"Hmm so you were the one who took Lepan down." The Vampire had a big grin, his fangs showed.
"No, he's actually right here." Lepan appeared from the darkness in front of his old master.
"Aha, so this was what Lepan was saying. Your a...Necromancer!" The vampire snapped his finger and pointed towards Damion.
"So what do you want from me? Dissect me, take my blood or maybe my head as a trophy, my knowledge of over 300 years!" The vampire cheerfully danced around, Damion did not expect a vampire lord to act in such a crazy way
Alvollas felt a somewhat familliar feeling from this vampire.(Demons and Vampires had a friendly relationship as both races served the Demon Lord)
Damion felt no hostility from the vampire though he had a strong aura.
"Alvollas what are you thinking right now?" Damion was still in battle position as the vampire did not seem to make any moves.
"Normally Vampires who rebel against the Demon Lord, they will lose all their possesions and servants. Master Damion, Lepan told you that he had been starving himself for a while. Wait my lord, summon me out!" Damion had summoned out Alvollas as his request.
The vampire stopped as soon as Alvollas was summoned.
"||𝙹⚍ ↸ᔑ∷ᒷ ʖᒷℸ ̣ ∷ᔑ|| ℸ ̣ ⍑ᒷ ᓭ⚍ꖎ⎓╎ᓵᒷ ⎓ᔑᒲ╎ꖎ|| ⎓𝙹∷ ᔑ ʖ∷ᔑℸ ̣!" The vampire screeched the same ancient language Alvollas spoke.(He said you dare betray the sulfice family for a brat!)
Damion and Tsubuki felt massive pressure from the vampire, though he was starved from blood you could tell that he was still powerful enough to kill Damion and Tsubuki.
"ᒲ|| ⎓∷╎ᒷリ↸ ℸ ̣ ⍑╎ᓭ ╎ᓭ ℸ ̣ ⍑ᒷ ᓭ⚍ꖎ⎓╎ᓵᒷ ᓭ𝙹リ, ℸ ̣ ⍑ᒷ 𝙹リꖎ|| ℸ ̣ ⍑╎リ⊣ ℸ ̣ ⍑ᔑℸ ̣ ∷ᒷᒲᔑ╎リᓭ 𝙹⎓ 𝙹⚍∷ ⎓∷╎ᒷリ↸ᓭ"
Alvollas spoke back in the ancient toungue to the vampire. (He said that it was the sulfice son and the only thing that remained of their two friends)
"!¡∷𝙹⍊ᒷ ╎ℸ ̣ ∴╎ℸ ̣ ⍑ ʖꖎ𝙹𝙹↸, ℸ ̣ ⍑ᔑℸ ̣ ╎ℸ ̣ ╎ᓭ ℸ ̣ ∷⚍ᒷ" The vampire told Alvollas to prove that Damion was the decendent of the sulfice family with blood.
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"Damion lower down your weapons, cut yourself give the guy some blood." Damion looked at Alvollas, he felt unsure about Alvollas's decision but he had saved him many times before so he did what he was told.
Damion took out a small cup from his magic bag and cut himself, filling half the cup. Tsubuki was on stand by if anything were to go wrong. Alvollas used telekinesis and passed the cup towards the vampire lord who took the cup and sat down on his throne. The vampire drank Damion's blood, he started to cry. Tears fell from the vampire's eyes, he had rushed towards Damion and squeezes him tight.
"Ugh your crushing me why are you hugging me?" The vampire had forgotten to hold back his strength and almost crushed Damion.
The Vampire then kneeled on one knee.
"Oh it is nice to see that my old friend's son grew up well and healthy." The vampire lord now spoke in a polite tone.
"Um, do I know you?" Both Tsubuki and Damion were confused from what was happening.
"Oh how rude of me! I am Orpheus Reyter, an old friend of your parents which I met 22 years ago. It is nice to meet you, Alvollas has informed me about your situation! I am terribly sorry about my servant attacking you." The vampire stood up and bowed to Damion once again. Alvollas explained to Damion about Orpheus's past and how his parents met him.
"So what will you do know Mister Damion?" Orpheus looked at Damion, it was already evening when all the questions had been answered. Damion had a long pause.
"I think I will stay here for now. You have plenty of magic books here, you said that you also had some furnaces and I saw many skeletons lying around the place so I guess I'll stay here." Damion decided that he could hide the place with mist and live here training his soldiers, he also wanted to forge new armour for his skeletons. Orpheus had a bunch of left over mineral ores to make armour for his army back in the past.
"Then I will stay here too, I came here for the grimoire but if you could share your magic knowledge you have then I will stay here as long as I need to." Tsubuki also wanted to stay as Orpheus had mentioned his old magic library that caught her attention.
"Okay it is decided, we will come back tomorrow morning since we have to cancel our rent at the adventurer's guild. I'll put most of my skeleton soldiers here to guard the place and train in the meantime."
Damion and Tsubuki finally went out of the castle and back to the guild, they were really exhausted from today's events. Damion was happy to gain more skeletons and meet an old friend of his parents, Tsubuki was happy she made it out alive and also gained some decent levels.
"Hey Tsubuki, thanks for helping today. Its nice knowing someone other than Alvollas is watching out for me." Damion was grateful that Tsubuki had helped today if she was not there, his skeleton soldiers would have been overpowered by the large numbers of Lepan.
"Um, no its fine. I just wanted the grimoire so you don't have to thank me." Tsubuki had a silly grin on her face while saying that. Both of them went back to the guild and rested until the morning.
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< To be continued >