My portable grandfather refreshes every week

"What? Someone actually dared to attack our Alban family?" In the main house, the elders who received the news looked at each other in disbelief.

After hundreds of years of development, the Alban family has become one of the world's leading noble families, and can even be said to be the absolute rulers of the western part of the world. The Alban family has also spread to nearly a hundred city-states.

Basically, even the worst-performing branch member can effectively control nearly half of the city's resources.

It can be said that the entire Alban family is a world-class aristocratic family.

But now, a mere city lord dares to attack the Alban family's mansion?
That's incredibly audacious! You're asking for it!
They immediately informed the head of the family about this through a special ceremony, and at the same time arranged for people to go to Roland City.

Meanwhile, in Roland City, once the war began, it would not end according to human will. The two sides, blinded by rage, had completely lost any possibility of reconciliation. The war would only stop when one of them became a corpse under the wheels of war.

The Albanian family's defenses have been breached twice. Apart from the outermost sentries, the first line of defense was broken through again by the city guards' relentless attacks. The city guards have completely occupied the Albanian family's outer courtyard and are now advancing towards the inner courtyard.

Corpses and limbs littered this once most prosperous mansion in the city. The ancient building, which had stood for hundreds of years, and the courtyard where a single tile was worth a fortune, were destroyed in the battle.

The city guards and the Alban family continued to fight at the intersection of the outer and inner courtyards, and the walls were gradually reduced to ruins and debris by the attacks and battles.

The place was littered with corpses, the vast majority of whom were members of the Olburn family, with a smaller number being members of the city guard. Although the city guard was stronger, this was the Olburn family's stronghold, and the place was teeming with Olburn family members. In addition, the family's magical incantations scattered across the ground were strengthening and motivating every member of the Olburn family.

This is why the current situation has become a stalemate.

Although the city guards had the advantage, this advantage was only useful before reinforcements returned. Once the Alban family returned, the situation would be hopeless!

So the city lord launched a frenzied and fierce attack, while the Orben family defended with all their might.

In the thousands of acres of the Alban family estate, the struggle for control of each courtyard resulted in the deaths of nearly a thousand corpses. Blood and flesh stained the noble family’s mansion red. However, no matter how many courtyards were lost, the Alban family would immediately organize their forces to fight back.

In less than an hour, only 500 of the city lord's men remained, and most of the remaining men were injured.

The Albanian family suffered even greater losses, with thousands already dead. Their corpses turned the city into a scene of terror, and they could no longer hold out.

The city lord's eyes were bloodshot with rage. He had no way back. This time, it was either success or certain death!

"Follow me and kill! Slaughter every member of the Alban family! Kill the head of the Alban family, and you'll receive a bounty of ten thousand, a thousand beautiful women, and a noble surname!"

Such a generous reward rekindled the fighting spirit of the exhausted city guards, while most of the Orburn family's able-bodied men were killed or wounded, and their resistance was now growing weaker and weaker.

The head of the Alban family witnessed this scene. He had already prepared an escape route and arranged for a double to remain in the family. He even drugged the double and hid in the escape route himself.

This time, he admitted defeat. He never expected that there would actually be fools who would launch a full-scale attack on the family. Also, because the Alban family had not waged war for so long, he had forgotten how to seize power through force.

However, the Albanian family won. They had just received the final intelligence that most of the troops sent to support the marriage procession had returned. It would only take about half an hour to travel there, allowing them to launch a pincer attack from both sides.

In fact, the stronger ones could even get back in just over ten minutes, at which point they would be the ones to win!

But could the Alban family hold out until then?

Hard to say...

"Faster, faster..." he kept urging. Although they would achieve final victory if they held on for just half an hour, he knew that the city lord would launch his most frantic attack during that final stretch.

……

On the other side, on the battlefield of the marriage alliance convoy.

"Protect the young lady!" the head guard roared, but now, blood had blurred his vision.

The family's reinforcements arrived, but to his utter surprise, the reinforcements numbered less than a hundred, and were mostly elite members, with at most one legendary-level leader. However, this group had already been surrounded by enemy forces.

Damn it, why did the family only send so few people!

His heart was filled with anger and confusion. The marriage of the young lady was the most important event for the entire family recently, but now, they felt as if they and the young lady had been abandoned.

The head guard was unaware that the family's situation was far more dire. If he were calm, he probably could have analyzed the problem, but the prolonged battle and the constant suppression by arrows and muskets, where they would die if they showed their faces, had pushed their nerves to the limit.

The blood vessels no longer flow with blood; they are filled with adrenaline.

Damn it! Where are the other support teams? Where is the Akatsuki?

He even started fantasizing about a gang coming to their aid. He would never have thought of this before, but now, even just a few Akatsuki squads helping to draw fire would be fine. Anyone who comes to help would be welcome!
"boom!"

The explosion of the magic cannon rang out beside him, and the captain of the guard felt his head buzzing, as if he had tinnitus.

A corpse lay scattered around him. The person under the armor had been chatting with him before, but now he was like this. He opened his mouth, wanting to roar, but no sound came out.

miss...

They were too busy to care about anything else; in this chaotic frenzy, he couldn't even care about himself anymore.

He could only cling to the wrecked carriage and forcibly continue to protect it behind him.

Anyone, please save me! Please save the young lady! Anyone will do!

At that very moment, the muskets, bows and arrows, and cannons all ceased their attack. The captain of the guard dared not show his face, fearing that this was merely a brief respite for the city guards as they began to reload.

However, after several minutes when no further attacks came, he dared to stick his head out, only to see the ambushing city guards lying on the ground in droves under the afternoon sun.

People in black robes with red cloud patterns stood atop the surrounding buildings, looking down at the world below.

"Akatsuki... Akatsuki organization..." He tried to look up with difficulty, but the sunlight was too bright, making it impossible for him to open his eyes. At the same time, the aftereffects of tinnitus made him feel dizzy.

"Finally, you've finally arrived..."

"what!"

Screams erupted; it was a massacre, a massacre of the city guards.

The city guards ambushing here weren't particularly strong, but they brought a lot of weaponry. This was the city lord's allocation. Because it was an ambush, they could bring more weapons and equipment, while the attack on the Alban family would be a blitzkrieg, so everything had to be carried lightly.

As for ordnance, especially large ordnance, its drawbacks are fully exposed when faced with attacks from all directions and its turning problem!
Headless corpses were pushed off the building, while Xue Dinglu observed the world's weaponry and technological level with great interest.

The musket... although it's like magic, allowing the initial velocity of the projectiles to reach over Mach 5, the reloading is too slow. Even for a skilled musketeer, the interval between each shot is several minutes.

Because this musket has never deviated from the principle of the simplest three-barreled musket.

As for cannons...

Xue Luding looked at it; it was clumsy, big, and rough, somewhat like the Red Cannon in a museum. It was also very outdated, but it was more stable than the Red Cannon because of the magic detonation, and the initial velocity of the projectile was several times greater.

However, loading and charging the magic circle are even more troublesome.

According to Xue's assessment, although the power was much higher, the overall military technology was still inferior to that of World War I, or even lower.

It looks like something that traveled from the Ming Dynasty.

correct……

Xue Dinglu slapped his forehead, only then realizing that Mephisto himself was from the late Ming Dynasty, but had simply transmigrated to this world.

In the eyes of people at the end of the Ming Dynasty, firearms and cannons were probably the most advanced technologies.

This is like a certain outer disciple of the Tang Sect believing that the Rain of Pear Blossoms Needles and the Buddha's Wrath Tang Lotus are the most powerful weapons in the world. But in reality, the Rain of Pear Blossoms Needles are far inferior to the Three-Eyed Firearm of the same period, and as for the Buddha's Wrath Tang Lotus...

Isn't that just an old-fashioned hand grenade?

Its principle is exactly the same as that of a hand grenade, the only difference is the amount of explosive.

To this day, this thing isn't as powerful as the gas cylinders sold to the Middle East.

After all, the equivalent of a single gas cylinder is quite exaggerated, and no matter how much medicine Buddha's Wrath Tang Lotus contains, it can't compare to the amount in a gas cylinder.

The technology in this world seems so bizarre. After hundreds of years of development, are muskets and cannons still the most powerful weapons in the army...?

It's simply... indescribable...

Having arrived in another world and learned more advanced magical knowledge, don't you even think about improving and developing it? Mephisto, you're really a disgrace to Earth's transmigrators.

"Leader, it's all cleared out. The people who ambushed us here were generally weak, but they were all equipped with very good gear," someone said.

Xue Law: "..."

Aside from its destructive power, this thing is problematic in every other way... Receiving these things feels like collecting scrap.

Moreover, even in terms of destructive power, it can only pose a slight threat to legendary-level enemies at most. This is only because the magic array detonation is more stable than gunpowder detonation, which gives it such a slight advantage.

"Alright, let's start welcoming Miss Alban." Xue Daolu estimated that he had waited until this time to help, after all, how could the Alban team, which was now mostly dead and crippled, be as easy to take over as the unscathed Alban team? When riding towards the marriage procession, Xue Daolu saw a large number of corpse fragments and a sticky liquid directly smeared on the carriages.

A large amount of the property originally intended for the Akatsuki was blasted to pieces, and it seemed that there were hardly any survivors in the entire convoy.

Xue Dinglu immediately used the cursed blood to control his facial muscles, revealing an anxious and tense expression as he shouted, "Quickly protect the remaining survivors and treat the wounded! Medic, come with me to see how Miss is doing, whether she is injured!"

The anxious voice echoed through the ruins.

The head guard struggled to lift his head and saw Xue Dinglu rushing over anxiously. He recognized him as the leader of the Akatsuki organization. He had arrived as if a divine warrior had descended from the heavens to his side.

At that moment, he couldn't control himself, and snot and tears streamed down his face.

"My lord, my lord, we have fulfilled our mission and protected the young lady well... my lord..." All the words the head guard had prepared beforehand were now useless. He could only move his body with difficulty, revealing the carriage behind him.

"You're injured, medic. Come quickly and treat him. Don't worry, I'm here. You don't need to be afraid anymore. The Akatsuki is here, and all of you are safe now."

"Hmm..." The head guard nodded vigorously, but he didn't want to leave yet. He still hoped to see the young lady come out safe and sound. After all, the young lady they had risked their lives to protect must be alright, right?

"Crack!"

Xue Dinglu opened the deformed and twisted carriage door, and a "corpse" rolled out from inside, its face full of terror, its fingers covered in bloodstains, and the entire interior of the carriage was covered in twisted scratch marks.

Xue Law: "..."

Faust: "..."

Su Su: "..."

"Young Miss!" The head guard's eyes were filled with horror. He tried desperately to get up, but the damage and exhaustion in his body almost made him fall to the ground.

"Don't worry, he's fine. He just fainted from shock," Xue Dinglu reassured the head guard.

However, in the communication within the consciousness space, Xue Dinglu directly said, "It's hopeless, just wait to die, farewell!"

"She should be a little dead, right?" Su Su looked puzzled, while sizing up her "love rival" who was about to marry Xue Dinglu. Her figure and face were okay, but her stiff corpse looked too ugly.

"It's not that he was partially dead, he was probably brain dead for about 6 minutes, and there are no obvious external or internal injuries, so most likely..." Xue Dinglu checked with his cursed blood, "most likely he scared himself to death..."

Faust: "..."

Su Su: "..."

"She's a young lady from a wealthy family, how could she be so scared?" Su Su asked, puzzled.

"She probably thought she couldn't escape this time. The explosion happened right next to the carriage. She was covered in a binding ritual, and she was probably imagining what would happen if she were caught by the gang. She was stressed and desperately tried to open the door, but the door was twisted by the explosion and couldn't be opened. She died of stress in this confined space..." Xue Dinglu, as a medical student, gave a professional diagnostic standard.

"Are there any living things that can stress themselves to death...?" Su Su continued to complain.

At this moment, Faust, who had been silent all along, said, "Now that the young lady you were betrothed to is dead, how will that affect your plans? Without her as the source of your legitimate identity, it will be difficult for you to contact the main family of Alban, won't it?"

"That's not necessarily true. A half-dead 'noble lady' like this is the best." Xue Dinglu began to use holy light to heal, while the cursed blood kept the corpse alive.

Because it was a stress-induced death, although the young lady was partially dead, her body still retained some vitality.

This is normal, just like how an organ can remain active for about 48 hours even after being separated from its host body.

That is, the person as a whole is dead, brain dead, but the cells, organs and other parts of her body are still alive.

This is enough for Xue Dinglu. He can keep this half-dead body as his tool, while also cultivating a persona of deep affection for himself.

Alas, Xue's Law had a brilliant idea: he placed this body in an ice coffin, and then used this as his title to become the sole heir of the Orburn branch family. Every day, he would come to the ice coffin to express his longing, and he could also get close to Mephisto under the pretext of praying to the gods to resurrect his beloved wife.

He had even thought of his final line: "Rise, my love."

While thinking about his plans, Xue Dinglu said to the outsiders, "It's alright, my wife is not dead, but she seems to be unconscious. I don't know when she will wake up."

In reality, it had already suffered brain death and cardiac arrest, but its body was forcibly kept alive by the cursed blood.

"That's good, that's good..." the captain of the guard said with difficulty, before finally fainting.

Xue Lude planned to keep the "corpse" alive like this, and then carry the ice coffin to the main house in Alban when the time came.

Once contact is made with Harley Albann, the corpse's usefulness is over.

However, at this moment, Faust suddenly said, "This plan actually has a problem. Once the real members of the Alban family examine the body, they will understand the situation. It's still easy to be exposed. Actually, we arrived a little too late..."

"The best time is when she's so stressed she goes crazy; that's when rescuing her is in our best interest."

"There's nothing I can do. I've only possessed a 12-year-old boy, so I don't have such strong perception to control time so precisely. But as long as it doesn't affect the overall plan, it's fine." Xue Dinglu shrugged, picked up the "girl" in his arms, and gently lifted her onto the horse under the gaze of the few Orben family guards around.

"Brother Lu, can I temporarily use this little boy's body like you did? I heard it's some kind of mind-stealing ability?" Su Su suddenly asked.

Xue Law: “?”

What kind of amazing wisdom is this?
“This is indeed a good method. Your original plan was too simplistic, Apostle. A mere ‘vegetative’ person who can’t wake up will make the remaining members of the Alban family resentful and unable to win them over. At the same time, it will be impossible to gain the trust of the main family. It would be best to have a living Alban family heiress.”

“Even if it’s just a superficial existence, that will suffice,” Faust said.

"Yes, yes, brother, look! I'm controlling this body, and we're just like last time, combining our swords in perfect harmony, like the Condor Heroes, performing a thrilling combo! Isn't that great? See, I didn't hold you back last time, did I?" The little witch's eyes immediately lit up.

Xue Law: "..."

Although that makes sense, for some reason, Xue Law always felt that this silly girl was trying to pull off a big show with her limited and amazing wisdom.
"Brother, say something!" the little witch urged, eager to try.

Xue Dinglu was speechless, then changed the subject and complained, "Actually, isn't it a bit too villainous for us to be discussing how to use corpses, how to deceive people, how to possess corpses, and so on? It makes us look like some third-rate villains..."

"Oh, isn't that right?" Su Su immediately showed a shocked expression.

Xue Law: "..."

Faust: "..."

Well, what they're doing now isn't much different from what villains do. They're the kind of despicable, shameless, vile, and insidious third-rate villains using second-rate schemes, preparing to utilize first-rate resources to plot against a top-tier enemy.

However, Xue's Law and Faust had already abandoned morality and enjoyed a life of immorality long before this.

“We should keep Miss Alban alive; it will make the plan easier to carry out,” Faust stated his opinion.

"Alright then." Xue Dinglu felt that this wouldn't affect the overall situation.

So quickly, Xue Luding put the corpse into his consciousness space and placed it in Su Su's dormitory.

Then he said, "Follow my guidance, and I will let you temporarily take over this body."

"it is good!"

Xue Luding placed the corpse on the bed and then began to use the cursed blood to perform the mind-stealing technique.

Although it wasn't the original technique, but a modified one, and even one with very poor stability, after being possessed, it lost all its aptitude and became no different from a useless person, more like a puppet being manipulated with strings.

However, the Mind Flayer's ability to possess bodies is undetectable even by the world's consciousness, and that is its greatest strength.

Therefore, Su Su stood on top of the corpse and fell straight down, her whole body turning into afterimages in mid-air, her soul falling into the corpse.

As the last afterimage entered the corpse, the eldest daughter of the Alban family twitched her eyelids.

"Susu, open your eyes..."

The girl's eyes opened for a moment, but they were unfocused, as if she were dying with pupils filled with a mixture of fear and stress.

"Did it fail?" Xue Dinglu wondered.

“Brother…” came the girl’s voice, and his pupils immediately returned to their silly look.

She immediately stood up, reached out and touched her body, completely disregarding Xue Lude's presence, and directly put her hand inside her chest to weigh her chest.

"Not bad, it's about half the size of my original body," Su Su said.

Xue Law: "..."

You are crazy!
Su Su immediately went to Xue Dinglu and said directly, "Brother, aren't we husband and wife in name only now?" (End of this chapter)