…
Jeanne's lip twitched for a second. Yes, their lives were quickly approaching the video game realms… if they get these kinds of things…
"Very well. I accept. Squad kills don't count though." The redhead pointed that out.
"Wasn't planning to. May the best maid win!"
Hippolyta snorted amusingly upon hearing that. This was her first proper day as maid… she just remembered that! And what does she do on her first day as Marcus Goldman's maid? She goes to Romania to slay vampires… totally... What a maid should do!
"Right… may the best maid win!"
~~~~~~Castle Tepes~~~~~~
For the vampires, it was a regular daytime. Meaning the majority of the castle was asleep. Only the bare bones of the staff were up and doing their things.
Even though they were preparing for war with the discovery of the Longinus gear. They still needed their rest.
Though… no one was prepared for a massive...floating ship to just appear above their castle!
"W-W-What the fuck is that!?"
A cloaked vampire looked up with a shell shocked look. The guy was minding his own business and doing the disgusting and quite dangerous task of running his rounds around the small town outside their castle. After all, someone needs to make sure their cattle are doing their things…
And as a pureblood vampire, walking in the middle of the day, even though they have barriers to make the surroundings clouded all the time, it is still quite dangerous for a pureblood vampire.
Still though… The moment he saw a massive ship that looked like it was pulled straight out of a sci-fi flick he knew he had to, well…
Report this to his real superiors… While working for the Tepes factions made his ego as a male inflated, his life is much more valuable than some obscure thing called loyalty. Especially since he is just a grunt! pureblood or not!
So, while most of the sentries rushed towards the castle to report a massive airship just dropping in, he instead rushed towards the edges of the town where the dense forest is.
As he was rushing out of the town and into the depths of the forest, he heard a buzzing sound…
'Bees? No… it's far…' he stopped for a bit and looked back… he didn't say anything. He didn't look around for long as he continued to rush away. To make sure no one could track his movement and so that he could teleport away from this…
Surely enough he found a good spot and called forth his magic circle… ready to disappear… only for the magic to get out of control and cancel the teleportation…
"What… the…"
Buzzing sound
His gaze went towards the source. He saw a triangle-shaped metal thing with a pair of rotors inside the triangle construct sides. Making the sharp end face him. These things had red lights coming out of the rotors and a pair of railgun-like things pointing at him at this very moment.
The vampire grunt knew one thing at this moment! and that is to run!
The creature of the night trusted his instincts more than anything so he lunged forward right behind a tree. As the spot where he was hiding received a whole bunch of balls of black and red energy! This attack disintegrated the whole area and created a small crater.
'What the hell was that! It shoots magic!? What is this? A super advanced faction just popping from the background?' He thought with cold sweat. Without wasting much time he started rushing forward, distracting whatever machine that was with his weapon and dashing for his life! fuck this! He doesn't get paid enough as it is!
Weirdly enough the flying metal constructs didn't chase after him…
~~~~~~Few Moments Back, Aboard Confiscator~~~~~~
"Satisfied?" Marcus asked the lion girl on his lap. He smiled seeing how cat-like she was.
"Very. I am surprised that it is easy to persuade you." She said that with a wondering look.
Snort
"It depends on what you ask. Do you think I care about the mundane to that point? If it was, for example, you asking me to not take the grail then I would have to lock you up in a room." He said seriously, and she instantly stiffened but, in the end, nodded at him.
"I understand…"
"Good girl." He stroked her hair.
Atalanta internally thought about this. She started to understand what she can ask and what she can't. Thankfully she was told by him in person…
This means she was saved from messing up by him. Does this mean he doesn't want her to mess up? Giving her more opportunities?
Well, she was going to use that.
While the teen inventor and the lion girl were doing their thing in the main commander seat. Behind them was a certain Moon Goddess and a blonde witch.
While the blonde maid didn't care much about the lion girl's actions, the same could not be said for the silver-haired Goddess of the Hunt.
She had a stormy look, and was trying very hard to think of ways to turn this situation into her favour!
The Olympian Goddess did not expect her second in command to just move in like that! This was not something she had foreseen!
Does this truly mean everyone here is for themselves? Even her most trusted huntress!? An even bigger frown appeared on her face. Well, if this is the case then she will use all of her available resources to become his wife! Even if it means using her old hunt like this!
~~~~~~Back to Castle Tepes~~~~~~
"My King, what should we do?" One of the vampires asked his king as they looked through the darkened windows. They saw what is considered a sci-fi thing going on… Gunships similar to that from Star Wars were landing on the ground and dropping off armoured men. And this is happening all around their castle…
Who are these people? Where do they come from? King Tepes knows that the human technological level has not reached this kind of level…
So, does this mean it's some sort of supernatural faction?
But who? There is no news of anything like this, he has spies in the biggest factions all over the world. He would have known that there exists an extremely advanced faction of some sort…
A moment later light gathered just outside the castle…
A massive hologram manifested. The King of Vampires face widened seeing a massive human sitting on a throne on his lap was a catgirl of some sort lazily snuggling into him.
"[Hello Tepes faction. My name is Marcus Goldman. I am an inventor, researcher, scientist, engineer, and many more things few of them being a lion lover]" The inventor stroked the catgirl's hair for a bit. "[And a collector of interesting items. I have heard you have an interesting item which I would like you to relinquish to me. If you do that I will let you continue with your owl-like life.
I am sure I don't need to tell you what kind of thing it is? It's a golden cup you should be quite familiar with.]"
Hearing the way this human talked rubbed the Vampire King in the wrong way. There was no respect, no seriousness, nothing!
"Like hell you livestock!" His magic aura blasted the wall with a window out. Now that there was a clear sight the vampire's eyes met with the holographic ones. They stared at each other for a moment.
"I will find you and will kill you!" The Ruler of Tepes faction said with a furious tone.
"[Sure. Whatever floats your boat. Seeing that you don't want to hand over the girl we will take her either way. Anyway, good luck. And try punching them hard, I need that data.]"
After saying that Marcus hologram disappeared and the Tepes King released a pissed off roar. This punk! He is going to murder him!
Once he calmed down a little bit he was about to turn around. But that moment he heard a roar of a jet engine and something akin to a screech.
His gaze quickly returned to the source as he saw jet fighters! Not any jet fighter but futuristic looking ones as they released a metallic-like transforming sound and changed midair into a humanoid form.
"My...King…those… those...are transformers…"
"Of course they are! Everyone has those now!!!" The Ruler said with a sarcastic tone. This is just fucking great!
"They do!?"
"Of course not! you simpleton!" King Tepes punched the idiot without care. He was far too pissed off and distressed to care.
The amount of jet engines and sounds of transformations didn't cease… it was like there was no end to these jet fighters…
Just a few minutes later. One of the jet fighter transformers pulled out its rifle and pointed at the main gates releasing a quite big beam of black and red energy, erasing the stone building and opening a path into the castle. Moments later the armoured soldiers started rushing forward.
Then… the chaos started…
The vampires started to see things that didn't make sense to them.
One of them saw rain inside the castle, another saw fire instead of water raining down…
Others saw even worse things like… the moon crashing into the earth or angels descending from heaven like it was the end of the world…
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