The sun had risen!
Even though it was eleven at night, to the residents living around a small hill thirty miles from West Estate, that was the truth.
A massive sun radiating boundless brilliance appeared in the night sky, illuminating several miles around it as brightly as day! Many commoners were awakened by the strange and magnificent sight. They ran from their homes and watched as the enormous sun blotted out the entire starry sky.
Countless people knelt on the ground and prayed to that radiance, believing it to be a miracle bestowed by the gods! A divine miracle! Farther away, squads of knights led by the Royal Knights were racing madly in this direction.
At the same time, Sokya led a contingent of Silver Hand knights, while the paladins stationed at Saint Sophia Cathedral also rushed over at full speed.
After all, neither Solam and the others' raid on West Estate nor the subsequent appearance of the sky-darkening vampire bats could be concealed from the Duchy of Toussaint and the Radiance Church. The appearance of vampires in particular left the Radiance Church both shocked and enraged.
After so many years, vampires had appeared on the Shining Plains once more. According to the records, ever since The Triad had unreservedly spread their radiance across this land, no vampire had dared set foot upon this territory protected by the gods.
A thousand years? Two thousand? Or three thousand? So much time had passed that nearly everyone believed the absence of vampires from the Shining Plains was simply natural, as ordinary as the passing of the seasons. Many fools who had never left the Shining Plains even believed vampires were nothing but legends meant to frighten children.
Yet today, the negative energy soaring into the heavens had slapped the Radiance Church squarely