Richard Eno

**Current**

* Researcher
* Scientist

**Current**

* Vampire Settlement

**Richard Eno**, originally born **Lenny Steel**, was the first Original vampire created through the Beasting Potion and Bliss's assistance across otherworld dimensions. Under the name **Eno** (reversed 'One'), he established the Vampire society with later discovered Original vampires with himself founding the Tenth Family: Eno.

Eno acted as a scientist who introduced portal technology as well as beast weapon technology to the humans. Praised as a hero because of his contributions as one of the only reasons humans survived the war against the Dalki.

# Appearance

## As Lenny Steel

When he was over a century old, Lenny Steel looked like a 7 feet tall wise old giant. His beard had specks of grey hair, but he looked like he was in his 40's.

## As Richard Eno

Ray Talen, as a ghost inhabiting in the body of his descendant Quinn Talen, did not recognize that Lenny Steel and Richard Eno were the same person. It seems Lenny's appearance as a Vampire continued to change until he was unrecognizable. When he was called Lenny, he looked older than when he was known as Richard Eno.

# History

## Loss of his family to Sena

At the beginning of the crisis of the Shadow Plague, Lenny Steel lost his entire family to the Shadow Guard Sena, an humanoid Magical Beast turned Shadow Beast. It is what gave him his absolute determination to not only defeat the Shadow, but also avenge his family.

## Knight of Avrion

Lenny Steel was forced to go to war as a knight in Avrion. He was just average, yet the Dragon Knights would lead him into battle after battle. Lenny was terrified and wanted to do anything to survive. He relied on his one asset, his brain, to make a difference. As his body already achieved his limit with Qi, he thought he should render his body capable of handling Mana as well.

The pursuit of making himself capable of performing Magic led him to dabble in forbidden magic. He studied the Beasting Process, a form of magic that was forbidden because the subjects of those experiments would either be mutilated or die in agony. A select few researchers finally found a promising method of absorbing the weakest of the Beast Crystals, the basic ones, but the subjects did not survive the pain the heavy mutations into an hybrid induced. Lenny managed the exploit to perform the experiment on himself and survive it. He claimed to have been the only Human so far to have survived the Beasting Process. This enabled him to become a Mage capable of using spells of all types.

These experiments were however forbidden, so Lenny was expelled from Avrion.

## Tower Master of Roland

Lenny Steel then studied Magic at the Roland Academy. He achieved the highest honor of becoming a Tower Master. Back then, he was friend with Mia, who also became a Tower Master.

## Author of several books

Lenny wrote *The Truth about the Dragon Knights* about 50 years before the time of Ray Talen, which coincided with the truce between the kingdoms of the Bronzeland continent. He was also famous for a book about the Magical Beasts.

## Follower of Ray Talen

Lenny Steel encountered Ray Talen in a tavern in Kelberg, when both of them were requested by the mayor's daughter Lilly to assist in the recapture of Vercy, that was possessed by the Dragon Hammer.

He joined the Red Wings under the condition that the magical contract binding him to Ray Talen would be broken once the war against the Shadow Plague would be over.

## Becoming the first Vampire

During the kingdom's conquest of the Lion's mouth fortress, the great mage Lenny Steel witnessed the invasion of a dead Dragon that came from the Dragon "Hell" or "Shadow World" (maybe a part of the Red Plane ?), and the gate to the plane was sealed by the Celestial Bliss. After the battle, the two resumed their duties as Avrion's Tower Masters of the Redwings Kingdom.

Bliss then revealed to Lenny Steel that she foresaw he would not survive in the final campaign of the Red Wings against the Shadow Continent, which was a problem since he direly wanted to get his revenge on the Shadow Guard Sena that killed his family. His century of changing his body with the Beasting Process and learning magic was for this sole purpose, yet it did not suffice.

This is why Bliss and him resolved to open a portal to the Red Plane using a Magic circle and a Nest Crystal, where Lenny made a pact with Immortui, which he would call a "deal with the devil". It was only post-facto he realized that he had unleashed a new plague onto the world.

Lenny Steel used for the first time his blood aura against the two Demon-tier Shadow Beasts in the Shadow Guards in the final assault of the Red Wings on the fortress of Tenebris. However, it was Ray Talen that would avenge him by slaying Sena, the one that killed his family, with his Dragon Sword.

## Tenure as Vampire King

Lenny adopted the name Eno, the reverse of One, because he was the first Vampire. He traveled to find the other "seeds" (Original Vampires) planted by Immortui. Laxmus was made the very first Vampire King, but as he served Immortui, he was an enemy of the Humans and a tyrant. He was deposed by the Originals and put to eternal sleep.

In the Kingdom of Logres, the Original Vampires under the leadership of Eno approached the King Arthur Pendragon because he was an excellent warrior. They turned him into a Vampire without his consent in order to obtain a counterpower to themselves. They agreed to assist the King in his military campaigns, in exchange for a haven where the Vampires would not be hunted. This led to the creation of the Vampire settlement in the Kingdom of Logres.

The Vampire King Eno still listened to the counsel of the goddess Bliss, and she foresaw a Vampire rampage that would lead them to dominate the Humans. This is why they put into action a scheme to create a strong counterpower to the Vampires. This how why Eno plotted to hurt the Human Knights of the Round Table to make Arthur realize the danger of unruly Vampires. He framed Bryce Cain's grandfather, the Original of the First Family and put the blame on him for the attack on Arthur's knights.

Eno in this way manipulated Arthur to become the head of a Fourteenth Family of Punishers for the Vampires that would be served to uphold their laws and punish the offenders. The first Punishers were the Knights of the Round Table that were turned to save their lives. Using a Truedream, Eno had the Shadow Ability transferred from the sleeping tyrant king Laxmus to Arthur.

At some point, the Vampires teleported their settlement to another planet, perhaps because Earth was running out of Beast Crystals.

# Abilities

## As a Mage

Lenny Steel was seen casting many spells of various types, which was exceptional for a Mage and largely explained by the Beasting Process he underwent:

* Magical Barrier
* Magical Rope, one of his strongest binding spells
* White Magic (Healing Magic), which was particularly rare
* Memory Magic

## As an alchemist

* Lenny invented a gas bomb that released a corrosive chemical

## As a Vampire

As the founder of the Eno family, he was famous for the Equivalent Exchange Ability : he could achieve divine feats if he sacrificed a suitable price, like Beast Crystals.

As the Original Vampire, he was of course quite skilled in blood control and particularly liked the blood drill.

# References

1. ↑ My Dragon System, ch. 200
2. ↑ My Vampire System, ch. 1410
3. ↑ My Vampire System, ch. 1326
4. ↑ My Dragon System, ch. 522, 524
5. ↑ My Dragon System, ch. 262
6. ↑ My Dragon System, ch. 281
7. ↑ My Dragon System, ch. 40
8. ↑ My Dragon System, ch 200
9. ↑ My Dragon System, ch 200
10. ↑ My Dragon System, ch. 354
11. ↑ My Vampire System, ch. 1326
12. ↑ My Dragon System, ch. 524
13. ↑ My Vampire System, ch. 1326
14. ↑ My Dragon System, ch. 523
15. ↑ My Dragon System, ch. 524
16. ↑ My Vampire System, ch. 1326
17. ↑ My Vampire System, ch. 1326
18. ↑ My Dragon System, ch. 219, 279, 280
19. ↑ My Dragon System, ch. 220
20. ↑ My Dragon System, ch. 235
21. ↑ My Dragon System, ch. 335
22. ↑ My Dragon System, ch. 274