The instructor's voice boomed across the VR hall, cutting through the nervous chatter of students. "Listen carefully, because I won't repeat this. Taking down a normal vampire earns you a hundred points—but that's only the beginning of what you need to know."
He paused, letting his words sink in before continuing. "The vampire hierarchy isn't some simple ranking system you can ignore. It's divided into four distinct classes, each more dangerous than the last. At the bottom, you have the ordinary class vampires—your standard bloodsuckers. These are what most of you will encounter, and frankly, what most of you can handle. Above them are the High Bloods, then the Dukes who serve directly under the royal line, and finally, the Royal Blood vampires—the apex predators of their kind."
