Witch, don't be so lazy

"You ask me, how do I know? Isn't this just about going to look for it..."

Mrs. Rose replied impatiently, but as soon as she finished speaking, she shuddered and her hair stood on end.

Because it was a completely unfamiliar voice.

Without any hesitation, a bright blood light flashed in the tent and rushed towards the direction of the sound.

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A few days ago, both of the elderly people in my family were hospitalized. Guihuagao's mother also had to undergo a minor operation and could not take care of the elderly. Guihuagao had to take the bullet train back to my hometown to help overnight. I really had no time and no mood to update, but luckily, they have been discharged from the hospital now.

After taking a look, I think I owe you nine chapters. This chapter is 9,300 words. I would like to apologize to everyone who is worried about me. Sorry, meow.

Chapter 129 Lady Rose

As the most famous dark creature, the characteristics and habits of the vampires are almost known to everyone and have even evolved into stereotypes.

Among them, there are many false and half-understood news - for example, fear of sunlight, which is mostly evolved from the idea that the scorching sun spell dispels shadow energy; the need to suck blood to maintain life, which may mean that one can quickly recover by sucking blood when dying; fear of the so-called holy emblem, because it was originally an extraordinary prop launched by the Vatican's witch hunting group, specifically used to hunt dark creatures.

But at the same time, there are also many correct understandings. There are many handsome men and beautiful women in the vampire race, their lifespans are much longer than those of ordinary creatures, and their talents are terrifyingly strong. The threshold for becoming a vampire is not high. Any creature of flesh and blood can become a vampire through the First Embrace...

Doesn’t it look beautiful?

Especially after reading the best-selling picture book "A Thousand Years of Grudge" in this world, some creatures, on the one hand, admire the noble elegance of the blood clan, and on the other hand, admire the blood clan's power. If they then learn through "investigation" that vampires have no so-called flaws or weaknesses at all -

There is no doubt that the status of vampires in their hearts will become extremely lofty, equated with perfect creatures, and they would rather go bankrupt than get the chance to have their first embrace.

According to Hans, the Mammon Order in the southern continent openly sold the first embrace quota. The highest price was said to be the first embrace held by the vampire prince himself, but unfortunately the price was kept secret. However, the first embrace quota of the vampire archduke was clearly marked at 3.2 million gold coins, the first embrace quota of the earl could be obtained for only 780,000 gold coins, and the first embrace quota of the viscount was the hottest, which could be obtained for just over 100,000 gold coins.

As for the Baron's First Embrace, it is very cheap and affordable, only more than a thousand gold coins are needed. Even if you are a magic apprentice, if you work diligently and save for more than ten years, you can be transformed into a noble vampire. Even some lucky and smart civilians may be able to meet the requirements.

It is indeed beautiful. After all, these are the results of deliberate propaganda by the vampires.

The above content is certainly true, but it also intentionally or unintentionally omits some key information.

For example, everyone knows that vampires reproduce through the Embrace, but most ordinary people don’t know that the Embracer has absolute control over the Embraceee. It is a powerful double contract of soul and flesh and blood, and is the highest level of slave contract.

It is so powerful that even if the holder dies, the orders it gave during his lifetime will bind the holder for a long time, even if his will is exhausted and he becomes a walking corpse, confused or loses his memory, he cannot forget it, just like those wandering undead and mechanical golems.

Unfortunately, even fewer people know this information, and they may not care. Rather than spending a mediocre and short life as an ordinary creature, they would rather work like slaves for powerful vampires.

This leads to another thing.

When a vampire performs the First Embrace ceremony, it will damage his or her own strength, and even reduce his or her talent and elemental affinity by a certain proportion. Therefore, the more powerful the vampire, the more cautious he or she will be in dealing with the First Embrace. This is also the reason why the price difference of the quota is so large.

Among so many price ranges, the First Embrace performed by the Baron is extremely cheap. Except for some fools who really believe that the vampires deliberately lower the price in order to reproduce their clan, most people who have just set foot in the Extraordinary World will think that this is the result of market competition. Scarcity makes things valuable. After all, the Baron is the lowest level in the vampire clan, and there are too many of them.

Unfortunately, this is a common misconception.

As we all know, in the first embrace ceremony, the bloodline inherited by the embraced person is one level lower than that of the embracer, but there is no guarantee. The baron bloodline is not the lowest level, and the bloodline below that is "inferior".

Why are they called inferior species? Because they are no longer worthy of being classified as noble vampires - they are addicted to the urge to suck blood and cannot control themselves, have a short lifespan, do not have terrible vitality, usually do not have much affinity with shadows, and even have the disadvantage of being afraid of light.

That’s right, consistent with the stereotype, after going full circle, those information that were originally thought to be slanderous are not necessarily false. It’s just that the vampires do not recognize them as the same kind and change their names to blood servants.

Every year, a large number of mortals who do not know the reason spend their fortunes to participate in the Embrace Ceremony, but they do not get the power they imagined, but are turned into lowly bastards and have to be slaves to the superior vampires for the rest of their lives.

Of course, Lady Rose is different from those idiots and unlucky guys. She is a real vampire, and of earl-level bloodline. Her first embrace ceremony was held by Grand Duke Leonfor himself.

The talents she possesses are also very luxurious - [Advanced Extraordinary Regeneration], [Blood Communion], [Son of the Night] and [Charming Domination].

There is nothing much to say about the first two. Anyone with a noble bloodline can obtain them. They perfectly match the abilities in the public's impression, such as long life, super vitality, and drawing life force through blood.

The latter two are interesting. [Son of the Night] is exclusive to the Earl's bloodline. In addition to being able to gain bonuses such as vision, strength, and magic recovery in the dark, it also has an exaggerated shadow affinity. It is more than one level stronger than the Viscount's [Night Walker] and the Baron's [Sleepless], and is almost touching the threshold of blessing.

[Charm Domination] was actually just [Domination] at first, which could control some mice and bats at most, but during the spiritual world tour when she was promoted to the second level, she obtained [Secondary Charm]. After combining the two, she could achieve functions close to those of a mid-level spell with this talent alone.

It is no exaggeration to say that the "sweet words" that Estherin has worked so hard to cultivate may be similar to the talent of Mrs. Rose, except that one focuses on subtle influence, while the other focuses on love at first sight.

Extraordinary creatures are so powerful.

Because of this, Mrs. Rose once felt that she was the darling of fate.

After all, she was born in a town in the Principality of Caschia. Because she was beautiful and had a talent for spellcasting, she was directly selected to be a maid in the Duke's Palace. Due to her natural intelligence and knowledge, she won the Duke's favor in just five years. She didn't have to pay more than three million gold coins at all, and she was directly transformed into a noble vampire.

Even after Grand Duke Leonfor's unexpected death, she did not feel too helpless or frightened. Instead, she continued to deepen her thoughts.

There was no way, because she accidentally glimpsed the secret of Grand Duke Leonfor, and then successfully entered a demiplane on the surface of the spiritual world, breaking the First Embrace Contract that bound her.

Afterwards, he escaped from the Duchy of Caschia without any danger, got rid of the pursuit of the hostile vampire faction, avoided the interception of the witch hunting group, and finally arrived at the Broken Sea smoothly and joined the Cult of Disaster.

Such a smooth life experience inevitably makes people think that they are the protagonist of their own destiny.

Unfortunately, Mrs. Rose's good luck seemed to have run out after her escape.

She originally wanted to follow the Disaster Cult to wreak havoc on the people, practicing slowly while plundering resources.

But who knew that for some reason, Dazis, who had obviously valued her before, suddenly lost interest in her. The bastard Kuwei asked her to go to the inland with him, and Dazis actually agreed.

This is fucking outrageous. Asking the three of them to destroy a city in the North is no different from asking them to die.

Please, they are only second-level, and in the North, second-level mages are the lords of a town. There are multiple second-level elite mages in any city, as well as terrifying third-level archmages. The "Star Witch" above may take a look at you at any time...

Those two idiots, Kuwu and Yinya, are actually coming up with the Wailing Angel Project seriously. It's really weird. They both have problems with their brains.

One is a fanatical follower of Dachis who dares to charge without even taking orders; the other is also a bit crazy, and actually thinks that he can have the last laugh by colluding with the city of Asda, and he doesn't even think about where the black warrior under his command came from. With the pile of bad things he has done in the coastal areas, it is estimated that the Northern officials will hang him a dozen times.

It was at that time that Mrs. Rose began to think about defecting.

While she was thinking about advancing to the third level to increase her chances of survival, she was secretly getting in touch with the people from the Wuguang Society.

Since she didn't meet the minimum standards for touring the spirit world, she could only advance through the blood feast, so she simply volunteered. Since Wither would definitely threaten her to attract attention anyway, she might as well take the initiative.

She took great pains to choose the ruins of Taichir. This place was closest to Shell City where the Lightless Society was causing trouble, and there was a resentful troll tribe nearby. It was simply the most reasonable choice.

However, the goddess of luck still did not favor her.

Ai Selin was exposed early, Yin Ya went crazy and betrayed her, and the guide of the Wuguang Society was still nowhere to be found...

Even when one is extremely unlucky, one might be in the troll camp one moment and become a prisoner the next.

Lady Rose swore she had done her best.

The first spell he used was his most proud spell, "Shadow Blade".

It was a terrifying blade composed of shadow energy and magic. It was very flexible and could appear at will in the shadows within a certain range. It could cut the enemy into several pieces in an instant.

Although it was just an ordinary mid-level spell, combined with the elemental affinity of the Night Child, it could almost instantly kill most second-level mages.

Even a creature as thick-skinned and tough as the Troll Chieftain, who possessed the [Advanced Supernatural Regeneration] Heaven 20 II Longqisba gift, would still be severely damaged.

Moreover, Lady Rose was very cautious. In addition to casting the spell, she also gave the troll leader Dork the order to attack, and then she used another intermediate spell "Ghost Drift" to change direction.

After all, the enemy has sneaked into the camp and must know that I am the mastermind behind the scenes. They will definitely attack me first.

Although she was very confident in the vitality of the vampires, she still let Dorke, who was better at taking a beating, go forward while she looked for opportunities to attack.

Mrs. Rose is truly a person of high quality as she remains calm in times of crisis and can come up with a complete set of countermeasures in a split second.

Unfortunately, the opponent is too strong.

Ghost Drift is a spell from the School of Shadows that uses shadow energy to allow the caster to move quickly. It is named because it looks like a light gray wraith, literally meaning it looks like a ghost.

But the enemy's spells were faster, no, to be more precise, faster and with a larger range.

In Mrs. Rose's shocked eyes, most of the light in the central tent disappeared, because the soil on the ground had been lifted high, like a circled ball, forming a prison.

She didn't even have time to change direction before she crashed headfirst into the steel-like soil. She became dizzy and the last ray of light above her disappeared.

The prison made of clay was completed, and then it shrank rapidly, using irresistible force to try to squeeze the vampire into a pile of dregs.

The battle was over before she even saw the enemy's face.

All I could hear was the chaotic sounds of my thoughts.

"Squeeze you into a ball!"

"Momo! Don't kill her, just use up most of her magic power... Miss Anke, what are you doing?"

"This troll is so tanky! I can't hit it! It's actually regenerating so quickly! Look at me staring at it!"

"...Half of its body has been crushed into the soil. No matter how tenacious its vitality is, it won't last much longer. Miss Anke, please don't use telekinesis to hit it. You can't use soul attacks. Trolls are relatively weak mentally. Don't let them become fools. At least ask for the information before fighting..."

Mrs. Rose's ears were buzzing and her heart was chilled.

She didn't know what kind of group was out there, but it seemed like there were two very crazy guys who were extremely cruel.

Although she and Dorke both like to torture and kill other creatures, it is okay to use these methods on others, but not on themselves. At this time, strong vitality will become a negative talent.

Fortunately, there is good news.

She realized that the other party had no intention of killing her directly. Since he had something to ask for, there was room for maneuver.

Mrs. Rose's mind was working rapidly, and she kept shouting:

"I know you're from Arthda City, and I know what you want. Relax. If Yin Ya can cooperate with you, then of course I can too. If he can talk, then so can I."

Although I have been despising Yin Ya for being brainless and spineless this morning, when it comes to the moment of life and death, I naturally have to be more sensible.

"I know all of the Withered's plans, the secrets of the Calamity Cult, and I also know the actions of the Lightless Order in Shell City..."

She paused, and seeing that the mud ball showed no sign of loosening, she gritted her teeth and told him her biggest secret. Of course, she only cast a hook first.

"And I've come into contact with the Dagger of the Forsworn. Have you heard of it? As the emperor's most powerful ally, the chief demon god Baal-Hada grew weary over the years. To end his pact with King Solomon, he painstakingly forged a weapon embodying magical wisdom and power."

"I was lucky enough to visit a demiplane in Baal Hadar. There, I saw something legendary, and used it to cancel the Embrace Ritual. If you had the means to examine souls, you'd know I wasn't lying!"

Mrs. Rose finished speaking in one breath.

She believed that as long as she showed enough sincerity and the weight of the secret, the other party would definitely be interested.

as predicted.

The dirt that trapped her fell away, revealing a devastated scene.

There was blood all over the ground, his lower body completely buried in the ground, and his upper body covered with bruises. He looked as miserable as the goblins who drew the "Seal of Moloch".

Without caring about empathy, she quickly looked at the stranger who suddenly appeared.

Two people plus one animal.

A naive and violent girl who is ignorant of the world, a black-hearted little girl who likes to pretend to be cute and innocent, and a kind-hearted and reliable little gecko.

Relying on her rich experience and combining it with the words she just heard, Mrs. Rose quickly made her own judgment and then immediately chose her target.

As long as there is room for conversation, she can use her intelligence to gain as much breathing space as possible.

Mrs. Rose looked at the little girl named "Encore" with disguised fear and flattery on her face.

There was nothing much to say. She understood and was best at dealing with those precocious little girls who thought they were smart, because she herself had been one of those people.

"Perhaps it was fate that brought me together with the three of you..."

Unfortunately, she was ruthlessly interrupted before she could finish her opening remarks.

Interruption in a double sense.

The moment her eyes met the little girl's, Mrs. Rose felt a buzzing in her head, as if she had been hit by a heavy hammer.

Then, I heard some harsh words:

"Stop talking nonsense, who wants to listen to your nonsense, Sister Momo~"

Before she could finish her words, Mrs. Rose felt her mouth being pried open by a palm made of clay, and then a pool of colorless and odorless liquid was poured into it.

"Ah, when did little An Ke learn Momo's signature skills?"

"The second time we met, Sister Momo directly added truth serum to the milk sticks and tea, eliminating the need to distinguish true from false, saving time and energy!"

"Xiao An is really smart, he learns quickly~"

"whee."

Little Gray seemed to be hesitant to speak, Lady Rose looked ashen, and the troll leader was dying.

Chapter 130 Secret

The movement in the center of the troll camp was not deliberately concealed, so it naturally could not be hidden from the ears of the surrounding creatures. However, although they noticed it, they did not react at all.

Because now that place is the residence of the vampire queen, who is very powerful. When she gets angry, even the leader will be whipped in public. She is also cruel and ruthless in her daily life. Every now and then, she will choose a few unlucky people to be her playthings and food.

Compared to the shrill screams of the past, the slight ground shaking and low wails were nothing.

It's impossible for any accident to happen in our own base, right?

The trolls ignored the unusual movements in the center of the camp, which allowed them to survive a little longer.