Lu Ming, Saldar, Nero, and Artus, each with their own hunters, began hunting to their hearts' content in the civilian district.

"Everyone, move fast!" Directing the hunters to hunt their prey, Lu Ming and his men broke down the doors of every house on the street.

Because of the custom in Miracaisa that the common people unconditionally trust the nobles, the number of people receiving blood therapy in the commoner district is the highest in Paris!

Here, Lu Ming and his group hunted down more than fifty beast-like blood therapy patients within an hour.

This has led to many hunters being scratched by the beast-like blood-healing patients while hunting, thus forcing them to undergo indirect blood therapy.

Although very little of the blood of the Old Gods can enter the human body in this way, one or two hunters were splattered with a large amount of the blood of the beast-possessed patients due to hunting too frequently, and thus became beast-possessed!

It was precisely because of their bestial transformation that the hunters, after painfully killing their companions, gradually became more cautious.

As they forcibly broke down the doors of houses and hunted down the beast-like patients inside, Lu Ming and his companions gradually realized that the subtle hints given by the hunters—to discourage people from undergoing blood therapy—had not been heeded by the public. Many families had all undergone the beast-like transformation together, clearly indicating that the entire family had received the blood therapy.

"Fran's Swift Sword!" Lu Ming, his face stained with blood, gasped for breath as he severed the head of a monster with his dark blue soul sword.

The wolf's blood was boiling, yearning to slaughter these dark and evil things.

A female hunter wearing a black trench coat and a gold mask walked up to Lu Ming and asked, "Are you alright?"

"I'm fine." Lu Ming glanced at the female knight and asked curiously, "Why are you here? Did Rondor send you?"

“No. I was just worried about you,” the hunter said, shaking her head.

"Never mind. I don't have a partner anyway, so you can help me." After thinking for a moment, Lu Ming said as he walked outside.

"Okay." The female hunter nodded slightly and followed Lu Ming.

Walking along the streets where hunters hunt, Lu Ming handed a talisman he had made to a female hunter.

"Although I don't know if you can use miracles, it's better to give this to you."

Gently stroking the amulet made of a tuft of white hair of some unknown origin, the hunter asked with some doubt, "Is this thing useful?"

Knocking on the door of another house, Lu Ming said to the huntress, "Although I made this myself, I had Jack test it. This amulet can indeed work miracles, and it's better than a regular holy bell."

"...You have this skill?"

"This thing is just about cleaning the hair and tying it up; it's not much of a skill," Lu Ming said casually as he installed the violent weapon on the door, hearing a roar coming from behind it.

Realizing that Lu Ming was about to force open the door, the female hunter immediately drew her weapon, ready to assist Lu Ming in the hunt.

"Boom!!" The wires were ignited, and the violent explosion quickly blew open the tightly locked door.

In that instant, Lu Ming rushed in with Irithyll's Straight Sword in hand, and the huntress followed closely behind.

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Standing on the rooftop of the temporary residence prepared for distinguished guests in the city of Paris, the Black Dragon Duke of Erebus, Grand Duke Ramtes Hedist, watched the hunters rushing through the streets outside the window, hunting down people who had undergone blood healing and turned into beasts, and his heart bled.

"Your Grace, should we go and stop those arrogant (hunters)?" Asos Soren, standing behind His Grace, stepped out from among His Grace's large group of confidants and asked His Grace.

“There’s no need. If you go out to stop them now, not only will the Church of Light be hostile to us, but even the Church of Londor and the Church of the Deep will be hostile to us.” Looking out the window at the street where a burly werewolf was being hunted down by several hunters, he sighed with some sorrow.

“Indeed. Both Londor and the Church of the Deep are now furious about our blood therapy experiments. In Londor's view, we are simply taking away the chance for people who might become members of the Wraiths.” Although the reasons for Londor's anger towards blood therapy left Leggett and the others speechless, they were indeed somewhat dissatisfied with Mirakessa.

"When will Cainhorst's pure blood arrive?" Grand Duke Hades didn't care whether the two dark forces, Rondor and the Church of the Deep, who were already harboring ill intentions, would be angered by the blood healing. He only cared about when the pure blood Cainhorst had promised would not cause beastification would arrive in Miracath.

Leggett and Luianali exchanged a glance before stepping forward and saying to Grand Duke Hades, "Cainhorst's purebloods will arrive in three days. However..."

"Just what?" Grand Duke Hadist turned and glanced at Leggett, startling him.

"But after the night of the hunt, will the people realize that the beast transformation is due to blood therapy, and thus refuse blood therapy?"

"Right now, the hunters that Lu Ming and Sal have created don't dare to openly mock us. We just need to wait for some people to secretly replace the red magic lamps with white ones, and then we won't have to worry about this anymore," Grand Duke Hadist said with a cold smile to Leggett and the dozen or so others.

"But Your Excellency, aren't you afraid that Lord Lu Ming, that King of Cinder, will reveal the consequences of the blood healing?" Viscount Rooney Altair stepped forward and asked, "After all, he's a King of Cinder who isn't even afraid of the Deepest Deep and Dunathondra!"

Looking at Viscount Rooney Altah, Grand Duke Hedist shook his head in disappointment, then snorted coldly, "That depends on whether his family members, Sham Hatu and Miral Sachi, agree!"

"You must understand, both of them are of noble birth. They would never allow Lu Ming to do something that would put him at odds with most of us nobles!"

After Grand Duke Hadist finished speaking, Luyanali stepped forward and continued, "Sham of the Hatu family and my daughter Miral are with Lu Ming for specific reasons. Sham wants to revitalize the Hatu family through Lu Ming's status and strength, while Miral wants to establish her own magic academy through Lu Ming. Therefore, if Lu Ming seeks his own death, they will be the first to oppose him and assassinate him!"

"But Lu Ming won't confront us head-on, will he? You know, he's been hiding the blood therapy all these days. If he brings it up later, the survivors are unlikely to believe him!"

"Not bad!" (To be continued.)

Chapter 58 - Night of the Hunt II

"Unexpectedly, we haven't realized the significance of the red magic lamp all these days." In the cathedral of Paris, a large number of people who were placed here and protected by priests from the Church of Light (the hunters) were furious about being blood-healed.

"Under the oppression of the Grand Duke, the church and most of the nobles in the city are actually willing to fight for us foolish commoners. I really didn't expect that."

“Since the last Dark Age, both the Church and Viscount Lu Ming have chosen to resist. It’s not surprising that they will join forces with the nobles to hunt and protect us during this beastification.”

"Why didn't they tell us secretly, so our families didn't have to...?"

"Do you think they don't want to?!"

"this......"

"Blood therapy was proposed by the Grand Duke. Neither Viscount Lu Ming nor any other nobles could directly warn us, otherwise they wouldn't have established (the Hunters)."

"But on my way here, I heard monster roars coming from many houses with white magic lamps hanging up. Surely that couldn't be caused by blood healing too?"

"Ha! They're just some bastards who saw through the blood therapy and are afraid of being hunted down, so they resorted to this little trick! Otherwise, why would there be no one else in their homes besides themselves?"

"You've been inside?"

"When I and two hunters arrived at the settlement, we encountered a monster breaking out of the door. After the hunters killed it and went inside to check if there were any survivors, I went in too. As a result, apart from being a bit messy, there wasn't even a single animal carcass in the house, let alone any human remains!"

"In other words, these people were most likely hinted at by the Grand Duke to hang the white magic lamp in order to disrupt our thinking?"

"almost."

Listening to the other people rescued by the hunters analyzing why they had turned into beasts and why the hunters hadn't revealed the consequences of the blood healing, Mia and Mira, the two sisters rescued by the hunters, sat at the church entrance, watching the hunters approach from afar. They sat for a while by the campfire of burning bones outside the church and then left. They pondered their future lives.

Their father transformed into a monster and tore their mother apart, and he himself was hunted down and killed by hunters. With no relatives to rely on, the two sisters naturally became orphans. Their future life would be extremely difficult.

Putting everything else aside, just getting food is a huge problem.

Although it's unclear whether there will be any aid or assistance available, even if there were, the two sisters are completely incapable of cooking. At only seven or eight years old, they already require constant care. Having always been pampered by their parents, they are utterly incapable of independent living. Without aid, they will have no choice but to go to an orphanage.

However, the clever older sister came up with a solution...

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"Dark Orb!" With a sharp sword, Lu Ming pinned the largest and strongest monster he had seen in over three hours to the wall, then pressed his magic staff against its neck and unleashed a Dark Orb that cost only 15 magic points, killing it completely.

The achievement "Duna Xiangzhuo's Doppelganger" grants three dark spells. Aside from the powerful but mana-intensive Dark Greatsword, the other two spells and the miracle all cost 15 mana. However, for some reason, the Dark Orb, which should be slightly less powerful than Soul Resonance, is much more powerful in Lu Ming's hands.

Perhaps it's because Lu Ming is a magician!

"I'm out of magic." After cutting off the monster's left ear with his dagger, Lu Ming stood up, wiped the blood off his face with a clean piece of clothing in the room, and then said wearily to the female hunter.

“After three hours of hunting, you should be out of mana.” The female hunter smiled, then suggested to Lu Ming as she walked outside, “The church has prepared bonfires for the undead at various settlements throughout the city. The closest one to us is the church, so let’s go there and rest for a bit.”

“Okay.” With his head down, Lu Ming glanced at a shallow wound on his arm, then pulled the Irithyll Straight Sword from the monster’s body, shook off the blood, and walked toward the church with the huntress.

During their journey, Lu Ming and the female hunter encountered Saldallo and Philna. The two of them were exhausted from the long hunt, and their weapons were somewhat damaged.

"Does the resettlement site have spare weapons? Like your Irithyll Straight Sword?" Saldal asked with some envy, glancing at the brand-new Irithyll Straight Sword in Lu Ming's hand.

"I had the logistics department prepare some weapons, and I also prepared some Papal Knight curved swords and barbarian swords. Especially the Papal Knight curved swords, they're top-quality products from Irithyll!" Hearing the jealousy in Saldal's words, Lu Ming smiled helplessly.

"I hope the others didn't take all the good stuff." Saldallo said with some concern after hearing that Lu Ming had distributed good things to each resettlement site.

"I hope you can get the weapon you want." With a slight smile, Lu Ming and the others fell silent. After all, except for the female hunter, they were all very tired. Moreover, even the female hunter, whom Lu Ming had forbidden to fight, had hunted down several monsters, so even talking was exhausting.

After walking for about ten minutes, Lu Ming and his three companions arrived at the church's bonfire.

Exhausted, the group sat by the campfire, letting the flames burning with the remains of the undead drive away their fatigue and pain.

Just then, two adorable little girls suddenly brought over two basins of warm water and personally washed Lu Ming and Saldallo's faces. This gesture surprised the exhausted Lu Ming and Saldallo.

"Did the church tell you to do this, or did you come up with it yourselves?" After carefully looking at the two little girls with tear stains on their faces but very determined eyes, Lu Ming asked with some doubt.

“It was our own choice to do it,” the older of the little girls replied.

"why?"

"Because we want you to adopt us both," the little girl said very directly.

Slightly taken aback, Lu Ming realized that the two girls had become orphans due to the beast transformation caused by blood healing. In order to survive, they wanted him and one of the Saldarorians to adopt them.

Lu Ming exchanged a glance with Saldalo and noticed that Saldalo shook his head slightly, clearly unable to adopt the two children due to family traditions. However, the huntress did not object, and Lu Ming handed the two custom-made silver wolf-biting pendants to the two little girls.

"From now on, you are my daughters, Lu Ming's daughters! Do you understand?"

"Ok!"

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The swordsman hunter, wielding the Pope Knight's curved sword, hacked away at a group of beast-like ordinary people who were charging at him like madmen.

If it weren't for Archbishop Tut's support, this powerful swordsman might have been crushed to death by a group of beast-like ordinary people because his inner energy was depleted.

Having forcefully killed the last beast-like patient, the swordsman hunter, panting heavily, said to Archbishop Tut, "Although the weapons of Irithyll prepared by Viscount Lu Ming are very useful, there are just too many of these guys. I've already exhausted all my Qi!"

"My magic power is almost depleted. Looks like we'll have to go back to the resettlement site again." Archbishop Tut said, panting, glancing at the few survivors he and his companion had rescued.

"Ah. Let's go." Dragging their weary bodies, the swordsman hunter and Archbishop Tut led the two survivors they had rescued to the resettlement point in this area.

Here, the two of them encountered Baggetton, who was delivering a box of amulets made of some kind of hair.

Seeing Baggetton standing there with a box of amulets, chatting with a female priest responsible for protecting the survivors, Archbishop Tut immediately walked over and asked, "Bagetton! What brings you here?"

Upon seeing Archbishop Thute approaching, the female priestess hunter who had been chatting with Bajton immediately fled as if fleeing, leaving a very frustrated Bajton there alone to face Archbishop Thute.

Knowing that the old man valued church members highly and would become difficult to deal with whenever church members were involved, Baggetton rolled his eyes, slightly raised the box in his hand, and said, "I'm just responsible for delivering the amulets that Lu Ming prepared."

"Amulet? What's it for?"

"Just like the holy staff in your hand, it is used to cast spells and perform miracles."

Upon hearing this, Archbishop Tut immediately felt that Bajedon was boasting. But after trying it himself, he discovered that the amulet's effect was only slightly less than that of the holy staff in his hand. This was quite surprising.

"This thing..."

Archbishop Tut was about to ask how the amulet was made when Baggetton immediately interjected, "Lu Ming said this thing is called the Amelia's Long Hair Amulet."

“Uh…” Archbishop Tut immediately understood what was going on.

Speechless, he rested for a while by the campfire with the swordsman hunter who was unaware of what had happened, before setting off again to hunt. This time, however, he wore a lock of Amelia's long hair around his waist.

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