Have you had enough, Miss Vampire? It's time to get down to business.

"Hey, Lor, are you okay?"

Isabella in the treasury also felt the attack on Lor and became furious.

Which blind bastard dares to attack my Lor?

It seems that he is tired of living!

"Stupid family member, just hold on a little longer, I'll go out and support you right away!" she said hurriedly.

That being said, the situation wasn't that critical thanks to the presence of the "Escape Scarecrow." Isabella carried the scarecrow with her, so she knew that even if Lor couldn't defeat his opponent, it wouldn't be a big deal.

Even if he really dies, he will die back to be with me.

However, this scarecrow is very valuable after all, and it can only be used once, so it is best not to use it if possible.

"Anyway, let's go out and help Lor first!"

Isabella looked at Meimei and said anxiously, "To enter or exit this treasure house, one needs Meimei, a member of the dragon clan, to accompany them. So, they can't leave her here alone."

"Anyway, these treasures won't run away on their own. Let's come in and get them later... Hmm? Meimei, what are you doing? Wait, wait, don't go near that egg!"

Isabella exclaimed, but it was too late.

At first, the little girl was indeed afraid of this thing, but the temptation of gold coins and gems was too great for her.

So, when Isabella wasn't noticing, she slowly approached the platform, then stood on tiptoe, stretched out her hands, and grabbed those glittering golden coins...

At this moment, the dead dragon egg seemed to sense something.

The black substance condensed under the eggshell seemed to come alive suddenly, flowing like gelatin, changing shape rapidly, and wrapping Meimei's little hand tightly!

"Woo!"

The little girl let out a short cry of surprise, but in the next second, her golden eyes quickly lost their luster and her young body completely froze.

At the same time, Isabella reached out and grabbed her shoulders, trying to pull Meimei back.

However, this contact produced unexpected consequences... A surge of powerful spiritual power, through Meimei's body, invaded Isabella!

However, this spiritual power did not cause any harm to her body or mind.

Instead, a rather magnificent scene unfolded before her eyes—

She saw herself lying dying in a pool of blood, surrounded by many armed men cheering and celebrating... but they looked so tiny, like insects... Besides, not far away were many dragon corpses. While they were much larger than the humans, each one still looked a bit dwarfed...

No, I'm just too big.

Isabella suddenly realized something.

"What I'm seeing now is the perspective of a giant dragon... a dragon of exaggerated size, much larger than any other of its kind..." She muttered to herself, boldly guessing, "Dragon God? Is this the scene before the Dragon God's death?"

Then she noticed several figures floating in the air.

They were full of hostility and were spaced at equal distances from each other. Each of them had a strange appearance, unlike an ordinary person, and exuded such a powerful pressure that one could hardly look directly at them!

Isabella couldn't help but hold her breath. Among those figures, she recognized a very familiar one—

She was a pale-skinned woman wearing a black dress. She had ankle-length black hair and a breathtakingly beautiful face. There was a teardrop mole on the lower left side of her deep purple eye.

Her disdainful gaze revealed deep melancholy and something close to pity.

Isabella had witnessed this gesture and this expression once before... on the day she was forced to transform from a "human" into a "monster"...

Isabella's body trembled slightly.

She won't admit her mistake.

That's "True Ancestor Lilith"!

……

What’s going on with the young lady?

Lor dodged in the darkness, constantly avoiding the enemy's attacks, feeling uneasy and worried about Isabella and Meimei.

Isabella seemed to have witnessed some kind of illusion, and this illusion should be caused by the extraordinary power in the dragon egg, which could not be transmitted to Lor through "sensory sharing"... It was like, when Lor heard the strange FLAG in his mind, or the voice of the will in the "flowing light", Isabella could not hear it at all.

That dead dragon egg is indeed not simple!

For a moment, Lor had the idea of ​​committing suicide, so that he could rely on the effect of the "Escape Scarecrow" to teleport himself into the treasury and quickly reach Isabella.

Although, judging from the physical sensation, the eldest lady did not suffer any actual harm, her emotional reaction seemed to be very intense... her breathing was rapid, her body was trembling... This reaction reminded Lor of the first time he attended the Dark Moon Society's tea party and met "Vampire Lucinda".

However, at that time, Isabella's emotional response transmitted through "sensory sharing" was mainly anger.

But now, she seems to be more afraid than angry...

What did she see?

At this moment, Isabella stepped back suddenly, and together with Meimei, who was grabbed by her shoulders, she struggled out of the entanglement of the strange black substance!

…It seems that the young lady has escaped from the illusion on her own.

Lor breathed a sigh of relief.

However, the situation on his own side is still not optimistic.

The enemy's attack did not stop at all, and the sharp aura wrapped in extraordinary power kept flying, occasionally mixed with a few spell attacks!

The Duke of Canbury's group consisted of nine people. Benjamin Bane, the leader under mind control, was currently nowhere to be found. Lady Windsor and three mid-level transcendents were preparing to resurrect the dragon...

The remaining four people are the Duke of Campbury himself, Trevant, and two other extraordinary people from the Duke's Mansion.

Now these four people are besieging Lor.

It seems that there is someone among them who is very good at detection and can accurately lock my position... Lor hesitated for a moment, struggling with whether to continue to tangle with them, or simply use the expensive "scarecrow" and escape to Isabella's side.

But at this moment, something strange happened.

Lor suddenly stepped on empty air, and his right ankle sank deep into a crack in the ground, and he couldn't pull it out for a while!

...No way, so unlucky?

In his surprise, he failed to dodge and was hit in the chest by an arrow that was filled with powerful spiritual power and came at him with great force!

A piercing pain surged throughout his body, and all the defensive magic spells that Lor had stacked on his body in advance were penetrated... This arrow must have been strengthened by a supernatural power of the fourth level or above!

It seems that there is no need to worry about it.

Lor endured the pain and stayed as calm as possible.

Now that he was already at a disadvantage, instead of continuing to struggle and exposing his identity and abilities to the enemy, he might as well use the "scarecrow" to escape death, then regroup and surprise the enemy...

but……

Was the “unlucky” experience just now really just bad luck?

While feeling puzzled, Lor heard a faint "rustling" sound.

So he quickly turned his upper body, narrowed his eyes slightly, and looked in the direction of the sound... He saw that a few dozen meters away, the Duke of Campbury was holding a feather pen, and with the help of the light of the kerosene lantern, he was writing something quickly on a black leather-covered notebook.

Ah, this...could it be...

As a time traveler, Lor immediately thought of the famous little notebook in a well-known anime.

Could it be that it is an extraordinary item with similar effects?

Then, he thought of the description of the secret organization "The Bird's Nest" that he had read in the church information room not long ago... The information said that those people possessed extraordinary abilities that were the root of "bad omens" and could influence reality in the form of prophecies, but the content of these prophecies was always negative without exception.

Could it be that the notebook in the Duke's hand possesses the extraordinary power that is the source of the "bad omen"?

At this moment, it seemed to confirm Lor's guess.

Just when he had finally pulled out the foot that was stuck in the crack with great effort, his foot slipped and he lost his balance... This time, it was the other foot that got stuck in!

Hey.

It's impossible for such a low-probability event to happen twice in a row, right?

There's definitely something weird!

Lor complained in his heart.

"I told you, Lor? The Dragon Ruins are definitely fraught with danger. You didn't listen to my advice. Now, isn't that right?"

That wise voice sounded in my mind again:

If you can survive this time, grab the gold and silver treasures in the treasury and run! So, are you still thinking of killing the Duke of Canbury and picking up the strange props in his hands? I'm telling you, it's impossible!

53. Notes on Disasters

Lor's guess was basically correct.

What the Duke of Campbell was holding in his hand at this moment was an extraordinary item called "Notes of Disaster", which was the posthumous relic of a high-level extraordinary person who was the source of bad omens.

He prepared this thing in order to get rid of Mrs. Windsor after the success.

Now it is time to try out its actual effect on Lor, the "uninvited guest".

As a massive organization on the same level as the Church of Holy Light, the Fighter Alliance also houses many extremely dangerous and powerful supernatural items. This "Notes on Disasters" was "borrowed" from the Alliance's collection by the Duke of Canbury through unconventional means.

This is an item that can affect the laws of cause and effect in reality, and its value is immeasurable!

Any prophecy written in the notebook can become a reality as long as certain conditions are met!

Although it is powerful, it also brings considerable risks to the user, and there are many restrictions on its use. It is not possible to kill someone by simply writing a name.

First, due to the essential nature of the "bad omen", the user can only write negative words in the notebook that will cause others to suffer misfortune, such as slipping and falling, making mistakes when casting spells, being bitten by a dog when going out, etc. However, prophecies that can directly cause death, such as "being hit to death by a vase falling from the sky", cannot be realized.

Second, it can only affect a single individual at a time, so things like changing the weather or causing a plague in a town are impossible.

Third, although the writer does not need to know the target's real name, he still needs to use unambiguous words to indicate the other party's specific identity.

Fourth, the writer cannot directly influence the target's will, nor can he or she cause them to take actions they would not otherwise take...

In addition, there are a few relatively trivial rules.

The above points were discovered bit by bit by the Fighter Alliance at the cost of many lives. Every time you use the "Misfortune Notes", you must strictly adhere to these rules. If any of them go wrong, it will backfire!

The Duke of Canbury has just written down the words in his "Notes on Misfortunes", which are as follows:

"At a private auction at the Duke of Cambury's Palace, a man calling himself 'Mr. Sylvie' accidentally stepped on empty air during a fight with an enemy, and his right foot became lodged in a crack in the ground."

To be on the safe side, he added a second sentence:

"He tried to struggle, but ended up getting his other foot stuck and was unable to get out for a while."

In a tense and fierce battle, this little "misfortune" is enough to kill someone... Moreover, these two sentences do not directly predict the cause of his death, so it does not violate the rules.

As for how he determined this man's identity...

Very simple.

The underground world is full of dangers, so the Duke of Canbury specially brought a fourth-level extraordinary person who is very good at reconnaissance and exploration.

This person had served as a security guard at the auction venue that night, so the moment he discovered someone lurking nearby, he immediately recognized that the lurker was "Mr. Sylvie"!

We never expected that this young man would arrive at this dragon ruins before us...

Who is he?

The Duke of Campbury was filled with doubts.

First, we can rule out the Holy Light Church...

Those rigid, incompetent exorcists are probably still monitoring my mansion, completely unaware of my true purpose... Even if Benjamin Bane's wife and daughter sought refuge in the church and told them everything, they wouldn't be able to arrive so quickly...

Whatever.

If you don’t understand it, then don’t think about it.

After "Mr. Sylvie" dies, we can search his body. He should have something on him that can be used to confirm his identity.

"He can't escape now, he's just a sitting duck... Let's end this quickly." The Duke of Campbury said to his men with a calm expression and a firm tone.

Having said that, he still felt a little uneasy in his heart.

His intuition told him that the "Mrs. Sylvie" who had attended the auction with this man was also a remarkable character... Where was that silver-haired, red-eyed girl now? Wasn't she traveling with him?

The Duke of Canbury always felt a little uneasy.

At this moment, a cold, murderous and malicious spiritual power suddenly erupted from the direction of Lady Windsor not far away, accompanied by bursts of shrill and piercing wails!

"Oh? Is it about to begin?" Duke Canbury was incredulously excited, his doubts vanishing. "The long-extinct dragon is finally reappearing in the world... Although it's in the form of an 'undead creature' and not a true dragon, it's still a historic moment."

This is the prelude to the rebirth of the "Dragon God"!