Reincarnated into a New World As a Vampire

Chapter 112: Set Out

"How exactly do we plan to go about it, handling all the people and keeping them in order." Aldritch asked.

"Well, as discussed, since we are after fast results within a year or less, we diched any idea of a carrot and stick approach, instead, we will only be employing the stick. Think of it as a kind of forced slavery on all the people, where they won't be experiencing any suffering as long as they corporate and offer their blood.

As for my opinion, this is as good as a carrot and stick approach to be honest." Sigmund expressed.

'I had the same thought too.' Aldritch thought to himself, unable to bring up a name of who would be behind such reasoning. Then again, he was aware of this part of the plan.

"For the management, each settlement of ten families will have one vampire managing them. That vampire will be in charge of collecting blood from those families, and if anyone expresses a desire to join us, they will be the ones to bring them before those who can fulfil that wish.

Of course, the witches will also be active in that event, as their enslavement rituals will play an important part, we can't always have you carrying out all these little tasks, lord." Sigmund explained while he was engaged in what he referred to as minor chores, only pausing momentarily from time to time to look at Aldritch.

The plan sounded solid, and was still up for modification just in case, so Aldritch was very satisfied. He did have an idea of what would happen, so he wasn't surprised to hear the plan, it was only natural to progress in that way.

'I'll have to make more blooded vampires it seems.' Aldritch thought to himself. As he was done with what brought him there, Aldritch accepted Sigmund's invite to see around the laboratory briefly before leaving.

Now as it was, capable people were not as lacking as they were before, so the decision and choice of who he would pick was quite easy and didn't require much brain racking.

With nothing left to do now, Aldritch returned to his abode to rest.

With the rest out to turn the noble family heads under them into vampires, Aldritch's plan was coming along nicely.

After returning to base, that same night, Aldritch met with Lodestar who was strangely awake at such a time, for a man who loved his rest, it was very odd indeed.

Apart from Lodestar and a few others, all the high ranking vampires within his family had all gone out to carryout separate tasks.

"Why up so late? That's unlike you." Aldritch asked, drawing Lodestar attention from his thoughts.

"Aldritch… nothing much, I'm just reviewing information that I've gathered so far." Lodestar said. Aldritch nodded in understanding

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Only a week later, the final step of the plan had come, and everything had been set up for the most part. The nobles on Aldritch's side had already started on their part, sending messages secretly to their families' soldiers to prepare for a coup and rallying of the commoners from all over towards the capital. It came as a huge shock, but the soldiers had to comply.

To start with, most of these nobles were of the noble faction and against the royal faction, so it didn't come as a complete surprise, it was just unexpected as there were no foretelling signs.

The other soldiers of the families siding with the royal faction were sure to take action, but with the lack of information reaching them on the frontlines in time, it wouldn't be too difficult to resist or force them to bend. Of course, there were sure to be the strong headed, but all was good in the big picture.

On that day, once night came, everybody got into their different battle attire, readying themselves for anything that may happen. It wasn't as though the royal faction had no power at all, so they were still cautious, treating their foes as though they were a mighty force.

All battle capable vampires in Aldritch's family set out, led by each of the Blooded Vampires. Before now, since he had to increase the number of blooded vampires to 40, there were only 22 blooded vampires, but now, Aldritch had more than enough units, including the various noble family heads. The noble families alone made accounted for 12 new blooded vampires.

Though some of these noble families were not so powerful or amazing in the aspect of strength and magic, the ones that were made up for it, and the lesser families also had at least one or two members of the family that showed promise.

In their advancement, all the units coming from the inner wall spread out, moving separately but close enough to be able to help the next unit if the need presented itself.

Since they were moving from the inner wall to the innermost wall where the royal palace was, it took quite some time to cover the distance on foot, mostly because not everyone had the same level of speed.

Even in such an event, the various units were divided into different groups. The more battle ready groups moved faster than the rest, as they could afford to do so with their conditioned members, while the rest followed suite depending on how fast they could advance. The group that had units led by Khal, Rindher and Lina all pushed forward and moved fastest, while the rest followed behind.

Maggie's group followed second, while Lada's followed just behind, leaving Ingrid's group to tally behind all of theirs.

Even though there were magicians who could cast flight magic, it would be a waste of mana for such a large group of people.

'Hah… I need to make better decisions, moving as such isn't the brightest idea after all, we truly should have infiltrated earlier and planted ourselves around before time.' Aldritch thought to himself, a pained expression on his face, one birthed by shame, not regret. After all, there was no way they could have managed it, this was the best course of action.

It all was rooted from his abrupt change of plans and rushing things. 'I need to be more thoughtful about things in future, to avoid things like this from repeating itself.'

Aldritch who led the entire army moved at the forefront, by his side, Lyla. Discover more content at mvl

He turned her into a vampire sometime after Argus took over as family head of his family, even before all the other nobles were turned. She too was a blooded vampire, but her tasks differed from the rest that led their respective units.

Once they approached the innermost wall, Aldritch let Lyla take the lead, rushing inside before everyone else. Her job was simple in these beginning phase, it was to make sure all the noble houses were set and on the move, being where they were supposed to be.

In addition to that, she was to make rounds around the royal palace before their forces assembled fully so she could report back on the current state of the palace and guards before their attack.

Aldritch, once he was at the wall, he stopped and waited for the first group to arrive.

Khal's unit was filled with the assassins and shadow fighters that belonged to Lada, their job, alongside some from Rindher's unit, was to visit the pre-mapped spots around the walls and put the guards to sleep so their infiltration could happen without the raise of an alarm. They didn't need to go all around the wall, just the spots close to where their entry point was.

"They will be done before three minutes are up. The rest should arrive five minutes from now also." Rindher said.

"Good, going as planned." Aldritch said.

Rindher had on his face an excited look, he seemed weirdly happy to be a part of this operation, probably because it had been a while since he engaged in anything fun like this. More importantly, he had another objective to accomplish with the royal palace. It was concerning the very reason why he and Ralwa were even in this lower world, and it was tied to their comrade whom they lost.

According to intel, his whereabouts were tied to the royal palace, since they had found out that he wasn't kept in any other cell. The only guess was that he would be held within the royal palace.

"They should be done soon." Khal spoke.

A few moments later, the unit that left to take care of the guards returned.

"All done, lord. The guards have been taken care of." One of the assassin's said, taking a knee as she did.

"Good, let's move." Aldritch said.

Their next location was where they had agreed to meet.

A few minutes later, the other groups also arrived, gaining access into the innermost wall without a hitch as the guards had been all taken care of.