The vampire woman just stood looking at him for a while, her face a bit offended and angry, but she didn’t say anything. Jake saw this and decided to double down. "Don’t misunderstand; I am complimenting the Nalkar line. You have reached a stage where you don’t need the True Ancestor to be powerful. You don’t need the Order of the Malefic Viper. You can stand on your own feet and show the multiverse the Nalkars are not to be trifled with. That is true power and worthy of respect.” Jake had no idea if this would work… but the look on the projection’s face quickly changed as she went deep in thought. Jake himself was considering if now wasn’t the time he should get out of the damn Vault, considering he was done looting it, and for every sentence he spoke, he got closer and closer to saying

