Reincarnated With The Van Helsing System
chapter-380

Since even Vincent's mansion was infiltrated, the Duchess who was told beforehand by Annete, that they will be using her mansion, made sure that there was no one in it, so they were received only by the arrays of the mansion.

The Duchess showed her identity token and then the barrier let them in, of course Vincent, Aurora, Thea and Annete, all used their senses to inspect the place, just in case, once they were sure everything was fine, Vincent gave the greenlight and everyone entered the mansion.

The insides of the mansion were quite luxurious but not opulent, in fact there were some paints of Daphne in secession, showing how she grew up, since she was a little girl to her current appearance as a proper young lady.

Very much to the embarrassment of the first princess, her mother proudly showed them to the visitors, while the security head Mina went to the kitchen to prepare food for everyone, by Annete's request.

In the meantime, Daimon and the others took a seat at the living room, which was spacious enough to held large conferences.

"Old Vincent, if you would", said Daimon, making the Trident Marshal softly snort.

"You kids are treating this old man as some kind of all-purpose tool", said Vincent, but he still snapped his fingers and a barrier made of his mana surrounded the whole area.

Cassy and Underwood already knew about what was happening, since Aurora informed them, after they signed an oath of course, the same happened with Chris, the maid and friend of Daphne, as well as her mother, who was the Duchess's advisor and closest friend.

But, the newly incorporated Tessa and Femi, needed to be informed of the situation, also the others wanted to know about them, since Daimon chose them to fight alongside him.

The alfear and dwarf princesses noticed the attention of all those strong people fell on them, and they turned to see Daimon with slightly bitter expressions.

"Ahem, let's start with a small presentation", said Daimon as he took off his mask, to show his real face which Cassy and Chris have yet to seen, no one in the alliance could reveal he was Gabriel, since Daimon asked Vincent to add that condition anyway.

Aisha and the Risha sisters also dispelled their disguises, to show their real appearances.

"So you four were also here, the classmates of the demon of the elite class… sorry of Daimon", said Femi, she was left a strong impression of the other members of the elite class, besides Daimon, the sisters and Aisha were travelling with him, when they met, but unlike Daimon who Tessa somehow recognized, they thought Aisha and the sisters were people from Neptune who was working with Daimon, since they were disguised as members of the mermen sea, slightly modified to look like mixed races.

Leaving aside the strange nickname they heard Femi calling Daimon as, the presentations started.

"I'm Tessa Evergreen, the first princess of the alfear race of the Blue-Sky galaxy, it's a pleasure", said Tessa with her naturally calm and refined voice.

"Femi Hepha, just like Tess I'm the sole daughter of the dwarf's race chief, so you can consider me a princess I guess", added Femi.

Annete stole a gaze at Daimon, if her instincts weren't failing her, these two princesses seemed to be in a lower position compared to Daimon, who also claimed to be a prince of some sort.

One by one all the people in the room presented to Tessa and Femi, who were dumbfounded after hearing, that just in this room there were three Emperor level experts, unlike Daimon, they couldn't discern Vincent, Thea or Aurora's realms, and they had no time to buy information, since they were followed by Adam first and then spied by the people of the noble families.

Though they knew they had high statuses, but still, when they realized they were in presence of practically two of the people that stood at the pinnacle of Neptune, and that both were backing Daimon, they were naturally surprised.

Daimon looked at Tessa and Femi and then dropped a bomb, casually by saying.

"I told you I had a surprise for you, I'll be frank, this planet is going to suffer some kind of calamity if we don't stop the guys behind the attack at the beast hunt, as well as some kind of creatures which attacked my group".

Of course that took Tessa and Femi by surprise, but they showed their noble education by recovering from the shock quite fast.

"If you are working to solve it, that means this calamity is bound to happen before we can leave this place, right?", asked Tessa.

Daimon nodded in response.

'As I thought, this alfear princess is quite sharp, I wonder if that's a race trait', he thought before saying.

"Yes, a week starting today something called "global raid" will start, to participate we need emblems similar to the ones the captain of the teams sent by the academies have, to be honest I don't know what the calamity will be, but considering even the maximum level Stellar ranks like that old skeleton from the Skelefiend race, are moving, then it's not something from which we can easily survive, by hiding".

The princesses nodded, to be honest they wouldn't have participated if they could leave before the calamity happened, even Daimon was the same, he wasn't helping out of kindness, he had his mission to complete and even then if he deemed it too dangerous for him and the girls, then he wouldn't hesitate to fail the mission and leave with them, the only difference is that now, he would lend a hand to Mellie and the others he has become friends with, by taking them with him to the Wonder Myriad Stellar Chart, but that was the last resort.

Daimon then turned to see Vincent, so far he hasn't talked about the power level of the beast faction and things like that, but since they were in a contract and he trusted them now, there was no need to hide it, especially if his supposition was right.

"I'll tell you this now, but back at the place we come from… there is no Stellar ranked experts or magic beasts".

Naturally such a revelation took Vincent and the others by surprise, in their eyes a place without Stellar ranks couldn't nurture a monster like Daimon, let alone him, Aisha, the sisters and the two princesses they met, were pretty much at the same level of the elites of Neptune, while Daimon could easily clash with the best of the best of their young generation.

At least such was the impression they all have, the Black Empress, specially refused to believe that the aura she felt from that strange contract Daimon used, came from a "weakling", since her affinity is also darkness.

Noticing the confusion on everyone's faces, Daimon elaborated.

"I don't know if we outstand, or if you lack something, but if my calculations are correct, the people of our places can match up to a whole realm above their own, if facing the people of Neptune".

"Of course, that's not always the case, but to put an example the grandfather of one of my classmates, who happens to be one of the strongest people back at our origin… has a stronger aura than old Vincent".

The queen frowned, so far the only person they know off, who can probably make Vincent retreat, is the White ancestor, so it is indeed hard to accept it, but Daimon had no reason to lie, not to mention he couldn't harbor ill intentions to them, due to the contract, and honestly the queen wouldn't believe he will harm them, since he could wear the necklace her mother left to her.

Daimon then smiled to ease the slight tension that lingered in the room.

"I'm not saying this to compare us, or because I don't trust you, but because there is a possibility that we end up having to leave Neptune, and the theory I can think of, is that our place of origin has stricter "regulations", so when you enter, your realms will be adjusted to that, I'm just letting you know beforehand to avoid any problem".

Dimas was a special case, since he was sealed in that strange place, but Evangeline has told Daimon that to surpass the Half Emperor realm, they will have to leave the Wonder Myriad Stellar Chart.

Originally he thought they could come here to breakthrough, but Neptune and the place where Scarlet and the others as well as the tribes lived, seemed to be weaker, as they lacked in the three important aspects, mana sense, resonation with the world and laws, in other words, that's why their lord ranks didn't have a manifestation phenomenon, they suffered to use a domain and that is if they even had one, and also couldn't use space shift, automatically like every Half Emperor and even the three Magus Kings that had power equal to them, back at the White Fang galaxy.

"So it's a matter of environment… that would mean the only thing we excel at is mana capacity, due to our higher realms, it would explain why in the notes of the hero, it said that when he entered the Stellar rank, the skies blackened and he was sent a heavenly signal, after that no one was his opponent until the moment the other people that came with him went through a similar process", mumbled Vincent.

Daimon nodded, he came to this conclusion in part thanks to what Vincent mentioned, which was written in the book he gave him, it reminded him of the scene of the djinn being destroyed by the "Regulation lightning", probably that was the signal of a proper Emperor realm expert, or as Dimas called it "Planet Subjugation" realm.

Apparently, it wasn't Neptune the only place which had some hidden story, the Wonder Myriad Stellar chart had no records of the ancient age as well, who knows if it was related to the time of the hero, or not, but Daimon had a hunch that the global raid, might affect more than Neptune in the future, so he wanted everyone to be on the same page.

"I have reinforces preparing out of Neptune right now, if the situation comes to worse and they find a way in, then we won't be alone, I would say that two of them should be at the same level as miss Thea", said Daimon, referring to Aura and Erin.

The fact that the Empress was impressed by Erin's aura, meant they should be near in strength terms, that also supported his theory, though ultimately, everything was a supposition until they met face to face.

But so far, as Vincent said, besides a larger amount of mana, he hasn't seen the Stellar ranks of this place, doing anything that could make him feel the threat of death as for Vincent and Aurora, he doesn't know since he hasn't seen Calvin's grandfather fighting yet.

"Leaving that aside, you two came with Adam from the Elemental Sea, have you seen or heard anything of my companions, or the two women from the light and calamity churches, as well as the other people from the academies?", asked Daimon to Tessa and Femi.

Even after Aurora started using her intel net, combined with the queen's one to look for Calvin and the others, as well as the device he created, there hasn't been any news about them, there was also Arianna and Dana, who were supposedly trapped in a castle somewhere under the sea, but he already had a plan for that, now that Thea was his ally, she could be his guide through the Maelstrom Sea, with the help of the Flying Citadel of Aurora, he could finish looking just in time for the global raid, he had to wait for the tournament to end, because Aurora had to take the sects back to the Elemental Sea on it, he also wanted to go as he had to collect his reward from there, once he wins the tournament becoming the champion of the two events.

As Daimon expected, the alfear and dwarf princesses shook their heads.

"No, besides Adam, we haven't heard about anyone else, but Adam did mention that Marcus probably was with the Skelefiends", said Femi.

Daimon smirked as he heard that.

'As expected, that light idiot has a hard time not bragging in front of girls', he thought.

Vincent and Aurora frowned, Aurora has already had an unpleasant experience with Adam, so she naturally imagined someone like that with the Skelefiends, and her mind linked it to whoever was behind of them, Vincent reached the same conclusion.

Daimon who noticed their thoughtful expressions, discarded that theory.

"Marcus is on par with Adam when it comes to causing trouble, I'm 100% sure he isn't the one behind the pirates and Skelefiends joining hands, he might be behind the new religion which is propagating and the people destroying Snakele's temples, though".

"Even if they join hands, the most they can do is tie with me, they can confirm it, as I have already had a small fight with them not too long ago", said Daimon as he pointed at Aisha, the sisters as well as Tessa and Femi.

The queen's eyes sparkled, as she saw Aisha and the others easily nodding, she could tell they were completely honest, Tessa and Femi were a bit doubtful, but that is probably because they haven't met Daimon for too long, that's the conclusion she reached.

Aurora on the other hand was ecstatic, knowing that the brat that tricked her granddaughter, was trash compared with Daimon, Jasmin also seemed strangely happy to hear that.

And with that, everyone was now on the same page, so they advanced to the next point in the list.

"I have a list of the nobles that are frequenting Blaktr and according to Pablo, his mother and the other executives of the Black Wave's branch in the kingdom, will return the same day when the tournament ends, at night to be precise", said Annete as she took a sip of the tea cup which Mina brought her a moment ago.

Daimon smiled, Black Wave was going to be part of his forces, whether they liked it or not, there were also the nobles who frequented that place, which will be leashed by the queen and will happily "cooperate".

"That's good, we need to have an army both on the surface and in the shadows, to cover both aspects in the upcoming days".

Vincent then found his time to shine.

"Leave the "light" side to me, this old man still has some friends and trustable subordinates, of course I'll make them sign a contract… and will take of them shall they turn to be traitors", said the Trident Marshal with a cold light on his eyes, he has yet to collect the debt, of his last recruits being massacred.

"Patriarch Underwood and the Bamboo Forest sect are also confirmed allies, I'll see how things go with the others, there are also the sects under the management of my husband back at the Elemental Sea, once we return you can meet them", added Aurora.

Daimon nodded, little by little, the army was forming, they still had a lot of things to do, before the last stage started.

"Very well, doing it now would be dangerous, but we'll also pay a visit to the Delphini state to have a "conversation" with the Duke", he said.

After that the whole group went to the dining room to have a good meal, the queen and Mellie were especially happy for some reason, Annete even had a few glasses of liqueur with the Empress, who found a potion that helped her sober up, but she still got drunk just by opening the bottle, making Lina drag her to her room to make her recover.

"Ah right, we are all staying in a single room with Daimon, miss Thea is watching us over, I suggest you four to join~", said Aisha with a playful voice.

Tessa, Femi, Chris and Cassy stared at each other and saw the surprise in the eyes of the other.

Chris and Cassy were especially surprised to see Jasmin and Daphne casually entering Daimon's room, as if it was the most natural thing to do.

Tessa and Femi on the other hand gave Daimon accusatory gazes.

"Now that I think about it, isn't the demon of the elite class said to be always accompanied by women, in fact most of the members of the elite class are girls, could it be…", mumbled Femi, making Daimon reply.

"Hey, don't spread weird rumors about me, the queen and the other adults often leave to do their own tasks, and it's better for miss Thea to watch us all together".

Marlene and Thea joined them too, making those four sigh and enter the room, the sun was settling at this point, Aurora told Daimon to wait for him a bit as she was about to unseal the ring in which she had the thing left behind by her ancestor, which supposedly was a legacy of the hero.