Vampire's Slice Of Life

Chapter 624 Plans Cancelled (2/2)

If it was the Elf Queen, the consequences would be disastrous and it would spell doom for the whole of the Human Race.

If Agalea came to know that the Human Court had meddled, chances of her breaking through Darren's ceiling and coming at his throat were very high.

Just like Mayzin, who crashed his place last time, Agalea too would do the same, except the consequences would be much severe.

Thinking of the future possibility was putting him on edge, but he tried to stay calm and listened to what Graham said.

Graham explained to Darren and the court that someone had the ability to break through a seal made by him.

How that happened, even he didn't know yet as the person in whom the seal was present was far away.

Darren, trying to be calm, asked, "Can you blow the person's memories away?"

Graham shook his head. "I cannot as the subject is far away. But, even if I had the ability to, I wouldn't suggest doing that as it would only serve to cause more problems."

"Let's say if it was a being of a higher magic rank, then even a slight trace of my involvement would be known if I were to act and things would be ruined." 

Darren heaved a sigh. "What now?" He didn't know what to say and could only ask his best advisor, Graham, for answers.

Graham rubbed his temples and answered, "We need to get a scapegoat. We have tried our best to hide anything about the involvement of Human Court, so things should be fine. If someone questions them or goes through their minds, they'll only find a few things here and there."

"Human Court would be safe and we could apologize for not keeping our lower brass confined and having them roam freely in the Elven Continent. We can also promise to the Elves that we'll put stricter restrictions on travel of humans in and out of the continent."

"This will happen, given that the elves do come to question us. If they don't, we should be fine. Until then, we shouldn't do anything and lay low." 

Everyone nodded their heads. Whatever Graham said made sense.

Darren now sighed in relief, but a second later as something struck him, he turned to look at Lucas.

"This was your plan?" Hints of hidden annoyance could be perceived from his tone by everyone.

Lucas, who was cursing internally for the plans to fail, was brought back to present as Darren questioned him.

With annoyance written all over his face, he was going to curse Darren but stopped as he realized he would be killed in a just breath if he did something stupid.

Lucas washed the annoyance away from his face and bowing slightly, said in a heavy voice, "it greatly pains me, Ancestor. The plan was foolproof but as fate would have it, something unfortunate happened at the last minute."

"All necessary measures were taken and there was no way anyone would've known. But alas…"

Lucas's face turned sad as if he was feeling a lot of remorse.

Darren, who was annoyed, had his expression softened as he saw the guilt on Lucas's face.

"What's done is done." He said and let go of the topic.

Darren then turned to the court and addressed, "erase any marks that may be left. No more discussions on such a topic would take place for at least a hundred years."

He then got up and continued, "the court is dismissed." 

Darren vanished from his spot after saying so and one by one, everyone bowed and left the court.

*

Elven Castle.

In one of the courtyards, there lay a stack of human bodies.

No cuts or bruises were present on them, it seemed as if they were sleeping on top of each other.

Above the humans was Lith, sitting in a lotus position with his eyes closed.

It had been a few hours and Lith had gone through the memories of almost all the people he had caught

Only one was remaining and Lith went through it to check if he could find anything useful.

Half an hour later, Lith opened his eyes and said softly, "cunning guys." 

Lith referred to the humans being smart. 

After going through everyone's memories, he deduced a few important things.

Firstly the humans were up to something. It was evident from the highly secured seals placed in the minds of these fellows.

Only someone of King Rank or above level could place this seal in someone's mind and Lith was sure due to it that the Human Court was involved in this scheme.

There were many instances in the memories of these humans that Lith felt, 'ah no… they all seem so normal, there probably isn't any scheme. Just a bunch of selfish fellows who wanted to take advantage of the poor elves.'

But the more he went through their memories, it became suspicious because all things were forcing him to believe that there wasn't anything fishy happening.

Finally when Lith had jogged through everyone's mind, his suspicion was gone and he was left with solid facts that yes, the Human Court was indeed involved.

Lith then connected the dots and came to a conclusion that the humans were probably trying to cause the chaos in the Elven Continent to escalate.

They wanted the conflict to intensify and their motive behind this may be either to gain something from the elves or to gain the elves themselves.

Lith was a human in his past life, even if his life was short, he knew full well what went inside the minds of humans and how they thought about things.

Unlike the other sentient races, the Human Race was the only one that was blessed with far more intellect. With more intelligence came more intense emotions and drive to achieve things.

Being put as an equal and in the same position as the other seven races, the humans probably didn't find it settling.

Lith just pictured him being back on Earth where humans ruled.

If there were to be some other race that was there and humans weren't the rulers, day and night there would be conspiracies and schemes to take the control back and emerge on top.

Why was that the case, Lith guessed it may have something to do with human nature and with the way they have evolved.

Another plausible theory that Lith had thought of was insecurities.

Unlike the other races, the humans didn't have anything other than intelligence with them.

The Vampires had wings to help them fly, could gain power by sucking blood from humans, also had high self-healing properties, the Werewolves would gain immense power when they turned to their beast form, the same with dragons, and so on and so forth.

Every race had something exclusive to them and something that made them stronger or had them stand out from the rest.

But the humans, they had nothing except for their intelligence.

Lith was just making up a theory and wasn't sure if this was a valid reason or not. But his previous theory of them wanting to dominate the world was something he was sure of.

This world had magic and humans had a chance to be at an equal position like the rest, so his last theory may probably not make sense.

In any case, Lith found the humans to be the cause of the escalation.

Whatever may their motive be, they tried to attack another race.

"No matter what, some people just can't see the times being peaceful." He smiled and said.tough

Despite the history being in front of everyone and knowing what the consequences of war were, there were some fellows who didn't like peaceful times.

He jumped down from the top and looking at the dead humans, smiled and said, "I thought attacking another race was forbidden, but thank you for showing me a new path. You guys don't know how much easier you've made things for me." 

Lith chuckled and with the snap of his fingers, set the corpses on fire and walked out of the courtyard.

Coming out of the courtyard, Lith saw Agalea leaning on the wall, just outside the courtyard.

It seems that she was waiting for him.

Looking at Lith come out, Agalea chuckled and asked, "What became easier for you, my aide?"