Hearing her questions, Evan burst into laughter once more while Eliza had a confused look on her face as she had never heard of this 'Human King' person before in her life.
"Pfft…Human king…Bahahaha. They actually told you guys that in reality...hahaha."
Evan had a hard time holding his laughter, much to the vampire girl's displeasure as she did not like being made fun of.
"Sorry about that, Griselda.
Although I knew the bullshit they told you guys, hearing it in reality, is a lot funnier."
The young hero spoke with a light chuckle, deciding to stop after noticing the Vampire girl, Griselda's increasing annoyance.
She was momentarily surprised that Evan knew her name but she then remembered him saying something about having appraised her earlier.
Nevertheless, the fact that he had appraised her and was able to see through her appraisal-blocking artifact, meant that he had seen her real level, stats and skills.
"And here I thought they'd at least spare a Lorelei Clan vampire like you the bullshit brainwashing."
Evan spoke with a sigh, but the words he spoke seemed to have a negative effect on Griselda.
"How do you know of my Lorelei Clan?
You humans are really gathering intel on us to wage war, aren't you?!"
"Pfft…war? We humans on this continent aren't even done warring with ourselves. Do you really think we have the time to wage war against people living on another continent?"
Griselda's expression turned strange upon hearing Evan's words. He most certainly was not acting the way she was taught that Humans on the Alpha continent would.
Although she came over here to find out if what she was taught was true, she was currently having mixed feelings about the whole situation.
She'd always found her Clan Leader's hatred of humans on the Alpha continent absurd, which was very weird considering there were also humans on her continent too, just that they didn't interact with them much.
Part of the reason she had come over here, was because she wanted to verify if all she'd been taught was true.
"I don't know what you were told back home but, Evan and I certainly don't have any intentions of killing you, okay?
Oh, by the way, I'm Eliza.
Nice to meet you, I guess?"
Seeing the other blonde human casually introduce herself only served to further amplify Griselda's strange feelings.
"…You…. you really aren't going to try and kill me?"
The moment she asked that question, Evan's amused smile disappeared from his face as he looked Griselda in the eye and spoke with a sigh.
"Dear, dear, Griselda…"
He summoned the unforged from his inventory and stabbed it into the ground, resting his palms atop the sword and activating his intimidation skill.
The air around them crackled with charged energy and the ambient energies thrummed wildly as an overwhelming weight of power descended upon the area.
Griselda felt like an invisible force was pressing down upon her very existence, sending shivers down her spine and raising the hairs on her neck.
The air grew heavy with a tangible aura, an amalgamation of power that made her every breath feel constricted, suffocating her in its intensity.
"If I really wanted to kill you…"
The pressure seemed to intensify with every word he spoke, evoking a mix of reverence, fear and a profound understanding of the vast chasm that was the difference in strength between her and Evan.
A suffocating sense of dread gripped her soul, as if she was standing on the precipice of complete annihilation, under the immense weight of the essence of destruction emanating from the 'human' in front of her.
"…we would not be having this 'conversation'."
Evan chuckled and deactivated his intimidation skill, leaving only the passive effect as he gave Griselda a light smile.
The Unforged fell back into his inventory and he pulled out a foldable chair, taking a seat and gesturing to the other foldable chair on the floor in front of Griselda before repeating his earlier words.
"Sit, let's talk a bit."
This time, Griselda didn't dare to refuse.
"Was that really necessary? You scared the poor girl."
"I only wanted to test how good my control over the essence of destruction was. Nothing much."
Since he was unable to level up, Evan had spent a lot of time improving his power manipulation and control, and he had become able to channel a bit of the essence of destruction, even when he did not have the Blessing of Destruction skill active.
And now, he just tested out imbuing said essence into his intimidation skill to see the effects, and from the traces of fear in Griselda's eyes, it was super effective.
"Show off."
Eliza snorted in reply before taking a step forward, crossing the distance between her and Griselda in a single breath, much to the Vampire girl's surprise.
Before Griselda could even take any other action, Eliza had already activated a spell on her.
"Serenitatem."
It was a Serenity Inducement type spell, one that allowed the user to induce powerful feelings of tranquillity in others, allowing one to keep others calm and peaceful.
And it was certainly something Griselda needed at this point.
"You feel okay now?"
"…yes."
"Good. Don't mind that idiot, he's been itching to show off his power for a while now."
"…"
Griselda didn't know what to say in reply to Eliza's words, she glanced at Evan who was playing with a fox-transformed Kayla and could not relate him to the same person she just saw mere moments ago.
"Evan, Chair."
Eliza requested another chair from Evan which the boy tossed over, catching it and taking a seat in front of Griselda before chatting up the girl, asking her a few questions.
Although her answers were a bit hesitant at first, she gradually became more forthcoming and within a few minutes, she was asking Eliza questions of her own, trying to understand the differences between the humans she was told about and the ones she was looking at.
By the time her conversation had ended, Eliza had an indescribable look on her face as from what Griselda told her, young vampires were basically taught that the humans on the Alpha continent were no different from monsters or devils.
"You know that some members of the Devil race aren't as bad as you'd think, right?"
"Some?"
"It's the same with humans, beastkin, dwarves, and every other race out there.
There are good ones, there are bad ones, and there are those who're in the grey area."
Evan replied to Eliza's words as he brought his seat closer while petting Kayla's fox form's fur. He sat a few metres away from the two girls, taking the fact that Griselda might still be scared of him into account.
"Lemme guess. She was taught that humans, under the command of the 'Human King', hunt down and kill any vampires they spot.
And the higher-ranking humans even like to torture the vampires under the sun for days, treating them like slaves and eventually killing them.
As for the reason…the 'Human King' was envious of the Vampire race's longevity and base superhuman abilities, and his envy grew into hatred and he tried to wipe them all out, right?"
"You're quite knowledgeable on this…"
The boy only shrugged in reply to Eliza's words, before turning to Griselda and saying.
"Lemme guess, they told you the name of the 'Human King'…is Rathal, did they not?"
""Huh?""
The two girls let out voices of surprise for varying reasons, Eliza because she knew the Rathal Evan was referring to and that he definitely wasn't any 'Human King' and Griselda because Evan had gotten the name she was taught correctly.
"Are you talking about 'Strongest Human' Rathal? One of 'The Five'? Since when did he become the king of humans?"
"That's what the Sovereign Vampires teach the younger ones. They are basically brainwashing them; it's quite sad when you think about it.
As for the reason why they hate the humans of the Alpha continent, it's simple."
Evan set Kayla down on the ground before continuing, speaking of the reason why the number of Sovereign Level existences on Aidos fell below 1000.
"Nearly three decades ago, 'Strongest Human' Rathal, killed twelve of the Vampire Race's Sovereign Level existences in his 'rampage'.
He's also the main reason why there are no more Vampires on the Alpha and Beta Continents."
A part of how Rathal, a human who was not even up to a century old, had reached the Level of Transcendents like the Kolvar and Zaos who spent centuries to get to that level.
"Just what on Aidos happened thirty years ago…?"
"Something we don't have the time to talk about now."
Evan replied as he looked at the system time and saw that it was past noon already, getting up from his chair and letting it fall back into his inventory.
He then walked up to Griselda and checked her status, pulling out half a dozen elemental fruits for each of her affinities and handing them to her.
"…what are these?"
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