“Lord Kachar, I am Remon, the cousin of Rekel, your logistics captain.”
Upon returning to Dawn City, Li De received a request from a civilian seeking an audience, claiming to have important matters to discuss.
Li De was somewhat surprised by the current population of over two thousand in Dawn City. He hadn’t expected Avi and Odys to be so effective at the border, quickly acquiring such a large number of people.
However, Harrison had mentioned some disharmony. Due to the small number of vampires and their limitation to only being active at night, a mysterious rumor had spread among the two thousand residents of Dawn City.
The Saintlight Vampires were frauds, deceiving them all along. Despite their current kindness, they would eventually drain their blood and kill them.
Moreover, this rumor showed signs of escalating.
With too few vampires and no experience handling such situations, they found themselves in a predicament. Although they had arrested many troublemakers, they hadn’t yet caught the mastermind behind it all.
Hearing these words from someone who bore a resemblance to Rekel, Li De nodded slightly.
“Remon, are you saying you know who is orchestrating all this from behind the scenes?”
Remon looked at the highly esteemed city lord before him, especially the magnificent mage robes that made his legs feel weak.
This was the city lord, the sole ruler of this city, and it was his first time facing such a prestigious figure.
“Yes, Lord Kachar. They tried to recruit me into their gang a few days ago, but I refused.”
“Why did you refuse? Didn’t they claim that the Saintlight Vampires are demons and are merely deceiving you? Don’t you believe it?”
Remon firmly shook his head.
“Lord Kachar, I trust the Saintlight Vampires. Brother Rekel has already told me about recent events.
Hearing this, Li De felt a bit reassured. He was mentally prepared for some human resistance and even more intense violent confrontations with the vampires.
It wasn’t easy to smoothly integrate humans. Many issues were bound to arise during this process.
And Remon’s words indicated that many had already accepted the Saintlight Vampires.
That was the main point. How long had these people been in Dawn City? Ten days? Half a month?
Given more time, he was absolutely confident that this group would fully integrate. By the end of this Month of Deep Winter, there would only be one voice in Dawn City.
Once this batch of humans fully integrated into Dawn City, subsequent arrivals wouldn’t be as troublesome.
These integrated individuals would unconsciously help brainwash the newcomers.
As for the current disharmonious voices in the city, they were just a bunch of flies, easily swatted with little effort.
However, it seemed that the troublemakers couldn’t get off so easily.
Li De stroked his chin, slowly forming a plan.
He had returned to introduce a new system—the ultimate system: the points system.
The points system was a good thing; everything in Dawn City could be measured using points.
Now was the perfect opportunity to launch this powerful tool against the troublemakers.
Still, careful consideration was needed on how to implement it.
“Tell me the details about them.”
Remon nodded and began to explain in detail.
Although he was part of the second batch of residents to join Dawn City, he was quickly captivated by its various magical systems.
He never imagined living so safely and comfortably in a city ruled by vampires.
What particularly delighted him was encountering his older cousin, Rekel, in Dawn City.
This gave him a sense of belonging in this unfamiliar city.
After a few days of familiarity, if the logistics and security teams hadn’t been full, Remon would have certainly joined them.
At this moment, someone approached him, claiming to be a fellow civilian who arrived with him, inviting him to join their gang—a large gang of five hundred members called the Wild Wolf Gang.
They promised him ten Silver Pucks per month as salary for his position as a Level 4 warrior, requiring only that he help gather information on the logistics and security teams led by Rekel.
Remon was extremely disdainful of their proposal. A small-time gang from who-knows-where dared dream of bribing him?
But he didn’t outright refuse. Instead, he played along, saying he wanted to talk to their leader.
When Remon met their Level 3 Rogue leader, he almost burst out laughing.
Sometimes he really wondered why there were such stupid people in the world.
Goddess above, life truly defied logic.
He didn’t know why he suddenly recalled seeing a commoner in Green City years ago robbing a noble carriage with a kitchen knife.
Perhaps fools truly lacked brains.
On what grounds did they think they could oppose the Saintlight Vampires?
Though he didn’t manage to uncover their specific plans, Remon stopped engaging with them and immediately informed Rekel.
Rekel took the matter seriously and quickly brought Remon to Harrison. Coincidentally, Li De had just returned, leading to the earlier scene.
After listening, Li De felt somewhat speechless. He had expected the person spreading rumors to disrupt the vampires to be a hidden influential figure, not just a Level 3 minor character.
His interest waned significantly.
It wasn’t the vampires’ fault. Any vampire above Level 5 would receive special attention, but a Level 3 character was too insignificant—any vampire could easily slaughter twenty or thirty of them. When there’s no tiger on the mountain, the monkey becomes king.
Li De’s prolonged research into magic without issuing further commands led to the temporary chaos among the vampires.
Coupled with some being away and others guarding the Holy Land and the walls, only a few dozen vampires were left to manage the humans, making the emergence of problems understandable.
“Based on your opinion, what do you think they’ll do next?”
“Sunlight is a natural enemy to vampires, and they will try to minimize the vampires' strength.
I speculate that they plan to incite unrest among the populace during the day when the vampires are weakened.
Finally, when the Saintlight Vampires are forced to come out to maintain order, they’ll launch a surprise attack.
Moreover, it’s rumored that vampires fear silver weapons, so they likely have prepared quite a few.”
Li De’s expression slightly improved. If these people were truly so foolish, it was rather dull.
However, knowing that the main instigator was merely a Level 3 rogue dampened his interest.
Waving his hand dismissively,
“Harrison, take the security team and twenty vampires, and directly arrest these guys. What a waste of emotion.”
Li De looked utterly disdainful.
As a high-level mage, Vampire Progenitor, and the city lord of Dawn City, having a mere Level 3 rogue as his enemy was somewhat embarrassing.