"I am telling you, Mother, Nux is definitely behind this! He didn’t get help fr-" Suddenly, Vulpiana froze mid-sentence as well and glanced at her mother. "Mother..." She called out, her voice full of… suspicion. "How do you know about Lord Azriel? I never told you about him." The fox continued as she stood up, distancing herself from her mother. At her words, Faelara’s thoughts froze as she stared at her daughter. "Vul." She called out as she sat up, trying to calm the situation. Vulpiana, however, couldn’t ignore this detail any longer. "You knew." She spoke, staring at her mother. "You knew about the ’Secret Weapon’ you sent me away to find out about." "Vu-" "You knew about the ’Secret Weapon’ that could protect our entire race from the threats we were facing." Explore more at freewebnovel "You knew about it as well, didn’t you?" Knowing that there was no point in hiding it any longer, Faelara decided to use another approach. "Lord Azriel, you knew his name, but you never mentioned him in any of the reports you sent m-" "Don’t pin this on me, Mother. Because of your actions, I was sent to Nux and the others as a spy, a spy whose existence as a spy was already known to everyone. I couldn’t just trust what everyone told me; I had to filter out the information and verify it myself. The same was true for the story of the Vampire Progenitor. The being of absolute strength, Lady Aeliana’s father, the strongest Progenitor, the ’Secret Weapon,’ you think I believed those words when Eisheth told me about it? Especially when she used that silly tone when she mentioned it? ’You wish to know about the Secret Weapon, don’t you? It’s Lord Azriel. The Vampire Progenitor.’ That was how she told me everything about him when I didn’t even ask about it. There were no tricks involved; I didn’t play any games. She just told me out of the blue, as if it was a way for her to pass time. How was I supposed to believe it? 𝕗𝐫𝐞𝕖𝕨𝐞𝗯𝚗𝕠𝘃𝐞𝚕.𝐜𝗼𝚖 To this day, I didn’t believe this story; I thought the succubus was simply messing with me just like she always does. This was also the reason I never reported anything. But you, Mother… You already knew it. You knew everything about that man, about the Secret Weapon, and with how you automatically assumed that he was the one who ’woke up’ and destroyed those worlds, you must be quite certain of this information as well." Vulpiana spoke, her golden eyes staring at her mother with suspicion. There were too many questions in her head, but… The biggest one was, "Why?" She asked. "If you already knew of his existence, then why didn’t you ask him to save us?" Vulpiana questioned and… "…" Faelara was silent, unable to form an answer. Vulpiana didn’t back down either, staring at her mother until she got the answer she wanted to hear. Five minutes passed by just like that, and suddenly, Faelara sighed. "To answer your question, I’ll start with telling you how I knew about the Vampire Progenitor in the first place." Vulpiana nodded with a solemn look on her face, and Faelara waved her hand. Suddenly, Vulpiana and Faelara were teleported to another space, a space that was sealed away from the outer world, a separate dimension where no one could find them. A dimension where not even time worked normally since Vulpiana realized that she couldn’t form Time Rifts here. The fox narrowed her eyes as she glanced at the woman in front of her. Then, Faelara waved her hand again and, An image of a fox with eleven tails formed in front of her. An image that made Vulpiana frown. The being looked extremely similar to her mother, almost to the point that it looked like Faelara had created her own portrait, but… There was something odd. Something Vulpiana had never seen before. Eleven tails. Yes, the fox had eleven tails, something Vulpiana had never seen before. After all, nine tails meant Sovereign. Ten tails meant Primordial. And no fox went a level above that, no one except one… "Vulpheon Chronoxis." Faelara spoke as she stared at her daughter. Vulpiana frowned, not knowing why her mother was suddenly talking about the Progenitor of their race. "What we were told by our ancestors was wrong." Faelara revealed. "What do you mean?" "Our world was being chased after by a High-Level World named Orynthar, which wanted to kill us all, take our Progenitor’s Bloodline, and give birth to a new being with our Bloodline, who is connected to their world." Vulpiana nodded. She knew her race’s history. "However, our Progenitor wasn’t the one who sacrificed her life and defeated those beings like we were told." Vulpiana frowned at those words. "The difference between phases is absolute, my child. No matter how strong a being was, no matter what tricks she had up her sleeves, you can never defeat a being a phase above you, even if you burn your life force." Faelara stated. "Our ancestors were wrong. We didn’t come to Yrniel because it was the only option we had, We came here because Yrniel’s Vampire Progenitor protected us. The thought of taking over Yrniel was foolish. Using foreign aid to weaken this world and later take over it? Weaken a world that was strong enough to resist a High-Level World’s might by using foreign Low-Level Worlds? That so-called ’plan’ was almost laughable." "And how do you know all this…?" Vulpiana questioned. Everything they knew was what their ancestors told them, they had no proof of anything other than the Ancestor’s words that they had no choice but to blindly believe. But then… How did her mother find out the truth? "I am Vulpheon Chronoxis’s Successor." Faelara revealed. "What…?" Vulpiana’s mouth opened wide, and suddenly, Faelara pointed at the image she had formed and, "Lady Vulpheon predicted my birth and prepared a vision that I would see, a vision I recorded in case I needed it in the future." Faelara spoke as she waved her hand, and suddenly, Vulpheon’s image started moving.