Army of the Damned

VOLUME 9 Chapter 6

Snow lightly falls on the city as they board the carriage and head off to the location of Captain Jawoki, which is the Jeu de l'éternité Theater. Once again, he visits the scary gothic auditorium. This time, heading to the top floor and to the personal room of the Amaldia family.

The vampires there were busy rewriting scripts while drinking wine and some talking about making and getting better costumes. Everyone there had their own world going on, and ignored the human waltzing about their territory with a Countess and a woman in black. "We should get the real historical ensembles they wore. Is the Museum open right now?".

Alana on the other hand just left everyone to their devices while keeping an eye on Bahamut who has already been smitten by the extravagant costumes they had on the upper floors. Many get restitched and repaired as new ones are assembled and carts bring around more jewelry to put onto it.

"Bloodsucker, what is your obsession with jewelry? Can I keep some of them?"

"No. And jewelry has always been part of our history and culture. It is like us, forever shining and eye-catching but it'll never grow and hard to destroy."

"Ohhhhh, can I at least get one?"

"No. Not unless you are willing to pay, the Theater makes sure to get the ones closest to the historical figures and what they used and wore. Even the enchanted rubies on our second Queen's bracelet and necklace or the armor of the Hero that sieged the Kingdom long long ago."

Even with the amount of activity happening, the General is surprised that the floorboards are yet to creak and as he walks through the staircase, reaching the third floor. He's spooked by a door that opens and two Elven slaves with a Vampire bring out a crate from it. Looking in, there were no other doors and it seemed like a dead end.

"What the..."

"I think in your world. You call that an elevator. M'Lord."

"Yo what?! Do you guys have elevators? How come I've only seen this now?"

"It's a rarity M'Lord. As the stones needed are the same ones the High Elves use in their floating cities and they are very nitpicky in whom to sell it to. I think this elevator originated from when the High Elves first came to trade with the Vampires long ago. They used the excess stone to make this."

"How does it work?"

Alana then hops in and shows that on the floor is a small pressure plate with numbers written on it. "You simply press this and the elevator would take you to it."

"Woah, that's actually super efficient. Way better than using pulleys and weights."

"But M'Lord, only the High Elves have the stone used for this. You can actually see it shine if you turn it on."

Bahamut then peeks in and looks up and down. Sniffing the air inside it while Elizabeth in her bat form peeks out of the General's jacket. "The High Elves My Lord are pretty much on the same level as you modern humans. But they are far more dependent on magical items than anyone else."

"Seems like us with oil. Oil runs everything in the modern world, it also makes everything. From the hardware, to the couches, wheels and the steel. It all has oil in it."

"The High Elves could be said the same when it comes to Magical stone. Most of all this one is called Kienium. Malleable and strong, the High Elves would sell them at insane prices. Back when I was with Charlesmagnes. We were thinking of equipping our entire Knight Legions with them but the price they were selling it at was far too high."

"Exactly as her majesty says. Though the High Elves actually have a lot of it, they keep the majority to themselves and what they sell to the entirety of the world in limited numbers."