Chapter 6

It was no longer a matter of points in school..... it was a matter of Honor and Pride.

If either one of them has lost, their reputation would suffer greatly.

The family of Friburg was known of excellent mages, and if Ruprecht would lose, then his family would lose their reputation, and instead, Harlow will gain the reputation they had, with probably result in Ruprecht's disowning.

For Ruprecht it no longer even fought for Honor, it was fighting for his life, no matter if he would lose or tie he would be disowned, he had only the right to win to be alive right now.

Even his own name literary told "Bright Fame".

"Does, Harlow Shallfear, who have shown up, accept the duel against Ruprecht von Friburg?" The judge asked.

Harlow instead of saying anything, just nodded his head. It was a sign of acceptance.

"Good, now that Harlow Shallfear has accepted the duel against Ruprecht von Friburg, both contestants will have to sub-write the document of the arena" The judge responded to Harlow's nodding.

They both didn't need to think too much, and quickly ran over to the judge, where they have sub-wrote the document about being responsible for the damage made in this battle.

"Now that both contestants have signed the document, the mage will chant fireball, and when the fireball will explode, both contestants will be able to fight with each other."

As the judge has said that, a mage in front of him, has chanted a fireball spell.

After that, both Ruprecht and Harlow, have somewhat prepared themself into battle.

Ruprecht has begun to chant a spell, to be exact 3rd level spell - Fire Scythe.

The Friburg family was known for their Fire-Compatibility, they had one of the best in the kingdom, all of them had bright-red compatibility, which was the highest one possible.

Harlow in meantime has been calculating the distance between him and the enemy, it was visible on the first eye what he was doing. He looked like a photographer who was about to take a photo and is looking for an ideal angle.

***Booooom***

The Fireball has exploded.

Ruprecht didn't think twice, he was running at full speed into the enemy. He couldn't let the enemy get the spell done.

***Whoosh***

Harlow responded in the same way, but instead of a scythe, in his hand, a visible blood-red sword appeared instead, it looked as it was literary made of blood, and it was frightening for normal people, a lot of people on the tribunals have even vomited.

Harlow was faster than Ruprecht, and it was visible, he was going for around 60km/h meanwhile Ruprecht was only going 24km/h, which for the human race was still fast.

***Clinch***

It didn't take long for them to finally meet sword-to-sword. The blood-like sword has easily blocked the Scythe, even though being a 3rd class spell, it was the family's ultimate weapon.

'Wait what?! This scythe is supposed to be something unblockable! How is this?! This guy is a commoner, this is impossible!'

For Ruprecht this was something that couldn't happen, an ultimate weapon of his family was blocked, by a mere commoner. This meant that only one thing, battling him in close combat would be suicide, he didn't know swordsmanship, all that helped him was his ultimate weapon, that just destroyed weapons, and that made him immortal in close combat.

However, wasn't it too late to get into long-range combat? The enemy was too fast, and even if he would somehow fire a spell, the enemy would've dodged it. The victory would be impossible. He had to try CQB, maybe he would somehow win.

***Clinch***

Harlow has again swung his sword against the scythe. Now it was full-offensive, he knew exactly that the enemy had no chances against him, especially that his sword has already blocked the scythe, that was doomed to be so-called "unblockable".

Still, even though, Ruprecht was attacking instead of taking defense, his final movement was to attack Harlow in the chest with his scythe.

***Clang***

Ruprecht's scythe, right now, even though it shouldn't, it was sent was flying in the sky.

Ruprecht right now had no chance. If he would continue to fight, it would've only made his honor hurt more, and not only his pride, but his body would've been probably hurt too.

"I-I surrender!" He shouted with all his might, he meant it.

It was a total victory for Harlow.

***Cheers***

Many people have cheered for Harlow, but also any people would hate him for the victory. Many people were fans of Ruprecht, and now they saw him beating the shit out of Ruprecht, this means a lot of people will probably try to bully him, though it all would be useless against him.

After that match, Ruprecht wasn't seen again in the school.....

As soon as Harlow left the arena, many people were already waiting for him, most of them were fans, but there were also anti-fans and such. But most eye-catching was the newspaper committee in the school. They were already waiting to invite him to their room.

"Harlow!" One of the members shouted. He was the most eye-catching of all of the students, and also he was the one that had the voice, that could be heard, even though everyone was shouting.

Harlow immediately looked at the member, he was interested in the voice, it was louder any anyone's voice that he heard in his life.

It was a boy, around 18. He had Blond sun hair and brown like beer eyes. His name was Ties Mysner, a popular member of the committee.

Harlow and Ties while walking along the hall, to the committee room, were talking a lot, or rather Ties were talking, meanwhile, Harlow only responded with yes or no.

It didn't take long for them to reach the committee room, it was on the first floor [second floor for Americans] when the arena was at the end of the first floor. It was around 3 minutes. Meanwhile that, many people have followed Harlow, many people were just around to curse them, and many people were to talk to him, and maybe become his friend? They knew it was impossible but trying never hurt

As Harlow has entered the room, a lot of people were waiting there. Most of them were members of the committee that wanted to talk with Harlow, but there were also high-ranking in the committee such as the president and vice-president.

Though, when they saw Harlow, none of them were brave enough to talk to their 'idol'. In their eyes, Harlow was many waifu/husbando or favorite sorcerer, that's how you would describe him in his old world, however now, it would be probably, a 'prince'. Not a prince of the Princely Family, but that kind of 'prince' that is popular among people.

Harlow sat down on a chair, and in front of him, Ties have also sat down, it was time for an interview. He knew that he couldn't live normally when he would decline the option of the interview, so he just accepted the idea.

'Still, this is a bit annoying, I know how newspapers show the things they want to see you, or just edit everything out of context from my first life.'

It's true. Many media in his country, TVP, TVN but not only in his country, but there were also a lot of media against his country, but that also took everything out of context, or just took history, and showed it like it happens today.

Once Poland didn't accept refugees from Afghanistan, once America has retreated from it, America has given a warning to Poland, even though Poland didn't take many Immigrants anyway. It was one of the reasons, why later Poland has changed into a total nationalist state.

Well, that was that, however, that didn't matter in this world, what if it worked the other way? He had to at least try.

"All right, first question." The boy said. On his face, a smile have appeared when he said that. "Do you have someone you love?"

Typical question. Every newspaper asks it, even if it was asked by many people and answered.

"No... I don't think so" Harlow responded.

The interview continued. Everything was mostly clinched questions that every newspaper asks someone if they have a chance to.

Well, that was for most of the time, but there was this question.

"Harlow, are you a High Elf? The strongest high elf had only 5 elements and yet you have 6 elements, and most of all, Dark Element and Blood element are your best in terms of compatibility?"

Harlow was now somewhat nervous. Many media like to ask questions, that will somehow expose one of your secrets. What if he has fallen right into the trap?

He was nervous, but he couldn't give an impression that he was, and he responded with this.

"Yes, I am. The compatibility is just a coincidence, it's something that you don't choose."

Well, for the most part, that was true, however, he has practically chosen the elements, of Dark because of his Job.

He has read it in a book that concentrated on compatibilities.

You don't choose compatibilities, the compatibility chooses you. For example, if you had trauma with fire, it is most likely that you will have Fire Element. However, that wasn't always the truth.

The boy looked suspiciously at Harlow, as if he has to know something, and was trying to get him to say the truth, however, Harlow, having the Magical Power stat higher than 1000, didn't even flinch.

'So he is either immune to my magic, which means he has higher magic than me, or he is just saying the truth, huh.'

The boy had magic to force someone into saying true, in the case of the newspaper it would be ideal and the same for detectives. However, there was a huge flaw in that magic, if someone whom he used the magic against, had more magic than he had, then it wouldn't work.

'Well, as expected of Harlow, he is compatible with 6 elements and is a High Elf, so it has to be true that he has huge mana flow.

Even though Harlow at first didn't know what the boy was trying to do with his eyes, Albedo quickly notified him.

"Notice: Human named Ties Mysner is trying to enforce you to say the truth. He is using the magic of 'truth' on you. However, due to your high magic statistic, it was nullified.

The rest of the day was peaceful, as Harlow didn't have to attend the lessons because of the duel, he was grateful to Ruprecht.

However, it wasn't time to be happy and stay in the library and just read magic all day, the impulses of a vampire have finally begun to kick in.

His blood-like eyes with cat's pupils changed into full red eyes without pupils. His veins meanwhile, were almost exploding, if not the thick skin.

His unnaturally pale skin turned into totally white skin as if you have put white paint on his body.

"Notice: Your Vampire Impulses have awakened since you haven't tasted blood for approximately 3 weeks. If you don't taste blood for 2 days, you will lose your sanity."

'Damnit, and from who will I get blood from?'

Albedo didn't ask, he had to improvise himself into the situation.

"Well, then things won't be done without anyone's to work, right?"

After those words, Harlow has jumped from the window. He had to find himself a target, and a perfect place to it would be slums. A place where no one cares if someone dies. However, the slums were far away, because of the 'end' of the city. It was an undeveloped place in the city, that the military was scared to enter since no one knew what could be there

Harlow at full speed was running at the roofs to the slums, it was the fastest way to the slums.

It took overall, around 1 hour for Harlow to arrive at the slums, it wasn't long but not short either.

When Harlow looked at the slums, only one way could it be described.

"Africa"

It looked like your typical stereotypical African city. It couldn't be described another way, many people in the night, were outside, to keep their houses safe from others, since many thieves practiced in this area.

Harlow, for some time, couldn't find a good target, everyone was visible to others, and this would've meant it would start rumors, and who knows, maybe the city's security will rise in terms of quality. He didn't want that.

However, after some time, he saw a woman, in a valley, not only that, alone, without weapons. It was the perfect target for Harlow. To be sure, he quickly checked the area, to look if that was not a trap, however, there was no one in the area of 100 meters.

Harlow landed in front of the woman, it didn't take long for the woman to realize what situation she was in, and it didn't take long for her to please for her life.

"P-please! I will do anything! Don't kill me!" She pleased. Useless. Harlow wasn't even moved by those words, it looks like he lost his humanity in every way.

The blood of the woman, tasted good, no, sweet. It tasted as if you would eat a cake. It was just tasty.

"Hmmm, why does every woman's blood taste good? Also, Ogre's blood tastes good too."

He has said that out loud. And Albedo has responded to him as well.

"Notice: It depends on how your compatibility with a person looks like, if it's high, then it will taste good, however, if it tastes bad. There are also ogres blood, that have this taste and smell, only to attract weak Vampires."

'In other words love'

"Notice: Positive"

'So If I will have a wife, then I will be able to enjoy a good meal every day, even if she will not be able to cook? I am lucky. Still make someone fall in love with a vampire bruh.'