Yetana dared to guarantee that this was the moment she had felt most favorably toward Solam, not caring in the slightest how irritating he usually was. After all, having someone come through for you in the nick of time felt incredibly good.
Solam, on the other hand, did not feel nearly as good, especially when he saw countless vampires wreaking havoc throughout the venue. At first, Solam had thought Alfred's target was Yetana, and that he had therefore sent his minions.
But after getting a clear look at the vampires on the ground, Solam realized he had been wrong. He could tell that those vampires were all newly transformed rookies! Strictly speaking, they were not true vampires yet, but blood thralls.
After a human received a vampire's first embrace, they did not become a vampire overnight. There was an intermediate process, and that stage was called a blood thrall. At this point, they did not yet possess most of a vampire's spell-like abilities. At most, they gained boosts to strength and agility, along with regenerative abilities.
After all, adapting a body of flesh and blood to negative energy required time. Blood thralls had only just completed their physiological transformation; internally, they still needed time to evolve.
It was precisely because they were in such an awkward stage that blood thralls were often somewhat muddleheaded and easily driven into bloodlust, becoming utterly frenzied. This was also why there were not actually many vampires on the continent. It was not merely because the first embrace came at a cost, but also because blood thralls lacked self-control and were easily discovered and killed.
Just like the current situation, most of the vampires madly attacking living people were still in the blood-thrall stage. They had all fallen into a frenzy, each one bloodthirsty and