Chapter 98: Rite of Noble Ascension (2)
Caius closed his eyes and opened them to find himself standing in a realm composed entirely of Arcane Circles. The same Arcane Circles that were currently being used to perform the ’Rite of Noble Ascension’.
He raised his hands in front of his face and found that he no longer had his moonstone ring or his Storage ring on. His Lochxen uniform was no longer on him either.
He looked up and he saw there was someone in front of him. On their knees with their heads almost touching the ground. The ’ground’ was the top of a gigantic Altar with Caius on one end and this person on the other. They were so far apart he couldn’t really tell who it was but he could make an educated guess.
Who else would be in here with him besides Anton Orlock, the Vampire Lord?
’Well, might as well go to him,’ Caius thought.
He had read about this Rite in [To Kill A Demon Lord...] and knew what was required of him. Athenodora was merely the one permitting him to ascend so he still had a role to play.
He began to walk. The distance turned out to be shorter than he had expected and he was soon about two feet away from Anton’s kneeling bowed-over state.
The Vampire Lord looked as he did in life. Pale skin, and a frame so skinny, it was almost skeletal looking. The ridges of his vertebrae were sticking out of his back.
"So you’ve come to claim it," Anton said in a long drawling voice.
"I mean, if you aren’t using it," Caius said, half in jest.
"You’ve done nothing to deserve having it," Anton said, sounding like he was biting down on his tongue,
"You’ve done nothing to be worthy of inheriting my Title."