Every kingdom has a secret.
Every ruler, a skeleton in the closet.
But not all places have the potential to gather wise men.
And these small pockmarks of rot can lead to the ruin of an entire apple.
Such a role was taken by Augustus when he was manipulated by an outsider entity; when that intruder discarded his free will.
The Ardeal Kingdom, which was supposed to be an antithesis to what vampires originally stood for, came back to its roots just like that as if to ignore the thousand years of hard work that Scarlet's father did.
Queen Adelina told me about it. How vampires were pests to humanity; that every vampire who existed on Earth only represented death and how her husband wanted to change that way of thinking.
The vampires have changed. All the different vampire races stood
