Each Vampire can develop one Blood Descendant per year.
If he ignored everything and followed the previous route, Li De was confident that he could increase the number of Vampires to over a thousand within three years.
Expanding the current power of the Vampires by more than three times.
But if there were thousands of Vampires, the number of humans that needed to be hunted each month would reach the current amount for half a year.
Such an exaggerated disappearance of people would definitely attract the attention of Green City.
When the Transcendent Mage in Green City investigates seriously, Li De had absolutely no confidence in being able to hide it.
He feared the ancient castle would be razed before the players even arrived.
Previously, the Vampires' tracks were often discovered by the Green City army, and each time, the losses were not small.
This was also an important reason why the Vampire Progenitor hid his identity and went to Green City. If not for him acting as an inside man over these three years, the Vampires would not have lived so peacefully.
After the crowd dispersed, looking at the seven Second Generation Blood Descendants below, Li De did not say much, waved his hand, and said indifferently.
"Follow me to the blood pool."
The seven of them looked at each other, none dared to have the slightest objection, and followed behind Li De with elegant steps.
The blood pool was the Vampires' backup plan, storing a large amount of Blood, and must never be easily used unless there was a crisis of extinction.
But since Li De had spoken, these people naturally dared not say more, especially since the information Li De provided was too terrifying.
They had been targeted by a Transcendent Mage from Green City.
Facing such a powerful enemy, the Vampires absolutely could not go out to hunt humans as easily as before, so now was undoubtedly a good time to use the blood pool.
Li De recalled the memories in his mind and was also full of curiosity about the blood pool.
The Vampire Progenitor had obtained an opportunity and transformed directly into a Vampire, not through the First Embrace.
The divine object that transformed his original human body into the Vampire Progenitor was also respectfully called the Holy Spirit by the Vampires.
A skeleton.
As for exactly how the transformation happened, because that memory was too distant, it was already extremely blurry when Li De received it, so he was not very clear about it.
But after this Holy Spirit transformed Li De into the Vampire Progenitor, it still had a powerful effect—it could keep Blood fresh and vital, and could also absorb free magic power from the air and infuse it into the Blood.
Once human Blood left the human body for more than half a sun hour, its effect on Vampires would decrease, and after more than one sun hour, its effect on Vampires would become zero.
This was why the Vampires would hunt humans and bring them back to keep in captivity.
However, the existence of the Holy Spirit solved a problem that could be considered fatal to the Vampires—the necessity of having fresh Blood to survive.
This key attribute caused the Vampires' craving for fresh Blood to drop to freezing point.
This was also an important support for Li De to have the confidence to implement his farming plan.
And even more exaggeratedly, the Holy Spirit would constantly absorb magic power and irrigate it into the Blood in the blood pool; the longer the Blood was stored, the richer the magic power it contained, and the greater the benefits for the Vampires.
This was equivalent to cutting the chain tied around the Vampires' necks, greatly increasing the feasibility of the plan for humans to support the Vampires.
He led the seven people and walked slowly along the ancient castle.
The dark night could not trouble the Vampires; on the contrary, because of their bloodline talent, the Vampires' abilities in all aspects were greatly enhanced in the dark night.
Dark vision was the most common talent of the Vampires.
The once-glorious ancient castle was extremely large, and the architecture inside had a strong atmosphere of medieval European architecture.
White spires towered high, pointed semi-circular arches stood upright, and stained glass windows depicted ancient stories of Vampire heroes.
The architectural lines inside the ancient castle were simple and brisk, and the shapes were heavy and solid.
The intersection of the cross and the bell tower on the horizontal hall exuded a strong exotic style.
The white stone walls on both sides of the road were embossed with semi-hollow figures, and the huge ancient castle was like an exquisite work of art.
Even the entrance to the sewer was carved with a relief of a dragon.
Li De was amazed; compared to the ancient castle, Green City looked completely like a rural bumpkin.
The Vampires truly lived up to their self-proclaimed status as nobles; such artistic attainment and cultivation could only be compared to races like the Elves, who had maxed out both their appearance and art.
The blood pool was on the far right of the ancient castle, hidden deep within hard rock.
After all, it was a once-glorious ancient castle, and it took Li De half a sun hour to reach the edge of the ancient castle.
A cave under tight guard.
The cyan granite was hard in texture, the huge cave was five meters high, and dense Bats hung upside down above the cave.
After entering the cave, the Bats were disturbed, and tens of thousands of Bats flew out from the ceiling of the cave, a dark mass enough to make a dragon stop in its tracks.
Several Vampires appeared in front of Li De and his group under the cover of the Bats.
One hand on their chest, they bowed and performed a noble etiquette, their common language solemn and deep.
"Good night, Patriarch."
Li De nodded. The four Vampires in front of him were warriors guarding the blood pool and had to stay here regardless of the situation.
The flock of Bats just now were magical beasts tamed by the Vampires, with an average level of 3. Although their individual strength was not great, their tens of thousands in number were enough to give a level 15 Archmage a headache.
"Come inside with me."
Several people nodded respectfully, one of them led the way in front, and the others followed behind the seven Second Generation Blood Descendants.
The cave was not an ordinary cave; traces of alchemy materials on the rocks could be seen not far away, and hidden Magic Arrays and alchemy traps faintly emitted magical fluctuations.
The defensive layout inside the cave was even several times stronger than Li De's Scarlet Mage Tower.
Let alone an ordinary Thief, even an Archmage who broke in would pay the price for his recklessness.
This cave was the place where the Vampire Progenitor received the inheritance, so the Vampire Progenitor did not move the Holy Spirit to other places to preserve it.
After hundreds of years of expansion and excavation, the dense passages were more complex than a maze.
Half a sun hour later, not knowing how many turns he had made or how many secret passages he had bypassed, Li De finally arrived at the blood pool.
An incredibly spacious underground space.
The surrounding rocks were Blood-red, as if painted with Blood.
In the center was an irregular deep pool, about ten blades long and five blades wide.
The depth was unknown.
What surprised Li De the most was that the blood pool was not the scarlet red he had imagined, but a very beautiful milky white.
It was just like fresh milk freshly squeezed from a farm outside Green City, still emitting a faint heat.
And the Holy Spirit he valued most was floating on the milky white blood pool.
A skeleton that looked as transparent as crystal.
A strange yet very harmonious picture.
Li De curiously called up his status panel and focused his attention on the crystal skeleton.
But the second line of text that appeared made Li De gasp, and his heart pounded fiercely.
Only one sentence echoed in his mind.
This time, he had really hit the jackpot.