Bloodline

After a while the girl had calmed down a little bit, but was still hugging the little boy.

"What is your name, Big Sis?"

"It's Elena SilverMoon, but I'm more interested in your name, my prince on a white horse?"

"Well, my name is Lucien, my father forbid be from telling my family name for a while."

This shocked the girl a bit and made her wonder about his background.

"Hey Big Sis, I heard from the bandits that your family is rich, but I never heard of SilverMoon family."

"Well, I don't blame you for that, and because you saved me so bravely, I will tell you a secret."

"The SilverMoon family is part of the Underground world of the continent, we are a merchant family trading everything, with everybody and all."

Lucien was now shocked that she would reveal such a secret to him, since it was not in books, it meant they didn't share with everybody, and were probably doing their shady deals in the shadows where nobody can disturb them.

"Then what are you doing here alone, Big Sis?"

Lucien was already realizing this girl was already considering him a very important to her and didn't mind sharing knowledge, known by all the higher ups of all the Empires.

"This was my first time delivering a package from a deal, I think our route was leaked to those bandits, I'm not too worried about my guards as they will be here any moment, the bandits would just slow them down a tad."

"But it would have been too late for me if you didn't appear like that, my prince charming."

She is leaking her true intentions, and those limpid eyes, if I was not 8, I could probably take her right now.

Lucien tried hard to blush a bit from that last sentence, and it was not hard since he could control his inner body partially, enough to force blood to his face.

Just as the girl was having a sweet time in the arms of Lucien, a group of people showed up up in their vision.

While looking at them and their state Lucien managed to deduce some things.

'They probably didn't manage to kill the bandits, as the bandits were only obstructing and defending.'

'Looking at the tattered clothes, they were trying their best to break out.'

'I guess the bandits decided these 3 corpses had enough time to catch the target and retreat so they backed off as well.'

'Killing enemies at the same boundary is hard, everybody has their trump cards, and you can't know how strong that trump card is, I had the advantage of being Rank 1 to be able to beat these guys, if I was like them peak Rank 0, it would be much harder, even in 1vs1.'

'It would go down to battle experience and judgement, and of course how balanced your stats are.'

When they closed in, one of the guards was suddenly surprised, he even let a scream out.

"It's a Vampire."

"Oh my God, it's such a pure bloodline."

'WHAT, how did he detect it?'

Lucien let go of the girl, who now looked like she just lost something important.

Taking a couple of steps back and preparing for a close encounter with death, and even exposure of his ability to go to the Crimson World.

"Hahaha, don't worry child, we are not going to harm you, I was just surprised."

"I felt the Vampire blood energy in you and looking at your eyes, you must be of very pure bloodline."

'So the forced Rank 0 from All Existence is very pure, or they are just mistaken by my birth crimson eyes.'

'All Existence, what is the purity of my Vampire Path.'

-All Paths that progress with All Existence are at 100% purity/foundation/perfect breakthrough-

'So that is it.'

"Who are you, how do you feel it?"

"Haha, I see you are still on your guard, look around you, you might not be able to feel it, but look at our eyes."

Finally focusing on that detail, Lucien noticed, they have slightly crimson eyes, almost undetectable.

"You are Vampires?"

'All Existence, scan their paths.'

-For the 10 meter distance distance and complete scan, 20 existence points-

'Do it.'

-Highest one among them is Rank 2 on the Vampire Path, lowest is the lady as a Rank 0 on the Vampire Path-

"Yes, the SilverMoon family is a Vampire family, I'm only telling you this, because of the purity of your bloodline, I don't think you would go around spreading the news."

"Another thing is, Vampire families on the continent have long spread the idea about crimson eyes, it is now a bit rare, but it's accepted, so nobody is going it believe anyway, at most some troublesome suspicion."

"So tell me, junior, which family do you belong to?"

'Hmm so he is testing the waters.'

'What should I go with?'

'Heh, got it.'

"I'm out with my father, he said I can't rely on my family name for a while."

"He told me Vampire Path is a path of carnage and slaughter, as the only way to get Vampire Particles is to take the blood from a living creature, to progress forward."

"So he took me out and tossed me in different places to kill and survive, and I can't mention my family name."

"A week ago, we came to this forest."

'Hehehe, I read in books about this legend in vampire communities which fits with their perception about me, let's see how far it flies.'

"So it's like that, your bloodline is pure enough for the blood trials as a kid."

"I'm sorry if we offended your noble bloodline, young noble."

The leading guard even knelt down and bowed.

'It seem bloodline purity is pretty important in their society.'

"It's fine, don't worry about it."

"I'm interested in the trades you do with everybody, what exactly do you trade?"

"Everything you could want, as long as you have enough money, we can get you what you wish for."

"Hmm, then how about slaves?"

Slave trade was uncommon on this continent, it was frowned upon and not welcomed.

"It's possible, they are brain washed so you don't have to worry about anyone knowing they are actually slaves, they look like average servants."

'I guess, there is still slaves, but just hidden around.'

'I wonder why do they have to hide them, as long as someone with power wants a slave, who can oppose it?'

'Maybe someone with power detested the idea of slaves, so they were hidden from his sight.'

'Too much baseless speculations, when I'm strong enough, I will know.'