"What a coincidence, I'm also planning to go to Mulberry Bay! I was still worried just now, how to explain to you that I had to cancel my vacation trip. Veronica said happily.

"Really?" Roland looked at Veronica suspiciously, was it really such a coincidence, or was it a makeshift statement made up by Her Royal Highness the well-behaved and considerate princess in order to help him get rid of his guilt?

"It's true!" Veronica put away her smile, "The Vijes Church in the Mulberry Bay Mining Area, the chief priest is named Yudothea, and she is my best friend who grew up with me, and this morning I received a 'text message' from Yudosia that there are a large group of ghouls in the Mulberry Bay area, and there are signs of the activities of the 'Black Blood People', she is worried that these signs suggest that some kind of conspiracy is brewing in the Naraku Order, so she wrote to ask me to go to Mulberry Bay to investigate the truth behind these abnormal signs. ”

Being born in a king's family is both fortunate and unfortunate. As the crown prince of Parnia, Veronica has a responsibility that she cannot shirk. After receiving a request for help from Priest Eudothea Vertices, it stands to reason that she should go to Mulberry Bay to investigate the unusual undead activity, but she made an appointment with Roland to go on a vacation to the sea, and did not want to disappoint him, so she struggled with this all day.

"Now, we don't have to worry about it, just treat the trip to Mulberry Bay as a vacation trip." Veronica's face reappeared with a smile, "Actually, it doesn't matter where you go on vacation, what matters is who is with you." ”

Roland was moved by her bowl of chicken soup for the soul, lowered his head and kissed the girl's pink cheek, and couldn't help but ask her: "You just mentioned ghouls and what 'people of black blood', I have heard this word several times in the past few days when I came to Parnia, and whenever people talk about 'people of black blood', they show hatred and contempt, but what does it mean?" ”

Veronica laughed, "There's nothing mysterious about the 'Black Blood People', they're actually vampires!" Or more accurately, the extremely cruel and evil vampire tribe that worships the god of death and follows the 'Black Robe' Otero, the Black Bloods have been entrenched in the dark corners of the Twilight Dales long before the creation of the Naraku Order, and have been our Parnia's sworn enemies for nearly a thousand years. ”

"The Parnias also evolved from the vampire clan, and still retain some of the characteristics and talents of their ancestors, why did they become rivals with the vampires of the same origin?" Roland asked puzzled.

"Have you ever heard the proverb, 'Heretics are more damned than infidels'!" Veronica sneered and said lightly, "The people of the black blood have this mentality towards us Parnias, they think that it is an act of betrayal for us to abandon our belief in Naraku, the god of death, and worship Lady Vijes, and it is an unforgivable sin to abandon the vampire family's proud immortality, so they have been eager to kill us all for thousands of years, and we have no good feelings for the people of the black bloods, if there is a chance to destroy all these evil guys, we will never be merciful." ”

The old feud between the Black Blood and the Parnians goes back thousands of years to the time when the Parnians were born. The reason for the feud between the two races is difficult to explain, but Veronica has to start with why the Parnians gave up their immortality and transformed into "half-vampires" in the first place.

Vampires are a kind of high-level undead creatures, undead creatures cannot rely on the union of men and women to reproduce, they can only rely on sucking the blood of other intelligent creatures, and transform it into 'derivatives', in this way to expand the population, but the derivatives of vampires are also undead creatures that cannot give birth to offspring, and their abilities in all aspects are much worse than pure vampires, which means that the vampire group as a whole is constantly degrading.

In addition, although vampires claim to have "immortal bodies", they actually have an element of boasting, and both sunlight and holy water can completely destroy vampires, and once a vampire is killed, the derivatives they create and the derivatives of their derivatives will be destroyed immediately. Overall, the rate at which vampires create derivations is nowhere near as fast as the destruction of the race, so the group is actually on its way to decay.

Degradation and decay are the cruel fate that the vampires of the world of Varess must face. How can we save communities from extinction? The vampires have thought of various methods, which can be roughly boiled down to two factions: active expansion and passive avoidance.

The arguments for positive expansion are very strong: since the living races are generally unfriendly to vampires, then in order to ensure the interests of vampires, all living races should be actively killed, and eventually all of them should be transformed into vampire derivatives, then the world of Varess will become a world of vampires, and there is no need to worry about the decline of the race.

The believers of this theory are called the "Demon Party" by the world.

The radical ideas of the "Demon Party" made them the common enemy of all living species, but they did not have the strength to fight all living species, and as a result, they were brutally beaten, and the radical theories did not save them, but instead accelerated the destruction of the vampire race.

The logic of negative escapism is also very clear: since the sun is not friendly to us, and the race of life is not friendly to us, then simply hide in the dark and do not come into contact with outsiders, so that the well water does not interfere with the river water, at least the status quo can be maintained.

The vampire race that adheres to this idea is known as the "secret party".

Unfortunately, this concept of passive escapism has not changed the fate of the vampire clan. With the development of the times and the progress of society, the ability of the major life races led by humans to transform nature is also increasing day by day, the expanding population needs to collect and consume more resources, and constantly immigrates to those wild areas for agricultural development.

Both radical and escapist paths have failed in practice, what can the vampires do?

The "secret party", who was unwilling to sit still, came up with a third way: since it was impossible to destroy the living species, he simply joined them.

The vampires who pioneered this path knew that Naraku, the god of death, would not tolerate their transformation into a living species, so they built a cathedral in Parnia dedicated to Vijes, the goddess of death and magic, and asked the goddess, who also held the priesthood of death but was not as hostile to life species as Naraku, to give them a divine grace to help them achieve their identity transformation.

Lady Vijes responded to the vampire tribe's plea by sending down a divine grace to transform the newly completed cathedral into a "holy place", a projection of Vijes's kingdom on earth. Half-vampires who enter the Holy Land will have their wish fulfilled by praying to the idol of Vejess, and at the cost of losing their immortality, they will be transformed into "half-vampires" - this is the world-famous "Parnia Sanctification Ritual".