Reincarnated into a New World As a Vampire

Lodestar, instead of waiting around, went out to confront his foe. They were currently within the middle walls and a fight there between such powerful forces would cause devastating damage. To minimize damage and most importantly, loss of life, he had to take the fight to the abyssal entity instead of allowing it get there first.

Aldritch knew fully well that such a fight was not for him and he would only be useless there, so he stayed back and maintained very good distance. Trusting that Lodestar would perform wonderfully, he went into the innermost wall to check up on the others' progress. It had been enough time for them to have found the king.

On arrival, Aldritch was greeted with a rather domineering sight of the forces from the church completely defeated. At that moment, a few that had survived out of the hundreds were held as captives and rounded together. Without stopping by, Aldritch made his way into the royal castle.

"My lord, you're finally back." Khal said as he drew close, offering a light bow. He would like to know where Aldritch had been, but this was not the appropriate time. There was more important news at that moment. "The king and some others managed to escape. They are nowhere within this castle." He said.

"Hmm, I thought as much. Cleaver, isn't he? Have you sent people out to check?" Aldritch asked.

"I have. It would seem that they had already fled before we got here. They were either able to predict this happening, just like with the nobles who were waiting for us, or they reacted quickly enough."

Listening to Khal, Aldritch thought to himself, drawing 'There was never a report of anyone capable of using any magic similar to clairvoyance or any fate magic for that matter, at least, not at such a level that can dictate an absolute future for the king to take such decisive action.' Aldritch already had the thought before, but now it was more certain. "We appear to have a mole within us… within Maggie's people." Aldritch said to Khal.

"I see… I was suspecting the same thing, but there's no way to confirm it." He said, closing his eyes briefly before reopening them.

"We don't need to. The suspect is most like the noble brat. For now, leave him be, we'll take care of him later." Aldritch said.

'He bears a form of jealousy, perhaps hatred, towards me…' Aldritch left the matter for the time being, he was well aware and perfectly sure the one he suspected was the culprit. The boy was in love with Maggie and felt jealous of his and Maggie's relationship. Even though he was now living as a commoner, he wasn't born as one, neither has he always lived as one, there was no way for him not to retain lingering attachment to the life of nobility. 'Even though he appears to hate the nobles, it's mostly just a selected few. Heh…'

With everything going the way they did, Aldritch allowed his people to round off the remaining survivors into the castle. After a thorough mass brainwashing, he didn't need to handle the path that followed, so he left it to his immediate subordinates to take care of turning the captives into vampires. There were a few that showed some resistance, mainly those from the church, but it didn't hold up for long.

It had already been at least half an hour after Aldritch departed with Lodestar, he wanted to check in on what was going on at his end. He wasn't sure if the fight was over or not, but he knew for certain that Lodestar would not be going down easily, and neither will his opponent. Both of them were powerhouses, so it was difficult to predict the outcome of their confrontation.

Aldritch only knew the general direction to look for Lodestar in, but he believed it wouldn't be too difficult to find as there would be a fierce battle going on. He was still on the thought when the sign he was sure to notice showed it self in the sky some distance away from where he was.

At this point, Aldritch had almost made it outside the capital, close to the outskirts where houses could scarcely be seen, but still outside the huge walls. A majestic translucent golden dragon appeared out of nowhere, soaring into the sky before stopping midway. It's size was so massive that if Aldritch would have to compare it, it would easily compare to or dwarf two cruise ships combined.

"So domineering… even at this distance…" Aldritch came to an abrupt stop for a moment as he battled with his own will. His body and instincts flashed brightly at him to stop and bow, but his very being refused it. His body would move involuntarily to carry out the motion, but he tried his best and against the terrible pressure, he could only remain still and on his feet to watch the spectacle.

'Such power and might, Lodestar really wasn't joking with being a dragon's descendant.' Aldritch thought to himself. He couldn't help but think of just how much more powerful a force of those from Lodestar's family would be all together, they would be able to conquer an entire kingdom alone if they wanted.

'This has to be some kind of dragon's might or something, right?'

AT that moment, barely thirty seconds after the dragon rose into the air, dark clouds gathered all over from nowhere, creating a lethal thunder storm that produced lightning for rain, striking all around with loud bangs everywhere.

The centre of this storm cloud seemed to be just conveniently above the dragon, and only seconds later, the entire sky darkened as far as the eye could see, the lighting being concentrated at the area where the dragon appeared. The clouds looked as though they swirled around that centre point, forming a sort of metaphorical eye in the centre above.

'Is this also his power?' Aldritch was confused. This was really more than he would ever expect, to cover such range with one move really was terrifying. He couldn't imagine what people who were stronger than Lodestar would be capable of then if he was able to do such a thing.

Exactly a minute after the dark clouds appeared, the middle that appeared to be some form of eye cracked open, as though there had been a crack in reality itself.