There were quite a few people in that small harbour. Most of them were actually kids who were pointing at the large ships and were giggling. It turned out that the city of Lantria did not have many people coming here from other places and that was the reason why Elena's group had gathered so much attention. Alisia also did not normally stop in small cities like this and she only stopped this time because she wanted to send news about Elena to the main house as soon as possible.

Collence was the one who went around telling everyone about their purpose but actually there was not much need for that. Just hearing that a noble vampire was in the ship, all the people became very respectful and invited everyone to stay in the city as VIPs as long as they wanted. Seeing this Elena, Tomoe and Turin understood that the effect of a noble vampire in the vampire society was much greater than they had expected.

Nobles of every race were given a superior status but for the vampires this was a little different. For humans, beastkins or elves, even though nobles had a superior status, there was not much difference between them and a commoner. For beastkins most of the time a noble usually had higher grade bloodline but still they were unable to dominate lower grade bloodline holders unconditionally.

But for vampires, the bloodline was everything. A noble vampire was able to order a lower grade vampire around and the lower grade one would be forced to obey him. This sounded like and was extremely ill natured and was unfair for the common vampires, but this type of society worked.

The main reason behind that was the unwavering devotion of the vampires to their Goddess. According to the commandments given by her, a noble vampire had the duty to protect lower grade ones and giving them cruel orders or controlling them disregarding one's will was strictly prohibited.

So the nobles needed to earn their reputation by doing good works with their exceptional powers. That was the reason why, most of the vampires respected the noble vampires not because of their special status but because of how hard working they were in protecting common people like them.

While all the other sailors became busy with various works, Elena, Tomoe and Turin went to the city to look around. The ship crew were planning to stay here for two days at most so Elena was planning to see more of the city as soon as possible.

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This was less like a city but more like a small town. Only about a few thousand vampires lived here and the society was close to each other. Vampires were already a race whose unity was of the highest tier. So everyone in the city knew each other.

For that reason weirdly enough, there were no shops present in the city. For both Elena and Tomoe who were used to the presence of shops in even the most remote of places were very surprised by this. As for Turin, he himself was seeing this type of thing for the first time in his life so he was looking at everything with apparent interest.

Even though Elena was surprised by this she was also happy at the same time. Seeing various new things and experiencing different customs was the joy of travelling. The kids of the city were very active in getting to know these outsiders better and they were even more excited after seeing Elena and Tomoe were elves who were from a rare race and they might not get the chance to meet someone like them again.

So Elena told them many stories about various places and in turn asked them various stories about their lives. Those kids happily shared everything they or their families did daily and Elena was able to know quite a lot about how this city worked.

Obviously not all the families in the city were self sufficient. They did depend on others for various things but there was a very clever system in this city to solve that problem. The head of the city had created a special fund where everyone needed to submit their excess things. This fund was public and from this place everyone was allowed to take anything that they needed home without paying.

So, even though a person would lose some property by giving up things for free, at the same time that person would also be able to take anything he needed for free too. So he did not feel like he suffered any losses. This was the reason why this method worked.

This method was not something usable in larger cities with more population but for small cities like this or villages, it worked perfectly well.

Elena was quite impressed. This idea looked good on paper but practically there would be a lot of problems in executing it. Elena was sure that no human village would be able to implement this process for long because of human nature. Elves might have some success but the probability of that happening would be very low. Only vampires were able to pull off something like this with their cheat level of unity and trust in each other.

Obviously outsiders would create a problem in this system as they were not a part of the city. For that reason, the city head himself provided for all the outsiders as he was the only person in the city with money. No one else used money as they did not need it. If for some reason anyone needed money to spend on a different place, that person could just ask the city head to get some funds by lowering his amount of provision.

Most of the people here were fishermen and the city lord was the one who sold all their caught fishes in other cities. In exchange, he provided all the citizens with various things that were not available in the city for free. So he was capable of lowering the given things in exchange for giving money. This system would not have worked if there was even a little bit of corruption in the society. But in this situation it worked and it worked perfectly.

Elena was also surprised to see how well educated these children were. Alisia did tell them that studying was mandatory for everyone in the vampire continent but it looked like not only simple study, these children were also made to develop their emotional intelligence which was a very good thing. Elena was getting more and more impressed by the society that the vampires had managed to create.

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