Chapter 194: So many works of art brought together
Chapter 194: So many works of art brought together
Over time, these peculiar women who passed through Dante's life began to gather.
Even those who weren't directly involved were gaining prominence, like Nafiri and Misty, who recently became somewhat part of the group as "Associates." Nafiri's guild, the Black Jackals, quickly became dominant as part of the new regime that still lacked a proclaimed ruler, but the supernatural world had already accepted it.
Dante Scarlet would be the Emperor of Humans, which honestly made little sense. A vampire-demon as a human, but few could really refuse to accept it. After all, Dante was also human; he was born in the Empire. Although not explicitly stated, some had already traced Dante's origins after Valentina's departure from the world. This, on one hand, was good, but on the other...
much information about his life had leaked, from former employees of Morgana's witches to those of Scarlet herself. Something that, well... Valentina somehow lost her surname. Something that didn't matter, but... after all, the Vampire Counts had grown significantly. Before, they were completely overshadowed because of her, but in these ten years, being a vampire count was truly a high status.
Not only the problems of the guilds and the vampires were beginning to arise, but the current wars were also something to worry about. But did Dante's group care? Of course not. This wasn't the time to worry about such things. After all, Dante was back now, and these women wanted to enjoy the vacation of a Demon King.
"When is this idiot going to wake up, Lady Voralith?" Aaralyn asked. She was the calmest at the moment, as she had spent a lot of time with Dante to know that something like this was simply trivial, and soon this great idiot would return as if nothing had happened.
Voralith had already fully analyzed the situation. She expected nothing less than something of this magnitude would happen, yet she didn't believe the rebound would be so strong. This only meant that the person on the other side was extremely strong, to the point where the thread of fate and the spiritual connection wavered from the extreme force.
In basic terms, what happened was that when Dante returned, his soul was destroyed and recreated.
This affected the physical connections, such as his muscles, magical connections related to his aspects that he could control, his spiritual connections, recreated after Voralith became a physical being again, and lastly, the thread of lineage, something that few beings have, but vampires specifically are different, they have this much greater connection than normal, and Dante was a high-ranking being.
For him to receive a rebound of that energy that shook the strings meant that whoever was on the other side of the connection was a being of excellent strength.
That was the summarized explanation Voralith gave to the women. Morgana didn't want to admit it, but she had never heard of these methods and these things before. 'Tsk, I even wanted to learn, but she won't teach me even if I ask Dante.' She thought.
Voralith saw those eyes full of hunger for knowledge and couldn't help but sigh internally, but she didn't show anything to them, so as not to create more problems within the group.
"In short, we just need to wait for him to recover from this rebound. Is this going to take long?" Morgana asked, and Voralith shook her head. "In a few hours, he should be back. He'll probably be confused, as the mental connection must have fried his brain for a while, but he's fine," she added. And when she finished speaking, the girls were more relieved, especially Aldria.
Aldria had been quiet the whole time, thinking she was the cause of Dante's problem due to the stress she must have imposed on him. Even realizing it wasn't her fault and she was just in the wrong place at the wrong time, some negative thoughts still ran through her head, especially the last part of what Dante said, about her using work as an excuse to avoid grieving.
That hit her deeply, and now she couldn't help but think he was somehow right. But she wouldn't admit it, especially to a man she had been trying not to think about at all. Her husband was gone, and only sadness was something she wanted to feel. At the same time... just the feeling of the fight with Dante and how he treated her with concern, unlike Adam...
she had already felt a warmth that calmed her deeply. In her previous relationship, only she really cared about things. Adam was... more of a shell of the man she had fallen in love with, and that, in a way, was terrible.
"Do we have anything to do until this little bastard wakes up?" Nafiri's voice echoed. "Go make money, you scammer. Stop bothering us," Vex remarked. "Scamming Dog!" Eldrax pointed directly at Nafiri.
"Pffff." They all started to laugh lightly, even Voralith gave a smile. "Look at the wicked Dragon laughing!" Eldrax pointed, and quickly Voralith's smile broke entirely. "Don't call her that, little Eldrax," Sara commented, petting Eldrax's head. "Your father would be upset if you spoke to her like that. Treat her as family," Sara added calmly. After all, she was the virtue of humility.
Eldrax nodded to what Sara said to her and went towards Voralith, who was still standing near Dante's body. She bowed and said, "I'm sorry." She apologized, her face blushed and looked cute. Voralith nodded and stroked her head calmly. She knew she was still a child, so she didn't mind her lack of manners. However... "If you want to get Dante's attention, be more courteous and gentle.
Men love cuteness and fierceness, in the right way," she commented, and Eldrax's eyes quickly filled, as if saying "Noted!"
"It seems like they've arrived," Morgana said, sensing a fluctuation in spacetime. A small portal appeared in front of them, and from it, three women emerged.
First, Kaalindra, who used her fire magic to keep the cube floating properly without any problems.
Next, our foul-mouthed maid who complains about everything she does, as if she didn't want to work... Well, she wore the same old Maid outfit... Women always think Skyla has a closet full of Maid outfits. But well, it's her work uniform.
And finally, a woman Sara knew very well, after all, they became good friends during the time Dante was away, Elizabeth Tepes, the beautiful and illustrious princess of the Vampires. A woman who is very scary to all Vampires and is hardly considered close to the kingdom.
On the contrary, they feared that if Vlad died and Elizabeth took over the Kingdom, it would all become an absolute tyranny, at least that's how they saw it... In reality...
"Sara!" She shouted quickly and ran as if she were reuniting with a sister she hadn't seen in thousands of years. "You haven't changed at all, have you?" She said as she held the black lightning rushing towards her and hugged her tightly. Morgana saw that and couldn't help but comment, "Since when are they best friends? I remember they used to hate each other," commenting, and Nagasawa appeared.
She had gone to do some things and returned just to see how things were with Dante.
"Elizabeth went to look for Sara for training, one thing led to another, and they got close. It was hard to keep up with their training pace, so they joined forces," Nagasawa commented and waved her hand. "Hi, Kaalindra, good to see you." She smiled, and Kaalindra did the same, but she couldn't move much while channeling her fire into the cube to maintain stability due to the dimension shift.
Aaralyn looked into the distance, she was missing her mother terribly, she wanted to hug her mother, but she felt that if she did that now, she would kill everyone there. Kaalindra saw the expression of her adoptive daughter and couldn't help but laugh lightly as she prepared to properly place the cube.
As they settled in and the cube where Valentina was was properly adjusted for this dimension with Morgana's help, a sound came from the ground where Dante's body was lying.
"Urrgh," a rough and sleepy grunt echoed through the area, catching everyone's attention, who quickly turned. Dante blinked his eyes lightly, then his arms stretched lazily. "Aaah, what a heavy sleep," he said, fighting against sleep and opening his eyes completely to see his surroundings.
"Since when do so many works of art gather like this?" He questioned, of course, he was referring to this multitude of beauties he had gathered over the years, including he spotted a new person. Of course, he didn't know her, but he knew who she was, since that cube was in his domain...
"It seems like my mother wants to come out... should I release the full evil?" He questioned with a smile, feeling the cube resonate with him. Despite his head still hurting, his world was about to be complete again. It was time to bring Valentina Scarlet back to the World!