436 [Bonus chapter] Blood Pact with the Von Stein Family
Harker did not have any thoughts of trying to face Arthur in a one versus one fight, especially after he saw how Alastair ended.
He knelled, and looked at Arthur with teary eyes, “please, spare us! Me and the Von Stein family will work for you forever.”
Arthur looked at him with a smirk and said, “add a blood pact, and then we can discuss this.”
“Of course, of course. I can make a blood pact to prove my loyalty,” Harker said, sighing in relief after seeing that Arthur had showed him room for a conversation.
“Well, not only you, but the pact must include anyone from the Von Stein family. An eternity of serving me, or dying right here. What do you say?”
“This…”
The only reason Arthur even considered doing that was because he would soon leave the planet, and having a powerful ally to work for the dragons, and any of his allies, was just too good to pass.
“Or you rather die?” Arthur said, moving his hand slowly toward the grip of his crimson-red spear.
“No, no. I accept, I accept!”
“Good.”
After dealing with both rank-four vampires, Arthur flew above the castle, and stopped all the werewolves who were still attacking the nearby vampires.
Caitlyn also helped with it, as she saw how mighty Arthur was, and did not want to get herself in trouble.
That was the power of being powerful. No one wanted to make Arthur angry, and anyone in that world would do anything he asked.
“You are quite impressive, huh,” Caitlyn said.
“Ordinary, I would say. If you excuse me, I have things to do now,” Arthur said, vanishing from her sight in just a second.
It was easy for someone like him to find Wisa, Jane and Sybille, who was already awake when he got there!
“Sybille,” he said, moving toward her, who had her back against a tree, resting.
“Husband!”
Their hugged last a long time. Jane and Wisa were watching it with a bright smile.
“Why weren’t you waking up before?” Arthur asked.
He had stayed with her for quite some time inside that room, yet she never woke.
“I believe it had something to do with the chains, or the magical formations there. Anyway, I am well now,” she said.
Arthur wanted to stay there with his wives, but there were others things he had to do. First was to make a blood pact with Harker.
“I, Harker, leader of the Von Stein family, swear to obey any commands, not only me, but all of my descendants, and any other leader of the Von Stein family.”
Harker said a lot of words, and cut his arm to give his blood to Arthur, finishing the blood pact. Now he would have to listen to any word Arthur said, and doing otherwise would make him die horribly.
Not only him, but anyone from the Von Stein family had to obey Arthur, or they would die. That was a powerful pact, one that no one would want to make, but Harker did not see any other way out of that situation, and it was still better than dying.
After the pact was done, Arthur looked at Harker and said, “I heard you sent some troops to attack the central continent. I have friends there, so this shit must end. So, where is the portal you are using to send the troops?”
Harker felt a shiver running down his spine when he looked at Arthur and heard what he said, “I am sorry, master. Here, follow me, I can show you the portal. Also, we did not send that many troops there, so you can kill everyone. Also, they did not start the attacks yet, so you can relax.”
“Oh, really?”
Alastair had said to Arthur that his troops were attacking the central continent already, but was only to make him pissed, and worried.
They move through the castle until reaching an area where only the two rank four vampires could enter, and there was the portal, inside an ordinary-looking room.
“This is it.”
Arthur knew Harker was speaking the truth, so he passed through the gate with no prior preparation, and it went smoothly.
In one second he was inside the Von Stein family castle, and in the other back at the Forbidden Forest, close to that small village were he met Elena.
“This place looks the same,” Arthur said as he looked around in the forest, trying to find where those vampires Harker talked about were.
It did not take long for him to do so, as he found them inside a cave, waiting for their new orders.
“I am glad they did not attack, as Elena’s village would be the first target,” thought Arthur, walking toward the cave slowly.
“Who are you?” one vampire in the front area said as he saw Arthur approaching their cave.
They did not understand how someone would be that dumb to go there, and they thought it had to be someone from the nearby village, who wanted some adventure and entered a forbidden place.
But that was not the case, and when their eyes met Arthur’s gaze, they felt a surge of bowing to him, as if he was their natural king.
“You useless piece of shit. I am the ruler of this world now, Arthur, a rank five mage. Your shit family is already my slave, so get your asses out of this cave, and come with me. I will let Harker punish because I am not feeling like getting blood on my clothes,” Arthur said in an imposing tone.
The vampires there were surprised by the words for a moment, but then thought it was only a joke.
“A rank five mage? This is impossible,” they thought, but then with a wave of his hands, Arthur killed one of them.
After that, Arthur activated the power of the blood pact, and asked all the vampires to follow him, and that time, it was impossible for them to say no.
It was like an invisible force was making them do that. All of them moved toward the green portal inside the Forbidden Forest and returned to the Von Stein family castle where Harker was waiting like a loyal dog.
“Master, how you do you want me to punish them?” he asked Arthur, bowing.
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Arthur went to look for Sybille, Wisa and Jane, who were chatting with each other, happy to be reunited again.
“What is our next move?” they asked Arthur the moment they saw him.
“We should return to the Dragon Valley to explain the situation to the dragons, as they are the ones who will rule this place after we are gone. And we also need to help Sybille reach rank-four before we leave,” Arthur said, looking at Sybille with a smirk.
“I know exactly the best training method,” he said.