Epic Of Caterpillar

[Day 200]

Last night, after eating the leftover flesh of the muscle beast, I obtained a Vampire Lineage, the Lineage from the Vampire Family from Thanatos, but it was "suppressed" and "assimilated" by my own Bloodline, as the System stated that mine was superior… Did my Bloodline obtain some kind of Devour effect?

Well, that means that no god will try to brainwash me at very least, and the Goddess of Blood who owns this Bloodline didn't speak to me in my dreams or anything, so I should be fine. I also doubt that Jormungandr can speak to me without my consent as well unless they use Dreams, but I can choose to wake up and instantly close the connection within Dreams at the very least.

I wonder how can gods just talk into the dreams of mortals? What kind of bizarre magic did they use? I've read about the existence of Dream Attribute Magic, but it seems as obscure as Chaos Attribute in some aspects, the only ones who can barely use it can only do simple spells like inducing Sleep Status or giving slightly frightening nightmares to very weak beings.

Just how could a Dream Attribute exist? What are the meaning and the "element" behind Dreams that convert them into an Attribute?

This world is full of mysterious and it sometimes becomes hard to even think of them through a rational point of view…

Anyways, today in the morning I got a report from the Centaurs who seemed to be the leaders of this Resistance Group, Agamocles, and Medastus. Alongside the Centaur Twins and their little sister.

"Lady Kireina, there have been reports of more Vampires in the other Resistance groups! Last night, we thought that we had won, but a group of Vampires raided another of our Resistance Headquarters to the south, which is closer to the city… There are barely any survivors…"

So the Vampires decided to spread around my location and instead weaken the ones that haven't been protected by me and my group… Should I split my group and send some of my wives towards the other groups to protect them? But, what if another user of those weird Divine Energy Powers appears? I don't think that my wives alone would be able to beat them, at least they would need my assistance… This is troublesome.

"For now, I will question the two Vampires we have as prisoners and make them spit their hiding places… There is nothing to do about the other headquarters, they're already lost, and going to help others that haven't been attacked yet is also troublesome as we may not get in time"

"B-But Lady Kireina…! How could we leave our comrades alone to the fangs of those bloodsuckers?!" Shouted Agamocles.

"Agamocles, calm down… Lady Kireina's decision may be rough, but it is rational… There is no point in going to help small groups of people who can be attacked at any point while we rush towards them… perhaps the Vampires are even planning this and it may be a trap, to surprise us with a bloody massacre and countless corpses… These bloodsuckers are vicious devils…��� Said Medastus, the old Goat Centaur man.

The Twin Sisters, although worried, nodded.

"Indeed… It also pains me to say this, but it would be better to go into the offensive and intercept their hiding places!" Said Sofarpia.

"If we can crush them from the inside, the scattered ones will either run away or show themselves to us sooner or later…" Added Sofelaia.

Even Aegina, the young Centaur Princess had some words.

"Indeed… Even if we were to go rescue them, there isn't any guarantee of them being alive by the time we arrive, even more, it is strange that they had only wiped out a single group while leaving the small, surrounding groups intact… it seems suspicious. If they were able to wipe a big group as the one near the city, why they didn't do the same with the smaller groups?"

"Lady Aegina… Your sharpness surprises me…" Said Agamocles, taken aback by the young centaur perspicacity. 

"Zehe has captured some other Vampires that accompanied the leader from yesterday, so I will make them spit any info they had about him and the new Vampires that had arrived… And then, we'll depart"

"Very well, we are counting in you, Lady Kireina…"

"Leave it to me, for now, Rimuru and Nefertiti here will go heal the wounded, so please lead them towards the camp where these people are…"

Rimuru and Nefertiti possess strong healing magic, although it is not as good as Amiphossia, it is still capable of partially recovering broken bones and muscles, and easily close open wounds.

"We are in your care… Please, this way…" Said Medastus, slowly walking towards a different room with Rimuru and Nefertiti tailing him.

Agamocles remained with me as he wanted to see what these Vampires said, he was a sharp man and didn't want to leave me alone with them… However, I don't feel any suspiciousness on his character, perhaps a slight lack of trust, but that's it.

The Vampires captured were beaten badly by Brontes, and most of their limbs were torn apart, although, through the night, they had regenerated partially, appearing as small, child-like limbs.

"Disgusting bloodsuckers, to think that they can even regenerate lost limbs… truly fiends that should be eradicated…!" Said Agamocles, looking with disgust at the tired Vampires.

I began using my Illusion Magic and they started to speak no long after, although one of them lacked a tongue as it was still growing, so only two of the three were able to speak.

It seems that the leader from yesterday was named Castien, and was a Vampire Noble who originally was an old Elf, its story was simple, he migrated to the Thanatos Kingdom years ago, and as he approached his last years, he decided to become a Vampire to become ageless. Elves can live up to three hundred years in this world, and this guy was about to reach 256 years… He was rather unexperienced for someone who has lived for so long, I suppose that he spent most of his life in seclusion like the other elves.

Castien was part of a new group of Vampires that the Vampire Family Head, Aleksandra, sent towards Cilane, armed with strange relics that could detect me and after eating the flesh of what they called "Divine Beasts given by the Goddess", they came to finish me off and offer my head to Aleksandra and the Goddess of Blood Agatheina.

It seems that the Goddess somehow got to know about Morpheus asking for my assistance in the Cilane Kingdom, and decided to take countermeasures against me. These Vampires also seem to call me an "irregular", because I am a Vampire born from the System through evolution.

Of course, they didn't speak in a way that made them think that I was the irregular, they only talked as if there was one in here. And Agamocles assumed that it must have run away or camouflaged with the rest of the Vampires.

"To think that they were tracking another Vampire! And we have somehow been involved in their brethren fight? Do they think that we are refuging the Vampire?"

"Yes, in a way they think that we are doing that, and they also need to exterminate us as we are a nuisance for their plans on diminishing the Kingdom, so it's a combination of both problems…"

"Lady Kireina… What should we do now?"

"Hmph, now that we know their whereabouts and some of the names, we should surprise them from their backs and kill them before they can kill us, let's go into the offensive, just as I decided earlier"

Agamocles nodded.

"Indeed, Lady Kireina, although I am not as strong as you and your sisters, I will use my strength and those of my men to support you as much as we can! We are not the former Royal Knights without a reason…!"

"I'm counting on you, Agamocles"

It seems that Agamocles was flustered by my words, even if he were an old and stoic man, he seemed to be weak to pretty women.

"Y-Yes… I will!"

After interrogating the Vampires alongside Caedmon and Cassandra, I wanted to convert them into my side...

"Agamocles, I've thought about enslaving these Vampires for my own use, but for that, I need to do an Illusion Attribute Ritual which is very dangerous, so I would appreciate if you could leave me alone with my sisters"

"Ah! I-I see, if we can use these bloodsuckers as meat walls, they deaths wouldn't be such a waste"

"Indeed, you're a sharp man, Agamocles san"

After the flustered centaur went towards the wounded camp, I was finally left alone with Zehe, Alice, and Brontes.

"Big sis… Is it really alright to treat these people so kindly?" Asked Brontes, she seemed to be slightly annoyed on how often they doubted our words.

"It is fine, Brontes… It is a task given to me by a God, and he rewarded me well, the benefits outweigh the annoyances, so let's endure it"

"Hmph, they should just obey what you said instead of constantly doubt your words! I would smash them into minced meat and skewer them alive!" Said Zehe, already tired of the insolent weaklings.

I suppose they are bad at socializing… Understandably, both of them never grew in a place where people socialized in a way as humans or these centaurs do, where it is allowed to freely doubt the strong and to question their purposes.

"Master, why don't you just bite everyone and convert them into Dhampirs~? This way they will get stronger and will obey you better!" Said Alice.

"Alice, that sounds like a very nice idea… But the Twin Sisters would be deeply saddened by that, and I plan to make them my wives, possibly in good terms, so just forcibly converting their people wouldn't be a good idea, and unlike Altani and Nanako, they aren't my former enemies, so I don't feel like they deserve such treatment, much less after training so hard to surpass their limits"

"Big sis… you have a good heart…"

"Sigh… honey is really a benevolent person~"

"Well… But will you convert these Vampires into my siblings?" Asked Alice.

"Yes, let's get to it…"

We immobilized the Vampires as I slowly drank their blood one by one… It was a rich, sweet and liquor-like blood that was just too good… I almost drank them dry, I had to supply some of my blood to support them for a little.

After going through the verge of death due to blood loss, they awakened anew. Their crimson eyes became brighter than before, and their pale skin became even paler, almost transparent. Cassandra and Caedmon went through strange changes.

Cassandra gained a long whip-like tail with a heart-shaped tip while growing two tiny black horns in her forehead and a heart-shaped tattoo over her belly.

Caedmon's arms were covered in black tattoos, and he gained a single black horn on his forehead, his skin seemed darker, charcoal-like. 

If I remember correctly, Cassandra was a Half-Succubus and Caedmon a Shadow Lord before converting into Vampires, and when they did, they lost these racial features to look more human-like.

However, it seems that they suddenly regained them after being converted by me. And their strength was merged with their racial origins. They seemed to have gone through an evolution and became Noble Vampires. The other three weak Vampires turned into Dhampirs, although this may seem like a "regression", most of their strength remained and they gained higher stats and new skills.

"T-This strength…! I feel like I've awakened something deep within me…! Master Kireina! I thank you with all of my heart! It feels like I've gained a new purpose in my life!" shouted Caedmon.

"Master Kireina, I love you, I love you! This magic! This magic is superb! Sublime! I can't stop shaking with these new magic powers~! I will serve you with my utmost strength and my entire body~!" shouted Cassandra, giving me a lustful smile, she was really a Half-Succubus.

The other three Vampires did the same, kneeling and worshiping me as a god, it seems that their fanaticism was higher for me than it was for the Thanatos Vampire Family Head with their former selves.

I ordered them to remain silent and obedient while containing their urges to worship and love me, I also used Illusion magic to mask the drastic appearance change son Caedmon and Cassandra.

Alice was rather happy to have new "siblings" for her brotherhood and welcomed them with a happily. After the conversion, they were able to be equipped by my body and could be used in the Chimera Weaponization Techniques.

After this, we moved towards the center of the headquarters to regroup with my wives, various of the Centaur was surprised by the obedient and almost zombie-like demeanor of the converted Vampires, but they seemed to have been told by Agamocles that I was going to brainwash them into slaves.

However, as I met again with Rimuru and Nefertiti, new reports of a group of Vampires attacking a very nearby Resistance group came by.

It seems that they were getting impatient, and because they were very close to the destination where the other Vampires used as hiding places, I agreed to Agamocles and Medastus to give them my aid. The Black Cat Jerold joined in with us as he has gone through full recovery, he seemed promising so I let him go with us.

[Kireina] gained +60 Blood Strength and +30 MP!] (From sucking the Blood of strong Vampires)

[Kireina] learned the following Skills]

[Demon Eyes of Seduction; Level 1]

[Crimson Blood Attribute Magic; Level 1]

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