Taming My Vampire Servant - Chapter 191

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Ivory woke up in the orangish light that crossed her open window. She wondered what was wrong, and why the sunrise seemed like a sunset. She rubbed her eyes, but the color of the light did not change.

Suddenly, her stomach growled loudly, so she stood up from the bed. She combed her long, silky silver hair, then dashed out of the room.

As soon as she went downstairs, Anne greeted her while she was mixing on the cauldron. “Dear, did you rest well?” she tasted a bit of the food using a wooden ladle, “Perfect! Our supper’s done,” and she started putting off the fire.

“Supper… What? I slept for too long!” Ivory sat on the dining chair and looked around, “Where are my Servants?”

“They’ll be back soon. Gordon took them for a hunt to celebrate your victory.”

“But mother, I still haven’t won the grand finals.”

Anne giggled, “Oh, Ivory. Becoming the winner in your section is also worth celebrating for.”

Moments later, Gordon arrived, with Sigmund and Lycus. They brought with them a newly hunted pig, which they grilled whole later on. Gracie and Flynn, on the other hand, created a crown made from forest fines and pine twigs, and they put it on Ivory’s head.

They happily spent time chatting over supper up to seven in the evening, until Ivory realized something.

“Ah!” she dropped the wooden spoon on her plate. “I was supposed to watch the Green Crystal’s battle today! I totally forgot!” Ivory voiced out.

“You forget everything in front of a roast pig,” Sigmund chuckled.

“You meanie!” she pouted.

Afterwards, Sigmund agreed to try and catch up to the Servant Competition, so he and Ivory asked their new coachman to bring them to Qawiun Academy.

Several minutes later, they finally arrived. As soon as they entered the arena, they gaped in awe. At the center of the stage was Anastasia Gaian, wearing a dark green short dress embedded with crystals and jade stones. She also had a brass collar with jade, shoulder straps, breast shells with straps, and a belt on top of her dress.

As Anastasia displayed her huge, colorful mosaic-like wings, her opponent trembled. The poor man, whose legs were currently numb, crawled on the forest soil, trying to get out of her sight. His Golem Servant was already exhausted and it transformed into its inactive, small clay toy-like appearance.

“Our Goddess Destinia, I pray for a miracle!” the young man said.

It made Anastasia laugh out loud, before she cornered him at the edge of the cliff. “Are you done praying?”

The man realized that trying to fight her would only be futile. He was the one who used too much mana on struggling to fight her head on. With his current state, he decided to end the battle.

He jumped the cliff, and as soon as he reached the quagmire, the crowd went rowdy and excited. Anastasia’s name echoed loudly in the arena!

Principal Arthurdane announced, “The winner for the Green Crystal Section is… Miss Anastasia Gaian!”

The crowd continued to cheer happily for her. Anastasia, still displaying her colorful wings, waved her hand with a sweet smile.

Ivory and Sigmund were dumbfounded for a few minutes. In their mind, they wondered what she did to her poor opponent that he seemed to become a cripple in battle.

“She’s strong… oddly strong,” Lucius appeared behind them. “I watched all of her battles. She made all of her opponents pray to Goddess Destinia.”

“Whoa, is she that ruthless?” Ivory asked.

“She’s the strongest Master I’ve ever seen…” he realized that his sister was staring at him and seemed nervous about his comment, “Apologies! I am rooting for you, of course!”

Sigmund teased him, “Hah, Ivory, don’t get upset! That woman is his lover, so-”

“She’s not!” Lucius glared at the Vampire while he turned beet red.

The crowd started to leave the arena, but Anastasia was still not yet dissipating her mosaic wings. Instead, she flew around the arena, as if she was looking for someone.

As soon as she saw Ivory, she gave a big smile. She landed in front of them in a graceful manner.

Ivory was startled when Anastasia suddenly embraced her!

“Uhh Miss Gaian, congratulations,” she uttered, and smiled awkwardly.

“Ivory, I told you not to be formal with me!” Anastasia told her, then pulled away. She glanced at Lucius, “Oh, you’re here. Hello, Lucius.”

The blonde young man was disappointed that it was Ivory whom she saw first. Acting as if it did not affect him, he told her, “Congratulations.”

“Thank you, Lucius!” the ginger-haired woman exclaimed.

Anastasia then turned her attention to Ivory. She told her that she’s going to battle her in the grand finals, before she went back to Green Crystal’s resting area.

“What an odd lady,” Sigmund said.

“You assessed her mana-type, right?” Lucius asked. When he saw him nod, he continued, “What’s Anastasia’s mana-type?”

“She has everything.”

“What do you mean?” he raised his brow at the Vampire.

“This seems like a joke, but… all four mana elements are strong within her.”

Ivory widened her eyes, “Impossible…”

“It is possible, Ivory, if a Master is greatly favored by the Goddess,” Sigmund told her. “By the way, should we head over to the physician?”

Lucius tugged Ivory’s sleeve, “Are you sick?”

“It’s nothing, just my allergy,” she pointed towards her pointy ear. She showed the swollen and red earlobe. “I have had these since we were in Topazeon.”

“Now, she also caught a cold… Maybe she’s allergic to something, so we need to get a physician to check up on her,” Sigmund explained.

Lucius took a closer look at her sister’s ear while he held her hair strands on the side. He couldn’t remember if her ears were as pointed as what he was seeing, but perhaps, it was the effect of being swollen and disfigured. But he felt like he had seen something like that before, but he could not remember where. “Once I return home, I am going to check the medical scrolls on father’s study.”

Ivory nodded, “Thanks a lot, Lucius. I am always grateful for your help.”

Lucius was the first one to leave because the coachman was already waiting for him in front. Sigmund and Ivory rode their carriage after it arrived, sitting beside each other.

While the silver-haired Master leaned on her beloved Servant’s shoulder, she asked him, “Sigmund… Do you think I can defeat Anastasia?”

“What are you saying? Of course, you can,” he told her, trying to lift up her spirit.

“Even though she has an invisible Servant who can fuse with her body, making her materialize wings? Even though she has all four elements strongly present in her mana? Even though she’s very strong-”

“Ivory, you’re the best Master for me, and you know that,” he said in a deep voice.

Ivory blushed, then turned her head towards him, “You can just say that she’s too strong for me! Why do you say things like that?”

“To stop you from talking- Oww!”

Ivory hit him jokingly in the arm. “You’re really mean…”

She paused talking when she suddenly felt her eyelids heavy.

“Ah… I can’t control my sleepiness…”

Sigmund allowed her to lean on his shoulder. “You must be tired after cheering with the crowd. Go sleep. I’ll wake you up once we arrive at home.”

A few moments later, Ivory unexpectedly had a vivid dream. While she was wondering why she was dragged again onto that similar dream, the young man from the last time walked towards her.

“Hi again,” he gave a sweet smile.

Ivory creased her brows, “You? What do you want from me?” she asked, stepping backwards.

“I need to know your name, and where you are right now.”

She still didn’t trust the man, so she told him, “I am in a carriage right now with my lover.”

The brown haired man chuckled, “Oh please, stop pretending to have a lover.”

“I really have a lover!” she turned away from him, “Stop pestering me. I am a busy person, you know!” and she ran as fast as she could.

After several minutes, Ivory and Sigmund had returned to the Sprucemint residence in Greensteid town. Lycus met them and asked how it had been, and he apologized if he wasn’t able to come with them because he was ordered by Anne to grind acorns.

Meanwhile, at the Goldwine mansion, Lucius started browsing his father’s scrolls.

“What are you looking for?” General Darius, in his silk robe and indoor shoes, asked, “I may be able to help you.”

“Father… Ivory had an allergy in her ears, and she also caught a cold. It has been months.”

“I see. Take a look at the westernmost shelf. I have a lot of old scrolls in there, maybe you can find good medical reference scrolls.”

Lucius did as suggested. Then, he found a scroll with a wooden tag of ‘Herbal Medicines’. As he was attempting to pull it, the scrolls that were stuck in that row of the shelf were pulled together with it, and the scrolls rolled on the floor.

“Lucius, are you alright?” General Darius asked while he crouched to help him take back the scrolls on the shelf.

“I am fine,” he replied.

Then, his eyes crossed upon a very interesting scroll.

It was a forbidden scroll with yellowish-brown paper and tied with a jute string. The tricky thing was, the string could not budge.. It was then that he realized that it was also protected with a strong spell, just like the scrolls he secretly borrowed from Omegalion library.