Chapter 206: 205 Sure enough, knowledge is power! Allies plus more

Chapter 206 205.Sure enough, knowledge is power! -Allies plus more, asking for monthly votes! 415]

(Extra for brother ‘Little Empty Has Water to Drink’ [4/5])
It took Ms. Leonia nearly ten minutes to finish off Maxim.

It wasn’t easy.

Especially when the latter used the Blood Wings in conjunction with the defense and the vicious “Death Airborne” tactic in flight, she was in a rather passive position, and finally, she was able to make Maxim retreat by relying on the extraordinary elven archery and ranger tactics that she had retained after becoming a vampire.

She had to admit that these sons of the Blood Vulture who were able to hold the clan together even after the Blood Vulture Clan had suffered extinction did have a pair of skills! And if even the sons were already difficult to deal with to this extent, then it was thought that that Lord Murphy would only be more difficult to deal with when they met on the battlefield.

But what Ms. Laneia didn’t expect was that defeating Maxim was just the beginning.

The steady stream of vampires and blood servants didn’t continue to provoke her, but the thirty reserve knights and sixty blood squires under her command became the target of these guys’ challenges.

They called it “learning and combat”, but in reality, the Bow Knight knew exactly what these guys were up to.

This made her feel the shamelessness and “unity” of the Blood Vulture Clan.

They seemed to be trying to express the concept of “messing with one is messing with the pack”, but of course it could be a personal message from a wary Earl Cadman.

In any case, the first day and night in Scarlet Fortress were extremely “fulfilling” for the knights of the Blood League.

Especially after the “twelve blood vultures” also received the special challenge mission specially arranged by Maxim, and joined the “combat training” with great interest, the originally one-sided situation actually underwent some subtle changes.

When midnight came, Ms. Laneia looked at the three reserve knights with their heads bowed in front of her in her own tent with an ugly expression on her face.

Those were her three adjutants.

They had lost the fight.

Lost to Sister Pomegranate, Cat and Niu Niu respectively.

It was inconceivable that they, who had undergone rigorous training and gone through layers of trials to become reserve knights, had actually fought against the freshmen members of the Blood Vulture Clan with an ugly 9:3 record.

Well, they only lost three games.

But that was still unacceptable!

For the proud Cappadocia, an imperfect victory is tantamount to defeat.

“Double the training! Train me hard!”

Ms. Laneia clenched her fists, almost gritting her teeth:

“Get back what you lost where you lost it! We’re going to be in Transylvania for a long time, and you’ll have plenty of time to win back your lost honor for yourselves!”

“Yes, ma’am!”

The three reserve knights responded loudly.

They then left the camp and headed to the surroundings of the Scarlet Fortress to hunt and kill the jackals that were ravaging the land under the night, in order to vent out the humiliation of their defeat.

“Vanna, from tomorrow no, from now!”

Leonia called for her adjutant and commanded her only heir before her:

“Have our knights and squires take turns entering that fight club to challenge the members of the Blood Vulture Clan, and don’t refuse the provocations of those savage blood servants! Let us show them that the dignity of Cappadocia is not to be violated, and that the power of the Knights of the Blood League is not to be taken lightly!

It just so happens that you can also consider this as your knightly training. Before we return to the clan’s premises, each reserve knight must get a minimum of 100 victories! Each squire must have 40 victories!
The barbarians of Transylvania are brave and warlike, and make excellent whetstones.

Go sharpen yourselves.”

As a proud descendant, she would not allow the reserve knights under her command to bow down to the creatures of Transylvania, but if Maxim knew this he would probably be so happy that he would wake up from his dreams laughing.

He was worried about the lack of “sparring partners” in the Fight Club, and the eager knights of the Blood League took the initiative to send them to his door, so there was no reason not to accept them.
But this was all a matter for later.

At the same time when the defiant Ms. Laneia was giving orders to her servants, in the sewers of the outer city, the “chief architect” Heaven’s Chosen Gray Man and the “second architect” Bricklayer, who had been busy directing the workers of the camp for the whole day during the day, finally had some free time to work on their own business. They finally had some free time to do their own work.

These two guys are walking along the sewers, which have been cleared of most of the monsters, to the lower area, and for insurance purposes, they have hired Brother Meow’s “professional team” to escort them.

No way.

These two guys are administrative professions, the combat power can not be said to have no, but encountered a fierce point of the monster will be blind.

In addition to the six players of Brother Meow Meow, there were also four guards assigned to the Gray Man and the Bricklayer to accompany them, and the purpose of their trip was not to fight monsters, but to follow the drawings of the sewers to find the hidden “underground cavity”.

“Is there really such a thing?”

The wanderer of Team Woo Meow Brother asked curiously to the two whispering design students while juggling the Blood Short Sword in his hand like a juggler, flipping the weapon around like a butterfly through a flower at his fingertips:
“You actually can’t be sure that that underground cavity must exist, right? Rod has been searching in the sewers for the past few days based on the information provided by you guys and there aren’t any clues ah.”

“It’s that there are no clues, but both the Bricklayer and I believe that it definitely exists!”

The graybeater pushed his glasses up with some lack of confidence.

This unique ornament made Brother Meow Meow look envious for a while, he already knew that this was a “goodwill gift” given to him by the gray man’s two assistants, and said that he should probably take the time to brush up on the NPC’s goodwill, and maybe he could also get a similar rare item.

Although the gray man’s glasses didn’t have any attribute bonuses, they were the only ones in the game at the moment.

The rarity was pulled full.

Moreover, it was a gift from a girl, and although it was only in the category of “Paper Man’s Wife”, a Cyber Girl was still a girl!
“That’s right! Old Chen Tou called again this morning to confirm, he said that he carefully looked at the sewer map we shared with him, and he can confirm that a part of the underground area is hidden.”

The bricklayer who had just entered the game a few days ago was still in the “newbie excitement period”, and this time, with a sword in his hand, he was eager to find a ghoul to practice on.

However, he didn’t forget about the business, and while moving forward, he explained to the other guys:

“Our mentor that’s awesome, he’s been doing civil engineering for his whole life, if he says it’s there, then it’s definitely there! Stick probably didn’t look in the right place. This kind of area that’s tucked away on the map must have a special purpose, maybe there’s some kind of damn magic protection.”

“So arcane?”

Brother Woo Meow couldn’t help but spit out:
“And is your tutor so idle? He still has time to look at the design drawings in the game?”

“He can be serious.”

The gray-hitting man sighed and said:

“Our mentor has no other hobbies, but he likes to collect these ancient buildings, not only from our country, but also from foreign countries. Previously, in order to plan the city, he asked Lord Murphy for a manuscript of the design of Cadman City, and as a result, after he saw it, he didn’t do anything for the past two days, and just studied that thing.

And also pulled us two want us to explain to him what this game is all about, anyway, according to the old Chen Tou’s words, this city above us is by no means casually built a model.

He said that the modeling of this city is definitely from the hands of professional masters in this area, I look at that look if it wasn’t for the fact that Old Chen Tou doesn’t like young people’s stuff, he might have wanted to come in with us to play a bit.”

“Hey, it’s not impossible!”

Old Qu, who was maintaining the vigil beside him, released the Archer Scouting Technique he had learned from Ms. Laneia today while turning his head to tease:

“We don’t need any professional peripherals for this game, just fill out an application for your mentor, and once the helmet arrives, wouldn’t it be great if the old man could also enter the game and get high together? If the game’s architectural components are really as awesome as he said, then the old man will definitely enjoy himself after entering the game.

Not to mention, that Batasin City is enough for him to study!
Moreover, there will be a Dwarf Castle and an Elf Giant Tree in the future… This is a fantasy style that we don’t have in reality… Why don’t we invite the old master to come in and criticize it?”

“Uh.”

The gray man and the bricklayer looked at each other, he shrugged and said: “Alright, I’ll ask tomorrow, anyway, Old Chen Tou is about to retire, it’s quite good to find him some leisure entertainment, provided that people are willing to ah. However, I estimate that he should be willing, these days everything has to be related to the Cyber style, so the old man to have a ‘Cyber health’ also has some flavor.”

The crowd burst into laughter.

The four guards were completely confused as to what these Lord Murphy warriors were laughing at, and they didn’t get involved, just vigilantly fulfilling their task as protectors.

“Hey, just a little further on to the ‘Ancient Area’.”

A few minutes later, in the middle of the steps down from the first floor sewers, Brother Woo Meow cautiously raised his hand and used his ability as an Oak Knight to apply a level two Thorn Spell and a Natural Shield to everyone in the squad, and a Natural Detection effect to himself, before he warned:

“Although this side is much smaller than the first floor, it hasn’t been fully explored yet, and according to Brother Cat’s group of five who have been brushing the monsters here, the number and threat level of the ghouls on this side is much stronger than the first floor.

Everyone be careful, and retreat back immediately if you encounter something bad!
Fighting Ash, where exactly is the place you guys are going to?”

“It’s not far, right below this area.”

Beat Ash Man looked at the map in his hand again.

This map had two circles drawn on it as per their mentor’s instructions, those were the locations that their mentor said were most likely to be connected to the underground cavity, and he pointed to the dark, broken tunnel in front of them and said:

“One is at the end of the tunnel, and the other is by the puddle next to it, if these two places aren’t there yet, then it proves that this underground cavity is isolated from the entire sewer system.

In that case, look for its entrance from outside the city.

But according to Old Chen Tou, it’s impossible that a city sewer system of this size didn’t find an underground cavity when it was being constructed, so he thinks that we’ll definitely be able to find our way down in these two places.”

“Then let’s go!”

Brother Woo Meow said with a wave of his hand:

“Let’s see if the old professor’s lifelong research is reliable!”

The group headed to the nearby water pit first.

This was a large puddle infested with water spirits, but that thing couldn’t pose any threat to Brother Woo Meow’s group nowadays. Old Qu, who had already become a full-fledged witch hunter and had also learned several powerful skills, could take care of them with two guns each.

“Crap! It’s not supposed to be in the water, is it?”

As the bricklayer walked along the puddle, he scratched his head and said to the equally frowning graybeater:
“The ground around here is solid as hell, I dug down and about half a meter is rock, there can’t be a passageway that exists stably around here. Unless it’s hidden at the very bottom of the puddle, but that’s no way to dive down and look.”

“Let’s go to that end of the tunnel first.”

The graybeater shook his head, marking the area with a log before leading his group towards the end of the main tunnel in the old sewer district.

But after they left, a head suddenly poked out of the puddle that had just been calm.

It was a ghoul much like a ghoul, but the skin didn’t fester too much rather it took on a pale and puffy stance.

This was a water ghost, a variant of the ghoul.

However, this water ghost was obviously not right, it did not have the chaotic and crazy situation of the other water ghosts at all, instead, it twisted its body and quietly climbed up to the shore, circled around the mark left behind by the ash beater, and then swung its claws up to rip that mark off and throw it into the water.

This series of actions proved that either this water ghost still retained its intelligence, or it was perhaps a puppet manipulated by some power.

After destroying the marker, the water ghost then limped back towards the puddle to dive back in.

But before it could fully dive down, a whistling wind-breaking arrow from the darkness accurately struck this guy in the back of the heart, and the impact force was so great that it brought up the whole person and smashed into the ground on the other side of the puddle.

The water ghost still wanted to struggle.

But then he saw the huge blood-colored batwing appearing in the darkness, and Kudel, the civil protection officer, rushed out from the darkness with his scarlet heavy sword on his back, his boots full of traces of battle stepping on his body, and his sharp eyes staring at the water ghost under the vulture faceplate.

“Finally got you, rat!”

He said in a mute voice:

“I can feel them! Those citizens are alive, I can feel their trepidation, they’re being held hostage by you, where are you hiding them? Evil thing! Tell me! Is it underground?”

The questioned water spirit struggled, but soon the force that had manipulated it began to draw away from the now hopeless puppet.

Before leaving, the hidden malice gave a sneer towards Kudel, which reached the bailiff’s eyes through the water ghost’s twisted face, making the scarlet swordsman unusually angry.

He had come alone to the depths of the sewers to keep killing ghouls here not because he had nothing better to do, he had not told Murphy what he was doing when Murphy had come to see him earlier.

After all, he didn’t trust any vampires at this point in time when he was still a little crazy in the head.

But the Bailiff did indeed sense certain needy beings still present in the deepest depths of the sewers, not as a vampire’s ability, but as something that stemmed from his Grail Knight’s professional abilities. Just as old Finnock had pledged his faith to the Holy Grail of Avalon, Kudel had had a similar strange encounter when he was a human knight.

Certainly not the Grail of Avalon.

There were many items similar to the Holy Grail on this mysterious continent, and the one Kudel had encountered back then was just one of them, but that strange encounter had given him the mysterious ability to sense the prayers of those who needed help.

This was also the reason why Kudel was able to gather so many survivors in the Blood Wyvern Cloister after the Astral Tear occurred.

He heard the prayers from the underground, but he had no way to answer them.

He couldn’t find them!

He couldn’t find the citizens who were supposed to be under his protection, but who were suffering disaster at this time.

“Pfft.”

The water ghost’s head was viciously stomped on.

Kudel turned around, he looked at the filthy toxin-filled puddle in front of him, and associating it with the speculations of the bricklayer and the graybeater just now, this citizen protection officer turned around and jumped into the filthy puddle without any hesitation.

He made his way down in the puddle and soon reached the uneven bottom of the filthy toxin water, and after a few minutes of groping, he managed to find a crack that had been covered up, with oddly colored and smelly bubbles coming out of it.

“Don’t come down!”

A voice originating from the psychic level with a sharp intimidating tone chided and threatened as Kudel touched the rift that was hidden underwater:
“I’ll kill them all if you come down here! What I’m going to do has nothing to do with you, and neither does the survival of this city, so fuck off! You crazy vampire with a subspace brain.”

In the face of this colorful threat, the Bao Min Guan who was suffering from the mental shock drew the scarlet heavy sword behind his back with almost no hesitation, and built up his strength in the water in order to open the passageway to the lower level, but before he could do so, a loud muffled sound accompanied by earth-shaking vibrations came out from the end of the tunnel, and the commotion was so sudden and violent that it seemed to have made the bad rats that were attacking Kudel with their psychic evil spells down below also be startled.

The evil spell he was manipulating relaxed in an instant, and Kudel gritted his teeth and plunged his giant sword into the chasm below, rushing with the swirling current into the ghostly shadows below where it was hidden in great depths as his power erupted.

And in the sewer tunnels where they stood, there were still cries of alarm echoing from the smaller players.

“Crap! There really is an underground tunnel! It’s all empty down there! How big does it have to be! The old professor is awesome!”

“Hey, Old Chen Tou’s expertise really isn’t blown! I’m convinced.”

“Look! There’s a monster nest down there! Holy shit, there’s at least ten thousand fucking ghouls, right? There’s also so many grudges and so on, I think I see people! There’s someone down there!”

“Fuck! Stop fucking people and run! The ghouls are coming!”

“We seem to have blown something up, it’s a big deal! Report it to Lord Murphy!”

(End of chapter)