"No, it's one of the heirs of Bloodmoon who will be arriving soon," Drishti slowly stood from her place, finally standing beside Regina as she turned her gaze towards the wide ocean where until the horizon there was nothing, except emptiness. But with her piercing gaze, she saw a piece of land labeled as Heindal, adding amusingly, "Keith seemed to harbor hatred for Kiddo."
"You mean Keith Bloodmoon?" Regina furrowed her brow upon hearing a familiar name before trying to glance in the direction where Drishti was looking. However, her energy levels were too weak to reach Heindal, leaving her with no choice but to trust this woman's words.
Naturally, Regina was one hundred percent sure that this woman would definitely do something to make things more interesting for her, even going as far as to increase the speed of events. But she wanted to hear more and get all information before leaving.
"Yes, they are very much left Heindal and heading in this direction," Drishti raised her hand, creating a small viewfinder with her fingers, then placed it near one eye and closed the other, as if examining something. Meanwhile, from her side, she was easily hearing and seeing everything happening on a large red battleship heading in this direction.
"Heindal? Lady Drishti, can you tell me what game you are planning?" Regina said upon hearing the name of the place which was etched in her memories as the birthplace of her liege. She felt her doubts rising even more due to Drishti's calm and unwavering demeanor, as if she didn't care for anything.
"Eh?, Are you thinking that I am supporting Keith in this battle?" Drishti raised her eyebrow before opening her closed eye, looking at Regina, noticing the clear coldness on Regina's face.
"I didn't mention you were favoring Keith," Regina began drawing her sword out of its sheath, her eyes fixed coldly on the woman. A half-white mask covering one of Regina's eyes concealed her burn marks, further adding, "Lady Drishti, it seems you are plotting against His Liege."
"Sigh, I just want to help my student, why blame me?" Drishti said, seeing how Regina and even others behind her were looking at her with suspicion, as if she was an evil woman plotting something in the background.
In reality, she was just a viewer who wanted to watch something interesting.
"And how are you going to do that?" Regina halted from taking out her sword and tilted her head as she inquired.
"Isn't it simple?" Drishti kept looking at Regina's cold eyes before a smile appeared on her face, revealing, "by giving Keith an eye opener."
"...." All the individuals who stood behind Regina felt a series of thoughts simply: isn't it the same as plotting behind his liege?
"Tell me everything, Lady Drishti." Regina lowered her gaze, feeling anger coursing through her body as she gripped her sword, knowing that before leaving for Jade Dominion and telling everything to her liege, she needed to get information about exactly what Lady Drishti had done. "Were you the one who opened that space crack near the Liege in the lower town?"
"You are smart enough," Drishti's eyes widened before relaxing with a smile on her face. She felt somewhat satisfied by Regina's observation skills, folding her hands and feeling that until Ryuk reached Upper town, she would have enough time to increase the difficulty and help Ryuk become stronger.
After all, now that she was the teacher, she would bestow the best training experience to her disciple.
"But why?" Regina could understand that Drishti had manipulated the portal of that man whom someone was fighting, since her gaze was limited to lower town. She only saw a man arriving and getting his head slashed, but both the sword streak from her liege's sword and that man disappeared.
To get this information, the man had targeted several low-level servants from the Silvester family who ruled over Heindal. It was hectic to control the instinct to suck more blood, but due to their strength, they didn't kill any of those servants; instead, they only wiped their memories.
"Huh? That stinky woman? Agghh," Keith recalled the stench coming out of Bella, causing him to wince as he covered his face with a handkerchief. Controlling himself, he closed his eyes, then opened them, looking straight with a cold gaze. He added, "I should have made Amayara a Vampire."
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"L-lord!? It's—" All those nearby were Vampires who appeared human but were cloaked, with only their crimson eyes visible. They all exclaimed upon hearing Keith's remark, as he belonged to a pure high bloodline of one of the strongest Vampire clans.
Naturally, in order to transform a normal human into a vampire, a vampire needed to give their own blood essence to that human.
This process was similar to injecting their own blood into the human instead of sucking the human's blood as their canines entered their body—the preferred place for them to bite was mostly the neck, as there are fresh blood veins present there, sending a large amount of blood directly from the heart to the brain.
It was widely known that a vampire who loses their blood essence becomes weak for more than a month, a state where anyone can kill them.
Additionally, if the vampire was of nobility, then the vampire created by them would also belong to a noble lineage.
This bewildered all of the vampires, who felt that this act was suicidal. It would give Keith's enemies a chance to easily kill him and make him vulnerable to the freshly made vampire who would be thirsty for blood and might bite him back.
After all, there have been several love stories between vampires and humans where a vampire decides to turn a human into a vampire to give them a long life.
However, in the end, that vampire found themselves killed at the hands of that same lover.
Indeed, no vampire who has turned a human into a vampire has remained alive because after the transfer of blood essence, vampires become weak like a normal human. The newly turned vampire, due to unquenchable thirst, would see their maker as food and start sucking their blood until he or she dies.
And it was also a fact that if the vampire who turns a human into a vampire dies within a year of completing the transformation, the human will also die.
Even if a vampire who loved someone considered sacrificing themselves to give their human partner a long life, the partner would still ultimately die after they sucked all the blood from that weakened vampire.
The entire process of turning into a vampire was forbidden because it was evident that it was suicide for both the human and the vampire.
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But before they could speak, their words caught in their throats when a sudden mist emanated from Keith's body. His eyes widened, and his jaws parted, revealing sharp canines that slowly emerged, confirming his vampire heritage. With a hiss, he declared, "Know your place, insects."