The fifth day of the Blessed night festival was when the most important ceremony of this festival would start. The family of the duke was responsible for it and were busy preparing for this ceremony. 10,000 soldiers of the duke Moronto family were all wearing blood red clothing and were standing in formation on the city streets. No stalls were open for the day.

The main ceremony of this festival was called "A Devotee's Devotion". A temporary temple of the Vampire Goddess was built in the middle of the city. Duke Karl Moronto, Guardian Hyneward Ginnesblood and all the S rankers of the Moronto family were standing in front of the temple with serious expression on their face.

If someone looked at the city of Moronto from the sky, then they would be able to see that the streets of the city were created in such a way that it created a special pattern.

All those streets were filled with soldiers wearing red clothes. They also had various weapons in their hand and they were all in battle ready posture.

The duke gave a sign with his hand and a cage covered with a cloth was brought close to the temple. A subordinate of the duke removed the clothing hiding the cave and the form of a powerful monster covered in many chains and blood appeared before everyone.

This monster was called Kastrilua and it was an extremely powerful S rank monster.

With Duke Karl's order, some of the S rankers went to the cage and held the monster down. Then they brought that monster to the temple. Hyneward went beside the monster, lifted up his large axe and got ready to behead this monster.

All the soldiers stationed on the streets suddenly started shouting with all their might. They were singing a song, this was an ancient song that the very first duke of Moronto came up with. His exceptional subordinates followed behind him while singing this song with all their might. There were legends about when a part of this army faced off against more than 3 S rank monsters. The chance of their winning was zero and there was a small city and thousands of common people behind whom they needed to protect.

According to the legend, this army charged at the massive monsters while singing this exact song. So with just 13 A rank powerhouses and no S rankers, this army held in against these monsters for six hours until the reinforcement of the duke arrived. All the members of the army were dead but before dying they used their body and its regeneration function to slow down the monsters. That day a told of 13 brave A rankers and 3500 brave soldiers passed away but they became immortal in the eyes of many people. It was said that to this day, people could hear the faint whisper of this song if someone visited the battlefield where this massacre happened.

So to pay tributes to these and more brave soldiers of the Moronto family, this ritual was done. A S rank monster's blood was offered up to the goddess and the brave soldiers to ask for their blessings. Hyneward brought down the axe and the head of this powerful S rank monster was separated from its body.

Immediately the whole city was filled with the sound of prayers. All the citizens were praying and a solemn and sacred atmosphere immediately fell upon the city.

Normally after the head of a monster this big was cut, it would start to bleed a river of blood. But nothing like that happened here. All the blood that came out of the monster was immediately attracted into a hole that had suddenly appeared at the top of the temple. The presence of a divine being was radiating from this hole in space and everyone in this city were bowing toward it. Obviously except for Elena, Tomoe and a few other exceptions.

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After a few minutes, that hole in space disappeared. The divine presence also disappeared alongside it. Only then all the people of the city stood up. The S rank monster now was without any blood but its body had gotten affected by the divine energy. So the meat of this monster had now become divine sacrament and all the citizens would be given a peace of it so that they could receive the blessing of the goddess.

But that was not all. To thank all his citizens, duke Moronto also had a gift for them. It was a large 30 meter all chalice filled to the brim with blood. It was not the blood of a single type of being but it was a mixture of various types of blood. But it was not created randomly by mixing whatever the duke got his hands onto. Instead it was created in the supervision of 13 experts who were very knowledgeable about blood and blood mixers.

So with them involved, this blood mixer was sure to have a very good taste. Not only that but the duke had also mixed a little bit of S rank monster's blood in it. So this was definitely going to be extremely enticing for almost any vampires.

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Elena and Tomoe were the only ones who were currently sitting in a cafe and were tasting some sweet treats. It was extremely rare for Tomoe and Elena to be alone but all the other vampire acquaintances of theirs had gone to taste the blood that was given to the citizens. As Tomoe and Elena were not interested in it, they decided to not try it and were planning to join the other ladies after some time. As for Turin, even though he also had no interest in blood, he had also gone with the other ladies to accompany Anna.

In this rare alone time, Elena gently smiled at Tomoe and asked her about her feelings after she got to experience the wonders of the vampire continent. Tomoe was unable to describe her feelings in a single word and could just describe it as magical. She had lived in the village and had practiced her sword for the most part of her life. She was sure that her sword technique was flawless.

But after she started to experience so many new things, she saw how many flaws her seemingly perfect technique had. She had never managed to see it because she did not know about many things. Now Tomoe was sure that after she returned back to the village and focused on her sword again, she would be able to further and her techniques would also become better. So for everything that Elena had done for her, Tomoe was immensely grateful.

Seeing the happy look on Tomoe's face, Elena was also happy. She held Tomoe's hands tightly and went to where the others were waiting for them hand in hand.

That was how the fifth day of the festival went.

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