Lord of Mysteries: Taiyi

Chapter 162 Every second counts.

Having not left the house for over 60 years, that explains everything. To starve to death shows a complete lack of survival skills. Kurt looked at the pitiful girl transformed into a bat by her demigod father. Judging by this, her father must also be seriously ill. Truly, she's a vampire, isn't she?

Kurt sighed and shook his head, then asked, "How far is your home from Backlund city, or rather, how far is it from where you fainted? How long does it take to fly there?"

"I don't remember, but it's been a long time, the sun has come out more than 10 times —" Vivian answered, then paused before adding, "Uh, of course I spent several days sleeping — I love sleeping."

Even spirits can fall into a deep sleep? Kurt was starting to have a problem. If Vivian's description was correct, then this wasn't a curse, but rather human modification or soul grafting—after all, Vivian still retained the Potions Professor's strength and physical prowess.

This certainly doesn't seem like a curse. From this perspective, Vivian has lost her original human body—making it very difficult for her to transform back into a human.

If it were just an extraordinary creature, Kurt would probably sign a master-servant contract with it directly, getting a Sequence 6 extraordinary pet for free. But now, the soul of a vampire girl is trapped inside its body—and so far, she has clearly not made any mistakes.

Thinking this, Kurt carefully asked, "Did your father tell you how to restore your original body? Or do you want to restore your original body?"

"I don't know. My dad wouldn't let me see him for the two weeks before I was thrown out." The bat, now freed by Kurt, scratched his head in a human-like manner. "I feel pretty good in this state. I only need to drink a little blood to live for a long time, and it's easier to sleep."

Was she on the verge of losing control before being thrown out? Kurt flipped another coin and found that the other side was telling the truth—this not only showed that her father retained a sliver of rationality before he was about to lose control, but also that she really didn't care much about the humanoid body.

Upon seeing this, Kurt first drank a mouthful of Fors's blood to calm the agitated "God-given" and began to think about this vampire who was starting to doze off again.

Handing it over to the church seems like the best option, but behind her lies the legacy of a demigod, which is now very likely guarded by an out-of-control witch king—very dangerous. Moreover, this witch king is clearly conducting human experiments, and there are likely many strange test subjects—

Even now, Kurt's outfit doesn't look quite right.

Kurt actually considered keeping the news a secret for a moment, waiting for the demigod to come and reap the spoils, but after thinking it over, he felt that handing it over to the Church of the Earth Mother Goddess was the most worthwhile.

He's the Mother Goddess's most "favored" chosen one; would the Church dare not give him sufficient benefits? Well, although the Harvest Church of Backlund probably can't perfectly reap this inheritance—

After all, the Holy Church couldn't just swagger in and send a demigod into another god's parish. If the Harvest Church wanted to eliminate this threat now, it would probably ask the Church of the Night for help; the two had a good relationship.

Thinking of this, Kurt took out a bottle of the bishop's blood—speaking of which, the bishop is now responsible for the blood consumption of me and Emlyn, will he be able to handle it? Uh, later I can find a way to have Hazel or Coralie sacrifice some of their blood to lighten the bishop's burden.

As an aside, Kut can make blood constantly divide to produce new blood, but this blood is sustained by the Kut's spirit. Once the Kut stops providing spiritual support, it will disappear, so it is not as cost-effective as real blood.

After feeding the bat a little, Kurt heard her satisfied moan of thanks, and then he fell asleep.

They showed no concern for their current situation, acting as if they were just trying to survive every second.

It seems this guy doesn't even understand the concept of death—fortunately, her danger has probably been eliminated, and a Sequence 6 bat is no threat to her now.

Tomorrow I'll take her to the church—if things continue like this, Kurt feels that the Harvest Church will soon be too small, especially after he envisions the situation after the Great Smog of Backlund is resolved, when the entire church will be packed.

After all, people tend to believe in gods who can truly save them—he intends to use the power of the Earth Mother to resolve this incident, and ideally, to kill the Witch of Despair directly in the East District.

Getting off-topic, Kurt pulled his wandering thoughts back, used his finishing touch ability to make a breathable cage, lined it with some experimental cotton, and then put Vivian inside.

After doing all this, Kurt even wanted to shake her—oh no, he forgot to suppress "sin and punishment," and his good intentions were amplified.

While doing something against common sense, Kurt suddenly realized that he might have underestimated the intensity of this side effect.

His original idea was to keep it with him and gradually get used to the side effect—but now it seems better to keep it when attending public places, such as salons and parties to see Audrey.

Otherwise, he might do something unexpected in front of Miss Justice. Uh, more importantly, there are many nobles with bad behavior at the party. Some things that Kurt could have tolerated might have been blown out of proportion and made him want to kill those people.

After thinking it over, Kurt went downstairs to the workshop and found a tin box containing some instruments such as files.

After placing the necklace inside and sealing it with a spiritual wall, I prayed to myself to cut off its internal influence on the outside world. The specific operation was to use the authority of the "medium" to create a surface without the function of the medium, which is equivalent to an independent space.

After stuffing the modified tin box into his pocket, Kurt breathed a sigh of relief and then made a potion to relieve the slight ailment that had accumulated in his body.

Thinking of the bishop's blood problem, Kurt smirked and, with a thought, arrived at Black Peak.

Compared to before, the black mountain peaks were still shrouded in churning clouds, with red and white lightning flashing through them. The difference was the presence of several low pillars of worship, large and small orbs of light, and a mysterious gray mist that stretched straight to the sky.

Having located Hazel's pillar, Kurt channeled his divine sense into it. After confirming that the girl wasn't engaged in any private activities like dry bathing, he opened his field of vision and saw Hazel, dressed in a silk nightgown, sitting cross-legged on her bed with her eyes tightly closed.

Not moving at all.

Are you researching methods to refine pollution? You're quite diligent, Miss Hazel. Kurt nodded with satisfaction, first triggering Hazel's enhanced spirituality after her investiture, and then, after she opened her eyes, didn't immediately pull her to the foot of Black Peak.

Instead, he directly conveyed everything he wanted to tell her in a teaching manner.