385 Vampire High Council (2/2)

Lucien still pretended to be rather casual and calm, ”Lasare, I'm heading for the South Desert.” He just wanted to keep everything short and brief. And Rhine told him to call the marquis' name directly.

”Sir Observer, Prince Dracula has been looking for you,” said Lasare with a mysterious smile. He was an old but elegant vampire, who was always holding his exquisite cane.

”What does he want?” Lucien turned around, wearing the typical smile of Rhine.

Lasare thought that Rhine was playing silly on purpose. Prince Dracula had always been envious of Rhine's talent in being able to borrow the power of the Originals.

”Prince Dracula wants to see you in the next High Council meeting, over the inner conflict of the Dark Council.” Lasare offered an excuse which was not really the case.

It was said that Rhine, Count Silver Eye, was absent for a long time because he was severely injured by a legendary, and right now he was hiding to recover. Therefore, Prince Dracula was eager to take some actions, since his talent was to devour and take other vampires' talent.

Prince Dracula had always been upset with the fact that, obviously, Silver Moon Alterna was showing more grace on Rhine, not him. But it was he who was the most powerful vampire prince, born before anyone else.

The casual smile was still on Rhine's face, and he said to the level eight vampire, ”I've always been absent. So I guess missing the meeting one more time still doesn't matter.”

It was really hard talking in Rhine's manner. Lucien believed that playing Fernando, his teacher, would be way easier because all he needed to do was to roar.

”Sir Observer, I'm sure that Prince Dracula has awoken because he learned that you're back,” said Lasare in neither humble nor pushy way, ”and he would like to meet you to talk about the future of the Kindred.”

”Sorry, I'm in a rush.” Lucien felt that he was getting more and more nervous.

When Lucien was about to walk to the space joint magic circle, Lasare stopped Lucien hurriedly, ”Please wait a moment, Sir Observer.”

”Lasare…” Lucien turned around and stared at Lasare with a mild smile, but he called the Marquis' name.

Lasare immediately sensed the great threat hidden under the smile. He took a few steps back and could not say anything else.

Lucien slightly nodded and continued to walk toward the space joint.

Lasare tried to say something, but he did not know what to say. He could only look at the gate of the place nervously, wondering if Prince Dracula had awoken.

Although Lucien was walking in a rather calm pace, he felt that he was about to pass out at any time because of his great tension. Finally, he stepped onto the magic circle and activated it.

Lasare released a sigh after seeing Rhine disappear in the magic circle. If given a few more minutes, Lasare would be able to send the message to Prince Dracula.

He was not able to stop a vampire prince. He regretted that he did not buy some of the useful telecommunication magic items invented by the Congress of Magic.

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Beside the huge tomb in the shape of a pyramid, Lucien dragged a sphinx to the corner. After a few days' observation, Lucien was certain that this sphinx was the tomb guard on duty tonight.

Taking out a drop of blood from it, Lucien dropped it on the mask. The clown's face grinned in a funny smile, and its look kept changing. When the mask stopped changing, Lucien put it on. His body suddenly grew bigger and four lion legs and a tail came out.

After hiding the sphinx properly, Lucien, who was at that moment a sphinx, picked up the dart and raced towards the campsite. The level nine high priest was there!

Lucien left the space circle and directly went deep into the desert.

On the campsite, the sphinxes were dancing in a weird way surrounding the bonfire, and later they started mating.

When Lucien was watching, a strong sphinx came to him and said, ”Fil, stop drooling. It's your shift now. Go!”

Lucien was a bit speechless as he was not drooling at all. However, he still turned around and ran toward the tomb.

”Fil, why are you going that way?” asked the sphinx confusedly.

Lucien suddenly stopped. He did not know what was wrong.