(Note: the power struggle will be better explained after the information about the war that took place 500 years ago)
The person that Ast was supposed to meet and the one responsible for helping Dave was the same person named Chris. Chris hailed from the human faction, they were part of the larger 'neutral faction'.
The human faction was a large group of many powerful human clans, who banded together in the hope to resist the other powerful races and also promote their interest at higher levels.
Before the advent of the universal system, the conditions of humans were very deplorable. Most of them were either living in scarce areas in the corner of the universe or a few of them as subordinates to powerful races.
But with the system also came hope for humans, who quickly rose to power within the last 1000 years, although humans were also greedy for the power they understood that to have a say in important matters in the universe, they needed to stay united.
Chris was one of the prodigies of the human faction, but he was a non-combat awakened, due to which he was never given the same respect that a person of his talent should be given. Chris always has two guards nearby for his safety and this time he was given a special mission by the upper echelon of the neutral faction.
The neutral faction was comprised of forces that do not want to take a side in the power struggle that was currently going on, but they often made deals with both sides. (the power struggle will be better explained after the information about the war that took place 500 years ago)
This time the neutral faction had made a deal with a small vampire clan, and if they would succeed there would be huge gains. What was comical was the fact that the neutral faction intends to betray the vampire clan.
It all revolves around a vampire ancestor that had escaped during the war(although he was on the winning side) and had entered the dormant state due to his injuries. This particular vampire was an important part of the 'Resistance' and thus the small vampire clan by using Dave wanted to gain the favour of the 'Resistance' and enter their ranks.
The neutral faction on the other hand wanted to use the small vampire clan to find the location of this vampire ancestor and when the ancestor would be woken up from his hibernation, the neutral faction would pounce and add him to their ranks.
And both the vampire clan and neutral faction's ambition centred on the talent of Chris, that is SS grade 'Soul Contractor'. When this ancestor would be in a dormant state they would use Chris's powers to sign a soul contract with this ancestor (as he won't be able to resist in a dormant state). The neutral faction had ordered Chris to change the content of the contract at the last moment, to deceive the vampires.
But amongst all this planning and deception a third party was going to reap all the benefits and that said party was not even aware of the benefits that were coming his way.
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"Hello, sir how are you my name is Sam, and I am here as your attendant" Ast greeted Chris with a warm smile, but inside he was shocked seeing the SS grade talent.
Ast quickly copied the talent and decided to wait for the installation. To Ast, the importance of this talent was too high. Firstly this was an SS-grade talent and a rare one at that too but Secondly and most importantly, the whole future of him and his tribe relied on the power of soul contracts. Through this talent, Ast could finally break the curse of his tribe.
Coincidentally all the parties involved in the chaotic events to follow were hopeful and reliant on one talent 'Soul Contractor'. One for its strengthening while others for survival.