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The Elder Vampire
chapter 4: A letter from a friend

chapter 4: A letter from a friend

*looks from under a cover of shame* h-hey guys, long time no see eh? well what can i say, sorry it took so long for the update, but better late then never i guess. i know i said many important charachterS will be introduced in this chapter, but i only managed to get one in. tell me any confusing grammatical mistakes you see, what you think about the story, speculations where it is going to go, and so on. praise is welcome, but so is tough love :)

‘BLEARGH! That was the most disgusting thing i have ever tasted’ I grimace slightly thinking I have to survive on that crap from now on.

‘Talking about surviving, it seems i am an elf who drinks blood now…. in other words a blood elf?’ I really do not know how I feel about that and can I drink all kinds of blood or only yeti blood? I am not sure. If i ever decide to go to a human settlement, will i have to eventually do i have to then feed of other people.

Somehow that thought really repulses me, I rather not be dependent on other people. I have already decided to travel the world. My old common sense would have to be discarded at once! I cannot hope to survive in this world if I remain the same. It is only a hypothesis by now but I cannot imagine humans with open arms would welcome a creature like myself. That is if they are even remotely like the humans in my world.

‘Humans huh? When did I begin seeing myself as anything else than that?’ It is a bit overwhelming what a human could accept if put under the correct conditions. Only yesterday, I was going over to visit my father that I have not seen in a long time, and then I am shot and killed in an alleyway without ever having a family of my own. In addition, today I am not even human anymore or a man for that matter.

Well no use sitting here weeping about it, I slowly try to stand up. I then stretch my arms over my head for a bit and bring them down to my toes.

Aah I really am feeling better than before now. It seems i have been starving from the moment I woke up.

ok i have decided i will try to ‘feed’ for lack of better word once every week if i can help it. Although i will probably not do that much, because of this disgusting taste.

i grimace slightly ‘i really hope i can eat normal food’.

‘mhmm!’ i hear low moaning coming from the direction of the fallen men.

Oh, I have almost forgotten about them, I hope they are still alive.

``help us! `` I hear a low voice coming from the man who was shot in the leg; he seems to be barely alive as he slowly points his finger at a direction, which I can only assume is south. Before he too feints

help!A stranger asks you for your help

AcceptDecline

‘WHAT the hell?’ I stare at the blue box that has appeared in front of me for a while. I shake my head lightly and look to the side but it follows me there too.

‘Oh, it must be one of those game like reincarnations’ I thought excitedly, I read enough Japanese light novels to know the next step now.

, hmm it does not look like anything happened. I try to say it again but still nothing happens.

*sigh* I was really looking forward to seeing my stats. I move my hand over to the screen and try to press accept, ‘of course I am going to accept my first quest’ but my hand passes right through.

I start to look at the two men, the bald one closer to me then the young one who is a bit further. I come closer to the bald man until I am standing right beside him.

``I guess the humane thing to do now would be to help them regardless of the quest or not. Not that I am really a human`` I mutter lightly before getting the claw out of his thigh and wrapping the wound tightly with a cloth.

Then ‘accept’ lights up and the window disappears, show do not tell I guess.

I slowly walk over to the other one, the younger fellow; I lightly put two of my fingers on his neck to check his pulse.

‘He seems alive for now’ it seems somewhat neat how I have full knowledge of the human body’s blood circulation now. The actual reason behind why aside, it will prove to very useful in the future.

While his wound is not major he seems to have bled out allot, I doubt he will survive if he loses any more blood. I am not a doctor, but I have bled enough times to know how to close a wound.

I look over at their food sacks and see they have been torn open that must have been what drew the yeti over to them. There is not much of it anyway so I suspect their camp must be close by. Moreover, judging from how they handled the yeti they do not seem to be natives of this place.

‘Oh well, no use overthinking it’ T think as I grab the man and throw him over my shoulder, he groans lightly, but he just has to endure a little until we reach my tomb. I then walk over to the bald one and instead of throwing him over my other shoulder I just lift him by the scruff of his neck and lift him in front of me like a small pup.

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‘hahaha’ I laugh a little bit loudly, but it just feels awkward because of my elongated ‘fangs’ .Aren’t they supposed to return to normal after the vampire is finished with drinking blood?

‘Well whatever’ I think lightly as I check if the bald man can breathe normally. Then I start my walk over to the tomb.

I have finally arrived at my tomb, it only took me so long because of balance issues, and some phantom pains where I had my wound before, but I knew it was fully healed, and not a single scratch remained, yet it still felt a little weird.

‘I wonder about the extent of my self-regeneration. Can I regenerate limbs or even my head?’ I really rather not find out. Whatever the case may be, I almost died regenerating this time, but of course, it was because I was also hungry.

‘Speaking about hunger what was that?’ One drip of that yeti’s disgusting blood made me lose my mind and attack so recklessly. I realize I have to feed from now on, but I must avoid doing so at all means in a battle, I cannot afford to lose control like that again, because my self-regeneration ability is a last resort.

I enter the Greek like tomb and put the bald man by the entrance with his back to the wall while I lay the other one on top of the stone tablet.

I sit cross-legged to meditate, but my instincts scream at me to leave the tomb urgently, and as I already know better than not to trust it my instincts, I rush over to the two men, and throw the first one over my shoulder and the other one over the other.

I dash out of the tomb as fast as possible and throw myself at the snow.

*thump*

‘ARGH!’ that hurt’ I start to pick myself up from the now solid ground and I look around and notice…… all the snow has smelted. The clouds turned black and ash starts to fall down instead of snow.

I look back at the tomb only to see it starting to collapse in itself and in its place, a paper flies down to my hand.

It is written in latin-ish letters but it is mostly readable.¨

Hello there, you probably do not know me but i know you. My name is Hestia, and this letter I am going to be tell you some important things you must keep in mind before you start venturing into this world. I will leave information of this world for you to discover yourself, as i do not want to take the fun of exploring the world away from you

Well that is helpful.

first, the requests made from you or to you, will be shown to you in blue boxes, like those in light novels. In this world your word may never be broken if you ever take a ‘quest’ you are expected to finish it, not doing so will have dire consequences for your future, so do not make light of your word

Light novels? How does she know about that? This person seems to be from the same world as me. She looks to be telling the truth about quests; I really seemed to have rushed things once I accepted that ‘quest’. Reading this message made me even more intent on seeing them back to their settlement safely.

I cannot decide your enemies for you, but all I can say is trust no one except those you would deem to be your closest allies. You have gained a new extraordinary body and abilities, but while they seem to be spectacular, do not get intoxicated by them, as they are really more of a pain in the ass then anything trust me. The only hint I am going to give you about them both is ‘blood’

I have already figured that out for myself. So nothing new really.

And finally and most importantly, stand proud, be strong and never compromise for anyone or anything. Do whatever you want in this world, take what you want, kill whom you want, nothing may hold you accountable. However, whatever you do, you may never bow down before anything, man king or god! Determine your own fate yourself, and follow the path you made for yourself, until the bitter end, even if it means turning this world upside down.

Now I know you really have no reason to trust me or anything I say, I know you want to know why I am helping you, who i am, but all i can say right now is this, there is no one in this world who you can trust more then me. i am your greatest ally and friend, and shall always be

Sincerely yours: Hestia the high priestess of the god of fire

‘‘For now, I cannot see anything wrong. Therefore, I gladly accept your advice priestess.’’ I mutter solemnly

‘oh there seems to be more at the end here’ i think, as i look at the bottom of the letter.

Ps:RUN!!!!!

whew, sorry this was kind of rushed by me so there might be some major mistakes so give me heads up on those. and btw this is a bit spoiler-ish but keep your eyes on Hestia, she is gonna be really important way later on in the story. i hope to get the story to pick up next chapter, but i am just the kind of guy who likes to take things slowly, sorry for that! will do my best :)