CHAPTER 497: BREAKING THROUGH (2/2)
It was said that gold clouded the mind, but were these villagers truly so simple? In actuality, that wasn’t true. It was just that I had infused my little speech with some psychic magic to persuade some of the less strong-willed amongst them.
Ever since I found out that I won’t gain any more abilities from evolving, I started to seek out Ferti’nier for lessons. Thus began my journey of self-learning. Honestly, with my three Original Sins and Lucifer’s own bloodline, I was pretty much a genius at this point. My learning speed was quite impressive, and if it wasn’t for Ferti’nier always siphoning away a large amount of my souls, I would have been a Seven-star by now.
My own mana reserves were nothing to scoff off. Even with a small amount of psychic magic infused into my words, that was enough to send the villagers into an excited frenzy.
Unlike the villagers, however, Nicole had noticed me using psychic magic. But she knew that I was just trying to raise their morale and stimulate their desire to live. In the end, she kept quiet about my little display of underhandedness because it was all for the greater good… Well, that’s a good start, at least…
“Aren’t you guys a lively bunch? So what’s the occasion? A feast of some sort?” A decidedly out-of-place voice abruptly cut into the cheering with its annoying yet strangely familiar tone…
Hold on… that voice… I whipped my head around to check. There stood five humanoids, with the most prominent amongst them dressed in the typical garb of a Vampire. He was a blonde-headed youth with a pale countenance, devoid of any blood whatsoever. When he smiled, he revealed a pair of fangs that glittered in the sun… Umbra… that’s Umbra!
“…”
I silently lifted my head to look at the sky. It was still there… So what is that guy doing here? What the heck?
“Don’t bother, even I’m amazed as well.” Umbra arrogantly smiled back at me. “No matter how many times I look up, I’m always taken aback by how the sun feels on my skin. It’s like I’ve been reborn.”
Reborn, huh? So you do know you used to be a human.
But when he said no matter how many times… this isn’t his first time then? No way. This may be my first time encountering a Vampire in the Western Human Realms, but according to the lore on Earth, Vampires face certain death under the sun. Not unless they sparkled, of course… Maybe Umbra is the sparkling kind of Vampire?
With regards to Vampire lore, there was no one present more proficient than Nicole, a professional Demon Hunter. With that in mind, I turned towards Nicole but found her just as stunned as I was. In other words, they were supposed to die in the sunlight!
So why was this Vampire immune then? Was I missing something…missing something… Wait… didn’t the sun feel like it was missing something…
“What did you do to the sunlight? No, what kind of magical tool are you using?!”
“As expected of the girl I chose, your mind reacts quickly.” Umbra flashed me a lewd grin, proof that I was at least on the right track even if it wasn’t the whole truth. He then began to explain his methods calmly, as if to lord his superiority over us.
“An Anti-light Barrier. It blocks out the portion of the sunlight that is harmful to us Bloodkin. It’s a barrier we developed after tens of thousands of years of research. You should feel honored; this is the first time we’ve employed it. How is it? Stunning, right? Now that the noble Bloodkin possess a means to bask in the sunlight, there’s no one who can stop us now! Humans, you are all our food!”
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Back on Earth, I had once watched a film that said Vampires were afraid of ultraviolet light. If that was the case here, then that barrier was an anti-radiation spell.
Looking around, I found that the Undead were not affected by the sun as well, meaning its radius most likely covered the entire battlefield.
But how big was it, actually? Depending on the size, it might even be enough to cover an entire city. If that was true… a Vampire could really function in the day as well. Given time, they might even discover a method of miniaturization that was portable… Humankind would face the same fate as cattle then…