บท 89: Confrontation (2)

"Where were we?" the vampire lord asked the imposter. The fake blood lord was suppressed in his seat and after numerous unsuccessful attempts at escape, he resigned to his fate.

"What do you want?" he asked in a depressed tone. Right now he wasn't giving Kai a reason to see why he was the leader of this coven of supernatural beings. He reminded him of a snivelling piece of crap and it caused Kai much disgust. The mere thought of the poor excuse of a vampire lord in front of him caused him to want to throw up if it was biologically possible.

"I want you to experience pure terror," The vampire progenitor told the imposter. He then proceeded to cast an illusion on to his body and then watched the result.

The spell revealed the target's deepest fear and then magnified it beyond the target's brain capacity. Once this was over the fake was reduced into a snivelling wreck, now mentally unhinged and clearly unstable.

The spell must have caused him to see something that caused him too much mental shock that something in his mind shattered. 'Probably his coping mechanism,' the shadow user thought to himself.

'Now before his more extreme torture, I require the information that I came for.' He proceeded to use a type of Legilimency on the mental wreck in front of him.

Legilimency was the wizard equivalent to mind reading, to master it one had to be mentally powerful enough to separate his mind from his body as well as use magic to eject his mind from his body.

Kai used his blood energy to substitute the magic and thus was able to use a more powerful equivalent of the spell. Kai wasn't saying magical energy was weak. It was simply that wizards could only hold a certain amount of magic in their cores before it shattered from the lower storage capacity.

Using the blood energy he sent a powerful wave of force into the fake's mind and easily smashed through his mental defences with his own extraordinarily powerful mind.

He arrived inside a fog-filled space. Around him was a mass of moving images, this was the makeup of the imposter's inner workings of the mind. It was the control centre and was the thing that he had built up to protect with his occlumency shields.

These images were his memories and Kai used his superior mental capabilities to find out what he needed. After sifting through many of the vampire's memories he had discovered many things about him.

His name was Basil Wilhelm, the man was turned into a first generation vampire in the early 12th century. He had been the scion of a wealthy merchant family but had been attacked by assassins sent by an opposing rival family. It turned out that Dracul had been the one that had turned him, Basil had been offered to live as a vampire or die and he had decided to live.

Kai accepted this decision but it still wasn't getting him closer to the information that he required. As he continued to sift through Basil's memories, he knew that eventually, he would discover what he needed.

In the meantime, he would discover the man's character. As he turned into a vampire the man had trouble adapting to his sudden change and lust for blood. Basil had used his new powers to save his family from their rivals and lived happily with them. His family remained unaware of his transformation until their deaths.

Once his family passed on to the next world, he remained and was lonely. That was when Dracul reappeared in his life and brought him to a new school that he had built together with his own wife. There he was taught how to properly control his strength as well as meet overs just like him.

In the newly named White Rose Academy he met countless other vampires who were also saved from their own terrible fates. He made new friends and received a new family that caused him to decided to stay there and teach the new generations.

While he stayed there, he noticed that the younger the generation the weaker they were compared to the original first generation. Eventually, as time passed by, humans discovered the first traces of the vampires and hunted them down.

The older generations couldn't be harmed by mere humans, but the newer ones had many weaknesses and that could be taken advantage of. This cause Basil to leave the academy and save the innocents from the "witch hunts."

With these witch hunts that caused the vampires to come closer to extinction, Basil had created an organization that saved vampires and attacked the humans that hunted them down.

While saving some vampires from the hunt, he had discovered that the humans had imprisoned and were dead set on burning her to the stake. They called her an emissary of Satan, the minion of the devil, a demon, a witch.

Basil had saved her and discovered that she could use a unique type of energy that allowed her to do wondrous things. Together with this witch, he had created a sanctuary for magical beings. They would save countless other wizards and witches and along with that their feelings grew for one another.

They continued doing so and saved many others from the muggles as she had termed them. Eventually, she had died of old age, a cruel joke in his opinion as he had discovered that his wife had died in the exact same way as Dracul's. Both had built an immunity to the vampire venom and thus couldn't be turned.

He had continued their dream and rescued thousands of others until the Statute of Secrecy was brought into fruition and magic was hidden from the muggles. Since then he had cared for the vampires and magicals that were under his protection.

At least that was until the dreaded occasion. At this point, Basil's memories were shining in an ominous red hue that Kai had only seen once. It was the sign of deep trauma turned goal.

So far Kai had started to admire the man's life, from Basil's memories he understood that he would do everything to protect vampirekind. It was admirable, Kai could understand his goals but he had threatened Harry's life too many times to stay alive.

As Kai delved into the first generation vampire's memories he saw that day. Basil had felt an overwhelming attraction that drew him and the rest of the vampires inside his sanctuary to a special location that he had recognized later- the academy. But the closer they got the less control he had over his actions until he had arrived at the location of the summoner.

He had discovered the monstrosity that was Dahak but by that time he was no longer in control of his actions. When he fought in the blood war conscious was foggy and he barely knew what he was doing. He had been one of the most powerful dragon riders during the short but cruel war.

When it ended he had remembered all of the atrocities that he had committed and was overwhelmed with guilt. But when he looked around at the many corpses littered on the ground his guilt vanished. In its place was pure rage and a need for revenge. Almost all of the vampires in the world had been killed, wiped from existence.

He himself was the last remaining first generation vampire left. He had gathered the survivors a mere fraction of the previous populace and disappeared.

He had known of one of the figures that killed many of the vampires and thousands of dragons. He was the Blood Lord, a vampire lord that had proven the superiority of the vampires.

At that moment he was sure that the fallen vampires would be given a proper burial place as well as a proper society with the blood lord as the representative of their race.

So he waited for a few days but when he felt an energy pulse occur, he was frantic to discover the changes that had happened. He discovered that the vampires in his care had forgotten what had happened and believed that they were trying to rule over all of the wizarding world so they could live properly without the discrimination that came with being a vampire.

The blood lord's feats had been wiped from the minds of the populace and he was replaced as the blood lord in the vampires minds. He knew that they would need a leader and he took up the identity with a heavy heart as he knew that the true blood lord was still around.

But a transcendent wizard had somehow found them and had managed to convince him that the blood lord had died fighting Dahak. Basil after being shown proof decided that he would take on the title and honour what he believed the true blood lord would have wanted- the safety of the vampire race.

The wizard said that if the wizarding populace didn't listen to reason then they should bend to power, afterwards he suggested that Basil target Harry Potter the boy who lived. A child that was so incredibly powerful that he had managed to kill the most powerful dark lord in the annals of history and that if he managed to kill him.

At this moment Kai noticed that Basil's mind had been slightly confounded, it made him more susceptible to the suggestions of the caster. This meant that the true fault wasn't necessarily his but that wouldn't tame Kai's anger.

Then he would be given the respect and the resources that the vampires required to save their race and the vampires would enter a new age, a golden age. After that, the wizard had set up the arrays and wards around the island and brought them here. The rest was history, he had sent various agents to assassinate the young boy. It hurt his moral compass but he had to do everything for his race, so they could survive.

Kai finished scanning Basil's thoughts with rage and anger coursing through him. The reason: the wizard's name was Albus Dumbledore…