Chapter 66: Chapter 66: Valentina Hale Ambrosia

Tina.

She was the red-haired girl he met upon arriving at the Royal Academy.

Her sudden appearance, here of all places, made him completely baffled.

Tina, recognizing him, hurriedly stood up.

“Adonis, you’re… How am I here? Did you perform some kind of dark art on me?”

“Dark art my ass. Tell me, since how long have you been sneaking around here?” Adonis asked seriously.

She frantically shook her hands.

“Eh, no. I was just in my dormitory. I don’t know how I got here.”

Just then, all of a sudden, a pair of bat-like blod red wings erupted from her back, regal and dangerous.

“Th-that!” He was so shocked that his eyeballs were about to pop out of their sockets.

Seeing his reaction, she looked back, only to be stunned.

Two blood-red wings had appeared out of nowhere, like an extension of her own body.

She could control them as per her wish.

“H-how did this happen, Adonis? Why do I have wings?” she asked, confused and trembling.

Adonis paused, momentarily pondering over the situation.

Soon, he started muttering to himself.

“I was just summoning Valentina, but for some reason I kept failing again and again. And then she appears. The similar red hair, those wings… It could mean only one thing. She must have reincarnated as Tina.”

Tina started shaking at his mumbling.

“What are you mumbling about? Don’t make me more afraid.”

Adonis stepped closer and touched her chest, feeling the soft, squishy texture beneath.

“Huh? What are you doing, pervert?”

Adonis put one finger on her lips, shushing her.

“Summon your Sword Soul,” he ordered.

She swallowed her saliva before doing what he wanted.

She made a specific hand gesture before her chest as she summoned her Sword Soul.

But for some reason, something felt different this time.

It felt as though her sword was oppressive and hungry.

As it completely materialized in front of her, her eyes widened with horror.

Instead of the weak old green stuff for healing, this one looked dangerous.

It was completely blood red in color and shaped like a long sword with jagged edges on both sides.

It felt alive, yet not alive.

More importantly, it was incredibly hungry.

It was also at that moment that two long canine teeth extended from her upper jaw.

She felt an unbearable thirst. So much so that her eyes turned red.

In her vision, she saw Adonis’s heart and blood flow, which made her involuntarily salivate.

Whoosh.

In an instant, she blurred forward and sank her vampiric teeth into his neck, catching him off guard.

Instead of panicking at the attack, he started laughing.

“Ha ha ha… I was right. That sword, it’s the Vampire Queen’s sword: Blood Devourer. And she has reincarnated as you. Interesting, very interesting…”

She didn’t seem to pay him any mind. She kept drinking his blood with an audible sucking sound.

Yet, he didn’t flinch. His Primordial Dragon Physique and infinite stamina regenerated his blood faster than her drinking speed.

He settled down onto a nearby couch, letting her drink as much as she wanted.

After all, he knew that a vampire like her gets stronger the more she devours blood.

After five minutes, Tina removed her fangs from his neck, licking her lips.

However, realizing what she had done, she started trembling.

“Ahh! What happened to me? Adonis, you… are you okay?”

He cracked his neck straight, revealing a confident grin.

“Yes. I am fine. But you… you are no longer yourself, Tina. You’re the reincarnation of the ancient Vampire Queen, the sole wielder of the Blood Devourer Sword. And from today, with this mark of Valkyrion by my side, I claim you. From henceforth, you rightfully belong to me.”

He raised his left hand, showing the Valkyrion mark on the back of his palm.

Tina was still confused as she looked at him.

“Who’s this Vampire Queen you’re talking about? I have never heard of her.”

He smirked, leaning against the couch.

“Then let me tell you a story. A story of a regal queen bathed in her enemies’ blood, working under the shadows, saving the world of humans and vampires from the devils in an ancient era. A time when the gods were still in their wombs.”

The story naturally couldn’t be found anywhere, since Valentina was a character from before the Era of Gods. At that time, Ascalon and Emperion weren’t even born.

She appeared in the main plot as an overpowered cameo, saving Emperion from the jaws of death and demanding her lineage’s prosperity as the price.

Obviously, he couldn’t tell Tina about games and such things.

Nonetheless, she understood what he wanted to convey.

“So you mean to say I’m the ancient Vampire Queen’s reincarnation?” her lips quivered. “That I’m no longer my old self?”

“Yes. You’re no longer the weak, bullied girl of the Academy. You’re strong. Very strong. So don’t let them ever bully you. My familia can never be humiliated.”

“Your familiar? Am I some kind of slave to you?” she asked, looking a little aggrieved.

He shook his head.

“Not quite exactly. I would never think of my familia as slaves. This is just the leash to control your mad hunger. You can live your life any way you want. But when I call upon you, you must listen. You must obey my words. But the final choice is still in your hands.”

He looked into her ruby eyes, asking for the final time, “If you don’t want to become my familia, then all is fine. But all your power might be stolen away. But if you do agree, I promise you’ll become far, far more powerful. One day, the whole world will tremble beneath your feet.

So, I will ask this last time. Do you agree to all the conditions and are you ready to become my familia?”

Tina stared at her pale hands with a dazed expression. “I will lose all this power? No. I don’t want that. I don’t want to become that weak, helpless girl again. I want to fight. I want to set my father free.”

After a few seconds, she made up her mind. “Very well, since my freedom is the price to pay for this overwhelming power, I agree. From today, I’m your Valentina Hale Ambrosia. Till death do us apart.”

His fingers went over her lips.

“Wrong, my dear. It would be till eternity. No one can kill us.”

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