@mapax it's at forty chapters now, and we've only just gotten the big conflict of space-time sword and vampire outbreak (if that is even the biggest conflict yet). Truth be told, that's a little ridiculous.
Story telling is like a parabola, solving the conflict takes just as long as raising the...
It's not the vampire thing that bothers me. If done well, I'm pretty sure i'd even be a big fan of it!! It's more so the fact that this long arc (and it is EXTREMELY long), with already dire consequences (hunting dogs, the page, Decay of Angel, a literal sword that cuts through time and space...