(Northern Region- Outskirts Of New Antic City)


    (Castle Eden- Throne Room)


    Cami sat on her throne with a bored expression on her face. She watched as more and more vampires entered the grand hall.


    There was a distinctck of familiar faces.


    Many of the representatives in the room were individuals who had been converted while she had been asleep, so she did not recognise them.


    As for their predecessors…


    Immortality did not mean invulnerability.


    The beautiful female vampire scowled slightly as she remembered some unpleasant memories.


    Fortunately, her bad mood passed fairly quickly as she stole a nce at the knight standing patiently behind her.


    Mary had remained frozen in ce with her hand on her sword for at least an hour now and had not moved once.


    The white armour that she wore was covered with horrific red runes drawn on its metallic surface.


    She did not smell like a human.


    Cami had made sure that the runes on her armour amplified the scent of her blood. To the vampires in the hall… Mary was one of their own.


    Light conversations continued throughout the open space and Cami made no attempt to get down from her throne and mingle with the crowd.


    Vampire society was extremely stratified and usually only those with simr ranks or strength were permitted to start a conversation.


    Therefore, there were only three vampires in the room capable of approaching Cami to talk.


    They were the representatives of the three princes.


    n Sundry, House Mornt and n Vermont.


    Cami took another small sip from the goblet in her hand as her crimson eyes swept up and down the length of the room.


    She wasn''t sure who the princes would send to represent them. It had been quite some time since she hadst attended a social gathering.


    Was it seven hundred years ago? Or maybe it was one thousand?


    Time worked a bit differently for vampires as old as herself.


    An extremely thin vampire who looked no older than fifteen walked confidently through the crowd and stopped at the bottom of the raised tform.


    He wore a bright red robe, and the symbol of a skeletal crow was painted across the back of his outfit.


    "Greetings Lady Cami," the youthful vampire respectfully spoke.


    "I am here on the behalf of princess Esme of House Mornt. She was unable to attend tonight but wishes to privately meet with you on ater date."


    "Tell your mistress that I am currently busy," Cami smirked rudely and waved her hand to dismiss the vampire.


    The confident smile on the youthful vampire''s face cracked slightly but he still collected himself and bowed politely before leaving.


    This incident had drawn the attention of the other vampires in the room, and most were shocked at Cami''s flippant attitude.


    They did not understand that Cami had been ying this game longer than before most of them had been alive.


    Princess Esme was a dangerous schemer. There was no doubt a trap hidden in that so-called ''private meeting''.


    A few hours passed quite uneventfully as no one else dared to approach the vampire sitting down on the throne.


    "Are you alright?" Cami quietly whispered under her breath as she addressed Mary who had not moved a single muscle.


    "I am fine mistress," Mary replied with a slightly muffled voice.


    Truthfully her legs were hurting a little bit but her training and the sunlight energy flowing through her body made the pain bearable.


    Cami nodded and then made a mental note to herself to end this banquet as soon as possible.<novelnext></novelnext>


    Well… it wasn''t exactly a banquet since there was no food avable. This was a fact that the guests had already picked up.


    It was not hard for Cami to use her enhanced hearing to listen in to theints floating around the room from the disgruntled vampires.


    "I say… are we not going to be served any fresh blood?"


    "Have you seen any other n members of House Vntis? Where are they hiding?"


    "I was invited to a gathering by Prince Antonio and there were dozens of humans avable for the guests to enjoy."


    "I sincerely hope that she does not host another one of these meetings… I''m starving… at this point I might have to go hunting in the woods outside."


    A wicked smirk surfaced on Cami''s face that added an evil charm to her otherworldly beauty.


    She thoroughly enjoyed making these stuck-up vampires suffer.


    Everyone here was nothing more than a parasite.


    Smiling faces and cordial grins to hide the knives hidden inside their words. Vampire society had not changed for thousands of years.


    The strong devoured the weak.


    An endless cycle of violence andpetition that left them vulnerable to humanity''s attacks.


    The only reason why the war had reached a stalemate was because humans were simrly divided between the different countries.


    Cami nced upwards at the ss ceiling and noticed that the dawn was not too far away. It would be a couple of hours and then the sun would peek out from the horizon.


    She didn''t want any of the vampires in the hall to be forced to spend the following day in her castle, so it was time for her ending speech.


    "Attention please," Cami''s soft voice echoed through therge hall and cut through all the conversations in the room.


    There was an immediate silence as a heavy pressure descended on the vampires that was so strong that some copsed on the ground.


    "I thank you all for attending my gathering today… the purpose of this meeting is to announce the rebirth of n Vntis," Cami calmly spoke.


    "I will continue to lead my n into this new era, and I hope that tonight I will have made allies and not enemies."


    "Because those who are my enemies… will not survive."


    Cami'' crimson eyes darkened, and hundreds of blood spears erupted from the ground and stopped mere inches away from the vampires'' throats.


    It was a terrifying disy of blood magic.


    If she wanted to Cami could have killed every single person in the room with a single attack.


    This fact was not lost on the vampires who did not even dare to mutter any words of protest.


    Cami muttered a few iprehensible words under her breath and crimson spears turned back into a liquid which melted away into the floor.


    The golden floor of the banquet hall briefly shed red as severalrge blood magic runes could be seen just below its surface before finally vanishing.


    "Now it appears that dawn will be approaching soon… I bid you all a safe flight," Cami gently spoke as if she had not just threatened the lives of everyone in the room.


    She gestured with her hand and the doors to the back of the banquet hall swung open. The vampires in the hall began to trickle out of the room with quick steps.


    The ending to this gathering had been quite shocking and many were eager to get back to their ns and report the news.


    The blood witch was still as strong as ever.


    This fact alone had massive implications for the current political situation.


    Some were also wary that they had not seen any of Lady Cami''s n members except for one.


    They did not believe that Lady Cami only had one member of her n and most assumed that the rest were hidden in order to conceal their true numbers.


    Tonight, was going to be a restless night for many powerful figures in vampire society.