Eternal Night City.
Anna Manor.
In the servants’ hall, the old butler, hands behind his back, slowly walked to Li Xiao.
His gaze was scrutinizing as he carefully examined Li Xiao, then he reached out and gently pulled the silk handkerchief tied around Li Xiao’s right hand, aligning the ends.
“Li Xiao, a qualified servant should pay attention to details.” Li Xiao nodded, straightening his back: “I will, Butler Micah.” “You’re very good.
I’ll add your name to the servants’ list for tonight’s banquet.” Butler Micah smiled, his white hair meticulously combed, his blood-red pupils revealing his identity.
A genuine vampire, though it was unclear whether he was a ‘purebred’ or a ‘hybrid’.
Pureblood vampires are offspring born naturally from two vampires of different sexes, but there’s a prerequisite: both parents must be purebloods for the offspring to be purebloods.
Vampires born in this way are all called hybrids.
Among vampires, purebloods have a natural advantage over hybrids.
After the butler left, Li Xiao remained standing upright.
Ten days had passed since he first arrived in Eternal Night City… His good friend Tang Lai, who had traveled with him, hadn’t been able to enter ‘Anna Manor’ as a candidate servant because he was over thirty and not particularly handsome.
Although they had parted ways, Li Xiao hadn’t forgotten their friendship, and they had kept in touch.
A few days ago, Tang Lai sent news that he had successfully landed a job at a vampire corporation, and the pay was supposedly quite good.
In the servant hall, there were hundreds of candidates.
Li Xiao had paid a considerable price to stand out in ten days.
The old vampire butler, Micah, seemed respectable, but in reality, he wasn’t exactly clean.
In those ten days, Li Xiao had bribed the butler twice with 500cc of blood, barely managing to get through the back door.
Human blood, free from hereditary diseases and possessing superior appearance, is indispensable at vampire banquets and in daily life, and is extremely sought after.
Of course… the butler wasn’t bold enough to bite directly.
The hundreds of candidate servants, though not yet officially appointed, belonged to the master’s family until their departure.
Li Xiao’s method of bribery was simply to make a cut on the inside of his thigh and fill the bottle.
The wound wasn’t a concern; for the butler, a little magic was enough to heal it.
Butler Micah didn’t accept bribes from just anyone; a healthy body and handsome appearance were merely the minimum requirements.
Only someone like Li Xiao, who could consistently rank in the top five among hundreds of excellent candidate servants, was qualified to use Micah’s connections.
As for who was number one… Li Xiao silently glanced at the long, straight black-haired beauty before him.
Li Xiao didn’t know much about her, only her name: Huang Qiushui, also from Yunshan City.
Li Xiao stared at the waist-length hair before him, unsure if Huang Qiushui hadn’t bribed the butler, but her name wasn’t on tonight’s list of attendants.
———— Night… A fleet of luxury cars pulled up in front of the manor.
Each person who stepped out had a pair of eerie red eyes, unmistakably identifying them as vampires… Inside the opulent manor, Li Xiao stood outside the banquet hall, his face pale and his legs feeling unsteady.
“First day on the job, and they took another 500cc of my blood.” Standing ramrod straight, Li Xiao couldn’t help but mutter to himself, “Vampire banquets are something else.
Taking the blood of the servants to drink is like a nightmare…” However, thinking of the ten thousand Federal Credits that had recently arrived in his bank account, Li Xiao felt it was worth it.
If he chose to work in a factory tightening screws, he’d only earn five or six thousand a month, working himself to the bone.
Nothing compared to this.
The vampire lords, although they take blood from time to time, at least get a real allowance…
Listening to the noise in the banquet hall, Li Xiao was quite bored, but dared not move an inch.
Since it was his first day on the job, today’s task was relatively simple.
He just had to stand guard outside the banquet hall, and if any guests were too drunk to go home, he had to help them to the guest rooms arranged by the hosts.
As for why vampires get drunk from drinking blood, Li Xiao had no idea what the underlying principle was.
Time passed, and Li Xiao grew increasingly bored.
His legs, slightly numb from standing for so long, turned to the male attendant standing beside him.
Li Xiao couldn’t help himself any longer.
He lowered his voice, forcing a polite smile, “Um…
what’s your name?” The attendant turned his gaze, his smile perfectly formulaic, “Wang Xing.” “Li Xiao, from the neighboring Yunshan City.” Hearing that Li Xiao was from Yunshan, Wang Xing’s expression remained unchanged: “I was born in Yongye City and have been at the manor for almost three years.
You look quite unfamiliar.” Li Xiao smiled, trying to probe the situation: “I just got promoted today, so I might not have learned enough yet.
Butler Micah assigned me the job of guarding the gate.” Hearing this, Wang Xing’s eyes flashed with a strange light, and he couldn’t help but scrutinize Li Xiao: “You and Butler Micah…
is there some kind of relationship?” Feeling that Wang Xing’s tone was a bit odd, as if he was testing Li Xiao, he was somewhat confused.
What did this mean…?
Was this some kind of lucrative job?
A question arose in Li Xiao’s mind.
Just as he was wondering how to answer flawlessly, the banquet hall doors behind him were pushed open.
A male vampire, with blood at the corner of his mouth and looking drunk, staggered out.
He glanced casually at Li Xiao and beckoned, “You…
come here, help me to my room to rest.” Before Li Xiao could react, Wang Xing strode forward, “My lord, you seem a little drunk.
Let me take you upstairs to rest.” Li Xiao looked closely and, good heavens, Wang Xing had unbuttoned his collar at some point, revealing clearly visible veins in his neck, as if he could see the blood flowing in his arteries.
Whether it was his imagination or not, Li Xiao sniffed…
and smelled a faint scent of blood.
The male vampire being helped opened his mouth, revealing four long fangs.
He lowered his head to Wang Xing’s neck and sniffed, “Alright…
alright…
you can do it.” Watching the two figures leave, Li Xiao finally understood what Wang Xing was planning.
Li Xiao nodded, stroking his chin and muttering, “No wonder this guy thought I had something going on with the butler.
Turns out, being a gatekeeper is a lucrative job.
This drunken vampire is basically like a drunk girl from my past life…
you can get things done in a daze.
Of course, doing that to a girl from my past life is illegal, punishable by at least a fine and three years in prison.
However, the laws of my past life don’t protect vampires from another world.” Having grasped these points, Li Xiao’s mind began to work.
There are two ways for vampires to transform humans into vampires: ‘The Embrace’ and ‘Conversion’.
Only purebloods can use the Embrace.
However, the scarcity of purebloods means that very few people will become vampires this way.
It’s worth noting, however, that becoming a vampire through either method results in hybridity.
The vast majority of people become vampires through conversion.
Converted vampires have less potential and strength than those who have undergone the Embrace.
However, correspondingly, the subservient relationship between these vampires and the vampire who converted them is very weak.
There’s no situation where the vampire dies when its master dies.
Compared to the Embrace, conversion is much simpler.
During the process of consuming blood, the vampire consumes a portion of its own blood, injecting it into the target’s body.
Conversion can even be completed unintentionally.
Having understood this, Li Xiao became eager to try it out.
Before he could even rejoice at the thought of no more competition, another servant stepped forward.
“…” Li Xiao stared blankly at his new colleague, taking the seat vacated by Wang Xing.
“Damn… no wonder he’s so indiscriminate, pouncing on every male vampire he encounters; oh, there’s competition.” Li Xiao felt a brief moment of disappointment, then composed himself and forced a smile, turning to the new servant.
The servant returned a polite smile, but his eyes betrayed his intentions; he probably wouldn’t show any mercy…