Vampire Kingdom, Delarosa Family Mansion.
Delarosa enters the mansion and saw his wife and Issac waiting for him in the living room, they both stand up when they saw Delarosa get in.
Upon looking at Delarosa’s excited expression, both of them look at each other in confusion.
“My Dear, What puts you in such a good mood?”, the woman vampire asks seeing that her husband looks a hundred years younger with that excited look.
Issac also steps forward and asks, “What great news do you bring father?”
But Delarosa walks past them completely ignoring their question before he put parchment on the table, he then signals to his wife and Issac to look at the parchment.
Looking at this, both of them look at the parchment in confusion.
They saw the drawing of a male human on the parchment and based on the aura, both of them knew that the one that makes this drawing is a demon.
“Is this the thing that puts you in a happy mood? a drawing of a human?”, his wife asks.
Hearing this, Delarosa sighs in disappointment seeing the underwhelming expression of his wife about this parchment.
Delarosa then said, “That is the drawing of the Prince of the Werewolf!”
Upon hearing this, his wife widened her eyes in shock before she took the parchment again.
Because of what Delarosa said, the parchment becomes even more important than their life as they know how valuable this parchment is.
“How did you get this?”, his wife asked in surprise.
Delarosa smiles proudly before he said, “The other family members are too busy searching for the Prince of Werewolf blindly, all of them deny to represent the King and Queen in meeting with King Saruth at his stronghold”
“I didn’t expect anything when the tasks were given to me, but turns out the task was a blessing in disguise!”, Delarosa explain with a mischievous smile.
His wife jumped in joy upon hearing the news, they’re very lucky to get this.
But then, his wife frowns after realizing something, “What do you want to do with this? Should we tell the King?”
“We have to maximize this chance that we’re given by the Origin, If we told the King then the King will broadcast this parchment to the other Vampires and we will lose our advantage”, Delarosa said with a frown.
Then suddenly, his wife snaps her fingers and suggested, “We can tell the Queen about this, We can convince her to give us a chance to get this Prince”
“That’s true, but what can we use to convince the Queen that we can find the Prince?”, Delarosa mumbles in thought.
After saying that, both Delarosa and his wife fall into their thoughts.
But then suddenly, Delarosa’s eyes landed on Issac who is currently holding the parchment with Rex’s drawing on it with a frown.
“What are you thinking Issac?”, Delarosa asks.
It’s not an everyday thing that his failure of a son thinks hard about something.
Hearing his name getting called, Issac look at Delarosa briefly before his attention went into the parchment again, “I don’t know, but this human looks familiar”
A moment passed, Issac suddenly remembered.
“I knew this human! He’s the human that attacked me during my mission!”, Issac shouted.
Delarosa stands up from his seat before he walks over to Issac, he then holds Issac’s shoulders with an excited look, “Are you sure?! This is the human that attacked you?!”, he asks while showing the parchment to Issac.
Issac nodded his head, he’s 90% sure that’s the human that attacked him.
The situation gets even better for the Delarosa Family,
His wife then asks, “Dear son, Can you remember anything that can help us locate this Prince? Did you manage to scratch him and get his blood perhaps?”
“We can locate the Prince if you got his blood”, the wife added.
Issac frowns trying to remember that night.
Many things happened that night, the sudden appearance of Rex and Liliya riding Delta destroyed the easy mission that he take for his reputation’s sake.
It makes his reputation dwindle further as he failed to extract the expected humans.
But then, Issac said while remembering that night he fought with Rex, “That Prince is very strong but he’s not that strong, I reckon that he’s probably around peak fifth rank to early sixth rank power”
“Anything else?”, Delarosa asks expectantly.
Then suddenly, Issac remembered something, “Oh! The Prince seems to know the Chosen One, I heard she shouted his name”
“Rex…”, Issac mumbles.
Hearing this, Delarosa and his wife widened their eyes in surprise.
Delarosa then said, “We got a bit of a bargaining chip to convince the Queen, but I think it’s still not enough to completely convince the Queen”
But then suddenly, Issac summons the sphere of blood on his hand.
“I might not get the Prince’s blood, but I got the Chosen One’s blood right here”, Issac said as he plays with the blood that he extracted from the Chosen One.
~
Scarlet Banes Kingdom, Werewolf Territory.
King Baralt walks along the hall with powerful strides, his bearing is that of a king but he frowns when he saw the slight changes of attitude from his guards.
Their eyes don’t look at King Baralt the same way again, and it disturbs him.
Because of this, King Baralt picked up his pace with boiling anger as he went down the small stairs that leads onto a dimly lit room.
After arriving in front of the room, there are two guards on each side of the door.
Upon seeing King Baralt’s arrival, both of the two guards bowed slightly before they opened the door behind them to let King Baralt enter.
Right after the door is opened, King Baralt can already see a Werewolf in there.
The Werewolf wears a red hooded robe that has the robe look more scarlet because of his own blood, his two arms are chained up to the ceiling while his two legs are left unrestrained.
Inside the room has a couple of torture tools, there’s also a white flower on the side.
If Rex was here, he will instantly recognize that white flower to be the White Rye that is very toxic to Werewolf no matter how powerful they are.
The room is closed with no source of light, it’s completely isolated.
“Are you going to confess about your trickery Hallac?”, King Baralt said with a cold tone.
Hearing this, Hallac raises his head to meet King Baralt’s eyes slowly before he smirks, “I didn’t use any magic to manipulate the necklace, you’re simply aren’t able to face the truth”
“You’re no King”, he added not restraining any of his words.
King Baralt’s eyes went red in anger as he grabs Hallac’s chin with murderous eyes, “You dare talk to a King like that?! I can have you killed with a word from my mouth”
But even under the enormous pressure of King Baralt, Hallac only chuckles mockingly.
Looking at this, King Baralt pushes Hallac’s face to the side in anger as the chains restraining Hallac’s arms make a clanging sound.
Without any remorse, King Baralt wears a magical glove.
He then dipped his fingers on the white substance that is extracted from the White Rye before he touch Hallac’s chest with the fingers that he just dipped in.
Tssss!
“RAARGHH!!”, Hallac shouted in pain as the white substance scorch his skin.
His blood vessel around his chest that King Baralt’s finger landed on started to bulge and turn black, it’s completely gruesome as the skin started to sizzle.
One by one, the blood vessels on Hallac’s chest started to break.
After a long hurtful process that seems like an eternity, King Baralt retracts his hand back.
He takes off the magical gloves before he went into his thoughts.
Looking at King Baralt thinking in his head, Halalc then said, “The other Enchanter, they also didn’t find any magic that you accused me of putting in that necklace right?”
Hearing this, King Baralt shouted as he glance back fiercely, “Silence!”
BOOM!
Blue energy envelop King Baralt’s body as Hallac felt suffocated from the pressure.
Even the chains restraining Hallac’s arms started to make a cracking sound, but it didn’t take long before King Baralt retracts his aura back and looks down in thought.
After feeling the pressure lifted off of his chest, Hallac finally breath normally again.
“It’s not that you’re not the strongest”, Hallac mumbles with heavy breaths.
King Baralt turns his body around to Hallac with a questioning look, he heard what Hallac said and feel confused about it because it’s just doesn’t make sense.
Feeling the question gaze,
Hallac then explained, “Maybe what the Origin meant by the strongest is not the raw power of a Werewolf, but rather, the bloodline of the Werewolf”
“That still doesn’t make sense! I’m accepted by one of the moons”, King Baralt rebutted.
But before he can become angry once more, Hallac then intervenes, “You forgot that there’s a Werewolf in the human’s territory that has a King Mark, Maybe he’s the one that has the strongest bloodline than any other Werewolves”
Hearing this, King Baralt was at a loss for words.
What Hallac said is true, he knows that there’s a Werewolf in the human territory that has a King Mark just like him.
This means that the Werewolf is also accepted by one of the moons.
“What do you suggest we do?”, King Baralt finally said as he look at Hallac intently.
~
The next day,
Rex opened his eyes slowly as the morning light penetrates the room they are in.
But unlike any other morning, Rex felt comfortable upon waking up, and turns out that he woke up in Adhara’s embrace.
It surprised him as he looks up to Adhara who also woke up because of him.
“Did I wake you up?”, Rex asks lightly with his croaky morning voice.
Hearing this, Adhara smiles gently before she replied, “No, I wake up long before you wake up”
Rex then wake up from his bed before touching his panging head, ‘The dream is back again, Why do the Blood Moon need to show me that vision again’, Rex thought with a sigh.
Then suddenly, “What did you dream about just now?”
What Adhara asks surprised Rex as he glances at her in confusion, “Why are you asking?”
“I don’t know, maybe because you’re screaming mother and father the whole night so I decided to hug you in your sleep”, Adhara replied nonchalantly.
Rex widened his eyes in surprise, “Did I really say that?”
“Yep, I heard you mumbling and shouting throughout the night so I got curious”, Adhara said while tying her hair into a ponytail.
She then added, “So? Are you going to tell me?”
Rex smiles wryly upon hearing this, it’s been quite a while since he dreamt about that night again but the dream resurfaced again because of the Bloom Moon Box.
‘Adhara didn’t know about my real mother and father’, Rex thought with a sigh.
Out of all the topics about his life, Rex really doesn’t want to talk about his real mother and father as it’s very hurtful to just remember.
After thinking for a while, Rex finally said, “I’ll tell you next time”
But before Adhara can pout, Rex kissed Adhara’s forehead shutting Adhara’s mouth instantly that was about to say something to him.
Rex then went to the bathroom leaving the stunned Adhara on the bed.
A couple of hours later,
Rex and the others have already arrived at the cliff where Carabidis Temple lies, it’s a deep cliff and the cliff makes Adhara and Kyran’s expression pale.
“Are you sure this is the right place?”, Adhara asks in concern.
Kyran also looks down on the cliff before his eyes widen, “I don’t think this is the right place”
Hearing both of their comments makes Rex chuckles slightly, who won’t be scared if they’re told to go down a deep cliff with dark clouds on its bottom.
They didn’t even know what lies beneath the dark clouds.
But Rex already checked the bottom of it, so he’s not worried at all.
“Let’s go, there should be fringes around here that we can use to go down. If you don’t go down I’m going to kick you guys from my pack”, Rex joked before walking to the side.
Adhara and Kyran can only follow Rex from the back helplessly without having any other choice.
Delta also follows behind them, but she’s not that worried as she hops towards Rex.