After that Damien and kikyou took the carriage destination the prison of the town after arriving their they where greeted by the legionnaires who took over the day to day operation of the facility until replacement come officer responsible come over and said with some tension in his voice while facing the most powerful authority he knows of :' it's honour meeting you lord to what we owe the pleasure of your viste sir?'.
Damien then anwsered :' at ease officer I am just taking a tour of the town then I saw this place I wanted to make a visit I hope you will guide us'.
The officer answered with fervour:' it will be my honour to be your guide sire please follow me '.
They followed the officer inside first they stumbled on what looked like a bunch of room some where for the guard to rest and sleep others where to eat and finaly room owth desks where they handled the administrative paper where an officers or legionnaires saw will salute them and Damien will node and a holding cell before transferring the prisonners to their final cells after that they took the stairs down as the cells of the prisoners where in th floor below the basement a bad smell hit them filled with the scent of decay,blood and despair filled the air as you will think of your typical prison of the medieval era Damien looked through the cells seeing the prisoner and asked :' I want you to open up later the case of every prisoner here to see if he is innocent or not as I have received information that many where falsely accused under the usuper rule is that clear'.
Hearing this the officer could only say :' yes sir it will be done as you wish'.
They kept walking after a while they arrived at a dark part of the prison and poorly lighted Damien exclaimed to the officers who answered that the information he got from the guard that this part always was like this and prisoners here where sent directly by the traito Dylan he told the officers to get him the keys of this cells they where three in total few minutes he come back with them then Damien asked him to leave but stay close until he called for him.
He looked smell the scent of every person here and cell Infront of himsimilar smell to that of kikyou sk he opted to start there after all he main goal is to gain another powerful follower he walked to it and open the door inside the saw a man who was nailed to cross like structure four centimetre wide and fifteen centimetre long nail where Piercing his hand,legs, shoulders and around his knees you could see burn marks.
Kikyou rapidly went to her brother like a mad person she teared down those nails holding him:' brother are you okay brother are you okay' tears could be seen gushing from her eyes like a stream she turned to Damien with pleading eyes and said :'please master save him'.
Damien walked to them said:' don't worry kikyou I already told I would save him just realise him and I will save him'.
Some sanity returned to kikyou then she let go of her brother then squatted down and then used vampire embrace thus using one of his precious refined blood but it didn't matter in the long he will have a unique powerful and most importantly loyal follower few minutes later the one his body could be seen healing by the naked eyes 👀 truly show casing the powerful regeneration of a vampire.
After the body that was all wounded and full of wholes few minutes ago started moving first then the fingers then the whole hand after he opened his eyes he saw Damien thinking he was one Dylan man he tried to attack him using his hand but found himself unable he even felt fear 😨 then hurriedly kikyou jumped to him and said :' brother you are alive quickly thank our benefactor and master Damien '.
Hearing the name and associated him with what he knew before he understood that the man before was baron Damien and felt a weird felling inside telling him not to stand against the man facing him this is the blood origin suppression working in a subtle way without Damien activating it so he stood up and bowed saying:' thank you my lord for your help and sorry for trying to attack you my name is musashi head of the Hattori clan'.
Damien moving his hand and saying:' it was nothing after all you are Dylan enemy and kikyou brother so it was nothing I will you two siblings talk a little kikyou please brief about his situation if you would like i will go see the other prisoners '.
Kikyou answered:' I will gladly do it lord brother their is a lot to tell you first you are a vampire now like me.....'
Damien left them and went to a cell nest to them.
he opened the cell inside he found badly mangled person or more precisely a demi human from the looks of it he belonged to serpentman he had a serpent head with a body of man but instead of skin he had scales all over his body and his pupils where vertical the were ambre like any other serpent 🐍 .
Damien walked to him and said:' hi I defeated Dylan my ask for what reason he imprisoned you here ?'.
A hissing sound was heard then the serpent man:'good to hear that the backstabber was dealt with as for why a was here is simple greed I owned a treasure and I didn't have the strength to protect at same time a trusted the wrong person'.
Then Damien said:' may I ask what you have lost'.
Had a premonition that one of the things he found probably the treasure this serpent man was looking for so he asked to get more information about hose items if possible.
The serpent then said:' first let me present myself my name is slitherin kemoyin I am a descendant of the great kemoyin serpent of shadow and fire also what you may call a warlock as for what I have lost is a sample of blood that I purified of my ancestor before I could inject I was attacked by Dylan as for why he kept me alive he needed to make him more and since I refused he chose to torture until I do'.
Damien was really elated from what he heard first he new th origin of the blood he got second he seems that he got under his hand a blood scientist that could help in the futur purifie the blood of his victim of they had any ancient bloodline in their vines then with a villain smile he said:'So what you are saying if I release you can make more of that blood also can purifie other samples of I get them to you'.
Slitherin vertical eyes consecrated it seems that this man came of position of the sample or at least has seen it then he said:'i can tell with absolute certainty that if the necessary equipment is available I can make more since it's in my blood but it will take some time and yes if given enough samples and ressources I can purifie other bloods'.
The reason for telling Damien that he was the source of the blood is just to increase his value and eliminate any bad taught that this man infort of him has.
Hearing this Damien started thinking 🤔 if he want to use that blood in his breakthrough ceremony to seconde grade je probably shouldn't turn to a vampire as his bloodline was tyrannical and probably will consume all of the kemoyin blood so he should go for the second best thing either sign a contract under the "'truth eye"" to uphold it but that would be expensive 🫰 or he could go for the slave imprint only this last option can be applied now .
So the smile in his face vanished and said:' either you open up you conscious to put an enslavement imprint in it and I can promise you to never mistreat you or odrderd against you principles the other choice is death ☠️ answere carefully '.
He got his hand in a pincer like shape ready to kill to target 🎯 if the answer given wasn't to his liking and killing intent was unleashed the temperature inside the cell dropped by a big margine the serpentman facing him due to his nature could fell the drop in the temperature and the killing intent targeting him he knew that any answer except opening his sea conscious will mean death so he could only greet his teeth and open his sea conscious after that the atmosphere relaxed then Damien placed a slave imprint.
After that he told him:' believe me when I tell that decision is the best you made in your entire life 🧬 and let me present myself Damien Morningstar the baron of tuscany'.
Thus a partnership that will span thousands of years started this way and with this Damien finished his visit to the prison as for the other cell the resident was already dead so he called for that officer asked for some new clothes for the two of them and to investigate who the person was inside that cell a half hour later he got the answer he couldn't believe his luck it's seems creating the next pawn will be easier tha he though he ordered the body to be well taken care of then to be send to the manor in few hours they all went to the carriage he will drop musashi and kikyou at their clan residence as for slitherin he will accompanie him to the manor to rest then to look at the equipment that Dylan if it can be used by him if yes it will packed and taken to Stonehenge.