Su-ho’s eyes widened when he saw the notification.
Right, now that I think about it, there was one more authority, wasn’t there?
Levan de Nosferatu was Vampire Blood’s fourth authority.
And the fifth authority, the final authority, still remained.
The system notifications continued.
[ ① Reach Level 400. ]
[ ② Fulfill Power’s Price’s third condition. ]
[ Vampire Blood’s fifth authority is unlocked. ]
[ Imperial Blood has been opened. ]
Imperial Blood.
That was the end of the notification.
What is it?
Compared to when the other authorities had been released, the result was extremely plain.
He immediately checked Vampire Blood’s information.
[ Vampire Blood ]
Grade: S+# The bloodline of Levan de Nosferatu, one of the High Bloods among the Royal Vampirs, Original Vampirs called the nobles of the night.
# Lv.1 - Royal Blood: Original Vampir(S)
# Lv.2 - True Blood: True Power(S)
# Lv.3 - Holy Blood: Blessing of the Moon(S)
# Lv.4 - Levan de Nosferatu: High Blood(S), Power’s Price(S)
# Lv.5 – Imperial Blood.
Even in the system information, all it said was Imperial Blood.
After narrowing his eyes, Su-ho touched the bolded words Imperial Blood.
At that instant, darkness surged outward from beneath Su-ho’s feet, and the world began turning pitch-black in every direction.
Su-ho stood still and watched the change.
He felt no hostility.
So, for now, he stayed still.
The world had become dark even beneath his feet.
It felt as if he were standing in a starless universe.
However, the darkness did not last long.
Soon, a single white dot appeared in the sky, and a pure-white path reminiscent of Middle Town formed beneath his feet.
At the end of the white path was a white, round floor. When he headed there, an existence that had definitely not been visible before he arrived was sitting at a white table and white chair, waiting for Su-ho.
He was a pale, handsome man with long black hair neatly swept back.
His eyes were red like Edersen’s and the other vampires’, and on the white table sat a tea set made of white porcelain.
As he poured a red liquid into a white teacup, he said,
"Come sit here."
His voice was elegant and calm.
At his invitation, Su-ho obediently went over and sat down.
The red tea he poured was quite clear and transparent despite its red color, enough that Su-ho’s face was reflected in it.
Sip—
The man who had invited Su-ho drank his tea without a word.
Su-ho also quietly looked at the man, then drank the tea.
The tea had a taste he had never experienced in his life, but it was not bad.
Since its color was red, he had thought it might be blood, but it was not blood.
It simply tasted like ordinary tea.
He did not suspect poison had been put in the tea either.
Because he felt no hostility.
So he simply asked what he wanted to ask.
"Are you perhaps the First Blood?"
He did not know why, but he simply felt that might be the case, so he asked.
Because judging by the timing, it seemed about time for an existence above High Bloods to appear.
At Su-ho’s question, the man gave a faint laugh.
"Why do you think so?"
"Just intuition."
"You have good intuition."
"That means I’m right."
"You are. I am one of the primordial vampires, and the one called the First Blood, whom they revered without end."
Sip—
He spoke as if revealing a not particularly important fact, then sipped his tea again.
Su-ho nodded.
"I see. Then why did you call me here?"
"Procedure is procedure, but I called you because I wanted to see you. Among Players, you were the first to reach the stage of Imperial Blood."
That was an unexpected fact.
In any case, whether it was because Su-ho had now reached that grade or because of the First Blood’s attitude, he did not feel any particular sense of mystery even when looking at the First Blood before him.
It simply felt like he was going through an administrative procedure.
The First Blood set down his teacup and said,
"In any case, congratulations. Since this is the last one, I deliberately invited you because I wanted to talk with you a little."
"What would you like to talk about?"
"To be honest, there is not much I desperately want to tell you. I was simply curious. Curious about what kind of Player had obtained Imperial Blood. But this is quite unexpected. If someone came here, I thought that Player would also be a vampire, but I never expected a human Player from some insignificant world without even a guardian god to obtain Imperial Blood."
He was not mocking him or looking down on him.
"Not a lot. Just enough? If you are curious what Overment is, simply think of it comfortably as a godlike existence. No, from our perspective, is it a god? If an existence with absolute power is called a god, then it is a god. The High Bloods treated me like a god, but in truth, I am neither a god nor anything of the sort. I am merely a vampire who happened to be born a little earlier than the rest. So how laughable must I have looked from Overment’s perspective? When a truly godlike existence existed separately."
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