Before I begin I have a question or two.
Should I add other vampires to the world?
Should I have alucard make his own police girl?
Now onto the chapter.
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(Dream scape)
"I'm back in my old house."
I found myself drifting deeper in my dream as I see my mother's room and in it, I saw the alucard sword and shield lying where my mother's corpse once lied.
I found my dream self moving closer to the sword and shield as I feel something looking right at me, even though I was all alone.
"Mijo…" I hear a familiar voice right behind me as spectral arms wrapped around me, and I feel a tear flow down my cheek, "mother." I utter as the arms hug me, pulling me tight.
"Remember, you aren't alone anymore… I will always be by your side, all you need to do…is to call my name." I hear my mother's voice say as the sword and shield on her bed slowly turned to mist and in the mist I saw her.
The deep brown hair, graying on the sides due to stress, green eyes like emeralds, and her smile that she gave me whenever we were out enjoying our day together.
"Mother!" I shout as I try and will my body to run towards her, but my body felt like it was frozen in place.
"It's time to wake up." She says with a gaze filled with care, yet her tone had a hint of sadness.
"What?" I ask her, not realizing the environment around me was starting to dim.
"It's time to wake up." She repeated once more, the surroundings getting darker and darker, but before I could say anything I hear Merleona's voice cut in.
"Are you going to sleep all day?! Get your ass up!!"
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(Real world)
I woke up in a cold sweat, eyes darting around as I try to remember what I saw in my dream, "what…what was that?" I utter before landing my eyes to Merleona.
She was dressed in her usual attire, the only difference? The top had a little lion etched into the cuffs, "I don't know what you were dreaming, but we're burning daylight, time to train!" She said In a loud voice, my ears practically ringing by how loud she spoke.
" give me a minute, I gotta bet some-" I began to say as I slowly got up, but before I could move Merleona shoved a plate of sliced meat and cheese in my face, "already covered!" She said as I wonder where this even came from?
"…okay, now what *nom* should I work on? Because *nom* I promised my familiar I'd be back in 6 days, wow this is some good quality cheese." I say to Merleona, taking bites of cheese and sliced meat as she gave me a feral looking smile.
"The best kind of training!" She said before continuing, "I noticed that you were using a sword against a rock based enemy and were struggling, so I'm training you in hand to hand combat, which means two things… Sparring and punching hard objects!" She finished as I eat the last bit of my breakfast.
"Wait but why punching hard objects, I can understand sparring but why that specifically?" I ask her.
"Mages don't realize it, but our bodies have limitless potential, yet they squander all of it over magic, and magic has limits, when you punch things, trauma involving micro fractures in the bones, the tearing of muscles can heal overtime, becoming harder and stronger in the process." She explains as I realize what she wants me to do, 'she's making me pull a Baki training arc, isn't she?'
" so here's the goal I have for you, i want to to break that giant boulder with only your body, no mana reinforcement, no magic, just pure physical force." She tells me as she points to a boulder that had to be about three meters tall and 5 meters wide.
"So how long do I need to keep punching this boulder?" I ask her as I walk towards it and throw a light test punch, noticing how even with super vampire strength It didn't even leave a crack.
"Until it's nighttime again, and don't complain! you wanted to get stronger, and this is how you do it, NOW PUNCH!" she shouts as I give her a quick nod before entering a boxing stance and without hesitation I punched the boulder, pain running up my arm as I fracture my arms, my vampire regen began working to heal them, only to have the fractures appear again as I kept punching.
*one hour later*
'The pain is gone' I notice as I see fist marks appear in the boulder, my blood stains run down the surface as I threw harder punches, the pain now more noticeable, but the boulder still didn't shatter.
"What is this thing made of?" I ask Merleona as she came over to check my progress, "not bad, the boulder is made from layers of magma that has cooled and hardened over the years, making this boulder incredibly dense." She explains as I stop for a moment to take a quick breather.
"Okay, take a quick break, and eat this." She tells me, handing me a plate of sandwiches, "oh…thank you." I tell her as I take a bite, and despite being royalty she was a surprisingly good cook.
"So…how's my progress?" I ask her as I polish off my second sandwich as she takes a sandwich from the plate before taking a bite, " you're doing well so far, the indents on the boulder aren't shallow by any account." She replies, "if anything your progress is astounding, but don't get cocky!"
I chuckle at her flip flopping tone as she goes from a caring peer to a stern teacher, " okay moooooooom." I say in a sarcastic voice reminiscent of another vampire who love to take enthusiastic walks as I stand up and get back to punching, not noticing a spectral being watching me.
"…mijo…"
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So people asked when my alucard will see his mom's spirit again, so after going weeks with writers block I decided to do a dream showing a hint for alucard.
She will still appear in the underwater temple arc, but I hope you all enjoyed the chapter and I apologize for the wait.
See you next time, peace😁✌️