Meeting with Vampires (2)

"What is it you wanted to talk about then?" Mike asks as confusion is evident on his face

"I wanted to know about a few things that happened since our information sources were, unfortunately, a bit cryptic when talking about you and some other related items," Irina says as she looks at Mike with her blood-red eyes that seem to flicker in the candlelight

"Fine then what is it you wanted to know?" Mike says

"Your sword first and foremost is something special to say the least I was wondering how you acquired it?" Irina asks while pointing at his sheathed blade

Mike cannot help but snicker a little at how this world's use of the word sword seems to be a bit underdeveloped and be a bit too innocent in his mind.

"Is there something funny I said?" Irina asks as Mike shakes a little from holding back his snickering

"Ah no sorry I just remembered something funny that I saw before I came here," Mike says as his laughter is replaced with seriousness as he reflects on the current situation

"To answer that question I received this blade from my master," Mike says

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"Who is your master?" Irina asks taking some interest in Mikes words

"A royal wizard who is here in the city and we were tasked with a mission to complete," Mike says in full seriousness

From what Mike could tell it was best to avoid rolling the dice in his head by telling partial or full truths to avoid those situations. Straight up lying will not be for the best since that will lead to a roll and quite possibly his death depending on the situation.

"There is a Royal wizard in the city?" Irina says with surprise before asking "Why are they here?"

"I am not allowed to tell but I can tell you it has nothing to do with your people or the slave trade that you are running," Mike says

"Well that is good to hear, but I would at least like to hear about what you are doing here though," Irina says while looking at Mike

"I am not supposed to tell alright" Mike responds wanting to move onto something else

"Please tell me," Irina says once more as she stares deep into Mike's eyes while leaning forward in her chair.

Mike starts feeling woozy for some reason as he stares into Irina's eyes as they seem to be so captivating to look at.

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The dice rolls once more and Mike's wooziness disappears from him as he stared into Irina's eyes and seeing the dice roll he remembered the fact that vampires can [Charm] their victims.

'Can't believe I forgot about that' Mike says as he continues to stare into Irina's eyes

Why was he doing this? Well, he was trying to pull on over Irina to see if he could trick her into revealing anything by pretending to be charmed by having a change in facial expression, and how he looks at her ought to fool her. Now he would not mind being found out as he could salvage the situation a lot better than any other way

"So why are you both here?" Irina asks again

"We were both here to have me take part in an official quest warranted by the grand wizard to stay here for a few weeks and have me do some quests so I could test my skills in the field," Mike answers

5 and 1

The five stay as the one disappears, thank the gods but Mike knows that he has been found out with such a low roll as Irina's face sours up at Mike's response now.

"Look Mrs. Irina I know what you tried so don't think of doing it again alright I am a guest after all," Mike says as he sits up straight

Seeing that her attempt at charming Mike failed she just sighs at that and also goes back to sitting straight as they both just stare at each other in some sort of awkward atmosphere descends into the room.

After staying like that in this way for about a minute it is broken by a crisp knock on the door.

"Enter," Irina says as they both look to the door to see who is here

Montegue enters the room with a silver tray in his hands with a teapot filled with freshly brewed tea, two cups, and a plate full of cookies. Montegueplaced the tray on the table and proceeded to leave the room once he saw that their business was not yet done. Irina grabs the teapot and pours Mike a cup while also pouring herself one as well.

"Your kind can consume regular food and drinks," Mike asks as he grabs his cup and breathes on it intending to cool it

"We can but we gain no sustenance from doing so, but at least it helps us keep up our appearance as nobles and humans," Irina says as she just drinks hers straight away

"Would you like some of my blood then?" Mike asks intending to improve his skill

"Hahaha!" Irina starts laughing at Mike's suggestion she even snorted a little which was funny to Mike but he was very serious about this

Irina only stops laughing when she sees that Mike is looking at her in full seriousness and also the fact that snorting was not very lady-like as a noble.

"You are serious?" Irina asks

"Dead serious" Mike replies in kind

"Um... why would you want me to drink your blood?" Irina asks

"Uh... I liked it last time," Mike says while his face turns red from the embarrassment of what he is saying

"I knew you liked her!" Abbey yells out of nowhere

'Shut up! Alright, I will deal with you later!' Mike yells back in his head

"Um... well... this is..." Irina was at a loss for words for what Mike was asking for as usually no one in this world would willfully ask to have their blood drained out of their body

"Just think of this as my apology towards tricking you into thinking that I was hypnotized," Mike says further adding to the confusion

"But I was... Oh fine I am not one to turn down a free meal," Irina says as she stands up and goes over to Mike

"Just one thing though don't suck me dry I still want to be left alive after this," Mike says as he is a bit reluctant at this now that she was about to go through

"Don't worry I will restrain myself," Irina says as she grabs Mike's shoulder and moves his new armor out of the way from his neck

'Actually, what will happen when I try adding my mana into the mix?' Mike thinks as he added his mana into his blood when feeding Sarenthia so he wanted to try out what would happen while Irina was drinking from him

Irina bites into Mike's neck once more and just like last time he is assaulted by both pain and pleasure from the experience. This time the pain is a lot less than before but it still hurts a lot but it is not like he is blinded by pain or something like that. As Irina is doing her thing Mike moves his mana to his heart so that way his blood will naturally carry it towards his neck for Irina to have.

After a few seconds after mike started pumping his mana into his heart all of a sudden Irina stops sucking his blood from his neck. Confused Mike tries to see what Irina is doing before she starts drinking his blood again but this time instead of a little she seemed to be drinking buckets full of his blood that before he can cut off his mana his body is shutting down and turning purple from the blood loss!

"Irina stop!" Mike shouts trying to get her to stop but his words don't work so, unfortunately, he had to resort to something else

'Help!' Mike shouts in his mind and as so as he says that a flash of silver passes by his face

"Augh!" Irina shouts once more as her lower half is cut from her body once more as her upper half is just left dangling from Mike.

Thankfully through the pain, she seemed to have regained her senses and was now starting at Mike with a look of horror at what she just did.

"Sorry for ruining the dress," Mike says as her lower half is lying on the floor in a mess of organs and blood

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Charm effects in D&D done by a vampire- The charmed target regards the vampire as a trusted friend to be heeded and protected. Although the target isn't under the vampire's control, it takes the vampire's requests or actions in the most favorable way it can, and it is a willing target for the vampire to drink blood from