Ast was intrigued by the story of the past, a story about the arrogance of the mighty dragons.
Viktor continued his story and then started telling Ast about the vampire faction.
"Master it was well known amongst the powerful races that the dragons were the plunderers and conquerors of worlds and to all these powerful races this war provided them with an opportunity to take a piece of the pie, that was all the treasures that the dragons had collected over the years.
We, vampires, were one such race. Whoever tells that the wars were fought for principles or righteousness is stupid. War has always been and will be fought because the greed of man knows no bounds.
At that time our vampire faction had two major beliefs going on around, one was that of the purebloods who believed all other races to be beneath us and they were in strong opposition to converting humans to vampires. They believed that vampires were a noble race with blood of the 'primordials' and to give this power even in diluted form to the lowly humans was a sin.
And then others were pragmatic and believed that vampires should do anything and everything to increase their influence and power. At the time when the war was near its end, a treaty was signed between these two factions. The treaty makes it illegal to convert humans into vampires without permission from the upper echelons, a term 'unaccounted conversion' was used for such activity.
But the treaty didn't put any restrictions on conversion to any form other than vampires. So to enforce the treaty a blood research department was formed by the vampires during the war. This department administered special blood to some specially selected vampires hereby known as the 'Seers'.
Now I don't know how but these seers were given a special power, if anyone among the vampires creates an unauthorised vampire then these seers will know. This is kind of a bloodline shackle, but after doing this unauthorised conversion these seers would be able to track you down from anywhere in this world. And then such vampires would be hunted down to make an example.
The pureblood believers agreed with this practice because their whole identity was based on such beliefs but the interesting thing was that even the pragmatics agreed because they wanted control over the whole vampire race and they didn't want anyone to threaten their position by creating a whole legion for themselves.
Thus vampires were allowed to create ghouls, succubus or any other subclasses but not another vampire.
This information is vital in regards to your existence Master. But I will come to that later as we do not have much time and there are other things that you need to know urgently.
In the war initially, both sides were matched even after so many races allied we were not able to overpower the dragons easily but suddenly the tides of war shifted and in one fell swoop we were able to completely eradicate the dragon race from the face of this cosmos.
But by the end of the war, the universal system became active again and started something known as events conducted by the system. These events were some competitions and the person who wins these competitions would be given some extremely generous gifts by the system.
Now by this point, all races were very attentive to the system. It could be said that this war itself was a byproduct of changes brought upon by the system. And when the system started giving another opportunity to people to gain power the upper echelons from each race and faction started getting restless, they wanted this power for themselves but were helpless against the system as it was too mysterious.
The helplessness of these people could be seen by the fact that till that point in time it had been 500 years since the system came into existence and everyone knew that the talent awakening was done by the system using temples but even till that point no one has been able to breach the security or even access the inner rooms of the temple.
To these people, these temples were a symbol of their powerlessness as these temples stood as a source of power that could make them overlords but they couldn't even access this power even if it was right in front of them.
In desperation, the upper echelons of many powerful races and organisations came together and created two organisations/institutions known as 'The council' and 'The order'.
On the surface, they claim that the war had brought about a lot of carnage and destruction and to stop such things from happening in the future, such organisations were created. They pretended to be the face of righteousness and justice but their true purpose was something different entirely.
They wanted to monopolise the system and through the system become the true overlords of the cosmos. The Council deals with the administrative work and making plans, researching the system and keeping the information about the system in the dark.
And The Order is their military arm removing obstacles from their path and silencing people, groups or even races sometimes to achieve their goals.
So by the time the war ended, there were two groups one was the ones with power who were hungry for more power and were ready to bring some drastic changes to keep that power (The Council and The Order).
The other group claimed that they believed that the system was something like a gift from heaven to bring equality to all races and used this as their modus Operandi to garner the favour of the masses to go against the council and the order. This group later formed the Resistance. But the truth was they were also just a greedy bunch who wanted the system powers for themselves.