"My race, born of blood, immortal and immortal."

"Not gods, not demons, not men."

"We are above all living beings, eating up blood and devouring life."

"No one has seen the face of my generation."

"We hide in the darkness, hide in the crowd, store up the blood moon, and wait for the day."

"When the blood-colored six wings appear in the world, the dark moon is in the sky, the twilight is borderline, and bloodlust is rampant,"

"All things mourn."

—From Dracula's Oath, verse 36

……

But Laurien is an exception.

He is a Prince of the Blood.

He is so powerful, and he has an almost eternal life.

As Laurien said.

The immortal and immortal blood clan should not have complicated feelings.

The elders of the blood clan have always warned him like this.

Because, he is the prince of the blood clan, and has the purest and most powerful bloodline.

So, Laurien stayed quietly in the arms of the family for hundreds of years.

Occasionally, some of the Bloodline's compatriots would leave the clan and return with a gushing description of the beauty of the outside world.

This sparked a strong curiosity about the outside world in Laurien's heart.

But the elders repeatedly stressed that the outside world was full of intrigues, undercurrents, and dangers.

As a result, they have been forbidding Laurion to leave the family's domain.

But in Laurien's opinion, those compatriots who are weaker than him can easily navigate the outside world, how can he, as a prince, be afraid of the wind and waves of the outside world?

After all, he has lived for hundreds of years.

Despite anyone's dissuasion, Laurien resolutely left the family.

He is so confident that he even thinks he can be invincible in the entire human world.

However, as soon as he went out, he was recognized as the identity of the blood clan.

And this person is still a world-level undead archmage, Grand Duke Barlow.

In that battle, Grand Duke Barlow was beaten with a hand of undead magic, and he almost didn't recognize what kind of blood he was.

On top of that, there are six very strict precepts among the bloods.

No matter what the status, whether it is a noble prince or a lowly blood slave, it must not be disobeyed.

The first of these, which is also the most traditional and important, is.

Escapism –

Don't show your true colors to non-Bloods, or the other Bloodlines will cut off all ties with you.

Laurien, who can be recognized by Barlow, has not beaten Archduke Barlow in the end.

Laurion directly committed the bloodline's greatest capital crime.

So he couldn't go home.

In this way, he was asked by Archduke Barlow to live in the Kingdom of Kante as an ordinary human.

Archduke Barlow even asked the previous king to grant him a piece of land.

Laurion lived up to his expectations and spent more than two decades making the land prosperous.

In order not to let the inhabitants of the territory be tired all the time, for the development of the territory, he even went to believe in the goddess of abundance.

A noble prince of the blood clan actually worshipped the goddess of abundance.

It's not that he loves the people of the realm, because the Bloods aren't supposed to have feelings.

He just felt that even the blood clan would not do such a particularly tiring work, why did these short-lived humans who could only live for a few decades still work so hard?

But the result is.

A prince of the blood clan, but he has won the love of all the inhabitants of the territory.

But in the end, this prince of the blood clan still made the most serious mistake among the blood clans.

Laurien, in love with a human.

Love blinded him to everything, and he moved his feelings for the first time.

Want to be with a human.

But he doesn't turn the other party into a blood relative.

Because Laurien's love for her is not possession, not coercion.

He just loved her as a human.

In the same way, the person the other party loves is only Laurien.

He is the earl of the kingdom, a kind lord who is willing to be inferior to others and can eat enough for the sake of the inhabitants without overwork.

And not that Prince of the Blood.

But this is bound to be a mistake.

No Bloodline has ever been in love with a human, and they have had a wrong result with each other.

Prisis, in this strange and chaotic environment, was born.

Laurion was scared because he didn't know what kind of existence the children between humans and Bloods would evolve into.

Fortunately, Prisis, who had just been born, was just an extremely ordinary and cute child.

As a result, Laurien is no longer too worried.

It wasn't until Prisis was seventeen years old.

In the world of the Bloodline, the seventeen-year-old Bloodline has reached the stage of adulthood.

They can spread their wings and develop their own territory and blood relatives.

However, from birth, Prisis spent her time as a human and did not exhibit the characteristics of a Bloodline.

This gives Laurien the confidence that his daughter can live peacefully as a human being.

However, things often go in the worst direction.

On the night of her seventeenth adulthood, Prisis suddenly fell into a state of madness.

The Bloodline features on her body burst out, and she instantly turned into an arrogant Bloodline.

That dark night, Prisis planted the seeds of brutality in her madness

Prisis woke up in agony due to the after-effects of her madness.

And she has no memory of the atrocities she committed, including how many innocent lives she killed.

In order to cure Prisis's madness and prevent the worsening effects, Laurien made the painful decision to lock Prisis in the house.

But Prisis's madness lasted for a whole year.

The pain she suffered also lasted for a whole year.

She needed to keep sucking fresh blood to make her madness a little lesser.

But—

Blessings are incomparable, and disasters are not singular.

Everyone thinks that Laurien's mad wife killed his daughter, but that's just a claim he uses to hide the truth.

In fact, it was Prisis, who became a blood race, who killed Laurien's wife.

That nightmarish night, Laurien nearly broke down.

He turned to all who could be helped, including Archduke Barlow, who had taken good care of him since he came to the kingdom.

So, he asked the Grand Duke of Barlow.

Archduke Barlow swapped his wife with the soul of Pulis.

As a result, the words that Archduke Barlow said at the beginning were still fresh in Laurien's memory.

"Your wife could have lived a good life, but she mistakenly had emotions that she shouldn't have."

"But this wrong relationship is human nature, and it is absolutely possessed by countless people who have become mothers."

The Grand Duke said to him.

In fact, his wife had already looked for the Grand Duke.

She had known that Laurien was a Bloodline, and she had known what Prisis's serious illness was.

In the end, she got a solution from the Grand Duke.

The answer is......

"I have nothing to do but let you take the place of Prisis and bear her pain."

"However, even if she did, it would only turn her into a wandering undead, but she would not dissipate."

"She will keep the memories of her seventeen years old and wait forever."

"Until the future, when a real solution is found, she will return to her body."

"And you, in her place."

"The soul is gone."

So Laurien's wife did it decisively.

Laurion did not allow her to enter her daughter's room.

So she quietly entered her daughter's room on the day Laurien had to leave.

It just so happened that night that Prisis had a seizure of madness.

The madness caused her to kill her mother, which was exactly what her mother wanted.

The Grand Duke swapped the souls of the two, and from then on, Prisis's mother took her place and suffered from madness.

Or even lose their minds.

On the day Victor made a deal with Laurien, Laurie told Victor the heartbreaking truth.

"My wife has died, and I can't ignore her wishes."

Victor's gaze as deep as the night sky stared at Laurien.

"So, what are you going to do?"

Laurien, who was full of worry, lowered his head and confessed to Victor:

"The Grand Duke told me that His Majesty August could not control his ambitions."

"He wants to complete the mage's revival and reuse the necromancer to strengthen his position."

Because the kingdom has forbidden magic stones, when the forbidden magic stones are monopolized in Auguste's hands, every high-ranking person who is a mage will be controlled by August.

Become August's puppet.

"So, the Grand Duke intends for me to test him."

"Once His Majesty August really did something out of the ordinary, then ......"

Count Laurion would reveal his blood status and promise to marry his daughter to August, cementing his kingship.

And Laurien convinces August of him with only one reason.

That is, to resurrect his daughter.

"And if August really used this opportunity to resurrect my daughter, he was doomed to fail."

The next stage will be taken over by Count Laurean.

He would use all of his power as a prince to turn the entire Sulburn into his blood bank.

In this way, all the sins were borne and August's influence on the kingdom was minimized.

This is done only to ensure the safety of my daughter.

And the Grand Duke also allowed him to extract the blood of the humans in the territory.

The entire territory of Shulben is home to millions of humans.

Each person only needs to give a year and a half of blood qi to make Prisis evolve into a true blood clan.

But even so, it was painful for Laurien.

The hope of a daughter's life, and the life span of a million people living in the territory.

It's a tough choice.

But Laurion was so sure that the inhabitants would be willing to lend him the year's blood.

That's right, it's borrowed.

Because this time, he doesn't plan to live again.

"I've only loved two people in my life—

His wife, and his daughter.

The sacrifice of his wife made Laurien make the final decision.

"Finally, please kill me."

"It's only you, I believe that you will be able to kill the immortal me completely."

"I will give my flesh back to everyone with my death."

As others have said.

He was a much-loved earl.

The light turned into a caressing breeze that passed through Count Laurien's flesh-and-blood body.

Countless flesh and blood were slowly torn apart under the golden light.

Eventually, small cracks spread all over his already shattered body, and thick blood poured out into the air.

In the blink of an eye, the pale skull above the body cracked into countless heavy cracks, dissipating like fragments.

The only scarlet eye left was still staring at Prisis.

collided with her eyes that were shocked and trance, as if she understood and didn't understand.

Only a faint and gentle voice, which only Prisis herself could hear, sounded:

"Priss—"

"My sun, the light of my heart."

"I'm willing to give everything, even if I'm going to have nothing."

"May you escape from this darkness of infinite suffering."

Finally, Laurien looked up at the sky, at the scorching sun.

Feeling the rapid passage of life, his soul stripped from flesh and blood,

His soul gradually closed his eyes in mid-air, saying goodbye to this world that had just appeared in the sky.

Let the light and the sun slowly engulf you.

And he only muttered the last sentence:

"Praise the sun."