–AN) I fell asleep :P–

Rocks flew in all directions. The barriers that the two girls put up were pelted by said rocks. Mile and Vinea were actually in shock. This was not something a normal person could do! A single punch wiped out the entire mountain.

As the dust settled, the two girls saw Blake hovering in the air in the middle of the mountain. He waved his hand, and a large golden sphere appeared in front of him. It was about two times his size and gave off a strange energy that neither girl had ever felt before.

“What is that!?” Vinea was very curious! She wondered just what Blake had found!

“I have no idea, but the energy seems very powerful. Why would such a thing be inside the mountain?” Mile had many questions too, but she could only watch on as Blake shoved the large golden sphere into a pouch and flew back over to them.

“Alright, I am going to the next mountain.” Blake could see they had questions, but he did not have time to explain things. Even if he did, he himself had no idea what the orb was. He, too, wanted to know, but he would need to wait until he returned to Destiny City and had the others look at it.

The two girls could only nod their heads. And follow after him. Like this, the group of three went from mountain to mountain. And in a flash, four days had gone by, and all the mountains in the area had been inspected. Blake was now checking the ground within the same region to see if there was anything worth digging out.

On the fifth day, Blake sat by a small pond and poked a campfire he had made. He looked over at Vinea, who he had barely spoken to this entire week, and saw that she was happily smiling away as if she was having the time of her life. While the girl, who he finally found out the name of, Mile, was looking quite worried.

“So, Vinea, are you going to tell me who exactly you are?” Blake decided to ask.

“Ah….. Ummm….” Vinea looked a bit conflicted. She did not know if Blake would act differently if he found out she was the princess of the vampire clan.

“She is the princess of the vampire clan,” Mile answered for her. She hoped this would make Blake back off. A little so they could go back already. She had already gotten sick of all this flying around and accomplishing nothing. Only on the first day did they find anything. And since then, it had been nothing but a lot of boring waiting.

“Mile!” Vinea cried out. She wanted to blow the stupid girl’s head off! But she did not dare act so violently in front of Blake!

Blake actually held his head. He had an inkling, but he did not expect that he truly would run into another princess! But this did not mean he was going to treat her any differently. “So princess stinky feet of the stinky feet clan.”

“Don’t make up weird names for me! And my feet do not stink!” Vinea was getting very sick of this joke! Of course, Blake was only saying this since it riled the girl up. He found it quite amusing. But he truly wondered what the deal was. Every girl who is a princess seems to fall in love at first sight. He began to wonder if Mina had some truth in her words when she called him a princess picker. Maybe he had some secret skill that made him a princess magnet.

Scratching his head, he wondered what he should do about this new girl. Lillia and the others will all give him strange looks. But he could not miss this chance to make ties with the vampire clan. They were still a very powerful clan, even if they were much weaker than destiny city. Plus, they were a clan that had survived the old world and woke up in the new world. They may have had an impact on the humans who slowly evolved during that time into what he was now.

If that was the case, then he and all of humanity’s accomplishments were thanks to the vampire clan. If they had not chosen to intervene during that time, humans might not have evolved at all. But he did not know this for sure. He was just making his own assumptions. But luckily, his curiosity did not need to go unanswered. “Vinea, this might seem like an off the wall question, but did your race help with human evolution?”

“Yes, unfortunately. While normally we would not do such a thing, we had no choice. The level of intelligence at that time was not good. There were even over fifty races of humans, though most died out when times changed or were over hunted.

“During that time, we did not want to turn any humans, so we were just draining their blood until they died. But this had to stop when most humans were suddenly wiped out when a giant meteor smashed into the planet, causing the first ice age. Only a few races survived. But in the end, we began teaching them more and more until their minds progressed enough to start inventing things on their own. Then we just sat back and let them repopulate. After all, to us, we were just taking care of our cattle.” In Vinea’s mind, humans were just their food. After so many years of taking care of them, they saw humans as pets. Pet’s that grew smarter and smarter.

But her race expected this much. Humans, after all, were a species that were able to stand at the top once they evolved enough. She did wonder if humans would eventually evolve into something completely new, but the chance to see that would never come to pass. Her clan lived side by side with the humans, only taking what they needed and replenishing their numbers when they could. But even now, Vinea still wondered what humans would have looked like hundreds of thousands of years from now after evolving a few more times naturally without the assistance of mana.