Chapter 441 - Take Me To Your Leader

The three Vampire Dukes discussed about letting us meet the Vampire Queen. They also asked for other vampires' opinions. I can hear them talking from here.

"So, should we tell them where our queen is?" Vampire Duke #1 asked the others.

"No. They can't be trusted. Even if what they say is the truth, they are still someone who killed vampires," Vampire Duke #2 said.

"But if that's the case, we are powerless against them. What if we ended up provoking them and they started aiming for our queen's life?" Vampire Duke #3 said.

That's basically what they are discussing. We just stand here while waiting for the conclusion of their discussion.

I get Victoria to creates clones of herself, and transform them into chairs so we can take a seat. And to show them that I'm the one in charge, my seat is a throne while the other two are just sitting on normal chairs.

"…we have a king and a queen here, but you're the one sitting on a throne?" Albert asked.

"Yes. I always love it when I feel superior to you," I replied.

While waiting until the vampires are finished their discussion, Albert and I just chatted randomly like we usually do. As for Carmen, she watched us with interest and a smile. She laughed when we started making jokes on each other.

"Haha. You too are so funny. I wish you two to keep being good friends to Fabio and my children," Carmen said.

"That depend on his personality," I replied honestly, which deserves me a slap by Albert.

"He's still the future King of Arturo. Once we retrieve Arturo back, Harold will return as the king temporarily. No one wants a king who got easily captured and swapped. We will make it so it's Fabio who is the one in charge of… the rebellion. The citizens will support him if he become the king that way. Whatever his personality is, you should get along with him," Albert said.

Carmen just laughed at us. Well, Fabio is a good guy. As long as he keeps being himself, I don't mind being friends with him.

After a while, the vampires have finished their discussion and approached us.

Since we're trying to be polite, I had no choice but to turn my throne into a normal chair. Then, I prepared more chairs for them to sit on.

"…we'll just talk while standing," Vampire Duke #2 said.

"Okay. So, what's the result?" I asked.

"First, can you show us the proof that you are not hostile at us?" Vampire Duke #1 asked. I guess he's the wisest one among the three Dukes.

"How?" Albert quickly stopped me from speaking and interrupted.

I was about to say that it's because I haven't killed anyone there, but I guess that's the wrong answer.

"Just tell us how you find this place," Vampire Duke #3 said.

"Oh, that. The vampires who returned here after losing against us were chased by you guys, right? To the point they drowned themselves? Well, they are still alive. About thirty of them. And I asked the only Vampire Duke among them. She told me about the Vampire Queen. So, before the same thing happened again, we want to make peace with you," Albert explained.

"They are still alive!? Kill them!" Duke #2 said.

"Can't do that. Twelve of them decided to live in our world. They will be under me from now on. As for the rest, they will live freely in this world. You can hunt them if you want," Albert said.

"Your world?"

"We are humans from our world. And we have a village over here which has monsters of three races living there. They are the werewolves, the elves, and the angels. The leader of the angels is his familiar, and he's also the Werewolf King because he defeated the previous Werewolf King," Albert said while pointing at me.

"This guy is the Werewolf King? You must be joking."

The Duke #2 doesn't seem to like me and provoked me. For now, I won't fight him. I'll try to keep my mind calm with calming gas. Let's ignore him as well.

"…don't they use to say that human blood is delicious? Should we just kill them and drink their blood?" Duke #3 whispered to the other vampires.

Well, that's not something that I can ignore.

"Which part of me stronger than the Vampire King who has drunk the blood of his own kind don't you understand? You want to kill us and drink our blood? Are you willing to let everyone here die for your gluttony?" I infuse my Aura to my word so I can intimidate them. And as expected, the three of them freeze in fear. They won't dare to say anything about killing us again.

"Roy, enough. Don't pressure them," Albert said.

I stopped my intimidation and stared at the three. While the other vampires behind them who feels my intimidation are unable to look at me.

"You are frozen just by sheer pressure. We're here to negotiate. Show us where the Queen is, or not," I said.

"I-I'm sorry, but…" Duke #1 stopped his words.

"But you can't just let us meet the queen? That's fine. Tell us how we can meet her then. But if you are trying to pick a fight, I'm ready," I said.

I think that's enough of my performance. Next is up to Albert.

"We won't kill any vampires who won't hurt us," Albert said.

"…will you wait for us while we talk to our queen?"

"How long does it take to go to her place?" Albert asked.

"If we go by flying as fast as we can, we can get there in a day," Duke #1 replied.

That's about as far as this place from the village. On foot, it's more than a week. But when they retreated and tried to return here, it's not even a day when they arrive. Though in the end, they retreated back to the artificial river in one night. I guess they're pretty fast.

"I'm a busy man, so I can't wait until tomorrow. And it's easier if we just follow you back to your queen's place," Albert said.

"That…"

"Can the Vampire Queen read? Wait, I don't think that's the case. If only she could read, then we can just ask you to deliver a letter from us to schedule a meeting. It's also our fault to come here uninvited. Hmm… what to do?"

If it's only to meet the Vampire Queen, we should be able to get their permission easily. But we came here and told them that we are strong enough to fight against an entire vampire army and killed the Vampire King. They are hesitant to let someone that powerful to meet their queen. These guys are amazing for being so loyal to their queen. But if they ended up making enemy out of us, they will be blamed if we ended up killing their queen.

"How about this. I brought two humans here, who are more than capable of killing all the vampires here. And one of them is a powerful water mage who can summons water. The fact that we didn't drown you all right away meant that we want to negotiate. We know from the vampires we rescued that you can't swim. So, if someone on that side accuse you of disloyalty and brought us to them, you can say that you are being blackmailed. Or is it that you want to see if we can drown you all first?"

Of course it will come to this. Blackmailing. Let's threaten them by saying what we can do to kill them to make them do what we want. But Albert said it in a polite way.

…does it make any difference if blackmailing is done politely or not?

"Don't worry. We really want peace. Even more, we can also bring benefits to each other if your queen agrees with this peace treaty," Albert said.

"To hell with that! Now, you started blackmailing us! We won't let you come close to our queen no matter what!" the Duke #2 shouted and started charging at us.

He's quite fast. But that's as expected of a Vampire Duke. Still, he's no match for me.

Just as his hand about to grab Albert's neck, I quickly grabbed his neck and twisted it. Not just that, I also use some strength to remove the head from the neck.

And with just one move, one of the strongest vampires here got defeated easily.

"I know you won't die from this. You have enough blood to recover your head. Your weakness is your heart. And I can easily kill all of you if I want to," I said.

As I thought. The vampire whose head was removed, started growing a head from the body. I don't know how, but he shouldn't be able to live anymore once his brain is disconnected from the body. But the vampire easily grows a head, including the brain as well.

As long as the heart is not destroyed, they are practically immortal.

"…we'll take you to our queen. Please don't kill us," Duke #1 said.

Now, that's easy. But it took a while.. Well, it's time to do more travelling then.