Chapter 1383 - The Leaders Growth (Part 1) (1/2)

It wasn't long after the meeting, that an announcement was made to the whole settlement about the King's two new Royal Knights. There was no big ceremony, Quinn had felt like they had had enough of those recently.

Every time they had a ceremony it seemed to delay things. He didn't understand what all the big huff was about, but according to Vincent, when vampires had lived for 1000s of years and had done nearly everything, an excuse for a celebration or something for them to do was welcomed.

He still disregarded this fact because now they did have something important to do, and thought it was just best to deliver the news to the leaders, allowing them to pass on the message. Although none of the vampires disagreed with Quinn's decision to make Muka a Royal knight, they considered him a good choice...her a good choice. They did though, wonder why someone like Fex had been chosen.

In the end, the people believed that it was due to him being close to the King. There were those vampires, who believed their leaders should have rightfully obtained the position and complained a little, yet the ones in the pooling area were okay with this. It seemed like the inner castle vampires were the ones kicking up the most fuss.

The Pooling vampires were still over the moon that Quinn had accepted to be their King in the first place, and they thought whoever he selected for the positions were the right choice. They just saw his actions through rose-colored glasses, where whatever he did couldn't be seen as wrong to them.

Then, there was a more tricky announcement, and it was for the tenth family. For this one, Quinn did decide to gather the people, because he wanted to gauge their initial reaction. Just like with the leaders, he didn't want to hide anything from his people as well.

They stopped on top of a balcony that led out from the castle, and all the vampires belonging to the tenth family were invited. They stood outside looking upward. As Quinn came out the usual roar and cheers were heard, and then when Vincent was revealed there were audible gasps in the crowd.

”Is it his twin? The tenth leader had a twin we never knew about?!”

”It must just be someone with an ability, right?”

In the end, Quinn decided it was best for him to speak first.

”As you all know, I have taken up the role to be your King, which means in my place someone else will have to take care of the tenth family. Leo will continue to be your Knight, as for the other position, I will be leaving that decision to my successor, although it might be more accurate to call him my predecessor.

”Due to some special circumstances we have provided him with a new body.” Quinn explained. ”This here is Vincent Eno, the former leader of the tenth family.”

There was whispering from the crowd, even if most of the vampires weren't around when Vincent had been their leader, they still knew the tenth family's history and he had been branded a traitor as a leader that had abandoned them at a crucial time, making the other families treat them like scum.

”Boo boo!”

There was great negativity from the crowd at the mention of that name, and Quinn was worried that any second the people might start to chuck things at them.

”Do you want me to say a few things to them?” Vincent asked. ”They have a right to be upset.”

”No!” Quinn quickly said, remembering what had happened when he had chosen to speak during that council meeting. It was one thing for the other leaders to dislike him, but for the ones he was supposed to lead would be a disaster.

”Everyone quite!” Quinn yelled, amplifying his voice with Qi. ”I know of Vincent's past, in fact his blood runs through my veins, but you also don't know what he has been doing while he was away.

”It was because of Vincent that I was able to become who I am today! He guided me, taught me how to use my Blood powers and more. He was even the one that asked me to help you all! If it wasn't for him, then you wouldn't have me here today either!”

The vampires didn't know if these words were true, but what seemed to somewhat convince them, was the fact that Vincent now looked identical to Quinn. They couldn't imagine what he had been through that would make it so he had to be that way.