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to you about."

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The other two drank and Nosferatu waited until they were done. Then he tapped
the flask. "This is our sustenance and it is our greatest weakness. We are half-
breeds. We have some Airlia blood, but not enough to sustain us without constant
nourishment of human blood for it. We drink human blood because we have to in
order to stay alive."
"You tell us what we have all known since the beginning," Adrik grumbled.
"You knew it from the beginning?" Nosferatu challenged him. "I was entombed
for much longer than you by the Airlia Gods themselves, and knew practically
nothing. I've known about the Grail and the promise of immortality from the
beginning, but I didn't know exactly how it gave eternal life. It is only
because the science of the humans has advanced so far that we have an idea of
how we have managed to live so long."
He placed one finger against the engorged vein on his wrist. "We have a virus
in our blood. An Airlia virus. It helps our cells regenerate when they should
die. However, we're half-breeds. So we don't have enough of the virus for it to
be self-sustaining. Thus, we must"тАФhe reached forward and plinked a fingernail
against the steel flaskтАФ"drink human blood to feed and sustain the Airlia virus.
The GrailтАФif we had itтАФwould purify our blood, injecting the Airlia virus,
making the virus dominant and self-sustaining just as it isтАФor wasтАФin the Airlia
themselves. We would no longer need to drink human blood for sustenance."
Nosferatu waited. As he expected, Tian Dao Lin, with his obsession for the
Grail, was the first to grasp the significance of this. "If we had more of the
virus . . ."
Nosferatu nodded. "If we could somehowтАФwithout the lost GrailтАФcross the
threshold to where the virus is

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self-sustaining, we would be, in effect, immortal. We would not need to drink
human blood anymore and we would have the benefits of the Airlia virus's ability
to replicate, which means even if killed, we would come back to life as it
quickly regenerated us."
 "But there are no more Airlia," Tian Dao Lin said. "You started this meeting
saying that. So there is no more virus except what we already have in our
veins."
Nosferatu shook his head. "The Airlia are gone, but there are sources of
Airlia virus we can recover."
" 'We'?" Adrik repeated. "Why do you need us?"
A good question, Nosferatu thought. One he knew that Tian Dao Lin was thinking
but had not voiced. "Because we would not be the only ones trying to get this
blood."
"Vampyr." Tian Dao Lin said it as a statement, not a question.
Nosferatu pressed a button under the tabletop and the screen came alive with
an image. The man pictured was similar in appearance to Nosferatu, but his hair
was dyed jet-black and he wore a pair of sleek sunglasses that hid his eyes. He
wore an expensive suit of black, with a black shirt and tie completing the