With the [Blood Lord]'s arrangements in the Sea of the Moon and investment spanning two entire eras, it could originally have summoned more Blood Vampires and forcibly traded their lives to wipe out the fleet and the Dream Creatures. After all, [Primordial Blood] possessed overwhelmingly superior power in the Sea of the Moon.
Even Elliot operating the Difference Engine would not have made a difference.
But [Ebb Tide] had come too early. The [Blood Lord] had no choice but to let the fleet and the Dream Creatures go and force the next step, making the Blood Vampires devour one another to bring forth [Primordial Blood].
This, in turn, gave the believers in the fleet time to report what was happening in the Sea of the Moon to the Great Beings they worshipped.
In fact, although the [Blood Lord] was gradually losing the initiative by this point, it was still not much of a problem.
Even combined, these forces were no match for [Primordial Blood]. The [Blood Lord] had invested far too much.
Besides, the Abode was sealed, so those beings could not intervene in person.
But another variable appeared in the midst of all this: Maeve.
Maeve successfully possessed [Primordial Blood], leaving [Primordial Blood] outright unable to devour [Honey]!
It was not actually unable to eat, but whatever it ate would feed Maeve, and all the positive effects would be transferred to her along the way.
[Primordial Blood] could not deal with Maeve either, because every negative effect on her would instead be applied to her host-[Primordial Blood] itself.
Attacking Maeve was the same as attacking itself, but leaving Maeve alone meant it could not eat [Honey]!
This was a direct check, preventing [Primordial Blood] from seizing the Honey Authority and forcing the [Blood Lord] to intervene in person.
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