Countless bats swarmed towards Aiden, obscuring his vision.
Bats?
Aiden felt somewhat perplexed; these orderly bats flying towards him were clearly transformed by members of the Bloodline, but the proxy had just been within his sight, and one bullet was still lodged in his knee—he should be incapable of transforming at the moment.
Unless... there were other Bloodline members.
Realizing this, he understood that this member of the Bloodline was probably another dead being hidden in the "Underworld" by the proxy.
The proxy, through the First Embrace ritual, had turned his victims into his own thralls!
If his bloodline was above that of a Duke's, then the bloodline of his thralls would naturally be above that of a Marquis', possessing the ability to split into bats.
