My Three Wives Are Beautiful Vampires

Chapter 714 714 : Runes

Surprisingly, Victorʼs lessons for Valeria didnʼt take long. It seemed that the ʼcontractʼ and the energy that was used did much more than just empower her body and ensure eternal youth.

The High Priestess soaked up Victorʼs teachings like a sponge, she became even more capable, and that detail put a satisfied smile on Victorʼs face.

Valeria herself was surprised by this too. Things now seemed much clearer to her, it was as if a limitation imposed by the world had been removed, and she could do much more than before.

ʼIs this what it means to overcome your humanity?ʼ She couldnʼt help biting her lips in ecstasy; it was a very intoxicating feeling.

Finishing his business, Victor left this place for his wives to take over. He already did more than necessary, and it was time to enjoy his vacation.

...

Yes... He was supposed to enjoy his vacation, but the moment he set foot in Nightingale, he was told that Scathach wanted to see him. Thinking it would be a quick thing, he went to visit Scathach, but...

ʼWhy am I sitting here?ʼ he wondered.

Victor, Siena, Lacus, Pepper, and Ruby were sitting on the floor next to each other while Scathach was standing in front of them.

”Hi, Kids. Today, I will be teaching about runes.”

”...”

Victorʼs smile trembled a little, then he raised his hand as if he were at school:

”Master, I already learned about runes.”

”Silence, stupid disciple, what you learned in hell cannot be described as Runes but demonic scriptures. The two things are completely different.”

”Shishou, Iʼm sure I learned about runes,” Victor spoke confidently.

”Oh? Write a word with runes then, and stop changing the language when calling me ʼMasterʼ.”

”Okay, Magister.” He spoke in perfect Latin.

Scathachʼs eyes glinted dangerously.

”....” Siena, Lacus, Pepper, and Ruby flinched before their motherʼs gaze. Despite being more ʼfamiliarʼ with each other, after all, they share the same man and have a closer relationship than before, they still feel pressure from Scathach.

Lacusʼ and Pepperʼs cheeks turned redder when they thought about that ʼpervertedʼ detail.

ʼOyakodon and Shimadon...ʼ Pepper blushed furiously, her perverted mind going places it shouldnʼt right now.

Victor raised his hand in the air, and with his fingers, he wrote four red ʼrunesʼ in the air.

Scathach waited for the rune to be activated, but nothing happened: ”... So?”

”Thatʼs just it.” Victor declared, then added, ”These runes have more effect when I use my authority as a demon king.”

”... Haah ... As I said, Disciple. Thatʼs not a rune.”

”...” Victor raised his eyebrow.

”What you have done now is demonic deed.” Scathach creates an ice face, and writes something in the air, soon four ʼscripturesʼ are written in the air.

”That...”

”Itʼs divine scripture, itʼs the same thing as demonic scripture, but theyʼre mostly used for the gods.”

”The demons, and the gods have their own way of writing, and communicating, and that language has power, youʼve heard the saying; the words have power?”

”Yes.”

”What happens here is an example of that, since you are a demonic king, the highest authority of hell, you can use these ancient languages to write laws, and demonic contracts, but this is not Runes.”

”Runes is writing your intentions into reality, and for that we use languages that have power like demonic or divine scriptures.”

”... Wait, in a way, Victor has already learned about runes, but only the ʼlanguageʼ in which this power works.” Ruby spoke.

”Correct.”

”Through the authority of the demon king, he is unintentionally using a special type of rune, the portals of hell, and the demon contract he made with Valeria is just that.”

”He used the ancient language, and authority as a demon king made the whole process happen.”

”Ugh... Does anyone sum this up in 20 words? I do not understand anything.” Pepper grumbled.

”Mm.” Lacus nodded in agreement with Pepper.

”Think of it this way, for the effect known as a ʼRuneʼ to happen, we need to utilize an ancient language, intent, and power to shape the ʼRuneʼ into reality. Because I have the authority of the Demon King, I am skipping the entire process, and going straight to the result.”

”With that authority, I canʼt make other Rune effects like the storage bag created by the Alioth Clan, or the changes Scathach made to our armor and weapons.”

”...Oh.” Lacus made a face that understood what Victor said.

”That wasnʼt 20 words, Darling.” Pepper snorted.

Victor chuckled and patted Pepperʼs head.

”Hehehe ~.”

”What Clan Alioth does is an even more advanced and complex level of Runes because they are using his special power for that, probably only Alexios and Natalia can make runes that special in the whole world.”

ʼEven the gods would have a hard time doing this, because this is something that mixes the concept of space, time, and runes.ʼ

”And stop molesting my daughter, and concentrate on your homework.” Scathach narrowed her eyes.

”How rude to call it molesting, Iʼm just stroking her head.”

”Vic, do this to me too...” Lacus spoke with the voice of a mosquito.

”Sure.” Victor starts stroking Lacusʼs head as well.

”Mm~.”

Siena and Rubyʼs eyes slightly glowed blood red when they saw Lacus and Pepperʼs happy face.

Scathach did facepalm, she was wondering if she lost the knack of teaching her disciples. ʼAm I getting softer?... This canʼt happen, right?ʼ Her eyes glittered dangerously.

And the fours felt a foreboding coming over them.

”Pay attention now, or I will increase the training-”

”Oh?” Victor smiled interestedly.

”Not for you Victor! For my daughters.”

”Tsk, petty.”

The four girls shuddered, and quickly turned their attention to her mother.

After all, unlike Victor who would be only too happy to spar with an angry Scathach, they werenʼt like that! The only one who could handle this female dragon was Victor!

”Back to the point... Runes are essentially imposing your will and in fact, through various methods the most common of which is the three-way method, we utilize the three main essences of building a rune which are ancient languages, energy, and intention.”

”Watch.” With the ice wand in hand, he draws three different writings in the air, a golden script, a red script, and a blank script.

”Can anyone tell me what these scriptures are?”

”The letter patterns are the same as Victor and you showed us, so the red writing is demonic writing, the gold writing is divine writing, and the last one appears to be Nordic.”

Scathach nods satisfied indicating she was correct, and asks curiously, ”Do you know about Old Norse?”

”I donʼt know.”

”How did you identify the words then?”

”I saw it in a comic.”

”...” Scathach and Siena were speechless.

Victor just chuckled gently at Rubyʼs brutal honesty.

”Oh, now that you mention it, it looks like the designs shown in the Thor comics.” Pepper narrows her eyes: ”Itʼs pretty similar to the enchantment Odin put on Mjolnir.”

”Speaking of Mjolnir, do you think Victor would be worthy of wielding it?” Lacus asked.

”Probably.” Pepper spoke.

”But he doesnʼt seem worthy enough.” Ruby pointed.

”I mean, he might as well seduce the perverted hammer, and sheʼll do whatever he wants like a good little bitch.”

Victor stared at Pepper with a speechless expression.

”I donʼt understand where this conversation is going, but I must ask, why do you think Thorʼs hammer is a girl?” Siena asked confused.

”I mean, anything Victor comes into contact with turns into a girl. I would be more shocked if it was a man.”

”HmmHmm.” Ruby and Lacus nodded several times in agreement with Pepper.

”... Okay... Youʼve been watching and consuming a lot of anime lately, how about a break?”

”I refuse!” Lacus, Pepper, and Ruby spoke at the same time with a hardened expression and a deep voice.

”...” Victor just stared at the three girls with an expressionless expression, then he looked at Siena, and touched her shoulder.

”You are the most normal of them all.”

”... Huh?”

”Itʼs okay, I understand.” He pulls Siena into a hug, and pats her head.

”Do you understand what - Ehhh?” Sienaʼs face turned slightly red when she felt Victorʼs scent stronger, but that only lasted a few seconds, then she took a deep breath, and shamlessly rubbed her head on his chest.

ʼDegenerate pervert.ʼ Pepper, Lacus, and Ruby snorted.

”...” Scathach just watched it all with veins popping in her head.

”Watch!” She landed on the ground, and the killer instinct exploded from her body.

”Y-Yes!” Like four startled rabbits, the girls practically jumped in fright, and quickly straightened their postures and looked at Scathach with the expression of a soldier awaiting orders.

Victor just looked at Scathach with a sunny smile that made Scathachʼs brow twitch.

”What?”

”Nothing, I just find that side of you quite attractive.”

Scathachʼs killing intent visibly lightened, a hint of a smile appeared on her lips, and small imperceptible blushes appeared on her cheek.

”Stop the sweet words, it wonʼt fool me! Now pay attention!”

”Yes~.”

”...” Pepper, Lacus, and Ruby had to fight back the urge to roll their eyes, they wanted to know how much her mother became such a Tsundere.

”Back to the explanation, although they are written in different languages, each character here means only one thing; fire.”

”Look and learn.” Scathach makes some movements with his hand, and the three characters start to glow, in the next moment the scriptures seem to become more ʼrealʼ.

Victor who was watching all this with his dragon eyes just opened his eyes with what he was witnessing, in a somewhat barbaric way, Scathach was imposing his will on reality.

ʼThis is interesting...ʼ

Right after that, fire started shooting from each scripture, the demon scripture was the first to be activated, a huge ball of fire shot out of the demon scripture and flew towards the sky.

Then it was the divine scripture that went out an even greater fire than before.

When the Norse scripture was activated, the fire that came out was a normal fireball.

”By using my energy, and imposing my intention on the language, that language becomes Runes.”

”Now, tell me which was the strongest?”

”The divine scripture.” The five responded in unison, however only Victor added:

”But the divine scripture consumed much more energy than necessary, the same applies to the demonic scripture, the norse scripture seemed to be more stable.”

”...” Scathach looked at Victor, specifically his dragon eyes.

”Correct. Do you know why the demonic and divine runes take so much energy from me?”

”Is it because you are not the same race as those ancient bloodlines?”

”...Explain why you think that.”

”Intuition. When you used the runes, I noticed an incongruity in the way your energy behaved.”

”...And you are correct.” Scathach spoke.

Those eves are a cheat.” Siena rolled her eyes.

Nobody commented on those words because they were feeling the same way.

”Leaving my husbandʼs cheating existence aside-.”

”Oyy!”

”Mother, please continue.” Ruby spoke.

”Haah... As you can see, the more ancient, and important the language, the more the runes will have power, but donʼt think that just because you are using an ancient language, the effect of the rune will activate without consequences, the origin of the language is something that must be taken into account.

”As Victor pointed out, the divine and demonic languages took a huge amount of stamina and energy out of me, and I just made a simple Rune with them, imagine the amount of energy I would need to do something like that.” Scathach raised the Spear towards the group, and soon hundreds of small runes began to glow all over the Spear.

”As a mortal, I always recommend using mortal tongues, because of this, in my runic workings, I usually use Akkadian, a dead language, or Old Norse.”

”Master, how exactly do you set the intention in the scripture to become a Rune?” Victor asked.

”... This is something Iʼm curious about too, I didnʼt understand that part.” Siena commented.

”Hmm... How to explain this...” Scathach touches the frown on her face, she seems to be thinking deeply, soon she replies:

”Do you need to listen to existence, and talk to him?”

”...”

”Donʼt look at me like that, I can only think of explaining it that way, because thatʼs literally what I do.”

”... Do you converse with ʼexistenceʼ?” Siena asked confused.

”Hmm, the more correct saying is that I give an order that generates a trigger, and it appears in reality.”

”... This is confusing...” Pepper mumbled.

”Indeed.” Ruby nods.

”Master, is it possible to use Runes in combat?” Victor asked visibly excited.

”Itʼs impossible.”

”... why?”

”Working with runes is a delicate process, any loss of concentration when you are ʼimposing your will on the worldʼ can lead to catastrophes for yourself.” ”And as you know, in a fight every second counts.”

”Because of this, runes are mostly used as support, or preconfigured in an artifact like this Spear.”

”Wait, doesnʼt that mean we canʼt put several pre-installed ones, to be activated worth our energy?” Ruby pointed.

”What do you mean?”

”I mean pick up a weapon, and write fire runes, and then use our stamina to activate the rune instantly.”

”...Oh, youʼre talking about built-in enchantment.”

”Yes, it is possible to do that, but it is impossible to do it the way you said.”

”Why?”

”Runes are not something that lasts forever, do you remember when I activated the fire earlier, the runes disappeared?”

”Yes...”

”Thatʼs what would happen to the item or the Ruin itself if you abused the enchantment.”

”Oh.”

”Remember that the Rune is something that imposes its will on reality, and this causes wear and tear both physically and for the material on which the rune was written.”

”...”

”... If we had stronger material, could we do this?”

”Yeah, thatʼs what I did with my Spear, but Victor... Writing runes on material is extremely time consuming, because mistakes are not allowed, it took me years to finish this Spear of mine.”

”I had to carve each rune with extreme care, any mistake I would have lost precious material and possibly killed myself.”

”...” Everyone broke out in a cold sweat, Runes is something very dangerous, they thought.

”Not to mention that using a rune-sculpted weapon like a flamethrower is extremely inefficient.”

”Why?” Lacus asked.

”The fire that came out of the Rune might be relatively strong, but itʼs just normal fire, and stronger beings would barely feel those attacks.”

”Oh.” The girls understood now.

”So itʼs more efficient to use the runes as a passive support force, something like putting various spells to increase strength, senses, etc.”

”Of course, remember not to overdo the enchantments, and you donʼt want to die, right?”

”....”

”Oh, one of the consequences of getting a rune enchantment wrong can be fading out of existence, so be very careful when doing long enchantments, and make sure you are 100% focused.” She spoke with a gentle smile that made everyone shiver.

”... Mother, we havenʼt even learned how to write runes yet! Why are you saying this?” Siena asked.

”It is for you to remember. This is also a warning to Victor.”

”Eh?”

”Toying with Runes without an experienced teacher around is extremely dangerous and will endanger not only yourself, but also the people around you.” ”I will teach you the way of the runes, who wants to learn?”

All without exception raised their hands.

”Good.”

”Scathachʼs lesson is over.” Victor spoke next.

The girls looked at Victor with raised eyebrows.

”What are you going to teach, Victor?”

”Something like that.” Victor gets up from the ground, he walks a little distance, as he walks his arm starts to be covered by the water, and with a wave of his hand, a big cut appears on the ground, the hole is deep! And there wasnʼt even any kind of explosion, just cutting like a blade.

”...”

”High pressure water can cut diamond, I learned a way to imitate this high pressure.”

”...”

”I will teach that too.” Victor points his finger at a tree, then an ice sphere appears on his finger, this ice sphere begins to rotate at high speed.

”Bang.” The ice sphere flies towards the tree, but instead of penetrating the tree, it simply explodes and covers the entire tree with ice, and in the next moment, the ice shatters, shattering the tree into thousands of pieces.

”Holy fuck... He didnʼt control the ice, right? He just shot it and it happened.” Siena spoke.

”Yes... The entire process after firing the sphere has been automated.” Scathach commented in visible disbelief.

ʼHas he already reached this level with ice control?ʼ

”To Lacus, I will teach this.” Victorʼs body transforms into thousands of bats, and the next moment he ʼreappearsʼ on the other side of the training area.

”I-I-Itachi skill!” Pepper stood up with her eyes shining.

Victor repeats the same thing he did before, and appears in front of the group.

”This is so cool!!” Pepper jumped making the mountains rise sway back and forth, up and down.

”Teach me! Teach me! Teach me!”

Victor smiles gently: ”Calm down Pepper, Iʼll teach you too.”

”Yay!”

Ruby walked silently closer to Victor, and held his clothes.

”...” Victor looked at Ruby, and even though her expression was neutral, her excited eyes couldnʼt be hidden.

”Of course, Iʼll teach you too, Ruby.”

”Mm.”

Victor laughed, it was adorable how clumsy she was at these things.

Victor felt his clothes being tugged at again, and saw Lacus and Sienaʼs faces.

”Iʼll teach you too, but remember Girls, this is very difficult to do, you need to completely master changing your body shape.”

”So I suggest focusing on your strengths first.”

”... If itʼs so hard to do, why did you train it?”

”I spent 700 years in an enclosed space training, when I ran out of ideas what to train, I would go back to basics, and learn to better control my racial powers, and that opened up other avenues for me that allowed me to increase my strength.”

Seeing Victor talking to her daughters, her face tightened.

ʼThey completely forgot my lesson.ʼ She sighs, and her gaze becomes kinder, the image of all her daughters talking harmoniously gives her a sense of peace. ʼThatʼs not bad... I actually like it a lot.ʼ

”Scathach?”

”Hmm?”

”Are we going to go back to learning about runes??” Victor smiled gently.

She laughed lightly, ”Of course.”

...

Edited By: DaVo 2138, IsUnavailable