Reincarnated into a New World As a Vampire Chapter 123: No King

"How's the situation out there?" Khal asked in a cold tone, looking away from Lyla.

"Everything is under control. The church is being kept at bay, and the rest of the forces are handling their parts accordingly." Lyla responded, drawing a nod from Khal.

Since Rindher was supposed to be the one in charge in the absence of Aldritch, Khal was in a rather foul mood as the responsibility had been placed on his shoulder out of nowhere without warning. Rindher for so reason beca unavailable and Khal had to be the one to take command.

"Lord Khal, we've found a safe room underground. May we proceed with the breach?" Desmond asked, as he approached Khal.

"Very well, I'll join you there." Khal said, sending Desmond away to fulfil his order. Turning to Lyla, he asked her to supervise the activities outside and coordinate the different groups before he left. Well, that was her duty, so he hadn't given her any particularly new order aside from asking her to coordinate them.

He descended the palace into one of the several underground tunnel routes, this particular one being well hidden and accessed only through the king's personal chambers.

After a couple of minutes, Khal ca before a huge tallic door that felt at least several tres thick, though, nobody present believed it would be that thick in diater, perhaps just a very heavy tal.

"It's locked completely shut, we can't force it open." The others complained.

Khal looked around but he still couldn't find Rindher amongst the others present. "Stand back."

Taking out his larger sword that was half as wide as his own back, Khal wielded it against the tal door, cracking it open within ten strikes. If for nothing, the sword was not of the sa quality as the weapons he owns back in the higher world. This one was custom made by a blacksmith within the kingdom, but even then, materials to make really exceptional weapons seem to be the problem.

As soon as the tal door was torn open enough to allow entrance, Khal and the rest found several people within the safe room. They swiftly raided the place, arresting any movents for those that attempted to run away, taking total control of everyone present.

After searching the entire room though, the king and queen were nowhere to be found. Several vampires imdiately got to work, interrogating the people within the safe room as to where the king and queen were.

"Lord Khal, it seems we were too late, the king and queen have alrady escaped and fled the kingdom entire. We were never going to get them from the very beginning." Desmond reported.

"I see. Round up everybody here and bring them outside to the grand hall of the palace, the biggest one. Also, bring along every person, prisoner or servant, assemble them in the grand hall."

Desmond nodded before leaving to carry out the orders.

'I wonder where the Lord is.' Khal thought to himself before walking out of the underground safe room.

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Aldritch who had gone to see whether the barrier had been removed after he killed its guardian; was, well, not surprised, to see that it was still up.

"I'm starting to think the purpose of this barrier is not to trap but to frustrate my very soul. Just what is the aning of all this?" He was starting to get frustrated. Since the 'guardian' didn't seem to have the ability to speak even when forced an only did at its own convenience, Aldritch couldn't draw out any information from her. Not to ntion, his hypnosis and mind compulsion had no effects either.

There was no longer any need to think further, if mind control refused to work, there was only one other way that was sure to bring results.

'Let's return, perhaps with enough torture, I'll get that woman to spill so beans.'

…

In the nether realm where Aeress was, an entire day had gone by already. Knowing full well of the difference in the flow of ti, Aeress was trying her best to keep the abyssal entity within her body at bay.

Now that it knew the plan crafted for its demise, there was no way it would sit back and watch it co into fruition.

The mont Aeress was to lose control over her body, that would be the ti when the entity would strike, and specifically, if it happened before Helga and Naiha completed the task she gave to them.

Helga at the mont made her way to et with the others, using a teleportation spell to hasten the process, though she was expending much valuable mana, it could not be helped. It was for that very reason that she had brought along various supplents to redy that situation.

Out of nothing, Helga appeared beside Naiha with a leather bag across her body, "we have to leave now."

Naiha stood up, severing her link with the husk of the great mother to follow Helga. Once she was standing close to Helga, both of them disappeared again, this ti appearing beside Veronica.

"Why are you two here?! What about the great mother's body?!" Veronica panicked.

"You don't need to worry about that for now, just get up and co with us, now." Naiha said to her in a partially vexed tone.

"I'll explain everything to you while we work, Veronica. For now, just co with us, we don't have ti to waste."

Hesitating for a mont, Veronica eventually agreed and stood up after disabling the protective barrier around herself.

"Whatever we need to do, I'll suggest we get rid of that man before he tears the great mother's body into pieces." Veronica said, stretching her back a little as she walked towards the other two.

"That won't be possible, we need the barrier to remain active to prevent the loss of the souls for the ritual." Helga explained just before teleporting three of them away.

"I don't understand, what do you an?"

"First take your position, I will explain everything now."