The remaining Vampires stayed silent for a moment, all staring at Anthony as though contemplating what to do next, as nothing they had attempted so far was working and their numbers were thinning by the minute with relentless consistency.
"Hey, Blood Queen, aren't you going to intervene? Your subordinates are dying, you know," Anthony called out toward the unseen Blood Queen, but she remained wherever she was, observing from afar. To her, she had deployed her forces not only to attempt to drain Anthony but also to gather as much information on him as possible during the course of their battle, treating the entire encounter as a calculated experiment.
