As Wayne's voice fell, countless crossbow arrows flew towards Jack like raindrops, and the arrows of each arrow flashed with silver light, which is the Western world's method for evil creatures, that is, silver, so Wayne's crossbow arrows are also silver-plated.

Jack looked at the crossbow arrows flying in the air, and did not dodge in the slightest, allowing those silver crossbow arrows to hit his body, just like a bullet hitting the steel plate, leaving only a shallow scar, randomly, the scar squirmed for a while, and returned to normal again.

"You're out of the vampire god = body," Wayne said coldly.

"I'm still a vampire, but I've got the most powerful blood of the vampire clan, the blood of Cain," Jack's whole body swelled, and behind him, a pair of huge blood-red wings appeared, like the wings of a bat.

At this time, countless words appeared in the hearts of Fang Yu and the others, the words were ancient, but for some reason, they could understand them.

In ancient times, there were blood-thirsty spirits, and bloodthirsty demons appeared in the Middle Ages, and the European Church in the 15th century admitted that there were zombies in the world, and 300 years later, people spread the word of mouth that this dead spirit looking for life in the dark night is unpredictable and the image is changeable

The vampire is a well-known monster in the Western world, and he is called a monster because he is in an awkward position: neither a god, nor a devil, nor a man. is like being abandoned by God, which is vividly demonstrated in the film "Vampire Love".

But that doesn't stop it from being the most seductive, mysterious, romantic of legendary characters, because it has all the incredible charm about it: young, beautiful, immortal between vampires and victims, and often a sadistic and masochistic relationship mixed with *, as it says, "Let you die in extreme happiness", is there anything more seductive than this?

Writers and writers of the past generations have written a large number of poems to express this feeling of yearning and fear, such as Byron's "The Vampire" (1816), Kohler's "Christ Bell", Keats's "The Ruthless Beauty" and "Lamia...... Even the likes of Alexandre Dumas and Charles Dickens have written about it, but the most influential of these works is Stoker's "400 Years of Shock".

What is a vampire?

In Europe, from the beginning of history, the legend of vampires has spread. Thousands of people believe in this legend and tremble in the darkness over it.

Vampires are an ancient and mysterious race. Theoretically, the so-called vampire can be understood as a dead corpse to some extent. They have no heartbeat or pulse, no breathing, no body temperature, and are immortal. At the same time, they have their own minds, they think, they talk, they move around, and they even get injured and die.

Their strength is far greater than that of ordinary people, and they have abilities that ordinary people cannot obtain. In fact, in order to maintain this state of existence, they must suck blood. In general, most vampires usually feed on human blood, but some live by sucking the blood of animals and even other vampires. In terms of feeding, some vampires will raise herds, which are not animals such as cows or sheep, but humans who voluntarily donate their blood for some reason, while others will use special occasions to lure humans to achieve their goals. There are also vampires who usually resort to attacks and forcibly suck blood.

Many people believe that as long as the blood is sucked by a vampire, the person who is sucked will become a vampire, which is not true. A person who has been consumed by a vampire may die, but will not become a vampire. If a vampire intends to turn a human into a vampire, he must give his own blood to the other person. The person being consumed receives the blood of the person who is being sucked, and the two bloods are fused to become a vampire. This phenomenon of blood merging brings a completely magical sensation to the person being consumed, and this process is called "theembrace". After the initial possession, the sucked becomes the descendant of the sucker, and according to the precepts of the Esoteric Party, vampires cannot develop their own descendants at will, and a vampire must be held accountable for the actions of his descendants.

Every vampire has abilities that are different from the ordinary. But this ability is not innate. Young vampires have almost the same abilities as mortals. But as they grow older and more experienced, vampires will gradually discover their abilities and become stronger, and theoretically, the older the vampire, the more powerful they are. The third generation of vampires possess abilities that are even comparable to those of gods. In front of these vampires, the usual people are vulnerable.

Many sources believe that vampires are afraid of many things, such as garlic, holy water, and wooden stakes. Most of these rumors are incorrect. The thing vampires fear the most is sunlight. Some powerful vampires have weak resistance to sunlight, but none can withstand sunlight. In addition, high temperatures also have a certain restraint effect on vampires, therefore, vampires usually act at night, because daylight and heat during the day can seriously affect their thinking and abilities. In addition, vampires are not at all afraid of garlic and holy water. If someone has an extremely strong religious affiliation, it is possible to temporarily suppress vampires with a cross, but vampires will never die because of this. Similarly, stakes have no effect on vampires, but if you can nail them to their hearts, they can be temporarily paralyzed until they are removed.

In fact, vampires are not evil in themselves, and they usually retain their humanity after a person has been first embraced. These people will think that they can move and live as freely as they used to. But at the same time, he began to be afraid of the sun, afraid of the heat. Unable to go out during the day. He would feel his burning thirst for blood. He will find himself having to live by sucking the blood of those around him. These thoughts are so intense that they are completely uncontrollable. Gradually, his way of thinking and acting will change. A vampire will initially try to resist his actions, but his nature will eventually prevail and he will gradually get used to the new way of life. In the end, he completely understood that he was no longer an ordinary person. He usually lives away from the bustling area, lives in solitude, and does not come into contact with anyone. Due to their physical nature, they do not age, they will live in the world to witness the changes in the world around them, and to witness the death of their former relatives and friends. And he can only use his blood and life as his food day after day. The humans around him were just weak creatures to him, and they had no reason or need to respect and love them. They despise humanity and develop intense jealousy, and eventually, they become demons.

So are there any such creatures or monsters as vampires? This starts with the creation of vampire legends, but interestingly, while searching for relevant materials, I found two very different views on the origins of vampire legends. One argues that there are no vampires in the world and provides evidence of this, while the other argues that there are vampires and cites the same information as the former to illustrate this view. Here, I will post both of these "vampire" legends. Interested players can take a look and discern some of the subtle differences between the two.

Any tragedy has an origin, and like human history, vampires have their own history, though most of it is legend.

The earliest origin of vampires is said to be the biblical Cain. According to the Bible, Adam and Eve were expelled from the Garden of Eden and went to the wilderness and had many children. Cain is the eldest of these, and at the same time the third human in the world. He was a farmer and lived with his brother as a shepherd. On one occasion, as a custom sacrifice to God, Cain's green turnips aroused God's displeasure because his brother had provided abundant meat for the sake of animal husbandry. Cain was angry and murdered his brother, and the next day God asked Cain where his brother was, and he argued that he did not know. God was angry and said, "Cunning!" Your brother's unjust soul cries out to me about your atrocities, so you must accept my punishment! Cain then begged God for mercy, but God said, "No, I will not kill you, and I know that you will be spurned in the future." So I'll give you a distinctive mark, so you'll let people know that you don't deserve to be killed - just torture you as much as possible. In the millennia of hidden vampire legends, Cain's curse was to live forever by sucking the blood of the living, and to suffer from this curse for generations. And God made his mark visible to everyone, which is different from what is written in the Bible. Later in the book, he is paired with Satan's lover Lilith (first appearing in Sumerian mythology, the first wife of Riadam in the Old Testament of Judaism, who left the Garden of Eden out of dissatisfaction with God), says that Lilith is a powerful witch, and teaches Cain how to use blood to generate power for his own use. Because of this, some people believe that Lilith is the real first vampire.

Driven by loneliness, Gain created the second generation of vampires. And they have 13 offspring. This third generation is the survivor of Noah's flood, who founded 13 great clans and later rebelled and destroyed the second generation of vampires. The third generation of the ancient world claimed to have powers comparable to those of the gods. Now, thousands of years later, the bloodline of vampires has reached the thirteenth to the fifteenth generation. Before the Middle Ages, vampire members with special abilities and immortality often allowed them to become overlords, even competing for power and causing fear among the general population. It wasn't until around the 14th century that the Inquisition of the Catholic Church knew about the existence of vampires and immediately carried out a large-scale killing. While vampires have abilities, no single vampire can stop the cooperative threat of thousands of mortals at once. As a result, the vampire's survival is in unprecedented crisis. In response to the dire situation, several vampire clans (around the sixth to eighth generations) had to form alliances, resulting in the Camarilla Alliance. This is an alliance of seven clans, and it is still the largest alliance to this day. When the Esoteric Party was founded, there were six strict traditions that vampires in the Coalition were required to follow forever. The supreme purpose of the entire precept tradition is to stipulate that vampires must hide in human society and never reveal their identities, so as not to lead to a crisis in the survival of vampires, which is the origin of the escapist precept.

Another alliance outside of the secret party is thesabbat. Although each clan can join the Demon Party, it is mainly controlled by two clans. The Demon Clan, the Demon, who does not recognize the doctrine of escapism, rules by fear, force, and threat, and is said to bury the new vampires alive, induce fear in them, and control them through rituals and bloodbounds. The demons also regard humans as inferior animals and drive them to kill at will. Members of the Secret Order often refer to Sabath as the Hand of Darkness.

In addition, the remaining four clans that have not joined the secret or demon parties usually remain neutral or act in opportunistic situations in the struggle between the two alliances.

Not only in the Bible, but in fact, in Europe, the legend of vampires spread at the same time from the beginning of history. Thousands of people believe in this legend and tremble in the darkness over it.

Human society does not know much about the vampire race. In fact, despite the fact that the history of the ancient vampire race is almost as old as mythology, the precepts and self-control of the vampire race have never been able to understand them in depth.

The first human understanding of the vampire race began in 1484. At that time, the whole of Europe was under the war of vampires. Vampire hordes are out at night and are first embraced by humans on a large scale. Many people are unable to accept the initial embrace, resulting in nervous disorders. Because the symptoms of the first human beings were similar to those of the plague, the human society at that time believed that it was another large-scale plague.

Many humans were buried in underground tombs by their kind before they were fully dead, or before the effects of the first embrace were restored, and a few days later, for some reason, the graves were opened to find the corpses in a different position and stained with blood, which was the first time humans had come into contact with vampires. Since then, the legend of vampires has spread in East Prussia, Silesia, Bohemia and other places.

In 1484, the Secret of Witchcraft by two Dominican monks, Jakob Sprenger and Heinrichkramer, was approved by Pope Innocent VIII for publication, the first time in human history that the Christian Church recognized the existence of the power of gods and monsters.

Edward Munch, 1893

In 1710, the vampire battle resumed in East Prussia, where the first crowd once again filled the land, and cities and villages were shrouded in the breath of death. Ancient legends are once again circulating among the frightened crowds. In order to prevent the resurrection of the nascent vampires, the East Prussian authorities excavated the graves of the dead on a large scale, nailing a large number of wooden nails to each undecomposed corpse. At the same time, the Inquisition mobilized a large number of knights to fight the vampires, and each battle was extremely tragic. But these battles were usually known only to the nobles, and most of the populace were ignorant of them.

In fact, unless there is a big war or no choice, the vampire race generally does not take the initiative to attack humanity on a large scale, because this mysterious race is well aware of the consequences of being exposed. However, there are still some vampires who, for some reason, indiscriminately suck human blood.

In 1725, a peasant named Pierreplogowitz, who had been embraced and turned into a vampire, killed eight people in a village called Kilova. Another vampire named Arnoldpaole killed a large number of people in a village called Medwegya.

Human society attaches great importance to these two incidents and conducts a large-scale investigation. But in the end, they hid the truth of the investigation from the public. The report of the first case is now deposited in the Vienna Archives. One of the words - "vanpir" appears for the first time. This is where the name vampire comes from. The second case was investigated more deeply by the human authorities in 1731. A military doctor, Fluckinger, made a detailed record of the entire investigation and its results, signed them by several officers and doctors of the company of Heiduques, and submitted them to the Belgrade court under the title "Sights and Discoveries", which was officially published and printed in 1732. King Louis XV of France asked the Duke of Richelieu to submit to him a detailed report on the official outcome of the case. The report caused a great sensation among mankind, and on March 3, 1832, the word "vampyre" appeared in the Gleaners' report, the first time the word vampire appeared in French.

There has been a huge interest in the vampire community throughout human society, and many people have begun to study this phenomenon, but since the vampire secret party requires the vampire community to strictly abide by the six commandments, the results of these studies are mostly ridiculous. Philipprohr's 1679 History and Philosophy of the Phenomenon of the Chewing of the Dead in Leipzig explained the phenomenon of chewing in the grave as possession of the devil, a view that was supported by many at the time, and in 1728 Reinft also published in Leipzig a book entitled "The Corpse Chewing in the Grave" to refute Rohr.

With the development of science, stupid people who think they have everything in their hands begin to abandon their beliefs and smear their souls. The family crest of glory, which symbolizes glory, is covered in dust, and the legend of the vampire is considered absurd by many. Humans seem to think they are capable enough to despise the existence of vampires. However, in stark contrast to this stupidity, the vampire race is as it always has been, sluping red blood in dark corners.

Let's abandon the absurd research of ordinary people and try to understand the world of vampires as much as possible, in fact, the history of vampire clans is much longer than most people think. The earliest origin of vampires is, according to a mysterious historical document, Cain in the Bible. Adam and Eve came to live in the wilderness after being expelled from the Garden of Eden by God. They gave birth to many children, and Cain was their first child, the third man in the world.

Cain was a farmer who lived with his younger brother. The two offered their sacrifices to God every day. One day, both of them offered sacrifices at the same time. Cain served greens, while his brother, the shepherd, offered meat from sheep and cows. Cain was jealous of his brother and killed him.

The next day, God asked Cain where his brother was, but Cain panicked and said he didn't know. God was furious and said to Cain, "I have heard your brother's cry, and you must be punished." Cain then begged for mercy. God said, "I will not kill you, I know that you will be spit on in the future, so I will give you a sign, and everyone will torture you, but not kill you, so that you will be cursed forever".

Cain then died in present-day Africa, where he had to live on the blood of the living, immortal, and suffer from the curse of mankind for generations. In Whitewolf's book, Cain later marries Lilith, Satan's lover, who teaches Cain how to feed on the blood of the living to make himself strong.

Vampire Dracula

Because of loneliness, Cain created his offspring, which is the second generation of vampires. The second generation of vampires has 13 offspring. These 13 people are known as third-generation vampires. The third generation of vampires is a survivor of Noah's Flood. They founded 13 different vampire clans and rebelled against their parents, the second generation of vampires.

The third generation of vampires is almost as old as humans are, and their abilities increase with age. By now, their power is almost as good as that of God. Before the Middle Ages, vampire clansmen often fought for power with each other due to their special abilities and immortality (as was the case with the wars of 1484 and 1710). The Inquisition of the Catholic Inquisition recognized the existence of vampires and went on a hunting spree. While the Vampire Clan has abilities, it can't withstand the cooperative attacks of hundreds of people at once. The survival of the entire vampire clan is in an unprecedented crisis.

Under these conditions, the seven vampire clans began to form an alliance with each other to form the Camarilla, which established six traditions for vampires, requiring the vampires in the alliance to abide by them for eternity.

In addition to the secret party, another alliance of vampires is the demon party. The entire Demon Alliance is controlled by two clans. The Demon Party Alliance does not recognize the Six Commandments of the Secret Party. Their means of domination are mainly force and blood. Legend has it that the new vampire members will be buried alive in fear, and then bound by bloodbound. The battle between the Demon Party and the Secret Party has been going on. Conflicts occur from time to time.

There are also four clans that remain neutral in the fight. In fact, the entire vampire family is divided into several alliances to fight against each other, and the biggest victims of the battle are usually humans.

"We're no match for Jack right now," Wayne's voice was a little urgent, "Cain's power isn't something we can fight against. ”

"There was something in my heart just now," Fang Yu said, "Is that Cain's power influencing my mother?"

"Yes, Cain's power can invade our minds without a sound, Cain is just a consciousness now, Jack is powerful, but he doesn't have the power to control Cain, just now, it's just Cain's subconscious," Wayne said.

Fang Yu would not choose to retreat, but now it was not Fang Yu's choice, Jack had already roared and rushed towards Fang Yu and the others