510.Chapter 508 507 The Approaching First Festivities of the Feast of the Sacred Blood
Chapter 508 507.The Approach of the Feast of the Sacred Blood – The First Festive Event Gathers Momentum!
“The current number of otherworldly warriors fighting in Transylvania is 617, and counting the 300 who will get their helmets in three days and the 200 self-recruitment slots in the hands of the student parties, by the end of the next week, our warriors will finally pass the thousand mark.
Over the next month or so, I’ll be handing out all the slots I have on hand until the player population is saturated once more, and the number of residents under Transylvania’s stewardship has now surpassed 220,000 . That’s 2,200 people.”
In Consul Miriam’s office, Murphy was “reconciling accounts” with Miriam, while Tris stood by the window of the office looking out at today’s gloomy sky.
His Excellency the Grand Duke thinks that there might be a second snowfall in Transylvania in the next few days.
The snowfall will be more intense than the previous one, and in the past, this kind of weather would be very difficult, but the first snowfall has already proved that at least in the vicinity of the Scarlet Fortress, the simple cold is no longer fatal.
And in the face of Murphy’s description, the Scarlet Consul shook her head, she opened her working notes to the page that recorded the population change, and said to Murphy:
“The actual number is more than you predicted, because the serfs from the Kafhoka region are being sent to Transylvania, and although at first this was just a private agreement between Old Hoh of Hidden Treasure Bay and the Northerner traders, that snowfall earlier did us a big favor.
Late winter is getting more and more urgent, and the dislocated peasants who have nowhere else to go are spontaneously moving to Transylvania.
Two boatloads of farmers were delivered to the docks at Andromeda Hills just yesterday, and they’ve been sent to Fort Rapids and are being quarantined and registered.
I had thought that this was a completely spontaneous self-help operation, but last night a Riptide Knight sent the information that the peasants had been lured by the vampires of the Thorn Clan, and that there were more peasants and strays waiting to be transported on the docks of the city of Berne.
It seems that Lady Shani doesn’t want to see so many people freeze to death this winter, so she helped us out in secret, and Count Andre doesn’t want to see his people die in the cold, so he sent his faction to help out in secret as well.
But to be honest, I don’t think it’s the Vampire Archduke having a clear conscience.
Lady Shani’s intention is most likely to want to stabilize the situation in the Kavhoka region as soon as possible, she threw all these unstable factors at us, and the Winter Wolf Legion is happy to see these stragglers sent away.
They even sent people to maintain order in the harbor of Bernie City, and also gave these stragglers enough hard bread to last for three days.
Archduke Thorn and General Baldwin know very well that we are the only power near the Great Plains of Kavhoka that can receive so many stragglers and place them appropriately, and they probably feel that the placement of so many stragglers will be a great burden to us.
Or, they are actually using this method to achieve the purpose of strengthening Transylvania, to put it simply, they are sending us ‘cannon fodder’.
What a cruel political maneuver.”
“But we still have to express our gratitude to Shani.”
Murphy whispered:
“Whatever her reasons for pushing this forward, it won’t do us any harm, and of course it means that Clan Bloodwing owes Clan Thorn a favor. Can Fort Riptide eat these people?”
“It can.”
Miriam replied:
“Fort Riptide’s administrative and logistic team is very professional, they were busy from noon until midnight yesterday, not only did they not let the pier become congested, they even divided up a temporary gathering area for all those farmers who came all the way here also made a special quarantine area.
Even without our dispatch, the Rapids Knights took the initiative to contact the witch hunters of Moorland Village to conduct large-scale disease dispersal and plague detection.
With the professionalism shown by these logistic knights, I am confident enough to conclude that they can receive more landless farmers into the perimeter of their stronghold, I’ve seen the forms they sent, and I have to say that they’ve accomplished this statistic thing as an art.
It’s so professional.
However, it is understandable that His Excellency, Knight Serak Fenda, who is in charge of the Riptide Knights’ general logistics, needs us to provide more food and gray tents and fuel for the construction of the campsite, and I’ve already made the dispatches, and Shovan will be going over there to press the issue himself.
He’s a man born in the Kavhoka region and is quite familiar with the situation over there, so there shouldn’t be any problems.”
“So, with the continuous influx of these displaced people from the Lost Lands, Little Murphy’s expectation of having 3,000 warriors before the Black Plague arrives will no longer be a luxury, right?”
Tris asked back, and the consul pondered for a moment and said:
“With the addition of these stragglers, plus the Ancestor Woodland side constantly bringing in more mountain tribes from the Sax region, it might be a bit difficult to add 80,000 people in less than two months. However, when the war actually begins, the formation of a 3,000 man army of foreigners is really not much of a problem.
After all, we’re going to be blocking the Jackals on the front line of the Barren Mountains.
There’s still a little time buffer before they charge into the Filthy Swamp and Transylvania.”
“Very well, then we’ll have to continue to labor on you for this next period of time, Miriam.”
Murphy said warmly:
“I will reward the civil servants who have labored for many months with generous rewards at the end of the year, and I feel that the list of promotions at the end of the year this year could perhaps be appropriately expanded, and since we can’t afford to give our hard-working staff more material rewards in the years of war, the spiritual satisfaction and affirmation will have to be appropriately tilted a bit.
For example, the matter of elevating the knighthood for our initial administrative knights is not non-negotiable if they want fiefdoms.
There’s also this.
Although you’ve been reluctant to tell me your birthday, I guessed that you didn’t have any idea of organizing a birthday celebration for yourself this year, so I brought the gift I prepared for you straight away.”
Murphy patted the box in his hand, inside was a set of “Farwalker” personal protective gear.
He said to the surprised Miriam:
“I forbid you to refuse this gift, it will help you avoid many dangers and is not difficult to operate, Tris will teach you how to use it tonight.”
“Okay.”
Miriam ruffled her hair, she glanced at Murphy and said softly:
“But my birthday was long past, Lord Governor, the day before we met in the village of Moorland, the day my hometown was slaughtered to the ground . Alas, it was truly the worst birthday of my life.
But enough of this heartbreaking stuff, let’s take a look at my plans for the Feast of the Holy Blood.
There are only five days left until the most important festival of the vampire year arrives, and I think we might have a hard time making it grand.”
“There’s no need.”
Murphy refused the plan handed to him by Miriam as he stood up with a smile on his face:
“There’s no need to use the resources in the city at all, and there’s no need to make our city labor for it, didn’t I say it all before? These events are for the Otherworldly Warriors, they plan it, they host it, and we only need to provide them with the hidden rewards they need at the end of the holiday celebration.
They are always full of energy and don’t know what sadness is, and I’m sure that such optimism will infect our residents, making them temporarily forget the bitterness of reality and fill them with anticipation for the future.
You have to believe that the experience of the Otherworlders with large-scale events is far above ours.”
“But any event needs a theme.”
Tris glanced at Murphy.
The little feelings of shame and anger in her heart that were triggered by her intimate encounter in the Land of Creation that night had pretty much calmed down, and this would be the time to say to Murphy:
“You can leave everything to them to run, but you must at least specify a content, right?
And five days of preparation time is indeed too little, since we have decided to have fun with the people, we have to bring a little gimmick to our residents as well as appropriate, as in the case of the Boxing Champion Contest before, I think that idea is good.
Even though it’s been over for a month, there’s still a lot of discussion going on in town right now, and it’s clear that the locals prefer this kind of straight-up hilarity.
You have the otherworlders perform a theater act, I don’t think many people would really want to be there.”
“Hmm.”
Murphy thought that this idea was good, but another one just after the boxing championships had ended would inevitably make people a bit aesthetically fatigued, he thought for a moment and then took out the notebook he had been using to record his inspirations and flipped through it, and then suddenly a light came on in front of his eyes.
The Lord Governor closed the notebook and asked to Tris and Miriam:
“I drew them a pie earlier, promising them that they could challenge me if they got four letters of recommendation from local powerful people. I instructed Dorothy to include that link when the championships were underway, but then the swamp fight broke out and I didn’t have time to keep up with it.
So how many players have gotten letters of recommendation from those ringmasters now?”
“That’ll have to be tallied.”
Miriam said, rubbing the corners of her eyes:
“But I guess the number won’t be small, at least our Earl of White Mountain is letting in water in almost every battle he participates in to pull in the Warriors, and as the number of psychics among the Warriors is increasing, the pass rate of the ‘Knowledge Challenges’ on Missy’s side is rumored to be increasing as well.
I’ll tally it up and report the specific information to you before the evening.
But are you sure you want to open such a challenge on the day of the Holy Blood Festival? It’s not that I’m doubting your strength, Murph, what I’m worried about is, what if your warriors are really good, what if they really beat you?
That’s a challenge match in front of a big crowd!
If you lose, I’m afraid the locals’ impression of you is going to change a bit.”
“Doesn’t exist!” Lord Murphy said confidently:
“Even if I give them 40 people, with their current caliber wanting to beat me that’s absolutely impossible, I’ll crush them on the level of reaction speed and movement speed alone, but since it’s a challenge match, it’s important to give a little bit of color.”
His Excellency the Governor smoothly fished out the handbook he used to record his new sword skills from his traveling bag.
He said:
“Let’s use this valuable knowledge as a prize, the quest for the path of power has always been difficult, and not every warrior can have a chaperone like Necessary Evil.”
“Can I strengthen them?”
Tris was suddenly interested.
She raised her hand and said:
“I suddenly want to see my little Murphys get rounded up and beaten up by the warriors, and I could give them a little reinforcement before we go to war .
No, it’s not just me.
The guys who gave them the testimonials have already acknowledged their power, so surely in a challenge like this, the strong must be giving the weak the necessary increase as a way of making sure the battle will be a good one.
Little Murphy, don’t give that bad look, you see, abusing the weak no longer means anything to you, you should try a more advanced battle.
Forty reinforced warriors in a battle formation would qualify as your opponent, wouldn’t it?
Wow, that’s a great idea!
I’m going to discuss it with Femis and Maxim and Adele.”
After saying that, Tris threw a teleportation spell to make herself disappear in front of Murphy, who had a headache on his face, and Miriam, who was covering her mouth with a light smile, and it was only after Tris left that Miriam asked in a small voice:
“I think there’s been a bit of a falling out between you two? Can I know what happened? Aren’t you two so close to each other that you’re practically joined at the hip? It’s almost as if you’re a Siamese twins, and Tris doesn’t even resist being affectionate with you in front of outsiders anymore.”
“It’s probably best you don’t know, you innocent little girl.”
Murphy exasperatedly glanced at Miriam as he said:
“Or rather, you’ll know when you have a boyfriend, to be honest I don’t even know what I’ve pissed her off, it’s obviously all her initiative.”
“But Tris is going to give the warriors an increase and let them beat you up.”
Miriam twisted open her own glass of water and took a drink, moistening her throat before addressing Murphy:
“Are you sure you have any confidence now?”
“Of course.”
Murphy touched his heart as he said:
“It’s not just them who are improving, I’m also improving Oh, if my warriors think that they can beat me up just because they got the super buff, then I will definitely give them a big surprise, letting them know that the majesty of the mainline NPCs is not to be provoked!
Of course, until then, I’ll give them a little bit of hope before snuffing it out myself.
Hahaha, I’m such a terrible badass, aren’t I?”
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Regarding the origin of the Holy Blood Festival was translated to the forums after a plot party did an examination in-game before, to put it simply, the so-called Holy Blood Festival is to commemorate the day when the ancient ones of the Blood Clan established the Clan and Blood Clan system on the Mangwu Continent at the beginning of the Era eleven hundred years ago.
The vampires see it as the beginning of the birth of their civilization.
They will take the third week after the winter solstice every year as the celebration day, the whole celebration lasts for ten days, according to the players in the game to find a variety of information shows that in the holy blood festival, the vampires all over the world will put down the important matters temporarily and start to have fun.
And have fun this kind of thing play too much head will produce accidental situation, so every year after the holy blood festival every clan will have a group of blood descendants.
However, it is clear that the past experience can hardly be applied to Transylvania nowadays, because the new blood vulture clan is not a traditional force.
Just after Moe Haha reminded the forum about the “Holy Blood Festival”, there were some visible changes on the forum in the evening of the same day.
First of all, the entire forum layout has been modified into a dark vampire style, also decorated with candles and wine, when entering the forum will automatically play background music.
It was a traditional song of the Blood Race, named the Scarlet Blessing, and it was said to be the song that Venerable Lord Paying had personally played during the first Holy Blood Festival.
You don’t say, it’s really quite beautiful.
In the soft baritone tune added a very characteristic lady soprano chant, like a long poem of the elves in a fantasy story, but also has a kind of choir’s unique sense of holiness, especially atmospheric and at the same time, also announced to the players that the first festival in the “real other world” is close to the forefront.
In addition to the changes to the forum layout, each player’s avatar has been given a limited-time dress-up, which allows them to make their avatar a “vampire filter”, i.e., the pose their character would take if they were to become a vampire.
Because of Alpha’s “excellent technology”, the effect of this filter is very stunning.
Students shouted their own personal photos uploaded to the forum and then use the vampire filter over again, and then pour out the photos into the phone, as if they had taken a rather handsome “vampire art photos.
Fat’s assistant, “Sister Millet”, also released the official post on the theme of the Holy Blood Festival at 8 o’clock in the evening:
[The sound of silence and beauty at midnight has already sounded, and the scarlet-rendered dawn is calling, dear foreigners, the Transylvanian Administrative Office and the Blood Vulture Clan cordially invite you all to participate in the upcoming ‘Sacred Blood Festival’ celebration.
The development team has prepared a wide range of activities for you, and we hope that you will enjoy the exotic life beyond the battle.
Sacred Blood Festival Preview Activity 1 – Festival Support:
In the past years, this land would be decorated with the most extravagant scenery due to the arrival of the Holy Blood Festival, which was the most lively and happy ten days of the year. However, at this particular time, the Scarlet Fortress, which has just recovered from the disaster, does not have so much manpower and material resources to push the atmosphere of the Holy Blood Festival into a carnival, and for this reason, the consul of Miriam hopes to rely on the omnipotent power of the foreigners.
During the four days from the start of the warm-up event to the official opening of the Sacred Blood Festival, all players can go to the Scarlet Fortress administrative district to receive the ‘Festival Support’ cycle quest.
The quests are daily, can be done once a day, and each quest lasts twelve loops, and consists of helping the Administrative Office find festival supplies and decorate the city as well as prepare for the festivities.
Daily quests will earn you a “Consul’s Appreciation” pack, which includes, but is not limited to, gold coins, supplies, a small psychic pet – Moonlight Butterfly, and a special fashion item – Sacred Blood Reveler’s Attire.
Tips!
There is a very small chance that the gift pack will reveal the ‘Rare Skin – Miriam – Administrative College First Year’.
Holy Blood Festival Preview Event 2 – Grand Challenge Countdown:
Governor Murphy has never forgotten his promise to the warriors of the Otherworld, he has emphasized that he will give the warriors a chance to challenge him, and now, Lord Murphy feels that the time has come!
During the ten days from the date of the start of the warm-up event to the opening of the Holy Blood Festival Grand Challenge, all players can go to special NPCs to obtain ‘Letters of Recommendation for the Strong’, and as of the opening of the Holy Blood Festival Grand Challenge, players with four letters of recommendation will be able to take part in the challenge against Governor Murphy.
This challenge is a limited time – group battle mode!
The maximum number of people allowed to enter is 40!
The number of challenges allowed is limited to 5!
Upon successful challenge, all participants will receive ‘Governor Murphy’s Martial Arts Handbook’ X1.
Tip!
This challenge is reserved for the Holy Blood Festival, players who didn’t get the qualification for the challenge don’t have to be sad and lost, in next year’s Holy Blood Festival challenge, Lord Murphy will appear again.
Holy Blood Festival Preview Event III-Trice’s Revenge:
Because of the unknown reasons that led to a small ripple in the relationship between Mrs. Tris and Governor Murphy, in order to punish Murphy for his indecency, Mrs. Tris decided to provide the warriors with a variety of gain effects and combat potion replenishment in the Grand Challenge.
Since the start date of the preview event, all players who have obtained a copy of the testimonials can go to Madame Tris’s Alchemy Hut and obtain rare combat potions by donating fine wine to Madame Tris.
After the number of wine donated by all warriors exceeds 500 bottles before the Grand Challenge begins, Lady Tris will appear directly at the challenge site and apply powerful gain spells to the challengers.
If the challengers can defeat Lord Murphy, then they will obtain the ‘Lady Trish’s Raised Eyebrow’ gift pack.
The pack contains wealth, power and knowledge beyond your imagination.
More Holy Blood Festival events will be unlocked along with the episode recommendations, so bring your friends and join in the preparations and revelry of the Holy Blood Festival.
In addition, the Administrative Office has reserved five booths for the Gentiles at this event to reflect the cultural characteristics of the Gentiles.
If, at the end of the event, the Gentiles’ performances are unanimously approved by the residents of the Scarlet Fortress and Professor Malcolm, a historian and folklorist, then the Administrative Office will reward the Guild with generous administrative and material prizes.]
This post immediately attracted a lot of attention, but apart from those players who were discussing the big challenge and rewards, some of the more nosy guys quickly tasted the flavor of “melon” from the post.
Lumina Yang: [Lord Murphy and Mrs. Tris are having a falling out, I thought they were a model couple. I think this plot is worth digging deeper, there is no previous paparazzi brothers to sign up for my gossip squad ah?
[Recruiting]
Mrs. Gentle Atmosphere Water: [Don’t be a deadbeat! If you don’t want to be part of the Black Hand Clan…]
Lumina Yang Scar: [Ow, I get it, you guys pretend I didn’t say anything haha.]
King Woo Meow: [Hahahaha, goon, goon, little Lumi is really a coward, afraid of what ah, chasing NPC gossip news is also a way to play the game ah, you see I’m not afraid!
Pomegranate Sister pulls the willow upside down: [Nonsense, you are already the big chief of the Black Hand Clan, you’re afraid of a hair ah].
(End of chapter)