Chapter 37: A Family of Three

My name is Derkra, the Prince of Blood, the sole leader of the Bloodline.

More than 1,700 years ago, for the sake of the future of my blood people, I led my people to this barren mountainous area later known as the Blood Mountains, and established a magnificent Dawning Mountain Villa.

However, the trees want to be quiet and the wind does not stop. How could the Central Church, which has always regarded the blood clan as a thorn in its side, give up because of our initiative to escape from the world? This group of fanatical believers of light cannot rub sand in their eyes, and in their opinion, as long as they are identified as "evil", they have no meaning in the world and must be erased. For this reason, the Central Church provoked three wars to storm the Blood Mountains.

In order to survive, in order to protect the last homeland, the blood clan compatriots rose up to resist, and the art of conducting that I had learned during my lifetime had a stage to show its strength, and finally, with the help of the geographical advantage, the blood clan stood firm. The three attacks of the Central Curia ended in failure, with the Crusaders suffering heavy casualties and the corpses of the Holy Army strewn across the field, and the blood shed stained the mountainous area and became the nourishment of the surviving blood tribes.

But the successive defeats would not give up on the self-righteous hypocrites, and after the possibility of a frontal assault was completely blocked, they came up with what they called the most shameful, but secretly best trick: spies.

Mika, this is how she introduced herself when this good-looking woman stood in front of me. Mika says that she is a subordinate of the vampire elder Li Qiwei. After Li Qiwei's forces were overwhelmed by me, she lost her place and wandered around the outside world, forced to suck the blood of the living in order to survive, and was hunted down by the Church of Light.

In order to unify the bloodline, I have eliminated the three bloodsucking elders of Franklin, Shanduo, and Ridgway, and not all the remnants of their forces have submitted to me, and some diehards have rejected my rule, but if anyone changes their minds and comes to me at the dawn, I will never refuse to come. So the appearance of Meijia is very normal. But it's because it's so normal that it's suspicious. I've probed Mika's body with magic, and I've found that her body is indeed a vampire, and that she does have permanent scars on her body from the Holy Light. But even so, Mika is still not a true blood clan.

She did not go through the ritual of "first hug", but directly injected the blood of the Bloodclan into her body, forcibly transforming her body into a vampire. Ordinary nightcrawlers can't notice this, but I, as the only daywalker, can. Mika and the people behind her underestimated my IQ and overestimated my own abilities.

There is no need to guess at all about Meijia's true identity and her purpose, no one will do such a thing except the Central Church. I didn't debunk her identity, pretended not to know anything, and left her to manage the archives of the Blood Mountains. That's right, I gave a spy from the Central Curia access to the Bloodline's most core secrets.

Because in Mika's eyes, I saw some kind of naïve but resolute conviction. She must have thought that as long as she could eradicate evil, it didn't matter what sacrifice she made, even if she became a vampire; of course, her concept of "good and evil" was based on false facts that were false or exaggerated, and she was artificially led to the path of self-righteousness. I had too much contact with such people when I was a human being, so I naturally knew how to deal with them. The way to do this is to expose them to the truth that is concealed by their masters, and if there is a conflict between what they know in front of them and what they believe in their minds, it will have a great impact on their values, so that I can use these spies against their masters in turn. It doesn't matter if I can't get Mika to change, because I'm confident that she won't be able to pass on the information.

Luckily, Mega didn't get to the point of stubbornness. She was originally just a goddess official who was not deeply involved, and all the common sense she knew was lost to her by the church from childhood to adulthood. The history of the blood clan, the real historical materials of the Demon War, and the scandal of the Central Church that had never been recorded brought great shock to her heart, and she probably never thought that the Central Church, which she had revered since childhood, would actually do such a despicable act of tampering with history.

The disillusionment of her perceptions and ideals left her at a loss. Although every time I see Mika, she pretends to be nothing, but I know that she is just carrying it. Almost every night, she would hide somewhere in a corner of Dawn Hill and secretly sob.

It's really strange to say, but at some point, I actually felt pity for this spy who I was using against him. It was only a few years later that I realized that this was the kind of love between men and women that I had not experienced when I was alive.

When I was a human being, perhaps because of Woody's suggestion and influence, I thought that men and women would not have any other communication except in bed, and naturally there could be no concept of "love". In my life as a human being, there have been many women with whom I have had pleasures, but none of them have ever made me feel "love", but I never expected that long-overdue love would only appear after my death. For Meijia, I realized that I was gradually elevated from pity to love, and after a series of broken beliefs, her feelings gradually calmed down, and her hostility towards me disappeared little by little, and she saw me more as a new dependent.

That's how we are, we need each other. As for Mika's true identity and my intention to use her against the Holy See, we both chose to be tacit. Eventually, this ambiguous relationship lasted until the assassins from the Central Church finally took action.

The assassination team, led by a cardinal, sneaked into the Dawning Villa through the gap in the barrier, and of course, this qiē could not escape my eyes. Most of this force was ambushed, and most of them were annihilated, but something unexpected happened, the cardinal was far stronger than I could have imagined, and even though he was besieged, he still fought to the death, and five of the first eight sages died under his holy light, and finally began a life-and-death battle between him and me. The opponent's difficulty was not only that he was far superior to the other cardinals, but also that he had brought several light artifacts, and in the battle against him, I gradually fell behind.

And Mika, she finally understood why I knew she was a fake blood and didn't debunk her, and knew that she had fallen into my trap and became a tool for me to besiege her companions, but at this final juncture, her reason was defeated by emotion, and when I was about to be ruined by the Light, Mika saved my life, piercing the cardinal from behind with her sword, the teacher who raised her and taught her a qiē.

Once again, the conspiracy of the Central Church was thwarted, but the price of victory was dismal. As for Mika, with the sword in her hand, she fainted under the bewildered and angry gaze of her mentor.

Her fainting was not only due to the guilt and sadness that occurred when she was stabbing her mentor, but mainly because her body could not last long. Because Meijia has not experienced the "first possession", although injected with the blood of the blood clan, her body is human in nature, and the blood of the blood clan has a strong corrosive effect on her body, she must endure the pain every night and use a holy weapon she hides to inject divine power into her body to counteract the poison of the blood clan, and in the long run, her body has become a battlefield for the battle of light and dark magical energy, making her body decay and decay faster.

But this does not mean that Meijia is incurable, because there is another magical place in Dawning Villa: the blood chamber.

I carried the dying Mika into the blood, and the giant blood cell repaired her damaged body, forcing the blood and divine power out of her body, allowing her to regain her human form.

Piercing through this layer of window paper, it was time for a showdown between us. I wanted her to stay with me, but I thought she would refuse, but Mika immediately agreed. After being reborn, Mika is like a different person. Her past is dead, but her future is still alive, and in order to fill the spiritual emptiness, she no longer suppresses her love and desires. The story that happened in it may not be reproduced with the tip of a pen even by the most romantic romance writers.

In this way, Mika lived as a human in Dawning Villa for several years as the Lady of the Vampire Prince. As a daywalker, I can retain most of the physical traits of a human being, including the ability to procreate, without explaining the power of the Bloodline. And just like that, my son and Mika were born.

"The child's name is Woody, and that's it. Looking at that lovely face, I never dreamed that as an undead person, I would have descendants, and I burst out in ecstasy and said this name.

Although I am the undisputed leader of the blood clan, I have never ** in front of Mika, and this time when naming the child, my attitude of not having the slightest room for negotiation made Mika realize that this name has an important meaning to me.

A hybrid of human and vampire, Woody combines the traits of both races. He has the great strength of the bloodline, super speed and rapid self-healing ability, he can also be like an ordinary human child, his body can grow, eventually grow old, die, can eat normal human food, Woody is not afraid of the sun, nor is he afraid of silver, holy water, garlic and other items that restrain the bloodline, however, Woody is not without weaknesses, he also needs to suck a lot of blood as nutrients to maintain his body.

Not only that, but Woody can only suck the blood of animals, not humans, because once he only eats human blood, the growth of his body will stop, and then he will completely lose his human characteristics and become an immortal undead body. Meijia will not agree to such a result, and I will not agree with it.

Our family of three lived happily for another seven years, until the Central Church made another big move.

The commander of the Divine Army made it clear: the main purpose of their attack on the Blood Mountains this time was to bring back their goddess Mika, and as soon as I handed them over, he would withdraw his troops.

Who would willingly give their wife to someone else?

I flatly refused the commander's request, and the Bloods and the Central Curia met again. The course of the battle needs no retelling, and the outcome was more tragic than any previous encounter. Mei Jia held little Woody in her arms and stood at the top of the main building looking at the battle, although it was far away, but I knew that this battle would definitely bring her a great shock.

After returning victorious, I feared that something would happen to Mecca, so I rushed to our bedroom, but when I opened the door, Mecca and little Woody were gone, and the only thing left in the bedroom was a letter from hers:

"Dear,

Please forgive me for not saying goodbye.

When the teacher was in the past, I originally thought that after I had my feelings for you, I would put things down. But I now realize that I have been haunted by my betrayal of the Holy See. Please forgive me for hiding it from you.

Although the true face of the Holy See is shameful, I have been educated since I was a child, but it is not something that can be changed lightly.

I really can't take this burden with me and start over as your wife.

I wanted to leave several times because of my repentance, but because of my son's bonds, I was never able to make up my mind. It wasn't until this time when the Central Church went to war for me that I realized that because of my willfulness and hesitation, more lives would die.

Both you and the Holy See mean something to me. I don't want to see a war between you. My dear, I will leave with Woody and go into seclusion in a place where no one will find us, where Woody and I will grow old and die as human beings. Please forgive me for my selfishness, without my son by my side, I am afraid that I will not be able to live in this world for a second.

I've always loved you, but I don't deserve your love.

Treat yourself as if you never knew me. Farewell, dear.

Forever Love: Mika. ”

The hand holding the letter trembled. Mega and Woody just left, as if they had never existed, and the smell of their remnants in the bedroom faded away, as if the last seven years of joy had been a dream.

I put down the letter, closed my eyes, and recalled the happy times of my family of three over and over again, tears gushing down my face.

Meijia and I are people from two worlds, and our encounter is only a brief interlacing of two destinies. Maybe she took Woody away and it was the best choice for our family of three.

However, is this really the case?