Chapter 171:

Chapter 171:

Translator: MarcTempest

Proofreader: naturallyInconsistent

Chapter 171 Have you arrived?

“It looks like everyone is here.”

The Void, the nest of the Vampires.

A Vampire in a suit and a reversed mask opened his mouth. No one cared that his mask was upside down, with the mouth on the top.

“I’m so sleepy. Why did they call us all of a sudden?”

A girl Vampire yawned, hugging a teddy bear.

“You must have forgotten what it was like to be humiliated by a human. You look so relaxed.”

“What? Are you crazy?”

“I’m saying, you need to get your act together.”

“Wow... you’re really something.”

The girl threw the teddy bear on the floor and approached the masked one. The tension in the Void rose in an instant.

But at that moment.

“She’s watching.”

The princess’s secretary said firmly.

“The princess is awake right now. She’s watching everything we do.”

“Hmm.”

“...”

The two Vampires who were arguing straightened up at the mention of the princess. The secretary called their names one by one.

“Mask.”

“Yes.”

The Vampire in the suit adjusted his mask quietly.

“This is where we carry out the princess’s orders. Don’t provoke your allies.”

“I’ll be careful.”

The Vampire in the suit fiddled with his mask. Everyone knew that it was his habit when he wanted to kill someone, but no one dared to say anything.

“And girl.”

“What.”

“Have some sense of gravity.”

“Fine. Fine.”

After calming them down, the secretary looked around.

“Is the shadow here yet?”

“Just arrived. Right now.”

A neutral and unpleasant voice. At the same time, a shadow rose high. Despite being as black as pitch, its eyes were human.

The secretary nodded.

“Three should be enough. You all have a vague idea of why we’re here today.”

The girl shrugged her shoulders.

“I don’t know... Oh, I know. It’s because Maiev got his arm cut off by a human and came back.”

Then the officers burst into laughter. No one here cared about Maiev, who had lost his arm.

The secretary snapped his fingers and a light descended into the darkness of the Void.

There stood Maiev, with one arm severed.

“...”

Maiev avoided the eyes of the other officers.

She had to cut off her left arm every time she visited the Void, because it had Flan’s slave mark on it.

“I knew this would happen when you boasted about your disguise. You always skipped the meetings.”

“How about you stop criticizing each other, officers. Of course, I agree that this was expected.”

The shadow, who had been silent, tilted his head.

“Human... Did you say he did this to you?”

“That’s right.”

The mask nodded.

“The human mage that the princess has taken an interest in lately, Flan. He said he lost to him.”

“Pathetic. To be defeated by a weak mortal.”

“It must have been because of his carelessness. There’s another Vampire here who got careless and paid the price.”

“...The barrier turned black?”

There were two barriers at Reheln Hill.

The barrier that acted as a border, and the barrier that blocked the Vampire Hounds.

The barrier that acted as a border turned black. The color did not matter, but the problem was that they could not observe the inside.

Clang─!

Aurora finally threw the crystal ball on the floor. The second princess looked for a bureaucrat with a crumpled face.

“Tell me the situation right now. Hurry.”

“Yes, princess.”

A bureaucrat hastily reported.

“All teams failed to collect the dawn butterflies. Also, all the knights except Scarlet left Reheln Hill.”

“What?”

“Flan chased away the dawn butterflies. The knights had no reason to stay at Reheln Hill.”

“Damn it...”

She wanted to bring in the Vampire Hounds and measure their power, since Flan and the knights were gathered. But Flan ruined that plan.

It was too coincidental to be an accident. It was too intentional to be unintentional. The current situation was clear.

“He dares to challenge me.”

It was not a big deal to crush Flan.

She could suppress the magic department, cancel the construction permit of the magic tower, and bury Flan’s achievements in a moment. She was Aurora, after all.

All these plans were already documented. With one signature from Aurora, Flan would disappear from the history. No, he would not even remain in history.

“...”

But there was one reason why Aurora hesitated.

She did not want Flan to be completely ruined. He was the first one who had an unpredictable future, so she needed to keep him intact and observe him.

But soon, she made a decision.

“I can’t leave a precedent.”

If she tolerated Flan, more beings who would try to compromise with her would appear.

Aurora did not know how to compromise.

When I was young, I was treated like a tool. Maybe that’s why I tried to compromise. But I had to remain a person who could never compromise.

“Listen up, everyone.”

Aurora spoke seriously.

“I will go to the Reheln Hill myself.”

“Yes?”

“It means I want to see for myself how he loses his butterfly, gets trampled by the Vampires, and begs for his life.”

As soon as she said that, the departure was arranged.

Aurora moved her throne to the Reheln Hill, and the court magicians fanned her with magic.

The soldiers on both sides were solemn.

Aurora waited for only one person on her throne.

The future that awaited her was simple.

People become weak in times of crisis.

If Flan, who was driven to the Vampires, broke his neck, Aurora would show him mercy then.

The man showed up much later.

At that moment, Reheln felt like an old-fashioned place.

Everyone who gathered there probably felt the same.

He looked neat, as if he had just come out of the dormitory.

There was no flaw to be found, and every little movement was graceful.

Aurora broke the silence first.

“Have you arrived?”

Flan looked at Aurora on the throne.

His red eyes, shining through his black bangs, were deep.

Aurora was curious about what was in that depth, but she would find out soon enough.

“Yes.”

He answered briefly.

It was a reunion in the land of destruction, not the palace.