Chapter 61: Whole Continent

After coming back to his room, Keith examined his body. His warrior frame had leveled up quite a bit and almost reached half of the early stage viscount. Upon rough estimate, the system guessed its level based on the calculations, and it was about 2.39 on the viscount scale.

Because it was his warrior frame and not his blood core, he didn't feel overwhelmed after absorbing so much blood-qi. A little surge in blood-qi circulation throughout the body was the only noticeable difference.

"This is great. I can absorb more blood-qi without the risk of blood-qi eruption. Sure, the blood-qi goes to the warrior frame, but it will increase my strength nonetheless. When the warrior frame is at its peak and filled to the brim, I will upgrade my blood core."

[What did I say? Do you believe me now? This will give you way higher power and create a solid foundation for the future. You will be able to access the full potential of the warrior frame, and also support your blood core, when the warrior frame evolves into a true quasi-blood core.]

" I can feel my dense blood-qi inside the warrior frame. It is way denser than the early stage viscounts who use their blood core to accumulate blood-qi." Keith felt the dense blood-qi that was circulating inside his warrior frame. 

[ Yes, the more blood-qi you feed to the warrior frame, the denser it will become and one day it will solidify the blood-qi and turn into a quasi-blood core.]

Keith nodded with excitement and started circulating his blood-qi. Now that he absorbed so much blood-qi into his warrior frame, some residue also entered his body. He refined the excess blood-qi and condensed them slowly.

He didn't want to accidentally breakthrough to the viscount stage, so he didn't condense it too much. Only circulating around the blood core and not letting it enter inside.

After a while, Rena entered his room to give him his meal.

"Young master, did you go outside to see the other parts of the campus?" 

"Yeah." Keith opened his eyes and said.

"I can't believe I am inside such a historic place. When you said you were leaving the castle, I was sad at first, but then you explained to me about this place. I understood that you needed to come here for better opportunities.

I was happy, but there was an emptiness in my heart. I wondered when I'll be able to see you again. Maybe I will turn old and have wrinkles when you come back." She looked innocently at Keith.

"I was planning on leaving you at Ennes castle, but grandpa told me I could bring one servant with me. He suggested that I bring a baron-level vampire from our family, but I refused him. I have a lot of secrets and I don't want someone to stay with me all day long. 

Especially if I don't know them very well. You on the other hand are the most trusted person I could tolerate being around, so I decided to bring you along. " Keith replied with a nonchalant expression.

"Ah! Thank you for bringing me with you. I can't repay your kindness in this lifetime. I hope when I die, I will come back to you again in the next life."

"What are you saying? It was nothing, and you don't owe me anything. Just don't overwork yourself." Keith gestured his hands to ask for the glasses.

Rena handed him a glass full of blood and stood by the bed. 

"I must say, the blood in here tastes really good. The effects are also significantly better than the human blood available in our region." Keith savored the taste in his mouth and licked his lips.

Seeing this Rena turned her head, only she knew what went inside her head. 

"Do you like it here?" Keith asked after drinking the blood.

"Yes! This place is way better than our castle. Everything is available inside the residence. The blood always stays full on the containers, so you don't have to worry about it. Even my food supplies are available on The ordering menu. 

There are several human servants staying in this building as well. I talked to a couple of them and they seem nice." 

" Good that you are blending in. I'm sure you miss the castle…" Keith looked at Rena but she didn't look down. In fact, she looked more cheerful than she did at the Ennes castle.

"Maybe not. I can rest assured knowing that you are not alone here." Keith replied with a smile.

"It's all because of you, I can get out of the castle and our country. I get to see all those beautiful terrains and all the foreign lands. I never thought I would see the whole continent." 

"It's not the whole continent. We just passed by a small part of it. The real continent is much much bigger." 

"But if I stay with you, I can visit the whole continent someday, won't I?" Rena asked with a hopeful expression.

"Probably, if nothing goes wrong." 

It was still dangerous to venture alone in unknown paths filled with bandits and powerful vampires. Also, there are ghouls waiting to consume anything that crosses their path. The road they took to get here was a well-known route that was busy all the time.

All the countries provided their resources to build the road and employed countless elite vampires to guard the road in regular intervals. It was the most secure road on the entire continent.

The guarding zones became fully fledged settlements after thousands of years. Many businesses boomed in those cities. Due to this, the road became more crowded.

Only when the envoys of the academy came, the road was temporarily blocked for regular vampires. It was also when the students of the academy journeyed to the academy. These students were the future leaders, sons, and daughters of big powerful families.

They were the hope of the countries. So it was natural that they were given special treatment. So when Keith traveled, there were no disturbances on the way. 

"I'm sure one day we will be able to visit the whole continent and see the wonders lurking there. I hope I can see those places before I die." Rena said with a look of longing.