Summoning the Holy Sword

Rhode already knew that Ion would send someone to cause him trouble. Besides, he also knew that it would be a huge one. After Lydia’s reminder, he was attentive to this matter. But after hearing Angelina’s report, he realized that he had underestimated the situation.

“You’re saying that there is a group of vampires in the Land of Atonement?”

Rhode knitted his brows, gazing at Angelina who stood before him and sighed subtly before nodding in agreement. Even though Rhode’s expression didn’t change at all, he cursed in his head after observing Angelina’s reaction. Ultimately, there was only one cause of this situation—Angelina.

Angelina was a vampire; a royal vampire that held the most ancient bloodline in the empire of darkness. Of course, that was her glorious past and her tough days arrived after Ashvril took over the throne. As the Chinese proverb went, ‘a phoenix with its feathers plucked wouldn’t be as great as a chicken’. The fact that Angelina survived the fights and schemes from the dark forces proved that she had her ways to handle them. Besides, she wasn’t an easy character to deal with either. A long time ago, she began to set out to overthrow Ashvril’s rule and sought help from alliances. Although Ashvril had a huge force on her side and was individually powerful as one of the four legendary generals, the internal strife between vampires for power were always brutal and it was common for strong ones to have the last laugh because the weak ones were all slaughtered. Even though Ashvril had become unmatchable after ascending the throne as one of the four legendary generals, there were a huge number of vampire families she offended and eliminated. It was especially so for the families who were hostile against her previously; all of them were seriously injured by her. In this case, it went without saying that there were vampires going against her. It was during this period when Angelina started deploying her tricks. She searched and collected information about families who hated Ashvril and wanted to take her down. Got to say, with Angelina’s identity, some people acknowledged her ‘legitimate’ status, and Angelina used her own hands, plans, and strength to gather a relatively huge group of people to establish a whole new ‘force’.

Angelina initially decided to use this chance to surface again, but this secret leaked out to Ashvril’s ears. In the end, Angelina was sent to her death to the Land of Atonement, only to be captured by Mini Bubble Gum. That was how the episode came to an end. After losing Angelina, the ‘force’ was without a leader and to Angelina, perhaps those vampires had secretly gone home to bed after realizing that the situation was out of hand. It was no wonder that she thought of it this way as it was never the vampires’ expertise to openly confront anyone. Instead, secretly framing, poisoning, and backstabbing was their talent. If Angelina trusted her subjects’ devotion, she would have been played to death by Ashvril before she was even sent to the Land of Atonement.

That should have been the case…

But what Angelina didn’t expect was that after losing her ‘force’, the force didn’t disband. Instead, they did the very opposite, seizing the opportunity to ambush Ashvril’s hometown, Athos City. Ashvril was caught off guard, which led to Athos City suffering huge losses and two of her powerful subjects were injured and dead respectively. When Ashvril returned to her senses in rage, the ambushers had already gotten away. Of course, Ashvril wasn’t willing to let this matter off. Unlike the other three legendary generals, Ashvril didn’t possess similar powerful strength and yet, she was able to become one of them. This was the weakness of vampires. No matter how much they strengthened themselves, they couldn’t reach the height of the other three legendary generals. Moreover, the reason why Ashvril was able to overthrow the predecessor was because she relied on group attacks to make up for individual vampire’s limited battle strength. If it weren’t for the outstanding intelligence network of the vampires, perhaps the Dark Dragon wouldn’t leave one of the legendary generals’ spots open to a vampire. It could also be said that Ashvril’s position wasn’t as stable and safe as the other three’s.

Not only that, but also after Rhode heard Angelina’s report, he was caught between laughter and tears as if he were to look into this matter, it was in fact related to Mini Bubble Gum. If Mini Bubble Gum didn’t destroy Ashvril’s precious weapon during the Order Ceremony, which led to her strength plummeting, Angelina’s ‘force’ wouldn’t have dared to mess with Ashvril and attack her hometown, catching her off guard. But after the bashing from Mini Bubble Gum, even though Ashvril seemed fine, she actually suffered a huge loss as Mini Bubble Gum purified the spirits inside her weapon. A huge part of Ashvril’s battle strength relied on the powerful spirits that she collected and now, the spirits were gone and she couldn’t possibly massacre vampires to replenish her strength. As a result, she was caught off guard by ‘little scoundrels’ she looked down upon, leading her to fail miserably.

Ashvril was enraged over it. Just as was mentioned earlier, she wasn’t weak and attained her position after overthrowing the predecessor. With this criminal record, it wasn’t surprising that anyone would attempt to overthrow her too. If it were in the past, Ashvril could effortlessly take down any threats despite how imperfect her strength was. However, Mini Bubble Gum’s beating hurt her badly. Her prestige and reputation had fallen to rock bottom after the incident too. Even if those ‘little scoundrels’ weren’t able to overthrow her throne, they successfully revealed her tottering position. If a leaderless little ‘force’ could turn Ashvril’s nest upside down, what about the ancient and powerful forces? How could they let the chance to beat up a drowning dog slip?

Besides, ever since Ashvril had gained her rank, she supported the newly born vampires in order to solidify her place, strengthen her power, and oppress the ancient vampire families. No one would believe that these long-living vampires weren’t enraged by her!

Rhode’s eyes glinted at this thought as some unique ideas suddenly came up in his head. In this case… he could give it a shot with his unique advantages. If he succeeded, the problem could be perfectly resolved!

As for the next matter…

Rhode reached out for the bell on the table and shook it. Shortly after, the door opened and Agatha opened quietly. She gazed at him, gave a casual bow, and asked: “Your Majesty, is there anything I can help you with?”

“Get Marlene, Alice, Bubble, and Canary here; tell them I have something to discuss with them.”

Rhode ordered, the corners of his lips perked up into a gentle, relaxed smile.

It seems about time to consider how we should entertain our faraway guests who are harboring malicious intentions.