Chapter 172: Dekan Begins to Exploit the Resurrection Church Followers |
“Yes, Lord Marquis.”
Countess Lilislina responded from outside the door.
She had received Morion's praise.
It was hard to hide the joy in Countess Lilislina's voice.
However, there also seemed to be a hint of disappointment, and a little anticipation.
About not having the opportunity to see "Marquis Roderick" at this moment, and about seeing "Marquis Roderick" again tonight.
Just like a lovesick young girl.
Dekan listened to the movements and footsteps outside the door.
He was sure that this pitiful vampire, whose feelings had been thoroughly deceived by Morion, had quickly left.
“How should we start this encounter...”
Dekan muttered.
Although the daytime ensured that the vampires wouldn't dare to easily escape the mansion and bathe in the sunlight.
But dealing with five 6th-rank vampires with massive health pools, plus Countess Lilislina, all at once inside the mansion was still too troublesome.
If only he had powerful explosives, he could just blow this mansion away. Fighting vampires under the sun would be like slicing melons and chopping vegetables.
Unfortunately, there was no backup support here like in Tristine City.
Although one could buy explosives from the Chamber of Commerce with money.
But to buy so many powerful explosives and then walk straight to the Lord's mansion.
Probably no knight would stand by and watch such an act.
So, to deal with these vampires in the simplest way without harming the innocent.
It seemed he could only exploit those three prisoners.
Perfect labor force.
After all, Dekan didn't like to get his hands dirty with fighting.
If he could avoid it, he was willing to sit on his fishing platform and watch others fight for him.
Dekan shook his head helplessly and gently poked Cornelia's cheek.
“Hmm?”
Cornelia opened her eyes and looked at Dekan beside her.
“We should get to work.”
“Oh, okay.”
Cornelia quickly woke up, full of vigor.
So the two of them put on their masks and walked out of the room.
At this moment, they both used a magic potion bought from the Chamber of Commerce to disguise their hair color as black.
After all, they didn't want to give the Resurrection Church followers a chance to guess their identities.
Even if they both wore masks, if they revealed even a little of their abilities, anyone who knew them would quickly guess who they were upon seeing their hair colors.
“My two lords, please follow me.”
The vampire familiars dressed as attendants bowed to the two and spoke respectfully.
Although they were all familiars of the Blood Clan, their masters' ranks were different, so their ranks were naturally different as well.
Besides, these two demons seemed to be the Marquis' confidants.
But to Countess Lilislina, they weren't that important.
So Dekan and Cornelia followed the two vampire familiars.
“By the way, when you captured the enemies yesterday, what magic did they use?”
Dekan asked the two vampire familiars as they walked down the corridor.
“They used that strange magic tool again.”
“Those cards?”
“Yes.”
“This is precisely the method the Resurrection Church has developed to deal with the Blood Clan. We must nip them in the bud!”
Dekan explained with a straight face, fooling the vampire familiars.
Then he asked about the battle process from yesterday.
The result almost made Dekan burst out laughing.
The identities of the three were too obvious.
From the descriptions of these two familiars, it could be basically confirmed that the three captured fellows had all used the Shadow series Spell Cards produced by Shadow Bishop Minos.
Dekan was now even beginning to suspect that Minos was deliberately trying to harm people by making the effects of the Shadow series cards so obvious.
Although Minos' cards were indeed very popular among the Resurrection Church followers, even becoming the mass-produced standard of the Resurrection Church.
But as soon as you pulled out these cards to use, it was basically equivalent to revealing your identity.
To the extent that even if ordinary people could capture Shadow series cards, they wouldn't dare to use them easily.
For fear of being mistaken for a Resurrection Church follower.
So, under the guidance of the vampire familiars, Dekan soon arrived at the basement of the Lord's mansion.
This basement looked extraordinarily like a prison.
A few slivers of light flickered in the corridor but were swallowed by the boundless darkness, unable to create even a ripple on the steel-cast walls. A thick iron door, enchanted with magic, was embedded in a remote corner like an iron coffin, filled with a heavy sense of oppression.
Originally, this basement was used as the Lord's emergency escape route.
Now, it had been temporarily converted into a prison.
When the vampire familiar opened the heavy iron door, a pungent smell of blood immediately assaulted them.
Perhaps for vampires, this was a sweet aroma.
But for humans, this smell was undoubtedly unbearable.
Soon, they saw the captured challengers.
These three heavily injured prisoners were shackled at their hands and feet. They looked severely injured, with parts of their bodies already a bloody mess.
Apparently, they hadn't gained any advantage in their fierce battle with the vampire familiars earlier.
And the vampire familiars, being of the same 6th-rank as these challengers, naturally didn't dare to be careless.
So, to ensure a solid victory, the vampires had fought with all their might.
They had only tried their best to keep them alive.
As for the male mage and female warrior from before, as well as the humans captured even earlier, none had survived the night.
However, this led to the vampire familiars not having eaten last night, so they could only watch with longing as these three humans were locked in the cell.
The three prisoners looked at the approaching figures with terrified expressions.
They were almost in despair.
“You two go out first and wait for us at the door.”
Dekan instructed the two vampire attendants.
“Yes, my lord.”
The two vampire familiars agreed.
The vampires' attitude clearly made the three prisoners look at Dekan and Cornelia with even more fear and unease.
Weren't these vampire familiars' master Countess Lilislina?
How could there be other “lords”?
Could it be that there was an unknown hidden boss in this Shadow World?
A terrible guess immediately formed in their minds.
Was it possible?
Marquis Roderick wasn't defeated by challengers but was replaced by a more terrifying existence in the Shadow World?
It was possible for Shadow Worlds to have overlapping situations.
For example, while they were in a 6th-rank Shadow World in the south of the Holy Kingdom, a different timeline in the north of the Holy Kingdom might be running an 8th-rank Shadow World.
In some Shadow Worlds, if your luck was bad enough, and the map and timeline happened to align, plus some wrong conditions were triggered, it was very possible for powerful enemies from other difficulty Shadow Worlds to intrude.
If such a situation occurred, their hopes of escape would go from close to 0 to truly equal to 0.
Because soul-bound magic cards could be spiritualized and hidden within one's soul, their magic cards had not been confiscated by the vampires.
They were waiting for daytime, when the vampires' defenses were at their weakest, to break out.
Because vampires could only exert about one-tenth of their power when exposed to sunlight.
As long as they could successfully break out of the mansion during the day and run outside, the vampires naturally wouldn't chase after them.
But now, these two newcomers wearing strange masks made them feel an immense, impending fear of death.
“You foolish humans who dare to provoke the Blood Clan, are you ready to pay the price?”
Dekan said coldly.
As he spoke, he took out a small notebook from his pocket and wrote on it: "Cooperate with me, and I will get you out."
He showed it to the three prisoners.
At the same time, Dekan held his Holy Rite Church Priest's Certificate in his hand.
This made the expressions of the three prisoners become incredibly surprised.
Soon, Dekan wrote on the paper again:
“We were originally the town's priest and nun, and also close friends of High Priest Kevin. After the High Priest was defeated, I feigned surrender to Countess Lilislina.”
“She thought she had me under mental control, but in reality, I resisted it with the power of the Lord God.”
“I have been lurking by her side, waiting for an opportunity to find someone who could discover her existence and defeat her together!”
“......”
The sudden turn of events left the three prisoners stunned for a moment.
But soon, they understood the situation.
A key story character had come to save them!
This “native” priest of the Shadow World must be the key to turning the tables in this seemingly unsolvable Shadow World!