Reincarnated into a New World As a Vampire

Chapter 107: Invasion Begins 2

Once within the inner most wall, the space needed to be covered reduced drastically, unlike the other walls.

Aldritch took the lead, pacing towards the agreed upon location.

While they were on the move, the nobles also commenced their march with the intention of subduing the rampaging monsters. They aimed to settle the issues outside the inner walls, while the few monsters that breached the innermost wall would be dealt with by the remaining soldiers that had stayed back.

Unbeknownst to them, the vampires were already within the innermost wall, watching from the shadows as the troops marched out of the innermost wall to conquer their foes. Aldritch was surprised when he spotted Argus leading one of such military units, probably soldiers of his noble house.

Nonetheless, he was not alarmed, they had planned for those who would join their armies in the attack… well, Argus was not part of the targets.

The innermost wall had the most organized layout. It had the royal palace situated at the centre, surrounded by small rocky mountains that acted as a form of natural defense. Also, it was the most guarded property in the entire kingdom. Their own soldiers alone were enough to fight a small war.

Surrounding the royal palace were the houses of some of the most important and powerful families, arranged in no specific order of placement. These families also happened to be those that were part of the royal faction within the kingdom, well, there was one that was different, one that stood with the noble faction.

The rest of the noble families were spread out, with those furthest away being the weaker or less influential and small noble houses, while those closest to the royal palace and the homes of the most powerful nobles were those who held a certain level of influence or power within the kingdom.

There was also the church area, where the church operated, having autonomy to managed the entire area surrounding them which they owned, and then there were many houses scattered around that belong to figures such as wealthy merchants who could afford it and the other buildings were shops.

At the moment, Aldritch was positioned very close to the royal palace, hiding just outside it's boundaries formed by the small mountains that enclosed the entire palace.

He waited patiently for every other person to reach their own destinations, then at the exact moment as planned, he swept into action.

Using his hypnosis skill, Aldritch started a mildly lengthy process of wide area hypnosis that covered several kilometres from its epicenter.

The way it worked was through sound waves, which Aldritch was able to figure out a way to use sound created at such a high frequency that humans wouldn't be able to pick up themselves, but will be affected by it nonetheless.

The only downside to this was that even his own people were at risk of being affected, as there was no way to target it. For that purpose, in particular, the respective leaders of each unit of the operation could all resist the effects without any hitch, and they would easily be capable of shaking whoever was affected by it back to their senses.

He began the hypnosis, looking to induce tiredness that would put everyone into a sleepy state. The original plan was to cause a mild form of mass hysteria all around, but there was the possibility of it making some people on edge, which was a reasonable reaction. They wanted a stable working environment, not one of chaos.

In only a couple minutes, his skill was taking effect, and people all over started struggling with different symptoms, like heavy eyes and sluggishness. A few vampires fell victim to it, but they were quickly shaken out of it before commencing the main operation.

Since each team was already waiting outside the noble houses, they swept in swiftly, locating their target and inducing the slave ritual, moving as fast as possible.

The enslavement was handled by witches who had been thought by Lada on how to conduct the ritual, after all, it wasn't something that was common knowledge nor practice amongst the witches. Each of these witches had capable fighters around them, some standing guard, while at least one would be on patrol.

Apart from the selected noble households, there were a few groups stationed at locations where they could watch the church and the royal family's movements.

The church had their holy maiden, someone who Aldritch and his people believed to have magic that could cancel the effects of his own skill. It was a fated occurrence that she would use her magic to heal every affected person, the question was just, when?

If she was to emerge from the church, then the vampires assigned there would make sure to delay her and the church's movement and actions as long as possible.

The vampire groups infiltrated different noble houses, moving stealthily even when everyone was supposed to either be asleep, or in a drowsy state. Their job was made even easier because of the hypnosis, and as for those that could barely resist, it didn't help, as they were overpowered easily by their assailants.

The enslavement itself took at least 40 minutes, with the maximum being an hour. This meant they were set to retreat after an hour, once the operation began.

Little obstacles were faced, and for those that actually managed to resist the hypnosis enough to move around in search of the cause or to save themselves or their masters, they were swiftly subdued and forced into a state of sleep or unconsciousness, depending on who was handling it.

Once Aldritch was done with his part, he left, returning back to the mansion. He had no other reason for being there, after all, the leaders of each unit were more than capable, some even more than he was, so there really was no need to stay back.

Forty minutes after the operation started, some people emerged from the church, escorting the holy maiden out, probably aiming to use her powers to help the people as expected.

All that had to be done was kill the horses to bring them back out unto their feet, then after creating an opening, the vampires mind controlled one of the people with the maiden to attack the maiden, prompting the other person with her to jump in front of her to protect the maiden.

Of course they found it difficult to harm one of theirs, so it took some time before they were able to subdue the mind controlled man.

Several soldiers also emerged from the royal palace, but by then, it was already too late for anything to be done, since the vampires were done with their task and were leaving.

In the end, the soldiers met nothing but an entire city asleep.

As soon as they returned, Aldritch held a meeting with each of the unit leaders. They had succeeded in their operation wonderfully, so now they needed to discuss the next phase.

None of the new slaves had been turned into vampires for one singular reason. Once this event passed and morning came, the king would surely call for a meeting. If by then, numerous people who were normal looking a day prior appeared in the meeting with paler skin and crimson eyes, it was sure to alarm even the least observant person that something was wrong.

With this move, however, they now had a lot of sway within the noble faction of the kingdom, which was the bigger faction. This left a few noble houses that were in the royal faction untouched. Since they were the most powerful noble houses and the ones closest to the royal palace, most of their residence had been avoided during the invasion for different reasons.

One being the fact that one of them was rumored to be in possession of a certain artefact that could prove fatal for whoever it was used against.

There was a certain level of expectation for the former primordial dame within the kingdom to make a move, but whether she was affected by the spell or not could not be determined, in the end, the fact was that there was no interference from her end. It was also possible that she was not within the kingdom at that time.

There was also the possibility that she had been called back into the cult to assist in killing Aldritch and freeing their 'sisters'. Find exclusive content at mvl

Regardless, Aldritch and his people didn't care, the enemies were free to come at them however they wished, Aldritch was ready to face them, so were the people under him.

For the time being, their main focus was utilizing the nobles under their command now. There was no reason to be diplomatic with the takeover, it was going to be by force, resistance or not.

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While Aldritch and his people were in talks, planning their near future, so were the remaining few of the Lunar Cult.

"Welcome back, Labra, it's good to see you again."