When the existence of Vampires first became known and the attacks started, Shaiven thought she had rushed things too much.

‘I still need to expand my influence.’

Shaiven was clever enough to conquer the three fortresses that were said to be the most difficult to conquer with the first few subordinates she had turned. She did this before the gods noticed and when they didn’t even know about the existence of the Vampires. Shaiven and the other Vampires snuck into the fortresses as vagrant beggars, insignificant servants, or slaves who had lost their owners, and they killed whoever were in charge of the fortresses or made them their subordinates.

Since then, the Vampires had been hiding in the five countries that occupied the continent. But Shaiven was still anxious.

‘It’ll be dangerous if we’re under a full-scale attack.’

For the first three months, the Vampires had been increasing their forces quickly, but not enough for them to endure a joint attack of the five countries. Fortunately for Shaiven, the five countries had postponed their attacks. And they did that because the other species didn’t know where the main base of the Vampires was.

Things would be troublesome if they gathered troops to attack the Vampires and the Vampires later appeared from totally different places, or if each country’s important bases ended up conquered by the Vampires because they gathered to launch an attack. Therefore, the five countries had been placing some troops at the known Vampire fortresses to prevent the Vampires from attacking, all the while focusing...