He didn't want it this way.

At least in his heart, he still viewed them as family.

"Mm, I'll go in a bit," said Priest Geoffrey, nodding and speaking kindly, "Go to sleep now."

As he watched Luo Yan's departing figure, the aged priest looked towards the Demon God Statue not far away and silently prayed in his heart.

Omnipotent Emperor Bayele,

May You protect my pitiful yet sensible child...

...

The night grew deeper.

Unable to sleep on his bed, Luo Yan simply closed his eyes for meditation, sinking his consciousness into the sea of mind, and began browsing the forums to see what his raised idiots were up to.

In the days without the Demon King, the players were unexpectedly doing quite well.

Just as he had expected, as long as the game content was rich enough, even without the development team updating the main storyline, players could still find their fun within the existing game content.

For example, right now.

Following the adventurers of Mist Town, Xino Dragon from the fifth level of the Maze had become the new source of amusement for players in the Great Graveyard.

A portion of players were obsessed with making trades with these Demons from Hell, selling all sorts of odd things to them in exchange for their equipment and spoils of war.

Another group of players was pondering over using these Demons to gather news about Demon City.

Aside from the "Big Boss" with the bull horns who wasn't very approachable, most common Demons were quite easy to communicate with, and didn't mind having a chat with these talkative "country skeleton soldiers" while buying goods.

Match-seller of Little Red Riding Hood: "... I suspect these Demons are all masochists, they know too many sweet potatoes will cause bloating but they still eat them!"

Gou Shi: "How do you know they're not planning some grand scheme? (Wry smile)"

Match-seller of Little Red Riding Hood: "Even this could be part of a grand scheme?"

Gotham Good Citizen: "A stomach ache is better than the battlefield, I heard them say, they were just dragged into a noble's duel, and had no choice but to come here to fight, they'll teleport away once it's over."

Some Seagulls at the Dock: "A noble's duel?"

Lele: "With whom?"

Meow: "The Demon King?"

Sleep till your leg cramps: "But those Ogres aren't the Demon King's subordinates, right?"

Baby Bunnies Juice: "Damn, this Demon King really is a dog!"

Luo Yan was brimming with black lines.

But he didn't need to lower himself to the level of these idiots.

"Youyou, that Translation Crystal you tinkered with, it didn't translate anything inappropriate to Xino Dragon's subordinates, right?"

Youyou said proudly, floating nearby.

"Don't worry Lord Demon King, anything that shouldn't be said has been harmonized by Youyou. Even the details about your evil plans have been replaced with other things!"

Hearing this, Luo Yan finally felt relieved.

He wasn't afraid of the players learning too much about this world from the Demons. Anyone who could treat a VR game as the real world was either a genius or a lunatic, and either way, it didn't affect him.

What he was worried about was Xino Dragon finding out he'd been tricked.

But it seemed that, with his intelligence, the guy hadn't caught on to anything.

Luo Yan flipped through a few more posts, and the topic of the players' discussions quickly changed.

Excited Netizen: "Brothers! This game's world is even bigger than we imagined! It's not just the surface that's divided into different nations, even Hell is split into various direct-controlled territories and domains of Dukes, Earls, and Barons! And the Great Graveyard is just one of them!"

Supreme Wailing Bear: "I've heard there's also a Vampire Kingdom, Goblin Kingdom, and Hell Dwarf and other subordinate forces!"

Past Memories Like Smoke: "Ah, if only we could reincarnate as Vampires, at least they look human."

Rei Ayanami Little Demon: "Playing as a Little Demon is too agonizing. T.T"

"..."

Luo Yan couldn't help but want to laugh upon seeing this.

These players were still too young.

He didn't find anything good about being a Vampire at all.

Of course, maybe his little players could make something special out of this race.

Just like what they did with the skeleton soldiers, sprouting their own creativity.

Thinking the Demon King was pondering on how to let players transform into Vampires, Youyou muttered softly while floating beside him.

"... Becoming a Vampire seems rather difficult. The Initial Embrace doesn't seem to be a major issue, but the trouble is that it also requires a youngling from another humanoid and intelligent species as a sacrifice."

The bloodline of Vampires is more like a virus, originating from a curse bestowed by a Divine in ancient times upon a particular family.

To inherit this curse, there are certain requirements for the blood of the cursed lineage; otherwise, it would affect the effectiveness of the Initial Embrace, or in extreme cases, make it entirely impossible to embrace, leaving one to become only a lower Blood Servant.

In Luo Yan's memory, humans had the highest compatibility with Vampires, followed by Elves and Dwarves, but Beastmen, Demons, Goblins, and goblins were not suitable.

Including high-level Demons, who also had a natural rejection of the Vampire bloodline and were unable to receive an embrace from other Vampires.

This is why the nobles among the Blood Race like the Colin family adhered to the tradition of ensuring bloodline purity, even resorting to incest to maintain extreme purity of the bloodline.

Although it is somewhat overcorrecting, the original intention is due to the fear of losing the power bestowed by ancestors due to blood impurity.

It's said that this kind of situation once occurred within a certain Vampire family that disappeared. Starting from a certain generation, all offspring suddenly became unable to fully inherit their parents' Initial Embrace, leading to the natural extinction of that family line in the river of history.

If one were to study it using genetic technology, Luo Yan believed that the secrets could be unraveled, but this is a bit too advanced for an Otherworld that doesn't even have a concept of what a cell is.

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