Chapter 477: Eleanor Adastreia's True Form.
Martha frowned as she felt Eleanor's growing power; the power was changing the atmosphere itself; it even felt like the gravity around her had increased a few times:
"... She's exaggerating."
"Victor pressed some weird button on her…not that I could blame her," Dorothy spoke with a slight hint of envy in her voice.
"...." Rose, with her arms crossed, only showed a small smile.
'Looks like I don't have to do anything. They have a lot of chemistry with each other…' Rose wasn't stupid and could see what kind of women Victor liked, and if she were to put into words what kind of women he liked…
The answer would be the craziest ones like the Snow Clan heiress and those battle maniacs like Scathach.
And battle maniacs were something all the Valkyries were, and even then, these women couldn't obtain Victor's full attention.
Yes, he appreciated their figure, but that was him being a man and being respectful in his own way since there was no lust in Victor's eyes.
But the eyes he was giving Eleanor now were something he'd never shown to any of the Valkyries.
'And that's a good thing... We'll be neighbors, so we need to be as close as possible... As a family.'
"She's horny." Juliet nodded in satisfaction.
"...." The girls just looked at Juliet with wordless expressions.
"What? It is the truth. Victor clearly accepted the 'monstrous' side of our leader. I swear that I saw him devouring the woman with his eyes for a moment. I wouldn't be surprised if they skipped several important steps and went straight to sex."
Another silence fell around them. Even if they wanted to refute it, they couldn't. They could clearly feel the tension in the air between Eleanor and Victor.
Soon the surge of power began to dissipate, and there was Eleanor in all her monstrous glory.
Her black armor, at some point, had completely changed and merged entirely with Eleanor's body, revealing dark green scales covering her entire body.
Her long white hair was loose in the sky, the horns on her head became more prominent and sharp, wings more enormous than the previous ones were behind her, and a long pointed tail that seemed to have the power to pierce anything.
Her monstrous face took on facial features from when she was a Vampire, the only difference being her dark green skin and black scales with green undertones that appeared to be ear protection for her.
The atmosphere emanating from her body was suffocating as if they were in the presence of a superior monster.
Victor felt his blood boil, his smile grew, and a sense of amusement washed over him.
"Pfft... this is... This is..." He couldn't help himself, as his body started shaking, and then:
"HAHAHAHAHA~" That crazy laugh was heard around, drawing everyone's attention.
He was chuckling with his hand on his chest as if he'd seen something really entertaining.
The feeling of blood around him, the sense of his killing intent, was just too suffocating.
"...Yes, he's an even bigger monster," Dorothy muttered, and the girls couldn't help but agree with her.
"Amazing! Splendid! I knew coming to this place was the best decision I ever made in my life!" He looked at Eleanor with an intense gaze.
A look that made Eleanor's fanged smile grow.
"Victor." Eleanor's voice was a mixture of monstrous and hollow.
"Oh?" Victor's eyes gleamed as Eleanor lifted her Greatsword.
The Greatsword was covered in a dark green fire in the blink of an eye.
"Don't blink your eyes." She slowly began to raise her Greatsword towards the sky.
"Do not divert your attention." A strange effect started happening all around.
All the Ogres began to slowly levitate towards the sky.
It was as if an invisible force was lifting them all up, and it wasn't just the monsters. The earth around them, the dust, the rocks, everything levitated towards the sky.
When all the monsters were in the sky, Eleanor was heard again.
"Watch Me..."
"And understand why I deserve the title of Vampire Count."
And that's what he did; Victor watched.
Eleanor had his undivided attention, his eyes were glued to her, she had all of him… And that included his growing obsession.
Eleanor looked at the sky and spoke in a neutral and straightforward voice:
"Singularity"
Suddenly, the world lost its color, everything went black and white, and the only thing visible was the green flame on Eleanor's Greatsword.
Flames began to rise towards the heavens at a rapid pace, and slowly, a small green ball resembling a mini sun began to be created in the sky.
The green fire stopped coming out of Eleanor's Greatsword, and in the next moment, the green fireball began to spin horizontally.
It was a rotation not too slow and not too fast.
In the next second, something started to happen.
The world returned to normal, and the monsters in the air began to be 'sucked' towards the flame.
When the first monster was engulfed by the flame, the flame grew...
And this process repeated itself when the monsters came into contact with the green flame. The fireball seemed to be feeding on the monsters.
When deemed necessary, Eleanor pointed the palm of her hand towards the sky and made a gesture of clenching her fist:
"Expand."
The effect was immediate, the fireball started to expand, and it swallowed all the monsters, rocks, and dirt; it devoured everything, and everything happened in less than seconds.
When everything was eliminated, Eleanor spoke:
"Contract."
The fireball started to shrink in size. Before it was like a giant fireball, now, it was the size of a basketball, and a second later, the star was gone.
Eleanor wiped out an entire horde with one technique as simple as it was.
A technique that could only be used in this form.
"...." The silence that fell around was pleasant enough for Eleanor, and Victor's look of shock pleased her even more, while she couldn't help showing a smug little smile.
Victor found her smile quite adorable, especially in that form.
Victor now understood why Eleanor gained the title of Vampire Count. She was just like everyone who had that title, a walking nuclear bomb.
Wrong, in a way, she was worse than a nuclear bomb that destroys everything because, if Victor was correct in his assumption, that power she displayed was far more dangerous than shown.
'The technique isn't called 'Singularity' for nothing,' He thought as he looked at the damaged earth around him.
But what intrigued Victor the most was that even if she didn't have this technique, she would already be very dangerous.
If the Adastrea Clan's power to control Earth was equal to what he expected, Eleanor could destroy an entire country by causing a massive earthquake.
And everyone knew the consequences an earthquake could have.
'But leaving that aside... What is this transformation?' Victor thought curiously as he devoured Eleanor with his gaze.
"Vampire Count Transformation..." Rose started to speak when she saw Victor's gaze.
"Well, calling it a Vampire Count's transformation seems wrong... After all, she's not accessing the Vampire's Ancestral Form and getting stronger."
Victor looked at Rose with a curious look.
"You could say she's using her monstrous bloodline's 'Awakened' form," Rose explained as she saw Eleanor slowly approaching the group.
"I think the name; 'Awakened form' is more appropriate," Eleanor joked. Even though that wasn't the official name or how her transformation worked, she could still joke about it.
"Awakened, huh..." He turned to face Eleanor.
Seeing her monstrous features, Victor slowly brought his hand closer to her face.
"...." Eleanor looked at Victor's hand with a curious look and let him do what he wanted.
When he touched Eleanor's face, he could feel the cold sensation of her skin; he could also feel a hispid quality and stiffness, proving that her skin was tougher than it looked.
He touched the cheek area and felt the scales protecting her ear.
Eleanor's body trembled slightly, and she blushed a little; after all, her ears in this form were a bit sensitive. Luckily, due to her dark green skin, she thought Victor wouldn't notice it.
"…Can you two get a room?"
"...."
The girls and Victor looked at Julieta.
"What?" She spoke when she saw Victor's amused look.
'Where is that stoic and cold girl?' Victor thought and then continued; 'It seems that she has become more comfortable with me and is acting more naturally.'
Ignoring Julieta's ordeal as if it were nothing, he asked:
"Don't you get tired in that form?"
"Not particularly."
"Oh?"
"I only get tired when using my bloodline powers in this form, but when taking this form, I don't get tired. After all, if we're speaking from a technical perspective, this is my true form."
The girls shivered slightly, something Victor didn't notice because he was so focused on Eleanor.
'Is she going that far to tell a Clan secret?' Rose thought.
"Isn't your true form that of the Vampire...?" Victor asked.
"The Vampire form you're familiar with is something I take on after sealing the monster's bloodline."
"...." From that point on, the girls stopped caring. They understood that their leader seemed to reveal their Clan's best-kept secret to Victor like it was nothing.
'How much does this woman like him?' Dorothy couldn't help but roll her eyes.
"Did you seal your true form?"
"Yes. This sealing happens when a member of our Clan is born so that in the future, he or she can train. After all, it is still a monster bloodline. Instincts, the tendency for destruction, and habits are much worse than the Vampire's if not controlled."
Victor nodded, he could relate to this situation because if he was going, to be honest, his True Form was the Progenitor's form, but since he couldn't control that form completely, he needed to seal it.
"...Wait, that means..."
"Yes, the girls are like that too."
Victor looked around and saw the smile on the girls' faces, including Rose's.
Victor laughed a little and looked back at Eleanor. He looked at her body and realized that even though she was in that form that seemed to protect her entire body with scales, her curvy body was still quite visible, and her breasts were being protected by a more extensive layer of scaly armor.
'... She is beautiful….'
Seeing Victor's gaze on her scales, she explained,
"Our armor was designed so that when we unsealed our bloodline, the armor would merge with our bloodline to grant extra protection."
"Does that mean you'll be naked if you go back to your Vampire Form, take off your armor, and go back to your True Form?"
"...Yes..." Eleanor replied with narrowed eyes, finding this question strange.
"I mean, not practically naked because I'll have scales protecting my privates, I can control them at will to-...Wait, why am I explaining this to you!?" She spoke with a face with different shades of color.
"Fufufu, I didn't expect he would brazenly ask about that." Anrietha smiled smugly.
"And I thought he didn't think about it."
"To be honest, I think he only asked that because it's Eleanor."
"Get your mind out of the gutters, girls, for God's sake." Victor rolled his eyes, and the girls just laughed at him.
"Victor..."
"Yes?" He looked at Rose.
"When a member of our Clan practices copulation, we must do so in our true form so that the monster's bloodline is passed on more strongly to the next generation."
"..."
The girls were pleased to see Victor a little embarrassed, which was quite rare, considering that he was very confident, and to be honest, this sight did critical damage to their hearts. That beauty of his was unfair.
"Oya, Oya? He definitely thought of it!" Dorothy spoke.
"He thought to do this and that with Eleanor in this form!" Julieta screamed.
"Julieta! Dorothy!" Eleanor screamed as her wings spread ominously.
Gulp.
The two gulped when they saw Eleanor's angry/embarrassed face.
"Behave yourselves, girls." Alexa appeared behind them and hit them both on the head as a way to save them from Eleanor's wrath.
Slap, Slap.
"Ugh." The two grumbled.
Cough.
"You know we Vampires have a good trait where everything that gets passed on to the next generation is stronger, right?" Rose caught the group's attention again.
"Yes."
"When a Vampire has a child, the child Vampire receives the talent, and potential, of the parents," Victor spoke what he remembered.
"Yes, although they will receive the potential and talent, it is up to the child to train and perfect that power."
Victor nodded, understanding what she was talking about. An example of this was his wife, Ruby.
She is the daughter of Scathach, and Scathach's talent and potential were given to her daughter, but it was up to Ruby to train that potential.
Because of this, Ruby was said to have the potential to surpass her mother. But for that to happen, she needed to train tirelessly like Scathach and Victor.
Vampires were broken beings, but because they were born strong and had long lives, they were primarily lazy.
"Wait… Vlad's children didn't inherit his blood?" Victor thought he could only feel a connection to Ophis, clearly remembering that.
"Oh, that's not unusual."
"Huh?"
"Progenitors are at the end of the day... Progenitors. They are unique. They cannot be raised through another Progenitor. Because of this, Vlad's children don't have the same power as their father. Usually, they inherit more powers from their mother."
'Wait... And Ophis? She has 50% blood from a Progenitor, it's not complete, but it's definitely there.' Victor narrowed his eyes.
"...But they are still children of a progenitor, so they have great talent and potential."
"...." Victor didn't know what to make of this information. From what he remembered, Vlad was disappointed in his children because they hadn't inherited his blood.
'...Oh, Ophis is not qualified to be called Progenitor, but if she inherited 50% of her father's blood, does that mean her talent is more significant than her brothers, and Vlad wanted that blood in his male children?'
That was the only thing Victor could think of.
"Is it possible for any of the Progenitor's children to receive their blood?" Victor asked. He needed to clear that doubt.
After a moment of silence, Rose spoke:
"It's possible."
"It's a rare thing to happen, the chances are very slim, but one of a Progenitor's children can inherit 50% of their blood. They won't be full-fledged Progenitors, but they will have high potential and talent."
'As expected... I was correct...'
"Because, as I said, Progenitors cannot be created. They are born naturally through coincidence or because it was meant to be."
"Progenitors are the father of an entire race, and through them, new bloodlines can be created, and civilization can arise. Their very existence is something unique."
"And that cannot be replicated by anyone."
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