After Dilos had demonstrated his combat strength, abilities, and "potential," no matter how unwilling the Vampire ruling elite were, Dilos had become the Vampires' supreme ruler and established a new undead race upon the foundation of the Vampires.
In the time that followed, Dilos remained constantly busy.
There was the transfer of power; altering the Vampires' constitution (meaning they would no longer fear sunlight and could eat human food, but could no longer infect humans or use blood to accelerate healing, probe memories, or exert mental control); building a core group of utterly loyal subordinates; promoting his ideals (in other words, brainwashing speeches)... And finally, he needed to use his further-upgraded mental skills to secretly plant mental-body safeguards in the brains of these Vampires.
After repeatedly seeing the mental defenses that protected the brains of certain important individuals, Dilos had also begun researching his own mental abilities. Unfortunately, he had not learned how to break those defenses. Instead, by combining his research with true essence energy, he developed a similar yet more advanced mental skill.
This newly developed mental skill created a special mental body that could secretly invade Vampires, a race resistant to mental abilities and highly perceptive. It could also protect a Vampire's brain from invasion by others, while allowing Dilos to control them indirectly from afar.
As long as someone had been implanted with this newly developed mental body by Dilos, a certain mental connection would form between them. This connection was one-way: only Dilos could sense and control the other person. With the strength of Dilos's current mental power, even if those Vampires ran to the other side of the Earth, they would still fall under his influence.
And as Dilos's mental power grew ever stronger, this control would continually improve. That way, if any Vampire