Salute To The General

A casket was positioned in the luxurious room.

The casket was opened as the flickering candlelight showered on it, giving the grand room a mysterious and eerie air.

A balding elderly man in a black suit was sitting on a chair while holding a wine glass in his hand. His skin was sagging, and the bags under his eyes were exceptionally swollen. The wine glass was half-filled with red fluid, and there was a faint scent of blood in the air.

Lyanna knocked on the door before leading Max in and uttering softly, "Patriarch Herod, Max is here."

The senile Herod merely sat there without giving any response, as if he didn't hear Lyanna or he was deep in thought.

Lyanna turned around to look at Max, signaling him to speak up.

With that, Max hurried forward and placed his left hand on his chest before bowing slightly and saying, "I'm here upon your summon and am at your service, Patriarch Herod."

Herod came back to his senses and forced his droopy eyes open with difficulty. "Max, your plan failed," he uttered softly.

questioning. "Yes, something unexpected happened. My plan was sabotaged by Nathan's men and people from the Curia as soon as it began, rendering it unsuccessful. I've been exposed as well, and I lost my position as the admiral of Ariarica. There's no place for me in human

surprised that an elite like Nathan exists among humans. Do you have anything you'd like

nervous when he

able to advance in ranks and become the fourteenth vampire prince because he confidently promised that he could lead the vampires' uprising, enabling the vampires to overturn humans and

plan had failed, the Patriarch was interrogating him

Herod and the mess couldn't be salvaged, Herod would probably abandon him as if he were

wasn't just anybody. He had experienced

anxious but instead was exceedingly calm. Moreover, his

Herod, my

we vampires can take the opportunity to expand and defeat them so that we can

asserted that he had a backup plan, which immediately

across Herod's blurry eyes for the first time, and he stared at Max

"The ancestral

a healthy human into a bondslave, which is a common vampire. The reason we vampires can't expand is that there's too little ancestral blood from elite vampires. For every drop of ancestral blood an elite lost, their power will decrease. Moreover, it'll take a long while for them to recover. Therefore, vampires are unable to turn humans into bondslaves on