As Rex spoke what he believed Arana needed to hear, to ensure she gets over her fear and trauma that still slung to her, he noticed the change that was happening to his sister. He was rather sure that the bloodline originator of his powers must be some sort of a dragon, and not the generic type either. Blood and soul were the main atributes of his bloodline, but seeing how the current situation and his presence alone worked in awakening Arana, Rex understood yet another rather important thing about his own bloodline as well. He reasoned he was what some scholars in a few books he had read called a variant bloodline.

It was a result that somehow modified an existing bloodline, like for example a unicorn, and changed it unpredictably, due to mixing of multiple different elements. A variant of said unicorn bloodline, could in theory embody aspects and nature completly opposite to the pure and benevolent nature of a unicorn, giving the wearer power over decay and unholiness. Or change the entirety of the bloodline to be nature focused, radiating and empowering only plant life in a passive way, or other such effects. Though it was noted that there were no known reasons for why such mutaion would occur, and it was incredibly rare in of itself, since in most cases for mixed bloodline carriers the strongest one would take over and supress, and eventually eliminate the weaker bloodline. Rarely would two different bloodlines of different tiers coexist in a single body, and even rarer still would complement each other.

What Rex saw of Aranas bloodline awakening signs, it resembled that of dragons much more than his own, indicating the unique nature of his even more than ussual. That also explained to Rex why it seemed just so overpowered. Realistically speaking with such potential he could not imagine a bloodline to go extinct. On the contrary, he would asume such bloodline holder clans should have this world under their tumb by now already. So a variant for him was the only logiac explanation, ever more guaranteed by his souls presence there.

Still, as Arana slowly struggled to get of his lap to start exacting her revenge, Rex held her in his lap and embrace without letting go.

"Just stay here for a while longer. Is it not nice and safe here? Your quary will not escape." Rex calmed her down, her blodline awakening causing her moodswings that might drive her deeper into depression over what she had done after she learns to reign it in. his hold on the white haired woman, as well as his caressing and presence does keep her calm, and she eventually stop her strugles against Rex's embrace. A few minutes more later. a relatively calm, yet nervous and somewhat quiet voice calls to him from his embrace.

"I am glad you are here brother. I missed you. Even though I had seen you only just barely."

"I know. I can feel it." Replied Rex as he kept caressing her, in no rusg to continiue his conquest.

"Thank you for holding me, I dont know what came over me back then." She added.

"Your bloodline awakened, and it seems it gave you quite the temper and immediate desire for revenge against your abusers. Say, now that you are calm, do you still want see them squirm and suffer for what they did to you?"

"Um. is it bad if I say yes?" she looked sheepishly at her brother.

"No, not at all. I was going to exact my own savagery on them anyways. Now I have all the more reason to continiue what I have started. All I care is that you are sure that is what you want to do with your own two hands, since I am more than happy to smear my hands in their blood, pain and suffering. So if you want revenge, but dont think you can trully stomach the actions needed to take, just ask me to d o it. Rely on me. Lean on me and let me take that burden off you."

Rex felt a tightening of her hug on him for just a moment as she thought over her options with a much calmer mind, but he could stil feel the rage that was bubbling inside of her, though much more subdued now.

"I want to try it, at the very least." she then spoke "Idont think it right to push it on you."

"Ok, but dont force yourself if you cant trully stomack it." Then he withdrew a sword from one of his rings and presented it to her.

"Use this to inflict small cuts on any of his body parts." Rex spoke as he held the sword. "It inflicts incredibly painfull sense of burning and tearing of the flesh on the wounds it creates. I got it and its sister sword when a fanatical Echlisiarchy inquisitor came after me. Then watch as he deals with the pain the sword inflicts. If you feel fine after a few cuts on him, we can start making larger and deeper cuts, going so far as slowly amputating his limbs, or parts of them, untill you are satisfied with his suffering. Then pierce his throat or heart to end his life once you believe he has experienced enough. If you want to continiue, we can go and grab the next villager, then the next and so on ontill you are satisfied. if this village is not enough, we can go for the next one. Untill nothing but my claimed slaves remain of this rotten nation."

"What will you do with those you claim as slaves?" she asked curiously as she took the sword from him.

Rex smiled to her as she examined the blade, though his smaile remained unseen by Arana. "Neos Holy Whores. Thats the name of a brothel chain I will make with the high ranking oracles and sainteses of this nation used to slowly over time repay for all the suffering they had caused. And then quite a few of their citizens will be enslaved and given to my little army of half giants to use as they see fit."

"You will tell me all about your life later yes?" Arana asked as she finally was allowed to leave his lap, and slowly aproached the still frozen man kneeling before them.

"Of course. Anything you wish."

"By the way, who is this Neo you speak of?" Arana asked as she made an instinctual swing with the blade, creating a small nick on the kneeling mans index finger. The mans eyes bulged, as if trying to escape his eye sockets, and his mouth sprung open, and moved, as if the man was screaming for his dear life, though no sound left it.

"A persona I use when traveling around. SS class mercenary who focuses on close quarters combat and sword play."

"Hmm, and that Rex name?" She asked a moment later, once again swinging the blade, as if she had doen so countless of times, causing the man to bulge his eyes once again and scream without sound.

"That is the name I go by as my default one and is recognized as a rather powerfull blood mage who lives in port city of Blythe. Though in this conquest, the person before you theoretically would be Neo."

"So no Vlad then?" she asked as the third wound, this time slightly deeper then the last two was inflicted on the mans left bicep, causing the same reaction as the previous two.

"No. How could I have known it. No name tag, and I was just a newborn when they threw me away. had to pick something myself along the way."

"Hmm. Rex it is then." she noded as she slowly started to push the blade in the mans ribcage. The blades sharpness ensured she had absolutely no resistance as she did so, but the mans face contorted even more as he was passing out, yet the blade ensured he remained conscious through all that pain, untill a few seconds later she made a sharper movement of her hand, and the man stopped showing any reaction at all. He was dead, his heart pierced by Aranas blade in hsi chest.

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"I asume you kept his screams away so we can continiue to converse?" she asked as she looked at him, a slight smile on her face as she looked at him.

"I thought you would like that. Was I wrong?"

"No, not at all." Her smile spread wider, and Rex sensed no falsity in her, as she aproached and once again sat in his lap and hugged him for a moment.

"It was scary." she spoke a moment later, and Rex just caressed her hair slowly as she hugged him.

"Scary good, as I saw his fear, pain and suffering, as I inflicted the wounds. But this here, feels so much better."

"Want to continue?" Rex asked.

''The revenge or the hug?'' Arana asked back with a smichievous smile on her face. The awakening changing something fundamental in her, but Rex reasoned it was goodsince she no longer trembled like a leaf in hear.

"Either? Both? It is your choise. I will be by your side regardless. And once we are done here, I will bring you to my girls. They will be your family?"

"Hooo? Are you not too young to chase skirts?" she teasingly asked.

"I have memories of a previous life I have lived, so I am much older than i should be, and physically I am an adult as well."

"Well. well. your big sister will have to judge whether your girl is good enough. You have to have only the best after all." she cheerfully spoke.

"Girls. Plural. I am a blood mage after all and they are all wonderfull. You will like them, I am sure."

"Brother, will you dissapear on me suddenly?" she asked, a slight crack in her voice could be heard.

"Not before you have a bunch of nieces and nephews to take care of in my stead, and that too will not happen all that soon, even with my girls trying quite hard to talk me into it. "

"You saved me when I was about to break and surrender it all." she spoke somberly "You dont get to dissapear on me before I have my own kids in spades you hear? Take responsibility and care for your sister."

"Anything you ask, Arana. Anything you ask."

They spent almost another hour siting in the chair and huging one another. Arana finding his presence both soothing and energizing at the same time. She was tired mentaly. She had gone through a lot, and even if her awakening strenghtened both her body and spirit, she had been all too close to breaking down just moments ago. With the hour in Rex's embrace she had relaxed and recharged quite a bit. She got off his lap, a huge grin on her face as she picked up the sword she had dropped sometime during the hour long hug.

"Lest go return some of the love I have been shown by these lesser beings for the last decade, shall we?" she asked.

"Sure thing. I will restrain them with my aura once again. Do you want to hear their screams as you return the facor this time?"

"Yes please." she smiled more brightly "Thank you."

Rex could see how her awakening had drawn forth her dragonic pride, looking down on humans as she was now. But Rex was also sure that was part due to them not being part of her friend and family group. They spent the rest of the day moving from house to hosue in the village, slowly ending the people they encountered. Arana could recount countless times were any of the people she was torturing had done something bad to her. Throwing some rocks her way, spitting at her, insulting her for being a blood of a spawn and many others. Just as with Rex, her memory had been enchanted and boosted during awakening. Rex also noticed she did not have drain, though he was sure she would awaken her blood magic soon, if they went on with their bloody carnage. And so on and on they went.

It was close to the morning of the next day, and after a few energy infusions into Arana from Rex that they finally reached their last target within the village. The house of the chief, who right now was having a rather important guest attending. The tithe collector coming from the capital of Nor. Since the man had been on the road for quite some time he had absolutely no idea of the current situation in the nation, and was indulging and abusing his position as much as he could, like any proper corrupt government oficial would.

"All yours?" asked Rex as they aproached their last targeted building, looking with a gentle smile towards Arana. She too was smiling back at him, trully smiling and even humming as they aproached the building. She had even asked Rex for a normal sword as well during the night, that she could use before the 'flaming ripper' to increase her own ability to inflict greater pain and improve her precision with bladed weapons. Rex had noticed that her skill was pure instinct, clearly an aspect of the bloodline.

"Yep" Arana answered energetically as they stood before the door, that fell with a small thud after she very precisely cut the hinges with a single motion of her hand.

Rex shrugged helplessly as he smiled towards her as they entered the building. "I cant seem to deny you. Go ahead. Have your fun."

As they walked deeper into the building, Arana dispatched the guards she saw with ruthless efficiency. Something she could do in no small part thanks to the buffs she was recieving from Rex, since her own body would still have to go through quite a bit of recovery and then growth. Even then, Rex was at all times close enough to her to ensure he was ready for any unexpected variables, should they appear. And once they reached the second floor and entered its main room, the old governor, who noticed Arana before Rex since he was just slightly behind her, quickly scolwed and seethed at the girl.

"You bitch, were have you been all evening and night!" and then the governor lifted his hand towards her and with his thumb pressend on a ring that was on his index finger, saying "discipline". The tithe collector was having some light fun with another girl at the same time as this was happening, rather oblivious to whats happening behind the curtain. There was a moment of silence between the governor, Rex and Arana, as his torture collar did not activate on Arana, and then the old fool noticed Rex appearing in the door frame, and at the sight of his eyes he froze and his brain malfunctioned.

"Look sister, the old cunt seems to remember me!" Rex exclaimed with a slight smirk. "Still, I will let you deal with him. He did hurt you more than me after all."

"I love you." Arana chimed as she gave a quick peck on Rex cheek and was infront of the old man the next moment, inflicting a rather unpleasant cut on his arm, eliciting a painfull shriek from the old man. This finally also interrupted the tithe collector on the other side of the curtain from his activities. Then the curtain opened and revealed the sight of a sobbing young girl and a rather fat man, half way through their sexual act.

"My, Raha. How lovely you look." Arana spoke with a sarcastic smirk on her face as she saw the girls condition.

"Another of your torturers?" Rex asked seeing her expression.

"Owww? Yes, she is the adopted daughter of the old bastard." Arana answered as she pointed her blade at the chief, consequently inflicting another cut, and eliciting another cry of pain from the old coot.

"But to think the old fool would go so far as to offer her as a tribute to this fat pig, now that was unexpected." she added.

"He he. Im quite sure that was his last resort since you did not appear, no?" Rex asked, harboring a rather large suspicion.

"Ow? Owwww. Indeed, that must be it!" Arana exclaimed, and started to laugh as well.

The aft tithe collector just sat there in horror, the splatter of blood on the white haired womans clothes telling quite the story of how the two intruders had gotten here. What he could not understand was how there was no warning or sound that would have forewarned them of the fight happening outside. Rex as if reading his thoughts spoke just a second later.

"I placed this building in a small barrier, seperating you from the rest of the village while we dealt with them and your guards." then he looked towards his sister. "Do what you want with them."

"Say, can I have her? I reaaaly dont want to end my revenge towards her with just this. Pretty please?"

"I cant say no to you apparently. Go ahead. We will deal with her once you take care of the two pigs here."

"T-the inquisition will not let you off f-for this. You will be hunted to the end of the e-earth." stammered the fat tithe collector, now fearfull for his life.

"Dont worry about that." Rex deviously smiled. "They will all face the same fate as Provedence. Sieged, sacked and enslaved, or exterminated. There is litte SS+ class entities cannot do, after all." Then Rex looked towards his sister "All your Arana."

Arana spent more than an hour torturing the two men with precise yet very painfull cuts and close to the end of it she even started to use the flaming ripper to elevate their suffering a step above, and the horror on Rahas face only grew more and more as time passed. Finally, with the two bodies of the men falling to the ground, scorched and lifeless, Arana turned her attention to the girl.

"Lets have some fun together, shall we Ra-ha?" The playful manner in which Arana dragged out the girls name made it so much more horrifying. The bloodied clothes of Rex sister not helping one bit to lessen the shock of the now terrified girl beyond belief.