551.Chapter 549 548 Ah, Murphy met a bunch of rats!
Chapter 549 548.Ah, Murphy has met a bunch of rats!
“I should really take your head off and embellish my ship! Dammit! No fool since I’ve been famous has ever dared to make such a damned dirty joke in my presence! Is this how you talk to the most wanted pirate in all the land?
And I’m not a small man, there’s no one bigger than me in the entire Blood Fear fleet!”
In the fortress room that still had a lingering woozy aura, the pirate captain who had his defense broken by Murphy’s one sentence scolded and chided while wearing his pants:
“I had also heard that the Blood Wyvern and Thorns were the most decent, and when I heard you guys were coming, I was so anxious that I rushed to the meeting without wearing pants, but I didn’t expect you guys to be a bunch of blind sons of bitches as well, and you couldn’t even tell the proudest weapon of a man.”
“If your proudest weapon refers to this overly flexible tongue, then I do admit that you may indeed be gifted in the area of serving people.”
Murphy disliked with a wooden grimace.
“And the thing is indeed small.”
Unable to hear the slur, which was not in keeping with vampire tradition, Andrei spoke conspiratorially to the pirate captain in front of him:
“Shall we cut it down and take it back for comparison? I’m sure we Nords would marvel at how this filthy little thing could really look so . . well, exquisite?”
“Andre, don’t be so venomous.”
Murphy flashed a smile and shook his head:
“Our upbringing doesn’t allow us to rub salt in other people’s wounds, it’s not decent at all, it’s just a shame that the beautiful pirate lady has to work very hard to pretend to cooperate every time to fulfill some poor bastard’s humble fantasies.
In fact, if he keeps up this filthy talk, our two gentlemen will be able to just escort the beautiful pirate lady out of this dangerous place.
I’d be happy to do that, wouldn’t you? Lord Earl.”
“Protecting women is a fine tradition among the Nords, Governor Murphy.”
Count Andre said softly:
“And I’m certainly more than willing to be a protector for a time, especially when the man who is supposed to take on that duty is a wimpy softie who only loses his temper with his own people.”
The two men sang in unison, turning the nose of the pirate in front of them.
He had the heart to ruthlessly insult these two posturing fellows with the most popular expletives on the Misty Sea, but the black-hatted pirate captain fell strangely silent when he saw the clan insignia on Murphy and Andre’s chests.
He knew that he couldn’t do that.
He also knew why Murphy and Andre were so deliberately sarcastic.
It wasn’t really the three men exchanging hot topics about the standard length of the thing, it was the first time the three clans had met in 200 years, and he, on behalf of Clan Bloodfear, had been humiliated in front of his “compatriots”.
But he didn’t want to.
But these “reinforcements” came at a really bad time, but in the Blood Fear Clan’s most desperate situation by the old grudge compatriots to rescue, they really need to help and can not be evil to drive them away, ch, this matter is enough to say it out of shame.
If the most decent Archduke Charlemagne is still around, on his behavior today, he will definitely be tied to a cross and die in the sun before dawn.
He knows too much about the traditions of the blood race.
After all, he was there when Archduke Charlemagne was killed by Lord Payeng. Uh, no, he hadn’t experienced that at all, he was just the lucky human captain who had fallen from the sky like a pirate saint to save the poor bastards during the difficult years after the exiles of the Blood Fear Clan had arrived at the Sea of Mists.
In other words, “Captain Bloody” Pablo is not a real Blood Fear.
He is just an “heir”.
This point Murphy and Andrei already confirmed when they met this captain, there is only one real “blood fear” among the four people in this room, and that is the red-haired pirate lady who is now leaning against the window with a sheet on her back enjoying her pipe and wearing a strange smile, admiring the three men “comparing their lengths”. “The red-haired pirate lady.
She’s a real hoot.
Do not care about the body of the bed sheet even her dough and slender waist and long legs can not cover, even do not care about Murphy and Andrei measuring her strange gaze.
However, although this lady was a true pureblood Blood Fear, she was not the dominant one in this conversation, instead, she had been deliberately hiding her presence and leaving the scene to her captain, acting like those behind the scenes who chose to be puppets.
The strange mode of getting along between these two made both Murphy and Andrei a little surprised.
“Why are you the one who came?”
The pipe-smoking pirate lady asked casually as she exhaled a strange boat-shaped smoke ring in the silence, with a distinct afterglow of satisfaction:
“Where is Ms. Tris? I heard she became the Archduke of the Blood Vulture, I thought I would see her again, you two may not be able to understand this, but when I was a ‘young man’ like yourselves, Lady Tris was the one I admired the most.
There wasn’t a female vampire of our time who didn’t admire her, alas, things have changed.”
“Perhaps you should start by introducing yourself, ma’am.”
Murphy took up the accent as he asked in a gentle tone:
“You seem to be familiar with my honored lady? Are you one of her friends from back in the day?”
“A friend? Friends with the Scarlet Witch? No, no, no, I don’t have that honor.”
The Pirate Lady exhaled a smoke ring and waved her hand:
“Back then when Clan Chief Charlemagne was executed by Venerable Lord Paying himself, I was just a small character who had just entered the Clan and didn’t even have my own Bloodstone Ring, but that wasn’t a bad thing, it was precisely because of my weakness that I was able to escape with my life under the judgment of that horrific ‘Punishment Expedition’.
I was one of the last 99 Sons of Blood Fear.
We were ordered to travel barefoot across the continent in handcuffs and shackles and eventually banished to the Misty Shores, when I was your age, perhaps a little younger, when I knew nothing, and was foolish and simple and full of malice towards the world.
His Holiness told us that this was the last mercy we would ever receive, and then threw us a ship and seven days’ worth of food and left us alone.
We thought we had finally survived, but it turned out we were too optimistic.
Trying to return to the mainland, we set foot on land and were greeted by jackals and other monsters roaming the shores, leaving only 37 of our 99 compatriots dead in the early morning of the seventh day.
We knew that the only way to survive was to go to the sea, so the 37 dryads struggled to survive at sea.
By the end of the first month, I was left with only 21 brothers and sisters.
The sea didn’t kill the others. They committed suicide.
At that point, I thought the day of Blood Fear’s extinction was coming, but things quickly turned for the better, and just as we were being taken as slaves to be sold toward the ancient kingdom of Calum, I was fortunate enough to meet the love of my life and the final savior of the Blood Fear Clan!”
Dropping her pipe, she sauntered up behind her captain, who was at that moment slumped in his chair, biting the cork off a rum bottle with his mouth, and kissed her captain hard on the cheek in front of Murphy and Andre.
This captain was clearly her heir, but at this moment the master-slave relationship seemed to be completely reversed.
From the eyes of this woman in front of him, Murphy saw the same light as Adele before, and he knew that this dignified pureblood Blood Fear had unreservedly regarded this pirate captain as the master of his life’s companion and soul.
“Pablo Juan Garcia, who was still very young at the time, bravely attacked that pirate ship with his tiny merchant ship, and he freed me and my brothers and sisters with his own hands, and taught us how to survive on the sea.
He took us across that ocean!
He raised us to be the fiercest pack of bloodthirsty wolves on the Misty Sea.
We survived.
After surviving a horrific catastrophe, Blood Fear was reborn in the malice of the ocean!
We branched out and reorganized the clan.
In our tenth year in the ocean, the last 21 pureblood Bloodfears elected our new clan leader.”
The woman slumped behind the pirate captain’s shoulder.
She raised her head and stared at Murphy and Andre with an icy gaze, and it was only at this moment that Murphy sensed that the aura of the woman in front of him was rising.
This was actually a gold-ranked pirate first mate!
But her aura is very strange, Murphy has contacted the gold level more than once, the power characteristics of the lady in front of him does not belong to the real gold level, it is more like a “strange disguise”.
“We chose Pablo Juan Garcia to be our captain, we gave him the ancient name of ‘Giovanni’ and the blood of plunder, it was not the name that honored him, it was the name he saved and glorified!
We chose without question my beloved to become the second Archduke of the Blood Fears!
To him we give all our loyalty!
The only Archduke of the Bloodfear sits before you and you dishonor him.
Two.
Two young vampires, two young compatriots!
Who do you think you are talking to?”
She asked in a flirtatious tone, while the sated pirate captain whistled immodestly and reached out to pat his first mate’s buttocks, which were so plump that he wanted to die on them, as he turned back to her with a strangely soothing tone:
“Well, my dear Claire, my beloved, don’t fight with a bunch of dryads who haven’t grown up, it’s not worth it, it’ll put two more wrinkles on your perfect face, and you know, I never cared for any Blood Fear Archduke or any Clan Patriarch.
It was only because my little one wanted to visit her homeland that I promised that insolent Lord Paying to join in a war that we had nothing to do with, and he was the one who promised that our fleet would make a fortune in the war.
I came prepared to plunder, and all I got was a damn attack.
Yes, I did.
I am the Archduke of Blood Fear!
That is the least important of all the identities I possess, for it was bestowed rather than won with my hands, a gift I have always scoffed at, but it seems to matter to you.” The middle-aged man looked up, staring at Murphy and Andre with a strange smile on his very masculine face, and casually flung his hand to make the hidden, dirty Archduke’s seal appear in front of the two.
But this immodest fellow purposely wore the seal on his middle finger, making his action of exposing it like a naked mockery.
Andre immediately bent down in homage.
Murphy also bowed his head and expressed his respect for an “unruly” abnormal Blood Grand Duke in a very restrained manner with the standard courtesy of an audience.
He was not as exaggerated as Andre’s actions, but as the first heir of the Blood Vulture Clan and the true core of the family, he had the capital to be arrogant.
Seeing the two clan’s emissaries bending down and saluting, Pablo and Claire looked at each other and revealed a smug smile, look, the thousand years of Blood Clan’s traditions shaped them but also bound them, when facing the arrogant vampires, they only need to play with the rules to make them bow down obediently.
For the pirates who regarded the rules as nothing, this kind of novel experience can be too great.
The two of them had no interest in returning to orthodoxy, but if this was just a game, they seemed to have mastered the “real game” from now on.
“I say come on, guys, if this is a show then it’s over. As Tris once told me, just because you hold the Seal of the Archduke doesn’t make you a vampire leader, the respect we are showing is for the past and the legacy of the Seal, and that respect is not for you two.”
Just when the two pirates were complacent, Murphy’s ghostly voice rang in their ears.
The vampire lord straightened his back with his staff and sword, and Andre beside him once again showed that slightly contemptuous indifference, it was obvious that as Murphy said, that bow just now was only a sign of respect for the Blood Fear Clan, and was not a recognition given to these two deviant pirates.
Pablo and Carlisle’s mental activities can not be hidden from Murphy at all, when entering the house, the energy of desire has been in full operation, this thing to hear the two pirates’ heart can be too simple.
So Murphy spoke:
“An exile who has been banished from his ancestral land for 200 years, an outsider who has been elected as an Archduke but knows little of his own family’s history, you can of course show your lack of respect for the other clans as much as you like, but you’ll have to figure out your own way to get the respect of the Blood Wyverns and Thorns first.
In your words, win back your dignity under midnight with both hands.
You want to fight tradition.
But there’s no way you can avoid your origins.
I’m not a shallow pedigree theorist, but the fact of the matter is that the blood of sinful descent runs through each and every one of our veins, and it roars in our hearts to return us to this antiquated millennial system, and that’s not even a will that you can decide according to your own whims.
You are tempted to be rebels because the system has hurt you.
But you, under the watchful eye of your Holiness, do not have the capital to do so!
The fallen Blood Vulture may not be worthy of your reverence, but you must show respect, that is the tradition of the Blood! What happens when you disobey the rules, I think Ms. Claire has seen for herself two hundred years ago.
Your careful disobedience to the orders of your honored masters by the resistance of your hearts is sending you to another desperate situation.
In this situation, you two need us far more than we need you!
Therefore, I think it is best for you two to set your minds and positions right so that you can continue this conversation, and if you want to leave this valley alive, don’t make any more trouble.
Obey the command next.
We can wait until it’s safe to talk slowly about the fighting and all that.”
“Clap.”
The pirate captain sitting in his chair applauded, and the guy shot Murphy a subtle look as he said:
“Excellent point! This kind of naked conversation is more to the liking of a pirate villain like me. Well, I can still hold my nerve in front of my subordinates and tell them that everything is fine, but I could do a lot worse than to be so veiled when dealing with ‘fellow countrymen’ who have come to my aid.
You’re right!
Us old sea dogs should never have set foot in this dryad territory, the earth cursed us, we’re going to be stuck in this damned hellhole, those cultists aren’t the only trouble, and it’s all Claire’s bad idea!
Aaaaahhhh, don’t pinch your ears, save face for me as the Archduke in front of the other Clan’s emissaries, will you?”
Before he could finish his words, he was lifted from his chair by Miss Claire behind him pinching his ears.
The pirate first mate screamed:
“Who did you say had the bad idea? It was clearly you who thought this place was good!
You said that this place would allow us to hide here to survive the first wave of the Black Calamity onslaught, and then nimbly wipe our feet and leave this place of death, don’t put your mistakes on me, isn’t it tiring enough for me to serve you all day long?
Now you want me to take the blame?”
This unique look of husband and wife quarrelling made Andrei’s eyes rounded, born in a noble family and raised by the conservative Shani, he probably had never seen such a vulgar and “vivid” love stench in his life.
Murphy, on the other hand, gave a fleeting smile.
He found the two vampire pirate couples in front of him, who knew how to enliven the atmosphere and put on airs, very interesting.
There was no trace of the elegance and decency that vampires should have on them, compared to them, the craziest members of the Blood Vulture Clan could be called refined, and even the wild werewolf venomous people had transformed into real Grimmie “gentlemen”.
Worthy of being the most rebellious group of people in the seven clans.
They seem to have substantially separated from the vampire this “dirty vat”, in the sea developed a set of very different blood clan system.
To be honest, Murphy was even a bit envious.
Look at the other two, honor and blood of the open and honest love to do astringent bad thing no one cares, but you dare to do this kind of thing on the continent is absolutely to be other vampires old coffin boards behind the back of the backbone poke to death.
Alas, if he and Tris were born as members of the Blood Fear Clan, I’m afraid that Tris and he would have unlocked countless new positions by now.
“Ahem.”
Murphy coughed to calm down the two vampire pirates in front of him who were both bickering, and he held out his hands and said:
“Gentlemen, ladies, let’s get down to business now.
I and Count Andre’s team have already formed up outside the valley, the reinforcements from the Blood Alliance Clan will arrive soon, we will fulfill the rescue of our ancient compatriots, of course, it is up to you, it’s just a small matter of the Blood Fear Clan about to be overthrown again, it doesn’t matter.
The two of you can continue to argue about trivial matters in your feelings, I think we are all sensible people who are willing to put life and death behind the Captain’s and First Mate’s grudges.”
“You’re a poisonous talker! Don’t think I don’t hear you cursing us in a roundabout way.”
Bloody Captain Pablo exclaimed as he scooped up his first mate’s slender waist and nibbled hard on the crazy female vampire’s delicate face:
“I’m not underestimating you, my compatriots, if it was that easy to break out, me and the bravest sea dogs under my command would have done so on the first day of their siege. The truth is, the real trouble lies underground.”
“Underground?”
Andrei said, frowning tightly:
“You mean, all that overturned earth? It’s like a giant beast came out of the ground and toppled your defenses… You mean, there really is something underground?”
“Is it some kind of summon?”
Murphy trailed off:
“The Twilight Believers summoned a giant beast to block your way?”
“I’m not sure if it was a summon, but I’ve never seen anything similarly evil on the Sea of Mists or even in the Dark Mountains.”
Captain Bloody leaned on his belt knife as he said with some annoyance:
“You’re locals, you might recognize the demons that burrow out of the ground, I’m telling you it’s not a large creature, they’re smaller than humans, but they’re so numerous that the entire valley below has been practically gutted by them.
In fact, if they wanted to, my fortress would have fallen on the first day, there are so many of those dogs that they pass underground like nothing else.
My artillery positions were all destroyed by them, and my subordinates were badly damaged.”
“So what the hell?”
Andrei said, leaning on his weapon:
“Can they be killed?”
“Of course they can be, with swords, with guns, with fire, they’re easy to kill, but we can’t kill them fast enough to keep up with the rate at which they’re rushing out, damn it! It’s practically endless.”
When it came to business, First Mate Claire acted very professionally as she changed into her own First Mate Pirate’s Clothes with her back to the three men’s faces:
“You can see the corpses being piled up right by the window, we burn them once a day, those guys are carrying deadly germs, if it wasn’t for the vampires being unafraid of those toxins our marines would have been finished a long time ago.”
Murphy and Andrei walked to the edge of the fortress room, guided by Claire’s first mate, and pushed open the window to catch a whiff of the disgusting odor.
It was the pirate vampires burning the bodies of their enemies.
“So many rats?”
Andre exclaimed.
Murphy’s eyes beside him clenched at that instant as he shook his head:
“No, it’s not rats, it’s Andre the Rat, we’re in big trouble!”
(End of chapter)