437.Chapter 435: 434 Anti-Twilight Alliance for “Leisurely Survival

Chapter 435: 434: The Anti-Dusk Little League – For the “Leisurely Survivor” brothers [125].

The Grand Duchess Shani had never thought that she would come to Transylvania on her own initiative one day.

After all, in the past countless times, Transylvania rarely represented anything good, but since Murphy appeared, after the Blood Wyvern Clan rebuilt, Archduke Shani came here three times in just two months.

This made her wonder if there was really something “unclean” in Transylvania, even at this time.

However, if you think about it, isn’t the most unclean thing that exists in this land the vampires themselves? Could there be something strange that appeared here and surpassed the vampire’s nature in terms of evil and depravity?
It couldn’t be!
Was there really something so evil on this continent?

Archduke Shani pondered this question.

She pondered very seriously, so much so that when Murphy and Tris walked into the parlor, this beautiful Archduke with her double braided hair resembling an imperial sister like Kami was still immersed in her own thoughts.

Of course, both Tris and Murphy knew that it was just Shani pretending.

As a gold-ranked vampire assassin, it would be strange if she wasn’t even a little bit vigilant.

“Everyone’s busy, so let’s get right to the point.”

After taking her seat, Murphy took the initiative to speak:

“Did you find anything of concern in your handling of the Thieves’ Guild in Bernie City?”

“Yes, and a lot.”

Archduchess Shani played with the braid of her blonde hair as she leaned back in her chair in a relaxed posture, those beautiful eyes swaying back and forth between Murphy and Tris, then said with a smile:

“But I can’t tell y’all . To put it more bluntly, I don’t want to tell you guys unless I can make sure you’re really on my side.

I mean, I can’t side with the stupid and the weak when it comes to Dusk, and whichever one you fall into will get me and my clan eaten up by dangerous things.”

“Huh? You mean we still have to prove our abilities to you first?”

Tris responded with great offense:

“You can say it if you want to and leave if you don’t, the fact that you came here already proves that you’re alone and in desperate need of help in this area.

Shani, stop pretending!

If even Venerable Lord Paying needs to take Twilight seriously, then there’s even more reason for us Blood Archdukes to stick together.

This isn’t about you or me, or both of our clans and subordinates.

It’s for something much deeper.

While things like world peace and seeking a viable future may seem magical coming from a vampire’s mouth, if you really know what the Twilight Believers want, you should know what I’m talking about.”

“Toothsome.”

Shani grunted, rather petulantly:

“With a mouth that’s gotten so flexible, it looks like little Murphy’s been enjoying himself lately.”

“Hey! Is this something you, a Blood Grand Duke, should say? Where is the decency that you, a Blood Grand Duke from a royal family, have been preaching?”

Tris was out of her mind with anger.

Obviously picking up on the hidden nastiness in Shani’s words, she jumped up like an enraged bobcat, and was pressed back into her chair again by the crushing hand of an unreadable Murphy.

What the hell is wrong with these two women!
Why is it that every time they meet the scene is so hot and pinched? Is this the legendary fight between beautiful women who can’t stand each other?
“Please get down to business! Mrs. Shani.”

Murphy soothed the exasperated Tris immediately took over the conversation as he said seriously:

“If you’re just here to provoke or spread some meaningless and vicious gossip, then I’ll have to ask you to go back.

As for any nonsense about proving competence, stop talking, Venerable Lord Paying recognized our pursuit and dispatched an assistant for us just down the road, I don’t think the matter of whether the Blood Vulture Clan is qualified to participate in the hunt for Dusk is something that can be judged by you.

Tell us, what did you find at the Thieves’ Guild?”

In the face of Murphy’s lifting up of Venerable Lord Paying, Archduke Shani had no way to refute it.

She could only skim her lips, then said in a deep voice:

“Corrosion!

Terrible, pervasive, almost impossible to clean up corrosion and depravity.

The Thieves Guild in Bernie City had a total of 371 people, not much, after all, it was only a stronghold in a remote place, nowhere near the size of their grand guild in Northwind Castle, yet at least two thirds of those 371 people had become followers of golems and evil creatures.

If I hadn’t personally presided over the cleanup there, relying only on the Thorn Clan’s scions stationed in Bernie City, I’m afraid that this wave would have overturned.

I heard you guys captured an arachnid?
That’s fantastic.

Because I personally killed twenty-seven Arachnids in the Thieves Guild Castle in Bernie City, it was killing me! Before we broke through, those unleashed maniacs slaughtered almost all of the resistance.

The Thieves Guild’s stronghold in the Kavhokar region can basically be declared completely wiped out, one of the worst losses in the three hundred and fifty years of this guild’s existence.

Even during the Black Calamity, those cunning guys weren’t this miserable.”

“So here’s the problem.”

Murphy and Tris exchanged a glance as he leaned forward and asked:

“What exactly do the Dusk Believers want? What do they want from the Thieves Guild here? Don’t tell me that you overturned an entire stronghold and didn’t even find out about that?”

“This is exactly the question I came here today to make clear to both of you.”

Shani’s tone became serious as she said:

“You probably can’t understand the threat you suddenly intervened and brought to my strategy, for the degeneration of the Thieves’ Guild in Bernie City I had already noticed it before, I had planned to keep them to get more clues by observing and tracking them down, however, your tracking down of the Snegov family directly alerted them.

This has caused things to slide irrevocably to the point where they are now.

I’m not accusing you of being overly reckless, but the fact of the matter is, since the Blood Vulture Clan has never been good at covert operations then don’t pretend you’re assassins or stalkers.

If I hadn’t intervened in time, this situation would have evolved into something much worse!
It even triggered a terrible massacre and panic in Bernie City, I hope you guys can give me a heads up before your next operation so I can be prepared.”

“Ha, another fool who tries to get his hands in the muck to get at the truth! Another confidence man who tries to get his hands dirty to hunt down murderers.”

Tris disliked her instantly:

“Do you have any idea who the last person who did that was? Old Finnock Lawson, the last White Knight Saint of the Church of Avalon, made the same choice you did.

He tried to join the Twilight to gain access to their core secrets, but guess what happened to him?”

Seeing Shani’s expression of disbelief, Murphy also sighed and said:
“Before he died, old Finok specifically instructed us that we must never spy on Dusk’s enemies by penetrating them in this way, because that’s what they want you to do.

Old Finok was able to maintain his lucidity in his last moments thanks to the blessing of the god Avalon, but we vampires don’t have a deity that can protect us.

So, Lady Shani, stop your death-dealing.

You think you are the shrewd hunter, but in reality are the prey that steps into the trap step by step, and your actions are fundamentally wrong and risky, and you will not be able to get the information you crave from among them.

All that awaits you is to be assimilated into the same depravity as them.

It’s a cultist organization associated with subspace!

I don’t think your will is strong enough to face the shadow of subspace and remain steadfast.
No!
You’re a descendant of envy.

You harbor a terrible darkness in your heart, so you can’t do it!”

The two men’s persuasion made Shani hesitate for a moment.

However, Archduke Thorn did not respond positively, and with a twist of her words she brought the topic back to the question she had just asked, saying:
“The Thieves Guild in the Kavhoka region has been constantly receiving orders from a mysterious force since about five years ago, and the other party has asked them to traverse the hometowns of all the heroes that have appeared in the entire region of the Portia Confederacy and reactivate the power they left behind.

Well, that’s the ‘literary’ way of putting it. The unpleasant truth is that a group of grave robbers under the Thieves’ Guild have been digging around for the past five years, and what happened in the mausoleum of Count Sicco is not an isolated case.

Before you caught that group of grave robbers, the tombs of ancient heroes, including ‘Nolan, the Swordsman of the Wind,’ ‘Carter, the King of the War Dogs,’ ‘Hughes, the Savage Fighter,’ and many others, had all been robbed. The footprints of these guys even crossed the border and penetrated deep into the territory of the Kingdom of Nordoff during the most chaotic time of the Ten Years’ War.

That’s when we noticed their movements.

The masterminds behind these guys have big appetites, and they were even arrogant enough to peek into the tomb of the Hero King Boris, my ancestor.”

Shani shook her head and said:

“I have enough reason to believe that those guys aren’t just doing such things in the Kavhoka region, the thieves guilds in other regions must have similar orders. Unfortunately, the Thorn Clan is only one of the founding members of the Thieves Guild, and I don’t have the authority to access the order descriptions for every quest at the Thieves Guild’s headquarters in the Genoa Peninsula.

However, based on the information I have so far, I deduce that there are at least 8 gold ranked heroes’ bones stolen by them in these five years, and the silver rank is at least at 35.

I still can’t understand what these guys are planning to do by stealing these remains that have already weathered in time?
Perform some sort of evil ritual?

Or were they planning to utilize some kind of necromancy to bring back the souls of the heroes?

But that’s not how the laws of the underworld are exercised!

Even if my knowledge was far inferior to old-timers like the Scarlet Witch who had left legends all over the continent, I knew that the gates of the Underworld had always been guarded by the Sanghai Empire’s Lunar Sacred City, and that those Bright Moon Priests kept a firm watch over the boundaries between life and death.

Even Twilight cannot enter that realm belonging to the dead at will, let alone the summoning of undead souls on such a large scale.”

The atmosphere in the parlor was calm to the point of oozing for a while.

Shani’s expression changed slightly as she quickly realized from the change in Tris and Murphy’s expressions that there was likely some bad news happening in Transylvania that she didn’t know about yet.

As she became heavy in her gaze, Murphy sighed and said:
“Your knowledge of the Underworld realm is obviously still stuck in the previous version, however things have been updated, Lady Shani, and Dusk already has a fairly well-developed system of undead in her hands.

For example, what happened in Sikor City…”

In a brief tone, he told Shani about that army of the Underworld in Xike City, startling the Archduke of Thorns to rise abruptly.

At this time, there was no longer that kind of gentle fake smile of a human wife’s wife on Shani’s face, and in its place was a touch of anger and a slight fear.

If all the information she just said was true, it meant that Dusk had already secretly saved up a super deluxe commanding sequence of the Underworld Legion consisting of a minimum of eight Gold Necromancers and thirty-five Silver Necromancers for them during these five years of grave robbing.

It was no exaggeration to say that just the intimidation formed by these strong men piling up was enough to make a vampire clan like the Thorn Clan retreat.

Damn it, a vampire clan had at most one or two gold powerhouses, and there were a full eight on the other side!
Even though the strength of this level of character must have decreased after being resurrected, but just this number alone you’d say a tiger isn’t a tiger, right? In the event that Venerable Lord Paying and the Blood Alliance Clan didn’t participate in the battle, this would be enough to single-handedly take on the now declining vampire civilization, right?
“I must go to the Thieves Guild headquarters!”

Shani was a decisive person.

After realizing that the situation had developed beyond her control, she immediately made a decision and said:
“I will organize and make a list of the remains of the Heroic Powers that have been stolen over the years as fast as I can, and I will share this information with you afterwards.

In addition, I will personally report this matter to Venerable Lord Paying.

But with what you have just said, that ‘source’ is clearly not in league with the Shadow Elf cultists involved in the Thieves’ Guild, which means that we now have two different factions under the Dusk forces?”

“Three!”

Murphy said, looking up:
“There’s also the ‘Werewolf Vulture’ faction led by Lady Cecilia, that’s fully confirmed to be a branch of the Dusk forces, and she’s currently hiding out on Grimmney Island under the system of the Wolfsbane Clan. Perhaps that’s a wedge for Dusk to drive into the inner workings of vampire civilization.”

“You don’t report this sort of thing?”

Shani questioned:
“And the Venerable Lord Paying let such a destabilizing factor exist in our race?”

“I told His Holiness the first time, but he told me not to care.”

Murphy said with a helpless sigh:

“I guess this is a game for the Ancients, he and old Edward must have a plan against Lady Cecilia, I just don’t know if they will play it off.

To be honest, I’m pessimistic about it.

However, since His Holiness has already gotten through to the Moon Holy City, that means we don’t have to worry too much when it comes to the Undead Legion.

There will be a thick enough golden thigh reaching out for us to hug on.”

“That’s really enough from you!”

Shani, who had become “dignified” again, and had lost none of the bravado she had displayed when she and Tris had been having a yellow conversation earlier, grunted and waved her hand, saying:

“That’s not decent, but I have to admit that your gains in tracking Dusk are no less than mine, so I recognize you.

We can deepen our cooperation in this area afterward.

However, right now with the black plague coming, the tracking of the dusk is destined to only be placed in the second place, if we can’t carry through the black plague, if the dusk is even more troublesome that’s not something we need to consider.”

“You this idea.”

Murphy was even more helpless.

He didn’t even bother to say anything further while Tris leaned back in her chair and sneered in a long drawn out voice:
“Shani ah Shani, when you’re smart you make people hate to twist off your head, but when you’re stupid, your poor brain is afraid that it’s not even bigger than those two piles of meat on your chest. Why don’t you think about it, what if this Black Plague is also part of the plan Dusk is using to exterminate the world?”

“?”

This statement made Archduke Shani not even have time to get angry as she stared at Tris and said:

“That’s impossible! Dusk appeared at most a hundred years ago! But the existence of the Black Plague can be much more distant than that.”

“What’s impossible? The Jackals couldn’t take the continent after four tries, so is it unfathomable that those barbarians would cooperate with the cultists in order to gain victory?”

Tris grunted and said:
“In fact, right under the nose of the Crimson Fortress, which is now under your control, there is a clan of Jackal Warlocks hiding in the Tainted Swamp.

The spells they use all come from the gifts of the Dusk.

My little Murphy is about to launch a cleanup of the Filthy Swamp, and if you don’t believe us, we can give you a chance to get involved and see it with your own eyes.

Then you’ll know that the Black Plague is just a nuisance close at hand, and the Dusk . That’s a horrible threat that will drag everyone to hell.

Shani, I’m not praying for you.

The fact of the matter now is that that sacred blood alliance we both made earlier to deal with the Wolfsbane Clan now looks like it’s going to have to have another article added to it.”

“We could form a small anti-Dusk group.”

Murphy suggested:
“That common enemy that has appeared before our eyes is by no means a threat that can be dealt with alone by relying on the Blood Wyverns or the Thorn Clan, we must work together in good faith.

I believe that this is what Venerable Lord Paying wishes to see.

If you agree, I can share with you more information about the Twilight, such as the name of the Subspace Shadow that stands behind this cultist organization.”

“You guys actually even know about this?”

Archduke Shani now said that she was really feeling shocked at Murphy and Tris’s intelligence gathering ability, she said:

“How on earth did you guys manage to do this? Given the current level of reconstruction of the Blood Vulture Clan, you guys simply can’t spare that much energy to take care of so many things at once.

You guys definitely still have secrets!”

“Our secret is our warriors.”

Murphy said with a smile as he stood up:
“I told you during our first meeting, Mrs. Shani, you have to value my warriors, they are all ‘miracle children’. How about further opening up the prestige of the Thorn Clan for my warriors to try?
How about setting the prestige location at the Crimson Fortress?
Give my warriors free access to that fortress and the power to acquire services for you in it and exchange them for your specialty items.

I’m sure you and your people will soon see their true potential.

If you are not satisfied, I can return them.”

(End of chapter)