Chapter 919: Dragon, Dragon, and More Dragons. 3
As soon as the roars ceased, various eggs of different colors began to form around.
"Oh...?" Victor looked curiously at this phenomenon.
"What happened, Victor? Did they fail?" Scathach asked.
"They didn't fail... What's happening is that their bodies are remaking themselves from scratch."
"Huh? But that didn't happen to us," Morgana said. "I remember our bodies slowly remaking themselves after transforming into dragons."
Victor nodded, he clearly remembered that fact as well. The source of this content is N0veII_bIn
"... Victor's divinities somehow influenced the girls," Aphrodite said. "And because of that, their process of gaining a dragon's body was faster than ours."
"Remember that when Darling transformed us into dragons, he was still a mortal, he wasn't a god like he is now. Therefore, their situation and ours are completely different."
"I see..." Scathach sighed in relief, seeing that her daughters were okay.
"So, what should we do now?" Jeanne asked.
"We continue the ritual..." Victor said as he turned his gaze back to the goddesses.
The goddesses swallowed nervously when they saw Victor's gaze on them.
"Come a little farther over here," Victor said, pointing to a spot away from the girls who were in the large eggs.
The goddesses nodded and walked toward the spot Victor had indicated. When they gathered there, Victor began to explain:
"Unlike mortals, divine beings are a bit more complex to change their race due to their own divinities, which can interfere with the process. Therefore, I will ask you to do the same thing Aphrodite did. During the process in which your body and soul are changing, you must focus on not using your divinities. Of course, I will assist in the process."
"Do you understand?"
"Yes." They all nodded in agreement. As all of them were ancient goddesses, they knew very well what Victor was talking about.
"Good. Let's begin."
Just as before, a magical circle began to form beneath the goddesses. Victor focused his eyes on their souls, thanks to his immense control over the soul coming directly from his powers as the Progenitor of vampires and a god of negativity, he could more easily see the connection between divinity and the goddesses' souls.
Although it was easier now due to his newfound powers, it didn't mean that what he was about to do was not complex. Because of that, he left the goddesses to be the last to be transformed.
Velnorah narrowed her eyes slightly when she felt someone deeply invading her soul, and instinctively, she used her own divinity to protect herself from this 'intrusion,' but Victor's next words made her relax a bit more.
"Do not resist. I don't intend to harm you; this is a necessary process."
"Okay," Velnorah said.
As soon as her body began to be covered in a blue light, Velnorah could clearly feel the internal structures of her existence being changed.
'Incredible... To be able to change even someone like me who has already reached the peak of her existence... His power is very strong and intrusive... This would be quite dangerous if he weren't a friend.' Velnorah could clearly imagine the kind of harm someone with this kind of power could do to the gods. He could completely reshape an entire being into something that suits his preferences. A power even worse than brainwashing.
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Nightingale, Royal Capital.
While Victor was going through the ritual with his wives, in Nightingale, a woman with long brown hair and brown eyes was on top of a building, looking at the noble vampires with a calculating look in her eyes.
Despite being in one of the most visible places in Nightingale, none of Vlad's forces seemed to notice the woman; it was as if no one could see her.
"Tsk, I lost sight of him... Is he so powerful that he can simply disappear like this out of nowhere?" The woman wondered.
Suddenly, another deafening roar from several dragons echoed around.
"Hmm..." The woman touched her chin and said, "This time, the roar contained more power and a hint of divinity... But there's something strange; I can't locate the source of this roar..."
With a wave of her hand, runes began to appear around her, and she tried once again to track the source of the roar, but just like before, nothing happened.
Although she was unsuccessful in her attempts, it didn't diminish the woman's determination to discover the source of this roar. She knew that this roar came from another dimension, but this dimension didn't seem to exist within this planet.
'But if this dimension didn't exist within this planet, how can we hear the roars of the dragons?' She thought.
"Ahhhhh!"
"What's this!?"
"... I'm scared... This oppressive feeling."
"Where is the king!? What is he doing!?"
"Calm down, guys."
"Ahhhhhh!"
Vlad shook his head internally when he understood his own thoughts. Anyway, there was no point in crying over spilled milk. He needed to do something about this situation because the direct contact he had with Victor wasn't working, and he didn't know what they would do if they waited too long.
If it were just Dun Scaith, Vlad would have room for maneuver and could somehow deal with her. The problem arose when Kali entered the equation. That enigmatic being composed of the deity of destruction was completely unpredictable, and Vlad wasn't very confident that she wouldn't take action due to her friendship with Shiva.
"My King."
"...Yes?"
"You're overthinking again." Alexios warned him with a serious face.
"...Oh..." Vlad fell silent for a few seconds. "You're right," he sighed.
It seemed that he always tended to revert to his habits unconsciously when faced with a situation he couldn't control.
As he reflected on his tendencies, suddenly, the communication device started working, and the call connected. A hologram appeared, and soon the image of... Agnes appeared, and she looked completely different, with new dragon eyes, horns, and slightly pointed ears as obvious indications of her new status as a true dragon.
"What's up, Doc?"
Vlad looked up when he saw the amused gleam in Agnes's violet eyes... Wrong, she wasn't Agnes, was she? She was Violet.
"Violet... I presume."
"Are you going senile, Old Man? Don't you recognize me anymore?"
'For a moment, I thought I was talking to Agnes... Did the race change cause her body to mature?' Vlad thought.
Violet was now the image copy of the 'future' Violet she saw in her visions.
"Kakaka, you seem unresponsive to seeing me, King of Vampires. Did the dragon get your tongue?"
"...What's with the fake condescending laugh?" Vlad asked.
"Due to my new status, I was thinking about doing some cool and memorable laugh, you know? This is called the One Piece effect."
"How about a nobler laugh like Kakaka? Or more mysteriously evil like Kukuku? Or maybe Zahahaha...?" Violet shivered when she said the last. "Wants to know? Forget the last one, it sounds very strange when it's not spoken by a toothless old man."
Vlad didn't know how to react to these words; he had the look of a person who clearly didn't understand the references Violet was making, and Violet also noticed this.
"Tsk, what an uncultured man, that's why your old wives gave you a green hat."
Vlad's eyes twitched a little.
Violet stopped playing around, and her expression became completely serious. "Why did you contact Darling again and again, old man? We're in the middle of something important here."
"...Kali, the goddess of destruction of the Hindu pantheon, and Dun Scaith, the goddess of runes, are here."
"...Oh... That's quick... I thought it would take longer."
"You seem to be aware of the fact that these two individuals are here."
"Yes, indeed." Violet didn't deny it. "No one can escape Darling's senses, you know?"
"...And you guys planned to tell me?"
Violet raised her eyebrow, she appears to sit in a comfortable chair, and crosses her legs elegantly: "Vampire King, although we are not enemies due to Ophis, and our Nightingale heritages, we are not exactly official allies either. "
"The fact that you failed to notice two potentially dangerous individuals in your kingdom is entirely the fault of your inability."
"I thought my help in the war was of some contribution to you letting me know." Vlad looked at her with a resentful look.
"Don't play political games like, King of the Vampires. Me, you, everyone here knows that you only participated in the war for personal reasons. If not for that, you would have let us deal with the problem without getting involved."
Vlad closes his eyes for a few seconds, and opens them again with a completely expressionless look: "... You've grown up, Violet."
"I know." Violet smiled slightly, she wouldn't fall for the old vampire's tricks.
"In 30 minutes we will visit the two women, tell them to wait." Without waiting for Vlad's confirmation, Violet turns off the communicator.
"...Any thoughts, Alexios?"
"Somehow, Lady Violet acquired a rapid maturity much like Victor.""
"Chances of this being caused by the dragon's transformation?"
"The possibility is high, but I suggest observing whether we find such behaviors in other younger women." Alexios spoke while thinking about his daughter.
'She didn't change her race, did she?' He thought a little uncertainly, after all, if she did that, she would lose her power.
"Hmm... We will let the guests know about Violet's words."
"Yes, my master."
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