Chapter 685

Chapter 685: Waiting for Good Targets

Soon after, we reached Arin’s castle. Or used to be hers at least. This was where many vampires were staying behind.

After I took Arin and the others, which was mostly female vampires, the rest of the vampires staying behind are all male ones. And somehow, they still obey Arin even though it has been a while since she used her charm on them. I guess since they have been affected by her charm for too long, it will take a long time until the effect diminished.

And because they still obey her, when we pass by this place, they didn’t attack us. Though they can’t attack us anyway because Ray and Spot is extremely fast. Much faster than vampires. Unless they want to exhaust all the blood in their body to catch up to us.

“Hmm... there were not many vampires before. But now, there are even less,” I said after looking at the vampires.

“Do you think that some of them have been caught by those people?” Randy asked.

“I’ll capture one of them and ask him. Wait for a bit,” I said.

Spot slowed down but he didn’t stop when I went down to grab a vampire.

.....

Using Spot’s speed, it didn’t take long before I caught a vampire by his leg and pulled him up to the sky. And we catch up with Spot and Randy before asking him question.

“Who are you guys?! Oh, you’re the human that Lady Arin says to not harm. What do you want?”

The vampire seems to know me. That’s good.

“This is important to Arin so I need you to answer my question. What happened to the vampires? Why are there less of them than before?” I asked while using Arin’s name so he will answer honestly.

“Lady Arin said that? In that case I will tell you. Though it will be better if I’m not hanging upside down like this,” the vampire said.

“Just answer quickly. We don’t have time,” I said.

“Alright, alright. I don’t know why Lady Arin chose to stay with you humans. But since she will be grateful if I answer, then I’ll tell you. Some of us vampires have started went missing about five months ago. It seems that there are humans who have been taming us vampires. I got the info from someone who managed to escape. They are not the humans that Lady Arin spoke highly of like you, right? Can we kill them?” the vampire asked.

“Sure you can. They are Arin’s enemies as well. Killing them will make her happy,” I said.

“Really?! Then I need to tell everyone about it. I want to do it alone so I will get praised by Lady Arin, but it seems like there are many of them. Oh, if you’re facing them, then I-”

What? He wants me to tag along? No way. He will just be a burden. So before he asks me to bring him with me, I throw him back to the castle. He was not prepared for that so he didn’t fly at all. Or maybe it’s because the vampire lacks blood because many monsters nearby are gone thanks to those tamers.

“Well, it seems like they have tamed some vampires already. What do you think?” I asked Randy.

“It means that those tamers can get to where the vampires are soon. Do you think the vampires didn’t fight back when they encountered the tamers?” Randy asked.

“No. Arin just told them to not attack us. But maybe they think those humans are allies as well. But even so, Arin also told them to fight back if humans attacked first. But it’s possible that the vampires didn’t know if they are friends or foes so they were fighting without the intent to kill. That’s why some of them were caught already.”

After I got Arin join us and enter our world for the first time, she only returned to this world a few times. And one of those times was to inform the other vampires under her that we are not enemies. And I even gave them some bloodbag near their expiration date to the vampires. They loved it.

Arin told them to not fight humans unless they attack first. But even then, I guess these vampires were reluctant to go all out against humans because they didn’t know if the humans they were fighting against were enemies or not. That’s why some of them ended up getting tamed.

The tamers I found before were not weak.But average expert level mages would have difficulty fighting against one Vampire Lord. So the vampires must have been holding back. How stupid. Though it’s partially my fault.

“If the monsters inside the base were taken to prison, it would be great if their tamer leaves the base to get more monster. Because if we kill the tamer, the monsters, especially the vampires, will fight back. And they even have a lot of blood supplies from other monsters there,” I said.

“But I don’t think that’s the case. I think the tamer would bring their monsters out when they leave the base. But if those monsters were transported to our world already, there’s nothing we can do,” Randy said.

Oh, right. I only saw the monsters were taken to another entrance. I didn’t see anything about them entering portal or not. Because if they enter portal, that mean those monsters are already in our world.

I don’t think they will be used to fight us right away. Probably they will be taken for experiment and modified to be stronger and obey the cult.

“Let’s hurry up and capture someone right away,” I said.

We fly toward their base and arrive there soon after. It didn’t take long for us since we’re riding Spot and Ray. Though normally, it should take days to reach there.

“Roy, what is your plan if we find out everything and only ordered to destroy everything in that base? Even if it’s you, I don’t think you can destroy everything in an instant. If we use the mages we have, their mages will be able to stop our magic for a while and probably enough for them to escape using portal. Do you have any other way to destroy the base?” Randy asked.

“I can ask someone who has that much power. But we need to capture someone important before that happens. I don’t think anyone important will be outside the base. So the plan will probably be for us to infiltrate the base using the coins we took for them, grab someone important, and bring them to Albert to interrogate,” I said.

“...How many times have you asked Albert to interrogate the people you captured? He’s already busy with his job as a king. Don’t make him even busier,” Randy said.

“Almost all the time, I guess. It’s fine. Albert is also fine with me asking him to do it. Or maybe he’s afraid that I will run wild if he didn’t do it and I only got false information,” I said.

“...That’s the more likely reason he obeys you. Must be nice being the strongest,” Randy mumbled.

I can hear him, but since it seems that he’s not talking to me, I didn’t respond.

We watched two gates where my Divine Vision can reach and wait until someone left the base. And the more of them leave at the same time, the better it is for us since that mean we can have more people infiltrate their base.

We wait and we wait. There are some people entering the base but none were leaving. And I don’t want to cause trouble near their base by attacking the returning people, so I didn’t do anything but just watch. While playing cards with Victoria and Randy.

“You’re using Divine Vision to watch the gate so you should be able to see the card in my hand. But why did you lose?” Randy asked.

“Because I’m not focusing on your hand. I only focus on the gates. And it’s no fun playing if I already know who will win,” I said.

After Randy won 4 times, Victoria won three times, and I only won twice, I can finally see some people are leaving. There are five of them. Good enough to be our target.

“Alright, we have our target. Let’s finish the game now and focus on our job,” I said.

“Must be nice for you to not lose any more. What a good timing,” Victoria said.

It is good timing. Even if I want to play games fairly, in the end, I still hate losing.

The five people are moving toward the vampire castle we were before. I guess they must be the ones capturing the vampires.

“Should we defeat them or should we let the vampires handle them?” I asked Randy.

“Capture all five of them. We’ll bring them all to Albert and interrogate them. I don’t think they have someone important among them so it’s fine if we just capture one of them and let the rest die. But it’s still best to capture them all,” Randy said.

“We’ll see how strong they are first. Let’s make our move once they cross the river.”

There’s a river where they are going to. They need to cross it if they want to go to where the vampires are. And that should be far enough from the base for us to take action.