Mercedes and the Waning Moon: The Dungeoneering Feats of a Discarded Vampire Aristocrat Volume 4 by Fire head

Author:Fire head [HEAD, FIRE]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: J-Novel Club
Published: 2026-02-13T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 84: Image Change

“Oh, now you’ve done it!” Walburga’s angry shouts reverberated throughout a room inside the Grunewalds’ manor. After Julia’s escape, Hannah had immediately headed for the manor to report these events to all parties concerned. She explained that Kristoff Fecht had been a dungeon conqueror, and that after Niklas had assassinated him, he had raised Kristoff’s daughter as his own. She told them that this daughter was Walburga, which meant Felix was a dungeon inheritor. Finally, she revealed that this intel had leaked, so their enemies likely already knew all this.

After she heard the story, Walburga’s face turned scarlet, and she released her anger on Hannah and Mercedes. “That means Felix’s life is in danger!”

“Which is why we’ll assign guards to protect—”

“Yes, you will! Obviously!”

The force of Walburga’s rage had Hannah squirming in her seat. But since Hannah’s failure to see things through to the end had made matters worse, she wasn’t in any position to fight back.

Felix just sat there, looking completely dazed. Huh? I own a dungeon? What do they mean? He was completely out of it, as if those were the only thoughts on his mind.

The others present included Lydia and the rest of Bernhard’s wives, alongside their children, Mercedes, Monika, Margaret, and Gottfried, the last of which was a man of particularly little presence. All of them observed the proceedings.

“How complicated. But, well...it makes sense. So that’s why Walburga’s been so desperate to protect her position,” said Lydia. Bernhard’s other wives also looked at Walburga sympathetically. Her image had undergone a complete one-eighty, as she’d transformed into a tragic heroine. Until now, she had been a woman who did nothing but wail about her son deserving to be heir, completely ignoring Bernhard’s other children. The other wives had viewed her incredibly unfavorably.

But now that her past had been revealed—now that they knew her father had been murdered, and she had been raised by his assassin—it made sense why she’d desperately cling to a place where she belonged.

The news that Felix held the rights to a dungeon was equally earth-shattering. A dungeon owner possessed might that rivaled a king’s. Therefore, the others had begun to think that maybe Felix was the one most deserving of being Bernhard’s heir. If he became the next Duke Grunewald and joined the royal family as a son-in-law, their family could gain even more power. There was no longer a reason to insist upon Mercedes inheriting the family name.

However, Mercedes was eerily silent. She had been the one who brought about this set of circumstances. She made no rebuttals and fully admitted to her mistakes, but her reticence didn’t seem to be due to penitence.

For some reason, Bernhard didn’t scold Mercedes either. Instead, he simply watched over the proceedings likewise in silence.

***

“Tricked, were you?”

Once the meeting was over and she had stepped out into the hall, Mercedes heard Bernhard’s voice from behind her. He seemed somewhat displeased, but there was delight in his words as well. He hadn’t expected this

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