Chapter 3

Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios

“Chirp chirp chirp.”

“Chirp chirp chirp.”

Following the crisp bird cries.

Under the shade of the tree, Harlen, who was taking an afternoon nap, stretched lazily.

He rubbed his sleepy eyes and yawned.

“How unusual. It’s been almost a year, but I can still dream about the incident of my Embrace.”

“Hahaha.”

Harlen laughed bitterly, then sat up and walked out of the shade of the trees. He looked up at the blue sky, bathed in sunlight.

“How beautiful. This blue sky and white clouds.”

“The sun is also very warm.”

After a year, Harlen had finally returned to being under this blue sky.

Ever since he became a vampire that night a year ago, Harlen had been following Queen Bella around for the past year, learning all kinds of knowledge, abilities, etiquette, and so on in the vampire castle where light could not reach.

There were a few times where he had tried to escape, but Queen Bella had found him instantly and dragged him back to the Vampire Castle.

Fortunately, the vampire queen’s blood in Harlen’s body allowed him to heal quickly.

It had been a year, and it was not easy for him to get permission from Queen Bella to come out of the human world and see the light again. He had to enjoy it while he could.

Harlen sat on the edge of the cliff at the top of the hill and looked down at the ant-sized human city Saint Calloran in the distance, feeling very excited.

As he had become a vampire, his vision had improved greatly.

Although the city was only the size of an ant in the sky, the situation inside the city was very clear to him.

Harlen spent the rest of the afternoon sitting on the edge of the cliff until the sun set.

During this time, Harlen had been thinking of a question.

It was his identity.

The hero who had disappeared on the battlefield a year ago, the Radiant Knight Harlen Brook.

It was unknown how the news spread in the city.

If he were to reveal his identity in the city now, would he be treated like a hero?

“Forget it, forget it. What are you thinking about? Are you dreaming?”

Harlen muttered to himself.

Let’s not talk about the treatment of returning heroes.

All he had to say was that he had already become a vampire, and this would result in a new war.

The only fortunate thing was that when he was a Radiant Paladin, those who knew of his true identity were only his family and a few old time battle comrades.

The others only knew the Paladin, not his true identity.

His only worry now was his vampire identity.

If his family and friends found out about it, he could still reason with them.

But if others found out about the vampire’s identity, there would be panic and a new war.

After all, after the war against the vampires a year ago…

So far, there had been no news or rumors of vampires causing trouble in society for a year.

Not even a vampire shadow could be seen after the war.

It was as if all the vampires had disappeared in the past year.

The world was peaceful.

Just as Harlen was thinking about how to hide the vampire’s unique scent…

From his mental connection, he could feel that at the vampire castle, Queen Bella seemed to be preparing to teleport a special cloak to Harlen through the Blood Bat wormhole magic.

“Eh…?”

“What is Sister Bella giving me again?”

…

“Watch your words. Call me Her Lady Queen.”

“Is your skin feeling itchy now that you’re not at my side?!”

Harlen suddenly heard Queen Bella’s voice in his mind.

“Yes, yes, Queen Bella…. my Lady.”

Since Harlen’s body was flowing with the Queen’s blood, there was no need to use any communication magic. The two of them could transcend space to communicate.

This was a special physique that only those with the blood of the Vampire Queen could possess.

The other vampires had to use magic to communicate through space.

Even though they were connected by the blood of the Vampire Queen, it was still possible for Harlen to block out Queen Bella’s voice… As long as he dared.

After about 10 seconds.

A red wormhole formed by blood bats appeared out of thin air beside Harlen.

Then, from the wormhole, six dark red bats, in the front, middle, and back groups, two in each group, slowly flew out with their claws holding onto the corners of a cloak as well as the middle..

This dark red bat was Queen Bella’s personal representative bat.

Usually, they would only be dispatched when there was something major.

Now, in order to deliver a cloak to Harlen, six of them had been dispatched.

One could only imagine how much Queen Bella valued Harlen

Harlen took the cloak from the bats.

At this moment, Queen Bella’s voice sounded again.

“This is a cloak that can suppress a vampire’s aura.”

“It’s also a cloak that can be transfigured. It can change into any form, be it a ring, necklace, clothes, pants or backpack…”

“Even after changing forms, the effect of suppressing the vampire’s aura remains.”

“The cloak can also change its material.”

“It can become an indestructible metal material, or an incomparably sharp edge. There are many functions to this, you can slowly figure them out on your own.”

With that, the line on Queen Bella’s side immediately disconnected.

After hearing so much from Queen Bella, Harlen was liking this cloak more and more.

He could not wait to change the cloak in his hand into the shape of a ring and put it on.

The moment he wore it, he felt the difference.

It turned out that because of the vampire’s aura, only one or two newborn birds had stopped on the big tree where Harlen had been napping.

Now that he wore it, several small birds flew to the large tree beside Harlen. A few even landed on Harlen’s shoulder.

This relieved Harlen of his worries. He could finally move around in the human world without worry.

Harlen stretched his stiff body on the hilltop for several minutes.

After all, he was still a vampire.

While there was nothing wrong with moving under the sun for a short period of time, prolonged exposure would cause his body to gradually become stiff and eventually turn into a dried corpse.

Although there was nothing wrong with Harlen being able to move around in the sun for a long time with the vampire queen’s blood, he was currently too close to the sun.

The mountain that Harlen was on was one of the highest peaks of the area, in close proximity to the sun.

If not for the blood of the Vampire Queen, he would have been burnt to ashes when he ascended to merely a tenth of the mountain’s height.

After stretching his body, Harlen prepared to jump off the cliff and head to the human city, Saint Calloran.

Just thinking about it made him a little excited.

A few seconds later, with a thought, several bones suddenly shot out from Harlen’s back.

Between the bones, skin began to gradually connect, eventually forming a wing.

Scarlet wings and black clothes.

Accompanied by the sounds of bats and crows flapping their wings…

It was as if the demon king had reappeared.

Everything around him was being ruffled by an unknown breeze.

A bright moonlight seemed to illuminate the area, and at this moment, the entire world seemed to fall into a sea of red.

This was the first time Harlen had used the Blood Wings.

As it was his first time, the commotion was a little too fancy.

Previously, he had mostly relied on the blood bats to move instead.

After the preparations were done, Harlen leaped down from the cliff and headed for the human metropolis, Saint Calloran..