Xitasil was a seventh-generation vampire. Within the Fernandez Family, the highest bloodline belonged to the predecessor of Baron Fernandez, who had been hanged to death in a violent incident. He was a fifth-generation vampire.
The strength of the previous generation surpassed that of the next. The predecessor who bestowed the First Embrace possessed powerful control over their descendants. This was practically a law of the vampire world.
Karen was a vampire of the same generation as Xitasil, which made Tu Shenyi an eighth-generation vampire.
Among vampires, those of different generations underwent different changes. For example, vampires transformed by the Takizawa Family... Strictly speaking, they should be called vampire monsters. Their generations might be lower, but their strength was not calculated by generation.
Furthermore, every vampire awakened their own special ability. Naturally, different abilities had different effects in battle—so unless they belonged to similar categories, it was difficult to determine which vampire was stronger.
Unless the vampires had all evolved to the third generation—in other words, the level of the leaders of the Thirteen Clans, also known as Princes.
Third-generation Princes, regardless of clan, whether transformed or belonging to an outside faction, possessed enough power to suppress any vampire below the third generation. This was an absolute ironclad rule of the vampire race.
Among lower-generation vampires, there was another situation: a descendant could "devour" the predecessor who had bestowed the First Embrace upon them, absorb their bloodline, and then break through the long accumulation of time to advance to a higher generation.
Karen and Xitasil had once known each other. They could both be classified as belonging to similar factions, which was why Xitasil could say that Tu Shenyi should not possess such powerful strength.
"Although I don't know whether you 'devoured' Karen or temporarily acquired your strength through some other