I bought some herbal tea and sat at the stand to try out the samples.
It helps that the shop keeper is a cute girl to boot. Whenever I come out here, an old man run the store. Apparently this girl is his grand daughter.
If I put a move on her, the old man will never forgive me. It won't just end with broken bones. But who can really blame me? I'm too charming.
Suddenly the girl laughs and run inside to call someone.
A 7 foot tall woman comes out of the store.
Now if I'm not mistaken, this is the old man's daughter in law, who he complained about.
She is built like a brick house towering me by a head.
The old man always complains that his daughter in law overpowered his son in the house to the point he worries that his son will lose his manhood.
"Is there anything wrong customer?"
The woman glances in disgust at the two bouquet of flowers that I purchase. I glance behind her to see the girl sticking out her tongue at me.
"Nothing madam."
Ah, damn human women, so fickle. Carefully maintaining the smile on my face, I turn and left.
Violet's jewelry store is on the opposite side of this tea shop anyway. I have been scoping out the game so to speak.
Yes. It seems today is the day they will be attacked.
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I pull up my elven cape and starts scaling a wooden building before anyone can see me. Inside my head, there is tiny voice calling out
"Come on. Don't do this. People are not piece. We had a lot of fun didn't we?"
"Shut up other me. I'm having fun right now."
Currently there are ten gangsters approaching Scarlett and Violet unnoticably.
I don't think Scarlett took my letter about protecting Violet seriously, and that is why they are so vulnerable.
However, this is bad, even though there are 10 men, with how Scarlett is, the spitfire will whip them in ten second flat. There won't be any excitement or any adrenaline rush that come with being in a dangerous situation.
In a dangerous situation when adrenaline flare, people starts becoming close really fast.
However, this situation ain't it.
And that is why I have my secret trumph card.
I pull up the necklace hidden under my clothes that has been waiting for this day.
While the gangsters approach the two, I start gathering my resolve and power to take it out.
The Idol of Solarii.
Ever since getting my hand on it I wasn't able to put it down. Ha, you thought I would trust other people with safe-keeping it? No way, the moment I got my hands on the Idol of Solarii, I have been keeping it close to me so that no one can take it, especially not the damn human who will use it to harm the elven race.
I know it is a gamble.
However, I believe I am as pureblood as any High Elves. Perhaps I have even more qualifications than the current princess of the royal family right now. And that is why I know I understand Solarii. The both of us has a very similar mindset. And that is why I believe I will be fine.
As I previously was, I believe I could kill every single human in this city one by one in secret with none the wiser, not even the court mage.
However, with the Archmage in town, I need something else to slip under their nose.
I already watched the trailer for the fifth game of the Defender of Lumaria series. I have an idea about who the corrupted elf that disintegrated the ten vampire lords hinted in the trailer as one of the antagonist.
It is me.
I can't believe that the me that has only appeared in the backstory and game manual actually appears as one of the boss in the final game. But that is because that me sucks.
And that is because the best politicians never even appears in a game like Defender of Lumaria. It is an RPG/Strategy game, what politician worth his salt would put himself on the frontline. And that is why that me failed so miserably. He has lost his mind completely.
While it is a good history lesson for me to know what not to do, it also serves a better purpose.
It shows me how I can develop.
I assume in the future my affinity with death will grow then?
Ever since my favorite tree was cut down and I left the forest of my hometown, I have been empty.
When I leave the forest, I can feel a force, a force of nature I would say trying to hold me back.
Say, I can wait for another hundred years to regrow the bud of the tree that is mine, however, in my grief and anger, I can't wait that long.
And when I left the forest entirely to have new focus, something within me change.
I have been rejected by nature. The forest doesn't accept me anymore.
What I touched, withered away. Tree, flower, and animals. I have been completely rejected by the forest due to leaving with hatred in my heart. However, I know very well what to do. It may be a curse, but it was also a blessing.
It is death.
I can't wait until my power grow to the point of disintegrating living breathing human being with my presence. However, with the Idol of Solarii, perhaps I can reach that power early.
But you would ask, that power only bring death, what good would it be you ask?
It is because I realize something. From examining the future history, I have discovered a few interesting tidbits.
For example, in the future the vampire court would grow to hate my guts.
Also, apparently I was involved with the complete destruction of ten human kingdoms overnight.
However, the destruction of the ten human kingdoms will happen soon. It is not 20 years in the future. It will happen soon. As in, in 1 or 2 years, I will completely destroy 10 human kingdom with no one knowing that I was the culprit except for the vampire courts.
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In 20 years, I could perhaps disintegrate a portion of an army by passing through, however, in 1 or 2 years it is impossible for me.
Then how did I destroy 10 kingdoms in 1 or 2 years then?
That is when all the puzzle come into play.
In the first game, the heroes traveled through the death land once. Nothing grew there... except for the enemies that lurk in those land. Enemies that has an extreme hatred for elves.
Vampire. Ghouls. Creature of the night.
In the fourth game, the game with the villainous protagonist the Dark Wizard Rudolf, the dark wizard was able to secure the loyalty of the vampire court by promising to destroy the elven land.
And the vampires that he recruited... came from the death land.
The 10 kingdoms that I destroyed overnight.
And so, how did I destroyed it?
Was it, perhaps, Vampirism.
It is hard to say where vampire came from, however, they are definitely not older than the elder race such as the elves and the dwarves.
That is to say, they come after.
Vampire's entire physiology is impossible. It was as if they were dead. However, all vampires have very distinctive trait of growing fangs and having very sharp ears, just like an elf.
Elves detractor have always pointed to the similarity as signs of foul play from the ancient elves. However, the High Elves absolutely have no record of it.
Could it be another shame that cannot be mentioned like Solarii? Or perhaps, it is more probable now, that the High Elves absolutely have no record of it due to it not being the business of the High Elves.
If I have to summarize my founding: An elf who has been rejected by nature can turn other into creature rejected by life.
So the probable cause of destruction of the 10 human kingdoms are probably me who brought vampirism to them.
It would be very easy. Current generation vampire's blood doesn't have the potency to corrupt that many youngling, however, if it is true that Vampirism comes from forsaken Wood Elves, than any vampire turned by the forsaken wood elves would be very pureblood indeed.
Also, the human nobles would be hostile of vampire approaching them. However, it would be very different if it was an elf.
And that is why, I have taken out the Idol of Solarii today, to realize the peak of my potentials.
With a knife, I stabbed my own arm for it to draw blood.
If I'm not mistaken this would be how you turn a vampire. This is my deduction.
By drinking a wood elf rejected by nature's blood, a human turn into a vampire.
This is how I'm going to up the danger of my little girlfriends' encounter today.
However, I'm not a monster. Taking the blood, I mixed it with the supposedly alchemist concoction the human bring with them. Piss, shit and blood, and water is enough to delude the blood.
Afterward, while the ten men was about to ambush the two vulnerable women, I ambushed one of them.
From the rooftop I have a good idea of all of their location. With my ability enhanced by our great ancestor's idol, I have an even better understanding.
Slowly, creeping on one of the gangster, while he was hiding in a dark alley, I was on the roof of the building atop of him. While he was prepared to attack the two women, I jumped down on top of him and knocked the wind out of him.
While he was still concussed, I pour the concoction down his throat for an experiment.
In just minutes, his skin starts boiling.
It was as if a demon was emerging from with in his muscle. It spasms constantly causing the man to curl on the floor.
Suddenly the man strike out in desperation. I move away to a safe distance.
The man's hand grasp the rock road. Suddenly, a chunk from the road was destroyed.
The experiment was a success.
Just in time for a female scream to appear. It appears to be Violet's scream who is not used to violence.
Quickly, I left the man and the alley to get to a better vantage point.
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Scarlett was a veteran street fighter. She is used to knife play. I know of a few other plays where she is also very handy...
Anyway, as expected of the boss of the gang I left alive, she quickly reacts and flip a bucket of molten glass toward the asssaulters.
The gangsters, surprised by the resistance of the supposedly weak women, didn't react in time and got a face full of molten glass, some of them manage to run of course.
Putting down whatever she was holding, Scarlett hands the tongs she was holding to Violet who holds it in confusion. Then, Scarlett takes out a knife from her pocket in one motion. In that same motion, she steps her left foot forward to meet the physically largest man in the room who gathered enough of his wit after the molten glass fiasco to confront her. In the same motion, Scarlett stab him in the chest.
The rest of the gangsters instantly lose their bravado. They are about to run.
This is too easy.
So for today my pretty, I'm upping the difficulty level a little.
While Scarlett was glaring at them, an inhuman scream in the distant distract everyone.
A small hairless man appears from the alley. His clothes has seemingly been discarded or rotted away.
His face was completely fucked up. His nose has seemingly fallen off, leaving a rotten cavity in its place. His eyes was bloodshot. Before his pals could even react, the vampire fledgling jumps on them and with his teeth, tears out their throat and feast.
"Now this is more like it."