Pokkins wanted to set out tomorrow morning for a very simple reason: the vampires needed a feast of flesh and blood.
In the past, even if a blood-feast was carried out on imperial soil, it was merely a terror tactic for amusement's sake, with no real benefit.
But once High Priest Serafe repaired the Holy Grail with the Triple Crown and the blood of the Seven Princes, things changed.
Through slaughter and feasting, by following the prescribed ritual and partaking in the feast, the low-born vampires could at last refine their bloodlines and ascend into higher vampires.
This vampire society was even more hopeless and suffocating than human society.
Humans, at least, could practice breathing techniques and take up the path of knightly combat, all the way up to the rank of Imperial Knight.
Vampires were different; their abilities were shackled by their bloodlines, and no amount of effort could break those constraints.
