BXBX NOVEL Chapter 138 Another War
“More than a dozen humans had disappeared from the town again. Everyone is scared and petrified. We have received a lot of petitions to increase the number of guards at night!” the man started in a troubled voice as he looked at the nobleman sitting on their seats leisurely.
It was the third time the matter was raised but no action was taken as if they could not feel the severity of the matter.
“My lord, if it continued they would blame night creatures for it. We have to look into the matter and find the culprit as soon as possible.” he pleaded. Though he did not like the creature with fangs too, he was the lord with the maximum number of council seats in his hands.
No decision could be taken without his consent.
Rafael was talking softly to the person sitting next to him with a warm smile on his face, finally turned to look at the speaking man for the first time with a look of confusion in his eyes as if he had no idea what they were talking about..
The man who was speaking for so long that he felt he could cough blood if he spoke more about it was dumbfounded looking at the expressions of the lord. He knew that the lord had no affinity to humans but who would have thought that he would show it so blatantly.
“My lord, about the disappearing persons.. I!” Rafael nodded his head and raised his hands to stop the man from speaking further.
“Of course, I have heard it. You do not need to repeat the whole speech again. I am asking what help you are expecting from me.
If it is only about increasing a few knights, you can always ask the head of the department who is assigned to allot knights and guards.
If you have come this far to ask for our help, there must be more that you desire!” Shocked by the words of Rafael, the man was not able to respond for a few seconds.
He had not thought that the creature who was looking bored all this time would be able to catch his thoughts.
“That.. i. I wanted to ask for help, my lord. After the trade route was opened again, humans were scared that the witches would be able to spread their wings again and the peace that was here for two decades would be lost.
All the incidents had only started once the restrictions had been taken away. Don’t you think it is too much of a coincidence?” the peaceful scarlet eyes flickered for a second before a smile was formed on them.
“In that case you should go to church for help. Ask them to purify the land again. I will write a letter of recommendation for both increase of security and assigning a priest for your help. Would it be enough?” Though the vampire was asking, Max knew that it was the most he could get, so he nodded his eyes and bowed his head.
“Thank you, my lord. You are kinder than I have thought.” he bowed his head and many clapped petitioners that had come with Max to show their gratitude as they left.
Soon everyone started to stand with the bored look into their eyes as only a few of them were humans making them cold to sympathize with this case.
“My lord, are you already leaving?” asked a man as he came running towards Rafael who stopped in his tracks and turned to see that he was the same boy who was crying for help in the room.
“If you are worried that i forgot about letters then do not worry, i have already sent Alfred, my aide to write them for you with my seal.” Though his voice was calm, a look of impatience was clear in his voice but the man did not bow and left as he had expected.
“No! I have complete faith in your words and I would not dare to disturb something so menial. I am here to tell you a secret I had not spoken about in the meeting.“ Rafael raised a brow as the boy looked around to make sure that no one would listen to them.
He wanted to tell that his actions would only bring more attention to their conversation and no matter how low he would speak, vampires had strong ears to listen to his words but he did not care whatever secret the boy was talking about so he let it be and nodded his head.
He wanted to be free from here so that he could go home and rest and use his mind over matters that really need his attention rather than a few humans who had lost their lives.
“I have heard others whispering that the amount of rogue vampires had increased.
I would not have cared much about it but the recent rogue that had been killed, I knew him by the name Samuel, he was a human living near my house and one of the disappeared people.
I thought that I had been mistaken. But before coming here I went there and checked again. He has been changed into a rogue and then has been killed!” his serious eyes scanned Rafael to see any change in his face.
If the matter would go out, it would be enough to create another war as it would be proven that vampires are forcefully changing humans into one of them to increase their population.
If it continued then the day humans would cease to exist would not be that far! It would burn the whole empire yet the vampire was not looking surprised.
If any, he was looking like he would yawn and sleep any moment to come. Just when he was about to ask if he knew about it already, they both heard footsteps and the man turned abruptly with vigilant eyes,
“Ah, glad that you came Alfred, pass the gentleman his letters and ask the coachman to bring the carriage here. I am feeling too sleepy to walk further!”
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