Unreliable Sword Immortal.

Chapter 76 Vampire Gathering (Thanks to Boss Liushui Fuyun for the donation)

"This quest has been altered; it consumes dimensional merits but rewards dimensional merits, haha, not bad! I wonder if this quest has a time limit. The final reward is Nut Fortress +1, could it be that it rewards me with a Nut Fortress?"

Lu Chaoding felt a surge of excitement and wanted to see how the system would reward Nut Fortress with +1, so he immediately began to experiment.

He now has 162 dimensional merits, and he spent 5 points to buy a gold coin.

"Ding! 5 Dimensional Merit Points consumed, 4 Dimensional Merit Points awarded!"

Lu Chaoding was overjoyed when he heard the system notification.

"Consuming 5 merit points and rewarding 4 merit points is equivalent to an 80% refund, a 20% discount! If that's the case, then don't blame me for being a scalper!"

Lu Chaoding took out some gold coins from his storage backpack to recharge, raising his dimensional merit to 600. He then bought 3 lottery tickets, immediately gaining 480 merit points. He spent another 400 merit points to buy 2 more lottery tickets, gaining another 320 merit points, and so on…

Two minutes later, Lu Chaoding had spent a total of 2365 merit points and obtained 11 [Lottery Tickets], with 160 merit points remaining.

It's worth mentioning that the lottery tickets that Lu Chaoding bought were normal lottery tickets with a guaranteed probability.

"Great, these lottery tickets came easily! However, I still don't have enough merit points; I need to save them up!"

After a moment's thought, Lu Chao flew away on his sword. A short while later, he found the nearest monster stronghold outside the entrance to Nut Fortress and started farming monsters.

He dared not force his way through the Nut Fortress, so he had no choice but to wait for the enemy to come to him.

They kept watch until nightfall.

The setting of Kuosen Island is similar to that of Tianxing Island. There are also nocturnal beasts at night. The monster stronghold where Lu Chaoding was located quickly spawned night wolves. While monitoring the entrance of Nut Fortress, he also farmed night wolves, and before he knew it, he had been grinding for more than five hours.

At this point, Lu Chao had already leveled up the [Sword Immortal Twelve Hatreds] to LV6. He also collected more than 500 gold coins and a lot of materials. However, he could not get cultivation insights here, but could only get experience tokens, which were items that could be exchanged for experience points.

"Players in the Mech King Universe obviously level up through experience, so these experience tokens are useless to me. I might as well give them to the players here so they can level up quickly and I can farm merits. Also, players here are likely to drop items when they are killed at night, but I killed a lot of them today, so I won't kill any tonight. I need to raise the piglets a little longer before slaughtering them, and I need to wait until the leeks have grown a new crop before harvesting them."

Thinking of this, Lu Chaoding rode the Great Xuan Sword into the air, sat on it, and enjoyed the night view while munching on compressed biscuits.

He decided to take a short break before continuing.

Suddenly, Lu Chao's eyes lit up as he spotted a figure flying close to the ground.

[Vampire Baron: LV10, HP 5000, Attack 500, Defense 10, Resilience 12, Speed ​​120.]

"Huh, so vampires really do exist!"

Lu Chaoding immediately put away the compressed biscuits, stepped on his sword and chased after the vampire. He quickly attacked with his sword and pulled the vampire baron into the battle space.

To make it easier to level up [Sword Immortal Twelve Hatreds], Lu Chao removed the [Splitting Light and Shadow Sword] skill book, so he couldn't kill [Vampire Baron] in one hit. However, once in the combat space, he killed him with a single strike.

It is worth mentioning that Lu Chao has the [Limitless] characteristic, which allows him to freely change equipment and skills during battle, making him extremely flexible in combat.

To Lu Chao's surprise, the [Vampire Baron] he killed actually dropped two quest items.

The first prop is a black-and-red turtleneck cape.

[Vampire Cloak: Quest item, one-time consumable, usable only inside or near Shadow Castle. When equipped, it allows you to disguise yourself as a vampire. Its effect disappears at dawn.]

The second prop is a letter.

[Duke Alice's Invitation: You open the letter and learn that Duke Alice, the vampire, has invited all vampires on the island to a party at Shadow Castle, scheduled for midnight tonight. You realize that possessing the invitation grants you entry to Shadow Castle.]

As Lu Chaoding put away the two items, a system notification immediately sounded: "Ding, you have obtained the quest item [Duke Alice's Invitation]. Do you wish to accept the quest [Vampire Gathering]?"

"receive!"

"Ding, receive the mission [Vampire Gathering]. Mission description: You have decided to disguise yourself as a vampire and infiltrate Shadow Castle. You may get important information, or you may get nothing, but in any case, this is a very dangerous mission."

Mission hint: Do not approach the Vampire Duke, she will see through your disguise.

Mission reward: Uncertain!

"Ding! The occasionally unreliable system has started up, updating the tracking mission and altering the content: You have decided to disguise yourself as a vampire and infiltrate Shadow Castle. You may get important information, or you may get nothing, but in any case, it is a very enjoyable mission."

Mission hint: You must get close to the Vampire Duke; she won't see through your disguise.

Mission reward: Uncertain!

"Huh? This mission is interesting. A rather enjoyable operation? Does this mean I can do whatever I want?"

Lu Chao checked the time; midnight was approaching. Feeling he had some free time, he rode the Great Xuan Sword and headed towards Shadow Castle, following the route indicated by the mission.

Kuosen Island has many dilapidated castles and church-like buildings. Lu Chaoding had only been to the Afeng Castle, which seemed to have been built for giants, and had not been to the others. He guessed that those castles might be monster strongholds or dungeon areas, but the Shadow Castle was obviously different. When Lu Chaoding arrived at its location according to the quest guide, the castle was slowly rising from the ground.

"A castle that only appears at midnight?"

Lu Chaoding looked around curiously. A number of low-level vampires had gathered around Shadow Castle. When they spotted Lu Chaoding, they bared their teeth and surrounded him menacingly.

"If it weren't for the mission, grinding vampires here wouldn't be bad."

Lu Chao immediately used the [Vampire Cloak], and the vampires that were surrounding him stopped in their tracks, then began to wander around aimlessly.

A moment later, after handing over the invitation, Lu Chao entered the Shadow Castle and saw a hall that resembled a grand auditorium.

The hall was decorated very lavishly, with a huge long table in the center covered with red silk, and many high-backed chairs around the table.

And sitting prominently in the main seat was a beautiful red-haired girl.

Lu Chao could not see her attribute information, but it was obvious that she was the vampire duke Alice.

Lu Chao strode over and sat down directly next to the vampire duke Alice. With the unreliable system's support, the vampire duke indeed didn't react at all. She sat quietly, waiting for the party to begin.

A moment later, four more people entered the hall. Lu Chao looked up and saw that they were Cannon King Jinx, Gun God Cupis, Pilot Marcus, and Cannon King Dalding.

All four of them were wearing vampire cloaks, and they were all stunned when they saw Lu Chao sitting next to the vampire duke.

"A reliable sword immortal..."

"Why is that reliable swordsman here too?"

"He's sitting next to Alice!"

"His level is probably higher than Alice's, so what's wrong with him sitting next to her?"

The four men slunk away, hesitant to move forward yet unwilling to leave, caught in a dilemma. After a moment's hesitation, they finally decided to stay and chose to sit down in a high-backed chair in a corner.

Lu Chao glanced at them casually and then ignored them.

Then, as midnight approached, eighteen more vampires arrived.

Among them were three vampire counts, six vampire viscounts, and nine vampire barons. They all had names and surnames. After they appeared, they first bowed to Alice, and then they also bowed to Lu Chao.

After they were all seated, the plot progressed, and Alice "activated." She sighed first, saying, "Alas, those guys at Nut Fortress are getting more and more outrageous; three of our comrades are gone!"

She paused, then said, "Then let's begin the first stage. These are precious treasures I retrieved from my ancestors' treasury. Without further ado, the highest bidder wins!"

As she spoke, Alice placed three small treasure chests, each the size of a jewelry box, on the long table.

Lu Chaoding suddenly realized, thinking to himself, "So it's an auction!"

Sorry for the late post, I had something come up. I'll try to make another one tonight. Everyone go to sleep now.

(End of this chapter)