Chapter 32 - Custody (New book begs for everything)

　　"Because the Zhu Night Empire strictly restricts vampires from leaving the country and also strictly controls the smuggling of blood pills, the price of blood pills on the black market is very high, and a single tablet of the potion can sell for close to a hundred gold coins."

　　"So expensive!"

　　Ten thousand Constantine gold coins would only procure a hundred or so potions, and there were close to a hundred newborn vampires now waiting to be fed.

　　A blood pill was only able to curb their hunger and thirst for more than a month. If they had to consume 10,000 gold coins every month to buy blood pills, the entire wealth of Constantine would not be enough for these vampires.

　　"What if the blood slaves are stored?"

　　"It takes at least three people to feed a vampire if you want to keep a blood slave alive, and such a blood slave will quickly become thin and weak. It would take at least five people to supply blood to a blood slave if they were to keep him healthy."

　　That would require five hundred blood slaves.

　　"It would not be difficult to recruit five hundred men from Constantine, but where would they live? With what identity cover?" Baldwin was very worried.

　　Edward thought for a moment and said, "Recruit the blood slaves directly to the Coven and have them remodel the Coven while supplying blood."

　　"You're a devil, building a house is all heavy labor, and you're making these people lose blood when they're exhausted?"

　　"Give them more iron in their food... Uh, I mean, give them more animal liver, legumes, and spinach, which helps regenerate the blood." As a former Laboratory Physician, Edward is often grabbed by his patients and asked what they eat to replenish their blood.

　　Although he is tempted to tell the patient, in order to test the little blood drawn drink some water and sleep to replenish back. But as a responsible medical practitioner, he will still kindly tell his patients what kind of food with high iron content is suitable for iron supplementation and blood replenishment.

　　"And, to give them a sense of honor, instead of calling them blood slaves, give them a high status sounding title. Better yet, put them in groups of five in charge of a vampire."

　　Edward rested his chin in thought and said, "Let's call them Guardians and give them some power to just execute the vampire they're guarding if the five are unanimous."

　　"Yeah, we could even give them trainee vampire hunter status." Baldwin said.

　　This has the advantage of maximizing the use of these people who supply blood to the vampires and draws a clear line. Preventing them from being pulled in by the vampires.

　　"But the problem is that this group of vampires has been starving for half a month now, and if they start recruiting people now, by the time they have recruited all five hundred of them, the vampires would have starved to death long ago."

　　"It won't starve to death, they'll lose their minds when they reach the limit of their hunger and thirst and attack ordinary people."

　　"That's worse than starving to death!"

　　"It seems that the 10,000 gold coins still have to be used to procure blood pills first to delay their hunger."

　　In the end, the hunters agreed on a result where the two measures would go hand in hand.

　　Recruitment of "guardians" while procuring blood drugs.

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　　"Head Deacon, welcome back."

　　Stepping into the townhouse on Ruby Street, Ray-Ray was greeted by a troupe of maids, led by Kate.

　　Because my sister had gone back to Fort Transylvania halfway through the trip and brought back three large vials of blood potion, the lovely girls ended up not being treated as domestic animals, but kept as regular maids.

　　Ray-Ray would probably be quite happy living with such a large group of beautiful women if he wasn't a teenager with unfulfilled lust.

　　Unfortunately, even the Countess' kind of stunning looks were no different from a piglet in Lei Lei's eyes.

　　Of course, there is still respect for the master.

　　The first thing he did when he got home was to come to the second floor and visit his master, who had fainted from excitement.

　　The countess had gone to bed, and Ray-Ray only looked in at the door before being driven out by her sister.

　　"Is the master all right? Why did you faint out of excitement?" Lei Lei asked somewhat sheepishly as she faced her sister with an angry face.

　　"The master's old injuries have not yet healed, plus he was too excited, so he fainted, but ...." Linlin said, her eyes sharpening, "The biggest reason is probably because after enduring mutated magic for days, the connection between the spirit and the physical body is still a bit disorganized."

　　Hearing this Lei Lei couldn't help but feel his scalp tighten, fearing that his sister's violent chestnuts were about to come crashing down.

　　"Then the master won't be left with any aftereffects from this, will he?"

　　"Take your time to recuperate and regulate, and you should recover."

　　After talking about the countess, Ray-Ray told his sister about what happened at the knighting ceremony.

　　However Lynn wasn't very interested in the matter, she chided after hearing her brother's words:

　　"Have you been going to Your Excellency Kayne lately and forgetting all about your own proper business?"

　　"Uh ...."

　　Regarding his own proper work, Lei Lei hadn't forgotten about it, except that lately he'd been letting his dependents take care of it.

　　Managing and controlling the wild Bloods of Constantine is the main job of the Countess, as well as the siblings of Lynn Ray-Ray.

　　Due to the great change a hundred years ago, many of the blood clans of the old empire lost their bloodline inheritance and were reduced to wild blood clans, and most of them no longer obeyed Lilith's Seven Commandments, occupying the mountains like thieves, attacking humans at will, and developing kinsmen.

　　After the political situation in the New Zhuyue Empire stabilized, in the spirit of the Blood Ancestor's sense of responsibility, Empress Abel sent out a lot of high-ranking Bloods to control these guys.

　　For those who are honest and obedient and are willing to abide by the commandments again, they will be recruited back to the Zhu Night Empire. For those who do not abide by the Seven Commandments and act in a high-profile manner, they will be wiped out directly without leaving any future problems.

　　However, wild Bloods like the two above actually only accounted for a minority, most were able to follow some of the commandments, but were unwilling to submit. Lei Lei's and their main job was to take control of these guys and keep an eye on them.

　　In addition, monitoring the movements of human countries and obtaining intelligence was also part of Lei Lei's and their job.

　　Now since his sister asked, Lei Lei reported to her about some recent work.

　　"Oh yeah, I recently found a renegade domestic animal in Constantine who was acting rather arrogantly, I'll find a chance to dispose of him in the next few days."

　　"Don't leave this kind of thing to the dependents; do it yourself, lest the dependents do it improperly and cause trouble."

　　Lynn said seriously to her brother.

　　"Okay, then I'll get on this tomorrow."

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　　Early in the morning, Edward is grabbed by Chief Hector to go to a black market trader to discuss the purchase of a blood potion.

　　"This black market trader has a lot of bodyguards with him, and they all look menacing, so I'm more comfortable taking you with me."

　　That's what Chief Hector said.

　　Luckily, this time it wasn't as laborious as finding the Assassin's Guild, and the duo soon arrived outside a mansion on Cuixingstone Street in the Market District.

　　Hector went up and knocked on the door as previously agreed upon, five short and two long, but there was no response.

　　A push on that wooden door and it opens by itself.