Imperial Crown.

Chapter 211 True Ancestor Blood Core

The black wind blew through the houses, and William was filled with resentment.

As a vampire, he is elegant, handsome, and powerful. As long as he is not exposed to the sun, it can be said that he has no rivals in the same level.

But he happened to meet Raven, a difficult guy.

Although he is a magician, his reaction is faster than that of the knight. The timing of his spells is precise, one thing after another, making William like a fish swimming into a net, sinking deeper and deeper!

Moreover, Lei Mingming was clearly performing necromancy magic, so why was there no aura of death in his body?

He can't beat him, can't see through him, and can't understand him, so he has to run!
"Damn it, why am I so unlucky!?"

As his blood energy was being consumed, William felt thirsty again. He flew between the eaves and roofs and suddenly saw a beggar sleeping on the street.

More than 200 years ago, he would have absolutely looked down on this kind of blood food, but now he didn't care anymore. He bent down, grabbed him, and was about to suck his blood.

"I suggest you don't do this." Raven's voice came from behind him, slowly: "Continuing to suck blood will only make you more and more manic."

If it were anyone else, William would have thought he was joking, but Raven not only defeated him head-on, but now he has caught up with him in some unknown way and has won William's recognition.

Moreover, he really didn't have the energy to fight with Raven now, and he also wanted to know what Raven was planning: "What do you mean by that?"

"It's simple. I know that every time you suck blood, you will lose your mind." Raven said calmly: "I also know how to help you get rid of this state."

"Ha, do you think I'm a three-year-old kid?" William looked at Raven warily and said disdainfully, "'Hematosis' is an incurable disease. Even in our ancestral land 'Vanxia', there is no solution!"

"That's because you haven't met me." Raven didn't care about William's attitude: "If I'm not mistaken, your so-called 'blood thirst' is the sequelae of being unable to filter the essence of corrupt souls in the blood of living things, right?"

"And I happen to know and master the technique of extracting the essence of corrupted souls from living creatures."

As he spoke, Raven took out a crystal bottle from his belt, which immediately attracted William's attention, because it contained the purest essence of the Corrupted Soul.

"...Why are you helping me?" William asked.

Raven shrugged. "Put the man down first, and let's talk somewhere else."

"...Okay." William threw the homeless man aside, exerted force with his legs, and jumped onto the roof.

Raven followed closely.

Soon, the two came to a high slope, which was a famous park in the lower city.

The view from the high slope is vast. The drizzle has stopped, the dark clouds have dispersed, and the moonlight is shining on the earth. Under the reflection of the rain, half of the city of Mon'en is reflected with a hazy silver glow.

"This is Mon'en City." Raven said leisurely, "The Earl of Tyrone who rules here is a fifth-level strongman, and if necessary, it only takes half a day at most for the fifth-level archbishop to arrive here."

"If you keep running and can't control your bloodlust, you will die even if you can get rid of me."

William and Raven kept a suitable distance so that they could escape at any time: "But you still didn't answer, why did you help me?"

"First, to some extent, Mon'en City can be considered my territory. I'm troubled by your making trouble here."

"Second, you killed 600 of my slaves, as well as my captain and crew. The economic loss was nearly 20000 gold coins. Of course I want to get it back with interest."

William sneered: "Do you think you can subdue me?"

"It's not up to you." Raven said word by word: "Either continue to live like a beast and die like garbage; or submit to me, and then you can continue to enjoy your long life."

"I think you are not stupid."

William was silent.

There are two ways for vampires to reproduce. One is "First Embrace", which means that a vampire separates a part of his blood essence and gives it to a mortal.

The other is like other intelligent races, with sexual intercourse between men and women.

The former are called "bastards" and the latter are called "pure bloods".

However, due to the special physique of vampires, their efficiency in reproducing offspring through the second method is even lower than that of dragons, and usually it may not be successful after hundreds of years. However, they are naturally powerful and have a higher status.

And William is a pure-blooded vampire!
He had long since had enough of his own uncontrollable bloodlust.

Otherwise, he would not have been driven out of his ancestral land, nailed into a coffin, and sealed for more than 200 years!

"What do you need me to do?"

Raven said, "It's very simple. Come here and I'll help you."

"Throw away the crossbow first!" William said.

He thought Raven would refuse, but unexpectedly, Raven took out his crossbow and threw it into the grass by the roadside.

After a slight hesitation, William walked up to Raven and stood in front of him.

Raven hesitated, took out a crystal bottle, activated the Eye of Truth, and pointed his finger at William's brow.

In fact, Raven had discovered before that this vampire was in an abnormal state. His emotions fluctuated greatly and his actions were illogical, as if he was acting entirely based on his likes and dislikes.

Vampires also have organs similar to magic cores that are used to store energy, called "blood cores". They should contain the essence of corrupted souls, but the essence of corrupted souls in William's body is lingering in his mind in an irregular manner.

After William's blood energy burst out from the Bone Virgin, Raven discovered that the essence of the corrupted souls in his brain had become more and more, and William's own sanity had become weaker, and he even forgot to use the Weathering Technique when charging.

Therefore, Raven concluded that William had been suffering from a loss of sanity.

There was one thing that Raven had deceived William about. He had only extracted the essence of corrupted souls from monster eggs at most, and had never tried it on adult monsters or living people.

Fortunately, it seems to be effective for now.

And Raven’s judgment was correct.

William once lived in Slave Bay as a human being and had his own territory, castle, and servants. If it weren't for his growing blood thirst that aroused fear in those around him, he would not have been sealed!
Now, with the operation of Raven's Eye of Truth, the essence of the corrupt soul in William's mind was slowly extracted, and an unprecedented feeling of relief occupied his heart.

It was as if he had finally put down the burden in his heart, or as if he had completed a task before the deadline. The comfortable feeling almost made him moan!
Raven, ah, Raven, you really have amazing abilities, but you don’t act like a noble or a lord.

Do you think that this little favor can make the noble pure-blooded vampires bow down to you?
And most importantly, you, a magician, lost the most important distance, dropped your crossbow, and let me get close to you. This is your biggest mistake!

"Raven, I am really pleased with your ability!" Just as Raven's fingers left his forehead, William bared his fangs and placed his hands on Raven's shoulders: "Now, become my descendant and serve me forever!"

Raven shook his head and sighed, "I wanted to talk some sense into you."

"Since you don't understand reason, then I, sir, can also use some fists and kicks!"

William sneered. A weak mage actually won a blood...

His thoughts were in a trance at this moment.

Because he felt a huge force, it seemed that what he was pressing on with his hands was not Raven's shoulders, but a giant dragon that wanted to turn over.

The force bounced his hands away, and then he saw the golden light bursting out from Raven's eyes, almost melting him!
Finally, there is a fist that gets bigger and bigger.

The moment the fist landed on his face, he didn't even have time to feel the pain. His vision began to distort, but he could clearly see his canine teeth being broken and smashed away, and then his vision quickly widened!

Under the moonlight, William spun and crashed into a stone rockery. His body smashed the rocks and flew backwards, leaving behind flesh and blood while raising a long trail of dust. He flew across an open space before landing on the ground with a thud!

His legs and right hand were as soft as a rag doll. William could only support his body with his broken left arm, and then he spat out large mouthfuls of blood and broken internal organs with a wow!

The flesh on his back had been worn away, leaving only bones, and his internal organs could even feel the wind!
If it weren't for the vampire's strong vitality, if an ordinary knight came, he would have been killed long ago!
Footsteps sounded, and Raven's boots appeared in front of William. Raven shook his head: "Tsk, it seems that people still can't be kind. Since you are unwilling to surrender, I will have no choice but to keep you."

"I heard that vampire's teeth, nails and blood are all very good materials."

William's body was shaking when he heard this. It would be better to kill him than to let a dignified vampire viscount be raised like an animal!

Raven continued nonchalantly, "Don't worry, it won't take too long. You destroyed my goods worth 50000 gold coins, so I'll ask you to pay ten times as much, right? Once you produce materials worth 500000 gold coins, I'll let you go."

Shameless!

William spat out another mouthful of blood. Didn't you say before that you only lost 20000 gold coins! ?

William knew very well what the price of the materials produced by the vampires was because he had sold them when he was in financial difficulties.

一般来说，三阶血族1根指甲的价格是130-190金币之间，10根指甲那就是1300-1900。

Teeth are more expensive, with one fang costing around 1300 gold coins; as for blood, 1 ounce, or 30 milliliters, is worth about 10-17 gold coins.

William has about 130 ounces of blood in his body, which is about 5 kilograms.

In other words, if he wanted to repay all the debts with just his fingernails, he would need more than 3000 of them; if he used just his teeth, he would need more than 100 sets; and if he used his blood, he would have to drain himself dry more than 300 times!

What kind of hell is that!?
"I was wrong! Baron Raven!" William cried, "I was really wrong. I am willing to submit to you and do anything for you. Please don't treat me like an animal!!"

Raven snorted, "Tsk, that won't do. I treated you with good intentions, but you want to enslave me and make me your descendant. Do you think I will suffer a second loss?"

"I, I am willing to sign a master-servant contract!" William said immediately: "I will be your slave and pet forever!!"

“Hmm…” Raven rubbed his chin and looked at William. “But I am an upright noble. It’s not easy to keep a dark creature like you under my control.”

"Otherwise..."

William gritted his teeth and said, "I...I still have treasures to give to you!"

As he spoke, he lightly struck his chest, and a scarlet gem the size of a pigeon egg grew out of his chest and fell into his hand.

After this scene, William became visibly weaker, and the speed at which the wounds on his body healed was also decreasing: "...This is our blood clan's treasure, the 'True Ancestor Blood Core'. I hope that Lord Baron, no, I hope that you, the Master, can accept it!"

"It's such a good thing!" Sikoret jumped out from somewhere, picked up the gem and jumped onto Raven's shoulder.

Reaching out to take the gem, a wonderful feeling flowed through Raven's body and mind, and then the blood vessels on his forehead suddenly began to beat, and his heart also suddenly twitched.

Then, he once again clearly felt the power of the long-dormant blood curse.

This power gathered in his palm, burning his skin, causing the gem to melt like a candle, and then slowly seep into his skin!

Crack——

A crisp sound rang out from Raven's mind.

His pool of magic power was broken!
The magic power poured out like a stream of water, which would be a disaster for all magicians, but Raven did not feel anything wrong.

After the break, there is the new life.

Another dam is rising.

The difference is that before this, Raven's strength had reached the third level, three stars, which means that he filled about 30% of the magic pool. However, now the water level has dropped to less than 10%.

The total amount of magic power did not decrease, what changed was the upper limit of Raven's magic power capacity.

His magic power limit has increased to three times what it was before!
In the pool of magic power, the scale of the vortex is even larger, and the speed of naturally absorbing elements is also proportionally faster.

In other words, Raven's training speed has not changed, but his magic power growth and magic power reserves are three times that of a magician of the same level!
Others can release 1 third-level magic, but Raven can release 3; others can cast spells continuously for 1 hour, but Raven can do it for 3 hours!

With this amount of magic power, even if you only use a first-level fireball, you can still knock out the enemy!
What is a humanoid turret?

But after the joy, a new question came to Raven's mind. He lowered his head and asked, "Where did this True Ancestor Blood Core come from?"

William stammered, “I stole this from my family’s treasure house before I was kicked out!”

Speaking of which, William is also an unlucky guy.

His father is a seventh-rank vampire duke, and his mother is a fifth-rank vampire marquis. Logically speaking, he should be at least a fourth-rank vampire earl.

However, after a hundred years of pregnancy, when he was born, he was only at the first level.

What's worse is that he was born with hemothiasis. He can't bear not drinking blood, but drinking blood will make him lose his mind.

The combination of these two things made his parents the laughing stock of the people and he himself could not hold his head up.

So when he was 237 years old, which was only considered an elementary school student among the vampires, he finally couldn't stand the bullying of his tribesmen. He stole some things from the family treasury and sneaked onto a cargo ship bound for Slave Bay.

Among them is this True Ancestor's blood core.

Now that I think about it, his parents must have tacitly agreed to this, otherwise, as he was only a second-level baron vampire at that time, it would have been impossible for him to hide it from others and steal things from the treasury.

The function of this True Ancestor blood core on William, in addition to enhancing his regenerative ability to a certain extent, is to store blood energy for use when needed. However, it can only store 5% of his upper limit of blood energy, and the side effects are much greater than directly absorbing blood.

Therefore, William was even more shocked than him about the fact that Raven could directly absorb the blood core of the True Ancestor!

After listening to William's story, Raven turned his attention to Sikoret.

Judging from the black cat’s previous performance, it must be quite familiar with this True Ancestor’s blood core.

But the black cat just yawned, and then stared at Raven with its big innocent eyes, just like an ordinary cat.

Well, it seems that there is no way to ask!
With his doubts suppressed in his heart, Raven pulled out a roll of parchment from his belt and wrote a detailed master-servant contract on it, chanting:

"Deeper than darkness, more mysterious than the human heart, Lady of the Hidden, Lord of Contracts, knower of all secrets and history, I hereby ask for your attention to witness the contract before me."

As the spell was chanted, the magic power stirred up the mysterious power of the stars, causing the entire parchment to begin to tremble slightly. Accompanied by a faint glow of light, the parchment flew into the air, then floated down and was held in Raven's palm.

The words that were originally written in ink have become as solid as if they were engraved. If you look closely, you can even see mysterious patterns.

After being witnessed by the Hidden Lady, this contract has become binding. Once the signatory breaches the contract, he will be severely punished by this ancient god.

William signed his name and shed his blood without resistance.

He knew that resistance was useless.

Shortly after the contract was signed, Weber and Mantheni arrived at the scene with the security forces.

Raven told William to find a place to hide quietly, and then he came forward and said that he had completely dealt with the vampire, but most of his body was destroyed in the battle, leaving only one arm.

The arm was William's right hand, which was already shattered and fractured, and was cut off from his body. Anyway, with the regenerative ability of vampires, an arm would only take a month or so to heal.

Weber and Mantheni were both shocked by Raven.

Especially Mantheni, she knows Raven's background best.

Just two years ago, Raven was just a gangster on the streets of Mon'en City, a "little bee", but now he is a third-level magician with a magical pet!

Moreover, he actually killed a vampire viscount of the same level alone as a magician.

You know, vampires move swiftly and secretly, are difficult to lock onto, and have all kinds of strange blood magic, so they have always been known as "Mage Killers"!

The third-level divine magician who could restrain vampires was killed in one blow, but Raven defeated the third-level vampire despite being at a disadvantage. This is simply incredible!

When did he become so powerful! ?
"Seal off both sides of the scene and record the situation in detail." Raven said, "Don't be too hasty. The record must be detailed. After all, a priest has died and we need to report to the Vatican."

The two commanders nodded in unison.

It was still dark when he returned to the Chamber of Commerce headquarters. Raven did not sleep that night. Instead, he studied the changes in his body through meditation.

What is certain is that the True Ancestor's blood core has indeed been completely integrated into his body, and in addition to a significant increase in his magic power limit, he also has the ability to see in the dark without the need for magic.

The next morning, before breakfast, a carriage stopped outside the headquarters.

A man got off the car and handed the guard a visiting card:

"Please inform Baron Raven that Earl Tyrone wants him to come to Snake Castle for a chat."

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(End of this chapter)