"Surprinsingly easier trip then expected. Now to follow my natural call as a brasilian and son, and enter the extremely big line so i can get other people inside." Aki muterred while looking at the line with twenty or so people and two caravans. He'd long learned how not to get his mother or grandmother to trick him into holding place, but to think he'd one day voluntier for something like this...
Suffice to say, Aki had not expected the line to just quickly and calmly walk so he could get inside the capital, but it surprisingly did. The guards only asked if he was a serial murder or rapist when hearing of his incredulity, but he just scoffed and went on after specifically saying he was neither. He considered himself a mass purger or cataclismic agent. Harbringer was already taken after all.
Besides, unless one of those guards were high level people being punished for some stupidity, them their truth spell was never going to work on someone with a fisic as strange as Aki's, nevermind his soul skills practically feighned any response if he so wished.
Observing as there weren't any extreme use of glass-wear exept in the shops of people he could only refere to as desert dwelers, half because their skin and half because they looked even more uncorfortable than him on the current slightly chill wind, Aki filled the idea of a glass producing plant for later, after he scamed someone into telling him their technich so he could fuse it with the one he'd scrambled his brain for plus whatever magic and enchanting technique could be incorporated into the process.
He'd always believed magic was just science that was not understood yet, but now he'd fight tooth and nail to shove it in the dictionary as a new field of research, only in a very small part because he'd be the renomed spearhead.
From his point of view, the capital wasn't much to look at, but he could see a future where he'd govern it and put rail tracks over from city to city. He just needed to get some japanese train designers here and they'd probably cream their pants with ideas before he even showed them the existence of the beast-kin. Or gnomes. Or some variant species of elves.
For now that was still long to come though. Shaking his head, Aki looked around and saw a happy looking girl with straght blond hair and green eyes. She couldn't have been older than twelve, but she was growing in all the right places and her face was lovely.
'She's probably going to leed me to some good encounters, lets follow her for the next two hours or so before i actually get to doing something. There shouldn't be anyone that can actually kill me in this city yet.' He decided with a nod and started following her like a child would to a cat. He did that a couple of times before, but he just ended up getting a bigger cat angry at him.
She smiled and greeted some stall onwers, he bought an apple. She looked at some cute dresses, he bought three. She was offered some candy from a suspicious looking fellow and he kidnapted the man before giving him a job in his city. That candy was damn good. Going through a narrow passage way where the girl he'd followed for the last hour went to, Aki hadn't actually expected her to suddenly pounce at him from the shadows, but he still caught her neck and stopped her anyway. He'd detected the concealment magic, but even if he hadn't he'd still have more than enough time to not get hit.
"Gaah..." She groaned and tried to stab his hand, which only really made her almost cut her own arm as the blade found no purchase and almost stabbed her other arm.
After getting a bit more air out of her lungs, Aki dropped her and raised a sound barrier.
"Sorry for following you, i'm new to town and thought it'd be interesting." He nonchalantly told her before she even got up again.
*cough* "Who are you? Your alpha will hear about you encroaching our territory filthy dog." She seemed ready to spit on his face and spoke on a cold tone, so Aki guessed she was a vampire or wendigo, but then discarded the later option and just appraised her. Hit the nail on the head.
"So this is what a camouflaged vampire smells like! I'm Aki by the way. I am here to visit the capital and do some business. Wasn't expecting to deal with your clan so fast, but if you want to help me improve my mental stats then I can only thank you. Speaking on that topic, are you able to regenerate your heart and brain? I'm kind of hungry." He told her while showing his fangs.
As her skin turned paler, she hissed at him and turned to dark smog, leaving Aki behind when he seemed to not pursue.
*****
As Aki shoved another bloody heart in his mouth, he gave up on speaking and just raised a finger asking all to wait as he tried to eat the man's heart exactly 25 times. It was nighttime, he'd been waiting to get a crowd, and he currently sat on a man's stomach, repeatedly shoving his hand in his opened ribcage while surrounded by pale figures that did not know how to react.
"Uncle..." muttered the little girl from before as she looked in the eyes of the man laid on the ground, skewered on the stomach and extremities with glowing black stakes of a metal which terrified all present. If only she'd not been followed...
The vampire on the ground tried to say something, but the old noble could only vomit more blood and focus on the pain and regeneration as he was repeatedly drained of his very essence.
"Ok, I'll cap my intelligence with him later." Aki said after gulping down one more heart. He'd been giving... Yeah, no, his jaw is simply very big. Anyways. "Everyone! Back inside, we're going to deepen your familial bonds and have everyone serve me. If you try to run i will eat you alive, so feel free to try." Aki cheerfully told all the vampires who'd been practically paralized as he ate their leader. Snapping his finger in a volume that normal people can't even scream at, he got them out of their shock and ordered six people to get the vampire leader out of the stakes and remenbered them not to touch those.
The man and women he pointed to simply noded and obeyed in silence and dread. His 'death presence' was a charm ability that very much reinforced his already murderous mug and even made undead more likely to obey him, so there was a lot of sinergy working here.
He'd still not be able to make anyone in contact with the death element start feeling reverence or worship towards him just from being a kilometer away like a certain dhampinir reincarnator, but making them shit their pants and fall to his command was more them enough.
Getting inside, he'd ordered the pure blooded blondie to take him to the lowest catacomb while telling the rest to serve a banquet and bring him all the blood slaves, thralls and children in the mansion before ominously saying he was intrigued about what treasures he'd obatined.
Aki wasn't honorable nor graceful as he took care of the pureblood, not Helsing bad either, but you get it. He'd impaled a woman fixing her make up on the lung and liver before leaving her there, just to shoulder throw her partner as he materialized behind him and making the ceiling pin him down before he took a specially big square with a tip and shoved it at the man's stomach and receding his control over the tight corridor so he could better avoid the almost corpse in front of him.
"A... Ame..." *Ghaaa, cough cough* These were aperently the little girl's parents, because they both looked at her with fear and seemed to beg for help.
"Oh, so your aunt is the big boss here, i get it. Don't mind this, it is merely temporary, i will get someone to get you out and attend the banquet in a jiffy, just bear with the thing trying to suck your soul out for a bit, ok?" Aki laughed a bit as he said so, like it was an inside joke or something.
"I don't think that will be needed. Robert's family has proven to be more than dissapointing already, after squashing you i shall dispose of them and find another to be my partner." Said the sweet voice of a white haired woman with golden eyes. She was tall, dressed in a white dress with red lines and wore her long hair to her lower back.
"Wow, you look just like Lamae Bal! Say, did you have to be repeatdly raped in the most brutal of ways as well?" Aki had not finished speaking, but she'd already threw three blood tentacles from her back at him from odd angles. He'd caught two with a hand and moved his head just a bit to dodge the last one. "I'll take that as a yes." He grinned at the now hissing woman who had dark lines running through her exposed arms and face. Her sclera was now black with red lines too. As bat-like gray wings with a pulsing menbrane appeared in her back, she threw herself at Aki with claws and fingers much bigger than they should be.
With his agility being so underwelming even when boosted by magic, there was just no way Aki could dodge that without a previously prepared teleport, which he'd actually not finished preparing, so he had to tank the angry lady. She practically burried him in the ground, his knees buckling to resist the weight and from being literally used to plow though polished marble.
"Hey, would you like a bit more power?" He said as she repeatdly crushed his hand, which held her's, but still found herself unable to let go. Instead of replying she kneed his stomach and headbutted his head.
Recoiling a bit from the horn like protusions that hadn't been there before she moved her head.
"That wasn't an insult." He told her, short, silver horns with inscribed runes had surfaced in his forehead.
"Didn't take it as one." She said in a distorted voice that sounded like several people talking at the same time and launched another blood tentacle to ravage his insides. Through her knee that is. Suddenly she fell and slowly moaned a silent scream.
"It also wasn't a sexual innuendo, I'm married." Aki let out a breath as he regenerated the hole on his abdomen, the vampire's attack already turned to black dust. "Good think she feel for the trick fast though, she hits like a real woman!" He muttered while rubbing his bleeding forehead.
The mental connection was imediatly completed when she used an attack to connect them again, and Aki was rather... Well, you get it. If you actually count his will and mental fortitude it'd always be more than enough to trounce anything below a god.
When you attack someone you leave yourself frail to other attacks too, it's quite the basic concept, most controlers know that. The extremely old vampire just didn't expect to have all her mental defences broken through in a mere moment, even with her emotions being a bit shaky.
In a more 'metaphisical' battlescape, Aki was currently holding the woman by the throat without actually touching her. After all, the monstrocity of tentacle and teeth that she thought herself as didn't have either a throat nor a very grabable surface. It didn't stop him from sending extreme pain, hauting indecision and crippling panic to every inch of her body though.
Aki didn't really wait much though, after composing himself he imediatly shoved a translucident hand in the woman's head, grapping a small red sphere inside of her before he used his other hand, also in a similar state, to write on it.
"Don't just stand there little girl, get some people to take care of your parents. I'll be going to the banquet in no time." He told the girl, who again, couldn't help but stare as her world view broke. A rank 5 vampire had just fallen to this man's knees in mere moment, and she couldn't help but imagine she would never be the same.
*****
"Uh, uh, i see." As Aki heard the report on the children's activities, He couldn't help but get pissed for several reasons. "Children, form lines, the older you are the further back you go!" He shouted in the ball room of the state, which was quite crowded. Keep in mind, it was a place with ebony walls, rubies, paintings of old, somewhere a great noble house used to show off to many people at once. His orders imediatly obeyed, Aki saw as every vampire in the room shivered a bit. Or a lot. Plenty had shaky knees. Before speaking, Aki pulled the former matriarch of the family and straightened her arm in front of him.
The 'youths' in front of him ranged from three and thirty year olds. Aki didn't exitate in cutting off his new servant's arm and letting her bleed into the cerimonial pool in front of him. "STAY!" He raised his voice to all in the room. None could supress the desire to jump at the chance of getting a droplet of the original bloodline. With the obvious exception of Sabrina. She seemed only a bit confused, but didn't stop the blood from pouring out. She even bleed a bit more than a human body would contain before stopping it, getting a nod from Aki. Her arm was already forming itself again when her master had finished bleeding a bit into the puddle of red.
"Starting today i will remedy your badly designed education. This pool can feed anyone present into becoming a pristine new bloodline. If i said the first youth to kill their parent's can have the first drink, what would happen?" Silence kept itself strong in the chamber. Even if all were enticed by the smell and desire, none dared to speak even with Aki giving pause. "Death. All of you would die." He said, shocking all, including the woman by his side, but she suddenly had an expression of realisation. "I'd kill everyone who'd actually tried drink one drop of this pool and kill all who actually killed their children. Someone so quickly convinced to betray their family isn't worth to rear. It's impossible to know when you will make a mistake, because you will, and your current values lead to ridiculously bad incidents with a single mistake. You are all guilty of stupidity. I will be remeding this the fast and hard way for the adults and the slow way for the children." He said with a dissaproving voice before burning the blood at his feet with purple flame. "We will begin the training tomorrow at dawn. All are to be present. Sleep now if you need, because it will be blood churning and bone breaking training starting after i get out of my room again." He harshly intoned and dispersed all.