Mercedes and the Waning Moon: The Dungeoneering Feats of a Discarded Vampire Aristocrat

Reincarnated as a vampire to a noble father and his shunned concubine, Mercedes Grunewald has always known that one day, her father will choose an heir that isn’t her. But what will become of her family when that time comes? Her mother has no skills, their maid is old, and Mercedes is but a small child. How will they survive in the world on their own? Luckily, dungeon crawling is a job that anyone can do—even a child. To provide for her family, Mercedes begins training at the age of a kindergartener, and because she’s from a nation of vampires, she fortunately has the potential to become strong. In her past life, she died unfulfilled, but that won’t be her fate this time. In the dungeons, she’s determined to find something that will make her moon full.

After coming face-to-face with her father, Mercedes is no longer the shunned daughter of a concubine, but the man’s pride and joy (that is, if he’s even capable of such emotion). She’s been taken into the main residence where she’s received knowledge, education, and a much higher standard of living, and while she has no plans for becoming heir to the Grunewald family, she knows how to take advantage of an opportunity. She’s plenty ready to use her father to propel herself toward her goal of finding something to live for, and her father is completely okay with being her pawn, just like she is his. However, her days at the Grunewald residence are short-lived. Soon, Mercedes is enrolled at Edelrot Academy, where she becomes embroiled in a secret struggle for the throne. What truths will she discover there? Find out as Mercedes’s journey toward a full moon continues.

It’s a new year at Edelrot Academy, and the students’ first big test is to prove they can make the expedition from Abendrot to Blut on their own using nothing but the measly funds the academy provides. But halfway through the journey, Sieglinde(?) is attacked, and she and Felix are taken to the Beatrix Empire. It’s up to Mercedes to save them, but what treasures will she recover—and more importantly, will Felix escape with his pride intact?

It’s been five years, and while some things have changed, some haven’t. Once again, Mercedes is thrust into the middle of a plot that threatens to tear the Kingdom of Orcus apart. After a mysterious man approaches her, she learns of a “True King,” a new descendant of a dungeon conqueror. But is he really? And what could this mean for Sieglinde, Mercedes’s best friend and Orcus’s princess?