Communication and Trade

Damir Port.

After exchanging a few pleasantries with Viscount Karen, Abner asked curiously, "Have you seen Lydia?"

"I have... and I met that boy she's always talking about, Tran." Karen raised his glass and took a sip of the red wine Abner had prepared for him. It was nothing fancy, of course.

"Is there something special about the boy?" Abner asked.

He often teased himself about Lydia and Tran's relationship, but he could tell it wasn't love... At least, Lydia felt no more than a little affection for Tran at present, and Tran's feelings seemed much the same.

What Lydia felt for Tran was more of an instinctive closeness and fondness. Outwardly, it showed in her conviction that his blood tasted delicious...

"If I'm right, the boy is a descendant of Yaluolan, one of the Nine Pillars of the Moses Ascetic Order... Her bloodline has a powerful attraction for our family. Even though the boy is countless generations removed, Lydia still finds it hard to resist that sense of kinship rooted in her very being," Viscount Karen answered after some thought, making no attempt to hide it.

The Blood Feast in Abner's possession contained the relevant knowledge, so Karen saw no need for secrecy.

One of the Moses Ascetic Order's Pillars... Most likely a high-ranking Beyonder of the Mystery Pryer Pathway... And kinship rooted in her very being... Could the Mythical Creature Blood that Mystery Pryer used to advance to Demigod have come from an ancestor of Karen's family? Hmm, the Blood Feast seems to mention something about that...

Karen's ancestor was a Sanguine Duke? The one who wrote the Blood Feast? In that case, Yaluolan must be quite old too—at least from the Fourth Epoch...

*And Karen only referred to her by name... That means she's Sequence 3 at