The Great Vampire General is a Girl! - Chapter 77

Balaghar State

<When Valerie died for her first time>

There was a loud rumble, intimidated lightning was shown from the overcast clouds even though it didn’t rain. The Balaghar palace that was inhabited by king Dimitri Avalon looks much more eerie and mysterious than usual.

Not many had actually seen the king. .

Some say that he was actually dead, all this time there has been someone disguised as him commanding the Avalon vampires. Some say that he was not recognized because he always wears a half-face mask on his head. Regardless, no one dared attack Balaghar castle.

The king, protected by nearly a dozen elite vampire knights who drink only human blood. Many of them were also users of cursed weapons. Not only that, he also had the best defense. Cannons that were ready to detonate, deadly traps, gaping holes disguised in wood ready to welcome intruders with dozens of hissing hungry cobras, and Shadows—A submissive monster created by Avalon.

In a way, King Dimitri was impossible to defeat. But maybe only if the enemy was outside the palace.

Raphael Chastain didn’t know why the knights of Avalon had placed him and some of the other defeated Florentians in the palace of Balaghar. Maybe their king wanted to see their winning trophy clearly, or they wanted to do an experiment? .

They were said to have captured pure-blood vampires for mysterious research.

Raphael was very fit at the moment. All tired, injured and his strength recovered many times more than usual. He sat crouched next to an unconscious girl. Maybe she was almost dead by now. She was wearing a Florentian knight outfit. Half of her hands and feet were beheaded and she was simply tying a cloth around her large wound to try stop the bleeding.

When Raphael was thrown into the cell with him, the girl was alone. Previously he had known the knight as Valor. The ill-fated weak knight must fight on the front line in a bad war. Even if she was weak. She had a strong survival and always escaped Death.

Raphael fought alongside her several times even though she was often just a burden to her troops. Raphael repeatedly saved her. The other knights kept telling him to ignore her and let her die. But Raphael couldn’t do it.

Although weak, Valor tries to be useful. She got up early to scrub her comrades’ weapons and find donors for the vampires. She wasn’t very good with the sword and somehow she didn’t want to drink human blood. She probably hoped to be left in the barracks because of her weakness. But the knights thought it was a shameful attitude as a man. They bullied her and forced her to keep fighting.

Now the weak but never give up Valor was dying in the same cell with her commander. Her lips were pale, her eyes closed. She didn’t even cry because she was used to being beaten with violence and frustration.

She turned out to be a woman. Plus, her name was Valerie Dubois? wasn’t that a famous noble family? Why did they let their daughter go to war?

Raphael immediately recalled the intelligence information conveyed by Maxwell some time ago. Reportedly, all members of the dubois family have died at the hands of their main heir Jasper Dubois. Jasper was said to have the highest level of demonic DNA among vampires. He goes on a rampage for losing consciousness and ends up killing his family.

Valerie was probably the only Dubois family left. But she was now also awaiting her death with a crippled body that could not be cured. Even in her last moments she still thought about making herself useful. Drinking Valerie’s blood had given Raphael great strength.

Logically, maybe he should try to escape from Balaghar to rework his plans. But, he was already in the king’s castle. The latest intelligence also says that King Dimitri was in this palace at the moment. Raphael was also more convinced because he saw the black horses with the emblem of the elite knight Avalon embroidered on the saddle. It was the guardian knight of king Dimitri.

Raphael looked at Valor once again. Her fate was very unfortunate. She spent the last part of her life as a knight with a hard life. When she should be able to sit nicely in her luxurious mansion like most noblewomen. Raphael touched her cheek. She was no longer reacting. They were both struggling and Raphael was always worried about him.

Now that she died because of his great sacrifice for him —Raphael shed tears for her. Even though the commander was not a man who was easily moved. He was known to be cold and serious. But he who was always confident probably knew that his current position was on the brink. The death of his subordinates became the culmination of his frustration.

Why should they fight? All sides become victims. There was no happiness that each side gets other than hatred, death and accumulated frustration.

“Sorry, I’m sorry, Valor,” Raphael hugged her body which was starting to cool down. He wept for the death of one of the best knights he knew. Even though she was weak, even though she hid herself as a woman and forced herself to live as a man, she died with honor.

Raphael then fingered his pocket. He was lucky that Demetria wasn’t separated from him. He reduced it to the size of a brooch and hid it in the pocket of his uniform.

“Demetria!”

Now, Demetria has grown back to her original size. He showed a cursed sword with a slender shape that had a brown handle and an elegant look.

Raphael will keep his promise. He knew that this was a suicide mission. Maybe he wouldn’t be able to do it again. But this was a rare opportunity. No Florentian knight had ever seen the king.

As the last request of Valor, he would kill King Dimitri Avalon. If he succeeds. He would reverse the outcome of the war. The spirit of the Florentian knights would return and they might be able to reclaim the states that Avalon had conquered.

Raphael released Valerie’s body back onto the cold prison floor. He then moved to the trellis. The bars were made of steel coated in silver. The vampires would have a hard time breaking through.

But Raphael wouldn’t care about pain. He was prepared for it. Raphael stretched his muscles and tried to break some of the bars of the trellis. He was in pain, because silver was one of the vampires’ weaknesses. But he managed to get out of jail. Even though his palms were burning right now.

The prison situation was very busy. He immediately took off his knight jacket, giving up all his identity as a Florentia. Then he approached a corner where there was an Avalon knight who was focused on looking at the document in his hand alone.

Silently undetected, Raphael attacks him and steals his uniform.