Episode 28
[You look like you’ve been starving for at least 10 years. What on earth happened? Why did it end up like this?]
Valentine’s current appearance is that of a doll.
You can move your eyeballs and curl the corners of your mouth, but that’s it.
Because it’s a doll.
Jack has been together for ten years, so he can tell the subtle emotions of Valentine just by watching his eyes move or the corners of his lips flutter, but it’s a different story for other people.
Only tone.
You have to figure out Valentine’s feelings just by looking at his tone.
Valentine was originally a man who rarely showed his emotions, but now it was different.
Vivienne read her feelings in Valentine’s words.
“Are you sad? Are you?”
[… … .]
“Time has passed a lot. In the past, you were someone I could not even dare approach. But you also had this side to you.”
Vivienne paused for a moment and stared at Valentine with deep eyes.
Size is about 40cm.
Two prominent eyes and a straight nose.
Colorful lips and beautiful eyes that give off a mysterious feeling.
It is clearly ‘similar’ to the Valentine in my memories.
There is no room for disagreement, no need for doubt.
The doll in front of you is clearly Valentine Milos.
Now that I think about it, I think I said earlier that Valentine is my mortal enemy.
Vivienne shook her head slightly.
“I don’t blame you.”
I don’t have any complaints.
Are you serious?
Is that really the true feeling that came from the heart?
“If you hadn’t sent us to the Demon Forest, we would have probably been exterminated by humans. The rage of humans at that time was enormous.”
[… … I’ll ask again. Why is Jinjo here like this?]
Vivienne laughs bitterly.
“There are five tyrants in the Demon Forest. And there are two lords who rule behind those tyrants. Vampires were the tyrants’ playthings, and in order to escape being those playthings, they tried to escape the Demon Forest. And that’s how it ended up like this.”
[It’s not enough. What are you hiding from me?]
Maybe I shouldn’t have asked that question.
“… … The dragon said to me, ‘I feel so sorry for you, so I’ll show mercy.’”
[mercy?]
“If we can survive here on pig’s blood and cow’s blood alone, at least Charlotte and I won’t be killed.”
[Have you accepted that?]
“Because I had to live. I didn’t want to see my daughter die.”
It’s miserable.
Jinjo is a word that refers to the noble bloodline of vampires.
Noble bloodline means a bloodline with the ‘qualities of a king’, that is, the king of the vampire race.
A being with powers that can overwhelm ordinary vampires.
Advertisements
That’s the truth.
[You are the true king. It makes no sense that you, who can become strong at any time, can’t handle one or two dragons that aren’t lords.]
Even though he may look like that, he is still true.
In some ways, Valentine’s doubts were natural.
but.
“Do you know what the vampires’ staple food was in the Demon Forest?”
There’s no way I know.
Valentine shook his head.
“We had to drink the blood of our own kind.”
Valentine’s fingers tremble.
[What blood?]
“Blood of the same race. It was about a hundred and twenty years ago, when a rebellion broke out in the Forest of Demons.”
[Rebellion?]
“Yes. Wasn’t this something you had already anticipated? The Forest of Demons isn’t that big of a land for the alien races. The covenant that Valentine made was also intended to give humans time to become self-reliant.”
It’s true.
The Covenant applies only to the kings and dragons of the different races who participated in the meeting at that time.
If they were all dead or gone, there would be no need for the alien races to be in the Forest of Demons.
As time passed, most of the other races were naturally able to free themselves from the covenant.
Naturally, now that they were free, they wanted to leave the forest of demons and move to a wider land.
The problem is the dragon’s lifespan.
Unlike other races, the lifespan of a dragon is basically 2,000 years.
The dragons oppressed the alien races and prevented them from leaving the Forest of Demons.
When the dragon, the strongest life form on earth, made a threat, the other races bowed their heads for a moment.
That was 200 years ago, and time has passed again.
10 years, 30 years, 50 years, 80 years.
The emotions that had been building up over time eventually exploded, and the result was the rebellion of the different races, or the ‘War of Liberation’.
——————
faqwiki.us
Join our Discord for new chapter updates!
https://discord.com/invite/xr7SxG5T6V
——————
“Vampires didn’t join the rebellion. No, they didn’t. As you know, Valentine, the lifespan of the ancestors is long, right? In particular, unlike other races where generational changes had already occurred, the covenant was still engraved on my father’s heart, and vampires didn’t want a future without my father, so in a way, it was a natural result. That’s how vampires dropped out of the ‘Liberation War,’ and when the war ended with the dragons’ victory, retaliation came right away.”
[retribution?]
“All the other races, except us, have colluded.”
The Forest of Demons is no different from a new society.
The kingdom of vampires, the kingdom of orcs, the kingdom of harpies.
The Grand Canyon, where the Demon Forest is located, occupies about one-third of the entire western continent in terms of land area.
Within it, the different races formed their own societies, and so did the vampires.
Their stock, as I have mentioned again, is blood, that is, blood fluid.
However, the blood of a normal person and the blood of a mana user have different concentrations.
Of course, there are mana users among vampires, and they must drink blood with a higher concentration than normal blood.
Naturally, vampires lived by buying the blood of mana users from other races or by bartering with them.
That’s how I lived.
But, they colluded.
Advertisements
Let’s not give blood to vampires.
The result is simple.
[That’s when the decline of vampires began. Is that what you’re saying?]
“We, who could not save blood, fought wars with other races, and our numbers gradually decreased. As time passed, we eventually surrendered. From then on, we survived by drinking the blood of our own kind. Then, ten years ago, we forced a large-scale escape… … and this is what happened.”
The process of a race’s downfall cannot be this simple.
But if that race is vampires, it’s a different story.
Because blood meant ‘everything’ to them.
[… … Then what happened to Readymain?]
At Valentine’s words, Vivienne gave a bitter and very weak smile.
“He passed away. Ten years ago.”
Readymade Royale.
He was the true king and the king of vampires at the time who attended the meeting where the past covenant was made.
Not only that, Readymain de Royal is strong.
Readymane, who uses the power of the ‘soul’ like Jack did, is a true symbol of the vampire clan.
If it’s a monster of that level, it’s a different story.
As Valentine remembered, Redmane was strong enough to easily take on two or three dragons.
But, he died?
[Is it old age? Or… … .]
“Two lords who were supposed to be in the Black Sea came to the forest.”
No lengthy explanation was needed.
Just that one word explains everything.
Two Dragon Lords.
Dragons, the strongest life form on earth, naturally have 10 circles engraved on their hearts over time.
That means you can become a master just by breathing.
From birth, they are naturally destined to become masters, and even live long.
What would happen if a race that is blessed and loved by Mana were to use the power of the soul?
The answer was already out there.
Among dragons, the title Lord is a symbol of awe.
In human terms, it’s a monarch or a king.
It is not simply determined by bloodline or lineage, but solely by strength.
The title of Lord is given only to those monsters who are at the top among dragons through strength alone.
There is nothing new about this.
The two Dragon Lords are currently the closest beings to the pinnacle of this world.
Valentine was able to grasp the situation with just this level of conversation.
Why did they come? Simple.
Readymain is something that no one else can stop.
A Redmain with a covenant engraved on its soul will naturally die if it leaves the Forest of Demons.
That’s why Redmain would sacrifice herself to stop the dragons.
Advertisements
There are a total of five dragons stationed in the Forest of Demons.
But will those five really be able to stop Redmain?
Even though Redmain is old and has experienced senility, she is still a transcendent being who uses her powers.
A strong man who can easily deal with one or two dragons that are not lords.
If such a strong man goes into battle with the determination to die, I guarantee that those five dragons will be mercilessly cut down.
Of course, after 400 years, they must have thoroughly studied and analyzed how the Redmains fought, but even at the highest estimate, their winning percentage is less than 30%.
How many vampires will come out into the world when dragons stop such ready-mades?
It was a massive attempt to threaten the dragons’ system of rule, a spark of rebellion, and if not stopped, other races would rise up one after another.
The road was bound to come, and the results are now before our eyes.
Valentine closed his eyes tightly.
In the end, it’s all because of the covenant, that damn covenant.
I shouldn’t have done something so complicated.
Valentine regretted it.
In the first place, they shouldn’t have kept the dragon race alive.
“Do you regret anything? About the past?”
Valentine didn’t answer.
“Don’t regret it. You have shown equal mercy to everyone. Rather, you are no different from the ‘savior’ who saved the other race.”
[Do you really think so?]
“yes.”
There was silence for a moment.
In the silence, parts of Vivienne’s body fall from her face and gradually turn to dust.
[The boy outside wants to take your daughter.]
Vivienne tilts her head.
Harvest… … .
“Who is he?”
[… … He called himself my disciple.]
Vivienne sensed from Valentine’s tone that there was some kind of small bond between them and the man.
therefore.
“Wow… … You have a disciple. That Valentine… … Oh my god.”
[… … That child’s blood would be thicker than a dragon’s. If you were a vampire, you could probably regain your vitality by drinking just a few drops of that blood. But. Your body is now so damaged that you can’t even handle that blood. Do you understand?]
Valentine’s words could be called a death knell.
Vivienne didn’t have much time left.
At least 10 minutes. No, 5 minutes.
In it, Vivienne dies.
And Vivienne knew it too.
“What a coincidence. The person I’m about to meet at the moment of my death is you.”
[… … .]
“Can I ask you a favor?”
[Tell me.]
“I want to see my daughter, Charlotte.”
[Isn’t that a request? She is your daughter and has no connection with me.]
“But you’re Valentine. ‘That’ Valentine.”
Advertisements
[… … .]
“I know that even a dragon must be allowed to breathe in your presence. Please.”
Valentine turned his head toward the door without answering.
