]--[As an ancient great being who had existed for untold ages, the Blood Grand Duke's spirituality radiated across countless worlds. Legend held that the very existence of blood in living creatures, and the reason it flowed, were intimately connected to the Blood Grand Duke.]
--[Flowing blood meant "life," and stopped blood meant "death." Thus, there were also rumors that the Blood Grand Duke controlled the very definitions of "life" and "death." Out of reverence for blood and life, and fear of death, the inhabitants of countless worlds worshipped the Blood Grand Duke as a deity.]
--[Because of this ancient worship of the Blood Grand Duke, countless legends of his followers circulated throughout the worlds touched by his spirituality.
One example was the notoriously brutal ruler—Queen Mary I, though people preferred to call her "Bloody Mary."
Another was the Blood Countess—Elizabeth, who had to bathe in and drink the blood of young girls every day to preserve her eternal youth.
Then there was the Witch of the Night—Lilith, who sucked the blood of infants every day.
They all made countless people tremble in fear.
But the subject of our account today was someone who had become the progenitor of vampires—Vlad III.
He had not only created an entirely new vampire civilization, but later became a great being on the same level as the Blood Grand Duke.
As a result, the name he had borne as a mortal had become a thing of the past, much like the now-buried name "vampire."
The official name of this race was now the "Blood Clan," and the name of its great Blood Clan Progenitor had also changed—to Gulrad.]
[Vlad III had originally been a silver-tier follower of the Blood Grand Duke, fighting alongside him against civilizations from various worlds. During the war against the world