City of Sparks
[System: Good afternoon! Lord City Lord, do you need me to open the map?]
This is the second day since Su Liu arrived in the other world. He is accompanied by a soul-soothing system that claims to only speak sweet words.
Su Liu stared at the map unfolding in the void and walked slowly on a deserted and depressed path.
He had taken a rough look around yesterday and found that his birthplace should be in a remote coastal area called "Pangu Continent". It seemed that this place had experienced a war not long ago. The mountains and forests after the war were like a torn pastoral oil painting. The air was filled with the smell of gunpowder and scorched earth, and from time to time he could taste the bitter taste of burning grass and trees on his tongue.
But strangely, while there was dried blood and the uneven, yet consistent, footprints of human marchers, he hadn't seen any other more representative war debris: shredded uniforms, abandoned supplies, or unclaimed bodies. All around him was silent, not even the uniquely desolate and ominous cries of crows. He felt disconnected from the world.
Su Liu returned to his thatched hut halfway up the mountain. He thought there was no need to look anywhere else, as this was obviously an abandoned place that had been cleaned up.
Su Liu asked the system in his mind.
So, this place is my territory now?
[System: Yes, Lord City Lord, please start your life as a winner~]
Su Liu thought that he probably understood a little bit.
He is now a city lord without any support.
He clicked on the virtual interface, and a portrait of a person as tall as a person unfolded in front of him, with rows of detailed character profiles on the left.
[Territory: Spark City]
[City Lord: Su Liu]
[Agent: Unknown]
[Talent Reserve: 0/∞] [System OS: Lord City Lord, you haven't unlocked your authority yet. Please recruit a subordinate as soon as possible to unlock it~]
[Infrastructure: 0/7] [Not yet unlocked]
[Reputation: 0]
[Talent Skill: Disaster Revelation Lv1] [Upgradeable]
Potential: Unknown
[Bloodline: Unknown]
Su Liu looked at the bloodline column for a few seconds, then suddenly put his index finger into his mouth and bit it.
A few drops of blood emerged from the white fingertips. Su Liu stared at the liquid that looked colorful and crystal clear in the sunlight, but couldn't see anything different. Both the smell and the color told him that this was a typical human body.
That shouldn't be the case. Could he have guessed wrong?
According to the setting of the novel "City of Sparks", he should be a vampire Omega to be in line with the status of a city lord.
[Ding Dong, specific conditions have been triggered in advance, and the bloodline section has been updated for you.]
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[Bloodline (updated to the latest data): Bloodline Omega] [OS: Oh my goodness, my Lord City Lord, as the only remaining Bloodline Omega in the world, you are so noble and elegant today~]
Sure enough, he hadn't eaten since yesterday but didn't feel hungry at all. No matter how I thought about it, he couldn't be a human being.
But then he thought about it and realized that according to the setting, although the blood clan Omega does not feed on the blood of animals and humans, it feeds on the blood clan Alpha's thing. Thinking of this, his face darkened.
It's terrible.
[System: Don't worry, Lord City Lord, I will always be with you~]
Su Liu's eyes turned red with anger. Forget it. With the strong physique of the vampires, they can go without food and water for at least a few hundred years. At worst, he can't bear it and fall into a deep sleep.
At this moment, the system made a flustered mumbling sound, and then that unique technologically-rich voice with a hint of detachment rang out.
[System: Lord City Lord, someone is approaching your territory. Please let him in~]
From previous explorations, Su Liu has discovered that the territory under his feet is a special space independent of the world, similar to an alternate dimension, cut and attached to time and space.
In short, the City of Sparks is somewhere between existence and nothingness.
A few hours ago, Daus fled with his only remaining assets (two human blood slaves). He was a down-and-out nobleman. A month ago, he was implicated for standing on the wrong side, and his manor became a battlefield. Servants and guards were either killed or defected.
He sat in the carriage with his teeth gritted. The people pulling the carriage were not horses, but two naked people, a man and a woman, with pale faces.
Yes, he couldn't even afford a horse.
He is penniless.
At this moment, the wind blew open the front door of the carriage, bringing with it a foul smell of decaying corpses and scorched earth. He picked up the whip in his hand and lashed the male Beta fiercely.
Yes, it all started when he took in this male Beta, causing him to lose his dignity as a noble and fall to his current state.
Damn it, if it weren't for the fact that there was only one Omega blood slave left in that brawl, and Omegas were inherently weak, and he was worried about the many accidents and lack of protection during the escape, he wouldn't have brought this Beta with him.
Damn Beta, damn the world, damn... Your Majesty.
The whip he had just whipped had knocked the Beta to the ground, and the carriage tilted to one side. Seeing that the female Omega on the other side was about to be crushed and fall, he jumped out of the carriage angrily and straightened it with one hand.
"Useless thing," he sneered at the male Beta who had fallen to the ground, his face and body covered in blood and mud. "You're not very powerful, so what? Did your organization abandon you?"
The male Beta lowered his head and remained silent, just breathing heavily.
The female Omega beside her knelt down and kowtowed, tears streaming down her face in fear. "Master, please calm down."
At this moment, the male Beta glanced at the female Omega, a dark light flashing in his eyes, and he whispered, "Under the cliff ahead."
"What?" As a vampire, Daus had extremely sensitive hearing. He certainly heard the male Beta's whisper clearly, but he was obviously not satisfied with the answer.
Yes, the biggest reason why he brought this Beta with him, besides to satisfy his basic living needs as a blood slave, was because this Beta claimed to be a member of the organization "Dawn of the Future".
This organization is active in the gray area. All vampires and humans want to find it, but it is mysterious and seems to be everywhere.
It is active in turbulent and uneasy situations, but it always manages to stay out of trouble. Although it is obviously evil, its purpose is to "sing the praises of the dawn."
The vampires hate it, but humans praise it.
The reason is that its main business is reselling the serum of third generation and above pure-blooded vampires.
They can even ignore the original owner's bloodline lock (locked by the vampire himself, a racial talent) and use the vampire's serum to transform humans into their offspring.
Therefore, many forces are ready to make moves in the dark.
For the vampires, which low-level vampire doesn't want to become a vampire of the third generation or above? In this world, apart from His Majesty the King and His Royal Highness the Prince, a pair of brothers who can perfectly inherit the genes of their parents' ancestors, the second-generation vampires can become dukes, and the third-generation vampires are veritable marquises. There are only more than a hundred pure-blooded vampires of the third generation and above in the world, but they have ruled this continent for nearly 33,000 years. They have all the good things in their hands. Aren't the remaining vampires of the fourth generation and below jealous at all?
As for humans, they are walking blood bags from birth. If it weren't for the aristocratic tone of the pure-blooded vampires who only eat human Omegas, which gave the Alphas and Betas in human society some respite, human leaders would be useless. But due to the low status of humans, with such temptation in front of them, would those in the power center really not be tempted?
Obviously, Daus was tempted, otherwise he wouldn't have given up until now.
"You mean, if I jump from there, I can enter the dawn of tomorrow," Daus glanced at the male Beta with his scarlet eyes, as if he would throw this damn blood slave down as long as he saw him nod.
The male Beta seemed unaware of anything, his eyes revealing earnestness. "Of course, my master, you are a high-quality client of our organization. How dare I deceive you? This is our organization's small base in the wilderness."
What this means is that this is a temporary mobile site provided specifically for customer service and is not the organization's core base.
Daus pricked up his ears and listened carefully, but there was only the sound of the wind below the cliff, no sign of any biological activity. "Your answer had better be true," he said, grabbing the male Beta's neck with one hand and lifting him from the ground. As he spoke, he walked to the front of the cliff. Out of caution, he held the male Beta in the air in front of the cliff and threatened, "You damn thing, are you sure you are not kidding me?"
"You are a high-quality client, and the organization must show some sincerity." The male Beta had difficulty breathing, but he still looked at Dawus with a firm gaze. "Master, you may as well give it a try. After all, as a vampire, you are not afraid of falling."
Dawus seemed to believe this. He loosened his grip on the male Beta's hand and asked, "How much is the price?"
"The organization provides accounting services to all customers. Once the master successfully ascends to the third generation of the vampire clan and regains his glory, I believe he will not default on his debts."
Just when the male Beta thought he had passed this level.
Daus actually let go of his hand and let the male Beta fall off the cliff. In the male Beta's disbelief, Daus' eyes met the male Beta's for the first time.
At this moment, the male Beta clearly saw the emotions in the vampire's eyes.
There was a leisurely look of watching a show in those cruel red eyes.
Dawus, not a new customer!
The male Beta closed his eyes unwillingly.
Having embarked on this path, he had never been afraid of death, but he really was unwilling to accept it.
This time, he was in trouble.
On the other side of the wasteland, the army was clearing the battlefield.
A few idle vampire nobles gathered together to chat. "Have you heard? The conflict between His Majesty the King and His Royal Highness the Prince this time was over a human Omega."
"I heard it was for love." As soon as the other one finished speaking, the people burst into laughter.
"Vampires are actually attracted to humans? Don't tell me this is the inspiration for your new book."
"You guessed it. I plan to write a story about the eternal love between a pure-blooded vampire and a human, based on the relationship between His Majesty the King and a human Omega."
"My God, His Majesty the King actually had such thoughts about a piece of cake on the palace table. He is so pitiful."
As they talked, these people started laughing again.
The passing soldier shook his head. In order to deceive humans into giving birth to more Omegas, and also to make these human Omegas accept their fate while still holding on to hope, such brainwashing books are endless.
However, vampires will never fall in love with humans. Vampire Alphas will only be attracted to Vampire Omegas. And as we all know, Vampire Omegas are extremely rare. The last Vampire Omega appeared 23,000 years ago.
When the only king of this world had been on the throne for ten thousand years, the beautiful blood clan Omega quietly appeared. In order to compete for this Omega, all the blood clan Beta soldiers were exterminated, and the number of blood clan Alphas of the third generation and above dropped sharply from more than 2,000 to more than 200. In addition, the blood clan Alphas who had reached the end of their lifespan but could not find a blood clan Omega to marry had no offspring until their death, and finally the number became what it is today.
Of course, another reason is that vampires of the third generation and above will never condescend to transform humans as their offspring, while vampires after the fourth generation will not have this pride. Therefore, compared with other low-level vampires, these top nobles are so rare.
In the world today, the only two original blood clans, pure-blooded royal families, are His Majesty the King and His Royal Highness the Prince.
They are the only biological children of the Blood Clan Omega and the Blood Clan King. The Blood Clan King had two children with the Queen just before his death, after 30,000 years of reign. After he abdicated, he took the Queen to live in seclusion in the countryside. No one knows where he was buried in the end. I guess he didn't want to be disturbed by any party.
He passed the throne to his eldest son, the present King His Majesty, who has reigned for three thousand years.
During the long ten thousand years when the Queen was unknown to the public, all vampires believed that they were a race abandoned by God, and even believed that Vampire Omegas did not exist at all. God gave vampires stronger physiques, lifespans and talents than all other creatures in the world, but cruelly exterminated them.
Some people in the vampire race have also tried to convert human Omegas into vampires, but the amazing thing is that vampires can convert human Alphas and Betas, but cannot convert Omegas.
All human Omegas, without exception, will bleed to death the moment they are transformed.
Deep despair enveloped this race.
They began to live a life of drunkenness and dreams, and some vampires even attempted suicide.
But one day, the queen appeared. At that time, the Omega was not yet the queen. His human boyfriend had cheated on him, and he was beaten by the despicable couple and the mistress.
At that time, the aroma of blood permeated the air.
All the high-level vampires within a radius of 500 meters were in an uproar.
From then on, the week after the midnight bell rang was designated as the vampire clan's "Taoyao's Appointment" festival celebration.
Now, in a few hours, it will be the annual "Taoyao Rendezvous".
The soldiers rushed to clean up the battlefield, as this was the most exciting day of the year for them.
After the queen's death, a vampire Omega has not appeared for three thousand years. The vampires suspect that it may take another seven thousand years, or a full ten thousand years, for another vampire Omega to appear. But everyone has a glimmer of hope in their hearts, what if, what if a vampire Omega appears by his side.
He would immediately hide this little sweetheart and not tell anyone.
Because there were so many vampires with this mentality, there were particularly many vampires lingering in the city where the queen first appeared. In order to leave a good impression on the vampire Omegas who were caught off guard, vampires usually seldom started disputes during this special period, which also gave human rebels who wanted to overthrow the vampire rule an opportunity to take advantage of it.
Because during this period, in order to maintain peace and pretend to be elegant, the vampire rulers were all very gentle. Even if a conflict really occurred, the vampires would clean up the battlefield afterwards and rescue the innocent human people involved.
Placi is a third-generation vampire who owns a territory on the western coast, which is also the hometown of the mother of the current King.
Butler Andri reported to him: "My Lord Earl, there is no trace of the Vampire Omega today."
Bo Xi looked gloomily at the gold-stamped invitation with peach blossoms printed on it in the butler's hand and said, "Give this to Li An and ask him to go on my behalf."
The long wait caused him to suffer from depression. If he hadn't had such fantasies, he would have committed suicide long ago.
Andre looked at his count worriedly, but the count had already closed his eyes and wanted to be alone, so he had to sigh and leave.
Longevity is a curse.
He went to the guard with emotion.
Li An is a new member of the guard team and is not trusted by the earl. It is just right for him to participate in the "Taoyao Appointment", of course, with a bit of scrutiny as well.
Li An is a fair-skinned ninth-generation vampire who has just been converted by an unknown sixth-generation vampire. According to his resume, he came to the territory of Earl Bosi because of fate.
Andrei didn't like this kind of slick young man, so he conveyed the count's intention to Li An in a businesslike manner.
As expected, upon hearing that it was a mission assigned by the Earl, Li An accepted the invitation with great trepidation. Amidst the envious, jealous, or understanding gazes of the guards, he happily returned to his residence to pack his bags. When he left, his eyes seemed to be filled with regret.
He glanced casually at the noble badge pinned on the collar of the butler Andri.
It was a silver badge.
A blood moon is outlined in enamel, with a background of winding silver vines covered with black roses.
Rose is the symbol of the royal family's close ministers.
All the nobles and their close ministers would add the element of rose to their family emblems.
Ah, I really hope to see this rose withering in the scorching sun soon.
My dear Lord Earl.
And you, dear Mr. Andri.
As Li An thought about this, he put away the invitation more respectfully and carefully, then got up and headed for the Baron's manor five kilometers away.
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