"What's the concentration of the parasite?" Astaroth asked Dàghar.
"The sa. Only we don't intend to just stop at the first seal. It would be better to push forward while we still have ti. Thanks to the dwarves and gnos' efforts, we have all the ti in the world." Dàghar explained to the entire council.
Everyone was in agreent but the rman at the table still chose to raise the question that was in everyone's mind, "What will we do about Alastair?"
Silence. No one spoke. Since no one said anything, everyone's gaze turned to the one person who could answer with little uncertainty, "For now, nothing. Although he doesn't hold the power yet, my brother favors him a lot, and no doubt he would be the next apostle. Appeasing him is natural, however, we don't have to worry about that for now. For now, we still have my brother."
The others nodded, agreeing with Astaroth. Although it was risky to offend Alastair, it was still important to remind him that he wasn't their equal.
"I understand," Dàghar said and then added, "For now, we have allowed them entry, and they don't seem to suspect anything. Even if they do, we can deny all claims and they have no way of saying otherwise."
"Good. Then let us go with that approach. As for Alastair, we can worry about him once the ti cos." Julianna said to which the others agreed.
They turned their eyes to the screen through which, they could see a transparent do around a castle that was red in color.
"All we can do now is wait," Dàghar said but suddenly, sothing happened to him. It was faint but he could feel it, his connection. His connection was weakening. His connection to his bloodline.
'My blood powers,' He panicked but he didn't dare to say it out loud because he couldn't trust the others in the room. But he was right to panic, and it wasn't just him, the people inside the Blood Keep were also panicking at the mont.
*****
"We cannot go in," Rafael said as he finished casting his spell. Even his spell, his space magic wasn't working. The conclusion was simple; this do wasn't sothing ordinary.
"Then what do we do?" Sirius asked. Although Rafael appeared calm, no one there believed his façade. Rafael was panicking with each passing mont.
"There's nothing we can do," Rafael said, despair setting in but he managed to hold himself back. There was still sothing, a hope he was clinging to.
A hope in the form of a white-haired boy.
*****
"What should we do, captain?" A man with pale skin and red eyes asked a man with similar features only his hair was dark brown. The man referred to as captain said nothing.
He was as puzzled as anyone else. Suddenly, their powers had stopped working. Without the blood power of a vampire, a vampire is nothing. Their physical strength still remains but that isn't sothing to be proud of. Many humans could also reach that level of strength with hard work. What truly made a vampire strong were the blood powers and for so reason, they weren't working.
"Issue a state of ergency. Fasten the process. Make sure to be ready to evacuate when we're done." The captain, also known as Mikal, replied.
The subordinate nodded and left to carry out his orders. However, he must have been gone for only a minute when another vampire ca to him in a panic and said, "Captain!"
"What is it?" Mikal asked seeing the panicked expression of the subordinate.
"The teleport circle… The teleport circle isn't working." As soon as the vampire delivered the news, Mikal's eyes went wide as much as they could.
"Try and contact the palace! We need to know what's wrong." Mikal barked the only order he could in that situation but even that was shot down when the subordinate said, "We have lost all communications. Except for the do, nothing else works."
Everything ca crashing down on Mikal as he couldn't understand what was happening. However, before he could mull it any longer, another of his subordinates said, "Captain, I can see soone."
Mikal was taken aback as he said, "What nonsense is this? No one can co inside the barrier."
However, Mikal still made his way to the castle walls and there, he could clearly see a white-haired young man drawing sothing on the ground with his own blood. Since he was a vampire, he could easily see in the night so when he saw what was on the ground, his expression sank in.
'That's the ancestral sorcery. How does he know that? Is he also a vampire?' He thought inwardly and was about to leave the castle walls to go to the individual but stopped because the white-haired individual also stopped and turned to them.
He looked Mikal straight in the eye and smirked which should have been impossible given their distance unless the white-haired person was a high-ranking individual or a vampire like Mikal.
However, all his doubts were washed away when a booming voice swept across the entire area, "HONEY!!! 'M HO!!!"
The tremors from the voice shook the entire keep. Even outside the do, the people clearly heard that voice but only a few recognized that.
"I was so close to killing that brat," Rafael murmured but he sighed inwardly. His hope hadn't been dashed. The person he believed in did co.
While inside the castle, a black-haired young woman was sleeping on a bed while three people were hovering their hands above her, red light leaking from their hands.
When they heard the voice, their expressions wavered but they managed to keep their concentration. "Keep going!" One of them said as he added, "We are halfway through the second seal. We have to at least break through three seals before we leave."
He was unaware of the fact that they couldn't get out anymore but even if he was, he wouldn't have stopped. The mission ca before anything else and he was not going to retreat unless he completed the task.
The other two nodded and they increased their efforts, causing the red light emitting from their hands to increase as well. As for the woman on the bed, her expression visibly contorted as she murmured, "Mother."
*****
"What was that…?" Mikal was speechless at the intensity of the voice. However, he didn't sense any power from it.
As he waited, trying to digest the situation, the white-haired figure once again yelled, loudly, of course, sweeping the entire keep with his voice.
"VAMPIRES OF THE BLOOD KEEP! I, THE HUSBAND OF THE WOMAN YOU HAVE ABDUCTED, AM HERE TO TAKE HER BACK! HOWEVER, I AM A RCIFUL MAN. I WILL GIVE YOU ALL A CHANCE TO SURRENDER AND RETURN MY WIFE TO . IF YOU DO SO, I WILL LET YOU ALL LIVE. MAYBE." Adrian made sure to deliver his words with proper intentions but he didn't wait for an answer.
He continued after a slight cough, "AHH! DAMN! MY THROAT IS HURTING. YOU HAVE FIVE MINUTES TO CO TO A DECISION. OTHERWISE, I WON'T BE VERY RCIFUL TO YOU ALL!"
Once Adrian was finished, he coughed a few tis as his throat was indeed itching from all the yelling. Even though he had infused soul power in his voice, that only imbued power in his voice, it did nothing to his volu, so he had to yell out loud to deliver his words, hence causing him to end with a sore and itchy throat.
"Fu*k! Why am I even doing this?" Adrian complained to visibly no one but it was clear he wasn't satisfied with the situation.
He was spotted by the vampires before he had anticipated. He needed a few minutes for the array he had drawn to activate so he had to stall for ti. And the best way to do that was to confuse the enemy.
As expected, his plan worked as Mikal yelled loudly but he had infused mana in his voice so he wasn't going to end up with a sore throat.
"I don't know how you managed to get inside the do. But if you think you are alone enough for this, you are severely mistaken." Mikal's words were heard loud and clear, not just by Adrian, but even by those on the outside.
"That's right, brat! Hurry up and take care of this do so I can enter!" Rafael yelled but Adrian ignored him and said, "ITS TRUE THAT THIS DO CANNOT BE BROUGHT DOWN AND NO SPATIAL INTERFERENCE CAN ACT FROM THE OUTSIDE."
Just as he finished, the array beneath his feet began to light and the space behind him began to tremble and change as he said, in a normal voice, "However, from the inside, it is an entirely different matter."
As the words barely left his mouth, a powerful presence swept across the entire area and everyone stopped. Mikal, the people working inside the castle, and even those outside the do stopped.
A hand pierced the contorted space behind Adrian as the space began to widen and stabilize. A voice, a voice that was calm and serene yet even those who were miles away heard it, "Hmm… It has been quite so ti since I ca out of the forest."
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