America, New York. Beneath the daytime clamor and prosperity of this brilliantly lit city lay a hidden Dark World unknown to most.
Amid the towering skyscrapers, shadows crisscrossed. This was territory occupied by forces such as The Hand, Kingpin, and Hydra, but more bizarrely, another supernatural creature had taken root in this land—vampires.
Unlike the vampires of distant Great Britain, New York's vampires did not descend from Alexander Corvinus, The Undead, but had an even older and more mysterious origin—Dracula.
This legendary King of Vampires had become the progenitor of New York's vampire clan through his unrivaled majesty and endless power.
By contrast, the vampires and werewolves of Great Britain shared the bloodline of The Undead. Though they came from the same source, differences in ideals and ways of life had kept them at odds for a long time.
New York's vampire society had a complex structure, with countless internal factions scheming and openly or secretly battling one another.
Yet amid all this turmoil, they shared an enemy that made them uneasy—the vampires from Great Britain.
Although Great Britain's vampires included sages such as Elder Amelia, one of the three great elders, who sought to establish new territory in America, relations between the two sides had not improved because of this.
On the contrary, differences in history and culture, as well as competition for their respective territories, only intensified the tension between the vampires on both sides.
Worse still, New York's vampires were not content with the status quo. They began studying themselves through scientific methods, hoping to create vampires that were stronger and more perfect.
After experiment after experiment, they finally made a breakthrough—a vampire variant immune to silver was born. They were called "Reaper variant vampires," or "Reaper Machines."
This new vampire variant possessed all the abilities of