Note to the reader: *.......* means he's saying that in his head.

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Sorry this is a little late. Come on guys. I added Aria to the poll because I felt like I had to, but she won. I thought I had given her a little sister or daughter vibe and now you want Becket to plow her. If there wasn't a poll I was originally planning on having him to with one of the two bottom choices. Now I'm not sure what to do.

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Chapter 26

Aelisia wouldn't let me take it. She said I had to get permission from the queen to remove anything from there. I knew there would be time to get it later so I decided to ask for it another time. There's no telling what might happen so I didn't bring Aria with me back to the inn. When I got there Gene was standing behind the counter.

Gene:"You're back. Got what you needed?"

Becket:"Yeah. They still here?"

Gene:"As far as I know they are."

I nodded and went up the stairs. After standing in front of the door for a few minutes I knocked. The sound of footsteps could be heard from within the room then the door opened.

Bram:"Did you get it?"

Bram was looking at me with eyes full of hope.

Becket:"I got it."

Bram smiled.

Bram:"Thank you."

He pulled me into a hug.

Becket:"Um......"

I just stood there awkwardly until he released me.

Becket:"Lets try it out."

Bram:"Yeah."

I moved over to the bed and kneeled down. After pulling out the small bottle of gods blood I lifted her head. I turned to look at Bram.

Becket:"I'm going to give it to her using mouth to mouth."

Bram:"Sure."

*He's gonna hate me when he finds out I'm a man.*

I poured the gods blood into my mouth then locked lips with Carmilla. The blood tasted kind of like pepto. After she had drunk all of it I stepped back.

Becket:"So?"

Bram:"Let me check."

Bram narrowed his eyes and their glow increased slightly. Then his eyes widened.

Bram:"It's working!"

Bram pulled me into another hug. This time I decided to pat his back.

Bram:"Her hearts growing back!"

He lifted me up off the ground.

Becket:"Whoa! Whoa! Easy!"

Bram sat me back down with a big smile plastered across his face. I went over to Carmilla to check on her and to escape Bram. Her breathing was fine and she looked slightly better. I could only assume Bram wasn't doing a perfect job of regulating blood flow so that might have been why she hasn't woken up.

Becket:"She seems to be fine."

I stood up and walked over to the door.

Becket:"Stay with her and don't leave this inn. I'll be back later to check up on her."

Bram nodded and I left. I assumed she would still be asleep for a while so I didn't want to wait around with Bram.

*Now lets see about going on a shopping trip into that artifact vault and taking some of the things they have in there.*

I said goodbye to Gene and returned to the palace again. I ran into Aelisia first. I think she might have been waiting for me near the palaces main gate.

Aelisia:"Back already? How's the new harem member?"

Becket:"Carmilla is fine. Is the queen still in the study?"

Aelisia:"Yeah. You going to ask for more artifacts?"

Becket:"I want a few that I saw while we were getting the blood of the gods. I'd also like it if I could get those guns Felix had during our duel."

Aelisia:"Well I don't know what she'll say about that, but you won't be able to get the artifacts Felix used during your duel."

I looked directly into her eyes.

Aelisia:"They were given to Felix's father in exchange for his family's artifact which your fairy now wears."

Becket:"Oh. That sucks."

I felt a little disappointed, but getting what I saw in that vault would help me feel better.

Aelisia:"Actually I've got something I want to give you."

Becket:"Really?"

Aelisia:"Yeah it's in my room. Follow me."

I was curious what she wanted to give me so I followed her up to her room. After we got there she went straight to her wardrobe and pulled something out.

Aelisia:"Here you go."

Becket:"Umm....thanks?"

She passed me a light brown backpack made of some kind of animal hide.

Aelisia:"It's enchanted."

Becket:"What kind of enchantment?"

I opened it up and looked inside. For some reason the inside was completely black. I couldn't see the stitching lining the inside of it.

Aelisia:"It's a very expensive item. It can hold anything you put in it and will never fill up so you'll always have space to keep things. Oh but don't put food or living things in it."

Becket:"I can understand why no living things, but why no food?"

Aelisia:"Any food left inside the pack spoils within 20 minutes. Don't know why though."

Aelisia shrugged as she said that.

Becket:"This is quite a generous gift. You said it was expensive didn't you?"

Aelisia:"Oh it's very expensive so you usually only see an item like this in the possession of a successful merchant."

Becket:"And you're just giving this to me for free?"

Aelisia:"No I want something in return."

*Of course.*

I sighed.

Becket:"What is it?"

Aelisia smiled and crept in close to me.

Aelisia:"Youth."

Becket:"Youth?"

Aelisia:"Yup. Why don't you give me one of those youthful kisses of yours."

*She saw me drain Felix, but how does she know I can return it too?*

Becket:"I don't know what you're talking about."

She placed her index finger on my chest and slightly pushed down. It took all my strength to keep myself from falling over.

*Why is she so damn strong!?*

Since she didn't seem to be letting up I gave in.

Becket:"Ok fine!"

Aelisia:"You're too kind for indulging in my request."

She removed her finger and took a step back. She seemed very excited.

Aelisia:"Ok. Do it!"

She stuck her hands out towards me.

Becket:"How far back into your youth do you want?"

Aelisia:"Make me 25! My body was awesome then!"

Becket:"25 so you need what like a little over fifteen years?"

Aelisia:"Fifteen? I'm 85 you know."

Becket:"85! Impossible! There's no way I believe that!"

Aelisia:"Well I am so do it! I'm tired of waiting!"

She grabbed my collar and pulled me into a head-butt.

Becket:"What the hell why'd y...."

She forcefully kissed me.

*Whats wrong with this woman!?*

I was still having a hard time believing her age since she looked to be around her early forties, but I decided to give her what she wanted. I could feel that I had quite a few years stored inside me so I dumped a chunk of it inside her. For some reason I have a better gauge of how many years I have when I'm actually using them. I poured 60 years into her which according to her should bring her physical age down to 25. After I was done I pushed myself away from her and she didn't try to stop me.

Becket:"There I did it."

She immediately ran over to the full length mirror on her wardrobe.

*Hm. So they have mirrors here. That's good to know.*

She had flaming red hair now since all it's color came back and the few wrinkles she had before had completely disappeared. She had a fierce but attractive face. It wasn't much but her skin did tan slightly.

Aelisia:"It worked! It worked! Oh god yes!"

She was so excited she jumped straight out her window. I would have been surprised if I didn't know she could handle a jump like that. Since she was gone I put the backpack on my back and left the room.

*I hope I don't have to spend too much time around that woman.*

I went to the study to talk to the queen again. The knights on guard let me in after a few minutes of hassling me.

Sylvia:"So you've returned. Here for another favor?"

Becket:"Actually yes."

Sylvia:"Is our relationship only you asking for favors?"

She talked in a teasing manner and had a smirk on her face. Instead of playing along I tried to move the conversation forward.

Becket:"While I was getting some of the blood of the gods with Aelisia I saw a few artifacts that I would like to take."

Sylvia:"The artifacts kept in that particular place are either dangerous, a limited resource or have unknown uses so I can't just give them to you."

Becket:"I know, but it's not like you're using them. I may even be able to help you determine what some of them do."

Sylvia:"Really? Well if you can figure a few of them out I may be able to reward you with one, but only if you prove yourself."

Becket:"Thank you. What time would you like me to start?"

Sylvia:"Well I have some free time now so lets do a walk through. It you can tell me what five of the artifacts do then I'll accept your offer."

Becket:"Sounds fair."

I knew I had seen quite a few that I knew so I wasn't worried. She led me down into the artifact room and I stopped in front of a certain artifact.

Sylvia:"So what does that one do? Three platoons of knights died bringing that artifact back from the dark continent, but we were never able to figure out what it does."

I picked it up.

Becket:"I feel bad for them cause this is a blender."

Sylvia:"Blender? What does it blend?"

Becket:"Food. It's for blending food. It's not a weapon or really useful here without electricity."

Sylvia:"Thats it?"

Becket:"Yeah."

Sylvia:"How do you even know?"

Becket:"Because I know what world this came from."

Sylvia:"World. This came from a different world? But it was found on the dark continent along with all the other artifacts. How do you know this came from a different world?"

Becket:"There's actually quite a few artifacts in here that are pretty much useless to you. Maybe if you start using electricity, but I doubt that will happen anytime soon."

I had dodged her question and Sylvia was mostly quite after that as I told her what a bunch of the other artifacts were. There were some that I didn't know so I skipped over them. They did make me a but curious though just like the guns Felix had. Where did those come from? There were so many useless ones and apparently so many men died to bring them from the dark continent that the queen didn't even care what I took anymore. If they were just taking up space and didn't have any uses she didn't even want it. Of course I planned to take ones that weren't useless, but she didn't have to know that.

Sylvia:"Thats enough. You've gone well over five so take whatever you want. I don't care anymore. I feel like an idiot for having a room full of junk."

I gave her a nod and went to the artifact I wanted. I smiled when I opened the case and saw the AS50 inside.

Becket:"It's in perfect shape. I don't think it's even been fired."

The AS50 was a British made sniper rifle. It's a fairly new weapon and can fire five shots in about a second and a half. Inside the case there were two clips for it. A five round magazine and a ten round which were both fully loaded. When I first saw the case I knew it was a sniper rifle, but wasn't sure what kind. What made me more happy was the fact that there were three large crates filled with .50 caliber armor piercing incendiary rounds closer to the door. This would probably be over kill for the people in this world, but who cares.

Becket:"It's so beautiful."

My eyes were sparkling as I checked the weapon over. It seemed to be perfectly fine so I slightly giggled.

Sylvia:"Umm...Becket are you ok?"

I turned around to see Sylvia with a look of worry on her face.

Sylvia:"You seemed to zone out and started giggling."

I placed the sniper back into it's case and stood up with it in my hand.

Becket:"I'm perfectly fine. I'll be taking this artifact."

Sylvia:"What is it?"

Becket:"It's a sniper rifle."

Sylvia:"A sniper rifle? What's it do?"

Becket:"Well it's a weapon, but it takes considerable training to use so I'll take it. I'll also take some of these."

I picked up some of the C4 and started loading it into the pack Aelisia gave me. I was able to slide the sniper rifles case into it too. After that I went over to one of the three large crates and reached in. Only one of the crates had originally been open, but I popped all three open after realizing what was inside. Three crates full of bullets would be more than I would probably use in a lifetime so I wasn't worried about running out of bullets, but just in case I'll look into having the bullets made.

They don't need to be armor piercing incendiary rounds since a normal round is likely to kill the people of this world. I wasn't sure how magic would hold up against these bullets, but I was confident that these would pierce whatever they had and if it didn't I would only need to shot when their guard was down.

After putting half a crates worth of bullets into the pack I put it back on. It probably weighed about sixty pounds, but didn't bother me at all. This elf body was stronger than my human body which took me a while to realize since the people of this world were freakishly strong. I had also had a strength increase after using the strengthening spell during my fight with the vampire.

Becket:"Well that's all I want."

Sylvia:"You took a lot from that crate. What are they?"

Becket:"They're a piece of the sniper rifle. When separated they're both useless."

Sylvia:"Oh. You're very knowledgable."

She had a slight smile on her face as we left the artifact room.

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