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Published at 29th of April 2018 12:50:05 AM


Chapter 292: The Mystery Behind the Antagonism of the Supernatu

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It was very rare for Vivian to resort to such a sardonic tone. Even when she had her scuffles with Lily, her voice rarely carried such venom. Her few words earlier were pretty much zeroed in on Zeon's pretty face and the latter was so nonplussed that he stood there, stunned for a good while. He never thought Vivian would argue from THAT perspective.

It was almost as if he never thought that Vivian, being a part of the Blood Clan would take a perspective of an outsider and chastise him for something he thought was for the immense benefit of his kind. This was almost unthinkable to most normal vampire.

Leaving the question of ownership of a thousand year old ruin aside, the fact that a normal vampire would not even question Zeon's actions (while his claims were indeed dubious). Vivian was however, not your run off the mill vampire. She had a very unique view when it comes to the matter of race. While she may at times think like a usual vampire, such as hating werewolves, most of the time she took the side of the outsider and discarded her identity as a vampire to determine if a course of action was right or just. She had a very unique 'detached view' as a vampire, but how this point of view even occurred to her, the lady herself doesn't seem to know.

But what is sure that her point of view had put the Lucas in an awkward position. Even Hessiana looked at Vivian, tears almost welling in her eyes. "Lady Vivian.... It... sounds like you are scolding me as well... I have another half of the key..."

"That's why I was asking you why did you even got involved in this? It's better to just leave unknown energies alone, who knows if that energy is radioactive." Vivian took a glance at Hessiana, her eyes were much more gentle now. It seemed like she had recovered from the 'detached view' of hers. "I admit I was rather harsh earlier, but facts are facts. The ruins doesn't belong to any of you. They belong to the Olympians Of course you can say that those sorry lot had been destroyed so that's that, but let me remind you, Hesperides is still on the Peloponnese. She have her reasons to not bother with the ruins. That is not something you can simply ignore."

Vivian recomposed herself and a faint sadness appeared on her face. "Let me also remind you all something, to all of you young ones(she emphasised the word young ones very heavily, the destroyed Olympian family is a distant past, but to me, I can still hear their laughter and I even remember the time I was here in their gardens as a guest. The meaning of the ruin will differ between you and me. But I hope that you understand this, I don't wish to see what relics of my old friends are used as tools and stepping stones of your selfish endeavours."

Zeon demurred for a moment before asking, "My lady... If I may... what does Zeus look like?"

Vivian's expression changed almost immediately from nostalgic to stunned, she stammered for a while before, "The faces and voices of those hadst hath passed art still hither, how can one allow thee to claim this house as thyself? I WILL enter the ruins and my friends are following me!"

Hao Ren slammed his head on the table: Vivian's indignation earlier was nothing but drama. He almost thought that the lady had cured her amnesia. Zeon's innocent question had her going to the extend of using Shakespearean English for dramatic effect!

Zeon Lucas, having witnessed this ancient oddball of a vampire's being so adamant on the matter, and also recallied the non-stop rumour mill about her (mainly about her attitude and way of doing things) had undergone multiple changes to his expression in a span of few moments. Clearly he was shaken. He was first shaken when Lily reminded him about the precarious situation the supernaturals are in, and again when Vivian roasted him for being presumptuos on the ownership of the ruins. Both ladies had done with a job in rattling him. After demurring for a moment, he slowly rose and left the table. "I will need to discuss this through with the rest. But I'll let you know. I have my stand on this, I cannot just simply discard that because you are an Elder."

Vivian motioned her hand as if for Zeon to go ahead. "It will be disappointing if you don't have your own stand on this. You'd be worse than your brother."

Zeon bowed and left with his followers into a quiet room to discusee the matter. Hao Ren took the chance to pop the question that he had held in check for a whole day. "Why is this so complicated? Can't he... just open the door? Why do we need to even get to this stage?"

"Now you understand how a 'standard' Blood Clan thinks." Vivian smiled bitterly as she shook his head. "You may find that his stubborness is almost hilarious, but a few thousand, no hundreds even, this was considered the right frame of thinking. Even humans had once adopted this sort of tribalistic thinking. A city would declare war on another just because one of the traded slaves was an unmarked heathen. A village decimated to the last because someone brought in a statue deemed heretical. All this happened before, and who knows who actually came up which such dogmas. But since I was around I've seen fools like this who cannot think being their tribal circle. The one you saw was already considered a progressive vampire. At the very least he didn't attack when he heard of Lily's lineage. He even allowed werewolves to live in the city."

"And there are some vampires living in hideouts under the control of werewolves." Hessiana added. "Situation calls for it... Those who are dead set in the old ways are sure to perish. Those who wish to livem ust change. Of course, talking is easy, actually doing it is hard. We have been at each other's throat since time memorial though, and a lot of supernaturals simply don't just hate each other, they outright butcher each other. As you can see, asking them to get around singing Kumbaya won't be easy."

Seeing that people were on the topic, Y'zaks popped a curious question. "How did the vampires and werewolves started fighting? What about the other races? There has to be a start, a cause. Vivian said she can't remember. How about you?"

"Ugh.... that's beyond me." Hessiana said as she twirled her hair. "A lot of this sort of animosity seems to almost be natural... inborn, if you will... Don't let anyone know I say this but I have a guess. The bad blood between supernaturals isn't all that simple as it looks. There's definitely something more sinister..."

"?" Hao Ren tilted his head.

"I hate werewolves by nature, even though I have yet to even fight with one. I also never received any formal indoctriation and education of the Blood Clans, and I still hate werewolves. If I were to know someone is one, I will almost get pissed off automatically." Hessiana looked at Lily sightly embarassed. "I don't mean anything but after knowing that you were a werewolf I almost lost it. It was Lady Vivian who forcibly held me back. I'm fine now of course."

Lily innocently rubbed her scalp. "Why? Did I do anything wrong?"

Hao Ren felt like he had caught on to something. "Wait a minute. This is to say if we were to take a vampire and a werewolf from their clans and raise them in an enviroment were they have no contact with our supernaturals and they are educated in science and Marxism since young. When the two meet they will still be fighting? There's no real reason to it, just almost by instinct that they cannot stand to hear the name of the other?"

"The purer the bloodline, the worse it gets." Hessiana nodded. "I heard that the most ancient of vampires and werewolves don't even need to know the race of the other. They can simply sense the blood in the other. Simply catching a glance of another was enough for them to go berserk and fight until one party is dead."

Hessiana sighed as she finished. "So... that being said, the purest of blood have pretty much killed each other clean. So we have no witness to that. Of course, Lady Vivian is an exception to the above. She always have been."

Hao Ren frowned hard at the news and felt that things is indeed not as simple as it seems. Lily however seemed to have seen through it and she leapt up in a moment of eureka. "Is the problem like...in the DNA?"

Even that would not easily proved Hao Ren felt that if they were to delve deeper into this, they would probably need dig out whatever records available to find out what happened when and after the supernaturals crossed over into Earth.

There were so such antagonism between the non-human races in the Plane of Dreams afterall.

At the same time, Zeon appeared in front of them and cut the discussion short.

"I will open the gate to the ruins." The patriach of the Lucas still kept to that overly stiff and formal speech. "This is because Lady Vivian gave her guarantees. She is the Elder that is recognised by Blood Clans and have the right to interfere in any family's business. My decision is stemmed from this understanding."

Hao Ren almost sniggered. Even in admitting defeat he had set up a very convenient excuse to save face. This old-fashioned vampire seemed almost cute all of the sudden.

"Very well, then we shall dither no loner. I wish to visit the ruins now." Vivian nodded.

Zeon turned towards his followers as he awkwardly gave the order to his subordinates. ".... Prepare the sacred relics. Everything will need to be ready before noon for the ritual."





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