This was the place.
Looking at the luxurious hotel before him, the man raised his head, a gloomy red gleam flashing through his eyes.
"Finally, I found the Princess of the True Ancestors."
The man murmured to himself, his face utterly expressionless.
As a Magus once affiliated with the Wandering Sea, Nero Chaos had long since stopped displaying his emotions... No, ever since the day he abandoned his human body and became a Dead Apostle, emotions had been nothing more than a burden to him.
The reason he had come to this land in the Far East was an order issued by the White Wing Duke, who was also one of the Twenty-Seven Ancestors.
Eliminate the Princess of the True Ancestors.
Naturally, Nero knew the reason behind it.
The Twenty-Seven Ancestors of the Dead Apostles.
They stood at the pinnacle of the bloodsucking species that reigned over this world. Among the Twenty-Seven Ancestors, there was a nominal ruler and an actual ruler.
The Black Princess, Altrouge Brunestud, ranked ninth among the Twenty-Seven Ancestors.
And the White Wing Duke, Tohvaim Ottenroche, ranked seventeenth.
The reason for their conflict was simple. In the earliest era, Altrouge and Arcueid had been the first bloodsucking species created by Crimson Moon as heirs. Simply put, if Crimson Moon was the king of all bloodsucking species, then Altrouge and Arcueid were the princesses of all bloodsucking species. By bloodline, their status was supreme.
However, not every Dead Apostle was willing to accept that.
For example, the White Wing Duke—Tohvaim Ottenroche.
Unlike other Dead Apostles, who had been granted blood and thereby transformed into bloodsucking species, the White Wing Duke Tohvaim had originally been a Magus as well. Later, he voluntarily became a Vampire through some ritual. Thus, he had always been quite dissatisfied with Altrouge, the