Right now I am waiting for trevor. Nobody has been visiting this room since the last couple of days. The only thing that I remember from the heist is the part that I had managed to read from the log. After that everything that happened I had to listen from trevor.

According to trevor, once we fell to the ground I lost consciousness. He had carry me into the sewers. The only reason that the man managed was due to the crimson moon. (I will speak about it in a bit.) The soldier of the bloodfire gang were busy trying to get the fire that I had started under their control. So nobody attacked him as he carried me to safety.

Also the mission this time has been a success. Trevor had the presence of mind to sneak to the cupboard and take the ledgers that were needed. It is good because there is no way in hell that we will be able to infiltrate that place again.

Ever since I started the fire, the moon has disappeared in this place. It is now replaced by a bloody moon. The only thing that we know about the moon is that it blood red, almost as if it has been crafted in blood. At the same time, it is not the moon. I don't know how I know it but this is not the moon.

The blood moon happened when the fire was not even in the room the statue was placed in. With this, I am at least sure that the statue is of somebody from the vampire's pantheon. The gods of the vampire are a fickle bunch looking for excuses to punish their underlings.

The blood moon is only affecting vampires and those that make use of blood mana. Right now that is why recovering is taking so long. The steady stream of blood mana that the sword gave me has stopped completely. Well, there is still minute amounts of blood mana being produced but I can't feel it if I did not look for it. Someone with a weaker mana sense than me would not have even felt it.

This lack of blood mana is affecting me more than I would like to admit it. Most of enhancements, how ever little they were has been lost. With this all the benefits that I used to get with my blood mana have disappeared. While the other losses are still somewhat manageable the loss of healing has affected me more than I expected that it would.

Well, this time the injuries are even crazier than is usual for me. My left arm is almost useless. I can barely make a fist without the entire thing paining like somebody has been shooting lightining through my arm. The pain in my arm is a little blip compared to pains in the rest of my body though.

My right arm is injured as well. I seem to have landed on it on my jump through the window. The bone is broken, so I have to keep it in a cast of it will heal after a long time. My left leg is also fucked to a pretty extreme degree. The existing Injuries and the jump from the window has completely screwed with my leg as well. The only good thing about my leg is that I don't need to re break my leg. This time I won't make the same mistake again, as I keep the entire thing in a cast.

Right now the only limb that I can use to any degree is my right leg. It has been relatively free of any damage. It is the only limb that I can move without waves of pain shooting through my leg. That is why I have been completely stuck in my room for the last couple of weeks.

Right now the organisation is more than happy. They don't need to worry about vampires right now. The blood moon has completely stopped the vampires, which turns out to be most of the leaders of the bloodfire gang. At the same time, they have even managed to get the ledgers as well so they have certainly gotten more than they expected to get.

So right now they are more than happy. They dont even need to bother about the fact that right now they have to sneak us closer to the inner keep. The only problem in all of this has been my injuries. We won't be able to leave for the inner keep until my injuries manage to heal fully. This time the injuries that I have gotten will take some time.

By the way, I have confirmed the identity of the captain that I might have killed. (Well, I have seen the man crumble into dust, but most of the higher vampires can do that if they feel like it.) he is the hunter, the second in command of the bloodfire gang.

Well, I am thankful that I managed to survive that man. This might just be the most terrifying vampire that I might have faced. I mean I do have a good idea about the bloodline hierarchy that they have amongst themself. The vampire nobles hold the ability to command those of their kind when they command them.

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I know of this ability of theirs. I have seen it in action quite a few times. Even as barely connected to blood mana as I am, the man's command seemed almost impossible to ignore. Thankfully, this ability of theirs seems to be very costly to use. I wonder why he used such a costly method with me.

After all, if he had actually fought me, I would have lost my little life. The man was stronger than me in every way. Well, I will lose my head trying to guess the intentions of the vampires. They have schemes within their schemes.

Right now, we are almost certain that we will be able to make it to the inner keep. The organisation will take us there. I guess that I might as well speak about the inner keep now. The inner keep is the most important location of the Mayfire castle. Right now it is the place in which the mayfires are fighting the remaining vampires.

At least trevor is completely sure of that. Personally, I don't know. I mean I have seen the magic of the mayfires a couple of times before. Their magic is one of the most destructive magics of the soldar plains. They certainly would not be able to hide the effect of their battles if they were going all out in there.

At the very least no serious fighting is happening inside that place. The only thing I can imagine it to be is a stand off. A stand off would be counterproductive to either side. After all, the vampires would certainly not like to be there when the guard corps will roll in. The mayfires also are not the variety to patiently bide for time. They are not built for skirmishes. Their magic guzzles a lot of their mana. So right now, it would be best that we do assume that the mayfires are not in as strong as a position that trevor is hoping them to be.

I won't make the mistake of pointing this out to trevor again. The man is sure that they are in there and the battle is occuring in an intense manner. Meanwhile, the man also assures me that the archer is going to be somebody that I do not need to get worried about.

The archer is right now busy trying to hold of an attack force from the guard corps. While that means we won't be having reinforcements soon enough it also means that we will not need to worry about the archer as well.

As for how trevor is able to achieve communication with the guard corps, don't ask me. The man has enough mysteries about him, that I have stopped thinking about it.

Anyways, once we are inside the inner keep things are going to be a bit easier. The inner keep is right now being surrounded by a very strong magic barrier. right now my assumption is that it is a mana isolating barrier.

Such barriers will stop the flow of mana from one side of the barrier to the other side of the barrier. Such barriers are usually used in mana storage but they can also be used defensively like this. The only problem with using these barriers like this is that if you mage to breach the barrier then you can enter the place without any problem.

Right now we are making all of our plans based on this assumption of mine. If it is an elemental barrier or any of the other barrier formations than breaching into the place is going to be very hard. The chances of that happening are pretty abysmal. The thing with a isolation barrier is that I don't need to worry about failure. With an elemental formation things are not going to be so easy.

It must be a very strong barrier though. After all not many things will be able to handle divine magic and it is pretty clear that they were using divine magic to break open the barrier. After all, the bloody moon above is more than enough proof of the statue being divine in nature.

Right now, I am reasonably confident that I will be able to get into the inner keep though. After all, the problem with magic barriers is that all that power is spread out. This especially the case with a isolation barrier.

I will be able to make a hole into the barrier at its weak point. With that I will be able to enter into the place. At least that is the plan. Right now I have no idea about if I will be able to do that. I will only be able to tell once I actually get to see that barrier.

Right now even reaching the barrier is going to be a task of its own. You see, the inner keep of the mayfire castle has a lot of defensive structures built into it. If we were to go about poking into the place without thinking, we will be detected instantly.

Now based on what trevor tells me, we can be detected either by the guardhouse or those in the inner keep. While the guardhouse doesn't have matthew with them now, they are still a threat.

After all, that esmerelda must not be the only vampire that is in the bloodfire gang. I will not be able to hold of against a group of three or four vampire grunts even with the blood moon. they might get weaker due to it, but the same is happening to me.

Still, I will be able to at least fight against any force that they send from the guardhouse. If we manage to attract the attention of the vampire forces that they have inside the inner keep, it is not going to even be a fight.

After, the other side has at the very least two possessed vampire captains and more importantly, this leader of theirs. I might have gotten rid of two captains, but that was more luck than my own personal strength.

With the guard corps sending an attack force, this thing is going to end in one way or the other. Right now though, our enemies are beasts that have been put against the corner. Right now we have to make sure that we are not going down with them when it happens.

I mean we are in a pretty stable situation, so this instinct of mine is harder to explain. Something is going to happen if we were to stay out here. Of that I am sure. Right now the only way that we will be able to survive is to get inside that inner keep. The mayfires will offer us a better chance of survival.