Chapter 459: Taking the 'stealing the house' to the extreme, the vampire's coffin has been stolen! |
"Open the door..."
The stone chamber door opened, and the vampire Jeff, who had left earlier wearing a black tailcoat, entered with a team of guards equipped with extremely sophisticated gear.
Seeing the opened airlock door and sensing the terrifyingly dense Blood Energy aura wafting from below.
The vampire sensed something was wrong.
"After we go in, you will close the airlock door and guard it tightly. Do not allow even a single bug to escape, understand?"
"Yes!"
The vampire entered the treasure vault, while half of the guard team split off, bringing several pieces of equipment, and followed the vampire inside.
The airlock door was then left slightly ajar, and the remaining guards all raised their weapons, facing the door, ready for action.
At the slightest sign of trouble, they would unleash a torrential storm of attacks.
"Is this some kind of detection instrument?"
The thought flashed through his mind.
But soon, Yu Yuan refocused.
Scanning the entire stone chamber, aside from the four guards facing the airlock door on high alert.
The entire stone chamber was empty, but the corridor outside the stone chamber was already surrounded by Blood Slaves, placed under lockdown.
Yu Yuan checked the time, counting silently in his heart.
"5....4.....3.....2.....1"
Boom——
A violent explosion erupted from within the treasure vault, the flames and shockwave blasting the slightly ajar airlock door wide open, thick smoke billowing frantically from the stone chamber outward.
"Everyone, be alert! The enemy is still in the treasure vault, trying to escape amidst the chaos. Keep your eyes peeled..."
Immediately after, a smoke grenade was thrown out from the treasure vault, quickly isolated and taken away by someone.
Everyone tightened their encirclement around the airlock door even more.
The dust from the explosion inevitably filled the stone chamber with a haze of smoke.
And right under the cover of this smoke, while everyone's attention was completely drawn to the treasure vault.
Above the blood pool at the center of this stone chamber, the one continuously gushing with blood.
A shadowy circular hole quietly appeared, and from it extended a right hand.
This right hand gently touched the White Jade Coffin standing upright within the blood pool, attempting to take it away.
It was futile.
Because this White Jade Coffin was directly embedded into the center of the blood pool.
It simply couldn't be taken away directly, and the blood within the pool began to boil, as if sensing the anomaly.
But before the blood pool could gather its power, over a dozen animated hands condensed from shadow had already tightly clamped onto the White Jade Coffin.
Pulling upward with force.
"Off you go~" a soft exclamation sounded.
Without Xiao Xi personally guarding it, the White Jade Coffin was ultimately just an inanimate object.
A loud crack was heard.
The White Jade Coffin was pried from the blood pool by the shadow hands, and in the next second, it had vanished.
The entire process happened in the blink of an eye.
"Done!"
Even Yu Yuan, who had weathered many storms, felt his heart racing at this moment.
Walking a tightrope right under everyone's noses was no ordinary thrill.
But Yu Yuan believed this adventure was absolutely worth it!
Just as he had previously speculated, how could the White Jade Coffin, which even a Silver-tier vampire treasured so much, be an ordinary item.
That White Jade Coffin was unmistakably a Legendary-tier item.
A legendary item bearing the 【Unique】 identifier.
But Yu Yuan understood he had truly stirred up a hornet's nest this time.
Therefore, while stashing away the White Jade Coffin, he had already dashed towards the stone door's location.
And at the same exact moment, a black-red figure shot out from the treasure vault.
Xiao Xi spread her black fleshy wings, suspending herself mid-air in the stone chamber.
Her hair flew wildly, surging black-red energy enveloping the entire chamber.
Hiss——
She opened her mouth wide, and a spiritual-level sonic wave erupted from her throat.
Space itself rippled with waves, covering the entire stone chamber.
The black-red energy behind Xiao Xi transformed into countless bat-like ghostly shadows, darting through the stone chamber at high speed, searching for the enemy.
Tens, hundreds...
In the blink of an eye, the stone chamber was occupied by countless bat ghost shadows.
The Blood Slave Guard waiting outside the airlock door.
Caught completely off guard, they directly died from this indiscriminate sonic wave attack, blood flowing from all seven orifices.
Their corpses were then swarmed by the bat ghost shadows, which fed on their blood.
Instantly turning them into desiccated husks.
The tailcoat-clad vampire who followed closely out of the treasure vault, seeing Moon Shadow's Breath in a frenzy, immediately stopped.
Not daring to take a single step beyond the airlock door.
He was utterly terrified, but in his heart, he felt an unprecedented fear and panic towards that elusive enemy.
"Who is he? Why can't we find any trace of him no matter what, why?"
As the captain of the personal guard in charge of castle security.
The tailcoat vampire couldn't understand, simply couldn't understand.
Yu Yuan, who had already escaped the stone chamber, looked back at Xiao Xi going all out, his heart also filled with shock.
Because the power Xiao Xi was displaying now, even while Yu Yuan was hidden in the Shadow Dimension, brought him immense pressure.
It wasn't that Xiao Xi could affect the Shadow Dimension, but the combat prowess she was currently exhibiting had maxed out the psychological pressure on Yu Yuan.
This was something he hadn't encountered when fighting the Wendigo.
In other words, Xiao Xi might not have the Wendigo's ability to traverse worlds, but her combat strength had solidly surpassed the Wendigo.
And not just by a little.
At the very least, Yu Yuan admitted to himself that in a direct fight against the current Xiao Xi, he stood no chance of winning.
The only thing he was confident in was escaping with his life.
"Gotta bounce, gotta bounce! Can't mess with this woman, retreat first..."
Yu Yuan immediately made a decision.
The gains from this trip were already plenty substantial. Staying here any longer would be utterly unwise.
However, Yu Yuan didn't plan to return directly to Green Forest City just yet.
He intended to spend the following time thoroughly exploring this castle.
Only...
"Where to go first?"
Recalling the underground area those vehicles headed towards when Derada returned with the hunting team earlier, Yu Yuan's eyes glinted.
"How about checking that place out?"
The underground area contained the Blood Brew zone.
Yu Yuan also had the Blood Brew recipe in hand, so he naturally knew that producing Blood Brew required massive amounts of Spiritual Creature Blood as raw material.
And those Rare-tier and Epic-tier Blood Brews in Xiao Xi's treasure vault were clearly the masterpiece of this Blood Brew zone.
Having come all this way, how could he not go take a look?
Taking one last look back at Xiao Xi, who was still in a frenzy.
Yu Yuan ran outward without looking back.
The commotion here also put the entire castle on Combat status.
Not only did the number of Internal Guards inside the castle increase.
Even through the crystal windows, those Bronze-tier Bats hanging on the exterior of the buildings were now circling above the castle.
Making the already gloomy sky even darker.
The sense of oppression was intense.
The sky above the castle was also covered by a dark red, translucent dome shield.
This dome shield was released by the several towers surrounding the castle.
Unfortunately, this dome shield could block attacks from the outside but was utterly useless against enemies already inside the castle.
Yu Yuan wandered all over the castle, searching for the passage to the underground area.
Until he spotted several Blood Slaves dressed differently, tailed them through several corridors, and arrived at a passage leading to the underground area.
As the final alloy door opened.
The underground area appeared before Yu Yuan.
Yu Yuan stepped out from behind the few people, looking at the scene before him.
Hiss——
A sharp intake of cold air filled his chest.
"Holy crap..."