"Welcome to Sangruil, Kingdom of the Cravensworth family," spoke Samantha while Christopher looked around.
Everything was so white, dangerous... and cold. Like it was a home of the death itself.
Everywhere was just white snow. Mountains, fields, trees, everything was sleeping under this cold but for them cozy sheets.
"It's beautiful... deadly beautiful," Christopher spoke for himself while feeling the dangerous atmosphere creeping all around.
His thoughts were interrupted by Ardelean who appeared next to him as a shadow being with purple glowing eyes.
Flying in the air, he noted ["Time is different here too."]
"What do you mean?" Christopher asked and turned his head towards his friend.
"You are talking to yourself?" Samantha laughed.
"No, I have a friend inside me," Christopher replayed.
Samantha nodded and looked back ahead. For her, it was normal to have a friend like that. She was a spirit after all.
She can enter a body and talk to its owner too so she taught Christopher to have a spirit like her as a friend.
["I mean what I said. Time here is slower than the time in the town we came from. One hour on Earth is a day here."] Ardelean continued.
"This world is really interesting," Christopher said.
"Samantha, can you tell me why the time here is different?"
Samantha nodded "That's because vampires need to grow older to gain more power right? So the Cravensworth family asked the Royalty to mess the time here so they can have more time to power up."
"Thanks to this, the family became one of the four elites. That's all I know from my mother."
"Thank you dear," Christopher thanked her and Samantha blushed, even when no one could see that because of her appearance as a fully black horse.
Flying towards the ruins of some village, they sped up and landed on the terrain covered by snow. She needed time for herself to regain her energy. Traveling like this is extremely mana-consuming.
The moon of an endless night that ruled there was shining brightly, illuminating Christopher's handsome face and body.
He stood on a hill above the village, looking like a lonely warrior, ready to fight for what was his.
"Beautiful," escaped from Samantha's mouth, which made Christopher smile.
"Don't fall in love my dear, or you can't take that back~" he replayed while looking at her. With a cute wink, he then jumped down from the cliff, while pulling his sword from his back and thrusting it into the ground when he landed.
When he was about to pull it out, he saw something that made his eyes wide open.
Around the sword's blade were weird runes in the snow and the blade was glowing blue showing some runes too.
Looking closer, he saw a piece of the snow being absorbed by the blade.
"Heh, eating already? And without me?" he laughed and the sword moved a little which made Christopher's eyes wide open.
["I think he said sorry? Don't ask me how the fuck I know that!"] Ardelean noted and Christopher put his hand on his chin.
"HAHAHAHA... so he's alive?" he laughed as a vial of blood appeared in his hand.
"Let's eat together then. Cheers," he spoke and the sword moved again.
Opening the vial of blood, he drank it in a row and the empty vial disappeared in a golden light, appearing in his inventory.
Suddenly, Samantha started shouting his name "Christopher!!!"
Christopher turned his face up, pulled his sword out from the ground, and teleported himself back to the hill as fast as he could.
Appearing there, he saw five ghouls attacking Samantha with their short swords. She already had a few cuts on her legs and neck, caused by two other ghouls that were sitting on the ground behind the group while licking Samantha's blood from the blades of their weapons.
Sensing someone's presence near them, their senses screamed with danger as they looked at Christopher with hostile gaze but then, they smiled when they saw he was a Vampire and one of the ghouls even spoke "Ohhh a brother? Come, we have dinner here! We can share if you pay."
"That dinner is my friend," he replayed with a cold and disgusted face while he tightened his grip on the sword.
The five ghouls that were attacking Samantha automatically stopped and pointed their swords at him like robots, while the two from behind stood up and did the same.
"Are you sure you want to do this guys?" Christopher spoke and added:
"You are seeking death."
"Arrogant!" one of them mumbled and launched himself on Christopher who turned into a black mist and when the ghoul landed on his four, the blade of Christopher's sword pierced through him from behind with excellent speed.
The ghoul painted the white snow under him with his blood, while life was quickly leaving his eyes until he fully fell on his face, dead.
His body dissolved into a dark essence and flew to Christopher's chest.
Feeling weird power up, he pointed the blade of his sword at the ghouls without looking at them and spoke "Whose next?"
The group quickly split into three pairs and surrounded him, while pointing their swords at him.
"Bastard! You are already DEAD!" a few shouted.
Like a group of annoying and hungry wolves, they all jumped at him but only fell on each other because he disappeared.
"Guys I'm here," Christopher spoke while patting Samantha's head.
Shock could be seen in her eyes while her mind was overloading.
'What kind of power does he have? This is not the power of any vampire family in this place. And what is this dark aura? Who is he really?'
Looking at him like he did something incredible, the ghouls got up and positioned themselves again, knowing they had a strong opponent in front of them.
"Guys, he's probably from Lord Cravensworth's family. We don't stand a chance against a Count Vampire!" spoke one of the ghouls.
"Count? Look at his clothes, he's not a Count!" spoke another.
"But those powers are not normal either" added another one.
"Ignore that, let's kill him!" spoke the other.
"Common guys, you can't win." Christopher joined their conversation.
Three of them suddenly started to back away when they saw the glint in his eyes, then turned and started running.
"But that doesn't mean you can run either... Darkness hook!" Christopher whispered and threw the hook that formed in his left hand toward the three running ghouls.
The only one who heard this skill's name was Samantha which left her looking pretty traumatized.
'He is the host of the Darkness Dragon! I knew it! I need to leave. NOW!'
Samatha's mind became exhausted to the point that made her faint. She wanted to leave but at the same time, her body didn't want to move. She felt pretty safe in his presence.
After fainting, her body fell on the ground looking dead, while Christopher pulled the three ghouls that were caught by his hook towards himself.
Knowing she was alright and she just fainted, Christopher didn't care anymore about Samantha and started his massacring.
In a blink of an eye, Christopher held his sword with both hands, while the three ghouls were slowly and horizontally flying towards him.
When their necks finally reached the same level in space, he slashed vertically and released an icy blue wave from the blade of his sword.
The wave flew in a straight vertical line and cut off the three ghouls' heads.
Their bodies fell on the ground and turned into black essence which was absorbed by Christopher again.
Their blood which froze and formed a blood wave fell on the ground and in the next second, it disappeared in gold light.
'You gained the blood of a ghoul +4. Your flasks have been filled' the voice of the system resonated in his mind while Christopher scanned the remaining three enemies.
The three ghouls looked at each other, nodded, and threw their weapons on the ground, wielding their hands in defeat.
With the power boost from the four ghouls his body consumed, he spoke "Pathetic," and without knowing why, Christopher pointed the palm of his left hand at the remaining three.
In the next second, a black mist flew from the palm of his hand and quickly caught the ghouls like the mist was alive, then dissolved them into dust that flew to his chest like the previous ones.
After that, Christopher fell to his knees and started coughing up blood, which caused him to faint.
...
[... Redwilnet, Kingdom of vampires in Supernatural world. Mirror dimension of Earth ...]
Rose was sitting on a red-leathered sofa in her mother's mansion.
The cold white walls were showing what kind of person Elizabeth and her daughters were.
Elizabeth, with the title 'A ruler over ice and everything cold plus bloodthirsty psycho' was known for her love of a color white, red, and blue while hating every other color.
But there was an exception, which was that she ignored the colors of clothes on other beings.
Her hate only appeared when she looked into the interier of buildings or facades of some houses.
Then, her artistic self would come out from the depths of her soul and she would immediately start talking about how bad the other colors are and how the owners should change them.
One time, she even said, "Change the color or I'll paint your house in blood-red."
The next day, the house was completely blue and when she arrived again, she showed a satisfied smile and an approving nod.
She was complicated, but who wouldn't be a little crazy after living two thousand years, right?
Next to Rose sat Vicki, looking at the ground with depression in her eyes until Yua, Christopher's Arachne maid, appeared and spoke something that completely changed Vicki's depression into new hopes.
"Lady Vicki, Lady Rose" she spoke with a bow "I have something, the information you asked for."
Rose pointed her hand towards a chair and said with a kind voice "Sit down and tell us everything you know."
Yua nodded and did what Rose ordered.
...
[... An hour ago ...]
"My Lord, The Last Dragon is dead!" a woman kneeled and spoke this with expectations in front of a gold throne on which sat a handsome but cruel and crazy man.
"Good, where is his body?" Lazarus spoke and opened his eyes with joy, looking straight at the woman.
"Well," the woman shrugged "It dissolved into dust."
Lazarus narrowed his eyes. With the tone of a ruler, he asked in disbelief "What?! I told you to do something so easy and you fucked it up?!"
"B-but Master, he is dead. I did what you said," the woman shuddered in fear when she heard Lazarus talking to her like that.
With the light essence in his body, the beings of the night felt existential fear towards him.
"Give me that dagger," he ordered so the woman quickly pulled the dagger out from her cloak and gave it to him with shaking hands.
He took it and looked at the gem inserted in the handle.
Immediately, he threw it away, recognizing that it was empty. The dagger was made to seal the victim's soul but Christopher's was nowhere to be found.
Lazarus wanted to scold the woman more but before he could do anything, "Aaaaaaahhhhh!" her body started glowing white until she exploded into millions of small white pieces that were big like one grain of sand.
"What?" Lazarus raised his eyebrows but in the next second, his entire existence started trembling in fear with the mansion and room he was in.
Cracks started appearing on the walls and pieces of furniture started flying in random directions.
A loud and very angry female voice started resonating in his ears.
"YOU FOOL! WHAT HAVE YOU DONE!" the voice shouted while the furniture that was flying stopped in the air and then flew towards the closest walls, destroying itself. Lazarus put his hands on his ears and spoke.
"Stop shouting I can hear you," he rolled his eyes.
"YOU ANNOYING WORM. YOU COMPLICATED EVERYTHING I WAS PREPARING FOR OVER TWENTY YEARS IN ONE FUCKING HOUR!" the female voice shouted again.
"So what! He is dead, that's what we wanted right?" Lazarus spoke.
"No, you Idiot. That's what YOU wanted! You are so obsessed with those three vampire bitches that you don't even think rationally anymore. He is not dead! He is on his way to gain a weapon that can kill me and you in the blink of an eye!"
Lazarus opened his eyes wide "H-how? She killed him!" he said and pointed to the flying white sparks that remained from that woman but these too started slowly disappearing.
"Think you, Idiot, think. He is the only way for my husband to be free again from my prison. Do you think Darkness would let Salvatore die so easily when he is what he needs?"
"Of course NOT!!! Christopher Salvatore is the strongest host he ever had! Even when he didn't look like that, he had much more potential in himself than meets the eye! And you fucked it up!" the female voice was pretty angry.
'I want him for myself! I need him! I crave HIM! He is compatible with my light and with this knowledge, I can turn him against the Darkness.'
'Hahahahaha... Luna would be happy when she finds out her long-lost friend is going to meet her again. But what I should do with this Idiot,' the Light thought.
Lazarus was just looking at her with disbelief in his eyes "What do you mean? Every plan we had was fulfilled!"
The Light just stared at him with dead eyes.
"You think?"
"First, you fucked it up on the field when you let your four riders fight Salvatore without the right knowledge and weapons."
"Second, you fucked it up in that mansion on Earth where you let Salvatore boost his strength again thanks to that pest Ardelean."
"And third, you fucked it up now! Much worse than the two times before because when he comes back and trust me he will, your doors would be the first he would knock on."
Suddenly, Lazarus started feeling an immense pressure on his chest where The Light placed her essence.
"Tell me Lazarus, why should I let you live when you disappointed me so much hmm?" The Light entity fully appeared in front of him. Before, she was just a face but now, her full body was shown.
She was wearing a white dress that hid her perfect body that was without any mistakes, and her white hair was flying in the air.
Her blue eyes were focused on Lazarus like he was her prey and the atmosphere around her was suffocating.
Trembling, Lazarus replayed "Be-because I can h-help you Lady Light?"
"Hahahahaha~" The Light laughed "No Lazarus, you are not helping, you are just fucking up every plan I come up with. You are useless."
"Please, give me another chance. I'll prove myself!" He begged the entity on his knees.
"Hmmm fine" The Light spoke.
'I still need a bootlicker like him~' she thought.
"You have a last chance to prove yourself. If the plan with the Werewolves is not going to bring any fruit, you are going to..."
"Wait a minute..."
Suddenly, the pressure disappeared and the Light smiled widely while she looked at the ceiling.
"And who do we have here?" she spoke while looking at the shadow of a big spider, hiding in a corner of the room.
Before the Light started shooting her essence at the spider, the spider dissolved into shadows and disappeared.
"FUCK! SHE HEARD EVERYTHING!" was the last thing Yua heard from the Light before she teleported herself away from Lazarus' mansion.
"..."
Hearing this, Rose, Vicki, and Claudia, who appeared thereafter Yua started talking, remained shocked with wide eyes.
"That's all I saw and heard" Yua spoke.
"...That's wonderful!" Rose broke the silence of the three sisters after fully understanding everything.
"We were right! Darling is alive!" Claudia spoke for herself with a kind smile. She sighed in relief that she was not a true widow like she thought the day Christopher disappeared.
Vicki smiled widely like a crazy exhibitionist while her heart was beating extremely fast.
A wave of love feelings flew through her and from her, making her go on the edge of exploding.
Her mind was repeating the same phrase 'I knew it! I knew it! I knew it!' while her face took a light tone of pink, forming a slight blush on her cheeks.
"What's going on?" Elizabeth asked while she and the other two Countesses suddenly appeared in the room where the girls were, with shocked faces.
Without knowing it, Christopher's wives were filling Elizabeth's mansion with love feelings, like true Goddesses of love.
"MOTHER! Christopher is alive!" all three shouted at the same time and flew to their mothers' arms like atomic rockets, leaving behind them only dust.
"How do you know that?" Isobel asked.
Vicki pulled away from her mother's arms, turned, and walked to Yua. Kneeling in front of her, while grabbing her hand, she said "Please, tell our mothers what you saw."
Yua was shocked by this demonstration but when she looked at the three girls and their mothers, she knew Christopher was everything for them. Mainly for the daughters but the Countesses felt the same way.
'Just a little more time and they would become my Master's too' she thought.
When walking through the corridors and halls of this mansion, she heard lots of things, and the three mothers were not angels, even when they were trying to look like them.
But like a good maid, she shook her head internally and with a deep breath, started explaining everything again.
While she was talking, the three Countesses felt various emotions. Mainly hatred towards Lazarus and the Light, but then a relief in the form of a big stone that fell from their hearts, without knowing why they felt this way. Maybe, Christopher was not just some random Vampire, maybe he was truly something more for them.
The only thing they were sure of was that they were blushing that day like teenagers,... a lot!
[... Sangruil's territory ...]
"What was that?" Christopher opened his eyes and cleared the remaining blood from his mouth.
Getting up, he heard Ardelean explaining ["Welcome back. That was one of your strongest weapons as a Darkness host. Touch of Death."]
["This technique is quite lethal to every being including the host himself. The longer you are using it, the more it's destroying your soul..."]
["Looks like not everything was sealed from your previous self, that's good!"]
["But it would be better to until you don't gain your previous self, stop using this technique because you can faint for an entire year or even die."]
Christopher shuddered after hearing this so he noted for himself to be more responsible for his actions.
Next time, he can die because of his recklessness and he doesn't want that.
"But that feeling, it was amazing!" he opened his eyes wide and looked at his hands, opening and closing them at the same time. It felt like he was a God with the power to decide everyone's fate.
["Yeah, I know that"] Ardelean spoke.
Looking around, Christopher's eyes fell on the unconscious Samantha, so he took a step toward her and appeared next to her.
"Weird," he looked back at the spot he stood on a few seconds ago and saw he teleported himself almost ten steps further without consuming any Mana. What was more important, was that his entire system menu and field of view changed.
It was like he was normal again, not seeing any stats in his field of view.
["OHH! That's why you could use that ability, you are breaking your restrictions! That's perfect!"] Ardelean spoke.
"You mean consuming the ghouls helped me?" Christopher spoke.
["Yeah, just don't overdo it."]
"Okay," Christopher replayed and looked at Samantha who started moving at the sudden movement near her.
"What happened?" she spoke and looked at Christopher.
One of his eyes glowed red and the other purple for a few seconds, as a vision of his previous draconic appearance flashed through her eyes.
It was like she saw his past self and then, his eyes and appearance returned, eyes turning to their previous blood-red color.
"You fainted," he replayed and waited for her to get up.
Remembering why, she quickly backed away from Christopher.
"Who are you really?" she asked with caution.
"I'm Christopher Salvatore, you know that already, but at the same time I'm the host for the Darkness and Vampire born from some ancient bloodline I don't know anything about."
"I came here from my world in search of an ancient artifact, the Eye of Aragos."
Samantha watched him for a minute and then came closer again.
"Sorry about that, I... I don't know who I can trust anymore. Everyone wanted to just use me for who I am and I thought you were the same, but it seems you don't care about me huh..."
Christopher nodded "You are right, but at the same time don't. I don't care about your powers or status that's true, but I care about you. So, are we good?"
Samantha's eyes widened. No one ever except her mother spoke to her like that and she liked it a lot.
"Yeah," she responded and her body suddenly started glowing purple until it changed to a human figure.
When the light died, it revealed a beautiful, young girl around eighteen years old with black long hair, wearing a black dress with an opening on her little thick thighs and between her D-cup boobs.
The dress had long, black sleeves with ornaments for protection and the skirt of the dress ended near her feet on which she had a high, leather boots.
"This is better, for now" she spoke with her sweet voice that slightly melted Christopher's senses and heart.
It was until ["Wake the fuck up host!"] Ardelean spoke to him.
Christopher shook his head internally and regained his previous posture, looking to his right while Samantha did the same.
Now, a mighty warrior and a beautiful dark fairy were looking at the ruins of the village located in the territory of a famous vampire family.
...
[... Cravenswoth Castle, North territory ...]
A woman in chains that were holding her arms and legs was lying on the ground.
She tried several times to escape but every time, she got caught and spent the entire day lying in bed and recovering from the blood loss she received from the Vampires owning this castle.
A man, wearing aristocratic clothes was leaning against the bars of her cell, looking at her with desire in his eyes.
Not only for her body but also for her blood. It was a delicacy. He never had someone with tasty blood like her's.
'Hmm, what would happen if I marry her,' he thought.
Suddenly, a Vampire in armor ran to him and spoke "Lord Rox, Salvatore is wreaking havoc in the southern territory of our kingdom."
Rox smiled widely and spoke to the woman "Your hero is here. Let's see how much he can handle."
Then he looked at the Vampire and spoke "Inform the Mages about his arrival."
"Yes, Lord Rox. Also, our Lord is calling you." spoke the warrior.
Rox smiled and looked at Melina "I'll be right back."
Then, they together left, leaving Melina alone.
Melina, who was lying on the ground of her cell just looked towards the only window in her cell with expecting eyes, thinking 'Please Christopher, h-help me...'
Then, she drifted back to the world of dreams, while the darkness essence in her body started the recovery process.
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