"My race is born of blood and will never die."
"Not a god, not a demon, not a human being."
"We are above all living things, eating blood and devouring life."
"No one has witnessed our appearance."
"We are hiding in the darkness, hiding from the crowd, cultivating the blood moon, and waiting for the right time."
"When the bloody six wings appear in the world, the dark moon is in the sky, twilight is critical, and bloodthirsty is rampant,"
"Everything mourns."
——Excerpted from "Dracula's Oath" Section 36
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But Lauryn is an exception.
He is a blood prince.
He is so powerful and has almost eternal life.
As Lauryn said.
Immortal vampires should not have complicated emotions.
The eldest relatives in the blood clan have always warned him like this.
Because he is the prince among the blood clans and has the purest and most powerful bloodline.
So Laurian stayed quietly in the arms of the family for hundreds of years.
Occasionally, some vampire compatriots would leave the family, and when they came back they would always describe the beautiful scenery outside.
This gave Lauryn a strong curiosity about the outside world.
But the elders repeatedly emphasized that the outside world is full of conspiracies, undercurrents, and crises.
Therefore, they have forbidden Lauryn from leaving the family's territory.
But in Lauryn's view, those compatriots who are weaker than him are able to navigate the outside world with ease. As a prince, how can he be afraid of the storms of the outside world?
After all, he has lived for hundreds of years.
Laurian left the family resolutely, regardless of anyone's dissuasion.
He is so confident that he even thinks he is invincible in the entire human world.
Naihe was recognized as a vampire as soon as he left the house.
And this person is a world-class undead mage, Grand Duke Barlow.
In that battle, Archduke Barlow used his undead magic to beat him so hard that he almost couldn't recognize the drop of his own blood.
The most important thing is that the vampires have six extremely strict commandments.
No matter what your status is, whether you are a noble prince or a humble blood slave, you must not violate it.
The first one, which is the most traditional and important one, is.
Escape from the world——
You cannot reveal your true face to non-vampires, otherwise, other vampires will sever all relations with you.
But Laurian, who was recognized by Archduke Barlow, had not beaten Archduke Barlow in the end.
Lauryn directly committed the most deadly sin of the vampires.
So he couldn't go home.
In this way, he was asked by Archduke Barlow to live in the Kingdom of Cantor as an ordinary human being.
Archduke Barlow even asked the previous king to grant him a territory.
Lauryn lived up to his expectations and spent more than twenty years making this land prosperous.
In order to prevent the residents of the territory from being tired all the time and for the development of the territory, he even worshiped the goddess of fertility.
A noble vampire prince actually worshiped the goddess of fertility.
This is not because he loves the residents of the territory very much, because vampires are not supposed to have feelings.
He just felt that even vampires would not do such particularly tiring work. Why do these short-lived humans who can only live for a few decades work so hard?
But the result is.
A blood prince, but he has won the love of all residents in the territory.
But in the end, this vampire prince still made the most serious mistake among vampires.
Lauryn, fell in love with a human.
Love blinded him to everything, and he felt emotional for the first time.
Want to be with a human being.
But he will not turn the other party into a blood relative.
Because Lauryn's love for her is not possessive or forced.
He just loved her as a human being.
Likewise, the person the other party loves is only Lauryn.
He is the earl of the kingdom, a kind lord who is willing to be inferior to others so that the residents can have enough to eat without overworking.
Not that blood prince.
But this is bound to be a mistake.
There has never been a vampire and a human being who fell in love, and another wrong result occurred between them.
Prixis was born in this strange and chaotic environment.
Lauryn was scared because he didn't know what kind of existence a child between a human and a vampire would evolve into.
Fortunately, the newly born Prixis was just an extremely ordinary and adorable child.
Therefore, Lauryn no longer worries too much.
Until Puxisi entered the age of seventeen.
In the world of vampires, seventeen-year-old vampires have reached the stage of adulthood.
They can spread their wings and fly high to develop their own territory and blood relatives.
But since birth, Prixis has lived as a human and has not shown the characteristics of a vampire.
This made Lauryn extremely confident that his daughter could live her life peacefully as a human being.
However, things often take a turn for the worst.
On her coming-of-age night at the age of seventeen, Priscilla suddenly fell into madness.
The vampire characteristics in her body burst out, and she instantly transformed into an arrogant vampire.
That dark night, Prixis planted the seeds of cruelty in her madness.
When she woke up, Priscis was in great pain due to the sequelae of her madness.
And she has no memory of the atrocities she committed, including how many innocent lives she killed.
In order to cure Priscilla's madness and prevent its worsening effects, Lauryn made the painful decision to seal Priscilla inside the house.
But Prixis's madness still lasted for a whole year.
The pain she suffered lasted for a whole year.
She needs to constantly take in fresh blood to alleviate her madness.
but--
Blessings come in pairs, and misfortunes never come alone.
Everyone thought it was Lauryn's crazy wife who killed their daughter, but that was just the story he used to hide the truth.
In fact, it was Prixis who became a vampire and killed Lauryn's wife.
That nightmarish night, Lauryn nearly collapsed.
He turned to everyone he could for help, including the Archduke Barlow, who had taken good care of him since he came to the kingdom.
So he asked the Archduke Barlow.
Archduke Barlow exchanged his wife with the soul of Prixis.
As a result, what Archduke Barlow said originally was still fresh in Lauryn's memory.
"Your wife could have lived a good life, but she mistakenly had emotions that she shouldn't have."
"But this wrong feeling is human nature, and it is something that countless people who have become mothers will definitely have."
The Grand Duke said to him.
In fact, his wife had already found the Grand Duke.
She had long known that Lauryn was a vampire, and had long known the cause of Prixis' serious illness.
Finally, she got the solution from the Grand Duke.
the answer is……
"I have no choice but to let you take Prixis' place and bear her pain."
"However, even if you do this, it will only turn her into a floating undead, but she will not dissipate."
"She will keep the memory of when she was seventeen and wait."
"Until the future, when a real solution is found, she will return to her body."
"And you will take her place."
"The soul is gone."
So Lauryn's wife did so decisively.
Lauryn did not allow her into her daughter's room.
So she quietly entered her daughter's room on the day Lauryn had to leave.
As it happened, that night, Priscilla had a fit of madness.
Madness caused her to kill her mother, which was exactly what her mother wanted.
The Archduke exchanged their souls, and from then on, Prixis's mother took her place and fell into the pain of madness.
Even lose your mind.
On the day Victor made the deal with Laurie, Laurie told Victor this heartbreaking truth.
"My wife has died, and I cannot ignore her last wishes."
Victor looked at Lauryn with eyes as deep as the night sky.
"So, what are your plans?"
Laurian, who showed concern, lowered his head and said frankly to Victor:
"The Archduke told me that His Majesty Augustus was unable to control his own ambitions."
"He wants to complete the renaissance of the mages and reuse the necromancers to consolidate his position."
Because the kingdom has the forbidden magic stone, when the forbidden magic stone is monopolized in August's hands, every high-level mage will be controlled by August.
Becoming August's puppet.
"So, the Grand Duke is going to let me test him."
"Once His Majesty August really does something extraordinary, then..."
Count Lauryn will reveal his Bloodline identity and promise to marry his daughter to August, cementing his position as king.
Laurian only used one reason to convince August.
That is, resurrecting his daughter.
"And if August really takes this opportunity to resurrect my daughter, he is destined to fail."
The next stage will be taken over by Count Lauryn.
He will use all his power as a prince to turn the entire Shurburn into his blood bank.
In this way, he bore all the charges and minimized August's influence on the kingdom.
This is just to ensure the safety of my daughter.
The Grand Duke also allowed him to extract the blood of the humans in the territory.
There are millions of humans in the entire territory of Shurburn.
Everyone can make Pulisis evolve into a real vampire with only a year and a half of blood.
But even so, it was still full of pain for Lauryn.
The hope of her daughter's survival, and the one-year life expectancy of millions of Territory residents.
It's a tough choice.
But Lauryn was absolutely certain that the residents would be willing to lend him their blood for the year.
That's right, it's borrowed.
Because this time, he doesn't plan to live anymore.
"I have only loved two people in my life——
His wife, and his daughter.
His wife's sacrifice allowed Lauryn to make the final decision.
"Finally, please kill me."
"Only you, I believe, you will be able to kill the immortal me completely."
"I will use my death to return my blood to everyone."
As others have said.
He was a much loved earl.
The holy light turned into a caressing breeze and passed through Count Lauryn's flesh and blood scattered body.
Countless pieces of flesh and blood were slowly torn apart under the golden light.
In the end, tiny cracks spread all over his already shattered body, and rich blood poured out high into the sky.
In the blink of an eye, the pale head on the body burst into countless heavy cracks and dissipated like fragments.
The only remaining scarlet eye was still staring at Pulisis.
It collided with her eyes that were startled and confused, and seemed to understand yet not understand.
Only a weak, gentle voice that only Puxisi could hear sounded:
"Prince——"
"My sun, the direction of the light in my heart."
"I'm willing to give everything, even if I have nothing."
"I wish you could escape this darkness of endless pain."
Finally, Lauryn looked up to the sky and looked at the scorching sun.
Feeling the rapid passing of life, his soul was separated from his flesh and blood,
His soul gradually closed his eyes in mid-air and said goodbye to this world where the light suddenly appeared.
Let the holy light and the scorching sun slowly engulf you.
And he only muttered the last words:
"Praise the sun."
