458: To Ease Murphy's Unease, Loyal Bro Unveiled an Epoch-Making Product! Bonus Chapter 2525

(Bonus chapter for "Wenjiu Ci," 5/5)

Although cuddling up with Triss had put him at ease, the shadow in Murphy's heart hadn't lifted. After sending Triss back to her secret laboratory amid all their sweet nothings, Murphy figured he might as well go for a walk since he couldn't sleep anyway.

So he spread his wings and took to the sky once more.

This time, he didn't need Raveno to guide him through the night. He simply flew wherever his fancy took him over his vast territory, going wherever he pleased, treating it as a vampire-style joyride through the sky.

When Murphy saw how far he'd flown from Crimson Keep, he suddenly realized something he'd never given much thought to.

Come to think of it, since the vampire race had first appeared on the continent and established its own civilization, Murphy was probably the vampire lord with the largest territory under his actual control in all of history.

Although Transia had nominally belonged to the Blood Eagle Clan for the past four hundred years, everyone on this land, from beggars to gnolls, knew that the Westwood territory had never truly been under Salokdar's control.

That Blood Eagle chieftain had only a tenuous grip on the south and west. During Salokdar's time, the core region actually controlled by the Blood Eagle Clan had amounted to little more than the area around the Count of Kadman's lands.

The Thorn Clan had a small duchy on the border of the Kingdom of Nordtov, covering roughly two-thirds the area of Transia. That was already a remarkable power among vampire political entities.

The Wolfsbane Clan nominally controlled the darklands of Gnerin Island, but everyone knew that order in those darklands depended entirely on King Louis turning a blind eye. If the "Sun King" ever truly