The hierarchy among vampires was extremely strict!
Depending on the purity of their bloodlines, vampires' strength varied enormously.
The purer the bloodline, the stronger the vampire. Conversely, vampires with mixed bloodlines were weaker.
After all, blood was arguably the most important element in a vampire's body—even more important than the brain or heart. It was the source of their magical power and the medium used to summon familiars. Vampires raised familiars within their own blood, using their life force as the price to command them in battle and give them a foundation for existence.
This showed just how important the purity of a vampire's bloodline was. It was directly tied to their strength.
As everyone knew, vampires lived extremely long lives, nearly endless ones. Over those long years, their magical power gradually increased, and they could also gain even greater power by drinking the blood of others. Therefore, the longer a vampire lived, the more blood they had consumed and the stronger the magical power they had gained from it. As a result, ancient vampires generally possessed greater strength than younger ones. Generally...
Even a pureblood vampire who had only just been born was stronger than impure vampires who had lived for who knew how long. The purity of the blood that served as the source of their power gave them an immense innate advantage, one that could not be matched through the accumulation of time alone.
As for pureblood vampires who had lived for an unknown length of time, as well as the progenitors of vampires—the True Ancestors—their power was even more impossible to match.
After a long history of development, vampires had reached a certain stage and had come to be known and accepted by the world. Based on their bloodlines and how long they had existed, people