Michael bashed the bartender's head once last ti, knocking him out cold. Then, he ca to Gaya's side. He squeezed her hand, wordlessly telling Gaya not to do anything. The figure who Gaya thought Lenora slowly removed her dark hood. It was a brown-haired woman in her late forties. With an oval face and big round eyes, she looked way different than Elder Lenora. For a mont, Michael thought Lenora was in disguise.
However, he was proven wrong when the woman introduced herself.
"I am Elder Lenora's maid. You have sothing for Lady Lenora," the maid tilted her head, directing her gaze at the sack lying in the ground a ter away from her.
"Open and take a look at yourself," said Michael. She slowly bent down, slightly opening the sack to see Puma's head staring at her with wide eyes.
"I want to et your Elders, including Elder Lenora,"
"What makes you think you can get what you want, Ghost?" snickered the maid. He could hear Gaya's teeth grinding against each other.
"I want peace and information about soone your kind has put a hit on. In exchange, I will give you sothing that will change the fate of your entire kind," The maid looked a bit surprised by his words. For a mont, she deeply pondered what GHost had just said. Only the painful groans challenged the silence until the woman decided to speak up.
"What is it?" asked the maid.
"Don't waste my ti. I will give it only to your elders, not to a maid like you. Take to Elder Lenora," Michael's voice beca stern and cold. He wasn't in the mood to negotiate with a maid. The maid remained still, without uttering a word.
"She will et you here this Friday, at the sa ti. For your sake, I'm hoping you have sothing really interesting," said the maid. To Michael's surprise, she faded into thin air.
"Where is she?!" Gaya dashed forward to catch the maid but it was too late.
"Friday," Michael mumbled under his breath. This Friday was the last day of his Mazeroth holidays. He had to return to Mazeroth. There was no way Michael could postpone eting Elder Lenora. For Gaya's sake, he had to et her. If finding Gaya's mother ant he would have to return to MAzeroth a few hours late, he would do it in a heartbeat.
Gaya frantically looked around the tavern to locate the maid. Michael intervened to stop her from looking like a crazy person.
"Two days," said Michael.
"In two days, we will find out what happened to your mother,"
It took Michael so convincing to take Gaya out of the tavern instead of traveling to the vampire castle as the Dark Lord and the Dark Queen. Unnecessary complications could arise if Michael entered the vampire castle as the Dark Lord. Thus, Michael chose to wait two days. Michael used these two days to brew more potions for his Majestic, including the plague cure. Then, he visited the Sunrise sect to et with Claire and the Elders. They were surprised to hear Michael's request to abolish the king's rule and implent a round table of ministers to rule the kingdom like in the Southern continent. Of course, to the outside world, Bradford was ruled by Sunrise sect elders. In reality however, Michael would make decisions and rule the kingdom from the shadows. This way, his enemies wouldn't target Bradford to hurt him.
After signing the required parchnts, Michael collected the necessary herbs to brew the potions for the vampires. He gave the potion crate to Azazel and ordered him to bury it sowhere in the dark forest. After everything was said and done in the Elon continent, Michael returned to Voldigard castle. At first, Michael felt sowhat reluctant to leave the Voldigards without ensuring their safety. But Eve reassured him and made so deals with other powerful families in Thera to strengthen her family. He didn't forget about Eve's curse.
He paid the system 250,000 badass points to locate an item that could be absorbed by the system and turned into a Curse Breaking skill. The bad news was, Michael had no ti to visit the Treacherous ocean. The good news was, Elidyr could create an array to let Michael snake out of the Akilan realm without being detected by the arrays in Mazeroth.
He promised Eve he would break her curse within the next six months. To Michael's surprise, Eve didn't seem to care much about whether she lived or not. As far as she was alive, she wanted to make sure the Voldigards remained safe. Michael really felt bad about leaving Eve instead of helping her. Unfortunately, Michael had no choice but to return to Mazeroth.
With a warm hug, Even sent him off to Mazeroth, except Michael didn't teleport to Mazeroth. Instead, he went straight to the lonely wyvern tavern to et Lenora.
Following his goodbye to Eve, Michael t Vedora. Except for Cain, the other two still looked gloomy. They needed ti alone so Michael left them in the dark forest in the care of Azazel. Considering the ti, Michael ordered Elidyr and Nightmare to return to Mazeroth before he and Gaya.
The lonely wyvern tavern looked as gloomy as ever under the moonless dark sky. The dark clouds hovering in the sky, threatening the earth with heavy downpours added an extra layer of gloominess to the tavern. Except for the rumbling thunder and howling wind, there was no sound in the area.
"I've reached the castle." When Michael reached the tavern, he heard Elidyr's voice in his head.
"Good. Hope your runes work," said Michael. When he t Elidyr back in the Dark Forest, Michael asked the dark elf to ensure no one in MAzeroth could see him and Gaya through their disguise. If it wasn't for the lack of badass points, Michael could have done it using the system. He was saving the points to buy the Silenes spell which would slow down ti around him for a short amount of ti. Furthermore, he wanted to upgrade all of his spells, it has been a long ti since he upgraded them.
"They reached Mazeroth?" asked Gaya, walking beside him to the tavern door.
"Hmm," Michael nodded.
Using his Environntal Scanning Map and Spyders, Michael sensed three people inside the tavern. The door slowly creaked open. As Michael had sensed, he saw a dark-robed figure, the bartender, and another lady dressed in a creamy white skirt and a big dark hat with red feathers on her head.
Unlike when Michael visited the tavern before, the place looked empty. Atleast, they managed to fix the tables and the fallen trophies when Gaya almost destroyed the place.
The bartender glanced at Michael for a mont before turning his focus back to refilling the lady in white's glass. The one standing beside the lady in white resembled the maid Michael t earlier.
"Let do the talking," Michael whispered to Gaya.
Gaya nodded. The floor creaked every ti Michael took a step. Until now, Michael had faced two Elder vampires. But those two were just saplings compared to the ancient elders like Lenora. Just by being in the sa room with her, Michael could feel the terrifying aura being radiated by her. In terms of cultivation, Lenora was at the peak of the Fusion Stage.
After Michael's many experiences with the vampires, he learned a valuable lesson. Vampires couldn't be scaled with re cultivation standards. Their kind had powers beyond cultivation stages. Thus, Michael dared not to underestimate Lenora. Silence fell over the tavern. In the air, a tinge of blood perated. The bartender's legs trembled in fear. Michael doubted the red liquid the bartender poured into Lenora's cup was wine.
"Take a seat," Lenora's voice chid, cutting through the silence. She tapped the bar stool beside her.
"System, the mont sothing goes wrong, teleport us to Mazeroth," Michael ordered the system. If push cos to shove, he wanted to be in Mazertoh where the vampires held no power. Besides, both Gaya and Michael had the teleportation scroll given by Mazeroth to teleport to the castle grounds. Therefore, he didn't have to spend any badass points buying teleportation scrolls from the system.
Every step he took forward reminded Michael of the Elder vampires' latest eting. When Michael sneaked into their castle to kill Victor, he bugged the entire castle including the round table of vampires. That was how Michael knew Avon was being turned into an Elder Vampire and their decision to wake sothing called a blood prince. The na itself was ominous enough for Michael to be aware of. At least, Michael had thrown a wrench into the ritual by killing Avon…so he thought…
Michael sat beside Lenora and Gaya sat next to Michael.
"This is the first ti soone wanted to et , even after knowing what I am capable of," said Lenora. Her voice was lodious, calm, and composed. Any oblivious man wouldn't believe she was a freakin Elder Vampire capable of destroying a kingdom single-handedly.
"You have so big balls, Ghost," Lenora chuckled. Michael sensed the killing intent behind her seductive chuckle. For the first ti, Michael opted for the high-risk high reward way for Gaya. If everything went according to his plan, Ghost and the vampires could be at peace as well as learn about Gaya's mother. Suppose it wasn't the case, Michale knew he have to beco the Dark Lord to defeat Lenora. Dark Flas and the anti-vampire potions were the only two things in his arsenal that could hurt and probably kill an ancient Elder like Lenora.
"I liked Puma. He served and my kind well," Lenora took a small sip and slowly put the glass on the table.
"You tortured him, didn't you? How else could you have known my na?" Her voice beca colder. The temperature around them dropped by several degrees. Nonetheless, Michael showed no signs of fear in his eyes.
"Torture is a strong word. Let's just say, I'm very persuasive," Michael's calmness shocked the bartender and Lenora's maid. Lenora felt sothing off about the human. she couldn't put her finger on it but sothing was definitely strange about Ghost.
"I wonder what made you reach out for ," said Lenora.
"I want to know about soone you ordered a hit on, Adelia Ashton," As soon as Michael said the na, Lenora clenched her fist. Every single glass bottle shattered into smithereens. The entire trembled tavern. Her eyes turned bloodshot for a mont. Finally, Lenora turned her head to look at Michael.
"Adelia Ashton. The Queen of Nagaland,"
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because its Diwali( festival in my country if you don't know what it is) Only one chapter of HBS today. The schedule will be resud as normal from tomorrow
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