The impatient arachne duke cut the old marquis short. “I don’t care what difficulties you have. Right now, I only want to know how long it'll take before you can go through.”

“At least a day.”

“One day?!” Ardak’s thunderous roar covered an area of ten kilometers. Several of the weakest vampire experts simply couldn’t withstand the pressure of the duke’s wrath. They were immediately knocked unconscious and fell from the sky.

Ardak didn’t even spare those falling vampires a glance. “One day is enough for those human bugs to crawl into another warzone! You have one hour! You must open a passage within one hour!”

“But, we need the city intact.”

“Intact? Whose stupid order is that?”

The old marquis replied, “It’s Her Majesty’s will.”

Ardak suddenly fell silent. Without any prefixes, this “Her Majesty” spoken of by the vampires could mean only one person—the Queen of the Night, Lilith.

Moments later, Ardak said coldly, “I heard your queen has encountered an accident and is soon going into a deep slumber. Do you think her orders can control me at such a time?”

The old marquis was extremely unyielding in this matter. “Her Majesty has not yet gone into a deep slumber. Additionally,...