Chapter 900 - Set in stone (1/2)

A day had passed since Silver had returned with Leo, and since the fighting at the tenth family's castle had stopped. Nobody else had come to bother them since.

Frustrated about no news, Silver already decided to ask for another meeting with King Bryce. After the information she had given him yesterday, there should have been an announcement or something should have happened, but there was nothing.

Were it not for all the strange things that had occured one would have called it a peaceful day in the vampire settlement. However, it was precisely the lack of anything happening that Silver thought it to be strange that such an important matter was moving so slowly, especially given that it was the new King's problem.

Up to this point, Bryce had been rash when deciding to attack the tenth family, but when it was other matters, suddenly things took longer?

To her surprise though, Bryce had immediately accepted a meeting with her, which was why she was currently standing outside the door to the King's throne room.

It was a place hardly used, since his predecessor's health had him remain in his old chambers most of the time, and leaders and knights mostly met up in the council room. But for Bryce, it had become his favourite place as the new King.

Opening the door, Kyle and Prima came out. Kyle gave a quick glance at Silver, and she realised that she hadn't bowed down to show her respect.

”He says you can go in to see him.” Prima informed her, while walking past.

'These are the new Royal knights? It's as if they think everyone should give them respect due to their position rather than earn it. I can't believe Bryce was the one who had been elected as King.'

But walking in those doors, she was wondering if Cindy would have made for a better choice, given everything that was going on, maybe an outsider like Quinn would have been best. Just like last time, Bryce was sitting casually on his throne as if he didn't have anything to worry about in the world.

Even though there was an assassin on the loose, someone working with the Bloodsuckers, and the Absolute blood book had been taken away.

'You seem way too calm.' Silver wanted to tell him, but she knew it would be counterproductive.

”I can guess why you are here, you want to know why I haven't done anything, correct?” Bryce asked her directly, not mincing words.

Silver was on one knee in front of Bryce, paying him the respect a King should deserve but there was something different about him. He had always been a leader exuding a lot of pressure on others, but somehow after his election, he seemed to give off even more pressure than before.

”Indeed. With the information I have given you, Your Majesty, we know now that there is an original leader out there somewhere, and we know it to be the ancestor of the eighth family. As such, I highly suspect their current leader Jill to be somehow involved in the matter!”

”I brought you back her Vampire knight and thought there would have been some progress by now, or at least some action taken. And due to the other thing we found, it should be safe to assume that neither Quinn nor the Blood fairy he was keeping had been used on Dwight.”

Bryce started to stroke his long white beard for a while, before finally answering.

”Young people always seem to be in a rush these days. The person behind this has been cautious and due to the eighth leader's ability I'm sure they already know everything that you or I know as well. Which means they are always one step ahead of us.”

”Think back, when you thought you had discovered an illegal in the Human World, did you capture the illegal and bring them back straight away? No, you went on to search for the one who had created the illegal. I am taking the same steps here, so taking in Jill now will mean nothing. Instead I intend to use her to lead us to the rest.”