Chapter 101: Clementina's Family

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Clementina Silvercrown Icespear was born as the third daughter of a family of aristocrats within Sector D.

Blessed by inheriting an even stronger version of the Skill from her mother, she gained a lot of recognition in her family and was even given a lot of attention by her father, who her other two sisters fought their attention for.

Clementina's father was a man who had three different consorts, each one having their child with him, who all battled for his recognition and to inherit the family's wealth.

As the three sisters grew older, Clementina's sisters grew envious and more jealous of her powers, talent, and finesse, which made her their father's favorite daughter, and alongside their mothers, they planned something horrendous to ruin her life forever.

On Clementina's 13th birthday, terrible news struck her life.

Her mother, who was a C-Rank Hunter that usually visited Dungeons to improve herself was found dead.

That was the day when Clementina's entire life began to fall apart.

Her mother's death was not as much as it had initially thought, as her father still loved her and was there for her…

However, through manipulation, her sisters and their mothers began to slowly make her an outcast of the family, and due to her current psychological state, Clementina was not able to cope with these changes, falling to their emotional manipulations…

At some point, due to anger, she attacked her sisters after they insulted her mother.

But that was when she fell into their trap…

After attacking her sisters in front of their father and their mothers, Clementine was accused of being a beastly girl, whose powers were too strong to control her own judgment…

They even called her a subhuman.

And because of her cold personality due to her ability, she could not preach for forgiveness due to her cold emotions and the emotional instability of her mind.

Her father slowly became afraid of her, and of what she could do one day to him.

Indeed, her ability named 'Ice Queen' gives her the power to control ice freely, making her extremely dangerous if she were to go berserk…

And fearing that her daughter might not be able to control herself and one day attack and possibly kill him… her father decided to exile her from the family, sending her to live on her own with a monthly salary…

At some point, hopeless and alone, she ended up entering the Military School, where she wanted to make many feats and prove to her father that she was not the monster they made her seem to be.

Through these months, she worked hard, studying, and getting good grades, and becoming a better and better Hunter, reaching the peak of E-Rank, and just close enough to become a D-Rank.

Clementina desired to grow stronger and one day avenge her mother, as she believed and suspected that her step-mothers were the ones that had planned her death somehow, as they were also C-Rank Hunters who were rather strong within the Silvercrown Guild, which represented her family.

Because she had only taken the surname of her mother, she was only known in classes as Clementine Icespear, despite being Clementine Silvercrown Icespear…

Her mother was someone she dearly loved, and her death only fueled her wrath and desire to avenge her death one day…

However, due to her nature and cold heart, she was not able to find reliable companions for such a feat and was always left alone in class, intimidating most students by her cold nature and strong Ability.

…But as this new test started, and she was forced to join a group and complete the test, she had to cooperate with people that feared her and could not trust her well. And it was not as if she could truly trust them either…

Despite these differences, they managed to gather up to 3 Treasures and were close to complete the test with a perfect score.

However, by a chance of destiny and her unfortunate life, she came across a party of students led by one of the strong students of the class, Albert Darkeye.

Albert Darkeye was a strong student, but was not known for enforcing bullying…

But that did not mean he was not ruthless, neither wicked deep inside

Especially because his entire party was followers of him… mysteriously.

Darkeye was not a prestigious family, but Albert was indeed someone talented.

Especially because of the talent he was given, the Ability he possessed, which most students had no clue what it was…

This ability let Albert slowly encroach the minds of people… and made them his slaves.

Such a strong ability was not even well known amongst the teachers because he also had other offensive Skills he had gotten from Ability Cores, and faked that these were his original Skills…

Due to this, he slowly brainwashed a group of students which he made his slaves, and now, this test was a perfect place to slaughter some of the more annoying and strong students within the class, as he intended to be noticed by the government and recruited as a Soldier for Sector D.

And due to these circumstances, without ever giving a care about Clementina's family, Albert decided to kill her and her party to get her off the way.

But unfortunately for him, Clementina somehow escaped after her party members were all horribly slaughtered.

Just in time to see Noah and his party slaughter another group of students…

However, something within Noah made him different than the wicked smile of the perverted Albert.

Something deep and abyssal, way above the mundane desires that Albert held.

Such an aura called upon her, and unknowingly made her ask for help from Noah and his party instead of cowering in fear after seeing them kill more students…

Noah, despite her expectations, decided to help her.

Well, not really 'help her'.

More like turning her into a Vampire so he could get a strong subordinate, and perhaps a connection to the Silvercrown family, which meant even more money than Arthur's family could bring.

…Sadly, Noah was not aware that she was exiled from the Silvercrown Family.

However, it was not as if Noah would not try to get into her family anyways later on, whenever he learned the truth from her words.

Clementina was bitten by Noah, as Iris glanced at him while pouting cutely.

"Grr…" she groaned.

"I-Iris, are you okay?" asked Timassa.

"Yes. I am… perfectly fine. It is… completely okay for Noah to do this, he is a Vampire after all. Yes. I am fine. Fiiiiine." Said Iris, as she resisted her jealously due to her strong love for Noah, as she did not want to annoy him with her slight… possessiveness.

She had been promised that Noah would not take any other woman than her, so she decided to trust Noah's words as he saw him coldly and expressionlessly drink Clementina's blood.

Clementine felt a strange warmness encompassed her neck, as she felt dizzy, her senses were sharpening and lowering all the time, and she felt like she was about to die even more than before…

But in fact, she was being reformed and born anew.

Noah separated his fangs from her neck as a mark of two fangs on her neck appeared like in everyone else, and Clementina was put into the ground.

After a few minutes, her wounds regenerated by themselves, and she suddenly woke up.

Her eyes had become crimson red, and her hair had taken a grayish tone of color.

And of course, her skin tone was not healthy at all now, being incredibly pale, perhaps even more than the other Vampires…

"Where am I…?" she asked confusedly, as she sat down, finding all the Vampires around her.

"Welcome to the creed. My family. Now, you serve me, Clementine Silvercrown Icespear…" said Noah, with Iris sitting at his side as she crossed her legs, glaring at her from above as if trying to exert her dominance and position in the family by being at the side of Noah.

However, Clementine still did not understand what exactly was going on, and Noah and the rest had to explain a few things before everything was settled down.

"Vampire? So that happened with the core that Fernand was carrying around… Such… an amazing turn of events… This new power… this is… what I needed!" said Clementina, unlike others, she fully embraced her Vampiric powers incredibly quickly.

"Oh? She adapted quickly to it," said Timassa.

"Now tell me, Clementina. Who killed your party? And… doe he has some interesting Ability? I was thinking that he could be a good Blood Servant…" said Noah.

"Blood… Servant?" asked Clementina.

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