'You know something don't you?' Christopher asked after he heard Ardelean's tone of voice.
["Yes and no. It would help if you later looked into Cravensworth's library. The books have some valuable stuff in them. History is sometimes a useful tool."]
'Hmm, thanks for the suggestion.'
["Always..."]
In the meantime, the spiders, even those with the biggest hatred towards Vamps seeing Christopher's kindness, didn't lose themselves in rage as they wanted before.
Now, they cherished Christopher too, and thanked him for his kindness.
Christopher waved at them back and then looked towards his castle like a Majestic Ruler worthy of the title of Lord or Count.
Suddenly, as if he saw what would happen, Christopher's eyes spotted Merener who appeared from shadows on the highest roof of the castle and spoke with a deep and loud voice.
"Dear citizens of Sangruil. Today, the female Arachne generals with their armies became allies of our new Lord, while the male Arachne generals wanted to attack our new Lord."
"This is clearly an abuse of the hospitality of our Lord. For this crime, they need to be punished and face the consequences of their actions. The execution will happen in fifteen minutes on the square of our Lord's castle."
"This is the declaration of what would happen to anyone trying to stand against our Lord."
The Vampires and even some Spiders who liked this relax Christopher gave them started shouting in agreement, while others just silently nodded. The male generals were always arrogant so this destiny was only a matter of time for them.
Merener then jumped down and landed silently on his left knee and right foot right in front of Christopher, looking at the ground.
"My Lord, everything is ready and the prisoners are waiting for you. Sadly, I only found an empty cell that belonged to the girl named Melina you sent me looking for. I'm sorry for bringing this bad news to you. The traces are leading to the Royal Capital."
"It's okay" spoke Christopher with a sad smile and gave Merener a hand. Merener smiled a little and took his Lord's hand, getting up pretty easy.
"I'll find her later... and then,... Rox Cravensworth is going to pay for what he has done," the last sentence came from Christopher with hatred that was unbelievable even for demons in all hells.
Merener bowed and left into his Master's shadows.
After that, he spoke 'My Lord, I want to be by your side when that happens...'
Christopher smiled and nodded.
'You are going to be there my friend... I didn't forget about our agreement. That Angel is yours.'
'Thank you, my Lord,' Merener thanked and went silent.
["You are a good ruler, Christopher,"] spoke Ardelean with an amused smile.
'They just need time for themselves, not just war, war and war and nothing else. They are not machines but living creatures and they need some time for themselves like everyone else.' knowledge he learned from games.
'If you give them what they want and need, they will listen to you more than to someone who only commands them, ignores their needs and when they disobey him, he would kill them.'
'And I gave them what they wanted, so now... they listen to me' Christopher chuckled.
["Nicely done!"] Ardelean spoke.
'But that's not all. Also, you can't forget about discipline. If you don't hold the order above them, this possible paradise crumbles apart because of one single feeling.'
["Greed..."]
'Correct... Everyone who gains something for free returns back for more and more, pushed by their greed. Even I'm greedy, everyone is greedy, but that doesn't mean this beast can't be tamed like my hunger for blood.' Christopher spoke, suddenly stopping in his tracks as his eyes turned fully black with black, pulsating veins under his eyes reaching his cheeks and almost his jaw as he turned around.
Sensing the sweet irony fragrance in the air, his gaze dropped to the sinful body of a Vampire female who had her hand bleeding.
But, controlling his hunger, Christopher sighed a few times and his face changed back to normal.
'As you can see, I, with the body of an Original Vampire and hunger stronger than any Vampire has is more greedy than any other of my citizens or brides. My greed bounds to blood. I want every single drop of it. But, I'm still controlling myself thanks to discipline.' he spoke with his inner voice, turning forward and continuing in his walk.
'The power of discipline is wide and thanks to it, you can achieve great things. A thing my dear mother-in-law taught me unconsciously. She is, after all, one of the oldest and strongest Vampires in Redwilnet, a feat possible thanks to her discipline.'
["Which one?"] Ardelean asked.
'To be fair, all of them did but Elizabeth taught me the most. Due to drinking Rose's blood, I also saw her memories that at that time looked useless to me. I was one of the strongest beings out there but now, I'm just a Count Vampire. I may be considered as an Elder or 'Original' here but in Redwilnet? I can probably only face someone like Lazarus with a slight chance of winning. That man is one-thousand and five-hundred years old monster.'
["I never truly saw that. You may have looked like a powerless boy but the Dragon lineage inside you had a big effect on your strength huh."]
'Yeah it had and I just threw it away like nothing. I promise that when I get back to Redwilnet, and I'm sure as hell that I will, the kingdom is going to change completely,' Christopher thought.
["And I will be by your side,"] Ardelean added.
Christopher smiled but suddenly became serious and looked towards the main gate, as strong pressure suddenly started destroying everything around as war shouts were heard in the distance behind the closed gate.
"Hah finally, the rest of my army with the useless king is here," Christopher spoke with excitement, and with a random thought he always wanted to realize, he suddenly shapeshifted into thousands of small black bats made from pure smoke, that started flying toward the top of the gate.
Arriving there, he turned back into his humanoid form as the red moonlight was shining and lit the left half of his handsome face.
Looking back at the spot he stood before and then at his hands, he smiled.
"I never thought I could do something like this. My body is evolving at a ridiculous pace and I don't have time to track all the powers I gain" he spoke, amused but excited.
["Don't worry. As an Original Vampire, you have all the time in the world now,"] Ardelean spoke supportively.
"Yeah, I know..." he replayed.
'I need to train later. If I want to take this planet for myself and return back to take what is mine, I will need every bit of strength I can get,' he thought.
Turning his face towards the blood moon and then looking down to the darkness abyss under him, he casually spoke.
"Welcome Arachne king. Sadly you were taking too long. Half of your army with your two generals is already mine while the three males are going to be executed for trying to kill me."
"I'll give you a choice." he smiled.
"Leave and let your army here or be killed and consumed by me. The choice is yours to be made. I'm awaiting that you choose wisely..."
All arachne spiders with the two female generals inside the castle and three EX-generals in the prison suddenly looked towards a specific spot in the space, their gazes turning lifeless.
The spider citizens started to gather close to the gate, Ariane and Melissa started running through the hallways of the castle towards the gate while the three male generals began to punch the walls of their cells to get out.
Everyone wanted to reach the gate of the Sangruil kingdom, on which a big Arachne spider that appeared out of nowhere and was wearing a crown made from a white web with five purple gems inserted in it started walking slowly towards Christopher who looked against him like a small Elf.
"This is the new Lord I heard about from my spies? Hahahahaha move or I'll destroy you, worm!" shouted the Spider and stood in front of Christopher.
Instead of being a humanoid like the generals he sent, the king resembled more of a half-spider and half-humanoid.
The upper part of his body was in humanoid form and was completely naked while the bellow part was the body of a purple spider with eight hairy and smelly legs, they were gross...
The spider legs of Melissa and Ariane were perfectly shiny and smooth on touch while the males always had hairy legs for some reason.
'Hmm, now I understand why Ariane and Melissa don't want male spiders as mates. They look like creatures made by Lovecraft himself,' Christopher thought and chuckled at his comment while his gaze shifted towards his spider warriors. They all looked like in some kind of trance, eyes dark and lifeless watching Christopher like they wanted to murder him at the very least.
"Hmm, telepathically controlling your kind to follow every order like robots? I thought you were wise and not that stupid to control them to make them loyal to you... But, to answer your question, that's not going to happen little Spidey. I'm not leaving. This city and castle are under my jurisdiction now so the only one leaving should be you if you don't want to lose your life recklessly of course..." Christopher shook his head with a wide smile, his muscles tensed and his senses sharpened, ready for any possible danger.
His nails turned into sharp claws and his fangs began to be visible. Now, he was not a handsome Lord but a pissed-off Count.
His entire appearance changed forming a horrifying image of his predecessors. He looked now like a Nosferatu with sharp ears, blood-red eyes, long and thin but sharp fingers, and sharp fangs.
The king narrowed his eight eyes, clearly irritated, and jumped at Christopher with rage, together falling from the gate into the inner side of the town.
Waking up from their robotic-like state and seeing this sight, everyone went back and started to hide.
Recalling what they almost did to their new ally while scared by the clash of the two strongest beings present, the Arachne spiders began to regret their powerlessness against their King.
Calling themselves allies when their minds can be controlled so easily? The spiders began to hide in shame.
The only ones who stood still, ready to attack the Spider King were Christopher's Vampires, their enhanced blood by Christopher's darkness was boiling in their veins.
After all, not every day happens that an Original Vampire fights. They were always lazy, leaving their warriors and generals to deal with their problems.
After the dust from the impact settled down, everyone saw the Arachne king lying on the ground, missing his two hairy spider legs from the right side of his bellow body, and Christopher firmly holding these two arachne legs in his skinny pale-like-ash hands with a wide smile, standing and facing the king without the slightest sign of fear.
"Hmm, I wonder how powerful our Lord is. By what I can see, I deduce that this is going to be big~" a Vampire woman a few meters away watching this clash spoke while leaning against a nearby wall with her hands crossed under her big and developed chest, a smirk can be seen on her face with a slight glow in her eyes, aiming Christopher.
Her hair was short and black while she had a black top and tight black pants on herself.
On that, she had something resembling a red leather jacket with her sleeves up, and her forearms covered with leather armor.
A long katana hidden in a sheet was resting on her back.
"How can you be so sure?" Replayed a male Vampire near her, dressed in a black half-aristocratic and half-combat suit with two western swords forming a word X on his back.
"Don't you know that each time an Arachne spider climbs a leader of progress to become more powerful, their body parts get stronger developed as well? That monster Arachne king has legs made probably from a material stronger than the divine metal! You know how strong our Lord must be to tear it in half?" Another vampire woman with red hair and angular glasses resembling a scientist dressed in a long red dress spoke uncomprehensible and fast, her eyes widening watching her Lord with an obsession to study him.
"Ugh okay chill woman," the Vampire in the black aristocratic-combat suit spoke.
"Nah, I can probably do that too..." spoke another male Vampire, his voice arrogant and his body developed like he was a workout monster.
His skin was black and his head was bald, his height reaching almost two meters and the only thing on his body were black pants and a white top.
He was clearly showing up to the females while flexing his muscles and black leather boots with silver spikes attached to them.
"Try it, I bet you fifty gold coins that you can't even tear a single hair out of the spider's leg," the Vampire woman in a red leather jacket leaning against the wall spoke.
"Bet!" The work-out Vampire said but for some reason didn't move a muscle. When he suddenly felt the Aura enveloping Christopher and the Arachne spider, he gulped and rather didn't try his luck.
"Pussy..." the woman leaning against the wall spoke with a smirk and turned her head back to the fight.
"Try it yourself, woman! They tear me apart!" roared the workout Vamp.
"I never said I would try~. I know my limits and if our Lord wanted, he can break me like a bug."
"Hehehe~ Yeah break you like a bug~" the sleazy vampire resembling an old man, standing behind her whispered into her ear, his face dreamy and lewd.
"Ugh, stop it or you lose all your teeth, Grandpa!" She said it into his face as she shuddered from displeasure and turned her attention back to the fight.
Meanwhile...
"I thought you were stronger..." Christopher spoke with disappointment and sighed above the Arachne king, his appearance changing back to his old handsome self.
'A plebeian Vampire?! He?! Cravensworth you fucking LIAR! He is clearly an ORIGINAL! Even stronger than you!' the Arachne king began to curse Cravensworth for giving him false intel.
The black blood of the spider king that was spreading all around suddenly started forming a circle on the ground around them as if it had a life of its own.
'Even the blood MAGIC?!' the Arachne king immediately recognized what was happening.
'Is he from the Sanguine Clan? Whatever, he probably never tells me. But it's one hundred percent clear that he is an Original!' the Arachne king thought while he spatted blood on the ground that began to join the circle from which only Christopher could leave.
"This was a bad decision spidey... Get up! You wanted a fight, I'll gladly give it to you," spoke Christopher and threw the two hairy spider legs outside the circle which made the legs turn into dust and then literally disappear from existence.
"Magic? Our Lord can use magic?!" the scientific redhead Vampiress spoke.
"I knew he was not an ordinary Vamp~" another female joined their conversation while she sensually approached them, her hips moving from side to side hypnotically. Her hair was black and long and she was dressed in a black latex combat suit, with a zip between her D-cups.
The zip was unzipped right between them and her hair was tossed back, showing her pale but smooth neck.
Suddenly, "I can probably use that too..." The work-out Vampire started to speak again when the Vampiress leaning against the wall moved like a blur and punched him hard into his stomach, sending him flying toward the castle.
"Idiot, I had enough..." she mumbled and patted her red leather jacket, then leaned back against the wall.
"Nicely done Jeanne~. Wanna spar sometime?" the Vampiress in the latex combat suit asked.
"Yeah, why not," replayed the Vampiress in the leather jacket named Jeanne and all of them went silent, focusing their attention back on the fight between an Original Vampire and an Arachne king.
Meanwhile...
Clearing his hands from the dust of those legs, Christopher assumed an open chest position, placing his hands behind his back while watching the Arachne king like a disappointed teacher.
"Bloody hell," spoke Ariane who jumped from the castle's wall and landed near the circle together with Melissa.
"Hmm, generals are here~" Jeanne spoke as her eyes dropped on the bodies of Ariane and Melissa.
'Fuck, if I was more developed than them, I could clearly take Lord Christopher for myself!' she thought with jealousy but her attention was suddenly picked by Christopher again.
Meanwhile...
While Christopher was watching him, the Arachne King silently and telepathically called Ariane and Melissa and controlled them so they unconsciously followed as if charmed.
Because of an unknown reason, they wanted to protect this piece of shit only to find out he used it again.
'Fuck I was charmed again?! This annoying power of the ruler!' Ariane spat on the ground at the sight of the king in front of her while Melissa began to curse the king in her mind. She was pretty pissed off.
While the female generals were deep in their thoughts, the Spiders slowly came out of hiding and stood with only slight fear now.
Seeing the female generals and what damage Christopher did to their EX-king without the slightest fear visible in his eyes, they felt quite revealed but also feared his future reaction about their 'betrayal'...
As everything went silent again and even the king didn't dare to say something, the even stronger Aura of a powerful ruler enveloped Christopher who began to slowly approach the Arachne King.
He was so handsome that suddenly, feeling the mix of countless scents of females in heat, all Arachne male warriors who were not under Christopher's command and stood in front of the gates started drooling at the sweet mixture of smells and auras.
*ROAAAR! The Arachne king suddenly roared.
"DISGUSTING! You want to mate with this Vampire shit?!" shouted the king from the ground as he looked at his EX-generals and other Spider females with a disgusted gaze.
When they came out, an imposant image of Christopher's dominance struck into their mind which unconsciously woke up a desire to mate.
Some of them started blushing because their king exposed them in front of Christopher while other, more confident women began to release even stronger scents to attract his attention.
Some of them even started releasing sweet nectar from their private parts so they could have a better chance of attraction and so he could choose the sweetest one.
Christopher firstly facepalmed at the comment but then "HAHAHAHAHAHAHA~" he laughed like crazy. He was amused that his city started to resemble more a sect than a kingdom.
"The only one disgusting here is you EX-king," he spoke with an annoyed expression.
When the females saw their Lord's annoyed mood, their auras turned murderous and clashed against the only one responsible for this, their king.
Feeling the murderous pressure of hundreds of women, the king couldn't help but only gulp.
Meanwhile, Christopher began to speak again.
"My new generals definitely know what is the true quality as well as other single females." As he spoke this, all of them suddenly blushed, even the Vampiresses.
For this reason, he didn't speak Arachne females but only females. He wants to make them obsessed with him so they can never betray him.
The power of hope is a strong tool...
"They saw something you'll never give to a female like them," Christopher added with a bit of arrogance. Blood boiling in the Arachne king who tried to rise from the ground like an angry monster.
"What did you say boy?!" he roared.
"Are you senile or dumb?" Christopher facepalmed.
"I see, now I understand why only the low-rank ones will follow you and even those would question their sanity for choosing you" he spoke, turning his face at Ariane and Melissa, he winked at them with a warm smile, melting the hearts of all females present.
When he was about to go to the king, he suddenly stopped and came out of the barrier.
Everyone saw only a blur and was left questioning what was about to happen only to see him appearing in front of Ariane and kissing her passionately the next second.
Jeanne and other females felt jealousy boiling in their veins at the sight but Christopher had his reasons for doing this publicly.
Using his enhanced senses that can now sense even some emotions, but only the strong ones, he found out that his generals felt touched by their EX-king's words.
Therefore, he acted impulsively and slightly with greed, marking Ariane and Melissa as his.
Also, Ariane felt more touched than Melissa so, that's why she was the first.
Melissa opened her eyes wide at the image and before she could react, she too felt Christopher's firm grip on her ass and his tongue in her mouth.
He took them for himself, still acting on his emotions and instincts.
["Haah, you'll never change huh,"] Ardelean spoke with amusement but Christopher ignored him.
['You can try to change as much as you can but your family will always remain in the first spot,'] Ardelean then thought with a slight smile. He was glad that somewhere under this thick skin of an Original Vamp was still hiding the Virgin powerless boy he knew the day they formed the pact.
Meanwhile, Ariane just smiled with a red face as she looked at her friend and her new ally with a desire she never felt for anyone.
"You little piece of shit! You dare to ignore me?!" shouted the king as he finally fully got up and jumped into the air, wanting to jump at them, only to crash into the barrier made from his own blood that was lying on the ground, forming a circle around him.
"Heh, he'll never get out~" spoke the scientific redhead Vampiress while adjusting her glasses again with a wide, knowing smile.
With all the will and power the Arachne king could muster, he tried to pass through the invisible barrier but in the end, the only thing he could do was to look at his EX-generals kissing the man he hated the first second he saw him.
He was everything he wasn't. More Charismatic, more handsome, more funny, etc... while everyone loved him.
A deadly combination winning every female while pissing off every male, no matter the race.
After all, desire is always going to be... a desire.
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