Every apparatus that could communicate with the Queen involved a particular set of activation rules. For instance, Castle Ava’s required a duke from the Lynch bloodline to activate. Marquis Lynch was just a mighty marquis, so they would have to wake up the duke for this matter.

Marquis Lynch arrived before the door and activated the mechanism, summoning a control panel from the floor. He punched in the password and cut his wrist to splash blood onto the panel. The giant door soon began to tremble and open.

Behind the door was a dark hall illuminated by a few sanguine lights. The dim glow was barely enough to outline the room.

The patterns on the wall began to revolve as Nighteye and Qianye entered. A coffin slowly glided out of the wall and landed at the center of the hall. Several pipes stretched out from the ground and latched onto the coffin, pumping blood from the blood pond into the coffin. This would allow for the vampire within to awaken from his long slumber.

Nighteye and Qianye couldn’t sense the presence of blood in the tubes. Marquis Lynch had produced the coffin but wasn’t supplying blood?

The marquis sighed as he placed a hand on the lid and released his blood energy, dripping the remaining blood from his wrist onto the coffin. The patterns on the coffin flickered, and the...