Steward Bazak was a seasoned elder who had weathered countless storms during the Blood Moon Era, but he was deeply shocked the moment he held the dagger.
[[“Your Majesty, this is the aura of the Abyss!”
But the Abyss had been completely sealed thousands of years ago. How could the blood on this dagger carry its aura?
In the history of the Blood Moon, the only figure ever associated with the Abyss was the blood prince Nicholas, who once sought power at any cost.
As the figurehead of the extreme conservative faction, Nicholas was deeply dissatisfied with the balance the royal bloodline maintained between the new and old factions. He believed that he alone, possessing the purest bloodline, deserved to wield supreme power.
Thus, he struck a deal with the Abyss and almost succeeded in his ambitions.
After his plans were exposed, Nicholas was stripped of his source blood and immortality, meeting his demise in the deepest recesses of the Silver Forest, where he was sealed away.
This secret faded into obscurity over time, lost amidst the sands of history.
No one could have imagined that Nicholas’ blood aura would resurface!
“Someone has inherited his power.”
Under the moonlight, Dreven stood before the huge statue of the Blood Clan ancestor deep within the palace altar. After a long silence, he finally voiced his conclusion, which immediately caused the always-calm elder steward to widen his cloudy eyes in shock.
“Your Majesty, we must eliminate him immediately! This is likely a sign that the Abyss has not fully awakened.”
“If it fully awakens, he will become the source of all malevolence!”
Indeed, during Xaio’s venture into the Silver Forest, he unknowingly stumbled upon the resting place of Nicholas. who was in an extremely weak state after sleeping for thousands of years in the abyss to absorb its power.
Arrogant and proud to the extreme, Nicholas saw Xiao’s perfectly healthy human body as the ideal vessel for himself. Without hesitation, he tried to seize it, disregarding Xiao’s resistance.
However, Nicholas underestimated Xiao. As the Bloodhunter’s foremost talent of the younger generation, Xiao unleashed extraordinary power in the life-or-death moment, killing Nicholas with a single blow in the heart of the Silver Forest.
And thus, the tyrant of the Blood Moon Era met his end.
The Abyssal power Nicholas had accumulated for a thousand years flowed into Xiao’s body. As a result, Xiao’s body could not bear the chaos and malice of the abyss, so he split out a second personality as a self-protection mechanism and trapped all the negative emotions within the second persona.
This ensured Xiao retained his humanity, but it also brought about mutations in his body.
Now, as the unwitting inheritor of Nicholas’ powers, Xiao would become the target of the vampires…despite having no desire for such a fate.
What made Dreven hesitate at this moment was that Xiao definitely held a great importance in Su Yan’s heart. If he acted, or allowed the Bart Clan to eliminate Xiao for inheriting Nicholas’ powers and Su Yan discovered the truth, it could irreparably shatter the precarious balance and perhaps even unravel everything he had altered in this life.
“…Bazak, do you believe destiny can be changed?”
Under the moonlight, Dreven gazed at the ancestor’s statue before him. His silver hair shimmered faintly, casting a soft glow.
His silhouette, reflected in the altar’s pool, carried an inexplicable loneliness.
“Your Majesty, I believe that everything in destiny belongs to the Blood Moon.”
Bazak’s loyal response elicited a rare chuckle from Dreven.
This unusual laughter left Bazak, the elderly steward, looking at his monarch with a trace of unease, unsure of what had prompted the reaction.
In fact, millennia later, this land would restore the balance between dawn and nightfall.
The now visibly decaying and bloated Bart Clan would never truly hold eternal power.
Just as Dreven knew that no matter how hard he tried to change the conservatives, even as a monarch, it was impossible to eradicate them completely.
Dreven was acutely aware of this reality.
But the one scene he truly wanted to change…would it also ultimately return to its original course?]]
Thus, “Eternal Night Rose” entered the pivotal moment of the plot when Dreven suddenly realized that his actions to reverse the fate of time seemed to be nothing more than a cruel joke by destiny.
For interstellar readers, this plot could be described as thrilling and even containing an explosion of information!
[Oh my god, does this mean that the reason Xiao encountered Nicholas was due to the changes caused by Su Yan’s time travel? But the reason Su Yan could travel through time was because of the half of the source blood that Dreven sacrificed!]
[The more you think about it, the scarier it gets! What does this imply? It means that everything Dreven did only led to destiny taking a different path to the same destination!]
[Then Dreven is so miserable! From beginning to end, he’s the only one who knows the full truth, and he has to watch everything return to its original state. I’m crying; what’s even the point!]
Yu Mian’s second book, “Eternal Night Rose”, wasn’t a typical time travel novel.
While it did contain plenty of satisfying time travel elements at the perfect moments to thrill readers, the love story between Dreven and Su Yan across time and space, as well as the fateful tides of history’s inevitability, were undoubtedly the core that Yu Mian sought to portray.
Knowing the impossibility yet persevering.
Even though he knows that everything would eventually return to the starting point, he still stays by the other person’s side in silence and loneliness, waiting for the final moment of fate to arrive.
Romantic?
This was romance in its purest form.
As the plot delved deeper, Dreven’s popularity was destined to soar.
From a structural standpoint, while Xiao was perfect in every way, under the grand theme of the plot, he was inevitably just a subplot.
In some sense, this was a kind of aesthetic to male supporting characters.
After all, Yu Mian loved every character he created. However, in a story, there would inevitably be a protagonist and a supporting character.
Though in their own lives, they were all the main characters of their personal stories.
As the plot of “Eternal Night Rose” reached its climax, its serialization skyrocketed in popularity.
Whether it was due to the hit adaptation of “Contract Marriage”, which brought a wave of new readers who, after finishing the original novel, eagerly dived into the new pit of “Eternal Night Rose”, or the tourism trend sparked by the novel, countless people were swept up into the frenzy of following this series.
As a representative of the Bart Clan in the book, Dreven was portrayed as an affectionate, powerful, and doting wife slave who never drank human blood. He abhorred the brutal and hedonistic ways of the old vampire factions. His compassionate yet commanding image made the Bart Clan a hot topic across the interstellar community.
The tourism industry of the Eternal Night star system gained momentum as the Federation collaborated actively with the Bart Clan.
Even the imported Moonlight Roses generated significant revenue for the star system.
However, the Bart Clan’s wealthy Lilith nonchalantly stated that if not for the novel’s fans purchasing these flowers, they would have simply bloomed in lonely corners of the Eternal Night.
After all, the Bart Clan preferred staying deep in their castles and sleeping, far from the public eye.
Thus, the clan generously allocated these newfound funds to enhance the tourism experience for readers visiting the star system.
Even the transit starships were upgraded to luxurious private suites.
This gave Federation residents a firsthand glimpse of the Bart Clan’s wealth.
This was simply a sleeping BOSS that burst out gold coins.
A round of tourism not only allowed one to bring back a bouquet of Moonlight Roses to admire by their bedside and enjoy the Eternal Night’s unique giant silver moonlit nights, but if lucky, one might even catch a Bart Clan beauty or handsome man for a photo.
So as more interstellar tourists visited, photos with Bart Clan members flooded the star network. Everyone found that every individual was incredibly attractive.
Was everyone in the Bart Clan a Dreven look-alike?
Okay, okay, our “Eternal Night Rose” practically has its own theme park now!
The trend of interstellar tourism wss indeed becoming more and more accepted by people due to the popularity of “Eternal Night Rose”.
Even with the help of this traffic, many alien-system travel bloggers emerged.
They specialize in exploring the various alien star systems near the Federation Star, and have attracted many Federation residents who want to travel to alien star systems after reading “Eternal Night Rose” but objectively do not have the time.
Among the bloggers, the most famous was not a full-time travel vlogger but a part-time photo-blogger.
After all, the book has made almost everyone curious about the mysterious star systems near the Federation Star.
Were there other mysterious and beautiful places like the Bart Clan’s Eternal Night that are also worthy of a trip?
However, among these full-time travel bloggers, the most popular and famous one was actually a part-time travel photography blogger.
This individual, known for creating high-quality fan art for “Eternal Night Rose” previously, was the mysterious artist “An”.
This big boss cruised in a private starship with a professional pilot and bodyguard team, combining freedom with unmatched convenience.
After finishing the scenic exploration of the Eternal Night star system and contributing a wave of the most popular and classic travel routes, the talented artist-reader “An” was still unsatisfied. He directly arranged for his private starship to continue exploring mysterious star systems along some fringe routes surrounding the Federation.
At the strong request of fans, he even started hosting faceless live broadcasts, showcasing the unique landscapes of these special star systems and sharing them on the star network.
Due to the exciting and engaging content, each broadcast was short, but the popularity and viewership were incredibly high.
“Hmm, let’s see. I don’t think today’s star system is anything special. Originally, I planned to head to the next water-based system, where there’s supposed to be some truly spectacular water scenery.”
“Today’s stop is just a transit point. If you’re not interested, feel free to leave the live broadcast room.”
The fans in the live broadcast room weren’t bothered at all by the offhand comments accompanying the broadcast.
[No, no, you can’t end the live broadcast Boss! Even this garbage star is super interesting. It feels like such a rare glimpse of the Federation’s untouched wilderness!]
[Indeed! It even reminds me of some space pirate blockbusters. Please pay attention to safety and don’t get into any accidents while collecting materials for painting!]
Seeing the barrage of comments in the live broadcast, An became slightly curious about this remote barren star.
“There seems to be a tavern over there. Interesting. Let’s check out what kind of drinks one can find on a Garbage star like this.”
As An walked all the way to the entrance of the tavern, he noticed a crooked sign with two large characters that read, “Dwarf Tavern”!
Hehe, catching a “scumbag’~
Ok lmao