18 Vampires

* for the month, I chose November because the time in the book right now is close to winter, for the day I chose the day in which I wrote this chapter, and for the year I chose a random year so do not try to find some meaning behind the year in which my story is taking place. I will start putting the date and time at the beginning of each chapter and sometimes during. I lost count of how many weeks passed since Astraea's parents died so I will just write two months. However, I will properly count the time now. Enjoy!!

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Novermber 04, 1876 ( 8:00 AM )

Two months has passed since the death of Astraea's parents, and a day since her official training began. Astraea's theoretical lessons started at 9AM and ended at 1PM, during these five hours, Ophelia taught Astraea how to do the tasks she'll need to do as queen as to avoid her being looked down upon while at the palace.

At the end of her theoretical lessons ( 1PM), she will have a one hour break. At 2PM her practical lessons starts, at this time she practiced her vampire abilities. She was currently mastering her vampire abilities and had not yet begun her witch training.

Her schedule was a strict one and even her bedtime was set at 8PM to ensure she rose on time for theoretical lessons.

Alon's schedule was no less strict, like Astraea, his theoretical lessons where he learned how to speak, walk and act like a knight was at 9AM and would go on for 5 hours and stop at 1PM where he would get a 1 hour break and his assassin lessons began at 2PM.

Ophelia had informed him that a professional assassin had agreed to train him and would arrive in a week so for now unlike Astraea he had the evening free.

Astraea spent the previous day mastering her Vampire hearing, and though she could control it to a certain extent right now, her control wasn't perfect and needed some work as there were times she was unable to turn it on.

They both wake up at 8AM and use 1 hour to freshen up and have breakfast, and from 2PM to 6PM they had practical lessons and a one hour to rest after working their bodies, and then at 8PM it is time for rest and this repeats throughout the whole week with not a single day of rest.

All three were currently at the dining table having breakfast, this was done in silence as per Ophelia's teachings. It was not until everyone had finally finished eating before Ophelia broke the silence.

"There is something important we should discuss." Two pairs of curious eyes glanced in Ophelia's direction and the women's green eyes glanced at Alon, subtly indicating that the matter was about him.

Ophelia looked away and glanced at Astraea with serious eyes. "Do you remember what I told you about the abilities of an enhanced vampire?" Even though Astraea nodded her head as an affirmation Ophelia explained so that Alon would not be confused.

"Four types of vampires exist in the world. The most common is the normal vampire, these are naturally created as humans are and are everywhere but they have many weaknesses, such as being burnt by the sun rays and only being able to rely on physical strengths due to the absence of the mana core humans have"

"But they also have benefits like inhumane strength and speed and also having unlimited lifespan and regenerative abilities. These vampires are able to turn normal humans into vampires by feeding a human their blood and then killing that human while the blood is still in their veins. The vampire created by normal vampires are called lesser vampires, lesser vampires are the second most common and are naturally weaker than normal vampires. They have speed only a little faster than a normal human and only a bit stronger than a grown adult male but normal vampires normally turn humans into lesser vampires because of their loyalty to their creator, making them the perfect slave."

"The third rarest vampires are the enhanced vampires and counting you and me there is only two in the whole universe, to maintain balance in power there is only supposed to be one, but we'll get to that at a later time. Enhanced vampires are stronger and faster than normal vampires while also having the mana core giving them the ability to do magic, they are also resistant to the sun leaving them with none of the weaknesses normal vampires have. Like normal vampires, enhanced vampires also have the ability to create vampires loyal to them. These vampires are the rarest as none exists at the moment. The vampires enhanced vampires create have all the benefits of being an enhanced vampire and are only slightly weaker than their creator."

When Ophelia finished explaining Astraea stared at her with suspicion clouding her bright blue eyes. "What is your reason for disclosing this information?"

"I want you to turn Alon into a vampire."

The shock was visible on Astraea's face and she quickly shook her head. "The benefits of him being a vampire clearly outnumbers the cons. However, doesn't this mean he'll lose his emotions?"

Ophelia shook her head. "Unless he decides to give up his emotions in exchange for a mana core, he will be the same as before, the only change will be his strength."

Astraea looked at Alon who had just swallowed everything Ophelia said. Hearing Astraea's question about losing his emotions made Alon not want to turn as he wanted to be able to feel emotions when he finally saw his father, but when Ophelia answered he decided on what he wanted.

"I accept, I have no interest in magic so I will keep my emotions."

Ophelia was satisfied with Alon's answer and glanced at Astraea to see if the princess had anymore questions and she did. "Will we need another ritual?"

Ophelia shook her head. "Using a ritual would mean creating another enhanced vampire and this would cause a fracture in the order of nature. Furthermore, Alon would have no loyalty to you which is my main goal in wanting you to turn him. If he had chosen to pursue magic, all he would need to do was say an ancient spell, offering his emotions in exchange for a mana core."

Astraea nodded. "Alright, what do I need to do?"

Ophelia smiled. "You just need to feed him your blood and then kill him."

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