Taming My Vampire Servant - Chapter 215
As Helios and Fiona held their dying mother, they trembled in fear as they saw the Oracle’s power being taken away from him. They knew that he had been meeting their mother at the basement because of their plans on spreading Dark Mana throughout the whole kingdom. The siblings were involved ever since they were sixteen.
Fiona remembered how she was told to go to Omegalion to befriend Katie Sprucemint. At first, she couldn’t stand Katie because she was too arrogant and complaints a lot, but in the end, she realized that she just lacked attention. Her impression about her changed when she started living in Prisma Gallery. She was actually a hardworking person.
Helios, on the other hand, recalled the moment when he was told that he would meet a really important woman, who was said to be Goddess Destinia’s strong pawn. He was not lying when he said he found Ivory Sprucemint too beautiful not to be noticed. There was this one space in the gallery where her bright faces were displayed on the dull walls. But everytime he stared at her face, all he had in his mind was to kill her and keep her corpse so that nobody would ever see her beauty.
Lyria, still pierced by the holy spear in her heart, started coughing blood. She asked her children to help her stand up. Although they did not want her to, she insisted.
As Helios and Fiona held her, she faced Anastasia, “I knew it… You’re Her,” she then spoke loudly, “The moment that I betrayed you, you should have killed me then! I know how much you despise me!”
“Why should I, when I can’t even get mad at you?”
“What do you mean you can’t get mad at me? You just pierced the holy spear into me! You’re a Goddess who hurt a human.”
“What are you talking about? You’re no human, but a monster, Lyria,” Anastasia sighed, “After experiencing how to be a human in my own kingdom, I now knew the feeling of being betrayed. It hurts here…” she pointed to her chest.
Lyria gritted her teeth in anger, “I don’t care. Once I take this off, I’ll die, and your holy soul will be tainted because it’s a serious sin!”
“This is the first time that I wanted someone to die that badly… You messed up with my people and destroyed the peace in my kingdom!”
Feeling intense anger within herself, she controlled her holy spear, twisted it swiftly that its blade completely destroyed Lyria’s heart, and pulled it back to her hand.
Although Helios and Fiona tried to stop the spear from moving, Anastasia did it all so fast that before they even held onto the holy weapon, it already flew back to her.
Lyria’s blood and flesh splattered everywhere and tainted the soil. Lyria’s children cried out loud, as they came to realize the consequences of their greedy actions. It even made Fiona fall unconscious on the ground.
Anastasia glanced at Lyria’s blood dripping on her bright spear. She couldn’t believe that her half-human sister had died that easily, so she looked around to see if there was a remnant of her soul orb. But there was none.
The gingerhead took a deep sigh, then dissipated her colorful, mosaic wings.
The cleansing ritual was also successfully done, and Oracle Ghidarlgh fell on the ground unconscious. While seeing the Werewolves take Lyria’s body and capture the Oracle, Helios and Fiona, Lucius approached Anastasia. The blond young man suddenly felt like she was a different person.
He kneeled in front of Anastasia, “Apologies, if didn’t know you were-”
“Lucius, stand up,” she held onto his arm and pulled him up, “I am in Anastasia Gaian’s body, therefore, treat me as her.”
He retorted, “But you’re-”
Anastasia placed her finger on his lips, “Hush. Don’t argue with me…” she then linked her arm on his, “How about we go to the Silverblade Castle now and help your sister?”
Lucius nodded as he blushed a little, but he shook off the thought of Anastasia’s soft touch and sweet scent. Now that he knew she’s the Goddess they had been worshiping, he tried to control himself!
Before the two of them rode an armored horse each, Lucius asked Anastasia, “By the way… About the Oracle…”
“He’a a fake. His mana came from Dark Mana stones. Lyria fooled my people, telling them that he was the Oracle by using her position as my messenger,” she answered.
Lucius wondered why the Goddess did not see her messenger’s betrayal, so he asked her about it.
“She had been using my God Protection Amulet, which concealed her presence from all of us. Aside from that, I can’t possibly read and know everything that’s written in the Holy Scroll of Destiny. It had hundreds of thousands of people’s fate. Unless I know specifically whom I am looking for, I wouldn’t be able to know whose fate to read.”
“Then… Do you not hear our prayers?”
“There is a separate scroll for that, but it’s in my chambers in heaven,” Anastasia sighed. She then decided to go back to the previous topic after she realized something, “By the way, seeing that neither Helios nor Fiona had the Dark Mana, it means that Lyria and the Oracle had been having a romantic relationship way back before he had the evil mana-”
“What!? Romantic… relationship?” Lucius widened his eyes after hearing it.
She nodded, “Oracle Ghidarlgh is the father of Lyria’s children. I believe it might be her involvement with that greedy man that clouded her pure personality… My, my, the illusion of love makes a person go crazy. Have you been in love, Lucius?”
His cheeks felt hot and he immediately shook his head, “I am too busy to be in love.”
Anastasia just chuckled as she watched the shy lad ride the horse, then rode her horse afterwards.
Back at the castle, the Werewolves won over the knights and Royal Knights, with the advantage that their wounds healed quickly in the presence of the moon.
Jirou, with his new and stronger dragon, had successfully defeated his younger brother. When he saw that the Servant was lacking mana, he immediately attacked it, making it fall hard from his dragon Beast Servant and onto the garden soil. And because all of the dragon’s mana were lost and it was not able to replenish mana from its Master, it slowly dissipated into thin air.
The fallen Jaquin was caught by one of the Werewolves in wolf form, and he panicked, releasing a powerful force of Air elemental spell to escape from his grasp.
But Levi and Ivory were swift to corner the weakened Prince Jaquin. Behind the prince were rose bushes, and he couldn’t move back because of the thorns.
“Don’t… Don’t go near me!” he trembled as he yelled at the two.
“I guess this is why you were seen as inferior to the previous Crown Prince,” Levi mentioned, mocking him, “I have reliable sources of information, saying that you have been attempting to kill your own brother just for the throne. You failed to do so every time… Ivory, end this pathetic man.”
“Yes, Master,” Ivory said, then pointed her level 3 magic rod to his face.
While the white-orbed side of the rod glowed, Jaquin closed his eyes, already expecting his end.
Suddenly, there was an explosion in the stoned hallway!
When they all turned to the direction of the explosion, they saw a man in full armor walking towards them.
“Father!” Prince Jaquin yelled in desperation as soon as he recognized the metal suit.