532.Chapter 530 529E Sister wants a quiet life, but the player

Chapter 530 529.E-sister wants a quiet life, but the player doesn’t allow it
Dorothy left Adele’s office, but the Phantom Intelligence Officer didn’t enjoy the peace because of that, mainly because Dorothy’s suggestion coincided with Hogg’s earlier suggestion, making Adele this time how she couldn’t calmly think about the questions about herself.

It also made her feel worried.

Hogg’s ability to discern her questions could still be considered an occasional lapse, but Dorothy was of her blood, and the First Sister of the Sewers was able to discern her honored elder’s doubts not only from her appearance, but also confirm it in her blood-bound senses.

And since Dorothy was always a cautious character due to her past experiences, she wouldn’t bring to the foreground a question she couldn’t confirm.

In other words, a certain “taboo” that Adele had once hidden deep in her heart had now begun to rise to the surface, and the bloodline contract’s “emotional guidance” for her might be about to be completed, but this was not entirely a good thing for Adele.

She looked at the documents in her hand that reported the recent underground affairs of Scarlet Fortress, but she could not calm down to peel the threads of the cocoon as she had done in the past.

If in the beginning, this strange relationship could be said to be driven by the bloodline contract, blaming everything on the vampire’s dark and abominable “tradition of following”, but with the advancement of time, after her own rebirth as a vampire, E-sister herself could no longer ascertain whether this relationship was based on duty and bloodline, or whether she really felt some kind of long-lasting emotion in her heart. E-sister herself is no longer sure if this feeling is based on duty and blood, or if she really feels a long-lasting stirring in her heart?

Her life and the tragedy of her parents’ lives have determined her resistance and aversion to “love”, and she does not want to repeat her mother’s mistakes, but now Adele knows she is not as determined as she once was.

Even on those annoying days, half asleep, half awake, Adele could hear her slow-beating heart calling out for some kind of warmth to fill the loneliness of years of her life.

That call had grown fiercer over time, even beyond the grimness a vampire was supposed to maintain.

She hadn’t been a vampire for long, but she had never heard of a vampire heir having such strange emotions towards his honored leader, and it was probably hard to come across a leader like Lord Murphy who didn’t place his energies in intrigue in the shadowy society of the Bloods of the past, and who treated his onlookers with a gentleness that wasn’t vampiric and was always something that made people want to be close to him.

People’s hearts are made of flesh, not to mention the fact that Lord Murphy himself is a man with excellent charisma, and that face alone is enough to shake the reserve of many girls.

“Ugh, I really can’t tell the difference.”

In her office, Adele rubbed her aching brow and muttered as she pulled open her drawer and took out the jar of source blood that shone with a shimmering light in the wrapped concealment of her papers.

This was the key to freedom, handed to her by Lord Murphy himself.

Adele knew that this was also the most direct way to save herself from the current state of suffering and even some distortion, as long as she drank the source blood and severed the bloodline contract between herself and Lord Murphy, she might be able to return to the rational state that she once prided herself on.

She had been raised in a posture of rationality since she was a child, and that mysterious Lady Cecilia clearly wanted to see Adele become a good helper for Phineas, helping Phineas to manage everything in life.

E-sister herself saw that rationality as one of her life’s pursuits.

But right now she was hesitant.

Some voice in her heart was even resisting drinking the stuff, and that resistance from the bottom of her heart made Adele’s expression a little harder to see.

As Murphy’s closest and most trusted subordinate, she knew why Lord Murphy had handed over the source blood to her.

The whole of Transylvania believed that Murphy was the heir of Lord Tris, even the foreigners thought so, however, only a few people knew that Lord Murphy no longer had any relationship with Grand Duke Tris.

Lord Murphy also drank the source blood, but he still ended up with Lady Tris.

He did not choose to embrace Tris under the influence of the traditional evil forces of vampirism; he decided to pursue it passionately only after confirming his feelings for Tris entirely through his own mind.

Perhaps, the day Lord Murphy handed over the source blood to himself, he had already foreseen the difficult choices Adele would face
Perhaps, this is also the “solution” he left for himself.

In the face of an external force that intervenes, a relationship that is not pure or worth staying in from the beginning, you need to remove the force that affects the human heart, and then analyze your own feelings from a more rational perspective.

Adele’s mother left her a valuable spiritual support, and despite the fact that the relationship between mother and daughter was not a good one, Adele knew from the moment she was born that she could never be a slave to others!

So, it was time to make a decision!

To let the dark impulses of her heart push her to a worse place, to become a plaything who has lost all sense of purpose and knows only to cling to her elders? Or do you resist the stirrings of your heart and save yourself from the despair of losing yourself?
The question made no sense to a vampire like Maxim.

Loyal monsters do not care about ego, when Murphy rescued him from hell, Maxim has already dedicated his life to his honor, the heart twisting and pushing in Maxim’s view is even a kind of “glorious loyalty”.

But not everyone is as determined as he is.

In the office, Adele looked at the source blood in her hand, and her confused mind gradually stabilized.

She knew that her honored one had always detested the kind of twisted loyalty that came with a blood contract, and that he preferred to spend time with his fey warriors than with vampires.

And on a more personal note, the kind of relationship between Murphy and Tris that was blessed by the Knight of Pure Love seemed more enviable.

Adele knew that at one time, Lady Tris had undoubtedly been the master of her relationship with Murphy, but now, even with her eyes closed, she could sense that Lady Tris had become the Scarlet Dancer in the hands of Lord Murphy.

Perhaps the kind of enviable trust and affection between those two is worthy of being called “love”, and her current state of unrequited love is just an unseemly “seduction”.
“I have been given a duty, not only by the Blood Vulture Clan, but by the Miriam Consul and all of Transylvania. I must carry out my mission in this land, and those twisted and false feelings are not worth being attached to!”

Adele convinced herself with duty.

She twisted off the lid, and after a two-second hesitation, she looked in the direction of Murphy’s office to whisper her farewell in her mind, before drinking the source blood with a tilt of her head.

“Mmm.”

The magical source blood took effect quickly, causing the beautiful vampire to cover the ever-attractive chest with difficulty in her chair.

She could feel a small knife sliding through her heart as certain invisible forces and shackles quietly shattered, causing her noisy mind to become empty for a moment, but soon enough, strengthening stemming from the power surged up from her limbs.

A vampire who drinks source blood for the first time is immensely strengthened, a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for a Blood.

At the same time, Murphy, who was in Tris’s lab, saying that he was “helping”, but was actually just interfering with Tris’s alchemy, also let out a cry of pain, and he covered his heart and staggered back, waking up Tris, who was indulging in a passionate kiss in his arms.

The Blood Vulture Archduke knew what had happened when he saw this.

She went up and assisted Murphy to sit on a chair, massaging his heart while saying:

“Adele has finally made her decision, you have lost a promising heir, and you are a ‘loser’ in the eyes of all the other vampires.”

“But her choice makes me feel proud.”

Murphy, though he covered his heart and felt the pain of the knife piercing it, his face was filled with appreciation instead of discomfort as he said:
“Adele finally realized what a twisted thing a blood contract is, and she relied on her own strength to resist its dark temptations and find herself. Though she did not like her mother, there is no doubt that Mona ‘Freehand’ left her most precious legacy to her daughter.

Like her, Adele will not allow herself to be a slave to another.

My Phantom Intelligence Officer is extremely accomplished woman, and her brave decision has allowed me to see her grow and finally feel comfortable handing over more duties to her.”

“Heh, man.”

Murphy said it with a big smile, but how could Tris not know what Murphy was thinking?

She bristled and said:

“It may be true that part of the reason you’re so joyful comes from Adele’s firmness and courage, but your relief is because you don’t have to carry an emotional debt that you’re afraid of. Alas, you are still a traditional and conservative little fellow.”

“She’s a person! Tris, she is not a toy in the eyes of others.”

Murphy didn’t deny Tris’s sarcasm.

He looked up at Tris quite frankly and said:
“Just as it took me severing the blood contract to truly see the feelings between you and I, I hope this is a blessing so that Adele doesn’t fall any deeper.

While I know that many vampires enjoy the trick of seduction and are shamelessly proud of it, the physical gratification of that deception can only make me feel nauseous, so perhaps I really do have some sort of irredeemable psychic cleansing fetish?
But it was you who taught me to see myself in the beginning, who pulled me back from that twisted path.

I’m just learning from you, am I learning okay? Ms. Tris.”

“mua~”

A welcoming kiss represented Tris’ response.

A few minutes later, in Adele’s office, the power brought by the source blood was finally completely absorbed by the Phantom Intelligence Officer, and Adele, who was leaning back in her chair, opened her eyes. She could feel that the part of her body that belonged to the vampire was unusually active, her potential had been greatly released again, what was even more exaggerated was that even the Shadow Elf’s talent seemed to have been affected, and some of the Elven martial arts techniques from her father’s legacy that she had been unable to understand before anyway could be seen.

The source blood was really magical, it was a pity that one could only have one enhancement in one’s life.

But compared to the acquisition of power, the clarity of her sanity made the dark baroness feel more like a spring breeze, as if a heavy shackle had finally shattered, allowing her to re-observe the entire world with an undisturbed perspective.

At this moment, she seemed to understand her mother a little bit.

Only those who had truly been tormented by shackles could understand the beauty of regaining freedom, and breaking the shards was nothing more than a good story without much feeling in the eyes of the onlooker.

She stood up and glanced around her office with light steps.

She suddenly felt that her office was too vampire-esque, and that perhaps she should place a few potted flowers here and there to wash away the eeriness.

Of course, Adele hadn’t forgotten the most important thing.

She let out a long breath, cradled her organized papers in her arms, and pushed open the door towards Lord Murphy’s office, and despite her best efforts to hide it, her light footsteps even caused her to hum in her mind a shadowy ballad known only to Shadow Elves.

Standing in front of the office, Adele took a deep breath before knocking on the door and walking in, Murphy, who had just returned from Tris’s lab, was in the process of changing his clothes, he took off his trenchcoat and hung it on the hanger turning back to look at his subordinate rather than his heir with a satisfied smile.

That gentle and handsome smile caused a ripple in Mrs. Adele’s already unbound heart, making her also unable to resist also showing a smile as a response to this kindness.

Then, Adele’s smile froze.

Damn!

Was that bottle of source blood left for too long so it went bad?

Why does my heart still race when I see Lord Murphy?
His damn handsome smile was like a key that could easily unlock the locks of his heart called “follow” and “desire”.

It was true that the shameful lust for slutty devotion had dissipated, and the girl’s modesty had made Adele conservative and demure again, but she couldn’t fool herself that her heart was still swaying at the sight of this man, a dozen years younger than her.

Goodness.
The only good news right now was that the feelings seemed to be at the level of liking and admiration at the moment, and there was indeed still some way to go before love was born.

Thankfully, thankfully, there was still salvation in the form of not needing to find herself an early grave to prevent herself from being finished off by Mrs. Tris with a vicious potion that day.

Adele calmed herself down, knowing she had plenty of time to regulate her mind.

So she addressed Murphy in a businesslike manner:

“Your Excellency the Governor, I have made the decision that I will personally lead the foreigners through the swamps to the line of the Barren Hills, my destination is the place of my birth, I will rejoin the Valley of the Shadows and recruit my kinsmen to join the Transylvanian cause.

Lady Bernice and Dinah will be traveling with me.

However, those of my people may need a new territory to start a new life in when they arrive in Transylvania, and some of them will be joining the Phantom Intelligence Bureau and will need to be formally established.”

“Are you confident you can convince them?”

Murphy asked seriously as he sat back in his chair:
“I thought you said that your people were very xenophobic and unwilling to join any organization?”

“They are.”

The Phantom Intelligence Officer who had become conservative again also regained the same rationality she had when she was a housekeeper, and faced Murphy’s inquiry, she said very methodically:
“But I believe that my people do not lack intelligence, the position they are in is so deadly that if they want to survive, they know exactly what choices to make, and in the most optimistic scenario, I don’t even need to bother with more than a few words.

Just need to point out the threat of the Black Plague
I don’t think that having spent a long time in the vicinity of the Deserted Mountains they would be ignorant of what is brewing in the Dark Mountains, they can’t hold back the Jackals, and they know it, and so do we!”

“Well, I trust your judgment in that regard.”

Murphy picked up a pen and paper, swished a copy of the Governor’s Order, flipped the seal ring over again to place his seal on it, and rolled it up and handed it to Adele.

He said:

“Then I leave that aspect of the work entirely in your hands, Adele. I will also be traveling to the vicinity of Mount Desolation shortly to visit the Blood League Clan’s position at the Black Flame Pass, so we can meet again there.

I wish you a safe journey for your operation.”

The Phantom Intelligence Officer nodded and bid the Governor a very proper farewell then left the office, she did not mention that she had drunk the source blood and Murphy tacitly did not ask about it.

It was a secret between the two.

Just like his relationship with Tris, it was a secret that could not be told to others.

“Adele seems to have returned to the role of the reassuring housekeeper she once was; her mind will no longer be destabilized by the distortion of her blood contract, and I will no longer have to bear the guilt of betraying Tris.

That can be a real relief.”

Murphy thought with a smile on his face as he sat in his own chair:

“She also doesn’t have that weird anticipation in her eyes that makes you feel uneasy, so that’s good, she and I will have one less embarrassing problem to deal with. But she’ll definitely be heckled by Maxim as a traitor, and it might even start an unnecessary fight.

My loyal Maxim couldn’t possibly drink the source blood anyway, he’s the kind of submissive personality that must have a master in order to explode with all his power.”

The Governor Lord looked at the list of blood contracts that changed back to [1/3] on his character card, and he thought of little Sheridan again, and after a few seconds of thinking, Murphy narrowed his eyes and thought:

“That previous plan of trying to get powerful quickly through ‘card bugs’ should probably be put back on the agenda.

I have a large enough store of source blood in my hand, if I can use it properly, then I can harvest enough extra attributes before I open the Silver Trial, so that I can maintain my strong suppression at the same rank even after I enter the Silver Rank.

I might become the first vampire lord ever to use precious source blood as a consumable, a ‘privilege’ that even Venerable Lord Paying doesn’t have, and I might even be able to light up a few strange hidden achievements.

Accumulate a little more achievement points that could finally be consumed, and go to that damn vending machine to exchange them for some weird snacks to delight yourself.

Tris will bring back a new pool of holy blood for the Blood Vulture Clan after her holy blood tour next May, and as her dear husband, I’ll be able to fake another batch of pure source blood from it as well.

This bug can stay stuck!

Until a mere attribute boost is no longer meaningful to me.

Uh-huh!
That’s it.

This will be the ‘upgrade method’ uniquely belonging to me, the dog planner.”
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Two days later, the resurrected Silver Moon Regiment’s girls were waiting outside of the city to depart, and along with them were the Demon Bajaji set, the student party, and Old Qin’s squad, for a total of 25 people just right to make up a raiding group.

They were all players who had shared the epic quest “Searching for Wolf’s Blood” with Old Qin, and there was also a group of players recruited by the Phantom Intelligence Bureau who traveled with them, and these players were temporarily managed by the “Loyalty Anthem” guild, which was founded by Loyal Brother. All members of this guild have official positions in the Shadow Intelligence Bureau.

The rest of the “Phantom Expedition Team” is waiting in Wolfenstein.

“Huh! Look, why did Mrs. Adele change back to that conservative outfit? She’s not even wearing high heels.”

As soon as Little Reed Name, who was exchanging pet training experiences with Meowshark, turned around, he saw Lady Adele’s carriage pull up at the side of the road, and the Phantom Intelligence Officer stepped down from it, as she and her heir, Dinah, would be propping up the wind vultures together with the players to travel to Wolf Castle and cross the swamp from there.

The male players are still mesmerized by the E-sister’s charms, but the women are observant.

At a gasp of surprise from the little reed name, Lady Water, who was holding a copy of the Avalon Canon and explaining the teachings to Brother Firechild, turned back abruptly and frowned at the sight of Lady Adele’s costume.

“Something’s not right! I smell gossip!”

Lady Water said with righteous indignation:
“Something has changed in Lady Adele, damn it! She broke up with Lord Murphy? Hey, that’s not where I want to see the mistress route of an otherworldly emotional drama go! No, I have to find a chance to break her back!”

(End of chapter)