|I'M THE OP VILLAINESS| {Yuri}

CHAPTER 10『AURELIA』

I wrote, time and again, the endless ink filling my documents here and there. We were going to war, so I needed to prepare for potential sieges, food, provisions, the army, the city defences, an evacuation plan, everything.

The light of the morning sun was pouring itself from my open window inside my mansion. It is finally spring. Some weeks have passed since the purging of the Ylvas and many other notorious nobles in the land of Gelida and beyond.

I hear my sister is pretty angry.

What you have witnessed on the purging was the Syndicate; my secret organisation I made in this school from handpicked students who deem themselves a bit too loyal to me. After I brainwash them, of course, with my charm and my charisma.

Some times I embarrass them in front of the whole school, some other times I break them emotionally on the spot, and there are those moments where i made them think I'm God.

They tend to love me a bit more than the average person, thanks to my teaching; I promise them power, wealth, hedonistic and materialistic pleasures...

I haven't slept with anyone (yet), but I think of doing it in the future. It may be plausible to show to my other followers how...rewarding I can be.

Of course, my first follower, Artemisia, or Norea, from the Gnostic Goddess from the marriage of Adam and Eve, has connected myself to other people using the Blood Ritual of myself.

A property of the Blood Ritual, is that the original caster, when they share the Ritual with others, the ones they shared it with, can themselves share it with others, thus increasing my power more.

Think of it like a zombie epidemic. Once someone is infected, if they bite someone, they carry the virus to another one. This is literally my Blood Ritual.

The Blood Ritual can increase one's magical ability threefold, quatrafold, even pentafold, once I share my blood with them.

In return, the Blood I share with them, not only makes them more obedient and submissive to me, but it also increases my power too, except from the fact that I am basically making my Blood Core, one of the 9 Cores of Immortality, stronger. This increases the effects of the Blood Ritual; it makes me and my followers even stronger.

It's a chain that can go on forever.

My most important follower this moment, is Artemisia, and also my romantic interest. I haven't really found anyone as powerful as her in here. Her, and Umbrington, a human girl who got a scholarship in here.

Her affinity in magic is the strongest I've seen in a human, and probably the strongest I'll ever see from a human. The fact that she is that magically gifted is pure luck. The luck of the Devil, i say. She has a pair of twin black haired braids, and wears glasses.

She's my third in command, after Artemisia.

She may be beautiful, but I have no interest in mudblood humans. If I interact with them, I'll disgrace my blood. I can't sully it with the imperfection of a human body.

Still, she gives me this "Forbidden Fruit" vibe. The taboo for me is too great to ignore. I see her every day, and I just can't keep my eyes off her.

The other day, she noticed me, shooting me one of those nerdy but wild smiles of hers. They say that the beauty in humans is that they are imperfect. If that is so, she truly is beautiful. And I've been longing for so long to taste her imperfection. Let it pour onto me, and share hers with my own perfection.

Now now, I shouldn't get myself fired up. Remember, you're now doing important work. Revamping the military, preparing for a siege...

I remember when the news came to me. The Northern Barbarian tribes, they don't even have their own tribe name, have raided a village many kilometres outside of Longnor and the Styx Gate, which is the only passage from the rest of Gelida, inside the mountains of Longnor.