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"From what we have gotten so far, this woman that commanded you is a Rank 8 Upper Stage Immortal, and that mortals from all around the continent are guarding their territories. If they see a complete stranger wandering around, there are big chances that they might try to attack her… Isn't it? Then, perhaps we are safe from her as long as we can evade direct contact with her, in which case she'll capture us and kill us inside her divine realm…" I said.

"Indeed. There's a natural barrier made of Immortal Sects within this large region of the continent, this is why my lady lives in the Wild Lands to the south, where Immortal Sects are rare, and they are not so close from one another to make these natural barriers. These wildlands are dangerous, there are many Lone Immortals roaming the skies. Although they are still prohibited from damaging mortals, they often fight one another and could cause large natural disasters that change the entire landscape…" said Rose.

"Even then… I suppose going to your Vampire territory and storming it would still bring her unwanted attention… Yeah, it wouldn't be good to go by ourselves, but we can always go with other things… but for that, we'll need to prepare." I said.

I was still not giving up on it. I might be able to create a strong clone in the future after a lot of time and resources are spent, if I can make it alongside other things and preparations, I could go storm this Vampire Family and help Ruby gather once more with her mother.

Although Immortals cannot intervene with mortals, they can still do it indirectly with Mortals of their own, this is why most big sects of immortals have branches of mortal sects which are also composed of their mortal descendants. They use them to deal with the mortal world's affairs. Although such affairs might seem pretty underwhelming to them.

Even then, this immortal woman is way too obsessed with a mere mortal, way too much, something that shouldn't be real seeing how insignificant we are compared to them.

But then there's Greenwood too, who continuously hunts mortals born with Unique Skills and burns down any evidence by destroying whole villages. Benladann's village was a victim of this bastard. It is clear as water now that he's an immortal if he's capable of seeing all of us as meaningless trash… it most likely means that.

But even then, aren't Unique Skills still weak compared to the might of Immortals? Well, not really, they're amazingly strong powers that can even surpass Realms.

I had experienced it with my own Unique Skills, my Winter Magic, my System, and my Immortal Body, they're all very insanely strong.

And then there's Benladann's Charm and Mold, which were strong from the get-go. The mold itself had the power to convert her into a monster that was several times stronger than her own Realm… and more.

Definitely, these powers can still be precious to an immortal as greedy as this knife ear.

And to be honest, perhaps he's not the only one collecting Unique Skill users. But maybe he's the one doing it more actively. Perhaps other Immortals also recruit them as disciples due to their amazing talents, who knows?

Anyways, I wonder if we had gotten enough info now. Anything else?

"For now, let's get back to Fuyu… We don't have much do to here than- Ah, where's the sect master?" asked Benladann.

"Oh right! I almost forgot about the old man…" I said as I collected the corpses of the Vampires inside my Inventory.

I opened my Dreamscape and revealed the body of Lord Ice Moon barely hanging on his life, he had been healed but was exhausted, he lost a lot of blood.

I healed him another time with my Ice Attribute Healing Spells, which are double as effective with ice-type beings such as ice giants or ice elves, and then I woke him up by throwing cold water over his face.

SPLASH!

"Uaggh…! Ah… Eh?!"

He found himself over the throne of the sect, with both of us there.

"D-Drake… Aggh…! What happened?" he asked.

"We defeated these guys for you, Elder, now you own us a big one," I said cheekily.

"Y-Yes…! I… Who were they?! They were so strong too… they paralyzed me with a blood needle, and I was left completely hopeless… All the power I cultivated through all this time ended being for nothing…!" he muttered, as he gritted his teeth and his fists seemed to tightly shut.

This defeat affected him way more than I had expected, but that's for the better, to be honest, this way, we can influence him better now that we are his saviors.

We looked at each other with Benladann, as we explained how we defeated the Vampires, and he told us what he experienced. They had come out of nowhere asking for Ruby, and of course, the old mand had no idea who the heck Ruby was, so he got beaten until he was to speak. The vampires thought he had her saved somewhere.

We couldn't simply tell him that we knew about the Vampires and that we extracted a bunch of info from one of their member's souls though…

"Do you know anything about them?" asked Benladann.

"I… yes, I do know a bit about these Vampires, they live very far away from here… I can't believe one of their members ended getting here… We have to quickly find that vampire girl and give her back to these Vampires, they're extremely dangerous!" said the man.

Ah, I guess that's the most realistic response I expected.

I suppose we'll still need to meddle with his mind and soul so he can become a bit more submissive as a royal pawn.

"Ah, well, the thing is, we can't let you do that… Ruby is a very lovely girl, and I consider her my children's friend. I can't possibly sell off my children's friend, you know?" I sighed.

"W-What? Y-You know her?!" asked Lord Ice Moon.

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