Chapter 182 - Cap 181: Presence Of A Ruler

After Lyra is borrowed from Irina and Ivan has his head back in place I call everyone into the living room, want to talk to everyone upstairs away from this dusty, dark basement. 

I'll leave to investigate this secret room later, first I'll have to talk to this father-daughter pair. 

Upon arriving in the room I ask Layla to go call the others to join us, I have to introduce the two new people who have joined our group to everyone. 

Once everyone is gathered I introduce the father and daughter duo, then let them tell their story to everyone. 

Everyone's reaction was different, but the biggest reaction came from Caryna who ran and hugged little Lyra crying. 

After the meeting I told Tânia to make the clothes for both of them urgently, I told her to make at least some clothes today for Lyra to wear. 

I took advantage that everyone was together to introduce us to them, Lyra was surprised to see so many races together, she was also surprised to learn I was a Vampire Patriarch, Ivan seems to have already realized I was a Vampire but was surprised to know that I was a Patriarch. 

After the meeting, I talked to both of them to find out what their strengths and weaknesses are, I needed to know these things to know what kind of service I would want them to do. 

Lyra said she grew up learning from her father and three mothers about magic, alchemy, swordplay, and martial arts. 

She also said that she always enjoyed learning about alchemy better, she commented that she was very happy when she was taught how to fight using potions and alchemy skills. 

I was happy to finally find someone who is good at alchemy, I was even happier to learn that she was a future Combat Alchemist. 

Seeing her for the first time she looks like a cute and weak girl but I feel sorry for anyone who is fooled by this, the way she attacked her father, the strength she showed, and the speed of her attack was incredible, so far I can't associate the violent and brutal way she spanked her father with the cute way she now shows, the saying wolf in sheep's clothing was made with the thought of describing her. 

I told her to take advantage of the next few days to adapt to her body since it's the first time she uses the body her family gave her. 

She has to learn to control her strength and skills, I also want her to learn a little from Diana in order to become an adventurer too, I want that because the adventurer card also serves as an identity document in any realm. 

After talking to her I went to talk to Ivan, I found out that as a former prince he studied his life about military strategies and politics, he said he was always good at solving the Kingdom's internal problems, but preferred to become a general on the battlefield to let his brother test himself more in taking care of the Kingdom. 

Ivan told me that he has a unique ability that materializes armor, this explains the evil-looking armor he was wearing right after I used my abilities on him in the basement. 

He said that his armor was different when he was alive, he said that since he became an Undead he had kept his status equal, but many of his abilities disappeared including this unique ability. 

Ivan said he hadn't paid attention before because he was completely focused on his daughter, but as he talked to me he realized that the skills he had lost came back, but they were all at level 1. 

I was happy for him, but I didn't know what to do now, because he's an Undead and doesn't have vital energy I won't be able to take him to the Guild, if it turns out he's an Undead he will be killed and I will attract a lot of suspicions. 

Even though he can disguise himself with a human appearance it won't do, from what Diana and Kira tell me Mari has an ability that allows her to see through illusions, maybe I'll have a chance if I use my tidemark ability on him, but I don't know if it will be useful against Mari and I don't know if I want to risk it. 

After talking to Ivan he said that he had already met someone with an ability like this that Mari has, he said that a unique ability like disguise or concealment would be enough to block skills of this type, Irina and Diana said that this is true already who learned this when they were still in training in the past. 

As I don't like to take chances, so I will let Ivan join the Guild just to get the Guild Card, other than that I won't let him go to the Adventurers Guild to not risk more than I'm already risking. 

So we spent the rest of the day getting to know each other, it seems Nira enjoyed talking to Ivan, and for some reason, Lyra is being hugged by Diana, I should have guessed that. 

But it surprises me that Lyra seems to like hugs, while everyone talked I realized that she already hugged everyone, including me, maybe because she spent so much time trapped inside that glass cylinder it made her want physical contact with someone again, but I'll have to ask her to avoid doing this until she learns to control her strength, her hug was so strong that Caryna fainted, just her hand, but Nolan and Alice too, Tania resisted the hug but her spine is locked for a while until Irina heal her. 

The others don't seem to feel anything, I must admit that even for me her embrace was very strong and tight. 

After the meeting we went to eat, I was surprised to see Ivan who was an Undead eat but he only ate meat, so he said Undead who have a physical body like self-level skeletons or zombies can eat meat normally, their bodies transform flesh from living beings into energy without leaving a trace. 

Lira surprised me even more, the way she ate looked like a Wild animal that had been without food for a week, she ate so fast I'm not even sure if she remembered to chew the food, another problem was also the absurd amount of food she had. ate that must weigh four times her weight, that's when I remembered that I have a skill that allows me to do something like that, so she must have a stomach skill too. 

After that, I went to drink blood to recover faster so I could put the concealment mark on the father-daughter pair. 

After that, we spent the rest of the day updating the two of them on what happened in the town of Valen lately. 

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Lyra Pov: 

I'm very happy to be able to move, talk and eat again, from what master Zenos said while talking to my father it's been twenty years, but for me who couldn't move and had to see my father whine for all this time, for me it seems that much more time has passed than just twenty years. 

When I woke up I was filled with anger and sadness at my father for having been mourning all this time for the death of my mothers and the others at the mansion, but it wasn't his fault, no one knew the origin of the core they used, I would have preferred they had let me die so no one would have died, but at the time I was also scared of death and had hopes that they could help me, they did but the price for being saved was something I didn't expect, the worst thing was seeing the state my father was in. 

I spent most of the time in a state like my father, I was mourning the death of my mothers and my father turning into the Undead, but not knowing how long I was drowned in my depression and sadness, one day I realized that my father was even worse than me, so all I wanted was to wake up and say that none of this was his fault, so when I woke up I hit him to wake him up from this ridiculous depression he's put himself in, but I realized too late that my strength was much greater than I expected since it was the first time I used this body. 

After having a meeting with the new residents of the mansion and learning about them and the things that have happened lately in the town of Valen, I ate some delicious food until I couldn't get any more, at the end of the day they showed the mansion changes to me and my dad also showed our rooms, I stayed in the same room I had twenty years ago and my dad took the room next to me. 

Now it's just me and my dad in my room, he was in his human disguise looking similar to what he had when he was still alive. 

"What do you think of Master Zenos, father?"  (I) 

"I felt in him the presence of a ruler."  (Dad)