Otaku Witch-Chapter 1516 - 818: Vampire Clan Strength

The terrain of the entire Dracula Estate is generally a plain surrounding a high mountain.

At the very center of the entire Sky Island stands a towering peak, followed by a city built around this peak, with various buildings extending to the mountainside.

And at the top of the peak stands a solitary, pitch-black Gothic castle. Above the castle, the red moon hangs high, the crimson, viscous moonlight casting a mysterious, aloof, and somewhat horrifying and thrilling atmosphere over the castle at the peak.

"Wow, the perpetual night effect with the red moon is quite nice, very creative, it gives me chills."

On the mountainside, Dorothy looked up at the red moon hanging high in the night sky and thought enthusiastically.

Just as the three of them passed through the city at the foot of the mountain, the sky was still very bright. After all, it was still quite early, only around two-thirty in the afternoon, far from nightfall.

But ever since they set foot on this city mountain, the sky had grown darker and darker, until when they climbed to the mountainside, it had completely turned into the night of the red moon,

However, judging by the three’s pace, their speed was not slow. It took less than half an hour to go from the foot of the mountain to the top, yet somehow it suddenly turned into night.

The homebody witch took out a pocket watch from her pocket to check the time.

Hmm, it was indeed only three in the afternoon. If there wasn’t a confusion in time, then it could only mean that the mountain’s weather was peculiar.

As a professional civil engineering witch, Dorothy looked up at the red moon in the sky for a while and roughly understood the situation.

The red moon had something wrong.

Speaking of which, earlier from the city at the foot of the mountain, looking towards the mountain, there was no sign of any red moon. The whole mountain seemed a bit misty, quite ethereal.

But now, in the mountain, looking again, it was no longer an ethereal fairy mountain but a dark magic mountain.

This red moon could only be observed within the mountain, and the higher one climbed, the darker the sky, while the red full moon became clearer and brighter.

This red moon is a marvelous architecture.

Dorothy found this kind of architectural technique that could change celestial phenomena and present entirely different appearances of the same building from different angles intriguing, and she felt she had learned something new.

Just for this reason, the trip was worthwhile.

"Sister, this is Eternal Night Mountain, a holy mountain where only the vampire clan nobility can reside."

Next to her, Alice began her introduction.

The Vampire Clan has always been a strictly hierarchical race. They are divided into three, six, and nine ranks meticulously according to bloodline and title, and besides the differences in power and position, even the places of residence have corresponding regulations.

For example, the most ordinary blood slaves and blood citizens can only reside in the city at the foot of the mountain, while only those above the Rank of Great Witch, that is, witches who have obtained a vampire (demon) title, are allowed to come to reside and move around Eternal Night Mountain.

If the blood slaves or blood citizens dared to ascend the mountain casually, it would be overstepping boundaries, and they would face corresponding punishments.

In any case, this set of rules severely violates the principle of equality among witches as established by the Third King.

Although this principle is indeed difficult to achieve, in other places, regardless of whether it’s genuinely followed, at least on the surface, they go through the motions, but within the Vampire Clan Witches, they are truly too lazy even to pretend.

They straightforwardly exhibit class differences from every angle and even emphasize this intentionally.

Here, the lower-bloodline blood slaves and blood citizens are deemed inferior to the nobility. They can only live at the foot of the mountain, engaging in various low-end jobs, entirely serving as the servants to the noble vampire clan on the mountain.

Even among the vampire clan nobility on the mountain, there are distinctions of high and low, noble and humble, such as ordinary great witch vampires being merely the lowest rank of baroness (the term ’baron’ doesn’t fit the witch world view, so let’s change it).

These baronesses, though removed from the servant rank, do not qualify as management; they are merely considered the elite backbones of various vampire clan forces, actually just advanced workers, like chief physicians of major vampire clan hospitals or captains of vampire clan battle groups, for instance.

Above the baroness is the viscount. Witches at this rank have already become senior great witches, forming the vampire clan’s middle force. Typically, the managers of major vampire clan hospitals are of this rank, marking the start of officially leaving the worker status and entering management, possibly becoming the directors of vampire clan hospitals or major captains of vampire clan battle groups, and the like.

Moving further, if you perform well, gain certain fame, and achieve a title, you can be promoted to the rank of earl, equivalent to the deans of local vampire clan hospitals or commanders of vampire clan battle groups.

Above the earl naturally is the marquis, equivalent to a peak witch. Most vampires at this tier serve as elders in the clan, considered senior management. The elders’ council, composed of marquises, is also the actual managerial body of day-to-day vampire clan operations.

Finally, there are only thirteen positions as dukes, referring to the thirteen mistresses of the Thirteen Vampire Clan Families. Each of them is the peak of the peak, the highest rank below the sage, a prominent figure that counts among the top in the entire Western Universe.

There’s even a legend that some ancient existences among the thirteen great dukes possess knowledge and strength comparable to a sage, but they are constrained by bloodline, making it difficult to advance further to the position of True Ancestor.