"Vampires?! In Heaven Port?! T-The evil kind, right?" Asked Charlotte, our newest member in our crew, she became a Lightning and Water Goddess of Boats, or so was her divinity, apparently. She was still getting used to it all, but she looked more radiant than ever, her hair and all became divinely bright and beautiful, she was unable to hide her femininity anymore now even if she tried to hide it by crossdressing.
Rose noticed Charlotte was trying to not offend her.
"Don't worry, I am not really into helping every Vampire or something… I know there's a bunch of scumbags. We have fought against them, and I've even been part of their clan…" She sighed. "They're all servants of Oberon, my master's ultimate enemy, so there's no problem if you want to bash on them, I won't hesitate to crush them whenever they're within my sight."
Oof, she was quite pumped up, becoming a Divine Spirit of Blood really made her revitalize her whole personality and nature, she's still as bloodthirsty as before, but now with a greater charisma.
"Yeah the evil kind, Charlotte." I clarified. "Using my slimes I've found out there's a bunch in Heaven Port, the majority are sneaking around the entire place. There's probably twenty of them, all of them are at least as strong as Rank 5 Peak Stage, with some even being Rank 7, so there's not just small fries." I said while thinking.
"They also seem to be… guarding something and chasing down someone as well. Last time I saw them using a slime, they were running around the sewers of the city chasing a group of people led by an elven girl. I don't know who she is, but she might be someone important. there might be a whole plan over sabotaging the entire Cooking Contest or something, so we need to be in alert. I am not simply doing this cooking contest for my own self-satisfaction, there's something else as well within my plans."
"Then I'll stay with you to help you out. The girls should come as well, we can take care of them together even if the worse happens." Benladann seemed rather confident.
"Haha, I guess you're right, we have grown strong enough to be confident in that for the very least..." I said. "I also wanted to bring them so they could eat with me while I prepare the food and also enjoy the entire festival."
"The festival of the Red Moon?" Wondered Yuki. "Or Blood Moon? Whatever's it's called…"
"Yeah, it is a festival the people have that celebrates the Frost Queen defeating the Vampire remnants and destroying the Blood Moon which was bringing perpetual night to the world back then. It now only emerges every I don't know how many years, and it is celebrated in such times." I said. "The destroyed moon apparently looks like a lot of tiny red bits in the sky."
"I see, that's interesting…" Said Pekora. "To think a Venerable was able to even create such an enormous moon for that purpose…"
"And not only that but another one destroyed that moon!" Said Tisha. "Venerable's are sure insanely powerful…"
"What I did back then wasn't the right thing…"
Suddenly, the Frost Queen projection emerged behind me, startling everybody.
"Ah! The Frost Queen?!" Tisha asked.
"H-How is she here?!" Charlotte asked.
"Incredible…" Rakasha said.
"As I said before I can come here as a projection due to my connection with Drake and his Divine Realm now…" Said the Frost Queen. "So I'll be a recurring character from now on."
"I guessed you would appear sooner or later." I said. "How's Terra? She didn't joined last night's draconic records celebration."
"Ah, she has been sleeping since you guys left, she never connects there so it is rare to see her there. Did you had fun?" Wondered the Frost Queen.
We looked back with Benladann and simply nodded.
"Y-Yeah, I guess." I said.
"At the end, yeah." Benladann agreed.
The Frost Queen felt confused at first but let it go. She quickly joined the conversation.
"I haven't looked into Heaven Port for a while, but I've set my eyes there using Clairvoyance, a powerful Divine Spell." Said The Frost Queen. "I can tell there's something very shady there. I wouldn't be surprised if Oberon is involved. There might be a facet of this town we don't know. If things come to worse, he could had been even hiding a facility there."
"What?!" Everyone asked in surprise.
"There's no way he brought all those mechs to the Frost Island so easily from a whole other continent, especially when the skies and the seas are infested with high ranked monsters…" Said The Frost Queen. "He likely has an underground facility where he makes these golems alongside many other things… Those the vampires are chasing might be trying to uncover his plots. It wouldn't be a bad idea to help them if you ever meet them again."
"I see… It makes more sense now that I think about it. So "Red" is helping "Green" most likely using her Vampires in here. Does she really think I won't go to her place to attack her and get Ruby back?" I wondered.
"She's certainly overconfident, most likely she has no idea you're so strong. You fought against Green's mechs though, so he might end up leaking your info to the other colors. But even if she knows now, it is a bit late to get cautious, she might simply think she'll beat you, or use Ruby as bargaining chip to defeat you to abuse your care for her." The Frost Queen said.
"That damn woman…" Rakasha muttered furiously.
"She's like that, I've known Reed for a while now." Said the Frost Queen. "She's a nasty fragment of Oberon, the nastiest of them, but also very prideful and quite foolish… She's reckless as well, you might surprise her even when she gets your information."
"I hope so… Because I am not holding back. If I have to crush her to get Ruby, then I am not hesitating." I said.
