A beautiful Vampire woman with long red hair and sharp scarlet eyes looked into a crystal ball emanating divine essence. Her entire body emanated a powerful aura of utmost divinity, which encompassed the entirety of her surroundings. The enormous castle where most of the Royal Vampire Family lived within this small fiefdom in the middle of the icy snow mountains was completely encompassed by her divine power, protected, and at the same time, surveyed. There wasn't a thing she couldn't listen or hear. And this was also one of the reasons why one of her captives was incapable of communicating with her ally through Telepathy before said ally acquired a power that could defy her own divinity. Of course, she was completely unaware of it.
"Milady, it appears that we have lost track of them…"
"We apologize for our incompetence."
The voices of two subordinates spoke through the crystal ball, sent to Heaven Port alongside another squadron of Vampires to look for a certain group of people.
"Hmph, well, they have the one that can teleport. But you saw them teleport right now, right?" The woman asked rather carefreely. She wasn't angered as her subordinates would had expected, she was in a good mood, quite honestly.
"Yes, they disappeared completely, we lost track of them."
"I see, this only means that they cannot teleport in the next 12 hours, isn't it?" She asked with a devilish smile. "They foolishly panicked too quickly. Find them at all costs, track them as much as you can! Now that they cannot run away so easily, they're more vulnerable than you think." The woman said with a malicious intent, as her two servants obeyed her and quickly cut off the call.
She rested her head over the throne as she looked into the crystal ball for a bit. The powerful aura she emanated clearly stated she wasn't a mere mortal, no, she was a goddess. The divinity emanating from her body, as red as blood itself was powerful and intoxicating. With it alone, any other vampire below her obeyed her will. Although a small faction seemed unwilling to obey her complete orders, this had suddenly changed recently.
Her true nature was that of an ancient monster. The fragment of the soul of someone that was born eons ago, in the beginning of the new world, after the Ragnarök between gods and titans. She was regarded as Red, the Lady of Blood. A creation of Oberon, the first Venerable to have ever existed. A fragment of the soul of Oberon was saved over the eons until the Venerable of Blood, the first Vampire was born, a soul from another world. With him came the Unique Skill that granted him the body and powers of a Vampire, and since then, the Vampires prophesized to emerge and dominate the world in the Era of Blood emerged.
Oberon, with his almighty powers, had seen through the vast future, and saved a fragment of his soul. After the Era of Blood ended, a new Soul Clone was created, with the artificial body he created through mysteriously advanced technology, he was able to create a new clone with the powers of the Vampires and the new Element of Blood. As someone that wanted to Master all Elements for an ultimate goal, it was nothing but obvious.
However, years ago, Oberon never expected that as the years passed, his own clones would grow constantly more different from his original mind to the point they were egocentric, self-centered, and selfish to the end. It reached the point where discussions between Clones was commonplace, and the one that carried Oberon's original mind had to negotiate with them constantly to get them to obey him. Ultimately, they still remained unified in a big alliance.
The most selfish of them all was of course her, Red. Perhaps due to the powers and nature of Vampires, which made them naturally self-centered most of the time, and with cold hearts that disregarded all others as their servants unless they were made to serve others, she was incredibly selfish… Greenwood had a hard time convincing her that the best course of action was to ally the Venerable of Blood instead of trying to go against him for the moment, especially when [Fate] might soon be broken as the Dragon King arises.
"Red."
Suddenly, an elf man wearing royal clothing emerged at her left side out of thin air, as if he had teleported there.
"Oh, Green."
"How are things going?"
"Nothing too bad, things are going well. Now that we got the little brat with us, most of my problems are pretty much solved, fufu."
The elf man before her, Greenwood, squinted his eyes.
"Remember our Pact with the Venerable of Blood, you mustn't harm her."
"I know. I am not stupid, you know? You don't have to go ordering me around as if I were your slave."
"…We are part of the same soul, don't forget your original purpose."
"I have not, Green."
"…"
"…"
"Alma, that girl… Is she such a nuisance to you? How come you haven't deal with her already?"
"Due to the world's restrictions, unless [Fate] is dealt with, we cannot easily harm mortals."
"…And?"
"And she has proven to be incredibly strong. After she was somehow able to break the Seal put into her Mana Core, she was able to develop her Unique Skill… Which might be, perhaps, the most insane Unique Skill to have ever existed. Perhaps whatever that Ice Dragon has is the only thing that could compare."
"Oh, [Endless Mana]?"
"It is a power that goes beyond that… The ability to apply a near endless stream of energy to her magic and body is… completely incredible. If it wasn't because her Mana Core cannot Rank Up due to her Curse, she would already ascended into a Goddess."
"Is her power so ridiculous? Wouldn't her body not be able to sustain an endless amount of energy?"
"…No. Unique Skill users, most of the time, are born with a Mana Core and a Body capable of withstanding their own powers."
