Chapter 281 – Thrall and Human
While walking, I used magic to carefully search the place.
For , this ant activating both Magic Search and Magic Exploration at the sa ti.
Magic Search was a wide-area magic that detected anything with magic energy within the area, and Magic Exploration told what type of magic it was.
After all, when it ca to things containing magic energy, it could be a magic tool, magic stone, human, monster, or the dark ones.
And the mont I had cast Magic Search around the embassy, I had discovered several hundreds of creatures with magic energy.
And then I cast Magic Exploration on each one.
‘There are vampires. At least ten Lords.”
That was what I knew after such light searching.
‘Are there any chard people or thralls?’
‘There are. A lot of them.’
Currently, the majority of workers within the embassy were either chard or thralls.
Shia was able to tell who was a thrall by looking at them. But she could not do the sa with chard.
Serulis could not tell with either of them.
However, with Magic Exploration, I could tell who was chard and who was not.
‘Indeed. Leave the small fry to . But if a Lord cos out, fight them.’
‘Very well.’
‘Understood.’
‘And be careful of the evil god protection. That being said, I don’t really know what to do.’
‘Yes, they are very dangerous.’
‘It seems that recently, the Vampires have co up with a technique to bury the evil god protection core inside of their bodies.’
‘That really is terrible.’
‘Grulf, if you can detect the device that is making the hole in the divine protection, tell .’
“Grau!”
Grulf barked reassuringly. I was happy to hear it.
Previously, the Vampires who infiltrated the royal palace had a magic tool that weakened the effect of the divine protection.
My guess is that they had sothing like that, but evolved and strengthened within the embassy.
I took the lead as we headed to the building. And then, soone ran towards us from the gates.
There were five people in all. That was too much for gate keepers.
‘They must have thought we would co through the gates, and were prepared.’
‘They didn’t think that we would co through the wall then.’
‘Mr. Locke. Are they people? Or thralls?’
What Serulis ant by this, was if they were chard, and could be returned to being normal people.
‘There are people, and also thralls. And so who are neither.’
Were they bought with gold then? There must be so explanation.
Perhaps they had beco believers of the evil god, even while they remained humans.
In any case, we could not kill them. We would have to hand them over to the privy council later, so that they could be questioned.
The more information we had, the easier Eric and Marguerite’s jobs would be.
‘In any case, leave this to .’
‘Understood!’
‘Very well.’
Thralls could not go back. While it was sad, we had to kill them. That was the only way to save them.
The problem was people who were chard, or unaffected at all to begin with.
We had to neutralize them without killing or injuring them too much.
Right now, out of the fifteen headed towards us, there were five thralls, six chard, and four humans.
“We will show you rcy if you surrender right now.”
I called to the ordinary humans.
And just like that, the four humans stopped in their tracks.
“What? You broke into the embassy! Don’t think that you’ll get away with this!”
The man who appeared to be the leader shouted in a rough voice.
Indeed, it was as he said. Or it would be, if this were any other situation.
But even as I and the leader talked, the thralls and chard were jumping towards us.
I dodged them as I asked the human,
“Do you know what you are doing?”
“I think it is you who is confused as to what you’re doing.”
The leader retorted, but…
“What do you an?”
Asked one of the warriors.
“This place is a vampire nest. Were you ignorant of that when you were hired? Or did you already know?”
Those who were chard or who were thralls could pretend to be ordinary humans if given the order.
Most people would not notice the difference, and it would be possible to fool them.
“What rubbish! The royal capital is under the divine protection. Vampires could not…”
While the warrior was talking, I unleashed magic spears at the five vampires.
Thralls were below even lesser vampires.
One spear for one of them. In most cases, that was enough.
And yet the five dodged the attacks with skill. They had the movents of a first-rate warrior.
“Very impressive. You must have been great fighters when you were still alive.”
When you beca a thrall, your combat ability improved.
So the better you were while a human, the stronger you were as a thrall.
“So it’s only those five who are thralls!”
“Yes, that’s right.”
“Then we can fight as well.”
“We will join you!”
So saying, Serulis and Shia started to attack the thralls.
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