19 Preparations for the King's Visi

At the brothel, he ordered the most ready succubus prostitute. In the room, he quickly seduced her to the bed and let his vampire instincts overtake him. Due to being very thirsty, he drained almost all of her demonic blood. Demonic blood tastes like wine for vampires, it will taste bad at first but if you keep taking it, it will start to taste amazing. Her body paled and she lost all of her power, she had only enough blood remaining to keep her alive.

If he had not held back near the last moments, he would've accidentally killed her. Despite her being no more than a servant for him, each one of them are important for him to get blood without spreading his existence as a vampire to the public. They don't need to know that one of their major nobles is the first of a race of bloodsucking demons. After buttoning up his clothes, he checked his mind for any messages.

There were hundreds of messages. Gusion sent almost a hundred alone talking about his idea of the celebration that will occur on the king's visit. Skadia had done reports on the advancements on the city's defense. The mercenaries did bad at first but they proved very persistent and managed to elevate to Bronze III rank and some reaching Silver I rank. They had become at least 10 times stronger than they were before she trained her.

Theresa reported on the expansion of the herb garden and a renovation on the magic research rooms in the castle. She had also told him that she will become the city's bishop when the king arrives. Hailyn reported that she managed to mark all the kingdom's monster areas in the tower and managed to expand her territory south. She had also started educating the more sentient monsters so they could eventually integrate into society.

Lilith left mostly flirtatious messages. She asked when they can have a date and when he'll lose his boyhood to her. The only serious message she sent is about her elevation to Immortal-5 and that all of the castle's succubi have been elevated to Gold I rank. 'So that's why she wasn't there. I hope the rest improved while I was asleep.' After reading the messages, he traveled back to his castle as a bat. He turned back to his human form in front of the large wooden gates of the library.

As he entered, he noticed that Li Yao is still reading books. He also noticed that she sat on a floating lotus that hovered slightly above the ground, elevating her to a height where the 5th rack books are easy to reach. As he stepped down the wooden stairs and touched the carpeted floor, Li Yao flew up from her lotus and flew down towards Sebastian like she is swimming in water. As she touched the floor gracefully, he asked her softly, "So, what did you learn in those 3 days."

She made a playful thinking gesture before answering, "I learned much about the technology and about the monsters here. My old continent had less advanced technologies overall but they are stronger. The man who killed me was the vice leader of a demon hunter sect. He had a rank of Eternal-4, in your continent, he would rival the stronger emperor's power." She continued, "An emperor or the strongest in an empire on my previous continent would have an average rank of Eternal-8 and a power that could combat mutated Eternal-12 ranks." Originally, he planned to head to the Anansha continent. After hearing what she said, he decided not to go there just yet.

He is not strong enough to combat any sects or imperial forces if they were to hunt him down there. Imperial forces from the kingdoms and empires of Terradeus could still be defeated by him, their ranks should be in the immortal or apex range. He then asked her to help plan and build for the upcoming feast. He contacted Gusion and Hailyn to tell them that he and his new monster Li Yao, will help set up the feast. Gusion reported that the preparation just lacked some monster meat and spices. Hailyn is hunting the spices down throughout the kingdom, Gusion tasks them to hunt down massive monsters.

Seeking to give more aid, Li Yao told Sebastian, "I have a recipe for 3 delicious and exotic meals from my continent. The meat and herbs are easy to find here, may I add my ancestral dishes?" He nodded and replied, "We can get the herbs and meat while monster hunting. So what do you need?" She flew up to retrieve a monster distribution book and an herb book from the terradeus section of the library. She opened the monster distribution book and flipped the pages until she stopped at he image of a large pig with 4 tusks. She flew down to his side and showed him the contents of the page.

The monster she needed is the Boar Behemoth. It is a non mutated monster of the Apex-2 rank. It appeared as a boar with 4 large tusks. According to the book, it's as large as a two floored medium house and if one was killed, its meat could feed a medium town for a week. He only needed to kill five, four of them for the people of the city and the fifth one for the king. Seeing the monster's form, he wanted to ask if its cookable but quickly crossed that out because Li Yao is an intelligent monster and she would have her own ways to prepare it.

The book revealed that the beast lived in groups situated around Behemoth valley. Behemoth valley isa massive valley far from Bloodthorn, the valley's width is 300km in length. It's the location of the Keratin Armored Tarrasque. The creature is easily angered and despite the fact they both could defeat it, he wanted to see the petal fairy's cooking skills before sleeping. Li Yao placed the two, silver lined leather books on a bag made of petals that she quickly conjured. Then, she flew up in the air together with Sebastian towards Hailyn's teleportation tower.

After entering through its wooden doors, they walked up to the tenth floor and entered the portal right next to the stairs. At night in a windy grassland with not much trees around, an arch shaped stone gate stood between two large intertwining oak trees. Near invisible blue mana flowed towards the stone gate's empty center, forming a barely visible window that stretches until it touches the stone gate's interior. Two figures emerged from the gate, a youth in black that donned a jet black high collared cape like a vampire's cape and a beautiful, seductive lady of chinese descent, wearing a long pink dress that ancient chinese princesses would wear.

The duo instantly flew at the speed out sound, using their supernatural five senses to find a group of Boar Behemoths. With their excellent senses and speed, they quickly found a group of five within a minute of flying. They instantly stopped above the herd of Boar Behemoths that are eating grass under the moonlight. Sebastian used Eternal Death on one of them before using Sword Reaper to kill the rest. In a second, they all drop dead, not a single drop of blood stained their rough hide or the grass beneath them. He turned his head to the petal fairy and asked, "Is this enough?" She happily nodded and proceeded to fly down towards the carcasses.

She inspected the carcasses for a few seconds before suddenly becoming ecstatic. She then turned to face him and spoke, "Master, can you harvest these ingredients for me?" She took out a silver lined leather book and threw it up to the levitating youth. He easily catched it and nodded before leaving at mach speed. The ingredients requested by the petal fairy were century honey, found in the nests of golden striped hornets, salty garlic, a rare plant that only grows at night and flame chilli, a rare plant that only grows near volcanoes. Thanks to the herb garden Theresa built for him, he just went back to the castle and brought many of them.

He had also discovered that the garden's plants regenerated at a speed visible by the naked eye, allowing him to retrieve 1 ton of salty garlic and flame chilli in only 15 minutes. As for the century honey, the book told him that there is a nest of golden striped hornets in the south region. With his very fast flying speed, he got there in only half a minute. Since the hornets are only Gold I to Gold II ranks, he easily snuck in and stored a large amount of honey into the world crystal.

With the short scavenger hunt completed, he went back through the portal from the tower into Behemoth valley. As he flew back, he noticed her already ready with a large camp fire and the sliced bodies of the boar behemoths. He flew down behind her and tapped her shoulder, saying, "Hey, I got the stuff you need." He summoned them all from the world crystal and Li Yao jumped at excitement and replied, "Thanks Master, now I have enough for more than 200,000 people." She then summoned large amounts of petal to gather water and aid her in distributing the ingredients to form her three dishes.

The petals softened the boar's meat so it would be similar to their tamed cousin's. She is making honey sauced pork, pork soup and spicy cooked porkchops. As he had nothing else to do, he helped her cook the dishes until 9 at night. With Sebastian's help, they manage to cook two of the five boar behemoths. At nine, he contacted Gusion and asked about the event's rundown and when did it start. According to him, the royal family and the dukes of Agareth will arrive at 10 in the morning through a teleportation gate at the city's center that the kingdom's 5 advanced wizards built while Sebastian was sleeping.

The first two hours will be introductions and a tour on the city. The city wide banquet will last for 2 hours and entertainment will be provided in the form of a battle between Skadia and any challengers. He also added that the royal family will stay for four hours after that before leaving to do any extra activities and or affairs. Before ending the transmission, he told him that they all had elevated to the Immortal-6 rank during recently and that the princes of the royal family had managed to reach the immortal-1 rank with the crown prince reaching immortal-2.

The princes reaching immortal rank are not much of a problem because they are just geniuses, not prodigies. If they tried to show off or challenge any of his servants or him, defeating him would only need a single weak strike. As he left the valley and reentered the tower, he found Hailyn waiting for him in front of the portal. She looked at him with quite an excited look. "What's making you so excited Hailyn?" He asked. She suddenly smiled and became more ecstatic as seconds past. His face slowly revealed a slightly perplexed look and after a few seconds of awkward silence, she finally spoke, "I finally did it Master!"

"Did what?" He replied. 'Does she expect that I would always read her mind and constantly monitor her life?' A second later she exclaimed happily, "I've managed to teach 2 monsters complete human ethics, culture and technology!" He smiled and replied, "Well that's a great achievement." "Also, may I introduce them to the royal family during the visit tomorrow?" He was sure that he saw some stars in her eyes when she said that. He never thought the quiet Hailyn acted like a little girl sometimes.

The monsters becoming smart could be a problem as suspicions could arise. After thinking for a minute, he had a plan in mind. With a seemingly carefree tone he replied, "Why not, but, you must only reveal them after the king had given his remarks after the feast. Give them hooded cloaks to cover their appearance." She nodded before giving a short salute and disappearing into leaves. The monsters that she will bring are probably very intelligent or hidden prodigies who's existence as a monster prevented it from developing its great skills.

One of the phases of his plan will be to seduce and marry the royal family's most favored princess. He did not need to turn her into a vampire like him but just needed her as a bride so that he would earn the Agareth kingdom's support in starting a kingdom. As kingdoms and empires did not even occupy 0.001% of Terradeus' total area, finding the location for starting a kingdom would be easy. He could already see his kingdom's start in around a year or two.

He walked down the wooden stairs and transformed into a large black bat as he exited the tower through its large wooden doors. In the sky, he could clearly see the preparations being built as the city's lanterns and torches are still lit despite it starting to get late at night. As he enters his room through the large balcony, he assumes his human form and enters the coffin, sleeping till dawn arrives.