The journey didn't take too long, and they arrived at the village before it was late into the night. Even then, for a village, Aldritch wasn't sure if he would be able to get anywhere to sleep.
Coming along with Lina and the ogre chief Olgud, he had to tell them to stay outside, around the village.
'I can't create a huge scene now, I still need information.' He said in his mind as he walked into the village with tattered clothes.
"Who's that?"
"Hey, haven't seen that guy before, where did he come from?"
Soon, someone came up to Aldritch to check who he was. Aldritch put on a little show while simultaneously using hypnosis to make the man believe his words, so by the time he was done talking, the man offered to bring him to the village head's house.
"Chief! Chief! There's someone here you need to see!" The man that brought him said from outside a particular house.
Once the chief was out, he looked at Aldritch for a moment, then told the man to leave while inviting Aldritch inside. In the short moment he looked at Aldritch, he was hypnotized. The man who brought Aldritch left, right after saying to Aldritch, "he's a good man, you'll be safe."
'Off course, I will.'
Once Aldritch entered the house, which looked of better quality than the rest of the houses within the village, he made himself comfortable on a wooden chair.
"This is pint village, right? And if I remember carefully, you're Luke?" Aldritch pulled from his memory.
"Yes, you are correct?..." The chief was a bit confused, after all, he had never seen this person before him before.
"Mm. What's the path to the closest town, which I believe should be Tulgga." Aldritch asked, pulling that piece of information from his memory also.
The chief described the path cleanly on a little map he had at home, and Aldritch understood it well.
"But may I ask how you know me?"
"Is it important?"
Once he was done collecting the information, Aldritch sucked the village chief's blood dry. He didn't want to leave survivors to start spreading rumors of some blood sucking monster. Before doing this, he made sure to turn the remaining blood in his blood bank to BP, so it wouldn't spoil the taste of the new one.
"Ahhh… sure tastes nice." It felt like drinking orange juice after days of drinking Blended beef.
Aldritch visited every house and did the same. The village had around 40 people, all died that night.
'I didn't find those two, but it should be ok. Can't take back what has been done after all.' He couldn't find Lance's brother and sister, but then again, he wasn't going to stick around and wait for them. In the end, it seemed like he would have to leave the loose end.
He didn't take much time there before leaving. He had also taken some clothes to change into. They did look like something a common farmer of that time would wear, so he didn't complain.
He joined with the two he left outside and together they advanced towards Tulgga.
From the villagers, Aldritch got around 227 litres of blood, which after conversion gave him a meager 22BP since he converted only 220.
'Just how many will I have to kill to get a huge amount?' He thought. Thinking about it, the future path for him looked to be set.
He wouldn't mind killing humans, but being one before, he was more inclined to mass murder a different race unless otherwise. The good thing was that this new world of his as far as he could think of, offered a lot of variety. Since the appearance of the otherworldly gates that spawned monsters, humans ceased to be the only ones living in this world.
It didn't take too long before Aldritch and his subordinates reached Tulgga, though they got there when it was already past morning hours.
'I feel tired, haven't slept for a while now.' He thought to himself. Being a nocturnal creature, he naturally felt the subtle urge to sleep now that day was breaking. To top it off, he was a little tired after going about without rest, even though the blood he drank had revitalized him, it didn't get rid of the tiredness from lack of sleep completely.
"Now that we're here, there's no way for the three of us to enter the town, you'll be discovered soon enough." Aldritch looked at his companions. He didn't want to dismiss them for good either, so he had them linger around the town outside its walls, ordering them to not slack off while he was inside. Honing their skills was paramount while they stood in the ready in case he called for them.
"But how will you call us, master?" Lina asked, not sure how Aldritch would do so from so far away.
-"you don't need to worry about that." Aldritch said, speaking directly into her mind. Lina appeared surprised at first, but she understood quickly.
"Very well. Don't interfere with any human business and do well not to be found out." Aldritch warned.
He then made his way into the town through the gates. The guards there didn't seem to care much as he made his way into the town. Since the town was so big, it made sense that the guards wouldn't pay much attention to every single person who went through its gates.
'I was expecting them to show more concern, after all, this place is close to the region disturbed by monsters and dangerous people linger around. '
The sun was soon out in full, but since it hadn't started shining intensely, Aldritch felt little to nothing from it, no discomfort at all.
'I need to find a place to take shelter immediately.' He thought to himself, walking towards an inn several metres away.
It seemed small, but well taken care of.
'I have no idea if the money I have with me would be enough, but let's go ahead with it and see.' He was yet to get a full grasp on this world's money system.
Aldritch walked towards the inn, and as soon as he opened its doors, something came flying towards him…
"YOU BASTARD!"
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A/N: Hi everyone, how are you all doing?
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