"Lord Lothric, are your knights any good? Can they protect us?"
"Dealing with ordinary Irithyll Valley knights, three against one should be no problem. However, if it's an Undead Lord of Cinder like Viscount Lu Ming, it might take dozens of them to defeat him. By the way, most of my knights are of the Gladiator rank. The rest are mostly swordsmen."
"So, that means you should be able to protect us?"
"It's unlikely."
"Forehead......"
While Rael and the others were whispering amongst themselves, the vampire ministers and nobles announced that Kanina 6 was a new member of their ranks and had been appointed as a vampire diplomat.
As she felt the wolf blood inherited from Liu Ming slowly diminishing within her, Kanina's mood soured. Although she had voluntarily joined the vampire clan to help Miracaissa, the reduction of her wolf blood or its assimilation by the vampire queen's corrupted blood was something she found difficult to bear.
The wolf blood's connection to the sisters and nieces is getting weaker and weaker. What should have been a clear connection is now faint and almost imperceptible. It's really hard to imagine such a thing.
After completing the initiation ceremony, Kanina obeyed the vampire queen's orders and moved into the Grand Duke of Rells's mansion, awaiting the allocation of her own residence.
"The wolf blood in your veins has decreased too. I hope the younger siblings in Lily's womb won't end up like us." Kanina had just returned to the Grand Duke's mansion with the others when Amelia, who was waiting there, came over and sighed.
“Now I can’t laugh at you anymore…” Kanina sighed as well, then went to her guest room in the Grand Duke’s mansion to rest.
Watching Kanina's retreating figure, Rael and the others couldn't help but wonder if what they were doing was a mistake.
However, for the sake of the country, they had to do it.
However, they currently lack a way to contain the vampires, which could easily lead to their explosive growth and plunge Miracaissa into a new crisis. After all, without natural predators, even a relatively weak magical beast like the Magic Rabbit could cause the collapse of a large area of forest's ecosystem!
Pulling Amelia along, Rael and the others went to the conference room to discuss how to control the vampires and get them to work for Miracaiser without causing panic among the people.
"Most of Father's notes are about the blood of the Old Gods, dark magic, miracles, and soul magic. There's practically no mention of vampires." Amelia flipped through the notes that Lu Ming had left at Philna's parents' house, but she didn't find what Rael and the others were so eager to get.
"Then, what did Viscount Meyer write about Master Logarius?" Count Nero Catolo asked, his brow furrowing slightly.
Amelia flipped through her notes once more, and this time she finally found something that Rael and the others wanted to know.
"Master Logarius, the Martyr, a great man who slaughtered the entire Cainhorst and sealed its queen. After we defeat him, now an undead being, we can send the descendants of the Executioner to smash the queen's body, obtaining fragments of the Undying Queen's flesh. We can then use this flesh to seek out the Ancient God, the Daughter of the Universe, at Byrenvis Academy. By hunting down this Ancient God summoned from the universe by the Academy and offering the fragments of the Undying Queen's flesh to the spider that controls time, the truth of the world will be revealed, and a new Ancient God can be born..."
Listening to Amelia's interpretation, Rael and the others couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat.
Because whether it's Master Logarius's slaughter of Cainhorst or the seemingly impossible hunt for the Old Gods, these are taboo matters they shouldn't know! Moreover, these things likely determine the fate of vampires who weren't summoned by Miracaiser! Now they're forcibly helping the vampires, altering the trajectory of their destinies, and who knows what the consequences will be!
"Amelia, what is the title of Liu Ming's note?"
"Bloodborne. What's wrong?" Amelia looked up at Rael and the others, her face full of confusion.
Lothric frowned and pondered for a moment before saying to the others, "From this short note, we now know that the vampires and the Executioners—whose identity or organization is unknown—are enemies. This Master Logarius might be either the Executioners or the leader of this organization. However, we can't win over the Executioners; after all, they are mortal enemies and would never abandon their hatred for Miracaiser. Therefore, we must find a force on our homeland to restrain the vampires."
After saying that, he asked Amelia, "Amelia, based on your understanding of your father, what kind of force do you think he would seek to restrain the vampires?"
After thinking for a moment, Amelia replied, "It's probably something like a vampire or an undead." (To be continued.)
Chapter Twenty - The Profound Saint
As Lu Ming steered the carriage toward Agamemnon, he and Philner, who had recovered considerably, were talking.
But as they drove through a grove of trees, they suddenly realized that a number of people were following them.
At first, Lu Ming thought they were being followed by vampires and planned to take revenge. But as the people got closer, Lu Ming discovered that they were actually spies acting on the orders of the nobles.
"Whoa!!" Lu Ming stopped the carriage because several people were blocking the way directly in front of the mainland.
"Are you planning to welcome me? Count Phoenix Aimon, Count Dahl Carrot." Looking at the two local noble counts leading the way, Lu Ming suddenly had a very bad feeling.
However, this ominous premonition intensified when a fifteen-year-old girl emerged from between two native counts of Miracaissa.
"You are..." Lu Ming had just begun to speak, sensing the trace amount of wolf blood in the girl's body, when he was ruthlessly interrupted.
"Lord Lu Ming, the Prophet! I, Lisa Prakdora, in the name of the Prophet, hereby condemn you, the culprit who spread the plague and caused the destruction of Miracaesar!"
The girl's words shocked Lu Ming and Philna. The Dark Abyss had always been Lu Ming's enemy. Even the little bit of Dark Abyss Black Mud that Lu Ming could control in his shadow was only because of a broken soul.
Besides, how could the title of the Profound Saint possibly belong to Lu Ming? That's clearly Eldridge's title!
But what happened next was even more astonishing: the girl raised her left hand. Embedded in the glove on her left hand was Lu Ming's crystal amber eye!
"Who exactly are you!?" Lu Ming glanced at the secret agents who were slowly surrounding him and Philna, then asked the girl with a serious expression.
"I am Lisa Pracdora, the first warrior of the Farron Undead Legion!" She channeled magic into her crystal amber eyes, enveloping herself in the phantom of a crystalline beast, as she proclaimed her name. Lisa's gaze towards Lu Ming turned icy cold, as if she were looking at an enemy.
"The Undead Legion? I don't remember the Undead Legion ever having the title of First Warrior." Jumping off the carriage, Lu Ming slowly drew Irithyll's Straight Sword and took out the Aries Staff from his inventory.
"You don't know because you're not a member of the Farron Undead Legion! You bastard from the Cathedral of the Deep!" Lisa roared, then lunged at Lu Ming with the phantom of the Crystal Beast.
The raging beast, covered in crystals, opened its massive maw and spewed out countless giant arrows of soul energy, aiming them at Lu Ming.
Seeing the soul magic aimed at him, Lu Ming calmly swung his Irithyll Straight Sword, shattering all the giant soul arrows.
However, those giant soul arrows also slowed down Lu Ming's progress, giving Lisa the opportunity to pounce on Lu Ming with her phantom image.
"Who gave you permission to use her power?!" Suddenly, Lu Ming roared, and together with the suddenly appearing phantom of the black-robed woman, unleashed two Crystal Soul Spears!
With no way to avoid it, Lisa Pracdora was directly hit by the Crystal Soul Gun and sent flying.
However, protected by the phantom of the Crystal Beast, Lisa only suffered minor injuries and recovered quickly with the nourishment of a bottle of elemental vials.
"Crystal Soul Gun? Hah! You abandoned her, how dare you use her power? How dare you ask her for help?" Lisa wiped the blood from the corner of her mouth and said with a sneer, trying to further provoke Lu Ming.
Unfortunately, Lu Ming didn't become enraged as she expected. Instead, he looked around, clearly preparing to force his way out with Philna.
This is not what she wanted to see.
"Everyone draw your weapons and prepare to prevent the enemy from breaking through!" Lisa shouted at the spies as soon as she thought about what Lu Ming might do.
Meanwhile, Phoenix and Dahl also drew their weapons, ready to join the battle.
Phoenix and Dahl were both men who earned their titles on the battlefield, so their weapons were not decorative knightly swords, but rather the chain maces and heavy hammers used by knights on the battlefield.
Looking at the countless spies around him, the two counts who were clearly third-tier warrior-hammer mages, and the girl with Yusaha's eyes, Lu Ming felt an immense pressure. This feeling caused him to break out in a sweat even in early winter.
If Rael hadn't intended to kill Philna, Lu Ming could have forced his way out and avoided fighting these people. But the current situation is that Rael has never given up on killing Philna; if Philna is spared, she will surely die!
For Philner's sake, Lu Ming chose to fight.
Even if he doesn't lose badly, he won't win either. Considering the opponent's numbers, how can one person possibly win?
Therefore, in order to increase the chances of victory, Lu Ming took out three syringes containing dark red blood and injected them into his body one by one.
"Is this blood healing?" Seeing Lu Ming's actions, Count Phoenix Amon couldn't help but ask Count Dahl Carrot and Lisa Pracdora, who claimed to be the first warrior of the Farron Undead Legion.
“It should be. But the blood he injected doesn’t seem to be the blood of the monsters that Artus used for blood therapy. The blood he used is darker red than the blood of those monsters,” Dahl said, frowning.
“Blood therapy…” Hearing the words of the two counts, Lisa, who knew nothing about blood therapy and had never heard of it before, couldn’t help but wonder what blood therapy was.
But at this moment, Lu Ming's aura suddenly became terrifying.
After taking off his trench coat and tossing it aside, Lu Ming's body began to transform into a beast amidst bursts of lightning after being injected with divine blood.
“I used the blood of the Old Gods within Artus and the others to clone the Old God. And this is His blood. In other words, it is the purest divine blood. Although He is still weak, He has already obtained authority.”
Although this transformation was no different from his previous transformation into a thunderous beast, the golden lightning on his body had now turned into orange-red solar lightning.
"The authority I have given Him is to bring thunder and drought, so are you all ready to receive the wrath of the sun? I, the Lord of Cinder, am also a 'king'!!"
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Standing in his manor, Count Lothric looked out the window at the distant bursts of lightning from the sun and sighed heavily.
"I am from Lothric, and I know better than anyone whether Lu Ming is a Lord of Cinder in the Undead Legion. Alas... Amon and Carrot, may you rest in peace. As those who angered the Lords of Cinder, may your souls find peace."
"Then why didn't you stop them?" At this moment, Grand Duke Rael, standing behind Count Lothric, looked at a syringe in a box on the table and said, "You could have persuaded them and told them it was a lie."
"My lord, do you think I haven't tried? Because of this, they almost mistook me for one of the Deep!! Clearly, the prophet they believed in that little girl is the one of the Deep! How pathetic! Those two fools." Count Lothric said helplessly, gazing at the distant flashes of lightning.
"Do you know about the Hatu family?"
"I don't know yet. But Lisa will never be able to return to the Lu family in this lifetime. She was clearly just used..."
"I've noticed that you really care about children!"
"If your younger brother were also eaten by your father, you would do the same!"
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The beast clutched the wound on his right shoulder, panting heavily.
The spies around had suffered heavy casualties, and the two counts who came to intercept Lu Ming had been torn apart by lightning.
Of all the people involved in the assassination operation, only Lisa Prakdora remained.
Unlike the others, she chose to wait for an opportunity from afar and attack with magic, so she was unharmed. However, even so, she was now under immense pressure.
After undergoing blood healing, the beastly state it transformed into was far more terrifying than any crystalline berserker phantom created by the power of the crystallized amber eyes.
However, the power of the amethyst eye on his right hand is enough to contend with Lu Ming's current beast form.
"Since the power of the crystallized amber is not enough to defeat you, you dark demon, then the power within the amethyst will surely kill you completely!!" Lisa said viciously, her right fist clenched and placed in front of her chest as she slowly channeled her magic into it.
"..." But Lu Ming sensed the soul within the eye of the amethyst in this matter—a soul he knew very well. Although it was also a fragment, the emotion remained unchanged.
“That was… me…” Watching Lisa dispel the illusory form of the Crystal Beast and summon another illusory form of the Shadow Beast with colossal amethyst wings, Philna felt a resonance in his soul. He then couldn't help but look at the somewhat silent beast.
"Are you ready? Tremble under this dark magic! Demon!!" As the phantom solidified, Lisa charged towards Lu Ming, unleashing a terrifyingly powerful soul resonance!
The dark magic, far more terrifying than the soul magic of the Crystallized Beast phantom, forced Lu Ming to dodge in order to avoid being hit by it.
"Sun Lance!" However, while dodging Lisa's dark magic, Lu Ming did not stop. He unleashed a barrage of skills that could only be used in beast form, such as Thunderbolt, Electric Ball, and Flamethrower, along with Thunder-attribute miracles like Thunder Lance, Giant Thunder Lance, and Sun Lance, at Lisa, this brat with wolf blood who was clearly not on Lu Ming's side.
The clash between dark magic and miracles triggered energy explosions of varying degrees, causing Mesa and Cather, who were hiding near the carriage, to flee in terror, trying to get as far away as possible from Lu Ming, the nobleman who was likely to be killed. Only Philna, whose movements were still somewhat impaired, chose to stay behind.
Panting, Lu Ming suddenly seized an opportunity.
While dodging the Sun Spear, Lisa mistakenly took an extra step. This step gave Lu Ming the opportunity to rush in front of Lisa with a Wild Thunder Strike, viciously knocking Lisa, who was protected by a phantom image, to the ground.
Then, he immediately stepped on the neck of the Shadow Beast phantom, preventing Lisa from unleashing her dark magic. Meanwhile, Lu Ming himself gathered a large amount of lightning in his mouth, constructing a magic circle: "Yang Star Thunder Disaster!!"
The lightning pillar was spat out from Lu Ming's mouth. The jet-black lightning, as black as a sunspot, pierced through the phantom of the Shadow Beast in just 0.00001 seconds, melting the earth.
When the dark lightning dissipated, Lu Ming transformed back into a human body from a raging beast. His physical strength and magic power were completely exhausted, and even standing up was extremely difficult.
"Clap! Clap! Clap!"
Three rounds of applause startled Lu Ming. He quickly looked to the side and saw a person wearing a magic robe, whose face was not visible, but whose legs were made of several snakes!
Behind him stood a burly man. And on the man's shoulder was an unconscious Lisa Pracdora.
"The Lord of Cinder of the Undead Legion, I thought you would be weak. But I didn't expect you to be able to control Sulyvahn's curse magic and use that beast form for your own purposes. That's something I didn't expect. And, if I'm not mistaken, the miracle you just used was a legend you made up using the story of Lord Gwyn and your understanding of the sun, right?" The pale-faced, faceless man with snake legs said with a smile.
"Eldridge!" Lu Ming, who struggled to his feet using the Aries Staff, glared fiercely at the man.
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