dark night,
The dim stars surround the bloody blood moon.
Under the bloody moonlight is the gray sky of the Negras Empire all year round.
No, to be more precise, at this point in time, this area has not yet been named the Negras Empire, and Emperor Gaudos is only a poor half-man who has not yet become famous and is tortured by fate. Just the dead.
Yes, as early as the ancient times, this barren land filled with undead and wandering souls was so sparsely populated.
Hazy skies, dirty riverbeds, sulfur mines formed by extinct volcanoes, and alchemists' favorite mercury pools can be found everywhere. On the cracked earth, there is little land suitable for farming. There are a few good geomantic treasures or rare mineral deposits, but they have long been occupied by sporadic undead forces, or have evolved under the orderly management of intelligent life. It has become large and small cities and towns, inhabited by more or less undead, humans and other creatures.
Of course, as the saying goes, wherever there is human society, there are vampires!
As one of the most powerful advanced bloodlines among the various humanoid creatures in the continent of Exios, the world of vampires also has a strict hierarchy like human society:
Ranked from top to bottom according to family strength and the number of family vassals, the seven major vampire families with outstanding talents naturally stand out among the others. The remaining vampire families often fight for family status and territory ownership, so the rankings are occasionally different. Fluctuation is a normal thing, but at the end of the hierarchy, there is such a kind of vampire who is firmly at the bottom——
A stray vampire!
The stray vampires, as the name suggests, are the vampires who live far away from human society and away from the group. Just like those griffins with the Alain Norn Empire's establishment and the griffons nesting in the wilderness are completely different treatments. In the eyes of the orthodox vampires, the outliers who "nest" in places other than cities and towns The vampires are either traitors who were expelled from the orthodox families for committing various crimes, or they are uncivilized beasts who do not know what social etiquette is and live a life of consuming hair and drinking blood.
Even if some smart stray vampires will gather together to form their own group, donate their life's wealth, and join the orthodox vampire families in the city as vassals, the endings of most stray vampires are nothing more than three -
He was hunted by human knights, enslaved by necromancers, and put a bounty on his head by the orthodox vampires.
Just like the human nobles exploit the people at the bottom, the orthodox vampires are also happy to persecute the outlier vampires at the bottom of the hierarchy! But it just so happened that a descendant of a stray vampire unexpectedly embarked on the fourth possibility!
One day, an ancient cemetery welcomed the elite vampires of the Lucifer family. This ancient cemetery has been occupied by a dozen stray vampires. They have collected all the wealth and treasures within a hundred miles, and command hundreds of skeletons, undead and zombies, as well as a large number of resentful souls and hellhounds.
But in Lucifer's eyes, defeating these enemies is not even a warm-up.
What's more, the patriarch Isaac Lucifer is also among them!
As a routine operation to eliminate stray vampires, big figures like Isaac originally did not need to go out in person, but his only son Gul'dan insisted on going out with the family's mercenary group. With no choice, Isaac had no choice but to go with him.
The clan leader went on an expedition, but not a blade of grass grew!
"Father, please don't set the fire first. I feel a life under the ruins!"
The stray vampires soon ushered in their end. The Lucifers' battle did not even take more than half an hour. However, just when Isaac Lucifer was preparing to burn the cemetery with fire, the ruins of the cemetery were destroyed. Among them, his eldest son, the "little general" wearing a cloak and holding a halberd, was using his telepathic talent to conduct a second scan of the area.
Although it takes longer than humans, compared to other higher bloodline creatures, the time between the vampire stage and maturity stage can be said to be fleeting.
However, even in such a short period of growth, Gul'dan's fighting spirit was no less than in adulthood.
Even more vigorous!
"Yes, found it!"
Without waiting for Isaac to allow his reckless and unintelligent behavior, Gul'dan used the halberd in his hand as a crowbar and shovel, like a groundhog, constantly digging the soil, trying to dig out the ruins. Dig up the life form he just discovered.
Fortunately, what Gul'dan found was not an enemy hiding underground preparing for a sneak attack, but a dirty baby girl hiding deep in the cellar——
The last descendant of the stray vampire clan!
"It looks like we just killed this child's parents."
While Gul'dan was hurriedly carrying the crying baby girl, Isaac Lucifer appeared beside him at the right time. He took the baby girl and skillfully held her in his arms, shaking her slightly comfortably. The babbling baby words soon made the baby girl burst into laughter.
"Gul'dan, I want to adopt this child as my adopted daughter. What do you think?"
"Okay, I also want to have a sister!"
Maybe it was the guilt of wiping out the whole family of baby girls, maybe it was the kindness of Isaac as a human being that was still alive. When he saw this immature life, the first thing that came to Isaac Lucifer's mind was... Adopt her as an adopted daughter!
The young and ignorant Gul'dan did not feel any resistance to such an earth-shattering proposal to adopt a baby girl who had strayed from the vampire clan as an adopted daughter. On the contrary, the novelty of having a adopted sister for the first time was even more overwhelming.
"Gul'dan, give your sister a name."
"Then... let's call her Helen. Mom told me before that the name Helen symbolizes a beautiful woman!"
The name Helen comes from Isaac's deceased wife and Gul'dan's mother, whose name was Helen Samael. In Isaac's memory, his wife was a very outstanding female vampire. Unfortunately, a family struggle led to her death, leaving Isaac alone to take care of the young and naughty Gul'dan.
Since the death of his wife, Isaac has not married again. For so many years, Gul'dan is the only descendant of Isaac and the only orthodox successor of the Lucifer family.
"Helen...sigh...is indeed a beautiful name...then...let it be Helen! As promised in advance, I will give her the bloodline and abilities of the Lucifer family, and she will have the same treatment and training as you. You will have equal inheritance rights. As a brother, you must not lose to your sister in the competition to succeed the clan leader!"
"No problem, no matter how many younger brothers and sisters you find for me, father, no one will be my opponent!"
"Gul'dan, confidence is a good thing, but don't be too arrogant!"
"Yes Yes Yes!"
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