Vampire Summoner's Rebirth: Summoning The Vampire Queen At The Start

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Once we took over the fortress of Evergreen, Elizabeth conjured a strong holy barrier around it, and we were able to finally relax. The fortress was rather big, and after my Familiars cleansed it off the corpses and blood, we were able to clean it a bit using some Cleaning Magic and Wind Magic, courtesy of Elizabeth, Erika, and Eric's help.

After that we moved to the fortress kitchen, mostly filled with a lot of fruit and monster meat the lizardmen hunted. Most of it was rotten though, they had no methods to preserve food, and it wasn't as if they cared if it was a bit rotten anyways.

At the end, I feed all the food to Ruby and Blood, who happily devoured everything within minutes, and then we cleansed and started cooking something for ourselves, using ingredients we brought along.

Everyone at this point had a storage accessory of some sort, they were quite expensive, but were being sold in the elven cities we had visited before, and they gave us good discounts for them after everything we did to help them.

We brought a lot of food, fish, fruits, meat, eggs, noodles, rice, and more. I was pretty much forced to cook for everyone because they seriously loved my cooking. I had to oblige, and it wasn't as if I was tired. If anything, I was left slightly bored, I would have wished there was a more challenging foe, but I can't ask for miracles.

It would be better if just Fafnir was my challenge and nothing else, to be honest.

"Fried Rice with shrimp and fried fish ready!"

I quickly told my Vampire Spirits to bring the food I plates to the table, my friends gasping in disbelief as they saw the enormous quantity of food arrive.

I kept cooking, making roasted wyvern and sea snake meat, also hamburgers, Bolognese noodles, lasagna, and so on. It was easy to make because I created clones of myself using Umbral Crimson.

Well, they didn't look anything like me though, made of black and crimson energies, but they could easily imitate my movements at 100% accuracy, and use some of mt skills too.

They were quite frail though, a mere punch and they were gone, but they could be used as good distraction, or to attack at the same time many times.

"Woah, so much delicious food!" Erika said happily, beginning to feast on the fried rice. "Hmm, I love the shrimp in the rice! So fresh and tastyyy! Nom, nom, crunch! The fried fish is so crunchy! And this white colored sauce is really nice, it tastes kind of like yogurt, and is so creamy, it goes well with the seafood~!"

"We get it, Erika, you like it…" sighed Chris. "Calm down, no need to just narrate all you eat!"

"Shut up Chris, you always start saying stuff like that when your lasagna is ready!" Erika laughed.

"W-What?!" Chris roared. "I don't do that- Aah, you made lasagna?! No way, it's the one with white and red sauce too! Ahh, it's good! Nom, nom, nom! So cheesy, holy shit man!"

He kept eating without stop, his revival had given him a couple of new abilities he had been using, although one of the most notorious things was his great stamina and vitality now.

Much like familiars, Chris would usually not get tired at all now, although he would grow exhausted once his Mana reserves emptied, he would remain almost at full energy at all times.

Though, to compensate for this and his unique physiology as half human and half familiar, he had to eat even more food than before.

"Glad you like it, Chris," I smiled. "Have you been feeling better now?"

"Huh? Why are you asking that? I'm fine dude!" Chris said with a smile, drinking some fruit punch. "You should eat too, dude, you make all of this and barely eat?"

"I'll eat, I'll eat," I laughed. "I just don't feel as hungry anymore. Maybe because I've been absorbing a lot of blood and souls… Hmm."

"E-Eh? Blood and souls?" Alberta felt slightly shocked when I said that. "L-Like… really?"

"Yeah, I can sustain myself with that nowadays, but I also eat a lot of food anyways," I nodded. "What? Am I scary?"

"N-No, not at all, Blake! I was just a bit curious, that's all," Alberta was as considerate as ever. "I just find it very interesting, the whole vampire race, and how they work…"

"Well fi you're interested, you got some people here you can ask firsthand about it," I said, patting Eleanora's shoulders by my left side, she was drinking a cup of dragon blood.

"Hmm? Ah, yeah? yes?" she wondered, usually when drinking blood she would be in a slight ecstasy. "What happened Alberta?"

"Can I ask you a few questions later, Eleanora?" wondered Alberta. "We've been rather interested in how vampires work, how they think, and also their culture!"

"Eh? Are you serious? Our culture is a bit weird…" said Eleanora.

"Still! It's really interesting you've stayed mostly intact from your previous life, Eleanora!" said Eric. "We would like to learn more about your race that comes from beyond our world. Also we wouldn't mind if you also talked about that universe out there, the planets and so on!"

"Hahh… you sure love asking a lot of things," Eleanora sighed. "Fine… only because I like you guys! But don't think I'll just do anything you ask me, alright?"

"Thank you Eleanora!" Alberta giggled happily, taking several bites off her wyvern hamburger.

"Yeah, a hundred thanks," Eric nodded, readjusting his glasses as he slurped his noodles.

As everyone ate, I noticed Elizabeth barely eating anything.

"Are you alright?" I asked her. "You seem to not have touched your meals yet… Can I make you something you prefer?"

"Ah…" she muttered, looking rather absent-minded. "N-No, I'm fine. I just… after seeing everything, I really don't have much appetite."

"Hmm, understandable, but still, you should try to eat least drink the chicken soup I made, potatoes and carrots with some chicken meat, it shouldn't be that bad for the stomach," I said. "You should fill yourself a bit with food to restore energies, Elizabeth."

"I know… sorry for worrying you," she smiled faintly, trying to eat some more. "Ugh… Guhh…!" she covered her mouth, feeling nauseas again, and running away to the bathroom.

"Elizabeth!"

I ran right behind her.

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