Wolf of the Blood Moon - Book 4 - Chapter 10 - A Loophole (Patreon)

                          The Cliff Overlooking the Battlefield of Blood and Ruin

Arkaz frowns as he watches Scarlet through a blood mirror, unsure of if he should praise her for winning or scold her for almost killing herself to do it. He almost stepped in himself if it wasn’t for his noticing her slowing down the amount of blood she burned at the end to keep herself alive.

She knows what she’s doing.

He continues watching her for several seconds in the cave.

But if she ends up killing herself by accident I’ll be grounding her from hunting for a month after bringing her back to life.

Arkaz really hates using Blood Resurrection, because the skill costs him all of his mana and stops him from regenerating mana for an entire week. But there’s no way he would let his granddaughter die, much less to a freak accident where she ended up overusing a skill, killing herself.

The Demon King shakes his head before using Blood Transcendence and switching places with a droplet of his blood he has inside of the witches’ abode in the Mesa of Illusions. And the moment he appears fully in front of the head witch, he notices her eyes widening in shock. But she doesn’t let out another sound, unlike the other witches in the area who all let out fearful yelps before bending the knee to him.

He scoffs on the inside as he glares at the head witch, still wondering if only slaughtering ten of them was holding back too much after he found out about the prophecies, much less the witches’ act of locking his only son in an illusion for five years with a Knight and causing them to get together. But he calms himself down again at the thought of how if that hadn’t happened, his beloved granddaughter never would’ve been born.

So his glare lessens a little as he asks, “Have you an answer yet?”

The head witch immediately answers without any hesitation, still clearly afraid he will finish off the rest of the clan should she displease him, “Yes, Your Majesty. Our divination has informed us that Her Highness will be going back to Earth soon.”

Arkaz’s eyes widen in shock at that, the man never having expected her to have any chance of making it back on her own until she reached Class V, giving him at least another few years to be with her before she goes back. Not to mention a few years for the war to progress until she enters the fray.

But how…

The man blinks as an answer comes to him, then he immediately vanishes from his spot, leaving a drop of blood there so he can reform his body at the witches’ abode whenever he pleases as he appears in the middle of the Caverns of Death, inside The Reaper’s throne own bedroom where he finds him sitting on a chair reading a book. And all the man does when he notices the Demon King is nod his way and continue reading without getting up from his seat.

“Answer me this, Lucius,” Arkaz states with a frown on his face, “are you planning on helping my granddaughter?”

Lucius just remains silent, but after several seconds, he nods his head. And that’s all Arkaz needs.

Looks like Scarlet will be going to Earth sooner than I expected…

The Demon King can’t help but feel saddened by that news, but despite that he just sighs and tells The Reaper, “Do what you please,” before vanishing again to reform his body where he left a drop of his blood in the Battlefield, soon finding Scarlet to have recovered enough to sit up against the wall while he was busy. But not enough to start moving around.

Arkaz watches her for several minutes, not doing anything other than that, until he eventually lets out a sigh.

If she can escape from her bodyguards, she can handle herself on her own. It was the same thing I did with Leonidas, and I’m not going to break what’s become tradition now. Even if she’s getting help to escape.

Out of the corner of his eye, Arkaz notices a kitsune Noble beginning to approach the cave system Scarlet is in. So his eyes narrow and he instantly appears in front of them, moving far faster than even the speed of light in the process and scaring them into jumping straight into the air and landing on all fours with their six tails sticking straight into the air. But he ignores that to reach down and grab them by the neck, raising them into the air as he asks, “What do you think you’re doing?”

Arkaz can tell that the kitsune is lost to their greed. That they’re hunting his granddaughter to keep for themselves.

But Arkaz dislikes killing his own Nobles for losing themselves to their Curse, so he gives them a chance.

The kitsune scratches at his hand without managing to even ruffle his clothes despite the Noble’s level of 1607, clearly not capable of clear thought right now. So Arkaz slowly begins to constrict his hand while being careful not to pop the kitsune’s head clean off in the process. And slowly, ever so slowly, clarity begins to return to the kitsune’s eyes as it’s being suffocated.

After he deems the kitsune coherent enough to speak, he releases the pressure on its throat, dropping it to the ground as he asks again, “What do you think you are doing?”

The woman – a prodigy from a younger generation of the kitsune if Arkaz remembers correctly – coughs out loud a bit before she kneels down and exclaims, “Please forgive me, Your Majesty! I have committed a terrible Sin!!!”

Arkaz watches for a few moments as the woman repeatedly bows her head over and over again towards him until he eventually snaps his fingers, making her vanish in a swirl of blood before she ends up deposited several dozen meters above the kitsune’s castle. Then he reappears on the cliff he was originally on and continues watching over Scarlet, ignoring his duties as the Demon King and leaving them to his son to handle for the moment.

Serves him right for sending Scarlet to Earth.

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