Chapter 802: The Conversion Ritual
At this moment, Older Brother Jayad had already helped me light the fireplace. The temperature in the room rose further, and I finally felt a little better. I looked at my hands, which I couldn’t even lift, and could only sigh, “A healer cannot heal themselves.”
With my current condition, I couldn’t help with anything. I could only hug my quilt and sit by the bed, watching Lorna and Sherris help Via prepare the ritual site.
Hmm, a Ghoul and a Ghost helping a Vampire prepare for an Embrace Ritual. This certainly felt like the work of an Evil Faction.
Because Older Brother Jayad also had to help me boil water and provide Holy Light for me, he couldn’t help Via with the ritual preparations and was watching from the side.
They used the blood of the Magical Beast I hunted last time to draw a bloody Magic Circle on the ground. Vampire Blood Magic requires Fresh blood as Spellcasting Material, and most advanced spells require their own blood as the spellcasting medium.
Therefore, Via pricked her finger and let a drop of her blood fall onto the center of the Magic Circle. Instantly, the blood on the Magic Circle seemed to flow, automatically forming a circulation within it. The candles placed in the Magic Circle lit up automatically, and the Obsidian within the Magic Circle also emitted a faint red glow.
“Alright, preparations are complete. Bring over that Female sniper,” Via said, clapping her hands. Sherris carried the unconscious sniper over. She was still unconscious, unaware that she was about to undergo a life-altering transformation.
This was also my first time witnessing a Vampire convert another creature, and I watched with great interest This ritual site was very similar to when Via underwent her promotion last time, except there was no coffin placed in the center.
The Female sniper was placed in the very center of the Magic Circle. Then, Via opened her mouth slightly and bit her neck, beginning to suck blood voraciously. Her throat constantly churned, and I could feel a large amount of Blood Energy draining from the sniper, being sucked into Via’s body.
“Um, sucking this much, won’t this person be sucked to death?” Lorna asked uneasily, seeing the Female sniper’s face growing paler and her lips turning bluish-black.
“It’s fine, this is a necessary process. Vampires are Undead creatures, so they die from being drained of blood and then are resurrected by the Vampire’s power. This is the process of conversion.” I had read some books and also learned about Vampire ecology from Via.
Compared to her, although Lorna was once Undead, she had always lived in a daze in that small apartment building, completely ignorant of such knowledge.
Soon, the Female sniper’s blood was completely drained by Via, and her life aura grew weaker and weaker until it was imperceptible, completely dissipating.
When the aura dropped to zero, she did not stop but directly dropped into the negative. Another aura emerged from her body – the aura of Death, signifying that the Negative energy of the Undead was growing stronger.
The Fresh blood on the entire Magic Circle flowed like a small river, all of it heading under the Female sniper, and finally surging into her body. Soon, the Magic Circle drawn with blood completely disappeared, the candles extinguished, and the Obsidian crumbled to dust.
Via let go. The place she had bitten had no wound, only a red bump like a mosquito bite. Via wiped her mouth and said, “Alright, the ritual was very successful, and her blood was very delicious. Thank you for the treat.”
I could feel that the Female sniper had “come back to life.” She had gone from life to death, and then from death to rebirth. Now, her Heart no longer beat, her body no longer had a temperature, but her blood still flowed, and her cells were abnormally active compared to before.
Her skin, which had been disfigured by burns, began to peel off, and a large amount of newly formed muscle tissue was restructuring, with new skin growing out.
Since the regenerative speed of a Vampire Derivative was indeed relatively slow, I could witness this regeneration process more directly.
Her burned epidermis quickly scabbed over and peeled off, and the new skin had no scars. Even her fractured right arm corrected itself through a bizarre twisting and twitching, and even the broken bones automatically healed.
This was immortality, as if the body was saved in a healthy state. No matter what injury it received, it would revert to this image, so it was regeneration, not healing.
Moreover, the Female sniper’s sun-tanned brown skin began to turn white. The most obvious external characteristic of a Vampire was their bloodless, pale skin.
However, the Female sniper did not turn completely white. Perhaps her previous tanned skin had already set. Her skin tone only lightened considerably, but not to the point of being pale. Instead, it was somewhat like the pale yellow skin of Eastern people. I really liked this color; at least it made her look more like a living person.
Finally, when the conversion ended, the Female sniper had become a beautiful girl with fair skin. Not only were the burn and blast injuries gone, but even the scars left from previous training and combat had disappeared.
“Mm!” The Female sniper groaned. She was about to wake up. When she opened her eyes, she saw a group of people surrounding her and staring.
“Where is this? What happened to me?” The Female sniper, who had just woken up from a deep sleep, was still a bit dazed. But when she tried to recall what she was doing before she fainted, her expression changed drastically.
“Right! I, I was blown up by a steam canister! I was counter-attacked by my target at that time!” The Female sniper remembered the reason for her coma, and then her gaze suddenly fixed on me.
I could feel hostility and killing intent in her eyes. She actually recognized me. I didn’t know if she recognized me as her target or as the one who killed her.
The Female sniper suddenly lunged, her hands grabbing towards my throat. She had probably guessed that she had been captured by the enemy and intended to capture someone as a hostage to break out, targeting me, who seemed the weakest present.
Her hand claws were fast and fierce, but I wasn’t worried at all because Older Brother Jayad had also made a move simultaneously.
Jayad blocked in front of the Female sniper, grabbed her wrist, and instantly pinned her to the ground.
The Female sniper, with her professional military training, was skilled in various close-quarters combat and counter-attack techniques. However, her strength was too different from Older Brother Jayad’s. No matter how she struggled, she was still firmly pinned to the ground by Jayad.
“Alright, stop. No moving,” Via said. The Female sniper’s whole body instantly stiffened, and she couldn’t move. Of course, she stopped struggling.
“Big Brother, you can let her go now. She won’t resist anymore,” Via said with a smile. Jayad heard her and released her. Indeed, the Female sniper did not try to attack again but remained lying on the ground, motionless.
“What sorcery did you use on me!? Who are you people!?” The Female sniper frantically tried to struggle, but her body simply wouldn’t obey.
“Heh heh, you are now my subordinate Vampire Derivative. Give up resisting. You cannot defy my commands. Big Brother, you can do whatever you want to her,” Via said with a smile.
