Lord of Mysteries: Taiyi

Chapter 161 Vivian

Thursday, Backlund.

Kurt said goodbye to the two girls and returned to the West End alone in a carriage.

His divination told him that today was not a good day to go to the East District to continue liberating those who had been trafficked—he guessed that the military or church members had started to stake out him, plus there was a cursed bat locked up at home.

I can spend some time researching this tonight, and I also need to find time to finalize the Viscount Grelint's custom watch.

Tomorrow we have to hold Phinks' funeral. After the funeral, I'll go with Fors and the others to fight the Full Moon's Whispers and see if we can find a way to deal with Mr. Pollution Gate.

"I could paint a picture for the funeral," Kurt thought to himself as he returned to his third-floor bedroom.

Looking at the room, which was filled with plants and piled with experimental equipment, Kurt took off his coat and hung it on the coat rack. After washing up briefly, he slowly moved back to his desk.

I opened the slightly glowing drawer and found the bat still obediently staying inside, showing no signs of waking up.

Kurt remembered what her spirit looked like and immediately felt a headache coming on. From a spiritual perspective, it was a person, but her soul was locked inside the body of a bat.

This must be some kind of ritual for punishment or simply evil. As he pondered this, Kurt remembered the second part, which he hadn't seen in his previous life but had been following. It seemed that there was indeed a way to do something similar in it.

What is the purpose? What is the significance? To place a vampire or artificial vampire, at least Sequence Seven capable of evoking divine resonance, into the body of a bat? Along with extraordinary characteristics?

Lixins should be able to find a solution, but even Melanie, a follower of the Vampire Clan, isn't helping her. She probably won't help this vampire who likely doesn't even believe in the Earth Mother.

Finally, Kurt decided to use the all-powerful Gray Fog Divination method, which everyone who had used it said was excellent!

Without further ado, Kurt found a thin needle and planned to draw some blood from the bat. He held the bound bat with one hand and the silver needle with the other.

The needle pierced the bat's skin. Due to the great force Kurt applied and his precise control of the force, the physical enhancement provided by Sequence Seven was insufficient to prevent the needle from penetrating the bat's skin.

The blood was extracted, and Kurt used his blood control ability to complete the blood collection.

Just as he was about to offer his blood as a sacrifice to Black Peak, the sleeping bat suddenly stirred and slowly opened its eyes!

Huh? Kurt was stunned on the spot. How did she wake up so fresh and vibrant?

Even the spirits were asleep before!

When the bat awoke, she found herself bound and tried to break free in a panic. However, the vines had almost completely absorbed her physical strength and spiritual energy. Now, apart from being a little stronger, she was also more resilient and almost no different from an ordinary bat.

Kurt watched the bats trying to bite through the vines, and with a slight activation of "Sin and Punishment," he added a touch of authority to his voice, speaking in Hermes: "Can you understand what I'm saying?"

The bat was clearly stunned by the authoritative voice, stopped struggling, and nodded its head with a slight tremor.

Instead of using the method Susie used to vibrate the surrounding air to make a sound when communicating with Kurt, she directly used the calls of bats.

Kurt, who can communicate with animals, managed to understand her calls.

"I couldn't find any blood to drink, and then I fainted from hunger. I just fell asleep."

That was roughly what she meant. Kurt frowned slightly. Even a Sequence 9 Susie could talk, so there was no reason why a Sequence 7 vampire couldn't talk.

Kurt looked at the trembling bat and asked in a gentler tone, "How did you become like this? Can't you speak?"

The bat continued, "Uh, it was Father who turned me into this. He was afraid I'd starve to death outside, so he modified my body into this less energy-consuming form—isn't this how you talk? If you were going to say what you said before, I can't now. I just became a bat."

Not long after, my father threw me out of the house.

Bat ultrasound is still very difficult to understand, and the amount of information it conveys is enormous.

What do you mean by "I'm afraid you'll starve to death, so I'll turn you into a bat"? What kind of bizarre reason is that?

However, Kurt didn't dwell on that question. After flipping a coin to confirm the other person wasn't lying, he continued, "What's your name? Where do you live? Who's your father?"

The bat seemed to pause for a moment, as if it had lost its train of thought, before continuing, "My name is Vivian, and I live in a dark castle surrounded by stones—my father's name is Gudra."

All around are stones? A castle—then it doesn't seem to be in Backlund. Kurt tossed the coin again and saw heads up, showing George III.

"I'm not lying, Goodra. The original work doesn't mention any vampire with the same name." After a moment's thought, Kurt continued, "What sequence were you before you became a bat? How old were you? Did you have a mother?"

Seeing that the other person was struggling to answer, Kurt used his ability to recreate scenes as a storyteller to effectively convey the question to Vivian.

Vivian reacted much faster and continued, "Sequence Six, over 60 years old, his mother died two years ago."

There's a Sequence Six vampire who almost starved to death in his bat form? What kind of vampire anomaly is this?

Turning into a bat would allow me to suck the blood of animals, right? Otherwise, what's the point of becoming a bat?

Kurt cleared his somewhat confused mind, rubbed his temples, and continued, "What were your parents' Sequence Numbers? Why were you thrown out? Do you know how to get back?"

Vivian, as always, answered each question obediently, saying, "Dad told me he was Sequence Four, but I didn't ask Mom because I wasn't interested in these things, so I didn't ask—Dad suddenly went crazy and after transforming me, he said he was going insane and told me to go out and live on my own—but I still messed it up, I almost starved to death—"

She paused for a moment and said, "I roughly remember the route back. It's quite far from here. I flew here because I sensed human blood."

Dad told you it was Sequence Four, but he didn't know Mom's—it couldn't vibrate the air to make a sound yet. Was this some kind of extraordinary being using the "Moon" pathway? Kurt vaguely guessed some clues.

He continued, "Is your father plotting anything?"

This time, his question carried the weight of "crime and punishment," causing Vivian to tremble violently. She stammered, "I don't know—I usually just—sleep, and study—"

Kurt glanced at the coin toss and realized he wasn't lying—well, why emphasize sleeping?

Kurt carefully asked again, "Have you been out before?"

Vivian shrank her neck and shook her head naturally.

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