Reincarnated With The Van Helsing System

”The people with relatives I have seen before, either pushed each other in front of incoming attacks to buy a second or two or directly attacked with their relatives in the way using them as distractions without any care, so I don’t have the most accurate knowledge about filial love, but don’t they look a bit too close for siblings?”, asked Laila to Sera, who answered a second later.

”Mmm, it varies from case to case, but this is different…”, now the nature of their relationship is not what drew those two’s attention, relatives pairing with each other is nothing weird in the four galaxies.

Mages and knights have really long lives, the vast majority doesn’t even die due to reaching the end of their lifespan but are killed due to conflict, be it inner power struggles or a skirmish with an enemy clan or family, many reach the limit of their potential and are unable to advance anymore.

Of course, like the old saying goes, if there is a will there is a way, but the majority don’t really have the mentality to go through what it takes to break through their limits, and thus you end up with people that know they can’t grow stronger but still have way too long lives to live, which leads to seek to try every kind of thrill there is out of boredom, interpret it that the way you want, of course this is a result for those with weak will.

Then you have races that value lineage purity, like the elitists among the magic beast descendant ones like the Jolbaris and those that despise mixing with other races like the devil ones or the alfear, there are also clans with special traits among humans that they absolutely don’t want to leak out of their families.

If anything, it is rare for siblings but not because it is frowned upon due to proximity, but because usually they are given partners from branch families to produce a wider variety of descendants in a try to hit the ”jackpot” with one, that was the case of Tessa, her mother was a maternal cousin of her father, she despite coming from a branch family had a really high lineage purity enough to be sought after by the royal prince of back then, now the current king.

The exception are special cases in which the descendants coming from the same parents have too low purity so that, unless they produce offspring together the lineage is at risk of thinning too much, but that’s obviously not the case for Daimon and Aisha.

Anyway, that’s not what caught Laila and Sera’s attention, just as that’s not the reason as to why Daimon has kept the fact that Aisha is his lover presenting her as her sister even to the Risha sisters and her closest friends, but because Aisha herself told him that if he was going to reveal that to others, it is because he is willing to trust them with their real identities, in other words that they come from the Naktis family.

So Daimon of course kept quiet about it, it was a decision he took because it involved too important subjects in his mind, after all, magic to rejuvenate perfectly as Aisha did, doesn’t exist in the four galaxies, so knowing about Aisha’s real identity could lead to trouble, not to mention that he as a Naktis had lightning and metal affinities and talent as a knight even if he couldn’t use neither of that, but as Daimon Licht he is a mage and a darkness user.

It was both in consideration to his identity as a system user, his unique traits, Aisha’s safety and because Daimon wasn’t willing to trust anyone outside of his soulmates back then, something he has grown past as of current which is what Aisha hoped for, when she asked for things to be handled this way.

Basically, all of Daimon allies know he is both a mage and a knight now, not to mention that while knowledge about his status as a system user is kept vague for most of them, it’s not because Daimon is unwilling to tell them, but for their own good and there is a huge difference between one and the other.

And how does all of that matter in why Serai and Laila were surprised by the ”feeling” that Aisha gave off when interacting with Daimon you wonder, well, it’s simple, unlike before entering the global raid, the Aisha of now was not giving the vibes of a relative in the slightest, she looked and approached Daimon as a lover without hiding it at all.

It is that, which caught the attention of those two, they had never seen a person radiate such a strong love for someone, perhaps if Sera and Laila were present when the Risha sisters or the Nethereal sisters reunited with Daimon, then it might have been different, though in terms of ”intensity” perhaps only Sarah could rival a soulmate, not in the same healthy way though, but certainly in a somewhat close level to them.

And in case you wonder why Nasha who is also Daimon’s soulmate didn’t give them this feeling, that’s also easy to answer, she doesn’t understand emotions yet, what she knows is that she doesn’t want to ever be apart from Daimon, she doesn’t want to see him getting hurt and that she can’t help but smile when she is with him, she loves him with every bit of her existence but can’t reflect that to others the way the other soulmates can do.

’My darling has grown so much~’, thought Aisha, with the ”Daimon” that stood in front of her, she no longer had to worry about her beloved living a sad isolated life, so she no longer needed to restrain herself as he has friends whom he can fully trust, and this change in her ”vibe” is going to surprise quite a few girls later by the way, but let’s leave that aside for now.

’I didn’t even tell her about the achievement that led to the ”boundless” mission series, as expected of the first soulmate, no, as expected of Aisha who loves Daimon in every possible way, she noticed it just after a single gaze’, thought Eve who had woken up the moment Aisha appeared.

”Ahem, before anything, let’s take refuge inside this cave, more of those decayed blood specters might come out any second”, said Daimon who felt the curious gazes of Sera and Laila as well as Aisha’s clearly different attitude in front of others, from before they entered the global raid.

And he was right, there was still half an hour until night came, but roars and other animalistic sounds could be heard from the vast expanse of black mist that covered everything within view.

That is also why Daimon didn’t worry about Ereth’s group leaving them behind, the Lords had no influence on the blood specters in this unique area and so Ereth didn’t have their backup in that aspect here.

And while his group should be strong enough to deal with those crazed blood specters, that would mean using their mana and wearing themselves out, while having enemies approaching them, it’s not something a pain in the ass like Ereth who has survived so many strong enemies would do, therefore his group was going to stop advancing as well.

’So, this is why that little thing went as far as to ”cheat” to bring us here, this area is too big to be crossed in a single go, no matter how fast one is, one would have to spend a night here, if we didn’t travel through space we would have been at the start of the decayed area while Ereth would be at the later part when night arrived’, thought Daimon.

That would mean that Daimon’s group would still need to spend a night in the decayed area, but Ereth’s one would be out of it by then, chances are that those crazed blood specters can only emerge in the area where that bottomless abyss is in the open, so Ereth could travel during night outside of the decayed area with the help of the Lord’s blood specters escorting him.

That’s also one of the reasons as to why Aisha couldn’t catch up with them, Arch rank blood specters kept coming at her during night but Ereth’s group had a free ride courtesy of the Lords, well, that and because they left a lot of nuisances in the form of Arlion’s subordinates to get in her way, until they reached this area, after that only the subordinates were there to slow her down, which is why she nearly got to them.

”Daimon, if there is no problem with it, can you take out more of the food from earlier, it was quite delicious?”, said Sera the moment Daimon sealed the cave with a large rock.

”Sure, let’s have dinner”, said Daimon, which made Aisha gaze at him.

”Hoh, I noticed that they weren’t surprised about me not calling you ”Gabriel”, but to think you are already on a first name basis, I know I was the one that wanted you to get close to more people but… why are mostly all of them girls?”, said Aisha as she poked Daimon’s right cheek with her pretty index finger.

It didn’t help that Lezabel casually decided to come out of her vessel to then say.

”I know right, he is not a hero and given the battle prowess he has, I can’t imagine his concept being something disgusting like ”Divine Lover” or ”Lust Monk” and yet all four of us are women, to have such ”attraction” without actively aiming for it is also one of the reasons as to why I’m interested in Daimon, in all the meaning of the word~”, said the ghost girl.

”Sister, don’t cause trouble to Daimon”, added Ariel as she also came out of the feather pendant.

”Hey you two, don’t casually come out in front of others, seeing you might affect Sera and Laila”, said Daimon to which Lezabel shook her head in response.

”Nah, though they couldn’t see me, they already had perceived me because Marcus didn’t care to influence them negatively when we were travelling together, so any damage that could be done was already done, not to mention that even if they heard about things as concepts from me, the impact on them is not even close to being close with you anyway, so it will be fine”, said Lezabel to then smirk as she added.

”In fact, it was the ”negative” influence of Marcus on that girl from the church of light, what brought her to meet your group separately from Marcus’s one, that fool didn’t stop to think that negative influence doesn’t affect only the target in specific but everyone in their vicinity, so it was bad for him but it ended up being an opportunity for her~”.

’I know that one of the reasons as to why I wanted other administrators to join us, the limit of the information that can be provided is higher if I’m not the one giving it but… I feel rather annoyed just by listening to her’, thought Eve.

”And here I thought you had toned things down a bit after gathering a dozen of girls from all over the place after we entered Neptune, but you went and did it again, not to mention there is another crazy one among the new batch”, said Aisha with a smile that wasn’t smile on her pretty face.

’Oh come on, I had no control over that, the mission was taken from a hero and there is also a damn second hero involved so of course many girls would appear, I just happened to get closer to them than what the mission required but it’s not like all of them see me in a romantic way, though certainly most of the new friends and allies I made especially the strongest ones are indeed girls’, thought Daimon as he felt the intense gaze coming from Aisha, to then clear his throat as he said.

”Ahem, there is a new guy as well, but he stayed behind after the previous battle, speaking of which I met everyone, including Arianna and that little tiger girl as well as…”, just as he was about to mention Lyn, Daimon was reminded of the fact Aisha doesn’t know about Ophelia, or more accurately that he didn’t tell her about it, because her next words made it clear that she knew about the azure galaxy princess’s existence.

”What, someone related to that pretty ”ring” which didn’t use to be on your hand, I thought it was something you got from that dual tone blue haired girl, but it seems like it’s the other way around, she gave something to that girl instead and then you happened to meet and befriend something related to her, a sister… no, her best friend, right?”, said Aisha which made Daimon raise an eyebrow as he removed his mask.

Side to side, the similarity would make them look like twins if Daimon’s hair without the mask wasn’t black, Daimon looked older than his biological age and Aisha looked younger than hers after all.

Under normal circumstances, Aisha would have been given feedback about Daimon’s situation through their connection as well, which would explain how she knew about Ophelia and Lyn, but since Daimon wanted to take on the challenge to the best of his capacities, that was reduced to the two of them only being able to tell their overall direction and knowing they weren’t in danger which were the most basic functions of the soulmate tab of the system.

”That goes past intuition or deduction, does it have something to do with those wings I saw earlier, the strength of the lightning energy you are using suggests that not only you have completed your challenge but you have already received and assimilated your reward after all”, said Daimon, referring to the fact that Aisha was speaking about stuff she should not know about, Daimon wasn’t even thinking about such things so it’s not like she was reading his mind or seeing through his thoughts, which is possible between the soulmates and himself, as Daimon doesn’t block any of them from doing so, Eve included, though they have no need to, their actions and final intentions perfectly coordinate because they are that close to each other.

”As expected of you darling, you deduced as much with just a hint, however this time you missed something, probably because you have not even obtained the technique of your own energy”, said Aisha as she tapped Daimon’s nose with her index finger to then add.

”I have completed three of the four challenges I obtained in this place and have assimilated all three rewards so far~”.

Now that took Daimon by surprise, he didn’t even know it was possible to have that many challenges, not to mention she assimilated all the rewards in a short period of time, considering that her position was changing every time he checked on her.

”This is one of the techniques I obtained due to the first challenge ”Blood Reading”, with it, I can read the short-term memories stored in the target’s blood, the details depend on how free of obstacles I am from the blood in question though, which is why I committed a few mistakes along the way earlier”, said Aisha as she closed and opened her eyes, showing that her purple amethyst round pupils had turned into vertical slit ones which were glowing in a metallic silver light.

’Blood affinity energy, mom whose grimoire was related to blood affinity through vitality and stamina recovery, is using blood energy now, why is it silver colored though, well, unlike me, she was a pure ”Silverheart” but their blood is still normal red colored, wait a second… the ancestor from which the Day Walker lineage originated, it is said that her blood ”glowed” like silver!’, thought Daimon, which made Aisha giggle as those pretty silver wings sprouted out of her back.

”The second challenge had a lightning related reward and the third one was metal related, these wings are a technique which combines all three of those energies”, she said to then add.

”And now, let me catch up with you, the way I prefer it~”, with those words, Aisha flashed, appearing in front of Daimon to then gently bit his neck the next second, like she said, the details she could obtain from the target’s blood depended in how many obstacles there were between herself and said blood, so she would basically learn everything that Daimon experienced after they separated by drinking it.

Of course, she wouldn’t drink any other guy’s blood, so this result would also happen if she were to see the target’s blood directly, like after cutting a limb or beating the hell out of them, allies could just show theirs to her, she preferred this method with Daimon, though punching him a few times after seeing how many new girls joined him, did cross her mind.

That included Claire who obviously aimed to seduce him, even after being treated like a servant and left behind to guard over Dana and the others, with the warning that if any harm were to happen to them, she would die to atone for it.

”Crunch”, amidst that, Sera who was munching on a cookie couldn’t help but mumble.

”Woah, I wonder if every reunion between Daimon and other female members of the team will be this intense”, she said that but she looked like a young girl watching her favorite drama show, quite an amusing reaction from the girl of the church of light.

”She is quite something indeed, the type I would have liked to have as my user when I had to worry about Ariel, but now that I’m free I’m more interested in the ”other crazy one” she mentioned, now, that sounds like a fun person to meet~”, said Lezabel as she leisurely floated around, which made the young angel girl bitterly smile.

She had witnessed quite a bit of Sarah being Sarah, after all she was there when Adam was firstly killed in Kerrol and then she watched everything that happened during the nethereal sister’s challenges from within the feather pendant.

’Sister and that girl will certainly be able to get along… I don’t know if that is a good thing or a bad thing though’, thought Ariel, she could only hope that Lezabel got distracted with something else and forgot about this subject, it could happen, her interest might be picked by other things along the way after all.

After a couple of seconds, Aisha let go of Daimon’s neck not without softly pecking the area where she bit him, as usual, her cute fangs didn’t leave a wound when she drank his blood, it is also worth mentioning that she wasn’t getting any ”negative” reaction from drinking Daimon’s blood, or more accurately she could probably control herself better now that she had obtained a reward related to blood affinity, how did these rewards affected the participants outside of the blood prison realm, still remained a mystery though.

”Looks like a lot of things happened in my absence, but the situation is fine overall… especially regarding these new four friends here”, said Aisha with a much warmer voice as she gazed at Ariel, Lezabel, Sera and Laila.

She now knew about their past situations in a detailed way and neither of them deserved the bad things they went through, what’s more she was happy that Daimon decided to lend them a hand, especially to Lezabel.

’She is as annoying as Sarah, but to think the Daimon who used to label everything enemy or system related as a ”must destroy” or ”must keep behind wraps” didn’t hesitate to take in the administrator from a hostile system user after listening to her story’.

’Eve you did a good job watching over him, well, leaving aside the fact that you left a whole bunch of new girls flock to him again’, said Aisha in a voice that only the soulmates could hear, in this case Eve and Nasha since the others weren’t present here.

’You can’t blame me that on me, Daimon is at fault for his natural ability to rally others to his side, as for the major female ratio, that’s those two damn hero’s faults this time, because Daimon sure attracts women but not so many should appear at once, two or three every once in a while, like before this mission started should be the norm’, said Eve referring to the Risha sisters who had started to like Daimon before the Neptune mission.

’Looks like we have to discuss this with the others, after this time, whenever a male hero type user appears, we’ll be the ones to crush it so that such a situation never repeats again’, said Aisha.

’Mm, let’s join hands to protect Daimon!’, added Nasha.

Now imagine Aisha’s expression when Daimon asked.

”Have you met Mellie or a girl around Dana’s age so far, besides you, Mellie was the only other one I hadn’t met, the other is someone Arianna and that little tiger girl met and travelled with before entering the blood prison realm?”.

’Damn heroes, even so far into the mission, there are still new girls joining in’, thought Aisha as she sighed.

”No I haven’t met the dolphin princess, nor anyone with the description that Arianna gave you, that being said, I did meet some ”interesting” people during my challenges, as in they didn’t seem to belong to any of the factions that I could see you have theorized so far, they might have been people that just ended up stranded here randomly, but they all tried to kill me without exception, didn’t answer to my questions no matter the method I used and turned to dust when I killed them”, she said.