Crown Prince Voltaire and his entourage were quickly captured. Although the escorting knights put up a fierce resistance, there was no way they could fight off more than ten vampire high lords. The disturbance quickly came to an end with quite a few casualties among the crown prince’s group. 

Count Rudiger and the nobles of Petrucca broke into cold sweat when they were informed of the situation. Moreover, they came to realize how fearsome the vampires were as a race and how delusional they had been. It had been hundreds of years ago since vampires were incorporated into human society, and that was more than enough time for their fear of vampires to dissipate. They had lost their fear of the race that ripped apart living creatures and lived in darkness while feeding on blood. Moreover, most vampires above the lord class were very polite, knowledgeable, and elegant. As such, the people of the empire, at least the nobles, had been living their lives ignorant of the essence of vampires. In fact, they even looked down on the vampires.

Vampires could not move around during the day, except for a few of them. Vampires could be subdued at any time with silver weapons, and vampires could not go anywhere without permission. Apart from the many weaknesses vampires...