"Then why don't we give a few drops of blood to every vampire and create a strong army?" Azriel proposed, however, unlike him, who was complimenting himself for coming up with this genius Idea, Ithania directly shook her head.
"We can't do that."
"Huh? Why not? Was this blood not beneficial to you?" Azriel questioned with a frown.
"It was, it was very beneficial, however," Suddenly, Ithania's gaze turned solemn as she answered.
"As delicious and beneficial it was, I nearly died when I consumed it." Ithania's body shuddered unconsciously.
"Hmm? What happened?" This time, Luminia was the one who asked, Ithania glanced at her and noticed her interested expression.
"Azriel blood is… it's full of energy… raw, wild, and untamed, energy. My body nearly burst open when I drank that blood. If it wasn't for the blood control ability which I used to control this wild blood to some extent, I would have died in the goriest way possible."
Luminia could notice Ithania's body trembling, however, she wanted to see how she will deal with this and did not help.
Ithania did not disappoint as well, she took a few deep breaths as she calmed herself and continued.
"And even with that, I needed 3 days to completely 'digest' this 'power'"
"So we can't use my method or else all the vampires will die…"
"Oh…" Azriel muttered in disappointment.
"Hmm? Who says we can't use this method? With such a short and efficient method right in front of us, we would be fools to not use it" Suddenly, Luminia muttered with a mischievous smile on her face.
"How would we do it?" Azriel questioned, and although she didn't ask, the frown on Ithania's face expressed her confusion as well.
Luminia smiled playfully when she observed their expressions and replied,
"We can always dilute the blood so that its 'energy' can be tamed to something that vampires can take."
Azriel's eyes shone in realization, however, Ithania frowned even more and questioned.
"How are we supposed to know how much should we dilute the blood?"
Luminia glanced at her with a warm smile on her face and answered as if it was common sense, "By trial and error, of course"
This time, Ithania's eyes widened in horror.
She quickly understood what this woman wanted.
"W-Who are we going to experiment on? H-Humans?"
"Well, we could use them, however, since we need to find the correct dilution for Vampires, we need to experiment on the Vampires."
"I-I don't think we should d-do that…"
"We have to, it might be a great discovery that can revive our race." This time, Azriel was the one who answered. Ithania suddenly found herself lost in those determination filled blood-red eyes, however, she quickly came out of her reverie and questioned.
"W-Who will we experiment on?"
"You gathered more than 250 Vampires, girl. I am sure that some of them must have some unrequired thoughts, right? There have to be some people whose presences are unneeded, right?" Luminia's crimson eyes shined as she glanced at Ithania.
A few faces appeared in Ithania's mind as she answered,
"There are… some people fit that criteria, however, they are still vampires… should we really do this to the people of our own race?"
"Ithania, always remember, a soldier who doesn't listen to the orders is a bad soldier. And bad soldiers must be eliminated. These soldiers bring more harm than good." Suddenly, Luminia's gaze turned solemn and she answered.
Ithania, who noticed her solemn gaze started thinking and realized how she and the rest of her army nearly died just because some people wanted to gain some reputation after killing a few humans.
It was her fault for not being strict enough, she should have been decisive and stopped them right there.
Ithania then nodded with a serious look on her face and answered,
"His name is Lupas Livenus, we can use him for our experiments"
Suddenly, Azriel stood up and started walking towards the exit, however, before he could even leave the room, Ithania questioned.
"Where are you going?"
"Hmm? To bring this Pupas dude?"
"Umm, we can't just 'bring' one of our soldiers here and kill him, that would create a turmoil amongst the vampires, and we don't want that," Ithania muttered.
"Haahh… girl, you are intelligent, very intelligent for your age… even the word 'genius' might not be enough to describe you. However, you have one problem." Luminia glanced at Ithania and muttered.
"All the 'knowledge' you have comes from humans, no, not even humans, it comes from observing lower echelons of humans, what you just said is how weak thinks like. However, we are not weak.
Nothing will happen.
You can trust me."
Since his teacher has already said it, Azriel quickly left the room.
"How should I improve myself then?" Ithania didn't doubt or question how or why she was wrong, she directly asked how she can improve herself.
Luminia was very satisfied with that attitude and answered.
"I will allow you to enter the library. Right now, you need to widen your horizon and gain more knowledge. That is the only way you can improve."
Ithania's eyes shined in determination as she nodded.
"Tha-" However, just as she was about to continue, the door was opened and Azriel entered while dragging another person through his leg.
"W-Wha- why did you bring me here?" Lupas questioned with a terrified look on his face, however, his eyes widened when they fell on Luminia and his face turned red.
He blushed.
For some reason, Azriel's lips twitched when he noticed his gaze lingering on her teacher for longer than required and,
*Bam*
He stomped his foot on his head and muttered.
"Shut your mouth."
He then turned towards Ithania and Luminia and muttered.
"I brought him."
"T-That was fast…" Ithania muttered with a surprised look on her face.
Luminia just smiled seductively and nodded.
"Alright, let's move to the basement.
…
A few minutes later, Lumina, Ithania and Azriel were standing in a dimly lighted room, Lupas was lying on a stone bed with an expressionless look on his face.
Azriel then took out a needle and pierced his finger lightly.
[Open your mouth]
He ordered, the drop of blood then fell into Lupas's mouth.
[Drink]
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