For humanity, Qianyi would retain a shred of mercy and be willing to give them a chance. So long as ten "righteous men" could be found among the Magi, he could show leniency.
But what about Dead Apostles?
They were monsters that fed on humans, creatures rotten to the core from their genes to their souls, creatures that denied human order.
There was no need to judge such things, no need for mercy, and certainly no need to seek out any so-called "righteous men."
What was needed...
Was simply a purge.
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Dead Apostles, their full name being "the dead."
They were emergency food supplies prepared by the "True Ancestors" in case they could no longer suppress their urge to drink blood.
To keep them from fleeing and allow themselves to feast on their blood whenever and wherever they wished, the True Ancestors chose to transform these "food supplies" into Dead Apostles and place them under their control.
Once the number of Dead Apostles began to grow, those who had originally been emergency food for the True Ancestors somehow came to feel the superiority of bloodsucking. They strengthened their own consciousness, broke free of the True Ancestors' control, and fled into human society, repeatedly drinking blood to perpetuate themselves.
The earliest Dead Apostles to escape the True Ancestors' control were known as the "Twenty-Seven Ancestors." Among these twenty-seven, some had undergone generational succession, while others still ruled their clans as Ancestors to this day.
That was the origin of Dead Apostles—the beginning of vampire-kind transformed from humans.
Originally human, they were turned into Dead Apostles. Then, following the superiority they felt in bloodsucking, they chose to turn humans into blood bags instead, attempting to raise humanity as livestock for food.
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