I want to be a faded person for life

"The Knight Commander of Stonewell..."

Xiangzi did not refuse.

Although the uncle in front of him was a bit useless, he didn't give the impression of being a bad guy. As for the knight commander who was crazy about blood, he sounded a little abnormal.

That direction was indeed one of the directions that the blessing would guide. Considering the huge amount of Rune and Kenneth's rewards that might be received, Xiangzi decided to take on this commission.

-

Hyde Fortress cannot be compared with Stonewell in scale.

It was just a small castle with two arrow towers and no iron fences. Behind four or five rows of chevaux de frise stood a dozen or so Grek soldiers wearing tree and beast barrel helmets.

Xiangzi hadn't seen soldiers dressed like this outside the barracks for a long time.

She hung the badge given to her by Storm Knight Eric in a prominent position on her chest. Before, the Grek soldiers dressed like this would not actively attack her even if they turned into zombies.

As Xiangzi left the rock and took a few steps forward, several crossbow arrows whizzed down towards him.

She used her shield to deflect two of them, and the remaining one hit the Lost Knight's arm armor. It failed to penetrate the thick piece of fine steel and only left a slight scratch before bouncing away.

"Hmm, the badge doesn't work?"

Xiangzi retreated into the rock.

If you look closely, there seems to be something wrong with these soldiers.

Their swords and brass shields were covered in scarlet blood. It would be difficult to stain their weapons like this if they were just killing enemies normally.

Even the armor looked like it had been soaked in a pool of blood.

"How many people do you have to kill to get that much blood?"

Xiangzi couldn't help but think of the place he had nightmares in before, the warehouse where the pupae were piled up in Stonewell's kitchen.

"...Is the Knight Commander performing a limb-reattachment ritual?"

Xiangzi rang the soul-calling bell and shook out Gotok's soul again, but got this answer.

"Only those with golden blood can have limb grafts. Who is the Knight Commander to be worthy of such a ritual?"

"Go and ask them to open the door."

The registrar reluctantly came out from behind the rock. Theoretically, as the son of Greg, these soldiers had no reason to attack him.

"Hey, get out of the way, I'm here—"

"Oh shit!"

As soon as Gotok stepped out of the rock, several crossbow arrows pierced his chest and forehead.

If he was not in the form of ashes but in his lifetime, he would probably have died on the spot.

"What a rebellion! They not only betrayed Kenneth Hyde, but also betrayed Stonewell!"

Gotok cursed.

Chapter 10: Blood Knight Commander

Just as Xiangzi was thinking about how to attack the fortress, a noisy sound came from not far away.

Dozens of monkey-like demihumans, holding crude wooden shields and blunt knives, rushed forward and began to attack the fortress.

A strange spirit appeared beside Xiangzi.

"The demihumans whose mother was abducted are rioting... Lord Kayneth, where are you? That knight... is obsessed with blood."

Xiangzi tried to communicate with the spirit, but the spirit just repeated the sentence with a dull look on its face and had no other reaction.

"This is just a fragmented soul... an image left by obsession. It can only leave a few brief messages and has no ability to communicate with others."

Melina, who had appeared beside Xiangzi at some point and was hiding behind a rock with her, explained.

"Just think of it as a message left by the wax stone."

"That's it..."

However, Xiangzi still got the information he wanted.

These demi-humans went crazy and attacked the fortress because their mothers were abducted. Perhaps the Knight-General of Hyde Fortress had captured many demi-humans, which was also one of the sources of blood in the castle.

Taking advantage of the fact that the soldiers were attracted by the demi-humans, Xiangzi blew the whistle to summon Torret, and rushed towards the city gate in the rain of arrows.

She quickly approached the fortress gate, when a familiar figure walked out of the gate and completely blocked the fortress gate, which was not very spacious to begin with.

That's a sword fighter wearing a pumpkin head.

"They even arranged sword fighters here?"

Although it is not difficult for Xiangzi to defeat the swordsman with his current strength, the opponent's burly body is really troublesome in such a narrow place.

Without thinking, Xiangzi swung the hound's fangs to create a storm, tearing apart the two soldiers who were close to him.

As expected of the Knight Commander, the Grek soldiers here are obviously more elite than those in the Storm Hill Fortress Barracks. Even the ordinary soldiers are equipped with two-handed swords with copper hilts.

Being splashed with their blood, Xiangzi felt vaguely uncomfortable.

The opportunity for battle is only a moment away. If the city gate is blocked by more enemies, it will be troublesome. Xiangzi did not waste time and immediately rang the soul-summoning bell.

"Delirious!"

The mute swordsman did not reject his new name. After listening to Xiangzi's explanation, he nodded and said that he liked the meaning of the name very much.

Drias lowered his head and began to charge, directly colliding with the other swordsman at the fortress gate with his heavy helmet.

The pumpkin head of Hyde Fortress was knocked to the ground, and the spiritual swordsman staggered back a few steps and slid down the stairs.

"Thank you!"

Xiangzi drove his magic horse and stepped directly over the bodies of the enemies at the city gate, successfully entering Hyde Fortress.

The interior of the fortress was a strange scene.

The ground here is covered with bright red roses, and the petals are so brightly colored that people almost have the illusion that they are deep in a sea of ​​blood.

In the center of the bright red rose garden, a huge corpse was crawling.

It was several times larger than the subhuman leader Xiangzi had encountered in the cave before, almost reaching the size of a mountain monster guarding the city.

What was strange was that all the blood in its body had been drained, leaving only dry skin clinging to its body, revealing its bones. Roses were blooming exceptionally luxuriantly around its corpse.

As soon as Xiangzi got off the horse, he found that whenever he walked through the flowers, the overly delicate petals would be scratched and leave some scarlet water droplets on his body.

There was a rustling sound nearby, and several rats with rotten fur and bodies as big as wild boars pounced out from behind the flower and tree racks where they were hiding.

Xiangzi raised his hand and slashed them into pieces with two swords, causing more blood to stick to the blade of the hound's fangs.

The girl raised her hands to cover her forehead. The sweet and cloying smell around her made her feel dizzy, but her body became strangely excited.

Several slaves wearing shackles and cutting something on the arrow tower noticed something was wrong and threw kerosene and Molotov cocktails from above.

Xiangzi shook his head to sober himself up and raised his hound's fangs.

A violent storm immediately swept upwards, flames and petals dancing in the storm, falling in all directions like a heavy rain.

A huge fire suddenly broke out in the garden inside the fortress. The sweet smell around became even stronger, and the scorched petals swelled and burst, releasing bright red liquid.

"Eric, it's you who's here..."

A sweet voice like a venomous snake came from a tower not far away, and a knight wearing two-color heavy armor and decorated with blood-red feathers on his head appeared at the foot of the tower.

"No, you're not Eric... But that badge, I understand—you must be his disciple, right?"

The knight ignored the spreading fire. She threw away the tower shield in her hand and strode over, dragging only a long sword.

"I am Dolan, the Knight Commander of Stonewell—no, now I should say Dolan, the Pureblood Knight of the Blood Dynasty. Today I have come to test the quality of the successor for my old friend."

Xiangzi shook his head, and his long blue hair was almost dyed red by the blood.

"Eric is not my teacher. We just had a good collaboration."

For some reason, she now had no intention of summoning ashes or using magic. She just wanted to fight the other party with swords and blood.

She instinctively felt that this state was a little strange, but the excitement in her emotions overwhelmed her reason.

Storms swirled around the Hound's tusk's curved blade, and only then did she notice that the weapon was also designed to bleed.

The curved sword collided with the large sword with serrated edges, but the petite girl was more powerful.

The Knight Commander was constantly pushed back by the storm and the curved sword, and the wind blades kept leaving cutting marks on her heavy armor.

The petals were cut apart by the colliding sword wind, splashing waves of blood beside the two of them.

"Indeed, your Storm Blade is even sharper than Eric's. You are indeed worthy of the title of Storm Knight!"

Knight Commander Dolan, who was retreating in embarrassment, was actually laughing.

Xiangzi has used the blade wrapping technique to unleash the Storm Blade more than a dozen times in a row, and his physical strength shows no signs of declining.

This is obviously not normal. Even if your physical fitness has been greatly strengthened, you should not feel any fatigue.

But Xiangzi still put this abnormality behind him.

Dolan, whose armor was broken and even her helmet was missing, suddenly jumped back a step. Her hair was messy and her face was weird. She was actually a female knight.

The Knight Commander suddenly grasped the serrations on the sword's blade with his broken hand and swiped it downwards with force. A large amount of blood instantly covered the entire sword.

"Blood Slash!"

The bloody blade came crashing down on her head, and Xiangzi held the weapon horizontally to block it, but the blood was not as sharp or powerful as she had imagined.

They just poured over themselves like ordinary liquid.

"--What?"

Her body, which had no wounds at all, suddenly lost a large amount of blood. Blood burst out from every pore, almost burning the girl into a bloody person.

-

In the round table hall, Gao Songdeng, who was writing something in a notebook, suddenly raised his head, and his amber eyes gradually turned purple-black.

"Xiao Xiang...?"

The magical power she quietly left on the other person seemed to be triggered.

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Chapter 11 White Mask

With a clang, the Hound's Fang's sword blade stabbed into the ground.

Xiangzi leaned on the hilt of the sword, and she almost half-knelt down, putting all her weight on the curved sword to keep herself from falling.

Blood flowed in large streams from the gaps in the armor, forming puddles on the ground under the girl's feet.

My heart was beating fast, my body was cooling down quickly, and hallucinations that had been lingering for a long time began to resurface before my eyes.

"You lose nearly half your blood, your heart rate increases, your extremities become cold, and you start to feel dizzy, nauseous... and drowsy."

The Knight Commander's voice became indistinct, like the distorted words received by one's ears after being squeezed by the water.

"Can you open your eyes now?"

Xiangzi watched the knight commander's lips move, but she could no longer hear what she was saying - the person speaking in her ear had become the dead man hanging on the old electric fan.

[So weak...I can't stand watching it.]

"You are indeed powerful, but even a hero can't stand up to me in a situation like this...?!"

The Knight Commander suddenly sensed something unusual, raised his sword again, and took a step back.

「Why not let me take over, just like last time──」

The girl, who had originally relied on her curved sword to keep her balance, began to move strangely. Her posture looked extremely awkward, as if she was being pulled by invisible threads.

First the legs and knees moved, and then the weak parts above the waist seemed to be wound up again, and stood up again like the back bending movement in dance.