“The Vampire Lord? What about him? Why is he looking for me?” Tae-Sung could not understand why the Vampire Lord was looking for him.

“He’s your distant relative,” Cheon Woo-Jin replied.

“My distant relative…? Oh!” Tae-Sung finally remembered that the Vampire Lord was residing within the territory of the Proatine Kingdom.

“Yeah, I remember having a neighbor like that…” Tae-Sung muttered.

“Hey, did you do something to him? Why is the Vampire Lord looking for you?”

“Beats me…” Tae-Sung shrugged and said, “However, I made sure to supply him with constant offerings.”

“Offerings?”

“Yeah…”

“What offerings?”

“I have been sending him ten criminals as offerings since he wanted live humans,” Tae-Sung replied.

The Proatine Territory used to make the entire populace draw lots and send whoever was picked to the Vampire Lord. Of course, there were certain privileged people that were excluded from the lot drawing.

However, Siegfried changed this policy and made it so that only criminals charged with murder, rape, arson, etc., would be sent as offerings to the Vampire Lord. He would also order Oscar and the knights to hunt criminals if they ran out of offerings in the dungeon.

He wasn’t strong enough to subjugate the Vampire Lord, so he could only come up with a temporary measure.

“But why does he suddenly want to see me?” Tae-Sung tilted his head in confusion.

“Why are you asking me? You should...