Calamity Dragon, Starting with the Cultivation of Knight Families

Chapter 232 The Adams Empire, the Blood God's Backyard

Holy light enveloped the entire Damian.

Under the gaze of countless people, these lights seemed to contain dandelion seeds drifting in the air, or countless angel wings falling down.

But there is no doubt about it.

Now, nine hundred days later, the city-wide healing light released by an eighth-rank priest is truly a miracle.

"Your Majesty Bishop!"

"It's Bishop Hermann!!!"

"My God, what kind of miracle is this! I've noticed that my joint pain seems to have disappeared."

"My Lord! This must be a miracle thanks to His Holiness the Bishop's prayers; it is absolutely the power of my Lord!"

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The crowd was bathed in light.

Everyone felt a sense of comfort, like bathing in a hot spring on a winter's day.

This feeling was so intense that some people couldn't help but groan.

Moreover, this power itself is a skill that can heal a wide range of ailments.

So, very quickly, by the time some people realized what was happening, the crowd had completely erupted in cheers!
Large numbers of believers began to shout: Our Lord.

They prayed with their arms crossed, as orderly as the most disciplined soldiers.

On the other hand, the Blood Hunters, who are enveloped by this power, feel almost the same way as the people in the square and on the street.

They were awestruck by the scale of this divine power, which they had never seen before.

I was also deeply moved by the spiritual uplift that this power brought.

So, can someone with such power really be a bad person?

'Or perhaps even a spy planted by the vampires?'

The blood hunters were somewhat bewildered.

And just as they were stunned, in the pillar of light that descended in this miracle.

A figure has already appeared.

The eighth-order Heran, using the power of elementalization, manifested a giant phantom image of himself that was nearly a thousand meters tall.

The giant held a scepter and was dressed in a priest's robe.

His entire body was surrounded by a flowing white halo. At this moment, the giant stood in the void, and with a slight bend, he took in the entire city of Damian.

At the same time, this holy figure merely tapped the ground slightly with his scepter.

Instantly, all the strange phenomena disappeared.

However, the winter clouds that had been hanging over the entire city of Damian have completely disappeared.

Golden sunlight shines down.

The moment all beings looked up, that sacred, colossal figure was bathed in golden light, appearing exactly like a true deity.

now.

Everyone who saw this scene was stunned.

Whether they are common believers, ignorant nobles, or blood hunters.

Who could remain calm looking at this scene right now?

Shocked?

Excited?
fear?

These emotions were written on the faces of almost everyone in Damian.

At this moment, time seemed to freeze once again.

And this was followed by unusual movements in the crowd.

The ordinary believers prayed even more fervently with excitement.

The ignorant nobles trembled, kneeling or collapsing.

As for the Blood Hunters? They were already so frightened that they looked around blankly, completely lost.

"Gods!!!"

"They are true gods!"

"Our world is saved!!!"

"Besides the Blood God, our world has finally welcomed a deity who can protect humanity!!!"

Looking at the holy phantom of the priest before me, looking at his sanctity bathed in golden light.

An old blood hunter, for some reason, suddenly became so excited that he burst into tears and shouted!
Not all blood hunters are willing to become lackeys of nobles and important figures.

Their existence and their will are largely driven by their desire to fight against the vampires and protect the empire and humanity, which has brought them to this point.

Even though some of these blood hunters are nobles, they don't care about the lives of commoners and ordinary people.

But who can say they are unmoved by the current situation?

After all, blood hunting comes at a price.

And now they see the so-called bishops before them.

They finally saw another safe path to transcendence, a path supposedly from divine power.

"Is this the power of the gods from beyond the realm?"

"It's truly mesmerizing!"

"If only this power had existed in our world from the very beginning~"

"Unfortunately, everything is irreversible."

At this moment, the one who feels it most deeply is undoubtedly Joyce, the commander of the Second Blood Hunter Legion.

He stared blankly at the sacred figure in the sky, his eyes filled with boundless fascination and even longing.

Unfortunately, in the end, all he saw was endless greed.

In this sacred light, Joyce, the Second Blood Hunter Legion Commander, had his disguise completely torn off!
Yes!

When the holy light faded, when people looked away from that sacred figure...

Finally, someone noticed Joyce's unusual behavior!
"Oh my god!!! What is that?"

"Vampires? Isn't Damian City one of the heartland cities of the empire? Why are there vampires here?"

"No!!! Look! He... he's the Blood Hunter's legion commander!!!"

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In front of the square, sharp-eyed people had already clearly seen the face of the figure in front of them and exclaimed in surprise.

"Lord Joyce??"

"How is this possible?! You...you're a vampire?!"

Some of the Blood Hunters around Joyce, unaware of the situation, also noticed his change immediately.

They all shook their heads in bewilderment.

His expression was one of utter disbelief.

Meanwhile, the Blood Hunters standing on the rooftops all around also clearly saw this scene.

"Look!"

"This is the empire!"

"An empire that everyone considers sacred and powerful!"

"The Second Legion Commander of the Blood Hunters is actually a vampire? Don't you all find that ridiculous?"

"Furthermore, since the Second Legion Commander is a vampire, then, citizens of the Empire, and all of you, what do you think the other legion commanders of the Blood Hunters are?"

At that moment, the voice of the thirteenth princess, Fina, suddenly rang out again.

Right in front of the thirteenth princess, everyone saw it clearly.

Right now, Joyce, the Second Legion Commander of the Blood Hunters, has fully manifested his vampire appearance.

At this moment, Joyce's appearance was not much different from that of his human self.

However, after being bathed in holy light, his face turned completely pale, revealing an appearance like that of a corpse.

Another notable feature is that after being bathed in holy light, Joyce was surrounded by a large amount of scarlet blood energy.

At the same time, he just smiled slightly, revealing his canine teeth.

And these are not the most prominent features.

The most distinctive feature of high-ranking vampires is the crimson bat wings that can be unfurled on their backs.

The moment Hean appeared and manifested his terrifying power.

As a vampire, Joyce immediately sensed an unprecedented crisis.

Therefore, the blood-red bat wings are actually a passive phenomenon that occurs as a form of natural defense.

Otherwise, under normal circumstances, vampires can levitate and fly freely even without manifesting their bat wings. Of course, manifesting bat wings also has its advantages, namely extreme speed and signs of exerting maximum power.

"My God! What on earth is going on?"

"Why would the commander of the Empire's Blood Hunter Legion be a vampire? There must be some mistake here!"

"Or perhaps, Joyce is the only vampire who disguised himself and infiltrated the Empire?"

At that moment, many nobles on the viewing platforms around the square let out incredulous gasps.

"It must be like this! It must be like this."

"Joyce has been hiding his true intentions too well. After this, we must recommend that the Imperial Council thoroughly investigate all high-ranking officers of the Blood Hunters!!!"

The nobles, their faces pale, discussed the matter loudly.

But in reality, at this moment, they already had many ominous suspicions in their minds.

After all, nobody's a fool.

How could someone holding such an important position as the commander of the Imperial Blood Hunters be easily infiltrated or impersonated?

Furthermore, what is Joyce's background, and who are the members of her family?

These things cannot withstand close scrutiny and examination.

"What a joke!!!"

"Joyce, how could you possibly be a vampire?!"

"How could you be a vampire?!"

"If you are a vampire, then what about our comrades who have followed you and died on the battlefield all these years?!"

At this moment, the most emotional were undoubtedly those who had been closest to Joyce.

There are seventeen such people.

Each of them was either a junior general or a staff officer or even a commander in the Blood Hunter Legion.

Or they are the leaders of the various military groups under the Blood Hunter Legion.

At this moment, without a doubt, they were the ones who could least accept that Joyce was a vampire.

However, while a few loyalists remained silent, six or seven blood hunters, filled with righteous indignation, had already drawn their weapons and pointed them at Joyce.

The one who voiced the angry question was the deputy commander of the Second Legion, a middle-aged man who looked to be in his forties.

What's happening right now is truly quite a lively scene.

The elemental giant manifested by Hean did not move, and even the thirteenth princess remained aloof and observed.

"What kind of?"

Hehe~ Haha~

"Of course, it's the blood food of my vampire clan! What else could it be?"

Joyce looked back at his subordinates, his expression a mixture of nostalgia and pain.

He gave a morbidly forced laugh in response.

He finally took a deep breath and looked around at everyone.

Then, in a calm yet somewhat self-deprecating tone, he said, "You foolish people! You are truly laughable!"

"In a world full of vampires, and even a world with beings like the Blood God, what exactly are you expecting?"

"Do you even know what I paid for knowing the whole truth, and even what I've become like now?!"

"You don't know!!! All you know is that the Empire is powerful, a powerful nation capable of leading all of humanity against the vampires."

"But what you never knew was that, from the very beginning, the empire you perceived never existed!!!"

"Haha~"

At this point, Joyce's expression once again became pained and sickly.

"What?! What on earth is he saying?!"

"As expected, not a single word a vampire utters is understandable to a normal human!"

Below the square, many people were filled with doubt, and there were even many who didn't want to understand what they were saying.

But at this moment, some people want to know everything, and naturally, some people are asking questions.

Yes, it was Guy Butler, the deputy commander of the Second Army Corps.

He looked at Joyce with a pained and cold gaze, and said in a deep voice:

"Joyce, what exactly are you trying to say? What do you mean by the empire not existing in itself?!"

"Explain yourself now, immediately, right now!!!"

Faced with Gaine's persistent questioning, Joyce suddenly stopped laughing, calmed down, and looked at him with an envious gaze that Gaine found hard to understand, saying:
"Gain, sometimes I really envy you!"

"real."

"Although you don't have a noble family background, and you used to be single-minded, even a bit stupid."

"But sometimes fools are just lucky."

“By now, you’re no longer the naive kid who just graduated from Blood Hunter Academy. Don’t you understand what I mean?”

Joyce, like a typical villain, was a bit of a chatterbox.

But even though he's a villain, deep down he probably has his own grievances.

So, at this point, she suddenly had the time and seemed to want to reveal everything that had happened to her over the years.

After all, if a person keeps their worries bottled up for too long, it can really drive them crazy.

The current pathological manifestations are a typical symptom.

Gain remained silent; he had already guessed some of the situation.

Even those around him had already grasped Joyce's subtext, and at this moment, many Blood Hunters were on the verge of emotional collapse.

"No! Impossible!!!"

"An empire?! How could that be?!"

"Yes, it's all a lie. The words of vampires are inherently unreliable!"

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Joyce took in the expressions of these blood hunters, then looked up wistfully at the holy, enormous phantom.

He looked at all this with envious, extremely greedy and longing eyes, and without turning around, he was already talking to himself.

"There are thirteen Blood Moon Kingdoms in this world, and their existence is a symbol of the thirteen Blood Ancestors."

"So, have you ever thought about it? What about the Blood God who exists in vampire legends? Where did He go? And what did He do?"

"Everyone, including the vast majority of vampires themselves, believed that the Blood God had long since transcended the mortal world and would not even care about worldly affairs."

"But they were wrong, and we were wrong too!"

"The entire world, everything in this mortal realm, all people, including vampires, are nothing but playthings of the Blood God!"

"So, now that things have come to this, what do you think the existence of our Adams Empire symbolizes?"

As Joyce spoke, many Blood Hunters turned pale, and some even collapsed and covered their ears in despair.

At this moment, Gain's expression had become extremely pale.

But Joyce continued in a leisurely tone:
"By the way, it's worth mentioning that many people, even the vampires themselves, don't know the Blood God's real name."

"But we, the people of the Empire, are actually honored. At least we know the true name of the Blood God, and his true name must have the prefix Adams."

"So, the Empire is just a larger vampire breeding city, and it's actually no different from other Blood Moon Kingdoms."

"So, do you understand now?"

"And I, Joyce Waters, well, my family, the Waters branch, as a branch of the royal bloodline, was actually a family that worshipped the Blood God from the very beginning!"

"By the way, our family tradition is that all offspring, after getting married and having children, are qualified to transform into vampires, and at the same time, they are qualified to know the truth about all of this."

"Of course, I also had the right not to accept all of this at the beginning."

"But unfortunately, I happen to be terrified of dying!"

"I, Joyce, am ultimately a coward."

"However, it's no use saying all this now, my dear comrades, my dear subordinates."

Joyce's pathology had reached a breaking point.

At that moment, the instant his words fell, the sky above the entire city of Damian was instantly shrouded in a blood moon!
At the same time, daylight seemed to turn into night in an instant.

At the same time, the dense squeaking of countless bats rang out.

At that moment, a chilling scene unfolded.

Yes.

Under this dark, blood-red hue, the entire city of Damian was completely surrounded by a massive number of bats and vampires!
Even right in front of that giant statue of holy light and shadow, two terrifying figures appeared in an instant!

These two figures were undoubtedly among the vampires, possessing strength at the peak of the Saint rank.

Even now, in He'an's eyes, the word 'Seal' that should have been displayed in the rank column of the data panel was gone.

(End of this chapter)