Chapter 17 (1/2)

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation

Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

Eudes had been very puzzled over the past two days.

His confusion had not gone away since the Patriarch returned last night.

He clearly sensed a massive change in the Patriarch’s temperament. Their father was not the same when he previously came back.

In the past, the Patriarch would act like a vampire. He was indifferent and drawn to the darkness. He would never gather his descendants in the hall in the morning and would only see humans as fodder.

He even thought that this time around, when the Patriarch returned, he would lead the clan on hexbats beyond the Farmountains to raid and capture humans… just to keep them as food stock.

Eudes never expected everything to change.

The old-school Patriarch had changed so thoroughly. He even publicly declared that vampires would not harm humans in the future and humans would be treated as part of the clan.

Was this the Patriarch that he knew so well?

Could the knowledge from the Divine Spirit change him so radically?

Goddess of the Night above, he swore that while he was very puzzled by everything, he did not mention it to anyone because the Patriarch’s soul aura was still his own.

Although the Patriarch acted differently from the usual, he saw a different hope in the situation.

The god of death once whispered in the ears of all living beings, that if they did not change, death would come.

Even though Eudes did not believe in gods, he agreed wholeheartedly with the saying of a powerful being like the god of death.

After they tasted the wine of defeat in the war a hundred years ago, the vampires had been shrouded in weakness and timidity.

The formerly three-thousand-strong clan now consisted of no more than two-hundred plus members, and they had to always be on guard against the hunt by Grimm.

It was unbearable for Eudes, who had lived through the vampires’ glory days, and he thought he would be forced to live on like that for a long time.

Fortunately, however, the Patriarch had begun to change.

Even if the change was rather abrupt, Eudes was still happy.

Plus, he was also deeply moved by the knowledge that the Patriarch had inherited from the Divine Spirit.

The secret origins of the vampires that were long lost in the sands of time made him feel proud. The vampires who had once ruled the world were indeed the goddess of the night’s beloved… though, in truth, the goddess of the night had not existed back then.

He was even more excited about the future that the Patriarch had described, ruling over a city of millions like Grimm.

The battle with Grimm a hundred years ago made him recognize the power of humanity, and the mighty army that could destroy several vampire clans was still a fresh nightmare in his mind.

Not to mention, there was that Transcendent Mage who floated in the sky, Locke Haart. A Fifth Circle Spell alone could send thousands of vampires back into the goddess of the night’s embrace.

That was not the kind of power mere mortals could master, and he was rightfully terrified.

The vampires would need a brave hero in such times of weakness to change everything.

Luckily, the Lord Progenitor, the master of the vampires, stepped up to the plate again.

Even now, he felt that it was the changed great Patriarch who allowed him to see the further into the distance.

So, although the new orders had only just been issued and the vampires around him were still having doubts, he had decided to follow in the Lord Progenitor’s footsteps and serve as a vampire with all his might.

Eudes decided in his heart.

“Vita, hurry up. Move everything you have to the Central District today, There are plenty of houses that are big enough there.

“Get rid of the bodies in your house. Do not let me see any corpses around.