Right now I am waiting for Trevor. Nobody has been visiting this room since the last couple of days. The only thing that I remember from the heist is the part that I had managed to read from the log. After that whatever happened, I had to learn from Trevor.

  According to Trevor, once we fell to the ground I lost consciousness. He had carried me into the sewers. The only reason that the man managed to do so was due to the blood moon. (I will speak about it in a bit.) The soldiers of the Bloodfire gang were busy trying to get the fire that I had started under their control. So nobody attacked him as he carried me to safety.

  Also, the mission this time has been a success. Trevor had the presence of mind to sneak to the cupboard and take the ledgers that were needed. (He might have inevitably destroyed that environmental formation) . It is good because there is no way in hell that we will be able to infiltrate that place again.

  They have locked up that place completely now. There is no way that we will be able to sneak into that place. I don't dare to bet against Trevor though.

  Well, ever since I started the fire, the moon has disappeared in this place. It is now replaced by a blood moon. The only thing that we know about the moon is that it is blood red, almost as if it has been crafted in blood. At the same time, it is not the moon. I don't know how I know it but this is not the moon.

  Well, this is not the first time that I have seen a blood moon. I have never seen it in this form though. A blood moon is one of the greatest weapons that can be used by a vampire. When it appears to support a vampire, it can make fighting them a nightmare. They will grow stronger. Their wounds heal in moments. They can fight for hours at an end.

  It can also appear as a punishment though. It is supposed to be quite painful, based on what we have learned from the vampires we hunted. Until today I didn't realize just how much of an annoyance it can be.

  The blood moon is only affecting vampires and those that make use of blood mana. That is why recovering is taking so long. The steady stream of blood mana that the sword gave me has stopped completely. Well, there are still minute amounts of blood mana being produced but I can't feel it if I did not look for it. I would not have found it when I had begun the journey. You can say that my blood mana is flowing like coagulating blood.

  This lack of blood mana is affecting me more than I would like to admit it. Most of my enhancements, however little they were have been lost. With this, all the benefits that I used to get with my blood mana have disappeared. The other losses are pretty easily manageable. The loss of healing has affected me more than I expected that it would, if I am honest.

  Well, this time the injuries are even crazier than usual for me. My left arm is almost useless. I can barely make a fist without the entire thing feeling like I have been swimming in a pool of needles. It feels like somebody has been shooting lightning through my arm.

  My right arm is injured as well. I seem to have landed on it on my jump through the window. The bone is broken, so I have to keep it in a cast. While I still can't use it, it is better than my left arm.

  My left leg is also fucked to a pretty extreme degree. The existing Injuries and the jump from the window has completely screwed with my leg as well. The only good thing about my leg is that I don't need to re-break my leg to set it properly again. This time I won't make the same mistake again, as I keep the entire thing in a cast. It will be set properly this time.

  Right now the only limb that I can use to any degree is my right leg. It has been relatively free of any damage. It is the only limb that I can move without waves of pain shooting through my leg. That is why I have been completely stuck in my room for the last few days.

  Right now the organization is more than happy with our results though. They don't need to worry about vampires right now. The blood moon has completely screwed the vampires. Turns out that most of the higher rankings members of the Bloodfire gang were vampires. At the same time, they have even managed to get the ledgers.

  So right now they are more than happy with us. They don't even need to bother about the fact that right now they have to sneak us closer to the inner keep. The only problem in all of this has been my injuries. We won't be able to leave for the inner keep until my injuries manage to heal fully. This time the injuries that I have gotten will take some time to heal.

  By the way, I have confirmed the identity of the captain that I might have killed. (Well, I have seen the man crumble into dust, but most of the higher vampires can do that if they feel like it.) he is the hunter, the second in command of the Bloodfire gang. Trevor is more than confident of that fact.

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  Well, I am thankful that I managed to survive that man. This might just be the most terrifying vampire that I might have faced. I mean I do have a good idea about the bloodline hierarchy that they have amongst them. I just never realized it could be used like this. The vampire nobles hold the ability to command those of their kind when they command them.

  I know of this ability of theirs. I have seen it in action quite a few times. Now I realize why the lower vampires seem to be so scared of their masters.

  Even as barely connected to blood mana as I am, the man's command seemed almost impossible to ignore. Thankfully, this ability of theirs seems to be very costly to use. I wonder why he used such a costly method with me.

  After all, if he had fought me, I would have lost my little life. Someone with such a strong grasp over their bloodline abilities would have a pretty decent skill with a sword as well. The man was stronger than me in every way. Well, I will lose my head trying to guess the intentions of the vampires. They have schemes within their schemes. I am happy that I am alive right now.

  Right now, we are almost certain that we will be able to make it to the inner keep. The organization will take us there. I guess that I might as well speak about the inner keep now. The inner keep is the most important location of the Mayfire castle.

  It is the only place in which the Mayfire family could be present right now. That is unless they are dead or they all have run away. For now, though, they seem to be in there.

  At least Trevor is completely sure of that. Personally, I don't know. I mean I have seen the magic of the mayfires a couple of times before. Their magic is one of the most destructive magics of the soldar plains. They certainly would not be able to hide the effect of their battles if they were going all out in there. No barrier would be enough to pull off something like that.

  Well, things in the outer keep are going my way at least. Right now the entire Bloodfire gang is in chaos. There is no way that they will be able to hold against anybody attacking them right now.

  The archer is right now busy trying to hold off an attack force from the guard corps. It means that we will not need to worry about the archer as well. Once the archer is defeated though, the outer keep is the guard corps.

  As for how Trevor can achieve communication with the guard corps, don't ask me. The man has enough mysteries about him, that I have stopped thinking about it too much.

  Anyway, once we are inside the inner keep things are going to be a bit easier. The inner keep is right now being surrounded by a very strong magic barrier. Right now I assume that it is a mana-isolating barrier.

  Such barriers will stop the flow of mana from one side of the barrier to the other side of the barrier. Such barriers are usually used in mana storage but they can also be used defensively like this as well. Only well-made ones will work as a barrier.

  Right now we are making all of our plans based on this assumption of mine. If it is an elemental barrier or any of the other barrier formations then breaching into the place is going to be very hard. I don't have any of the appropriate tools to break into the place. The chances of that happening without the correct tools are pretty abysmal. The thing with an isolation barrier is that I don't need to worry about failure. With an elemental formation, things are not going to be so easy.

  It must be a very strong barrier though. After all, not many things will be able to handle divine magic. This moonless lady is a goddess of the vampires if she can summon a blood moon. It is the most famous example of their divine magic. (The other pantheons don't agree, but the vampire pantheon is a pantheon as well.)

  Right now, I am reasonably confident that I will be able to get into the inner keep though. After all, the problem with magic barriers is that all that power is spread out. This is especially the case with an isolation barrier.

  I will be able to make a hole into the barrier at its weak point. With that, I will be able to enter into the place. At least that is the plan. Right now I have no idea if I will be able to do that. I will only be able to tell once I get to see that barrier.

  Right now even reaching the barrier is going to be a task of its own. I am more than sure that we can't do it on our own. You see, the inner keep of the Mayfire castle must have a lot of defensive structures built into it. If we were to go about poking into the place without thinking, we will be detected instantly.

  Esmerelda must not be the only vampire that is in the Bloodfire gang. I will not be able to hold off against a group of three or four vampire grunts even with the blood moon. They might get weaker due to it, but the same is happening to me. Jacob and Andrew would be in a better position, but they are not as experienced with fighting as I am. (Especially with vampires.)

  Still, I will be able to at least fight against any force that they send from the guardhouse. If we manage to attract the attention of the vampires inside the inner keep it is not going to even be a fight.

  After, the other side has at least two possessed vampire captains and this leader of theirs. I might have gotten rid of two captains by now, but that was more luck than my strength.

  We need to breach the inner keep and come into contact with the mayfires. That seems like the only path to survival. This is purely my instinct though. We could keep with the organization, though we would have to sleep with an eye open from now on. They might just as quickly sell us to the vampires now that we have completed our task.

  Something is going to happen if we were to stay out here. Of that I am sure. The mayfires will offer us a better chance of survival.