Chapter 50
Satou here . Don't you think that the most terrifying thing about vampires that come up in movies and stories is their ability to turn people into vampires? Since their proliferation rate outstrips even that of rats' .
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"Snacks that Satou made really are the best . "
"This liquor is pretty nice too, no? Saga Empire's brandy huh?"
"Ale is nice too, but this snack go down the best with strong stuff!"
Rusus and Fifi sipped their glasses in good moods in the airship's main cabin .
They're already without their armor, wearing risky-looking clothing .
Liza is in the room too, she's currently absorbed in sampling the seven types of jerky we stocked at Pier Rock kingdom .
"Where'd the lil' girls go?"
"I asked them to do some errands for me . "
"Eeh, booring . "
The drunk Rusus puts my head under her arm .
The sensation on my cheek is quite wonderful, but the impregnable fortress pair would intrude in if this kept up, thus I steel myself and get away from the sweet powerful shackles .
"You're gonna fight dragons once we arrived at Dragg Kingdom 'rite?"
Fifi said some dangerous sounding words .
Come to think of it, the treasures in my Storage belong to [Dragg Holy Kingdom] .
Since they look like old coins, it might be a currency used in the country that precedes Dragg Kingdom .
"I can't wait for it . How bout you Liza, ever fought a dragon?"
"Yes--"
Replying Rusus, Liza who blurted out unintentionally realized her verbal slip and looked at me .
"--You fought some lesser dragons when we visited the western countries, remember . "
"Lesser dragons huh--Well, I guess that's only right . "
"True dragons are on a whole different level than those . "
Rusus and Fifi nodded at each other when I replied in Liza's stead .
"Is that true?"
"Those guys are simply outta this world, just you know . "
"There was this time we ran into a blue and a red dragons at Saga Empire, they were way out of league it wasn't even a fight . "
"I mean, a single breath managed to blow us away . "
"On top of having a wide range, it was unbelievably fast, we wouldn't be here if it wasn't for Hayato's protection given by god . "
Rusus and Fifi narrated their story while looking boastful somewhat .
Hearing that, Liza replied with, "Truly", with a meaningful look on her face .
Indeed, there's no way to evade those laser-like breaths of a true dragon without something like Ground Shrink or Flash Drive, no way to block them either without a Fortress-class barrier at least .
While we were having such a conversation, I caught sights of overflowing refuges in the towns and forts trailing to the neighboring country, thus I landed the airship and shared provisions to them many times .
Food in the form of portable carry cereal bars made of a mix of Giant Kelp fine powder, finely chopped dried fish and sea serpent meat .
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"Think we're about to arrive soon?"
Leaving the dead drunk Rusus and Fifi in the main cabin, I went to the deck with Liza .
I realized that we were out of Pier Rock Kingdom on the Map, so I used [All Map Exploration] from the magic list .
I don't see any vampire in the monster domains around the neighboring kingdom .
I used [All Map Exploration] again once we got out of the monster domain and reached the neighboring country .
"--Lots of them seem to have been scattered about . "
Not insignificant numbers of Vampire Slaves and Blood Stalkers are still lurking in the two destroyed towns, while one Vampire and several Vampire Slaves are hiding in the subterranean tunnel of the Royal Capital .
"I shall immediately go exterminate them if Master wishes so . "
"Right then . . . "
According to the documents I have on hand, only Vampire class and above have the ability to increase their numbers, I should leave the clean up in the destroyed Tokislu town to Saga Empire's expeditionary force and to Tokiswolk Kingdom's troops who must be hellbent on getting their revenge .
Since Vampire Slaves and Blood Stalkers are relatively strong, they will likely suffer some casualties, but from what I've seen through space magic Clairvoyance, butting in here seems like it would invite their grudges instead .
" . . . We should leave this area to the local troops, I'll be counting on you to look for the vampires in the capital city later . "
"Understood . "
Liza gave her affirmation .
The airship came nearby Tokislu town while were conversing, thus I decided to land the airship there to offer our help .
I'm not going to participate in the subjugation, but there should be no problem in sharing provisions here .
I gave them lots of magic potions, magic tools embedded with light gem that vampires hate, and a few simple version of holy monuments .
I hope it could ease Tokiswolk Kingdom's generals and soldiers even a bit .
I also asked about what happened during the vampire raid .
"--It just suddenly happened?"
"Yeah . Missing persons increasing, weird incidents happening, monsters and beasts shifting locations, it was completely void of those omens . "
According to the soldiers, no [Vampire] was ever sighted here since the country was founded .
"This Tokislu town was overrun by vampires the same day the Royal Capital's Parion Temple Miko received an oracle . "
"Lots of rumors flying about like maybe the gate of hell had opened, or that they were summoned through a ritual by an evil sect's Soul Art users, but the truth is shrouded in darkness . "
The two towns were destroyed practically in the same day, the capital suffered an attack by masses of vampires when the other six temples were on their way to convey the oracle they received .
"The attack was carried out in daytime?"
"Yea, there was an out of season torrential rain on that day, musta because the sun those vampires hate didn't show up then . "
"Now that ya mention it, the survivors of Tokislu town also said there was a torrential rain on the first day too . "
"Damn, what a totally shitty coincidence in this dry season . "
I heard some troubling words in the soldiers' conversation, so I tried to search the Map and found neither evil sect nor Soul Art users in this country .
Didn't catch any sight of people powerful enough to cast magic capable of manipulating weathers like reincarnated people with Unique Skills either .
After thanking the soldiers for the info, I took off on the airship .
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"Where did those vampires come from--"
I'm pondering while feeling the winds on the airship's deck .
According to the documents I have on hand, the vampires in this world cannot multiply as easily as they would in tales about vampires on earth .
Vampires here have three specific skills that can be used to increase their numbers; [Blood Covenant], [Blood Contract], and [Blood Subordination] .
[Blood Subordination] is used to create [Blood Stalkers] from corpses .
The ability to create Vampire Slaves and Vampires, [Blood Contract], has some restrictions; it needs a ritual to be performed during a night of full moon, thrice . Once a ritual has been performed, the recipient will have [Blood Contract: In Progress] state .
In other worlds, creating one vampire above Blood Stalker class needs at least two months time .
The documents state that Appraisal skill cannot see through the [Blood Contract: In Progress] state, however, it's hard to believe that no one noticed the amount of vampires needed to destroy a countries the entire time .
Additionally, the [Blood Covenant] greater vampires have can create vampires with [Blood Contract] ability .
"--Guess asking the person itself will be the fastest . "
I muttered so while gazing at the Tokiswolk's capital city in the distant .
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" . . . This is terrible . "
"Yes, it's like a village in the wake of war . "
I'm currently strolling the capital city with Liza .
Lethargic people sitting beside rubbles and burned down houses, the sights of piled up bodies being burned with fire magic and oil, and the figures of people crying around those piles .
These sights would have been enough to make me hate vampires as a whole if I wasn't acquainted with true ancestor Ban Hellsing and vampire princess Semeri .
I asked Rusus and Fifi to get a permission from Saga Empire's garrison in the capital city to let us through .
Of course, my goal is to separate the two away from us .
"Looks like we can get into the tunnel from there . "
I head for a drainage trench at a riverside .
To meet the vampires lurking in the capital city of course .
I buff Liza with dark magic [Night Sight] and went into the tunnel without lighting .
Red dots are reflected in my Radar .
"Master . "
"Yeah, they're here . "
Vampire Slaves .
They seem to have noticed us, they're moving toward the Vampire's location, slightly away from them .
"Hold it, Liza . "
"Should we not run after them?"
"We can't get through that path with our physiques . "
I stopped Liza who saw the red eyes, and picked the shortest route to the Vampire's hiding place .
Someone was waiting for us when we got close to the hiding place .
"Stop!"
The voice of a boy .
Six red lights float in the darkness at the direction of the voice .
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