Chapter 160 – Anyway, the Secret Meeting (2)

“Oh! Yandel students come to the professor’s lab during lunch break! I have a very, very important story!”

Iona winked, her bloody eyes winking.

Seeing that, someone in Class A muttered softly.

“… Graduate school recommendation?”

Uh huh No loud noise!

***

Lunch hour.

I was a bit terribly misunderstood, but of course Iona wasn’t trying to drag me into grad school.

Maybe he’s trying to make up for something he couldn’t tell you about tomorrow’s subjugation of the cult’s branch?

For that reason, with Carla and Elisha on either side of her, I knocked on the door of Iona’s lab with ease.

Smart.

“Professor? I called for you.”

“A Yandel student? Come in! Come in!”

The first thing I saw when I opened her door with Iona’s permission and entered … It was a horror-like look of Iona, covered in blood, and her laboratory in her.

“I called to register her as the owner of the forehead tool….”

“Aaaaagh!”
“Quaaaaa
“Ppaaaaagh!”

When I, Carla, and Elisha screamed at the same time, I finally realized her true self.

“Oops! Oops! I forgot to wash!”

With a light flick of her finger her, Clean, cast as a no-chant, washed away the blood on Iona’s body her and around her her.

She then waved her hands in reassurance and said:

“Don’t worry! It’s all my blood!”

“Isn’t that more dangerous?! Need a potion? No, since you’re a vampire, can I bring you a blood transfusion pack? … For a moment. Is this really dangerous? Considering the regenerative powers of vampires…”

She took out a healing potion from her inventory and stopped in an awkward position.

Was it pretty funny? Iona giggled, covering her own mouth with her baggy sleeve.

“Yandel students are kind of fun! Are you trying to take out the potion right away just because the vampire shed some blood?”

“… What. Is it really nothing?”

For some reason, it seemed like I was the only one making a fuss from the middle, so I looked around. Carla and Elisha were only briefly surprised, but now they are calm.

“Calm down, Master. I was surprised to see you suddenly covered in blood, but I heard that vampires have an incomparable amount of blood compared to other races.”

“Yes. Even more so, if it’s not an ordinary vampire, but Professor Iona’s level… That kind of bleeding would be like pricking a finger with a needle.”

“Really…?”

Vampires have never appeared as playable characters in H&A, so I don’t know such detailed settings.

“Ahahaha! A Yandel student has knowledge that no one else knows, but he does n’t know what everyone else knows? But it’s okay! Professor Lee Ona will tell you everything about vampires! … Omg! When you say it like this, it makes a lot of sense!”

She is surprised by herself and pretends to cover her mouth her.

According to Iona’s explanation that followed, she said that ordinary blood as we know it is just a kind of resource like magical power to vampires.

That’s why vampires are the only race that mainly uses blood magic.

The power is strong, but there is a limit to the number of times it can be used by drawing the caster’s blood. However, if the blood is overflowing, it is as if there is no such restriction.

I thought it was blood made with magic, just like water or fire made with magic… Or someone else’s blood.

The high-ranking blood magic from H&A covers the entire battlefield with blood, how can you think of it as one person’s blood?

Of course, vampires also had a separate part that became the source of life.

That is the special blood called heart and true blood.

The heart is an organ that stores energized blood and materializes it as needed, just as the mana core stores mana.

Since true blood is like an undiluted solution, it is said that if diluted a little, a huge amount of normal blood can be produced.

In addition to that, it is also a place that is responsible for the output of all kinds of special abilities of vampires and control over blood.

The blood that I received from Iona earlier was made by properly processing true blood.

As a bonus, making a blood-sucking opponent into a member of your circle is only possible by sucking blood and then injecting true blood.

Every single thing that comes out of Iona’s mouth is a setting I’ve never heard of at H&A.

Anyway, since I’ve enjoyed H&A for a long time and deeply, it’s a bit exciting when there’s a setting or back story I didn’t know about.

But did I look a little strange as I listened with my eyes shining?

While I was asking this and that, Iona threw her reverse question with a mischievous smile.

“What. I didn’t know that Yandel students would be so interested in vampires? It’s amazing that I didn’t even know about this!”

“Well, I know a few things about vampires, but… I’d say it’s a little different….”

“Yes. What kind of content are you talking about? Say it! Since there is a real vampire right in front of you, it shouldn’t be easy to check if it’s real or not!”

“If you say so.”

She took a moment to organize her thoughts in her head before opening her mouth.

“First of all, a vampire’s weakness is their heart.”

“… Yes?”

“Vampires’ regenerative power is so great that they don’t die until all their blood is shed. Even if their heads were cut, they were still alive.”

“Isn’t that so?”

“Yes. So, the heart is the weak point. It is a delicate organ that is difficult to regenerate, and since a large amount of blood is spilled, the regenerative power itself is weakened.”

“Uh….”

“Of course, if you’re a really powerful vampire, even if your heart is stabbed, you won’t die instantly… It’s almost like holding your breath. If you’re lucky, a vampire who has felt the fear of death for the first time in a while may fall into a panic.”

“If you are lucky… ?”

“Oh, and it is also weak to light and holy power. Of course, this does not apply to vampires who are on the side of humanity like the professor, but for those who still live alone or are attached to evil spirits, light and divinity are no different from deadly poison. Even vampires are technically classified as undead, right?”

“Yes….”

“However, light property magic is difficult to create synergy with other magic, and the difficulty is high, and holy power has a problem that its offensive use is limited, so in some cases, both cannot be used.”

“Yandel students… ?”

“In that case, it’s best to use fire magic. The regeneration rate of burnt areas is noticeably slower.”

“There….”

“Until this point, it was the wizard’s point of view. A knight with only one aura instead of multiple attributes would have to take a different approach. Of course, there are cases where the aura itself has an attribute, but… That is an exceptional case, except for now.”

“That, stop….”

“No matter how great a vampire’s regenerative power is, it’s not possible to instantly reconstruct the amputated part. So, without aiming for a fatal wound, it is standard practice to amputate even a single finger little by little and turn it around.”

“…….”

Even after that, how to deal with escape and ambush using the vampire’s mist and bat.

Tips for using fascination reversely, loopholes in the outrageous pattern of Blood Runaway, know-how to temporarily disconnect the Lord and his followers his, and so on.

He told me everything I knew about the Vampire Raid.

Vampires don’t appear as playable characters in H&A, but they often appear as enemies.

Since each one of them is named mid-boss level, it was really hard when I was a newbie.

It felt like we were talking about games for the first time in a while, so it was a while when we chatted happily.

At some point, in a quiet atmosphere, I sneakily looked around.

Carla grabs her hair her and Elisha sighs.

And for some reason, Iona looks very pale, even considering that she is a vampire.

“Professor? Your complexion is not looking good. Are you okay?”

“Um… A Yandel student?”

“Yes?”

“If you are a Yandel student… What is it… Are you a vampire hunter or something? It wasn’t a job that disappeared 300 years ago…?”

“Uh, um.”

I know roughly what the misunderstanding was.

“It’s not like that. It’s true that I know a lot about how to hunt vampires, but that’s all….”

“Gwa, it’s okay! It’s okay! I’m a good vampire! I go to church once a week, and I’ve never broken a pact! Even if it was because I was stabbed in the back by Ayla, I haven’t drank human blood since that day! And again…”

Iona appeals for her innocence with gibberish and gestures.

By the way, the reason why you don’t drink human blood is because of some kind of trauma.

I heard that you can drink it anytime as long as it’s in the form of a transfusion pack, and that you can even vamp yourself if you give permission.

What… Although it is necessary to prove that he was not affected by charm or other spirit-type magic.

Anyway, it is said that there is no need to frown and drink only animal blood like Iona.

Iona’s appeal her continued for a long time after that.

Halfway through, she said it wasn’t like that, but she didn’t seem to believe it, so she roughly nodded her head.

“Yes Yes. I know. I really get it, stop it now!”

“Really really? Sneak from behind saying you look tired… Can’t we do the same thing?”

“Ah, hey! Since I never had any doubts from the beginning, please tell me why you called me here! Lunch break is over!”

“… Omg! Right. I forgot!”

Iona hurriedly takes out three rings from her bosom her.

It is a ring with a bare design with only one jewel embedded in the silver rim.

If there is something a little peculiar, the color of the jewel is dark red like the color of Iona’s eyes?

“This this. It’s a location-tracking ring! Since my blood uses the property of attracting each other, it will work without any problems even if it is far away or is magically hindered! Just in case, take one and register it as the owner!”

A ring of the same design was put on Iona’s finger as she said so.

“Uh… It would be nice to have one of these. Carla. Elisha. Come on. I’ll put you in.”

After she put the rings on the two of them in turn. I also put it on my hand her. A bit out of size, though I had to put it on her little finger her.

“Then you just need to register as the owner! Drop a drop of each person’s blood on the jewel and you’re done!”

As Iona instructed, a drop of her blood fell on her, and I felt a strange attraction from the ring, then it disappeared.

That attraction from a moment ago must be a way to find the location.

“Well done! Well done! From now on, with just a little magic, you’ll be able to roughly determine the direction and distance by the attraction between the rings! The important story ends here! Sorry for taking so long! You can go back to class now!”

“Yes. Then see you again tomorrow.”

“Yes. Yes!”

After exchanging brief greetings with Iona, I came out of the lab.

All that’s left is….

“After school, I just need to stop by Fei-senpai’s studio for a while.”

I have a few requests for you.