Otome Game no Heroine de Saikyou Survival [WN] - Chapter 179.1

Selection Ceremony 4 Battle with the Vampire Princesses

Demon Country Vampire Clan. The Dark Elves, who were expelled from the center of the continent due to the persecution of the Holy Church brought from another continent, united with the monsters who had been their enemies until then.

The number of Vampire Clans were the smallest among the integrated clans due to the lack of native-born vampires, but they gradually merged with their brethren who were being hunted by humans, and they became a force to be reckoned with in the Demon Nation due to their high basic abilities.

However, vampires never grow physically. Even skills based on physical growth tend to be difficult to develop, and the basic abilities that the vampire clans prided themselves on were based on their basic skills, since vampires’ abilities improve depending on the amount of time they live.

And vampires were not born. Those who survive a vampire attack give rise to new vampires. Some rarely become vampires of their own volition, but most of them were victims and many of them were averse to the idea of sucking the blood of their former kindred.

Those who were willing to do so were hunted by the vampire clans as members of the Demons, and as the long-lived vampires dwindled in numbers one by one during the wars with the human nations that lasted over hundreds of years, the vampires found peace with the Demons, but the clans slowly faded away.

Vampires were powerful as individuals, but vulnerable as a race. Vampires became were considered immortal, but they were always targeted by their attackers because they fed on humans, a race with strong souls.

It was said that a vampire who lived for more than 500 years could reach a threat level of 7, but there were only a few such beings in the world, and every single one of them had been destroyed by humans.

The long war with the human race had almost eliminated vampires over a hundred years old, and the clan leader Scheherazade, who had survived among them for one hundred and fifty years, was at a crossroads in the survival of her clan.

“If this continues, our clan will disappear in the not-too-distant future. Then those who survive will eventually be hunted. We need the protection of Demon Lord.”

“…Ha.”

Gostola, a friend and subordinate who lived with Scheherazade for a hundred years, kneeled down and bowed to her as Scheherazade, a young girl in her early teens, to express his grief.

As long as they feed on the lives of others, all the races may turn against them without the protection of the Demon Lord. Therefore, in order to gain the protection of the Demon Lord, it was necessary for them to have achieved enough to gain the trust of the other clans.

The number of vampire clans became too numerous to count, and the newcomers were all low-ranked species. Gostola, as part of the Demon Race, planned to undermine the human nation by targeting its most capable royalty.

However, this would require infiltrating the human nations. Unwilling to send even a few of her clan members on a dangerous mission, Scheherazade considered going there herself, but she knew that if the clan leader were to be killed, it would be the end of the clan, so she decided to fulfill the mission by having Gostola take the remaining old vampires of the clan with him.

Nevertheless, Scheherazade wished for the safe return of Gostola and the others, and gave them the treasure of the dungeon, which held the clan’s treasure of transfer… only to find that they had not returned with their friends, but only to return with Gostola’s lifeless corpse.

“Why… Gostola?”

The plan was supposed to be going well, according to the occasional correspondence that had arrived.

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