Vampire's Slice Of Life

In the middle of Evernight City, just before the Queen's District, stood the magnificent City hall.

It was a huge dark castle that was so magnificent that its grandeur couldn't be compared with any other City Hall in the world.

In fact, it wasn't just the City Hall but the entire city of Evernight that was so well built in the entire world.

Evernight ranked first in the list of top hundred cities of the world and it has been continuing to dominate various such rankings ever since the Vampire Queen took the throne and decided to reside here.

All the world leaders knew about it and everyone wanted to visit Evernight and see for themselves how things were.

But the higher ups of other races couldn't officially visit Evernight as they were never invited by the Vampire Royal Clan.

Visiting without an invite would come off as rude and it'll also seem to the whole world that the higher ups of different races are desperate to see what was happening in Evernight and were poking their nose into it.

Not only would that be the case, it'll also mean offending the Vampire Royal Clan if they were visiting without even informing them.

It was the equivalent of having unwanted guests intrude into one's home without prior notice.

Thus, not wanting to offend the Royal Clan and also for various other reasons, the higher ups of different races hardly ever visited Evernight and they could only see it through their screens.

But now, today marked the day when they all were officially invited to Evernight City and could visit without any problems.

Thus, no noble clan of any race spared any less effort into their preparation for making a visit to this city.

But while on their way here with their people and entourage, they all were informed that only King Rank and below powerhouses could only bring two members with them and as for the houses which weren't even in the immortal realms, they weren't allowed to enter.

Half Emperor Ranks were allowed to have their house members but they weren't allowed to have any form of extras inside the city.

As for Emperor Ranks and above, they could bring their entourage and everyone from their house if they wanted, but of course, it had an upper limit of only a hundred people per house.

Emperor Ranks and below weren't allowed to have servants, guards or even carriages inside the city as it would make the city too crowded.

Only Supreme Ranks were allowed such stuff. This meant that to get to the City Hall, all people had to walk.

However, all such strict restrictions were only imposed on the people from other races and the vampires had some leeway in it.

This event was for the Vampires and by the Vampires. Thus, King Rank and above powerhouses were allowed to bring carriages and their entourage into the city.

Even though this was allowed, the Vampire Nobles didn't come to the city via carriages as they felt it would be a great opportunity to meet nobles of other races while on their way to the City Hall since everyone could only walk their way till there.

Despite the restrictions, commoners who belonged to Evernight were allowed to roam freely in the city and the ones who weren't from here were denied entry temporarily.

As the whole crowd moved to the grand City Hall, the ones who had invited everybody — The Vampire Royal Clan — were currently busy doing their own things.

Tap!

Tap!

Tap!

The sound of footsteps echoed all throughout the majestic Royal Castle as a lady, in a finely crafted black dress ran along the hallway in her heels.

"Your Majesty, wait! You'll end up stepping on your gown if you run like that!" Another lady running behind, a blonde-haired beauty in a blue dress, said.

"Freya, we are late. We need to hurry!" 

"We are, we are. But Your Majesty, you shouldn't run like that!" 

These two were Lucy, the Reagent Queen, and Freya Woods, her personal maid, running along the hallways of the castle.

Lucy was dressing up when she got a message stating that most of the people were there in the City Hall. Knowing she was late, she slightly panicked and was now rushing everywhere to get things done or she'll get very late to the banquet.

It was her first time attending such a massive crowd and since people from all over the world were invited and present there, she felt great pressure on her.

If she messes anything up, her whole clan would become a laughing stock in front of everyone in the world.

Inviting every powerhouse of the world was a double edged sword. Although it would show the might of the Evure Clan to the whole world and let them know that the Clan had the power to host such a grand event, if Lucy did even the slightest thing wrong, the whole world would laugh at her and her clan's reputation would be ruined.

Lucy wasn't the one who had invited so many people and took such a risk. She was just going to invite the vampire nobles and finish up with things, but her mother chimed in suddenly and sent an invitation to everyone, eventually putting great pressure on her.

Lucy was thus highly stressed for the past two days and was absorbed in working.

She had overworked so much that there were dark circles under her eyes on her beautiful face and her already pale complexion had become slightly more pale.

But of course, she hid it under makeup and nobody would know she was overworking or stressed.

Freya, being with Lucy for this whole while, knew her condition and the reason she was asking Lucy to not run was not because Lucy would step on her dress, but because she wanted her to not run around in panic and relax.

Lucy, under stress, wasn't thinking properly and was rushing to get a final few things done before leaving.

As she ran through the hallway…

Thud!

"Owf!" 

Lucy crashed onto someone but instead of falling down, found herself in a soft and warm embrace of someone.

"My dear, why are you running?" Lilith, in a black dress, said gently while looking at Lucy with a smile.

Hearing her mom's voice, Lucy looked up and said in a hurried voice, "I need to do some final things, mom. Now is not the time to chat. Let me go." 

Lucy tried to get out of her mother's embrace, only to find herself struggling to do so.

Lilith, looking at Lucy's heavy eyes and her complexion, firstly held her face with both her hands and wiped her thumb under her eyes, to remove the makeup.

She saw Lucy's dark circles and judging from the complexion, she could see Lucy was stressed and had overworked.

Lilith sighed. Although her daughter was under so much stress and overworking, Lilith couldn't do anything about it. It was her who put Lucy in such a situation because she wanted to train her in being a good leader.

But looking at her daughter's current condition, Lilith felt Lucy shouldn't work more on this.

But then Lilith thought, if she meddled now and didn't let Lucy handle everything, she would cause a hindrance in her growth process.

Lilith was stuck in a pickle due to this and wondered what would be the best approach for now.

She hugged Lucy and kissed her head, while patting her back and making her calm down. She then continued to think of the ways to move forward through this situation.

Lucy, being hugged like that by her mother, felt her stress vanish. She momentarily had some peace and quiet and her worries were starting to vanish.

But just as she had begun to slack and her worries were starting to disappear, Lucy was pulled out of her mother's embrace.

Lilith, holding Lucy's shoulder and breaking the hug, looked at her in the eyes.

Lucy's lips curved into a sad smile as if her favourite toy was taken from her. She couldn't even enjoy a little peace.

Lilith, looking at her daughter's sad smile, could only sigh. There was no helping this as Lucy had to figure things out on her own and grow.

It was really torturing for Lilith herself to see her daughter in such a situation. It made her sad as well, but she had to keep her sadness within her as, if she showed any weakness, Lucy would fall weak as well.

Lilith made a serious face and looking Lucy in the eyes, asked:

"My dear, who are we?"