Chapter 11: Amateurs

[Abalon Council Room POV]

In a huge circular hall decorated in gold and silver. In the middle of said hall is a circular table made of marble, with silver and gold etching. The table has eleven seats, seven of which are occupied.

A man who looks to be in his fifties is sitting in the middle seat, the King of Abalon, a vassal of the Holy Church. He has dirty blond hair, a medium swept back hairstyle and corporate beard, as well as hazel eyes. Six other men who look to be in their forties and fifties, are seated near him, three on each side.

There are many guards standing near the walls, in a circle and two on each side of the huge double doors. They are wearing steel armor, painted in white, with gold linings. They are the guards of Abalon. Each king also has two guards behind him, representing their respective Kingdom. {A/N : Check the comments of this paragraph for the picture.}

A man in a white priest robe, with slicked back brown hair and brown eyes with an arrogant face stands behind the King of Abalon. He is holding a book with the symbol of the Holy Church. {A/N : Check the comments of this paragraph for the picture.}

The priest clears his throat and says "Welcome kings of Zarza and members of the Victorum Confederation. My name is Jurius, a representative of the Holy Church from the Headquarters in the continent of Elianor." he pauses, looks at the King of Abalon and then look towards all of the others kings and then continues "Today, we are here to discuss our attack on the remnants of the Vampires and the so called Elder Council." he stops then mentions to the King of Abalon to speak.

"Kings of Zarza, this is a decisive battle. We far out number them, but... still we must be cautious, after all we aren't fighting humans, but monsters." the King speaks out, in plain voice.

"What is there to be afraid or even cautious of, we have silver, we have mages of the Holy Church and volunteering Light Mages, as well as Holy Magic and Dracula is dead. What could go wrong?" says the King of Ibesudel, in arrogant voice.

"Really... King Edward just clearly said that we must be cautious, why must you act like that?" The King of Enefaeris speaks out, in annoyed manner.

They then started bickering at each other.

"Please calm down my friends... This is not how Kings act." King Edward of Abalon, speaks out, in a sighing manner.

They all calm down and King Edward continues "In a week we will prepare and march towards the land of the Impaled... it is our time to get revenge for the fallen fathers and grandfathers of our people." {A/N : The land of the Impaled, as you can guess by the name, it is where Dracula became known as, Vlad the Impaler. More will be said in the coming chapters about why he got that nickname and the land of the Impaled.}

All the Kings nod and continue to talk about strategy.

[Vlad POV]

Sitting leisurely in my library, reading a book and drinking fine blood from my cup. I hear a knock on the door and I say "You may come in." closing the book and putting it on the table.

Dragan enters and the two guards on each side from the outside close the doors behind him. Dragan proceeds to walk towards me and does a bow before raising up and says "You have asked for me Lord Dracula."

I reply by saying "Yes. Sit down." I motion for him to sit and he does.

"Tell me, how many Vampires did you round up and how is their training?" I ask, while shadow teleporting another cup to my hand and pour a drink and slide it to Dragan. Who looks at the cup then me, picks up the cup, drinks half of its contents, puts it down and says "Surprisingly we have 2,500. The mentioned 1,300 guards and 1,200 other civilian Vampires, and some veterans. About half of the 1,200 came from outside Caligo, they are runaways. Most of them have been hiding in the Dead Forests near the kingdoms of the Victorum Confederation." he pauses, drinks the rest of the blood.

And then continues "As for the training, it indeed was hell. As you said, make them feel hell. I did my best, the rest is up to them. But a lot of them, majority of them are improving and are getting better. We used silver and verbena, so they can resist it, to some degree."

"Good, you've done well Dragan. It is time for your reward." I stand up and walk to him, he moves his chair and stands up, facing me and says "I am ready Lord Dracula. If this will help me get stronger, it will also help you." I smile, nod and say "That is what I want to hear." I put my hands on his shoulder and use my Vampire Lordship.

His eyes glow a fiery red and his skin, his skins gets a bet darker, still pale though, but not compared to before. He looks the same, but he is bulking, more than before. He is physically getting stronger, way stronger. As well as, growing larger. This whole time he has been gritting his teeth, I can feel his pain. He is strong willed.

I remove my hand, step back a little bit and say "Well, how do you feel." he stands up and clenches his hands and looks at me, with those fiery red eyes and he says what the rest said... "I feel stronger... powerful, able to crush anything and take down a Dragon... maybe." well good that he is still sane and not overconfident.

I look up at him, and say "Well I will be damned, you really are a giant now...", he became at least 230 cm compared to the previous 214 cm.

He smiles, bows and says "Thank you very much my Lord. Thank you for this wonderful gift."

"You are welcome Dragan. Now I need you to be ready, so go test yourself... and please do make sure not to crush anyone, like last time." I say, the last part chuckling. He nods and takes his leave.

As I am about to sit I get a telepathic message from Hendriksen, he says "Sir. The human younglings have arrived." and I reply "Alright, I will be there." I finish my cup and shadow teleport to the entrance of the cave.

As I reach there, I see a couple of meters ahead of me a bunch of tents. One hundred tents, one hundred and one to be precise. There is fifty on the right and fifty on the left, and between them there is a bigger tent right in the middle. The thing about these tents is they are magical, the inside is much larger than what is seen from the outside, the tents look like they can fit two people, but inside they can easily fit twenty or more. The one in the middle is the dinning/gathering tent.

I turn behind me and look at the entrance of the cave. It is a fortress imbedded on the bottom side of the mountain. It is the only entrance into the cave. {A/N : Check the comments of this paragraph for the picture.}

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I turn back and walk towards Hendriksen and Esmeralda. Reaching there I see the teens all sitting down, exhausted. Hendriksen and Esmeralda walk towards me, bow their head lightly and Esmeralda says "Welcome, Lord.", Hendriksen then continues "The younglings are all here, none are missing. As you have commanded."

I nod and say "Good." I walk past Hendriksen and Esmeralda, and towards the teens, Hendriksen and Esmeralda following behind me.

Reaching them I clap my hand three times and say "Well done. Well done all of you." I look from the right then to the left of them and then back in the middle and say "You will rest, then we will start training you. After that, the ones with more promise will get enhanced first." they all nod without objection.

"Good. Now you have a day off. Go on." I say, shooing them away. I then turn towards Hendriksen and Esmeralda and say seriously "There was previously four bandit camps. We have destroyed one,  now there is one major giant bandit camp near the Caligo Forest, the other three merged together. I want you to take all the men you can and kill them all, and bring me their bodies. There should be over 2,000 of them." they both nod and vanish.

I plan on turning their corpses into something useful, into undead. But I am not going to make cannon fodder undead. No, I am going to make some strong undead, useful undead. I shadow teleport to the garden in the back of the castle.

I sit down on the bench and contemplate something, 'This was stupid, even if I enhance them, they have no experience, nothing. Bunch of kids, a bunch of amateurs.' I think to myself, heavily sighing.

'Wait... maybe, just maybe he has a way...' I think to myself.

I sit properly on the bench my hands on my knees and say "If you hear me Odin, I need a favor..."

I look around for a couple of seconds then I sigh heavily... suddenly I hear a flutter, and look towards it and see the amused and surprised face of none other than Odin.

"I am really, really surprised that you've called for me..." says Odin.

"Well what can I say, I am kind of desperate." I say sarcastically and Odin chuckles.

"So what did you need?" Odin asks, curiously.

"The thing is, you probably know what I have in the front of the mountain, and know what I am going to do..." I say and he nods, I nod and continue "I have spatial magic, but I do not have time magic. Thus, I am unable to do something such as accelerate time, or open space where time is irrelevant. So I am asking for something, anything that can accelerate time or have a longer time compared to the real world."

"You are right, you can't do anything with space or time. Even us, the Aesir, don't mess with such things, more like can't and won't... only certain Primordials could do that. As for a way to have more time, to train those younglings... That is easy..." says Odin, the last part casually, like it was nothing.

I look amused and say "Really? And here I thought it will be a big deal?"

"Oh... it is a big deal. See, each pantheon has dimensions, us the Norse, we have a lot. And I mean a lot. Majority of them are unknown to the rest of the pantheons, and even some of the Aesir and Vanir. Time and Space dimensions are uncommon, but not rare. There is great dimensions and small ones. Great as in its energy and its quality, not necessarily the size. There is a small dimension of Space and Time. You could use it if you want, no one has really ever used it." he says, throwing a rune stone to me.

I catch it, look at the rune stone and then at him, confused. Odin then says "Just push it into anything and an arch like door will appear with many runes, within the arch of runes, a distorted space will appear. Just go in." he says, and then I say, with a smile "Thank you." he says "You are welcome. One more thing, the dimension is one year inside and one day outside. Don't make them stay longer, it won't be good for them. I would recommend to let them get in for one year, get out and take a two day break and go back inside." His body starts to vanish slowly and he says grinning "I hope you make the battle worthy to watch. I wanna see the fear and despair on their faces..." then he vanishes.

The next day I shadow teleport to the tents. Arriving there I see Volrais and Dragan. I ask "They still didn't finish?" Volrais replies "They have finished, they are currently bringing in the bodies and preserving them for you. I helped them to preserve the soul, so it does not escape."

Hendriksen and Esmeralda suddenly appear and I say "Job well done. How many are there?" Hendriksen replies "4,167." I then say "Good."

I look at Esmeralda and tell her "Esmeralda, raise a boulder here, as tall as Dragan and ten meters wide." I say pointing behind me, the gate will be between the tents and the fortress. She does what I asked for and the boulder emerges.

I take out the runestone and put it into the boulder. The stone starts lighting up as well as the boulder. The edges of the boulder start burning and runes appear they go up and into an arch(circle like, more like half circle.) and suddenly the gate appears, like a distorted space.

I look back at the group and they all look surprised, Volrais comes closer and starts to inspect it, then asks "What is this?" I reply by saying "It is a gate, one year inside is a day here. All of you will go in to train the younglings. Dragan take a couple of the captains with you, or all. Depending on the situation." They nod, not asking further questions and I go forward towards the tents, followed by the group and Dragan shouts "GET OUT ALL OF YOU LAZY BASTARDS, LORD DRACULA IS PRESENT!" I scratch my left ear with an annoyed face, Hendriksen and Esmeralda chuckling behind me.

The teens immediately get out and stand still in front of us in an orderly fashion... I look questionably at Dragan, he bows his head slightly and he says "They were rowdy yesterday, had to teach them a lesson." I shrug and say to the teens "Today and for a whole year inside that portal," I point behind me, towards the portal and then continue "you will all be training there. Do not slack of, you will not like the results." I pause and look at them, seems my influence is working. They are determined.

"Well good luck then, in an hour all of you should be ready to go inside. You are all dismissed, for now." I say and the teens go back, majority are going to the gathering tent.

I turn back and look at the group and say "You have one year inside, you get inside make the schedule it is up to you. Test them, see what their proficient in and train them in that the most, but train them in everything too. The guards will bring in supplies every hour. We have enough for more than half a century. Train them well and..." I look at Dragan and continue "make sure not kill them... please." I say and Dragan gulps, nods and says "Yes." the rest just laugh lightly.

"Alright. One more thing after one year, they will take a two day break and go back inside, once the second year is finished. Come to me, you are all going to choose a wyvern for yourselves." I say and they smile and nod thankfully. "Alright. Take care of yourselves." I say and vanish through the shadows.

Appearing in a secluded cave within my cave... I know... very confusing. Anyways, I transform myself, and try to control my transformation...

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