549.Chapter 547 546 Late Aid to Exotic Visitors When in Distress
Chapter 547 546.Late Aid – The Distressing Times of the Visitors from a Foreign Land
“Master, two thirds of the registered Blood Vulture Clan members are currently in place, the rest are still coming as soon as possible, in three hours your Blood Clan army will be ready.
The number of vampires participating in this battle will reach 400, this will be the largest operation of the Blood Vulture Clan since the disaster in Cadman City.”
On the rocky outcrop at the entrance to the Valley of the Shadow, Adele emerged silently in the shadows, her wings folded while her hands rested iteratively on her stomach, reporting like the best housekeeper to Murphy, who stood there gazing at the rowdy scene in the camp below:
“If we count the Servants, then the battle will be more than 800 people in size. I just spoke with a few elders from the Valley of the Shadow, and they are not willing to send their precious soldiers into the battle, but they are willing to provide a 50-man ranger squad to provide us with fire support.
Please forgive my clumsiness, but it does take a little time for me to convince them to serve you wholeheartedly.”
“I don’t see it as a failure, Adele, it’s remarkable that it only took you one night to persuade them to throw themselves into our camp. After all, it’s not like you’re playing a strategy game where you can gain 100% loyalty at the click of a mouse box.
We live in reality, and loyalty here is always a hard-to-find, peerless gem.”
Murphy waved his hand, signaling that Adele didn’t have to be so humble.
He then withdrew his gaze and turned to look at his “former -blood” as he said:
“You don’t have to call me ‘master’ anymore, because you are free, and the thing that the blood of the sinful descent desires the most has been acquired by your own hands, Adele, your performance makes me feel proud. Then I have to ask, how does it feel to have freedom again?”
“I’d like to tell you that everything is perfect so that I can pretend that I’m grateful for your kindness, but in reality, it sucks.”
Adele, in a very matter-of-fact gesture, shook her head:
“Like a ship that has lost the guidance of a lighthouse, I’m traveling through that angry sea called free will, and every wave that comes in threatens to lose me to the call of so-called freedom, or even worse, shipwrecked by unbridled indulgence without the constraints of some rule.
Freedom is good, Master.
But not everyone needs it.
If you really want to give me freedom, then you shouldn’t interfere with how I plan my life, just as my choice to be your loyal servant is an expression of that freedom, isn’t it?”
“Sophistry!”
Murphy grunted and said:
“It seems that you too have picked up some of the vices of the Otherworlders in the Forum Tavern, and you know full well why I do what I do, Adele, and I couldn’t say so explicitly before because of our relationship, but now, I think we can have a little chat about a subject that is embarrassing to both of us in between warrior rallies.
About those twisted, undeserved feelings you have for me.”
“How can you say such things in front of a lady!”
Adele’s cheeks flushed red for a moment, it was quite rare to see such an expression on a vampire’s face.
She chortled in some panic:
“I don’t think we should discuss my personal affairs in this situation! Master, isn’t there a war going on right now? Shouldn’t we be thinking about what to do to save those of our countrymen? Is it really appropriate for your mind to be placed on such matters?”
“I’m just doing my best, and with regards to the greed and cunning and lack of control that the Blood Fear Clan has shown over the past period of time, I feel that if I don’t go to their rescue now and leave them to their own devices, even if the Venerable Lord Paying himself were to arrive, he wouldn’t be able to say anything in the way of a reprimand.
It’s that group of stupid pirates who did something wrong and put them in this embarrassing situation, and we have nothing to do with it!
I’m not the patriarch of the Blood Fear Clan, so why should I think about them?”
In front of Adele, Murphy didn’t choose to camouflage his gentleness as he bristled with a hint of annoyance:
“If it wasn’t for the current Black Plague and the need to unite all forces, I would have just rushed to the place where the Blood Fear Clan was pitched at the first opportunity to loudly laugh at those fools, well, I admit that I opened the topic a bit abruptly.
If you don’t want to talk about it, then we can do it another time, or I can make an appointment for you to see an alien psychologist for counseling or something.”
After saying that, Murphy courteously made an elegant gesture of a gentleman’s farewell and opened his wings ready to go forward to brush his face among the players.
However, as he levitated, Adele raised her head.
It was obvious that she was embarrassed, but she didn’t avoid the question.
She ruffled her hair and said to Murphy:
“I admit, master, in the past period of time, the influence from the blood contract has made me have some undeserved ‘non-thoughts’ about you, I can’t deny that.
But now, after drinking the source blood that strange feeling has disappeared.
I was able to look at my relationship with you from a rational perspective, and I must tell you that I actually sensed your anxiety in this matter, presumably because you have come to view Archduke Tris as your lifelong companion.
You do not want to be burdened with feelings.
I must confess that I will not be a burden to you in this present situation.”
“Ah, it’s so reassuring to hear you answer with such certainty.”
Murphy let out a long breath.
He gathered his wings and landed back on the rock, speaking to Adele:
“I’m really very happy to see you come out of that twisted relationship, as in the story of Tris and I. I almost became a licking dog at Tris’s feet under the influence of the blood contract.
It was Tris who took the initiative to ask me to drink the source blood to end that horrible relationship, and like you I thought it was a love I felt from the bottom of my heart, but it wasn’t until I calmed down that I realized it was just a vicious call for the blood of the sinful descendants.
A blood contract .
It’s a monstrosity that shouldn’t exist!
I believe that it is the very existence of this thing that has prevented the vampire civilization from taking to the world stage with a straight face, and it is this twisted relationship of total inequality that has sunk our civilization into a mucky pit of intrigue and scheming.
I’m glad, Adele, that you’ve found yourself.”
“I’m also glad I can see myself coming to my senses, Master.”
Adele gave a small smile as she whispered:
“But I will still call you Master, not just because you saved me from the disaster of death, but because I have witnessed and personally participated in every victory you have created.
In fact, all members of the Blood Vulture Clan, including Archduke Tris, know that you are the true master of the Blood Vulture Clan.
I do not call you master because I have lost myself.
It is precisely because I have found myself that I have come to realize that only you, with certain qualities that are incompatible with the Blood Vulture Clan’s corrupt millennia of tradition, can lead the Blood Vulture Clan to its true rise to power.
You are more than just my master!
You are also the master of all the Blood Vulture vampires, and you are also the Divine Lord of the Scarlet Fortress and Transylvania.
That title signifies unreserved allegiance, and in the face of that loyalty, my personal feelings are of no consequence. I realize, of course, that you spoke of your relationship with Grand Duchess Tris.
Am I to understand that as long as I sink into your masculinity in my waking state and pursue you in the name of an undistorted love, that means you will no longer resist it but will choose to accept it?”
A straight ball slammed over, catching the vampire lord, who was enjoying the bragging of his subordinates, off guard.
“Ah this.”
Murphy didn’t expect the always well-behaved Adele to suddenly ask such a tricky question, he was a bit unable to answer for a while, but upon seeing Adele’s eyes waiting for an answer, the vampire lord hesitated and said:
“We are vampires, Adele, and we have endless time to squander. Tris once told me that after I spent my first hundred years as a vampire, the way I viewed the world and my feelings would change.
I’ll be honest with you, I wasn’t actually prepared for that.
But if .
If after a hundred years I do degenerate into as bad a guy as Tris predicted, perhaps you will be one of my targets, after all, I can’t in good conscience deny this amazing femininity of yours.
You really are very outstanding, in every aspect.”
“Thank you for the compliment, I feel honored from the bottom of my heart.”
Murphy’s blunt answer made Adele freeze for a moment, it was a rejection, but then she realized that there was actually no anger or loss in her heart, instead it was filled with a kind of gladness of being affirmed.
She lowered her head, took a step back, and whispered:
“Then, my lord, it seems that I will have to wait for you for a hundred years first, fortunately as you said, to vampires, time has no meaning. I will prepare a map and all sorts of information for you to get to the Blood Fear camp, we have three hours until the action, and given your very different routine from other vampires, you may need to take a break.
Also, a message has just arrived from the Earl of White Mountain, who says that he and his faction wish to join in this rescue operation as well.”
“Ah, that idiot Andrei who is so eager to show off really doesn’t want to miss every opportunity to rub off on his accomplishments, well, well, tell him, Adele, I’ll only be waiting for him for three hours.”
Murphy waved his hand and flapped his wings into the night sky.
As a unique vampire who went to bed early and woke up early, he really needed to rest and energize himself in these three hours, after all, his biggest killing move needed energy bar as a resource for casting spells.
After seeing Murphy leave, Mrs. Adele in the darkness of the night remained in the same place, letting the wind of the shadowed valley blow her hair, her face was as calm and indifferent as that of the intelligence director in the past, but the frequency of the vampire heart in her chest had already caught up with the heartbeat of a normal human being.
Murphy could never understand, for a woman like Adele, who had been educated as a conservative noble servant since childhood, how much psychological pressure it would take to say that kind of thing to her face, which rounded up is basically equivalent to “confession”.
Unfortunately, Murphy chose to politely decline.
Fortunately, he did not reject it completely.
“One hundred years.”
Adele stroked her rolling cheeks.
For a vampire, warming up her skin was not a good sign; it meant that her harnessing of the blood in her body had gone haywire. Trying to calm herself, the spectral lady stroked her seductive lips, and at the distinctive touch she let out a long breath.
“It’s only been a hundred years, Adele, you’re an unashamedly lucky man.”
Despite chiding herself thus, the smile on Adele’s face could not be hidden in any way as she turned and flew towards the Valley of the Shadows in preparation for convincing the Elders once again to send more Rangers to support this rescue.
Well well well.
She hadn’t actually told Murphy exactly how she’d really changed, she hadn’t told Murphy that she’d only decided to fall in love with her handsome and great master after she’d come to her senses
But it didn’t matter.
A smart woman always knew how to lower the pressure on the man she admired.
Adele was smart enough to know very well that she didn’t need to be stupid enough to wait a hundred years before she started making her move, and she had decided to use those hundred years as a stepping stone to make this night, a hundred years from now, the sublimation rather than the beginning of her own relationship with Master Murphy.
Heh, only a fool would start to make a move on the day of the race, when in reality, the outcome of all races was already predetermined before the starting gun went off.
Well, thanks to Mother Midnight for this wisdom, thanks to Mother Midnight for this charm, and thanks to Mother Midnight for allowing herself to be born in such a seductive body so that she wouldn’t have to spend more time molding herself to perfection.
Adele, you’re a lucky guy.
Of course, Adele didn’t forget to thank her “personal relationship counselor” either.
“Mrs. Water, I did it, followed your off-the-wall advice, a straight shot, and you were right, it was the most direct way . He, he refused, but he gave me a centennial.”
“Well, that’s awesome, full of a kind of vampire romance. While I certainly won’t see the day when this relationship blossoms, I really feel proud of you, Adele, that you actually did what I told you to do! You’re so brave.
Also, don’t call me Mrs. Water, it’s too formal.
We’re already BFFs across the world, right? We share our hearts with each other. So, call me Shizuku from now on.”
On the other side, high in the air, Murphy coldly put down the core treasure pearl in her hand.
He finally knew who gave the conservative Adele “military advice” on relationships, good for you, Mrs. Water! You dare to participate in this kind of thing, really bold, it seems that his “Book of Hate” will have to add another name.
Very well.
Tonight, the Black Hand clan will have a new general! —
“Boom.”
Blinding purple fire was inflicted on the shadowed mists of war in a malevolent spell bloom, like a distant fire rising through the mist, though it was known that something bad must have happened there.
But it always took a little more courage to go through the fog to check it out.
That was true for regular people, so it was even harder for a group of pirates.
The Blood Fear Clan had just lost the left flank of their stronghold, and it was time to send in a sharp force to get it back so that they could hold on to what little advantage they had left in this long and painful battle of offense and defense.
But the group of gray-faced vampire pirates in the central trench looked at each other, and not a single one of them took the initiative to come forward and say that they would go to retake the flank that had been seized.
Gee whiz, was the asshole stationed there on good terms with himself?
Would he give himself a lot of money?
If not, then why would one save them?
Just because we’re a group and we’re being attacked by a bunch of vicious cultists who are on the verge of death, do you have to abandon the first rule of piracy and do something stupid that won’t bring you any benefits?
Fuck!
What kind of good is that to think?
Besides, it was almost time for the “underground monsters” to attack, and they had to save all their ammo and firepower to give those bastards a taste of their own medicine.
“Ah, the idiots on the flanks are finished, now the treasure they hid on an island in the Sea of Mists is ours, all we need to do is to escape back to Bloodshed Harbor and find their treasure map, and all the rest of us can make a small fortune.
The prerequisite is that those guys have to actually die here, so who’s going to patch up our poor compatriots?”
An asshole wrapped in a black pirate bandana and dressed almost exactly like a classic pirate hemmed and hawed.
In terms of appearance, he was no different from the scum of the Misty Sea, but his scarlet eyes and that overly pale skin represented his distinctive identity, and lo and behold, a rare vampire pirate!
The high class of the pirate profession.
Even though there were more destructive spells smashing near them at the moment, they couldn’t stop this group of bastards from the Misty Sea from letting out a wolf-like treacherous laughter.
They were all dressed very vulgarly, hate to put all the valuable things on their body on their exaggerated clothing, everyone has a pirate knife with gold and silver, in the belt or chest weapon belt full of dwarven musket, there are still guys grasping a sharp harpoon in his hand, or with a strange net full of barbs.
These guys, who shouldn’t even be on land, were being crushed.
But they were very cunning allowing them to lose actually not much in days of offense and defense, these old birds who were used to naval battles at sea knew how to protect themselves in danger, and more importantly were just a bunch of vampires!
They weren’t afraid to die, and they weren’t going to die.
Each of the seven clans had their own specialty, the Blood Vultures rode the skies, the Thorns ran through the shadows of the night, the Blood League could judge sins, the Wolfsbane’s rode the wilderness of monstrous power, and the Blood Fear Clan possessed a gift based on the grotesque power that extended from their greedy nature.
These guys can plunder the power of others for their own use in battle, and they won’t die satisfied until their looting heart is satisfied.
It could be said that this clan and the profession of pirate were simply a perfect match, which made the Blood Fear Clan the most terrifying nightmare in the entire Misty Sea in the 200 years after the Blood Fear Armageddon when they were marooned on the Misty Sea, making this vampire clan, which was on the verge of being de-listed in history.
Eleven out of ten bad things that happened on that sea had something to do with these guys!
They were one of the four major forces on the Misty Sea alongside the Wave Fishers, Mysterious Sea Beasts, and Atlantean Sharks. 200 years had allowed the Blood Fear Clan to extend their tentacles to every corner of the Misty Sea, and they prospered and even directly drove the pirate business on this continent to flourish.
Regrettably, the Blood Fear Clan to this day is only a part of the pirate business rather than a real pirate king.
After all, they are few.
Of course, if you counted the heirs and blood servants that had been developed, then the Blood Fear Clan was undoubtedly the most prosperous of the seven clans, and even the Wolfsbane Clan couldn’t compare to them in terms of numbers.
However, in this black plague, His Holiness Pa Ying’s mercy to allow the Blood Fear Clan to return to the continent had requirements, the sins created by the Blood Fear back then had to be repaid by Charlemagne’s descendants, so only the current backbone of the Blood Fear Clan was allowed to enter the continent.
That is a 2000 people pirate marines, by their current clan leader is also the famous “plunder ship” bloody captain command.
But to be honest.
While Lord Payeng feels he has been kind, and the other Blood Lords feel that this is a good gesture of kindness from his Lord, few members of Clan Bloodfear are willing to get involved in the Black Plague mess.
This mentality may explain the reason why these guys have not entered Transylvania even though they have landed for almost two months, they don’t care about “salvation” at all.
You can’t expect a group of pirates to have a conscience.
They just can’t afford to mess with Lord Payeng.
The benevolence of the honored one was so heavy that the bloody captain didn’t even dare to say the word “no”.
“Bang!”
Just as the old sea dogs were talking to each other about how the treasures of those fools who died in battle should be distributed, a strange muffled sound erupted from the mists.
It was a burst from a peculiar firearm, and for the Sea Dogs of the Blood Fear Fleet, they all knew that it was the captain’s order to call for a counterattack.
“Ah, my dear Claire, hurry up and take a bath and change into your sluttiest clothes and paint your mouth, your captain is going to eat you when he returns victorious, my dear First Mate, we’re going to have some different fun today~
Where did you put my whip? Why can’t I find it?”
“Get lost, nasty scoundrel! Be careful of getting your head chopped off, I’ve divined that you’re having a bad day.”
A man and a woman’s voices rang out from behind the mists with flirtation and immodest nastiness, but at the sound of this voice all the pirates who were groping for fish shouted in excitement.
It was their captain, the legend of the Misty Sea appearing.
“Bang.”
The bottle smashed against the trench and crashed to pieces, and the captain’s shouting and cursing resounded through the fog of war, and in the face of those disturbing voices coming out of the strangely quieted position in front of him, he shouted out:
“The looting has begun! The old rules, everything we loot today is yours! I don’t want a penny except for victory! Charge! Charge forward and bring back the heads of the cultists! Who are you fools more afraid of?
Them?
The monsters?
Or me?”
And so in the next instant, one by one, the lazy sea-dogs rushed out of the trenches, waving their crude pirate swords and pouring the last of their precious rum into their mouths before howling and killing the cultists who were flailing like that across the street.
Ugh!
Dryads, the pirate lords are going to use your hearts to accompany the drink!
The pirates’ morale was inspired, but no one knew the worry in the confident captain’s heart, they couldn’t hold out much longer, if there was no support. They will have to run away with their charming first mate, they do not dare to run alone.
Who knows if his beautiful first mate will steal his own treasure, and then spend the day wildly cuckolding himself?
Alas, it is difficult to be a pirate!
When the man is even more difficult.
When a pirate man, really difficult ah.
Curse this damned earth, curse Lord Paying, curse the Blood Wyvern Clan, and curse the entire world except for your own ship and your own first mate!
To hell with it all.
(End of chapter)