NOVEL NEXT Chapter 56 Another Undead
Dracula watched the town from the cliff as his army advanced towards it! This was the twentieth town in the past two weeks and they should be able to finish three more towns tomorrow. Dracula didn't bother going down to join them in clearing the town. If there are any issues then Dracula would go and deal with them himself, but he usually allows the army to handle the killing. But then Dracula turned to the side as he saw a swarm of bats coming toward him. The bats transformed into his attendant and the blue-haired man bowed clumsily before rushing to speak?
"Sir! There's an issue! Some of the demons refused to go into the town. The demons said that they felt another presence in the town before we came around so I went to search and I saw undead familiars there,"
Dracula's eyes widened. He immediately transformed into a swarm of bats and quickly made his way towards the town! He was filled with suspicious energy as he flew. What is an undead doing in this part of the world!? The only undead that they have here is the demon lord's servant, Rosavellt! She is the only one that is allowed to be here! The undead are generally not accepted as demons. They are creatures from the underworld and they even had their own ruler. They were a lot like the vampire race, just that they were a lot stronger. Rosavellt was allowed to be seen as a demon because she was handpicked by the former demon lord himself! If there are undead familiars here and they are not her own, that means there is another undead around here.
Dracula arrived at the town and he was led to a large house near the town exit. This was the town hall where the humans usually held meetings.
There were a lot of corpses around, but some of them had been pulled to one side. The stench of human meat and rotting corpses was intense from that pile and Dracula deduced that these people have been dead for a long time. Long before his army came to this town. He remembered that the mayor's wife said something about some missing humans when she was under his [Mesmerize]. These have to be the humans that went missing.
Beside the pile of humans were some skeleton creatures that were at talk as Dracula's chest. They had rotting bones that still had some black, decayed skin on them and their eyes were a black hollow space! Once Dracula got near them, he snarked angrily as he wondered who put this here! It wasn't Rosavellt, but it smelt a lot like her! Was someone trying to imitate her magic? No, that is too difficult to do. Undead magic isn't something you can just imitate. This has to be another undead in the area that is calling these familiars. I should get this news back to my lord.
Dracula decided that he would get this news to the demon lord first before anything else.
"Kill all the familiars and tell the demons in the area to kill anyone they see. Make sure you don't even leave their bones alive, burn it all! Undead familiars are poisonous to anyone and they have been in this town for too long so I'm sure that the humans are infected as well. Don't fuck them and don't fucking eat them. The demon army will suffer a loss if you mistakenly eat these things!"
Dracula commanded his attendant to go and the man bowed before leaving to carry out the order! Once the attendant was gone, Dracula opened a communication circle and called Floid. Floid answered the call immediately it was opened and Dracula took in a nervous breath. He doesn't know why he immediately becomes nervous once he is about to talk to the demon lord. This is the first time he will be talking directly to his lord since he was given this task. He usually just sends the reports to his father. But this seems like something very important and he decided to tell the demon lord personally!
"What is it, Dracula?"
"My lord. I'm calling from the town of Duranel. We have just finished with the subjugation of the town but we ran into a problem,"
"What kind of problem?"
Floid was in his office when he answered the communication circle from Dracula. He was a bit surprised that Dracula would even call him directly. Dracula usually sends his report straight to Alucard. But if he was calling him then that means this is something important. But now that Dracula was saying there is a problem, Fkoiid was more interested. He dropped his pen and leaned back as he listened to Dracula.
"My lord, we found undead familiars in the town hall. There seems to be a lot of them all around the town and the army is working to deal with them but we can't be sure of the exact number. I wanted to tell you of this before the news becomes old. I'll bring a sample the next time I'm bringing the army back for supplies,"
"No, I'll open a portal to you and come take a look. Stay there,"
Dracula felt his heart jump to his throat! The demon lord is coming here!? Floid could only open portals directly to places he had been to, or to members of his household. So it would be easy for Floid to track Dracula's location and open a portal to that spot.
Dracula quickly looked down at his clothes and breathed out in relief when he saw that he wasn't dirty anywhere. He closed the communication circle and then he waited as he saw a blue portal tear through the space in front of him. Dracula bowed as Floid stepped through. Floid looked down at the skeletons on the ground and he narrowed his eyes in curiosity. These look a lot like the ones that Rosavellt made the first time she showed him her familiar. In fact, it even smells like it. It is just a little bit different because of the mana signature. Is someone trying to imitate Rosavellt?
"My lord, I believe it has to be another undead. Some types of magic cannot be imitated and undead magic is one of those,"
Floid rose a brow when he heard what Dracula said. Another undead? Rosavellt was the only undead that Floid has ever met before and he didn't think there were any others. He thought for sure that all the others were gone since he has never seen them in his army. But it was a sensible explanation. Only an undead can summon skeleton familiars and if the signature is so similar to Rosavellt's then that person might be close to her. Possibly even related.
He had to get to the bottom of this so he decided he would ask Rosavellt personally.
Floid grabbed onto one of the skeletons by the head and Dracula bowed as Floid took it back with him into the portal. Once Floid was gone, Dracula released a tense breath.
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Back in the castle, Floid got to his office and dumped the skeleton on the floor in front of his table before he opened a communication circle and called on Rosavellt. Rosavellt didn't even waste a minute as she immediately knocked on his door and came in when he told her to.
"You wanted to see me, ma - master,"
Rosavellt hesitated in her words the moment her eyes landed on the familiar and Floid caught her before she could hide it. He knew she would recognize it. No one can copy her magic signature this much. That means is impossible that this person doesn't know Rosavellt. He looked up at her while leaning back in his chair. Her face didn't betray any emotions at all but he could tell that she was curious about where he got that Skeleton from.
"Is that one of yours, Rosa?"
"No master. It is not,"
Rosavellt's answer was immediate and Floid could tell she wasn't lying. Well, he didn't suspect her anyways. She knows how dangerous her familiars are to weaker demons. Her familiars had poisonous skin that could lead to the death of weaker demons. They will only be able to withstand it if they are a high ranking demon like the members of his household. She wouldn't leave them in the towns where the demon army is going to and risk them being poisoned. Floid them decided to ask something else.
"Do you know who it belongs to,"
There was another moment of hesitation and Floid saw her take in a nervous breath. Rosavellt obviously didn't want o talk about the skeleton. But she finally answered.
"Yes, master,"