"Let the meeting begin..." The man said. A couple people clapped unenthusiastically, almost as if mocking him.

Coughing slightly, the man sat down with a 'humph' whilst murmuring "Children these days...". After that, he sat back down in his chair with a slightly helpless face.

For a while, there was an uncomfortable silence. however, it was thankfully broken when a man stood up and began speaking "The reason for this meeting here, today, is as everyone knows, the death of 2 of our young purebloods. Ryan and I had gone to investigate previously, and when we got there, we found out everything thanks to Ryan's ability. I don't know all the details, so I will have to ask Ryan himself to explain." The man said as he nodded to Ryan before sitting down.

Sighing in annoyance, Ryan put down Luna before getting up and taking out a blue crystal. Then, he threw it to the center of the table, where it exploded into a mist of colors and images.

Slowly, those images came together and formed a video of sorts. In this video, the entire battle between Leon and Laura against the Daughter of Ice was shown, along with her initial 'bait'.

Used to this, nobody showed any signs of being surprised. However, the moment the Daughter of Ice and the witch hunter caught Luna, several of these old monsters all stood up in fury and began shouting in fury, "Shameless!" "How dare he!?" or other such things.

These voices only intensified after the witch hunter used Luna as a bargaining chip and stomped on her. By now, most of them had realized the identity of the child on Ryan's laps and guessed as to why she was with him. After all, it was not too hard to deduce.

After the video ended, several furious conversations sprang up and several vampires bowed to Luna as a sign of condolence. She herself could only smile wryly. After all, in truth, the person she was most mad at was herself.

Instead of focusing on getting stronger, she chose to enjoy her time with her parents. If she had focused on finishing her core and unlocking her innate ability, none of this would have happened. After all, her innate ability was a thing of the soul, and since she trained it so much in her previous life, she only needed to unlock it before fully using it.

Just as Ryan was about to speak again, Luna held his hand whilst looking at him meaningfully. He gave her a confused look before realization dawned on his face and he nodded, sitting back down.

Getting up, she began to speak, "Good night to you all, my kin. My name is Luna, and as you all may have realized, I am the daughter of Leon and Laura."

At this point, all the noises in the room had disappeared, making it very hard for a person to speak alone. However, Luna was not a normal person, but the reincarnation of the legendary Blood Monarch. If she couldn't even speak clearly and beautifully, she should just bury her head in the ground in shame.

"After my parent's self-sacrifice, in my hatred, I gained enlightenment. I do not know how I obtained it, but with it, I was able to absorb my parent's mana and form my own core. Now that I obtained it, I should qualify to have a voice in the council, correct?" She turned to a small, weak-looking man at the corners of the room.

The man was slightly surprised for a second, but soon a pleasant smile bloomed on his face. "That's correct. You do own a voice, hence, you are allowed to request one thing per decade." He said, already knowing what she was going to ask.

A smile that could be called sadistic and at the same time very attractive surfaced on Luna's face. Her eyes narrowed and an aura that seemed to contain all the hatred in the world rolled out in waves from her body. Some of the older vampire's faces showed astonishment, after all, this aura even seemed to contain a hint of a Domain.

Although it wasn't even at 1/1000 of completion, this domain already carried extreme illusionary power and a deep sense of hunger. It made it seem as though it could create anything and transform it into reality. However, that wasn't what astonished them. After all, most of these vampires too owned their own domains.

No, it was the prospect of a girl less than 50 years old owning a domain that was the truly scary part. A domain could only be comprehended after meticulously studying a law of the world for hundreds, even thousands of years. Even then, a person could only understand a part of a domain.

For a girl this young to already be on her path of understanding domains, it was terrifying. And yet, it was also exciting, after all, this girl was a vampire! A pureblooded completely loyal to the race.

Instantly, Luna's words seemed to carry even more weight in them. Unconsciously, many of the vampires instantly began thinking ways to gain favor from her. Naturally, vampires wouldn't ever harbor negative thoughts over other vampires, but that didn't mean they would want them as friends...

Seeing their slightly twitching expressions, Luna smiled. How could she not know what they were thinking? She was a master manipulator, ex-sovereign of all vampires, and an old monster that spent his entire second life studying ways to bring about the end of humanity. 

She had learned plenty about ways to manipulate people. Threats, promises, compromises... She knew it all. Furthermore, although her body and core were still weak, her soul was far superior to even these monsters.

Souls and bodies were two completely separate things. Whilst a body carried the soul, it could be said that a soul determined the body. After all, a talented body needed a powerful soul, as it was the soul itself that determined talent.

Furthermore, be it domains or innate abilities, they all were part of the soul. Even if Luna died, she still carried all of her previous life's gains in these terms.

Knowing this, she began speaking "I do not wish to ask too much from the esteemed council. However, there are two requests I would like to ask, one as a... daughter... and one as a vampire." Luna was about to call herself as a son, however, at this point, she really did not care. Rather, she was even starting to enjoy her new body that came with new privileges that a male just couldn't hope to have.

For example, when she mastur... *cough*, explored herself, she found out that it was far more pleasurable than doing it as a man. It might have been the fact that he had been a virgin for his entire life, first and second. It was somewhat depressing, but she didn't mind it.

However, now that she didn't feel the need to destroy the world, she tried her hand at self-pleasuring, and she could safely say that it was weird, it felt funny and that it even hurt a bit, but she liked it. Even the very last vestiges of herself that held on to her masculinity had to admit that it was good.

However, suppressing her horny thoughts, she continued "As a daughter, I realize this is beyond what I should ask, but I beg of you all, please grant my request. I wish for the man that... abused me to not be pursued... for now. I wish to personally capture and... explain to him just how much I hate him." Her eyes turned into slits as her whole body trembled, however, she stopped herself and continued "The second request would be for me to be granted some aid whilst I deal with some personal matters."

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Many of the vampires stayed silent, but everyone was okay with these requests, as in truth, they were both not big deals. As people gave their approval, the weak-looking man from before rose up. The moment he did, the hall fell silent and everyone's eyes turned to him.

"I shall aid you. However, I will have to ask you a question, young one. I feel that you wish to ask something else, so please, ask." The man said whilst smirking.

Luna pursed her lips as she lowered her head for a bit. Then, she looked straight at him in the eyes and said "We need to punish the humans for what they did. Not only have they been getting bolder and bolder, they even dared to ambush us. I propose a war."

Luna's eyes remained steady, but all of the hard gazes on her made her shy girl persona begin to resurface, but she beat it down with pure willpower. 

Nodding, the man looked at everyone else and asked: "Who agrees with her?"

At first, it was silent. However, after a bit, Ryan raised his hand as he shouted "They took my son. I wish for their kind to pay for what they did."

Soon, it was like a snowball. Everyone began shouting things the humans did to them as they too raised their hands. In a matter of minutes, everyone was roaring for a war, for punishment. Nobody dared to call for a genocide, however, as without the Blood Monarch, they didn't dare think that they could succeed. Naturally, if they knew the reincarnation of the Blood Monarch was right beside them, there'd be far more outcries for extermination.

 Smiling, the weak-looking man clapped his hands and the hall fell into silence. Looking at every vampire in the eyes, the man said "Very well. Then, I will ask you all to spread the word amongst fellow purebloods. I'll send a message to the demon lord, as I know he's been eyeing the human territory next to his empire. I'm sure he'll agree..."

With a low voice, he said, "If everything goes to according to how I think it will, the war will come in around 5 years. Prepare your fodder, for we will bring them all into the war..."

Fodder. This was a term given to the converted vampires who did not enjoy the status as guards.

Although to purebloods all converted vampires were the same, in truth, they had their own ranks. The lowest were slaves, who had nothing to their name were all weak. Next were fodders, then guards and finally servants.

Each rank had their own jobs, and the higher the rank, the higher the power they receive from their masters. Naturally, even the lowest of slaves was stronger than a common human, but in reality, common humans rarely met with danger, as they were protected by adventurers and knights, who were all very strong.

Although 'protected' might be stretching it a bit, it could be seen as a fair exchange. The strong protect the weak, and the weak support the strong by farming, making clothes and doing things like that. This was true in basically all societies, even vampire society, as converted vampires were the low and middle class whilst the purebloods were royalty.

As the meeting was called off, Ryan bid his goodbye to Luna after a long hug. She blushed a bit when he did and felt her body become weak along with a sense of longing and not wanting to let go, but she held herself and bid him goodbye too after sharing a few tears and promises of 'I'll come visit you'.

After all the drama was over, the weak-looking man came up to Luna and began talking to her. His name was Maureen, the oldest vampire alive. He had been alive even when the Blood Monarch lived, and he claimed to be his closest subordinate, which although Luna didn't say it, she approved it.

She had recognized this man when she saw him, but she didn't wish to reveal her secret to everyone. Hence, she played along. 

"So, Luna. What do you need help for?" Maureen asked as they were both sitting on a couch in Maureen's mansion. It was a far cry from her previous hidden one, it was at least 5 times as big with hundreds of servant vampires running around. Only servants and purebloods were allowed into the true part of Noctem, hence, no guards or slaves could be seen.

Luna was munching on a Bloodgem when Maureen asked. Throwing the entire thing in her mouth, she spoke, "I wish to raid the Magic Academy next to our territory."

Slightly surprised, Maureen asked, "Oh? And why is that?"

Giving him a slight smile, she explained, "When I received enlightenment, I learned about a method that allows me to suck mana away from any creature. I used this method on my parent's corpse, holding them forever with me..." She said, a slightly insane look rising on her face. 

Instead of being creeped out, Maureen nodded and continued, "So you want their mana too... Huh. Yeah, that could work. Can other vampires use it?" Maureen asked, excited. If such a method was passable, then vampires would become even stronger.

Shaking her head, Luna said, "No. If someone without the right domain and innate ability were to use it, they would go insane and most likely die painfully from the foreign mana in their bodies. Even I have to be careful when using it."

Not even worried that Luna was lying, Maureen made a sad face before shrugging his shoulders. "Eh, I was expecting as much. That would be too good after all. Anyways, can you show me your domain and innate ability?"

Nodding, Luna got up. Extending her hands, the world around them came to a standstill. Then, slowly, it began to change.

The mansion disappeared and a desert as vast as the eye could see replaced it. Maureen nodded in admiration, however, he couldn't help but feel that something was wrong as he commented "So familiar... Is this the [Real Illusion] innate ability?" 

Nodding, Luna said "Yes. My innate ability is indeed [Real illusions], the ability to create illusions that are real. And this is my domain."

Her chest split open as she said that. From her neck to her navel, a clear line all the way to her spine revealed itself. However, Luna didn't look in pain, rather, a strange look appeared on her face.

Suddenly, her heart, the shape of a prism came out from her chest. Millions of hair-thin tubes came out of it, looking like hungry snakes.

This wasn't all. A strange feeling permeated the entire area, bringing about a feeling of weakness in Maureen. However, the tiny snake-tubes seemed to become even more excited whilst sensing this feeling, instantly growing tenfold in size and power whilst Maureen's own body felt like it would start melting away.

Looking at Maureen, the tubes almost went out of control, wanting to attack and devour him. Crying out in disbelief, Maureen half-yelled, "This feeling... The domain of Gluttony! Just who are you?"

Laughing freely, Luna retracted her core into her own body as she spoke, "Maureen, you of all people should know this. Inside this space, nobody can hear us, so tell me, who am I?"

Shivering, Maureen had a strange expression on his face. However, one would be wrong to call it fearful. Rather, it was closer to fanaticism.

As his trembling intensified, Maureen meekly said, "Y-you are... The Blood Monarch, Silver..."

With a nod, Luna walked forward right next to Maureen as he hugged him tightly. Maureen looked down at her, being slightly taller than her. A sense of disbelief and at the same time, incredible happiness washed over him.

"It's good to see you again, Maureen..." Luna said as her grip tightened. Although Maureen couldn't see it, Luna had a huge smile on her face as he hugged her back.

"My lord... No, my lady, how did you survive?" Maureen said as he released Luna and kneeled down.

Unhappy at having Maureen himself even poke at her identity, she snorted and said, "Well, I entertained someone high enough in the food chain and got another chance at life, although with a... twist." She said as she poked at her own breasts that were only slightly larger than what they were as a child. 

Before Maureen could speak again, Luna put a finger to his lips as she said, "Hush you. I know you want to ask a lot of questions, but that will come later. For now, do two things for me. One, keep my identity a secret. Two, get me a new shirt..." She said whilst pointing at her own, now ripped shirt. Her little show earlier might have been a little excessive...

She was a little embarrassed, no, very embarrassed now that she realized this. Feeling self-conscious, she wrapped an arm around her breasts to cover them before looking at Maureen with a raised eyebrow, waiting for him to turn away.

However, although he didn't turn away, he didn't even seem to notice her nakedness as he said "A-size, B-size or C-size my lady?"

Dumbfounded, Luna asked, "What are you talking about?"

"Well, I was just asking you for your bra size..." Seeing Luna's blank look, realization dawned on him as he said "Oh, forgive me, my lady for being so blunt. Don't worry though, I have plenty of breast-paddings available if you want!"

"..." 'Breast paddings your mother! I don't want big boobs anyway!' Luna screamed in her mind as she took a deep breath to calm down before her mouth began to twitch. Looking deeply at Maureen, she asked, "Why do you have breast paddings available anyways? Did you find a wife whilst I was dead?"

"No my lady, I found a husband."

"..." Giving Maureen a questioning look, Luna tilted her head in confusion.

"I'm gay!" Maureen said proudly whilst sticking out his chest. "Whilst my lord was resting, I found my true sexuality! I was born a man and identify myself as a man, hence, I never found anyone worth my time in the woman zone, therefore, I looked into the man-zone and found that I truly belong in that zone with my whole heart and soul!"

"..." Not even bothering to answer, Luna walked up to him and gave him a tight hug as he said, "Don't worry Maureen, I know women are hard to seduce with that weak-looking physique of yours... Don't worry though, I can show you how to please them..."