《Dusk God》Chapter 12- Capital! [Part 2]
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After he saw that I wasn't kidding with him and that he got himself in this situation he cursed at himself.
"Ahh I'm sorry sir, but did you see a man in similar clothes walk around you?" He asked hoping that his opponent wasn't going to make things difficult.
"No I didn't all I know is that I gave a gold coin to a man that I bumped into."Dracula wasn't going to give him any help. 'He got himself into this mess. He can get himself out.' He thought.
The crowd didn't hear most of what the two said as they were screaming. And as the two were inside of the groups circle it was a matter until they got in trouble.
"I can get you out of this if you do me one favor," Dracula said.
Mr.Grans had always done things the way he liked it, but he wasn't willing to be pulled down by this crowd.
"Fine but nothing crazy." He agreed.
"Okay, that works for me," Dracula says with a smile.
And as he says this a group of guards came out of the alleys. He had earlier told a man to get the guards because of a fight and keep them inside of an illusion trap. After all, he needed an escape if something happened later. And as it turned out he needed it now. It was always good to keep few trump cards inside an unknown place.
"BREAK IT UP!" The guards one after another had started cleaning out the people after a while the circle surrounds the two.
After getting out with Mr.Grans. They made his way to a restaurant nearby.
"I'll have two ales for me and this man," Dracula said with a smile to the female attendant.
"Y Y YYes sure." The young lady stuttered and made her way to the back.
"So what is your name sir, I don't think we have met." Mr.Grans tried asking.
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"I'm Viscount Dracula. I have been newly appointed to the position last month." Dracula said.
"Oh, didn't know I was in front of nobility. My lord." Mr.Grans said trying to gain some favor.
"So I wanted to know what kind of favor I will be doing," Mr.Grans asked.
"Nothing much yet just a new product that I would like you to sell for me,"Dracula said.
"Oh my what kind of product is it?" The merchant asked seeing money signs.
"Just a type of sugar,"Dracula said. Which made Mr.Grans look at him asking for more on this subject.
"Where does it come from?" Mr.Grans asked.
"Of course it's all under my control," Dracula said.
"And how much can we get?" He asked trying to see how this was a profit for him and a monopoly.
"As much as the creatures can create," Dracula said with a smile.
"What kind of metaphor was that?" Asked Grans confused, after all, monsters don't create much, besides cows and farm aminals. Even then it's very slow.
"It wasn't, it is created and milked out like cows tamed and trained," Dracula said with a mischievous smile.
"WHAT! Did you say that a creature creates it!" Grans said a wide smile seeing as this could make the buying expenses of sugar be controlled by him.
"Yes, a creature that creates sugar and its creates about barrel every week," Dracula said with money signs in his eyes.
"This could make us very rich but I would like to know how much money is being split between me and you."
"I would like to have 60% while you can have the rest." Which makes the happy Grans even happier.
"I would like to ask you how much do you know about my organization Lord Dracula," Mr.Grans asked unexpectedly.
"I know that it can make us very rich so I can imagine that it has a good background and some other things but not much," Dracula replies honestly.
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"I'll tell you now that this can increase my organization's power inside of the Merchants Guild increase in power like crazy. So do you really want to do this? After all, I had made things very difficult for you earlier." He said feeling quite guilty about causing that trouble.
"Yes, Mr.Grans I think this would work great for both of us."
"I see then thank you for the business Lord Dracula."
After enjoying the Ale that Dracula bought they went their separate ways. Dracula went to look for a good inn or somewhere to sleep for the night as it was getting dark. And Mr.Grans went to his Group to make the documents for the deal.
After finding a good inn at the front of the noble area he paid 5 gold for the night and went to his room.
"I'm getting hungry and I'm close to having no more food for my snacks. I only have 4 more bodies and I have to get more." Dracula was after all a Vampire so he had to maintain a diet of blood for his own good and so he is at full power at all times.
After taking out a beautiful woman with blond hair and snow white skin which could make the whole world want to just see her once to know what beauty was.
"This is one of the last good quality meals I have left." He said with a sad tone.
"Blood Drain," He said as he took out a wine cup and filled it with her blood.
"Blood Purify." Which made the dark blood turn a clear red.
"This is the blood of a virgin, I thought that she had her first already?" He gave the cup a questioning look.
"Did the purify spell make that girls blood this clear?" He thought out loud.
When vampires had reached a specific level are given buffs and certain enhancements to their skills. Like when Dracula made it to level 1000 he obtains the skill to transform to different animals like a bat but when he reached 2000 the skill evolved were he could transform to any animal he had enough info on. Like the DNA of a certain animal, he could also change his own appearance by modifying it a little, but he preferred his own face and body more.
Skills and spells are different as spells consumed mana but skills consume stamina. Levels also changed after 1000 were everything was a thousand times harder to level up one level comparing to leveling up from 900 to 1000. This made even one level something it could change the outcome of many fights for example if a level 999 fought against a level 1000 there would be no match and the level 1000 would win easy.
But every time you leveled up everything is harder. So when I made it to level 8000 it was trillions of times harder than going all the way up to level 7999. This will continue till one reached True God level. Which is Level 10,001 which they will be able to control the laws of the universe to an extent which is mindblowing? The laws, for example, they could change water to salt and still have people eat it to the same effect as salt.
This was changing the very laws of the universe, but they needed to be in contact with that the object they want the other object to change to. This was like changing mana to the element you have a good affinity with, but they didn't use mana they could use the air, for example, to act like mana. Mana converting is own to be a lesser pillar of Law while converting anything into anything is the largest pillar, that everyone knows of.
This is a True God and my biggest goal.
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