226 The Ambition of Drakkur

Meanwhile, as the students prepared for a skirmish battle and moved south against the odds, a beautiful woman with red hair sat quietly on a carriage to the north of Silvara with four female knights with pale skin and black hair. 

These women were vampiric servants, their youth eternal and with an unlimited lifespan.

However, they were infinitely weaker and subject to the orders of their master vampire, Valerie Drakkur.

"Lady Verena isn't it dangerous to be active in public while Mistress Verana is also active?" 

"If the people discover the truth, then won't you be in a dangerous spot?"

Verena didn't react. Instead, she lounged on the soft, silky backrest and looked into the sky with a smile on her lips. "Mother told me the clan rules are only guidelines. If I do well with this, she will seek the ancestors' guidance and alter them making the current system vanish."

"Isn't that dangerous? What if she is lying!?"