With that matter settled Nick chose to spend the next week working on his twilight style while cranking out four lessor atronachs per day. Until now Nick had only used the style on the two most abundant sources of celestial light , the sun and moon. The style however was not limited to these at all and could be used to collect the light of each and every star in the sky above. There was a slight issue with this however in the form of the sun and moons overwhelming presence in the light.-
Compared to both of those the light of each of the stars were mere threads the thickness of a hair which made them very difficult to spot much less extract. Nick was sure that there was a way to increase the focus on those threads of light to make it easier to extract them and had chosen to work on that for this next week. He didn't expect to get any real progress made in only a week but that was fine by him. Strangely though he actually got a new mission from the system at the end of the week that left him surprised.-
[Mission conditions established!
Description: By your actions in taking a vampire as an assistant you have gotten the attention of several mysterious parties. Clean up your mess!
Objectives: Solve the vampire situation , Earn favor with the royal clan(optional) , Don't allow Liliana Sturm to die(optional)
Rewards: 3x material tickets , The pale queen(book)(optional) , 5x item tickets(optional)
Status: incomplete]
'Ugh! This is going to be a pain to complete , ESPECIALLY that last optional objective.' he thought after reading the full mission. It came as no surprise to him that Dotty soon showed up with news about the situation. Apparently there had been an attack on Liliana Sturm in the middle of a heavily populated area that needed the obliviators in Germany to work overtime to contain. She survived and was unharmed but rather than rescinding the bounty on him she actually tripled it.-
'Got to give it to her she is very stubborn about this if nothing else.' he thought as he went to go grab Lucas. The vampire in question was left in a daze after hearing about how the situation had suddenly jumped in severity. "Shouldn't she have just gone into hiding after something like this?" Lucas asked confused. "She is apparently too stubborn about having you it seems , it's almost impressive to be honest." Nick said with a shrug.-
"Looks like we are going to have a conversation with the royal clan huh?" Lucas asked with a sigh. "Not quite yet , we need to prepare a gift first or else we'll look like fools hyping themselves up even if what we say is true." Nick said honestly. "Aren't they all like stupid rich? What could we offer that they can't get on their own?" Lucas asked with frown.-
"You aren't exactly wrong but you have forgotten something very important , I and I alone have two crafting methods that can do near miraculous things under the right circumstances. For example that lovely little ring on your finger." Nick said with a smirk. Lucas's eyes lit up when he heard this as that was indeed something that no amount of wealth could obtain if Nick didn't want to make an item with those crafting styles. "The problem comes in deciding what exactly to give them. Obviously I can't just give them a copy of your ring since I would need their blood first not to mention that besides the ability to cast spells as per normal wizarding standards the rest was pointless to give them." -
"Unfortunately I have no intention of handing over the ability to cast normal spells to the Tepes clan. Feel free to add to this conversation whenever by the way." Nick said pointedly and Lucas looked embarrassed. "Maybe you can let them access more of their bloodline abilities?" Lucas offered and Nick thought that wasn't actually a bad idea. Even amongst royal vampires there was a hierarchy based on age and the abilities each of them had.-
By giving a royal vampire even a single extra bloodline ability would shuffle this hierarchy while also strengthening the hold the royal clan had on vampire society. "Hmm , I suppose that is possible but I'd need a few tests on you to figure it out." Nick said with a grin. Lucas just sighs "Fine but don't do anything TOO weird alright?" he asked in a half begging manner. "Not to worry , this will only hurt a little." Nick said before pulling out his wand and dragging Lucas into the realm.