Chapter 885 - Helping from below (1/2)

While the vote for the next King or Queen had been taking place, Paul had decided that he needed to be best prepared for whatever was to happen next. At that point, there had still been no news about what was going to happen to Quinn, and with Leo's group still missing, he could see that the situation would possibly turn for the worst.

Because of this, Paul wanted to make sure that the people were safe first. Logan had claimed that it might be possible for him to create a teleporter back to the Cursed faction ship. He had noted down the coordinates many times, and the Vampire settlement, including the equipment in the tenth family's lab, had plenty of equipment for him to do so.

Paul had agreed to the creation of the teleporters for two reasons. One of them being the fact that it would allow them to call for reinforcements if needed. However, that was more on the theoretical side. Ultimately how many people would heed his call for help without Quinn?

The second reason was for them to escape, so that they would be able to live to fight another day. Paul was a cautious man and there was something bugging him, so he wanted Logan to create the portal and put it for a test run.

The creation process had gone without a hitch… but that was when the bad news started to come in.

”That's strange, the portal from the lab in the mountains worked fine, so why is one this having a problem? Is something interfering with it?' Logan thought. No matter what he did, the portal just wouldn't turn on.

This was exactly what Paul had feared would happen, for something similar had already happened to him before.

If the teleporters worked, Paul's plan had been to hide Alex on the Cursed faction ship, at least until they searched the whole place, but now they had no other choice.

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'What do you mean Alex just can't escape?!' Quinn asked, quite shocked as he talked to Vincent.

With the recent allegations of Quinn using fairy blood to kill Dwight. Quinn was concerned for Alex, and was hoping that if they did come after him, then at least his people could teleport back to the Cursed ship, but Vincent had just told him that wasn't possible.

'Remember when I told you vampires created the technology in the first place? Well, it seems that whoever introduced it to humans, only introduced our old technology. Put bluntly, you humans haven't kept up to date.' Vincent explained.

'The vampires are able to create a zone with a special device that stops all of your human teleporters from working. Usually they only do such things when they know they are under attack. I suspect since the problem with Dwight had occurred they already turned it on thinking that some of your people would attempt to escape.'

'But there is more they can do than just that, they can also redirect all the teleporters to a certain point while within a zone, and can redirect the teleporters to a different place altogether. Even into the pit.'

Now Quinn was greatly concerned for those in the castle.

'Let's just hope I left them with enough to protect themselves.' Quinn thought.

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”Prepare for war? Are you some child?!” Jill shouted. ”This wouldn't be a war, just my eighth family slaughtering your tenth! This is not something we want to do!”

Activating her telepathic ability again, she made sure everyone in the inner castle area and in the castle area could hear what she was saying.

”Listen up, we are only here for the Blood fairy! We know they are among you. As long as you bring him or her to us, then no one has to get hurt. However, if you continue being stupid enough to think you can protect them, then we will have to force our way in. Just give us what we want, and save the stupid people who are running the tenth family.” Jill shouted.

She waited a while for a type of response or anything, but there was nothing until Sam eventually spoke.

”I can see what you are trying to do, you're trying to turn those in the tenth family against us, so we fight amongst each other! We are more like a real family and won't fall for your tricks.” Sam said. ”We don't have your stupid Blood fairy so go back from where you came from!”

Jill looked down and clenched both of her fists, and soon started to chuckle to herself. This whole thing just felt so degrading.

”Why doesn't anyone listen to what I have to say?” She mumbled. ”If you weren't hiding a Blood fairy, then you would have no problems letting us search the castle!” She screamed while swinging her arm out, and activating her blood swipe.

It shot out towards Sam, and with an attack this strong there was only one thing he could do. He raised the shadow from beneath himself and blocked the attack. However, he couldn't hold it for long, but it gave him enough time to move out of the way of the attack. The strike continued going forward through the ground until it eventually dispersed.