, Holy, Fire, and the Sun, but there are occasions where Vampires are born without these weaknesses, although these are exceedingly rare.
There are other similar cases where Vampires are born with several abilities at the same time and others where their original bloodlines awaken and become even stronger after turning into Vampires.
It is an amazingly strong race, but their numbers are smaller compared to the Demons, and their lower ranks like Servant Vampires or Subordinate Vampires are usually still very weak compared to young pure-blooded Demons or even mixed blooded Demons.
However, as they evolve and develop their abilities, Vampires can easily compete with Pure-Blooded Demons even if they are raised from Subordinate or Servant Vampires.
Compared to an average Human Knight or Adventurer, however, a Subordinate Vampire is vastly superior. And because they can evolve and gain Cla.s.ses, they can grow faster than Humans.
The only reason Vampires haven"t overthrown humans is because Agatheina herself is wary of them, and because in the Border Continent, Humans are rare or scarce, as the greater population is gathered in the two Central Continents, guarded by G.o.ds and dozens of Heroes.