Chapter 289 (2/2)

Sitting in the middle of the 10 vampires was the patriarch of the Lucas Family. He was a tall and slender, middle-aged man. He had a pale face with middle-length grey hair, swept-back in a neat hairstyle. He was wearing a black suit with maroon lining, absolutely dapper. He was handsome, with a tad of elegance, not as mean and ghastly as one would imagine. He obviously paid a lot of attention to his look; he was impeccable from head to toe, even the creases on his clothes were perfect. But Hessiana was making fun of him. “You still have the same sh*tty look, like you’re going to be cremated soon…”

Hao Ren started to doubt whether the maiden received brain damage when she broke apart from Vivian’s body; she was totally unlike her parent, judging from her demeanour.

“I’m here to see the countess.” The elegant middle-aged man had no emotion on his face as if he did not hear Hessiana. “She is my elder. I should do whatever a junior should. But this space is a bit… Don’t you have a proper meeting room?”

The man’s eyes darted all over the long hall and the scene almost shook him off his chair. The remnants of last night’s party had not been cleaned up yet. Okay, let me spell out for you: about every five metres or so, there lay one of Hessiana’s vampires on the floor, still mumbling with food in their mouths. These ladies and gentlemen (in terms of their attire) in suits were strewn across the floor, making the hall appear like the scene of a gruesome genocide.

“Your family is sh…” a flirtatious woman beside the middle-aged man spoke with half a smile on her face, but stopped short of calling Hessiana’s family shameful.

“So what? As long as we’re happy and grow fast.” Hessiana shot a smug smile back at her. “Anyway, we were the ones who first accepted the vagrants. Weren’t you the one expelling them in the first place? And now you’ve got a problem with that?”

Hao Ren heard about Hessiana’s history of struggle when she talked about it at the party last night. He now knew the origins of her strange vampire family: just as he had suspected, nothing would be normal when it had to do with Vivian’s bloodline.

In the beginning, the Hessianite Family was made up of vagrants.

The conservative vampire families at that time observed a set of strict family rules, even in smaller vampire families. Those who violated family rules would be driven out and it was a very common occurrence. Those who were expelled would lose the protection of their family and food security; they faced discrimination because the sanctuary had no laws to protect this group of vampires. For this reason, the vagrants’ lifespan was very short. Even if they struggled to continue living, there were no families willing to take them in. Humanly speaking, it was a very strange phenomenon. But for those who gave great importance to the concepts of honour as well as disgrace, and abided by ancient traditions, it was a common occurence.

From the day Hessiana was sent there by Vivian, she mingled with the vagrants as she too was a vagrant. Before that, she had received a few years worth of a Vivian-styled education. She could not care less about the Blood Clan’s honour and stuff like that. She found that vagrants were not as bad as people thought, so she befriended them and played with them… She played with them from the start because, after all she was just a kid back then.

The vampire families once raised their concerns about the gathering of large group of vagrants, but nobody dared to provoke the royal child—yes, nobody.

Because she was sent there by the Countess of the Crimson Moon, half of the ancient ones, including the most senior one, Hesperides were Hessiana’s guardians. The ancient ones had lived for far too long and most witnessed their own family’s demise, so they had no strong concept of race. They had no qualms about Hessiana’s actions. And since they did not mind, other people did not have the guts to mind it.

Back then, people just thought of Hessiana as a VIP’s naughty kid, running loose and hanging out with a bunch of wretched vampires. She would get bored in a few days time, what harm could she possibly cause?

But the naughty kid with her wretched friends completely finished off all the vampire families save for the Lucas Family—all in a matter of three days.

These crackpots hung crosses and garlic across their bodies while they held their divine silver weapons in their hands…

Everyone in the sanctuary was scared to the bone. They thought they were demon hunters!