414.Chapter 412 411 Lumina’s Birthday Present

Chapter 412 411.Lumina’s Birthday Present
“Ah home yah.”

In one of the airports in the real world, Lumina, wearing a trench coat and dragging several suitcases in a windy manner, walked into the terminal from the empty passageway.

She looked a bit haggard, after all, the past few days of connecting back and forth and traveling across a small half of the world had left her tired.

But the naturally beautiful girl was still pretty even without much grooming, which meant that there weren’t many people here due to the growing pandemic that had shut down public facilities like airports, otherwise Lumina’s figure and looks would have attracted a lot of attention.

Although she always says she is a “dirt girl”, but in fact she has good clothes.

Gray trench coat lined with lattice warm shirt, the lower body is slim jeans with thigh-high boots, with sunglasses and masks, shawl long hair along with the pace of the forward constantly fluttering, revealing a valiant.

In the empty airport, they just returned from the foreign students, and the embassy staff to coordinate.

They can not go home directly, to be in the arranged hotel for a month of isolation, in the past this kind of treatment will certainly be spit on, but now we all know that the situation is bad naturally very well behaved waiting for arrangements.

Lumina first called home to let her worried parents and grandparents know that she had returned home safely, and then sent a message to Mrs. Water, little Reed Name and Orchid and Pomegranate to inform them of her trip.

Everyone agreed to meet again in Transylvania in an hour, and after getting that taken care of, Lumina boarded the bus for the isolated hotel.

She looked through the window at the empty streets in front of her, remembering that the city she grew up in had never been so quiet, it seemed as if the whole city was asleep.

It was the first week that the city closure policy had just begun, the effects of the pandemic had spread throughout the world, and at first many people had thought it was just a common infection
Things are changing so fast that even a “good young man” like Lumina is a bit confused.

But the moment she returned to her hometown and set foot on this familiar land, she felt a sense of peace in her heart.

She looked out of the window at the street grass, which was a bit messy because it had not been repaired, and there were a few brightly colored flowers, which did not fit in with the surroundings, as if each had its own heart, opening themselves up in different seasons.

“Finally back.”

Lumina said to herself again as she leaned back in her seat and let out a long breath then touched her carry-on bag, the hard helmet inside made her feel another point of reassurance.

“Sis, you always seem to be wearing that helmet these days.”

A girl beside her who was about the same age as Lumina asked curiously through her mask:

“Is that some kind of sleep device? I see that your sleep quality is really good after you put it on, what brand is it and can you recommend it to me? I haven’t slept well since I was a kid.”

“Uh, this isn’t a sleep device, it’s hard for me to explain it to you.”

Lumina said with a bit of hesitation:
“You can understand it as some kind of VR gaming glasses, although it also has the function of treating insomnia, but it’s not currently sold on the market, so you can fill out an application if you need it.”

With those words, she sent over the link to the game application.

The girl with the round face was originally quite interested, but after carefully reading the content of the link and seeing as many as 99 questions on the application, her expression became embarrassed.

Lumina could clearly feel that the other party was looking at her as if she was looking at a liar or a marginalized member of society who did nothing but think about playing the game.

She shrugged helplessly and stopped paying attention to the other party.

It wasn’t like she hadn’t tried to plant Real Otherworld on the people around her during this period of time, but not everyone was interested in it.

After all, the technology it represented belonged to a realm where mankind had yet to set foot, and anyone with any sense could come to the simple conclusion that even if such a thing really existed, the controllers wouldn’t make a game out of it.

Perhaps in the eyes of others, a “smelly gamer” like himself was an anomaly?

“It’s my birthday the day after tomorrow… This is the first birthday I’ve celebrated on my own since I was a kid.”

Lumina pondered in her mind whether she should make herself a good meal as a treat, but then she thought of her poor cooking skills and could only give up.

She was a big kid after all, she could rely on herself to cope with the less than stellar things in life and was no longer the little kid who would cry if she couldn’t get a cake.

An hour later, in her single isolated room, after a nice shower and eating up the lunch that had been delivered to her door, Lumina, finally relaxed, lay down comfortably on her bed and picked up her baby helmet and snapped it over her head.

Hey, to hell with the unhappiness of reality!
The Real Otherworld, launched!

“Swish.”

As the light pulsed, the bard-cum-ranger-cum-alchemist Ms. Lumina Sunstreak then climbed up from her tent in the camp outside of Transylvania.

She stretched and bounced in place, and was about to contact the other sisters to start the day’s hustle, but just as she opened her arithmetic pearl, she saw a unique message:

[With your selfless help, Lady Tris has completed her first attempt in the field of ‘Otherworldly Alchemy’, this is a transfer of knowledge and a collision of wisdom, for the sake of the birth of that outstanding thing, Lady Tris has decided to give you a gift, please go to the Spiritual Energy Chamber No. 4 on the ground floor of the Blood Wyvern Cloisters to receive your reward as soon as possible].

[Ding! The first ring of the hidden quest ‘Otherworldly Learning’ has been completed! Master Alchemist’s Treasure Chest Key obtained X1, please go to Madame Tris to receive it.]]

[Ding! Hidden quest ‘Otherworldly Learning II’ opened! Please continue to look for more valuable Otherworldly Knowledge to gift to Lady Tris, as a way to help Lady Tris progress in the field of Otherworldly Alchemy and obtain more rewards.]]

[Ding! The first loop of ‘Cavendina’s Warrior’ has been completed, earning the special title ‘Cavendina’s Warrior’.

The effect of this title is that the wearer of this title will be allowed to enter Lady Tris’s alchemy lab and read and learn from Lady Tris’s Alchemy Notebook – Black Iron Chapter, and automatically obtain the Blood Vulture Clan’s ‘Honorary Knight’ family title, enjoying treatment equal to that of a family knight in the Blood Vulture Clan.

The ‘Cavendina’s Warrior II’ quest has been opened!
Please continue to enhance your impression and status in Lady Tris’s mind, and a new quest will be issued when the time is right].

Lumina was a bit overwhelmed by the series of prompts, but it was always good to have rewards, and the special title of “Cavendina’s Warrior” made her feel good about herself.

After putting on the title, which she was the only one who had gotten in the game so far, she stepped out of the tent and jumped on her hunting pony to head towards the Blood Wyvern Corridor.

She was really looking forward to what kind of reward Lady Tris would give her.

Meanwhile, in the fourth psychic energy chamber underneath the Blood Wyvern Cloister, Murphy was looking at the unique drop of blood swimming in the delicate blood extractor cupped in his hand.

This did not originate from within the Blood Vulture Clan, but from the only “Moon Elf” in Transylvania, Ms. Laneia.

In order to get this drop of blood, Murphy had to plead with his loyal servant Maxim, and I don’t know what kind of damned method Mark used, but actually succeeded in convincing Leonia to give him this drop of blood.

This was quite a remarkable achievement for a vampire.

After all, there were many ways for vampires to use blood as a guide to inflict all sorts of curses and negative statuses on the owner of the blood, and even if they didn’t do anything bad, just a real-time monitor based on the release of blood would make people feel very uncomfortable.

“Are you planning to use this drop of blood to parse out the nature of the Moon Elf’s psychic energy and weave a new form for your warrior?”

Next to her, Tris, who had already done the preparatory work of modifying the shape of the psychic energy projection, poured a glass of wine for herself and a glass for Murphy as well, and she asked:
“It’s not an easy job.

Even for those psychic masters who specialize in the study of life forms, it takes years of research to completely resolve the unique psychic properties of a certain race.

If you ask me, all Lumina needs is the shape of a moon elf she’s a pragmatist, just having that shape is enough to satisfy her.”

“But I’m not satisfied, just a change in appearance isn’t really a ‘race conversion’.”

Murphy shook his head:
“My little player wants to become a genie, I have to help her fulfill her wish, even if it’s on the level of the contributions she’s made to Transylvania over the past period of time, I have to satisfy her desire.

This is not difficult for me.”

With those words, Murphy pulled the stopper of the blood extractor and dropped the drop of blood belonging to Leonia onto his tongue as Tris watched curiously.

This drop of blood that wasn’t essence wasn’t enough for Murphy to cast various curses not to mention he didn’t know those either, but while the blood was absorbed allowing Murphy to feel a unique cool aroma, a prompt quickly appeared in front of his eyes as he expected: 【Contacted with the blood of the elf race – Moon Elf Royal Family, the collection of racial templates has increased!

Along with the prompt there was also a progress bar, the numbers on it constantly jumping represented that while Murphy was using his vampire ability to parse the blood of the moon elves, it allowed him to gain a deeper understanding of the template information of the race of elves.

But unfortunately, just one drop of blood wasn’t enough for Murphy to gain complete insight into the mysteries of the Moon Elf race, and the collection of racial templates in front of him had only just reached 20% by the time he opened his eyes.

“Laneia’s blood is of the Moon Elf Royal Clan, one of the bloodlines closest to the Elf Origin, unfortunately after she accepted the first embrace of the Blood Alliance Clan, the power of arrogance originating from the Blood Alliance overrides and modifies a lot of the hidden information in this blood.”

Murphy sighed:
“I can’t tell much more than that.

If only we had a real Moon Elf on hand, I guess, if I could complete the First Embrace for a Moon Elf, I would have a complete grasp of the Moon Elf racial template.

But that’s okay for now .
I already know a bit about the mysteries of the Moon Elves, plus the Adele factor has me dabbling in the mysteries of the Shadow Elves as well.

Unfortunately the Forest Elves and Sea Elves remain unsolved mysteries for me.

I will assist you, Tris.

You assist me, to be precise.

I’ll maneuver this process of racial transformation, and you help me reshape Lumina’s psychic form, which has a one in five chance of success if she chooses the Moon Elves.

If she chooses Shadow Elf, the success rate is at one-third.”

“It’s fortunate that your warriors aren’t afraid to die, otherwise with this pitiful success rate, anyone who dares to try this experiment would undoubtedly be committing suicide.”

Tris spat:
“Even an 80% success rate is low enough for me.”

“But at the moment, the development team’s strength is only so much, small players should also sympathize with the programmers’ difficulties ah, how can such a complex function be built overnight?”

Murphy rolled his eyes and casually destroyed the blood extractor in his hand, then turned back to look at the entrance to the fourth psychic energy chamber, and a few seconds later, Lumina knocked on the door and poked out another head to quietly survey it.

It seemed that she was afraid that she had come at a bad time and crashed into something less than decent between Lord Murphy and Lady Tris.

“My warrior, come quickly, Archduke Tris has just completed a study that is nothing short of astounding.”

Murphy greeted in a mild tone, allowing Lumina to boldly enter the lab, and before she could inquire, Tris tossed her a test manual, gesturing for her to take a look at it.

Lumina opened the manual and was not able to trigger the quest, but she quickly noticed the complex phrases translated by the arithmetic pearl, and after seeing the keywords “elf”, “racial conversion”, “appearance and talent change”, Lumina was able to see the keywords “elf”, “race conversion”, “appearance and talent change”, and so on. After seeing the keywords “Elf”, “Racial Conversion”, and “Appearance and Talent Change”, Lumina’s eyes immediately rounded.

An ecstasy welled up in her heart.

“Race conversion is finally being developed!”

The bardic elf control exclaimed in her heart:
“Ahhhhhh, I’ve really come to the end of my suffering! I made the right choice not to switch to vampirism in the first place! I knew that the development team would never leave such a huge pile of game resources unutilized.

Ah, Development Team, you are my god!”

“Don’t get so excited, my warrior.”

Murphy didn’t even need to read Lumina’s heart, just by looking at her excited expression, he knew that this girl had taken the bait, and he soothed:

“This experiment on the change of form of psychic energy projection is also just the beginning, my attempts with Tris in this regard are still clumsy, and I must warn you that this experiment is risky.

You can now choose between the two shapes of Moon Elf or Shadow Elf, but neither has a high success rate, and to be honest, you should probably be a bit more cautious before making a decision.”

“I choose Moon Elf!”

Lumina immediately raised her hand and shouted:
“There’s no need to be more cautious lah, the worst that can happen is that I’ll die, but I’ll be back in Transylvania again in three days!

Lord Murphy, you know how much I love what I seek, and even though I wasn’t born in Transylvania in the form of an elf, I still hope that I can complete my legendary adventures on this continent as an elf.

I am willing to take those risks, and I am willing to be a guinea pig to help Lady Tris with this psionic experiment!
Do I need to sign a waiver?”

Seeing her so excited, Murphy and Tris exchanged a glance, and the vampire lord shrugged, pointing to the stone platform dotted with complex psychic energy spells next to her, and said:
“Lie on it, and don’t panic no matter what happens to you in a moment, in the worst case scenario, Tris will restore you back to your original state.”

“Ow, out of the box formatting, I get it.”

Lumina jumped up dryly, laying down there with her eyes darting around, she saw Lady Tris making some alchemical solution, and also saw Lord Murphy lifting his finger towards his neck to make contact.

“There is no need to worry, this is not a first embrace, I will not turn you into a vampire against your will, my warrior.”

Murphy whispered:
“My guess is that after you awaken, you’ll be in the position you desire to restart your second life in Transylvania.”

Icy fingers made contact with Lumina’s neck.

As the sharp nails probed and pierced her skin, it felt like a needle in flesh and blood, Lumina’s consciousness quickly turned drowsy but still managed to maintain the last bit of wakefulness.

In that haze of perception, she heard Lord Murphy speak softly to her:

“I just saw a wave of exhaustion in your eyes, I guess you have just suffered something disturbing in your world and I don’t know how to soothe you, but I hope you like this gift.

May it cheer you up.

Happy upcoming birthday to you as well, my friend Lumina.”

Wow!
At the sound of Murphy-sama’s gentle voice, the muddled Lumina instantly felt a bit of a breach in her defenses.

It was the first birthday wish she had received in these recent mind-numbing days, and it was as if the moment she had been forgotten by the entire world, a friend’s blessing had come back from afar.

If she hadn’t been close to unconsciousness by this point under the effects of her psychic energy, she would have had to hug the handsome Lord Murphy and have a good cry.

She wasn’t stupid.

She knew that there must be other factors at play behind her ability to make it back to her home country at this time of the year almost stuck on point, after all, even Mrs. Shui’s private jet couldn’t take off at this time of the year, but she was picked up like a dream, and even the other foreign students in that one plane should be grateful to her for that.

She knew this, she just tried to keep her mind off of it.

But this one moment, Lumi had an urge.

She didn’t want to pay any more attention to whatever secrets Lord Murphy and Transylvania represented behind them, and Lumina seemed to finally be able to understand the young Vikrama’s unique feelings towards Lord Murphy and Transylvania.

The man in front of her was not an NPC.

Nor was his territory an illusion woven out of cold data.

He was his own friend.

He liked this place himself.
Nothing more.

(End of chapter)