“Harrison, Augustine, do you know why I chose you two to deal with the humans?”
After walking out of Rackel’s room, Reed found a shaded corner and looked solemnly at Harrison and Augustine, who had been following him.
Harrison, who was a little effeminate, was the genius among the vampires; he was best at studying magic. Although he did not learn offensive magic, he had 20 Second Circle support spells, and if the First Circle spells were included, Harrison had more than 40 spells in his repertoire.
Reed’s entire spell list in all were less than 30.
In the world of Glory, the mage class was the most difficult of all professions, and learning magic was much more difficult than anything else.
For a Level 5 intermediate-level mage, the vast majority of them had learned no more than 10 spells.
As for high mages over Level 10, many of them could not even master the Third Circle spells even after a decade of qualifying as one.
A Level 1 apprentice mage and Level 2 to 4 mages could learn First Circle spells.
Intermediate Mages at Level 5 to 9 could learn Second Circle spells.
High Mages at Level 10 to 14 could learn Third Circle spells.
Archmages at Level 15 to 19 could learn Fourth Circle spells.
However, levels were just thresholds to qualify for learning the spells. Mastering the spells, however, was not that simple.
From the Second Circle spells onwards, the difficulty curve upon reaching the Third Circle spell rose in a straight line.
Many High Mages often only had the title for show without actually mastering Third Circle Magic.
As for why Reed was able to build his own mage tower in Grimm, aside from the help from his master, whom he had never met before, he had, most importantly, learned three Third Circle spells: Teleportation, Voidwalking, Pyroblast.
The easiest Third Circle spell, Pyroblast had a total of 600 magic nodes. Teleportation had 750 while Voidwalking had a whopping 900 magic nodes.
How complex was a magic model with hundreds of magic nodes?
Reed had tried to cast Pyroblast before, and the casting time was more than twenty seconds.
In contrast, the time it took for him to cast a First Circle spell was just a snap of the finger.
While there were reasons that he was unfamiliar with, it also illustrated the problems here.
It took about half a minute for mana to run from the first magic node to the last, and one could imagine how difficult advanced magic was.
Yet, Harrison was able to master all of the support spells in the past two hundred years, and Reed even thought that his talent for magic was just a tad weaker than him.
If Harrison was interested in offensive magic, he may not be inferior to Frey in terms of strength… He was the only one of seven surviving second-generation spellcaster that had joined the war with Grimm a hundred years ago.
A bright genius; that was Reed’s impression of him.
There would be more and more humans in the future, and as to how to manage them without the humans getting resentful, that needed a certain amount of wisdom as well as finesse.
While the other second-generation vampires were not stupid, on the matter of dealing with humans, Reed thought Harrison was best suited since he was a vampire oddball who disliked fighting and killing.
Magic was his hall.
As for Augustine, although he did not have Harrison’s talents, as an archer, not only did he need sharp eyes, but also patience and attentiveness that no one had.
With the other second-generation vampires raiding for population outside, there were in charge of dealing and accomodating them. This was the arrangement that Reed had made a long time ago.
He himself could not stay at Dawnbreak for a long time. He also needed to be at Grimm to buy enough materials for Dawnbreak, and he was inseparable from the Vermillion Tower.
“Patriarch, we don’t need to know why. Goddess of the Night above, your will is above all else.”
Harrison bowed, and his expression serious.
“No, you need to know why.” Reed waved his hand as he pointed at the sun-basked street outside.
“There are not many vampires, but more and more humans will be in Dawnbreak in the future. We have to learn to harness the power of humans. Even though they are individually weak, their strength as a group cannot be matched even by the powerful vampires.
“So you have to learn how to communicate with humans and use their knowledge as well as strength.
“Gather a group, unite a group, and suppress a group.
“For those who are obedient, win over them, and reward them. Those who are disobedient, act against them and give them differential treatment.
“The art of management is very scienti… Cough… an art that even the Goddess of the Night would marvel at. Now, I’m going to tell you in detail…”
Reed detailed how he had managed his employees at his former startup, and after some modifications, he fed it to Harrison and Augustine.
Both of them were smart people among the vampires, especially Harrison. This Level 9 vampire had already mastered more than 40 spells, and his ability to grasp and understand surprised Reed somewhat.
In less than a day, Reed felt that Harrison was perfectly capable of managing the humans.
These mismatched job assignments were also due to the small number of vampires, with various departments in an incomplete state.
Among the vampires, all second-generation vampires had their direct line in the form of the third-generation vampires, and there were 208 vampires in Dawnbreak as of now.
Frey, who guarded the Fount of Blood had the less of his direct descendants, with only 10 of them, and all of them were guarding the sacred grounds with him. These 10 vampires could not be moved.
Following that, Evie’s 35 vampires formed the law enforcement team and were responsible for overseeing the vampires that had violated the laws of the castle.
Dylan had 38 direct descendants, but he was responsible for raising more than 400 Hexbats, which was the greatest of responsibilities.
Eudes had been in charge of guarding the walls, and his 40 vampires shouldered the same responsibility too.
Harrison only had five third-generation descendants, and usually managed the vampire’s library.
Lucie had the most, with a total of 50 descendants, while Augustine had 23, these two usually do not have any specific responsibilities, and when the number of humans corralled was low, they would be responsibilities to raid and kidnap humans.
The third-generation vampires alongside the second generation ones formed a total of 208, and this was the entire composition of the vampires.
For a group of a mere 200 vampires, a simple distribution of responsibilities like this was enough.
However, Reed was well aware that the current vampire’s structure was only suitable in the past. But as the number of humans grew, such an organizational structure was completely impossible to adapt to it.
Once the number reaches three to five thousand, the current model would be a disaster.
He needed to reform the vampires and form a new power structure.
The persons in charge would be the two before him.
There were just too few vampires, and even fewer talents to use.
Of all of the 200 odd vampires, Reed was only familiar with the second-generation vampires, and he could only use these people first.
The shortage of talent was the biggest dilemma at present.
Nevertheless, he firmly believed that these difficulties were only temporary. Once the humans fully integrated into Dawnbreak, there would be more talents immediately available.
Unlike vampires, a human’s desire for authority was much stronger.
“I will establish a city hall, and reorganize the vampires. The city hall is mainly responsible for matters internal and external. Externally, raiding for the population and trading with Grimm are the most important matters, and I will personally handle those. This department is called the Ministry of External Affairs. Internally, those managing the humans and building the city will be called the Ministry of Social Affairs, and both of you will serve as its first chairpersons. The city’s defense and guards of the sacred ground will be formed into the First Vampiric Legion, and they will be guarding Dawnbreak as well as the sacred grounds. This is not an expeditionary force. Later on, the army will be independent and focused on combat missions.”
Reed mused for a moment before telling them his plan in its entirety.
While this structure for distribution of power was still very rough around the edges, but it could not be helped, as the current vampires could not have a structure too fine.
There were only 200 odd of them, and the number out raiding was already a third of them, the ones guarding the city and the sacred ground accounted for another third, and he had really very few manpower that he could draw from.
But, having a small team had its benefits, as it was easier to manage.
Plus, once a problem was discovered, it could be remedied at any moment. If the scale was too large, should a problem occurs, it would take time for it to be deal with.