Hope 1

Vampire World.

Amid dense clusters of towering vampire castles.

Vast black castles, like coffins, covered the planets throughout the Vampire World.

This was the heart of the world—the headquarters of the Holy Blood Military Department.

It was also where the greatest number of Holy Light vampires in the entire Vampire World gathered.

Asius slowly woke from a coffin inside a castle, bored out of his mind.

"Open my eyes, close them, and another day is gone. When will this kind of life ever end?"

With some resignation, he lifted the lid and sat up from the coffin.

Using telekinesis, he turned on the projection television on the opposite wall.

Click.

Someone began reporting the morning news on the television.

The sweet-looking anchor spoke in a voice as gentle as a lullaby. She looked completely half-asleep. As expected, vampires really should not be keeping early hours.

"Regarding the recent proposal concerning unidentified special attackers appearing at the edge of the world, Progenitor-level generals have already intervened in the investigation.

"According to the defense order issued by the Supreme Military Department, the identities of these special attackers are highly likely to be connected to the forces of an ancient race abandoned by the ages."

The image on the television flickered, quickly switching to a noisy, chaotic battlefield.

"From the footage, these ancient racial forces still employ extremely primitive cold weapons and close-quarters combat as methods of warfare.

"When faced with our probing attacks, they appeared quite confused. They had not located the source of the attacks.

"As can be seen from the footage, these primitive armies are continuously probing their surroundings and launching experimental volleys.

"After their repeated probing proved ineffective, they began suspecting an internal problem. Their formation gradually fell into disorder.

"In fact, it is clear that their attack methods