The instant Elder Victor was killed by Chen Hao's Samadhi True Fire, a huge, chrysalis-shaped black cocoon stirred faintly inside a damp cavern deep in the mountains.
Two blood-red beams immediately shot out from within the cocoon.
Around it, countless blood-eyed Black Bats hanging upside down from the cavern ceiling suddenly opened their eyes. They formed a dense black swarm and flew wildly out of the cavern.
These blood-eyed Black Bats soon flew into a castle and crowded onto one of its windows.
Inside the bedroom, a voluptuous, coldly beautiful noblewoman dressed in black lace suddenly woke from her sleep. She rushed straight through the bedroom window, transformed into countless Black Bats, and vanished into the dark night sky, surrounded by the blood-eyed Black Bats.
At the same time, a burly man lying in bed with women in both arms suddenly sensed the arrival of the blood-eyed Black Bats.
Without a word, he too underwent Bat Transformation and burst through the window, frightening the women in his bed into shrill screams.
Before long, the swarm returned to the damp cavern, and a man and a woman appeared inside, one after the other.
They exchanged no words when they met, walking straight into the depths of the cave.
Upon reaching the giant black cocoon, the man and woman knelt in unison.
"Amelia pays her respects to the Vampire Ancestor."
"Philip pays his respects to the Vampire Ancestor."
The pair were none other than the Vampire Clan's other two Vampire Elders, and the one inside the black cocoon was Marcus, the Vampire Clan's ancestor.
After they paid their respects, Marcus stirred twice inside the cocoon. Then an extremely hoarse, grating voice emerged, as though he had not spoken for centuries and his throat had rusted over. "Victor is dead."
As that voice