Taming My Vampire Servant

"Is that the random guy you met in Betania?" Lucius suddenly interrupted. "The one you said is your type? Or am I wrong?"

Ivory widened her eyes in surprise that her best buddy once again thought of an excuse. She didn't know why, but he would always cover it up. Did he already know who did it? 

"Well… who's this random guy?" the prince raised his brow.

"The tavern was dark, so I couldn't really remember," she responded. She talked as if she was recalling the event, and her straight answer made the prince believe her, "Anyway, I was drunk. Please forget that embarrassing moment."

But at the back of her mind, she could faintly remember how her beloved Servant did it to her. Although she couldn't remember everything that happened that night, she could still feel his lips grazing her skin.

Ivory felt hot and she immediately turned her back from them. "So I hope we cleared up the misunderstanding…"

"I'll arrange a carriage for the three of you tomorrow," Prince Jirou said. He went beside Ivory and whispered to her ear, "Since you badly want to become a Royal Knight, I'll wait for you to become one… then I'll ask you to be my Queen again."

Ivory saw him smirk at her before he marched away with the knights. Afterwards, the maidservants led her to her chambers, which was beside Arcea's. She got worried that she might have said too much that it would certainly end her relationship with her even though she didn't really mean it that way. She only wanted her to be careful with her words in the future.

With a worried expression on her face, Ivory knocked at Arcea's room, but there was no answer. When she opened it, there was no one inside, so she figured she might have gone outside to get some fresh air. She asked a maidservant if she had seen her, and she said that she went to the rose garden, and she led the way.

As they walked on the hallway going to the said rose garden, a flashback of her old dream suddenly went through her mind. It was still so vivid as it occurred on her first day at Qawiun academy, and she had confirmed that it was the same castle based on the splendid interiors, memorabilias and antiques.

The horrifying dream included numerous dead bodies on the hallway, with their blood splattered on the doors, walls, and windows. She would never forget the rose garden and the Servant with crimson-colored irises who gazed at her intensely. 

It was the pre-summoning dream wherein she accepted Sigmund as her Servant and after recalling it, it left her wondering why it was brutal and bloody.

When Ivory arrived in the rose garden, she was shocked to see Arcea struggling to fight a woman wearing a maidservant's uniform. The woman, who had a blank expression on her face, was strangling her, and Arcea was taking a hold of her hands, trying to be freed.

"Arcea!" Ivory called. She then asked the maidservant who was with her to call for help, and she ran away from the scene. 

With haste, Ivory grabbed the odd woman's arms, and she was shocked because however she pulled it, it was too sturdy to move!

"Something's wrong-" Ivory was cut off when the woman pushed her, and she was thrown into the rose bushes, making her back bleed because of the thorns.

The Vampire, on the other hand, was thinking about his beloved Master as he glanced at the night sky. He and Lycus just arrived in front of the Sanctuary of Goddess Destinia where they would part ways.

"See you when Master Ivory returns," Lycus uttered.

But when he was about to talk to the guards to let him in, Sigmund grabbed his arm. He told him, "I'll go to the Silverblade Castle," he creased his brows, "I have a bad feeling..."

Lycus stared at Sigmund for a while, "I thought I was the only one. I have been feeling uneasy since we left Master at the castle…"

"Let's go back-"

"Not that way," he told him. "We'll ask for permission to use the back shore."

"Back shore?" Sigmund was confused but walked behind Lycus anyway.

Lycus asked the knight guard that they needed to talk to Priestess Althaia. Upon confirming with a disciple that both of them were allowed, they walked inside, and when they reached the stone bridge, the priestess greeted them.

"If you're both here without Miss Ivory, then there must be something wrong," she said, then turned to Sigmund. "Welcome to the Sanctuary of the Goddess."

Sigmund nodded at her as a simple greeting. "I am Ivory's.. Spirit Servant."

Lycus told her about the situation, and that he had become her full-fledged Servant. Althaia expressed her excitement and told him that it was an honor to be Ivory's Servant, but they left out the other details because Sigmund was there beside him.

Sigmund was sensing the extraordinary mana scattered throughout the place. If it was true that most people here were related to Ivory in a way, and they were protected by Goddess Destinia, then she must be a special person. And Lycus, who pretended to be a relative, turned out to be a Spirit Servant who served her family, so perhaps some of the people within the Sanctuary were also Spirit Servants. Although there were still many questions left to answer, he did not know how or what to ask her first.

As long as she wouldn't drift away from him like her past Master, he decided that he wouldn't peer too much with the secrets involving the Goddess herself because he knew that it might cause problems for Ivory.

Priestess Althaia, with other six disciples, went to the dungeon underneath the bridge, and they got out to see the back shore. 

"Sail on the waters and you'll reach the Silverblade Castle's shore. It's directly linked to the prison because the Royal Knights have been asking us for help… Anyway, you should go now," she pointed to the side of the shore where there was a small boat. "You two can fit in there. I highly recommend that you use Water Magic to make your transfer faster, just be careful of your mana being depleted."

"I'll go alone," Sigmund told them. "I'll need you to be my Plan B, just in case something happens."

"Plan B?" Lycus asked. "No, I'll come with you. I'm also worried about our Master."

But the priestess shook her head, "He's right. Stay here, in case of emergency."

Sigmund quickly ran towards where the boat was and rode it. He then used Water Magic to create some waves.

As the view of the boat became smaller, Priestess Althaia's brows creased. She was sensing something wrong with Ivory's first Servant, but she didn't know what it was.

When Sigmund reached ashore ten minutes later, he had already seen the heavily guarded coast, and as soon as he stepped foot on it, he was instantly blocked by one of the knights.

"I am Ivory Sprucemint's Servant. She's inside," Sigmund said. "Move aside, before I get mad."

"My, my, how brave," a man in a different armor suddenly said. "Remember me?"

"Ah, shoot. The Royal Knight from Gallean Town," he said. The knight unblocked the way, and the two of them talked as they walked on the hallway of the prison. 

"Why are you not with her?" Xenos asked him.

"She insisted that I shouldn't come. But I had a bad feeling, so I asked the Priestess in the Sanctuary to let me pass the shore. They said it's the fastest way here."

"Miss Sprucemint must be a special woman. The Priestess doesn't just let anyone inside the Sanctuary, you know. Even us Royal Knights can only be allowed on their shore."

"Even I still do not know everything about her," he responded. "And I also think there's more about her that even she herself does not know yet."

Xenos nodded at him, "I see. Then maybe she-"

"SIR JOLTANE!" another Royal Knight came rushing towards him. He panted when he stopped in front of Xenos.

"What happened?"

"It's a mess… The garden is a mess!"

Hearing this, Xenos and Sigmund followed him towards the rose garden. Before they even reached it, they already heard several explosions here and there.

"What happened here?" Xenos asked a knight, who saw what happened.

"The fight's been going on," he said, panicking. "The knights and thirty maidservants are having a fight right now, sir-."

"WHAT? What nonsense are you saying?" the blue haired Royal Knight knitted his brows. 

How did it become such a mess? Unfortunately, almost all the Royal Knights came with King Yama Dragonicus on a month-long journey to discover more islands around the Kingdom, so there were only a few Royal Knights left to protect the Prince.

"How did this start?" Xenos continued interrogating. 

"Well, the maidservants started targeting His Highness Prince Jirou," the man gulped in nervousness. "How ominous! They acquired mana, even though they're not Chosen Ones."

"Sh*t. It's the Dark Mana," Xenos murmured. He started walking towards the rose garden, and the Vampire went after him.