Chapter 105 104 Love Knight Palano, Shining with the Purity of the Rose
Chapter 105 104.Love Knight Palano, Shining on the scene with the Purity of Roses! 4460]
Murphy put down the core jewel and took the scarlet hand crossbow in his hand again.
This thing was seized from the previous secret treasure vault guard “miser” Zakob, it was a very good weapon, balancing elegance, beauty and power, greatly filling Murphy’s current weakness in long-range attacks.
As the vampire slung it around his waist, the information label of the item was still flashing in his eyes:
Name: Scrooge – Classical Mechanical Hand Crossbow
Quality: Standard-[Elite] Commander-in-Chief
Trait: Extremely Effective Penetration – Enhanced Magic Breaking – Enhanced Hit Modification
Special Effects:
1. Triple Shot
2.This hand crossbow is inscribed with the [Magic Bullet] technique, allowing the user to inject psychic energy to form light vectors in the empty bullet state, with reduced destructive power but with special effects of different types of psychic energy.
Crafted by: a loan shark victim
Item Description:
[More interested in business than fighting, the greedy Zakob will treat all those who have borrowed his money equally, hardly ever giving up on any of the money that will be defaulted back.
Except for this one.
A certain halfling mechanic with a penchant for gambling relied on his talent and skill and managed to escape from his vampire debtors.
But he couldn’t keep his hands to himself the next day and borrowed another large sum of money in an attempt to turn over his fortune; unfortunately, Zakob had no need for a second crossbow].
The achievement of getting a new weapon and also getting the [Certificate of Elite] brought Murphy a hint of joy just now, but after seeing with his own eyes the contraption that was brewing in the deepest part of the Blood Buzzard Cloister, that little bit of joy quickly turned into a touch of bitterness.
Murphy knew that this trip to the “replica” would be dangerous, but he had never imagined that he would actually face this level of sub-space rift.
Although he is not a master of spiritual knowledge, for the complex triple mapping of subspace, the astral world and the material world understanding is limited to the scope of a spiritual apprentice should know, but even so he has heard of the sub-space rift of the hefty reputation.
Even if he didn’t know anything, then just by looking at the melancholic and heavy expression of the old Knight Finok next to him, he knew how dangerous that thing in front of them was.
At this time, it was already two hours after that contact, and the two of them were leaning against the door leading to the hall of the Holy Blood Pool on the left and right to rest.
Murphy felt his unbearable headache abate a lot, and his will was returning.
And the old knight was obviously making final preparations for a fight to the death.
He continuously whispered the name of God, and used various spell casting actions to give himself a blessing called “Divine Magic”, while Murphy was also making preparations at this time, but he didn’t add any enhancements, instead, he took a deep breath and opened the deep datamining on his character card to check the record of the battle just now.
Before engaging in a battle with an unknown force, he had to find out what he was facing first.
The battle records of the deep datamining, which felt useless before, actually came in wonderfully handy at this time.
The elevation of the template and rank elevated his thinking as well, and this time when he turned on the deep datamining he didn’t nearly faint like last time, just a flash in front of his eyes, the character card was converted into a picture of super complexity.
Murphy checked the detailed battle record on the attached page, the text description was pinpointed to the moment when himself and the old Finok pushed open the door and were hit by the subspace breath.
The vampire then secretly laments the fact that this battle record really is everything:
05:35:21 – Executed [Open Door] maneuver with Golden Order neutral target Finok Lawson.
05:35:22-You perceive an unknown force impact!
Subspace aura meets you, and the will of Chaos notices you.
Mental check begins!
The caster is a Subspace Rift [Small to Medium] with a weakened Chaos force field attached, unleashing a once-per-second psychic shock on anyone in close proximity, with a baseline check value of 25.
Your current Thought Attribute is 11.5, Perception Attribute is 15, no Mental Protection Bonus, no Mind Weakness, and your current Mental Shock Defense Immunity value is 11.5+1D15!
05:35:23 – First roll.
Immunity value is 11.5+7, less than 25.
Immunity Failure!
You look straight into the subspace rift.
You see [Illusion] millions of stars smiling at you.
05:35:24 – Second roll.
Immunity value is 11.5+2, less than 25.
The immunity fails big time!
You look straight into the subspace rift.
You hear the [Phantom Voice] Obscure Nebula whispering to you.
Your mental pressure is elevated!
You have gained the [Spiritual Vision] effect, perceiving the forces of chaos more clearly while your mental pressure doubles.
05:35:25 – Third roll.
Immunity value is 11.5+15, greater than 25.
Immunity Grand Success!
You suddenly remember that Tris is still waiting for you, and the strength given to you in that fond memory gives you more courage to hold on until the end of the contact.
The power of the bloodline contract has helped you, and your mental stress diminishes.
05:35:26 – Fourth roll.
Immunity value is 11.5+14, greater than 25.
Immunity succeeds!
You remember that your cute little players still need you to get a foothold in the Otherworld, and they are with you, giving you more courage to hold out until the end of the contact.
Your spirit stabilizes.
05:35:27-Your fellow Gold Order neutral target, Finnock Lawson, helped you out and performed the [Close Door] action successfully!
05:35:28-Subspace aura wanes! Spirit check is over.
The [Spirit Sight] effect disappears.
You get the [Spiritual Exhaustion] effect.
After looking at the battle record of only 8 seconds in its entirety, Murphy was almost shocked into a cold sweat.
Two immunity failures had given him a not-so-good-sounding [Spiritual Vision] effect, and if he failed again in the third second, he was afraid that something rather bad would happen.
“Thanks.”
The vampire rubbed his somewhat sore head and said to the old Finnock:
“It was a close call just now, I was almost captured by the subspace breath, I finally realized why all the vampires here are so crazy, they all failed to resist this temptation and call from chaos.”
The old knight did not reply.
“Of course they couldn’t resist! Because, this is simply not something that the Black Iron and Silver Ranks can face.”
Old Finocchi looked at Murphy with a rather subtle look, and after a few seconds, he said:
“You know what? There’s no way a mental power of your rank can hold up against subspace, and you deserve to be captured into insanity in the first four seconds of looking directly at it. Especially since you’re also a vampire, a dark ethnicity by nature, and only less resistant to these chaotic forces.
How did you manage that?”
“The love and light in my heart gave me the strength to fight the call of chaos, probably.”
Murphy touched his heart as he tilted his head to the old Finok:
“Can you enchant me with some spiritual protection type psychic energy spells? I just saw so many other superior vampires inside making pilgrimages to the Subspace Will, they’re the last threat before we face Salokdar head on.
I can’t leave these Chaos crazies for my warriors to deal with, they’ll lose troops over it, and that would be a huge blow to their enthusiasm and motivation.
We must finish off those Chaos lunatics before they regroup.”
“Normally people would always choose to run away after an experience like this, but you surprised me, Murphy, and my impression of you has changed once again.”
The old knight took out three wooden scrolls from his battle bag and handed them to Murphy, He whispered:
“Any life that faces the madness of subspace head on and still does not give in is worthy of respect, in the teachings of the old religion, the evil demons from subspace are the great enemy of all living beings in the entire world, and that is the same enemy that my god Avalon has always fought against in the astral realm.
Now I can finally look beyond profit and see you as a collaborator and teammate for more meaningful reasons.
We must now put aside all interstices to cooperate fully, Murphy, and once a subspace rift of this magnitude is allowed to open in the material world, everything you have known and loved will go up in smoke in an instant.
Us.
We will also be the sinners of the entire world!”
“Look on the bright side, if we win, we’ll be the heroes of the world.”
Murphy grinned, taking the scroll and placing it in his hand as the information tab popped up:
Name:Avalon Saints Secret Scroll Topiary X3
Effect: Reading the stories of the Saints of Avalon fighting against evil spirits and being inspired by their will greatly boosts the reader’s spirit in a short period of time (Thinking +5, Perception +5) and applies a [Fire of the Mind (Chaos Resistance Boost)] effect to the reader.
Crafted by: [Lord of White Oak] Finok Lawson
Item Description:
[The legendary Avalon is a benevolent and kind order-side deity who came to the Astral Realm to favor the elven ethnicity in particular, and has goodwill towards all creatures of grace and beauty.
Therefore, before using this item, you would do well to clean yourself up a bit more decently, lest you be disliked by Avalon for being too unkempt].
“Ch, pointless warning, how can a vampire as handsome and elegant as me be loathed?”
Murphy bristled and pulled back the scroll.
The moment he read that text, a surge of power poured into his body from it, and as the scroll in his hand dissipated like burning, he could feel a power lingering over his mind, like a flame pulsing to warm his soul, causing him to no longer fear those grim creeping things.
And in the deeply datamined combat logs detailing what happened in those few seconds:
07:27:38 – You used [Avalon Saints Secret Scroll Topiary] to read the Saints’ stories, and the natural psychic energies enchantment began!
07:27:39- An infinite will notices you!
He begins to scrutinize you!
You are handsome from the viewpoint of every race.
Satisfied, He gives you His blessing!
Your mind is +5 for 30 minutes.
07:27:40 – He continues to scrutinize you!
The grace you have maintained in your past moments makes Him more pleased with you!
Your perception is +5 for 30 minutes.
07:27:42-He examines your mind one last time!
Your secret attachment and fidelity to a certain vampire lady has led Him to praise you as a flower of purity born of the night, and your care and protection of otherworldly warriors has led Him to conclude that you are not an evil thing forged of darkness.
You are inflicted with the [Fire of the Mind] effect, your Chaos Resistance is increased, and your Mental Shock Immunity base value is reduced to 20.
07:27:45 – He blesses your love and ambition.
You are inflicted with the [Avalon’s Affirmation] effect, Nature Psychic Energy resistance is permanently increased by a small amount, and you learn the passive skill [Animal Language].
07:27:48-The sprawling Will loses interest in you, and He averts His gaze, for now.
“???”
The series of prompts made Murphy’s eyes round, while the old Finok beside him dropped his jaw in shock.
As a nature saint, he gave a vampire a scroll with a weak divine nature, of course, a little “bad intention”, intending to use this way to remind Murphy’s actions afterward not to make a mess.
But the imagined scene of Murphy being burned by the fire of nature not only did not appear, but on the contrary, he saw the illusion of green leaves converging on his body.
This meant that the God of Avalon had recognized this vampire?
How was this possible!
My deity, you are the God of the Order Side, how can you approve of a dark creature?
“What’s wrong? Is there something undignified on my face?”
Murphy asked as he noticed the old knight’s startled expression, and the latter coughed, dropping his one-handed hammer and Natural Iris Shield, backhandedly drawing the Great Oak Blade behind him, and whispered:
“Nothing, I just saw the uncanny thing, it seems that the God of Avalon likes you a lot.”
“I kinda like Him too, generous enough to be great deity.”
Murphy grinned still holding out his thumb and wagging it, picking up the one-handed hammer and kite shield he had dropped back into his bag again as the old knight watched with an odd look on his face, before he drew the Ethnic Blade of Desire to reapply the Vampire Slayer Sword Oil, and lifted the miser’s Mechanical Crossbow into his hands.
Then he took a deep breath and locked eyes with old Finok.
This vampire really knows how to be “thrifty”, but the problem is that when I left my weapon and shield on the ground, it didn’t mean that I didn’t want them, I just couldn’t use them for the time being, and you just took them away right in front of me!
Your cheek is really thick! That gesture of picking up rags makes me embarrassed to ask for them back.
The old knight spat in his heart.
In the next instant, both of them kicked out at the same time, kicking open the wooden door in front of them that blocked the subspace aura.
Not only did this startle the attention of the dozen or so Sons of Madness in the hall in front of them who were kneeling towards the subspace rift that was slowly rotating and brewing an unknown plague above the Holy Pool, but it also caused Murphy to once again feel the same spiritual impact as before.
But this time the battle record was quite different:
07:29:27 – You perceive a mental power shock!
Subspace aura meets you, the will of Chaos notices you, mental check begins!
The caster is a Subspace Rift [Small to Medium], which comes with a weakened Chaos force field that releases a mental shock once per second to anyone entering or approaching, the check is corrected to 20 due to the imposition of the [Mind Flame].
Your current Thought Attribute is 11.5+5, your Perception Attribute is 15+5, and with the [Mindfire] mental bonus and no mental weakness, your current Mental Shock Defense Immunity value is 16.5+1D20.
07:29:28 – First roll.
Immunity value is 16.5+16, which is greater than 20.
Immunity Grand Success!
You gain the [Iron Will] effect, a heightened deterrent against things of chaos!
07:29:29 – You fearlessly look straight into the subspace rift, the evil spirits of chaos no longer able to shake your incomparably fiery mind, and so you raise your middle finger to it.
You unleash [Taunt] on the Subspace Will.
07:29:30 – The Subspace Will is unresponsive to your provocation, however, the Subspace Servants are enraged.
—
“Restore.”
The loud and clear neighing of warhorses echoed in the darkness of the night, and a horse rode like a scarlet meteor across the dark earth of Transylvania.
Three hours to reach Cadman City from Crimson Fortress on the southernmost border of Transylvania sounded like an impossible feat, it was more than 100 kilometers of road, however, to the Knight Lord who was galloping his horse at this moment, it was just a very small challenge.
The constraints of space and distance were always extraordinarily forgiving to those of the golden rank.
“Ah, what a pity, I have only just established a pure and praiseworthy friendship with the beautiful lady of the Winter Wolf Legion Commander, and have yet to even send a night rose to that beautiful person to express my admiration.”
The heavily armored knight riding atop his cloaked steed wore no helmet, letting the wind under the super-speed gallop blow his long blonde hair up under the night.
The stoic face with a pair of lover’s blue eyes made the tall Blood Knight Lord seem unusually flirtatious, and even while riding at such high speeds, the black and red embellished night roses placed on his breastplate were not affected in any way.
He raised his head to look at the ruins of Cadman City, which were already in his field of vision, and an even hotter passion emerged in his eyes, which were already somewhat melancholic and regretful.
“But on the bright side, I’m about to meet the muse who has been gone for more than a hundred years, ah, the beautiful and high-strung Lady Tris, you can even be ranked in the top twenty on the list of goddesses in my heart.”
“Parano!”
Just when this handsome knight was having a seizure, a low chortle rang out from his mind, making him immediately solemn.
“Your Holiness, I’m here.”
“I have been informed of everything that has happened in the Blood Vulture Cloister, you must stop the subspace rift from opening in the material world at all costs, and I will grant you the authority to act as a surrogate for the Arbitration Might of the Scarlet Sacred Lance! Use this power of eternal silence well.
Also, when this is over, bring Phimis Cecilia Le Sombra back to the Order’s quarters!
I will need her to brief me personally on the entirety of the events in Cadman City, and have a few minor questions to ask her.”
“As you command! Venerable Lord Paying, your will is the direction in which I swing my sword.”
“Sober up, Paranor! You never use your sword.”
“Uh, metaphor, just the art of metaphor, Your Holiness, you are so humorless.”
(End of chapter)