Chapter 338

If you don't cooperate, I'll side with the Odae Church and start hunting Lord Vampires with a declaration of revenge, which made the already chilly atmosphere even colder. Lucien looked at me with her arms crossed, incredulous. "Do you think you can survive if you talk like that? Aren't you afraid for your life? Even if you have Tiamat, do you think we won't cut off your head with our eyes closed?" "Eleris will somehow help me. She's always helped me no matter what happened." "Me, me!" The most surprised by my words was Eleris herself. She seemed to have never expected me to act like this. "...Aren't you trying to take advantage of your life too much?" "Shouldn't you try? You're free to try to kill me, but you should be prepared for what will happen after I escape." My words were harsh, but I had no intention of fighting. I summoned Tiamat. I know that touching their pride is not a good way to go. But in the end, I had no card to play other than threats. I couldn't give them anything, and there was no reason for them to cooperate. Frankly, if I could help them by lying on the ground and rolling over, I would do it. But even then, I wouldn't be able to get their cooperation. So this is the best I can do. "If you think about it, it's more profitable to side with the Odae Church because they have more power and size. But the reason I came to the council first is that, if you think about it, we're closer neighbors, so it's only polite to come here first. And if I become the mascot of the Odae Church, wearing the mask of Tu'an's champion, I will inevitably have to make a relationship with this side." Even though there is a bigger trading partner, it's like saying that we came here first with a heavy heart, and even I think it's trash. Galarsch and Luruen didn't hide their displeasure. They seemed to have developed hostility towards me, who made such impudent remarks. Lucien was the same. "We'll cooperate." But suddenly, Antirianus expressed his willingness to cooperate. Everyone was surprised. "...What? What did you say?" But the most surprised was me. Why? "Why are you surprised? I said I wanted to cooperate, and I will cooperate. Great existence." Antirianus looked at me with a vague smile. Lucien glared at the priest with a nervous look. "What kind of dirty scheme is this again?" "It's just not fun? One of the Odae Church's relics, and not even Tiamat, has fallen into the hands of the Archdemon, hasn't it?" The priest smiled at me. "I'm saying that you can feel the evil of the gods." The first demon to become the owner of Tiamat. Even the Archdemon. "Even if the Demon Lord loses everything and achieves all his dreams, how can he not follow something that is fun?" Antirianus's eyes exuded a deep evil, the kind of evil that wanted to watch the misfortunes, happiness, sadness, and joys of others to soothe his eternal boredom. Galarsh asked if Antirianus was in his right mind, and the protagonist felt that he understood why Eleris had warned him to be cautious of Antirianus. Although he was the only Lord Vampire who agreed to cooperate, it felt like he was playing a dirty game. Antirianus mentioned that one of the Odae Church's relics had fallen into the hands of the Archdemon, and the protagonist could feel the evil of the gods. The chapter ended with the revelation that the protagonist was the first demon to become the owner of Tiamat, even before the Archdemon. I do not get angry because I do not think about the first demon. "How can you do that?" Lucinil looked back at me in front of the window where a blizzard was blowing beyond the spear. "You're not going to be good at it." Lucinil quietly said, looking at me. "I don't care about Antirianus or me cooperating, but Luruen and Galarsh must have been really angry." "That's right. But can you do anything? This is ultimately the only thing I can do." "You might die before rebuilding the demon world or doing anything." It's an absurd development to end up killing the Lord Vampire's family while threatening them, but Lucinil's warning rather than getting angry made me feel confident that Eleris's words were not wrong. "I was interested in being Bali's successor, but I'll remember you as a strange guy who is very arrogant, has no hair, and has no confidence in a worthless subject." Due to the owner of many flaws, Lucinil seemed to have a very negative perception of me. "But I'm cooperating with you, a guy with a bad first impression, not because you're pretty, but because I personally owe Eleris." But apart from that, Lucinil seemed to have agreed to cooperate with me. Eleris's debt. I didn't ask what it was. He didn't seem to answer. Lucinil frowned as if he was annoyed. "Che, Eleris must have known I would do this." I don't know what debt he owes. However, it seemed that Eleris willingly sent me to the Vampire Council because of Lucinil's debt, which made him reluctantly agree to the request for cooperation. Saying that it would be harmless seemed to be in a similar context. Wednesday and Saturday's family. Both promised to cooperate with me for their own reasons. Lucinil crossed his arms and shook his head. "Anyway, we promised the cooperation of three of the five families with this. So isn't this enough? Isn't it better to just go back without bothering anymore?" It seemed that he judged that there would be nothing better than continuing to attend the council and only bothering Luruen and Galarsh. "If you're going to do it anyway, you have to persuade them all, don't you?" "I thought you would do that. You seem like a shameless guy." Lucinil clicked his tongue and sighed. "Follow me." Lucinil grabbed me again as if to say that this was not the place to talk about it. Leaving the palace building, Lucinil walked through the snow where his feet sank deeply. -Whoa. Of course, when I walked on a snowy place with only a thin sole, my feet sank and I couldn't walk properly. "Hey." -Pang! "When Lucinil reached out his hand, a shockwave exploded and the piled up snow flew in all directions. 'The castle was built in the wrong place. Why build a palace in a place where it snows all year round? I don't understand,' Lucinil complained as they walked through the snow. They arrived at a space that could be called a separate palace, and Lucinil sat on a worn-out sofa while the protagonist sat across from him. Lucinil talked about how all the vampires became vampires because they didn't want to die, and Antirianus became a vampire because he couldn't stand living as a skeleton." "That's kind of creepy in its own way. I was a homunculus. Homunculus is a term for an unstable magical organism. I was quite stable, but I couldn't know the specific lifespan limit, and it was too scary to face death someday. So, I tried every method to avoid death, and the last one I chose was to become a vampire. Similarly, because I didn't want to die." Lucinil looks at me. Then he tries to say something but closes his mouth. "Anyway, the specific reasons are different, but in the end, we became vampires because we didn't want to die." Lucinil didn't explain Galarsch, Elelris, and Antirianus's situations, but he says that vampires were the refuge for those who feared death. "So, in some ways, your threat is the most effective way for us. What we fear most is death." The only means for immortals who have almost everything they want for a long time is a threat to their lives. They fear death. "But that's only possible to some extent. We really, really lived for a long time. California wasn't just us, and California changed several times. How do you think that happened?" "I don't know." "There's no way vampires like us were hunted or killed." I read something from Lucinil's eyes. "Is it suicide?" "Yes." Ennui. "Most of the time, the replacement of the heads of the five families was such a case. Well, there are other cases, but you don't know that." Powerful vampires hiding in a place far from the world cannot be killed. They don't even reveal their existence to the world. So, there is no way for the heads to be replaced except by giving up their lives. "Well, then, ultimately, don't you fear death?" Becoming a vampire was because they didn't want to lose their lives, but in the end, if Lord Vampire became tired of life, couldn't he get anything by threatening his life? "No, the opposite." Lucinil smiles subtly. "Even though I lived so long, even though I got tired of living...." The vampire's eyes are sad. "There's still a reason to live." So, coming back, the current heads must be beings who have at least one reason to live. It's evidence that they haven't given up on life yet. Lucinil was giving me information.