: Fire head
: Mercedes and the Waning Moon: The Dungeoneering Feats of a Discarded Vampire Aristocrat Volume 2
: J-Novel Club
: 9781718308183
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: CHF 6.20
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: Fantasy
: English
: 250
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: ePUB

After coming face-to-face with her father, Mercedes is no longer the shunned daughter of a concubine, but the man's pride and joy (that is, if he's even capable of such emotion). She's been taken into the main residence where she's received knowledge, education, and a much higher standard of living, and while she has no plans for becoming heir to the Grunewald family, she knows how to take advantage of an opportunity. She's plenty ready to use her father to propel herself toward her goal of finding something to live for, and her father is completely okay with being her pawn, just like she is his.


However, her days at the Grunewald residence are short-lived. Soon, Mercedes is enrolled at Edelrot Academy, where she becomes embroiled in a secret struggle for the throne. What truths will she discover there? Find out as Mercedes's journey toward a full moon continues.

Chapter 24: Life at the Grunewalds’ Residence


Over a year had passed since Mercedes had come to live at the main Grunewald residence. Life here was oddly relaxed; while training and studying were compulsory, her father Bernhard left her alone as long as she completed what was required of her. In fact, so much of the knowledge available to her here was hard to come by elsewhere, so she was proactive when it came to learning. One piece of this was especially impactful to her: the art of Blood Manipulation, a method of increasing physical strength exclusive to vampires.

“All right then, everyone. Let us practice the art of Blood Manipulation today,” announced the tall vampire who served as tutor to Mercedes and her siblings. He surveyed the room: Mercedes and Felix were present, alongside Gottfried, Monika, and Margaret. For some reason, Bernhard had invited all the children of the concubines (except for Boris, whose whereabouts were unknown) to the manor and afforded them the same education as Mercedes and Felix. He must have assumed another gem might be among them considering that Mercedes, the perfect daughter, had appeared from the place he least expected.

“Unlike the other Falsch, the flow of our blood can grant us vampires extraordinary physical strength.” As Mercedes quickly jotted down these words, she pondered how there could be such a vast difference between human and vampire when her current body resembled her old human one so much. Before she had come to this manor, she had not known that blood flow could create explosive strength beyond that which vampires were normally capable of. Like humans’, vampires’ hearts pumped blood to every corner of their bodies, but vampires were able to accelerate that and heighten their physical strength in the process.

“Blood Manipulation” was the name for controlling this speed at will to strengthen oneself, and despite having no knowledge of this art, Mercedes had already made use of it—the gravity training she had used to simply increase her strength. Increasing the force of gravity acting on herself naturally made her blood heavier as well. However, her body had resisted this, strengthening her heart and increasing both the speed and strength of the blood flowing through her body. In fact, she constantly increased the gravity acting on her, meaning she had been honing this art every second of every day.This was the secret behind her phenomenal strength.

Considering how effective gravity training was, one might assume that every vampire should do it, but things weren’t so simple. This world had no concept of “gravity” or “attractive fields.” Geocentrism—the idea that the earth was stationary and the planets revolved around it—and flat ear