Chapter 2: Searching for Heretic

Translator: Henyee Translations Editor: Henyee Translations

[Reese’s angle]

Lady Isla received a revelation that in order to break the prophecy, the new king’s flesh and blood must be sacrificed to the Moonstone. However, if the sacrifice failed, the new king’s bloodline would fuse with the Moonstone, and the new king would obtain unparalleled power.

This revelation not only gave the Kindred hope, but also fear. Although it wasn’t as harsh as the dark decade, vampires were also prohibited from marrying humans. They would be severely punished if they were discovered.

This action wasn’t only to prevent the birth of the “new king,” but also to reduce the support and power that the “new king” would get to the lowest when he was truly born.

As a king, he couldn’t live without power, and certainly not without supporters. The Stuarts would never let him have these.

Since Lady Ashley lived in the suburbs, Master and I went to her manor by car.

After all, there would be many humans walking outside during the day. Even though Lady Ashley lived in a remote area, vampires would choose human transportation to avoid unnecessary trouble when going out during the day.

Lady Ashley’s manor was very beautiful. As soon as we arrived at the manor, she immediately took us to the room with the Moonstone.

After a few words with Lady Ashley, Master suddenly asked me what punishment a traitor would receive.

In the Kindred, betrayers referred to vampires who disobeyed their Master’s orders without causing any harm to other vampires of the Kindred, while traitors referred to vampires who were about to or had already caused harm to the Kindred. It mostly referred to vampires who fell in love with humans nowadays. The two were fundamentally different.

So I bowed and answered, “The traitors will take off the Witch’s Ring and be pinned to the stake, sprinkled with holy water, and burned in the hot sun in the presence of everyone.”

The reason why the Kindred could live among humans and walk in the sun was because of the Witch’s Ring. Once the ring was removed, the vampires’ fear of light would be exposed.

Over the years, Master had ordered me to deal with countless traitors.

So, I had no idea why he asked me this question, but as his guard, Master’s questions and requests must be answered.

Hearing my answer, Lady Ashley seemed to look a bit pale. It’s as if she had developed a fear at the thought of something.

To calm her down, I started a conversation with Lady Ashley while waiting outside the door for Master to finish a call.

I asked her why she was still using the map when it was so worn that she had to sew it up, and whether she lacked whole pieces of Pearl Sheep’s skin. I could hunt one for her.

Pearl Sheep were cunning animals, and were very difficult to hunt. However, Pearl Sheep’s skin was the best recording tool and alchemy ingredient.

The Lancasters had been poor for a long time due to the need to make potions, and I thought I could try to help her.

As soon as I finished talking, Lady Ashley looked at me like she didn’t know whether to laugh or cry and answered my question.

It turned out that the old sheepskin contained Lady Isla’s power. Only by using the most powerful power to resonate with the Moonstone could one get the exact location of the “heretic.”

I felt the rise of temperature on my face. I seemed to have made a joke out of ignorance.

[Ashley’s angle]

Two guests visited Ashley Manor that day. In fact, I didn’t like them. One was a lunatic and the other was stoic.

However, I had to be respectful to them because of their identities. The lunatic was the heir of the royal family that I swore allegiance to, and the stoic man was the leader of the Norma family as well as the guard of the Crown Prince.

For the sake of my life, I always wanted to take a detour every time I saw them.

However, the Moonstone had been very annoying. It had been flashing all the time, especially that day. The light almost blinded me.

I had no choice but to stop reporting on the phone and invite the two of them over.

Oh! What a terrible day.

I led the two of them into the room where the moonstone was stored. I laid the map flat on the ground so that the moonstone would point out where the “new king” was.

The blinding light gradually gathered at one point of the map. I secretly glanced at Liam Stuart. As expected, his eyes were on the map.

Thank you, Lady Isla! Liam Stuart, this lunatic, had finally turned his attention away from me.

Only God knew how crazy he had been since he found out I liked women. He had been looking at me like a venomous snake and watching my every move at all times.

The Lancasters did prohibit their members from falling in love with the same sex, but I was the leader at that time.

Power was the foundation of the Lancasters.

However, in front of the royal family that I swore allegiance to, I didn’t dare show this arrogance.

Come to think of it, the stupidest thing I’d ever done so far was hitting on a beautiful woman who was totally my cup of time the other night, and the lunatic even saw that.

God! No, that wasn’t right! Demon! If I were given another chance, I would definitely ask that beautiful girl for her name before running into the lunatic and then escape.