Blade of the Goddess
Chapter 116 - Alice is back

Chapter 116: Chapter 116 - Alice is back

"Is that all you have to say to an old friend?" She asked, dragging her finger down his chest.

"What do you want?"

"Wow, straight to the point, huh? No pleasantries whatsoever. Well, that’s okay, I like getting down to business as well." She clapped her hands, and a maid came running with tea.

"Thank you, darling." She sipped her tea, the aroma spreading all over the hall, then took a seat on a nearby bench.

"How would you like to support me in my efforts for the throne?" She asked, slightly showing off her cleavage.

"Not interested." He replied bluntly.

"Well, everyone likes that at first until you give them what they want." She giggled.

"Oh? And what do you possibly think you can offer me that I don’t have or can’t achieve on my own?" He asked, genuinely amused.

"Power." She replied

"Pwahahahaha!!" He was not expecting that answer. Power? Was she seriously saying that she could offer Zion power? The woman was out of her mind.

"What’s so funny?" She asked, slightly getting irritated

"Oh, you weren’t joking? You were serious? Do you seriously think that I lack power?" He asked, wiping a tear from his face.

"Do you not want power? You clearly don’t need money, influence, or status, so it’s obvious that you would want power."

It was a pretty good deduction on her part. Unfortunately for her, she didn’t know what Zion was capable of.

"Listen, Amber. You’re hot, and I definitely would want to add you to my harem, but I’m friends with your sister, and she hates your guts. So I won’t betray her like that. Also, you can’t offer me power, not because you don’t have the authority, but because you don’t have the ability to. We’re done here." He turned around to leave but was stopped by a sword.

"Do you think you can speak to her highness like that and get away with it?" The man asked

"Do you know who I fucking am?" Zion asked, his mood now souring.

"Zion Zagan, son of Zaleena Zagan, Grand Duchess of the Zagan Duchy. That, however, doesn’t sound like royalty to me." He bodyguard argued

Amber stayed silent, wanting to see what would come of this situation.

"Well, I don’t know if you finished your education or not, but if you did, you’d know a Grand Duchess is of a higher status than a prince or princess. So, unless you don’t want your entire family to die, I suggest you lower your sword." He demanded

"Apologize!" The bodyguard demanded.

"What?" Now, Zion was getting pissed off.

"Her highness has offered you something great, and instead of gratefully accepting or politely declining, you laughed in her face and mocked her. Apologize!"

Zion sighed, "Helen," he called out.

"You called, master?" A woman wearing assassin clothing appeared out of nowhere, kneeling in front of Zion.

"Kill this man’s family and bring me their heads."

"As you wish." She vanished again.

"What? Who was that? And how did she get inside the palace?" Amber asked, slightly nervous.

"You want to know what power is?" Zion asked with a smile on his face, noticing the guard’s nervous expression.

Helen came back and dropped four heads in front of Zion’s feet. The guard’s wife, two kids, and the only other living relative, his sister.

"This is power." He smiled maniacally.

"Y-You bastard! How dare you murder my family!" He swung his sword with all his might, anger fueling his attack. But right before his sword connected with Zion’s neck, it stopped.

"I want you to know that it was your stubbornness that got you and your family killed. In your next life, know your place." He crushed the man from the inside out using aura-force, keeping him alive so he could feel every ounce of pain, and left him there to die from the pain.

Amber didn’t even say anything when Zion left. She was too shocked by his display of not only immense mana control, not also cruelty.

"I almost fucked up." She laughed bitterly. "But I want him even more now."

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The moment Zion entered his lab after returning home, he was greeted by Alice, who hugged him tightly.

"Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!" She cried on his shoulder.

"Ahh, you’ve met your mom." He smiled

"Yes! Thank you so much. You already gave her a place to stay, food, water, and clothing. But you went as far as curing her, I can’t thank you enough!"

"Well, sorry to cut your emotional moment short, but you can thank me by telling me what happened to you. How did you become Anastasia?" He asked, his voice now laced with seriousness.

"I-I’ll explain everything." She told him everything that went down. From the moment she was captured to the moment her body was taken over by the vampire. She left out no detail and explained everything perfectly.

"You’re of a vampire lineage? You’re part demon? Holy shit!"

"I hope this doesn’t change the way you feel about me." She muttered.

"I don’t care about who you’re related to. You’re you, and that’s all that matters to me. Besides, this makes me like you even more!"

"Seriously?!" She asked

"Hell yeah! You’re like an experiment treasure trove! I can finally figure out why demons have different energy pathways than humans! Oh, speaking of energy, how is yours? Do you still have demonic energy, or are you back to mana?" He asked

Alice sighed and smiled wryly. She held out her hand, and a dark, eerie energy oozed out. "It seems that after the tests they ran on me, my demonic lineage completely took over my body."

"Hmm. You look and feel human. Here, let me test this out." He cladded his finger in holy power and touched her arm.

"Ouch!" Alice jerked her hand back. "Why’d you do that?"

"Yup, you’re a demon all right. Last thing, can you activate your demonic lineage?"

She sighed once more, then concentrated. Demonic energy flowed through her body as if it were a natural occurrence, strengthening and empowering her.

Zion watched the way her energy flowed. It was hard to keep track of since he didn’t have demonic energy to resonate with her as he would if she had mana, but he was still able to get a rough idea of how it flowed and operated.

After a few seconds, Alice’s hair turned blood red, her eyes crimson, fangs grew, and her aura changed. She had become a vampire.

"Damn you’re sexy!" He blurted out

"Z-Zion!" She blushed, not expecting him to say that.

"Sorry, sorry. But yeah, it seems like you really are a demon. But since you aren’t a pureblood but a mixed blood, you have to activate your demonic power instead of it being instinctual, like mana would be to the races of the Middle World. But it seems that your purity is high since you have red hair, which is the color of vampire royalty."

"What should I do? I can’t go back to school like this!"

Zion smiled. "You’re coming with me to the Holy City of Light."