Mu You put on a peculiar face. He hadn’t expected the matter of the blood servant to be brushed over so easily. It seemed that these blood servants held an even lower status in the Blood Clan than he had imagined.
[After exchanging pleasantries, May heartily invites you to come home for a casual get-together. Your younger siblings miss their older brother dearly. She decides right away to inform the family members to prepare a banquet in your honor. Your choice...]
Two options were given below: [Accept the invitation] and [Make an excuse to leave].
Mu You originally planned to take the Heart of Mist and leave, but his plan changed given the circumstances.
Integrating into the Vampire Clan with the help of the skin’s original family seemed like a good idea.
[You chose to accept the invitation.]
[May was very happy. She immediately led you into the forest. At the same time, she took out a communication tool to inform the family of your return.]
[After a while, you arrived at a two-story house deep in the dark forest.]
[The banquet was already set up in the living room, and the family gathered there.]
[Before you stood seven vampire children; four boys and three girls with the oldest appearing to be about 14 or 15 years old and the youngest around five or six. They all stood at the door curiously watching you.]
[Following the children were two middle-aged vampires, man and wife it seemed. They looked at you kindly, smiled and greeted you. The middle-aged male vampire seemed to be unwell, coughing repeatedly as he spoke.]
[Behind them were three vampire house servants. They looked at you with reverence, bowing their heads to greet you.]
[May introduced them one by one. The two middle-aged people were both your uncles and aunts. The seven children were their own. As for other elders of the Ryan Family, they had all died in recent years during the war with the werewolves. These were all the surviving members of the Ryan Family.]
Mu You frowned slightly. Only seven children, three adults, and three blood servants to boot. This family was even more sparsely populated than he’d imagined...
Mu You opened the files on the two middle-aged people to take a look.
[Ryan Jonas (Level 20 Not Evolved) (Critically Injured): Vampire Viscount, poisoned by wolf poison, unable to fight. Has unlocked the family talent: Titan, possessing strength akin to a Titan.]
[Ryan Elsa (Level 15 Not Evolved): Vampire Baron, has unlocked the family talent: Charm, able to cause lust in opposite sex creatures who see her.]
The two middle-aged people were only level 15 and level 20 respectively, and the level 20 one was critically injured. The strongest person in this family was actually this cheap little sister standing next to him...
[After the warm welcome, you were escorted by everyone to the top seat at the dining table, and the other family members took their seats around you.]
[The house servants served a variety of delicacies and wines. And of course, the highlight of a Blood Clan feast: a cup of blood is placed in front of each person, in the best glassware. According to May, this was fresh, pure blood freshly harvested from a young human, one of the best supplements for vampires.]
[The scent of blood was sweet and fragrant in your nostrils, causing you to involuntarily take a sip. Pure blood coursed through your body, uplifting your mood and restoring your power. Your attack power temporarily increased by 10%.]
[The others also started to taste the blood in front of them.]
[The Blood Clan draws its strength from blood, and the time to replenish blood each day is sacred. No one speaks to disrupt the atmosphere.]
[However, you notice a little girl sitting on your right side, who secretly watches you as you taste the blood. Unconsciously swallowing her saliva, her eyes showing a hint of desire. But soon, May, sitting on your other side, glares at her. The little girl hurriedly averts her gaze, lifting her own cup to cover her face.]
[May notices your gaze and looks at you apologetically. "I’m sorry, elder brother, the child does not know the rules," she says.]
[Noticing everyone’s behavior, you’ve already deduced something. Suddenly you picked up May’s cup and took a sip. The taste of blood wasn’t sweet but rather a strong acidic taste - it was tomato juice.]
[Looking at everyone else, all the family members were looking at you awkwardly. It’s clear, they had all been drinking tomato juice, with the only cup of real blood saved for you.]
Mu You found this odd as he read the text. A family of vampires should regularly stock fresh blood. Why was the supply in this house so limited?
[Is fresh blood hard to come by in Dark City? You inquire May.]
["Normally it’s not. In the past, we could easily obtain blood by hunting every evening. Even without hunting, the black market often sells fresh blood bags, so finding a source of blood was not difficult. However, since the Werewolves formed a tribe a year ago, they deliberately targeted lower-class vampires.
Every day, werewolves disguise themselves as ordinary humans and move back and forth in areas where vampires like to hunt, deliberately luring vampires into attacking. Once a vampire attacks, it will face a brutal counterattack from the werewolves," May explains.]
["The Werewolves have developed a special ’Poison Fang’ specifically to counter vampires. Vampires bitten by this poisoned fang cannot heal their wounds by regular means and cannot come back to life once dead. This has lead to ordinary vampires being extremely cautious, not daring to go out and hunt at will. Meanwhile, the Werewolves have monopolized the black market sale of blood, leading to a large number of vampires losing their most important source of blood."]