When the light faded, he knelt before me.
"I am reborn, my Lord," he said, his voice now a smooth, confident tenor. "I am Saburo. Your Vampire Noble. I swear my eternal, undying fealty to you."
The sincerity in his voice was actually… impressive.
Maybe this wasn't a total disaster after all.
He was still an idiot. But now, he was a powerful, evolved, and surprisingly noble idiot.
And he was my idiot.
I looked at my newly promoted commander. At the smoking ruins of the dwarven forge. At the mountain that still stood between me and my prize.
The distraction was over.
Now, it was time to meet the king.
Chapter 127: A Most Unreasonable Demand
The final gate of the Hakui mountain fortress loomed before us.
It was a masterpiece of dwarven engineering, a single, seamless slab of shimmering, silver-like metal that hummed with a barely contained power.
My army, a brutal and beautiful collection of monsters, stood ready.
