584. Chapter 582 – 581 Loyalty is the best quality, love is tight

Chapter 582 581. Loyalty is the best quality, love is a close second – plus more [2330].

(Plus more for brother “Crow_13” [3/5])
“These little players can ah! Actually discovering the mysteries of the Silver Ranks without a teacher, I was wondering if I should send out an official guide post to remind them.”

In the Phantom Shadow Valley, Murphy had just observed the night training of the People’s Army, and while deeply satisfied he had inadvertently spied on the mystery of Silver discovered by Orchid Flower through the daily listening of the Operational Treasure Pearl.

The Vampire Governor lamented the sharpness of the usually low-profile Grand Traveler, because he had planned to open up the Silver Trial experience program in the “next version”, but he didn’t realize that Orchid had already reached the critical conditions for triggering the Silver Trial by her own strength.

Murphy only triggered his own Silver Trial a few days ago, but he already knew a lot about it.

Unlike the Black Iron Trial which purely releases the strength and potential of the body, the challenge of the Silver Stage is more about the release of the potential of the fighting style and bloodline power, and in the continent’s current current power system, Silver and Black Iron both belong to the middle and lower reaches of the power system, and they are more of a way to create a perfect body where all the potentials have been released and strengthened for the ultimate Gold Trial.

In Tris’s words, the point of both Black Iron and Silver was to look inward for strength, while at the Gold rank it was time to look outward for replenishment, this system devised by the elves was very subtle, and it almost perfectly summed up the history of a strong person’s growth.

However, Murphy knew that the secret of silver that Orchid had discovered was not complete, and was even very flawed.

Although it was true that the Grand Traveler had unearthed the first Ancestor’s Power by constantly practicing the racial skills of the Nords, but from Murphy’s situation at this time, it was clear that this thing called Ancestor’s Power was not something that could only be obtained through racial skills, there were many other ways.

For example, the Blood Alliance Clan has a secret training method that can awaken a specific ancestor power, and the new pirate captain also said that the materials they obtained from hunting certain rare sea beasts in the Sea of Mists can also be used to awaken a special ancestor power.

And most importantly, there has never been a limit to the amount of ancestor power.

In fact, after Murphy triggered the Silver Trial he communicated remotely with Tris and the Palano Knight, and the two gave him the common advice of not rushing to complete the trial first, and striving to get a third Ancestor Power.

This point was important.

Once the Silver Trial was completed, it meant that the body and bloodline evolved at the same time, it was the enhancement and solidification of the life form, in other words, once he entered the Silver Stage, it would be much harder to activate more Ancestor’s Powers, and since he was laying the foundation, he had to make the foundation as strong as possible.

Moreover, there are qualities of ancestor power.

For example, one of the five ancestor powers activated by Cuice in the Silver Trial is called “Eternal Life”, which is a very domineering name, but actually strengthens the vampire’s immortality attribute, allowing Cuice to be in a state of “never growing old”, even when eternal silence arrives, Cuice can look the most beautiful and seductive with the most beautiful and seductive eyes. Even when eternal death comes, Tris will be able to step into death with the most beautiful and attractive posture.

This power of ancestor is almost useless except for the preservation of appearance and the strengthening of survival attribute, but it not only allowed Tris to survive instead of dying after the heart of the blood race was dug out, but also directly related to the “Transcendent Law of Time” that Tris obtained in the Golden Trial.

It was this extraordinary law that allowed Tris to become a genius of the blood race that even Lord Paying had to praise.

The story of Tris is the best reference for Murphy, he now has two Ancestral Powers, Dark Claws and Scarlet Secret Energy, and Manis the Infinite said that the power it gives can be synthesized into a single Ancestral Power after it has been enhanced, so Murphy intends to uncover at least one more in the next Black Scourge battle, before completing the Silver Trial.

According to Paranor, one of the major reasons why the Blood Alliance Knights’ combat power was so strong and crowned the continent was that Exalted Lord Paying required that all members opening the Silver Trial must master at least three Ancestor Powers.

It was this harsh requirement that created the might of the Blood Alliance.

Extending from this, the player’s potential progress bar was actually a trap, 70% potential release could certainly allow a player to become an ordinary Silver rank after a certain amount of pressure, but if the potential release bar could be stretched to 100% and more Ancestor Powers could be obtained through the extension of racial skills, then the player’s promotion process would be stretched to the limit while accomplishing Elite Silver!
They didn’t have an elite template to speak of, but the thing called combat power didn’t lie.

The Black Iron Trial determines the lower limit, and the Silver Trial determines the upper limit, so Murphy was a bit hesitant at this point to politely remind his pozos on the forums in his capacity as the development team.

However, after careful consideration, he decided to press on.

Playing the game, happiness is the most important, there is no need to force all players to become powerful and strong.

Besides, is an ordinary silver not a silver?
Although Murphy’s rank at this time can easily cut down five ordinary silver, but rank is a hard condition, a few hundred water silver put there, or enough to be able to bluff people.

“Mark, come here, there’s something to ask you.”

Murphy made up his mind, he soon saw Maxim carrying a pile of documents from the side, so he called his loyal servant over, he asked directly:
“How many Ancestor Powers do you have now?”

“Well, three, master.”

Mark couldn’t be by Murphy’s side often after he was transferred to the position of commander general, and the progress of his power wasn’t something that had to be reported, so after hearing that Maxim had awakened three Ancestor’s Powers, Murphy was instantly shocked.

Shit!
You Maxim!

This big man only has two, how come you have three? This is intended to rebel, right?
But Murphy immediately hid the surprise in his heart, with a kind of worry that he might be surpassed by his good brother who had been frying fish ponds together with a rotten score, he asked:

“Come and exchange, what are all your ancestral powers?”

“Uh, Laneia instructed me that I shouldn’t tell anyone else about this kind of thing lest I be caught with a weakness, and she said she’d seen silver warriors before who were targeted and therefore died horribly. But you are the master, I will not hide anything from you.”

Maxim replied honestly:

“The first Ancestral Power is of course the Dark Claws you gave me, I have polished them to a level that is perfectly adapted to me, and to do this I have fought with few weapons but with my claws in all the battles I have fought since I left you.

The second ancestral power comes from the teachings of Laneia, who taught me in the manner of a hunter to use my vampire hunting senses to target my enemies.

This locking became a fighting instinct after long practice, I call it the ‘Scarlet Eye’, I can sense the location of my locked enemy even if he escapes from my field of vision, and carry out a long dark night hunt.

The third portion of the Ancestor’s Power is the teachings of Lord Kudel.

Though the Bao Min Guan loathed vampire power, he was a true genius in combat, and he molded a new ancestral power on top of his original power even though his silver body had solidified.

He taught it to me unreservedly, and it was the deadly technique called ‘Blood Chopping’, which originated from the vampire’s sensitivity to blood, and when fighting against an enemy, as long as one senses the enemy’s weakness, one can rely on that weakness to mobilize the power of the blood to accomplish a secondary chopping during a melee attack.

This thing really works, it fits my combat style perfectly.

A clean cut is always pleasant, and the blood essence can also be drawn from the enemy to replenish my consumption after the blood cut is completed.

Also, I sought out the Dwarven Battlemaster of the Black Flame Pass for several bouts at Lord Heather’s suggestion, and I could feel my destructive power dropping when my rage got out of control in Bloodthirsty, and the Dwarven Battlemaster reminded me of this and taught me techniques for controlling my rage.

So I feel I may be able to use this reminder to find a new ancestral power in battle again”

“Very well! Mark, you are indeed the heir who can surprise me!”

Murphy patted Maxim’s shoulder as he said:
“The cohesion of four Ancestor’s Forces is already enough to make you leap to become a true ‘Gold Reservist’ when you advance to the Silver rank, but I think you can actually do better. Therefore, I’m going to impart the scarlet secret energy I’ve comprehended to you as well, and I’m going to give you a special suggestion.

Perhaps you can start practicing your spear throwing skills from now on.

I mean, a new power made by fusing piercing-type techniques with vampiric talent, which can effectively supplement your weakness of lacking long-range attacks, and after all, your last name is ‘Vlad’ isn’t it?

It would be a bit of a shame if this wasn’t made into an egg.”

“You you mean you want me to complete the Silver Trial after gathering the power of the Six Ancestors?”

Maxim frowned.

He whispered:

“Lord Kudel reminded me that ancestor power isn’t simply the more the better, in the Silver Trial I need to converge all the ancestor power to form my true source of power.

The more ancestor power there is in this situation, the more difficult the fusion will be, Six Paths . Even a blood genius like Lady Tris only has five channels, I’m afraid I”

Maxim was obviously a little less confident, but Murphy said in a persuasive manner:

“Tris is already a legend of a bygone era, isn’t the best way for us to pay homage to the legends is to surpass them? As you know, Tris doesn’t actually want to be an Archduke, her years of falling from grace have made her very resistant to things like power that bring danger.

She was pushed up by us.

Expecting Tris to make a name for the Blood Vulture Clan is not necessary, the rejuvenation of the Clan is still in the hands of us young people.

I mean, you can try to challenge yourself, there will be no lack of strong enemies for you in the Black Calamity, this is a once-in-a-century opportunity, every Black Calamity is a stage for the brave.

I believe you can become the top pillar of the Blood Vulture Clan and Transylvania in the future, Mark, I think highly of you!

Go for it!”

After throwing out a meal of Dark Night Poisonous Chicken Soup, Murphy wrote down the insights of this technique of Scarlet Secret Energy and handed it to Maxim, and then slipped away with his hands behind his back, leaving only Maxim, who had difficulty in making a decision, to think about the feasibility of this matter at the same place.

He could sense that Lord Murphy’s suggestion seemed to be that he wanted him to postpone the Silver Trial, he didn’t know why Murphy wanted to do this, but it was indisputable that Lord Murphy definitely had his own ideas.

Master Murphy’s wisdom was ten times greater than his own, so it was better to obey his advice. “Master is hoping that you will be a banner for the new generation of Bloodwings dominated by him, Mark.”

Adele’s husky voice sounded quietly from the darkness as the Blood Vulture intelligence officer persuaded:
“Now that the Clan is in disarray, the Master has very few people available to him, and as one of his most trusted counts, you will have to shoulder the expectations of such an ascendant.”

“Swish.”

A long, thin, sharp blade for defense was yanked out by Maxim, and precisely pressed against the slender neck of Adele, who appeared from behind, like a flying cicada wing.

Not a simple deterrent, but with true killing intent, the icy coldness made Adele immediately stop where she was.

She knew why Maxim was so angry.

“Traitor!”

Mark turned around.

He looked at Adele with a look of death; as Murphy’s heir, he could clearly sense that the woman in front of him had severed the blood bond with Murphy’s master on her own.

He chided:

“Remember when I warned you? Adele, if you dare to betray, I will definitely make you pay! How dare you strut around in front of me. The master trusted you so much, and this is how you repay him?

You were the first Murphy’s Descendant. It was a glory that made me jealous, but you threw it away with your own hands.

Is so-called freedom really so wonderful? You pathetic, white-eyed wolf.”

“Mark. I can’t explain it all to you.”

Adele whispered:

“As a male you can’t understand how hard it is for me.”

“Can’t understand? It’s not just the desire to give yourself up.”

Maxim sneered:
“Laneia has described that awkward situation for me, and that’s even with her honor being a lady all to her great pain, but Adele . You were meant to have a mate weren’t you? Is our Master Murphy not good enough or distinguished enough?
What’s the point of obeying your desire for devotion?
That’s one way to show your allegiance! Mrs. Tris knew this, so she didn’t cross her mind, so don’t make excuses for your betrayal!

If you hadn’t been useful, I would have cut you down myself when you drank that damn source blood, and you should be glad that Laneia stopped me that night when I was so angry that I was nearly out of control.”

“Well, you’ve mentioned Laneia many times, so let me use her as an example for you.”

Adele didn’t care about the sharp blade against her neck as she said:

“If you had the chance right now to beg a vial of Blood Alliance source blood for Lainnia from His Holiness Pa Ying.”

“I would give everything for it, except my loyalty.”

Maxim returned, and Adele shrugged, saying:

“See, that’s the power of love, and you know that you can’t be with your beloved for eternity until you let her be truly free, and you know that with a brain like yours, you think I don’t? Mark, I’m not betraying.

I just want to be closer to my master!
l can only stay away from him for now. l don’t just want him in my body, l want to be in his mind.
Love, you know what I mean?”

“Hmm?”

Adele’s words made Maxim frown, his anger quietly dissipating in the moment as he seemed to truly understand the reasons and rationale for Adele to do that.

It had to be said that the appearance of this Laneia fellow was truly a godsend, she made the blood vulture monster who was full of loyalty understand another kind of good feelings as well.

“Well, if that’s the reason, then I’ll let you go.”

Maxim said as he withdrew his sharp blade:
“I will even give you my blessing, for I know Master Murphy’s feelings for Lady Tris, and I know how hard it is, poor Adele, you are almost like Sisyphus, challenging impossible greatness.”

“That’s why I need you to help me, Mark.”

Adele stated the purpose of the trip as she said:

“Can you understand the relationship between King Louis and his queen and lover?”

“Of course, Professor Malcolm has often used this example to explain the relationship between a superior’s treatment of power and personal feelings, and though I am blunt, so many after-class reports are enough to make me . Ah, I see.”

The general of Transylvania narrowed his eyes once more as he said:
“No wonder you are so proactive in matters of the Valley of the Shadow, not even as low key as you once were, but such things do the master no harm, so how do you intend for me to help you?”

“The half-elves of the valley.”

Adele leaned closer to Maxim and whispered:
“They will assist you in the defense of the valley, but their numbers are wholly insufficient to do the heavy lifting of guarding the Valley of the Shadows, turning them all into vampires when necessary! I will take over after that.

Do it cleanly and don’t get caught.

I’ll also feed back goodwill to you, such as brushing up Ms. Laneia’s military service and raising her importance in the heart of His Holiness Pa Ying.

But you should know how difficult it is to beg for source blood from Venerable Lord Paying, you have to be prepared for that, my advice to you is to find a way to join the regicide operation to set up a great merit that cannot be ignored.”

“But I want to command the army!”

Maxim hesitated a bit, and Adele shook her head:
“Once the battle proceeds to the Maginot Line, the Grand Prize of Commanding the Army will be changed to Lord Kudel’s side, and you’ll be free to act at that time. More importantly, Lord Kudel is very shaky! As you can sense, his previous choice to stay with the Blood Vulture Clan was more about gratitude than loyalty.

This will not do! It’s a hidden danger.

As the Blood Vulture Clan’s most likely second Golden One, he must choose his side in this battle.

You have to put enough pressure on him.

Mark, you can’t do everything for him, you can’t let someone like Kudel hide behind you and resist the fate that has befallen him for over a hundred years.”

“I need time to think it over.”

Maxim didn’t give an answer, but Adele nailed it; she said no more, just bid Maxim farewell, then swayed and disappeared into the darkness of the night.

The monster re-picked up the paper in his hand, glanced at the direction where Adele disappeared, he shook his head and said:

“O love, moth to flame.”

“Mark! Quickly come over to my side, some scattered jackals wandering around the barren mountain have concentrated, they are marching towards the back of the Black Flame Pass!”

Lady Lainnia’s voice rang out from the Far Calculating Treasure Pearl as she called out in a stern tone:
“The number of people under my command is insufficient to stop them, come and support them!”

“Coming right up, my lady.”

Maxim had wanted to bring some soldiers over, but the matter was urgent, so he simply called on several of his scions and some vampires to quickly rush to his aid under the darkness of the night.

What Leonia had discovered was just a peripheral change in an unexpected event, and Murphy, who was skulking around the valley at the moment, ready to peek in and see what the smaller players were up to, had gotten accurate information as well.

A jackal vanguard had approached the Black Flame Pass, most likely a tentative attack, and Lord Heather had sent a retinue forward to meet it.

And Murphy was instantly interested.

Holding the Core Treasure Pearl in his hand, he sent out a quest to the players currently staying in the entire Dark Valley, requesting them to immediately assemble and prepare to kill the battlefield at the Black Flame Mountain Pass through teleportation tactics. Not only to raise Transylvania’s reputation, Murphy also wanted to use this opportunity to let the players see what the real “Black Plague” was like.

By the way, he, the dog planner, also wants to compare the reaction of the foreigners under his command in the face of the black plague and the comparison of the combat strength of the two sides through the actual combat data.

This is a very important data, if the players’ combat strength is still a little worse, then in the “new version” open, Murphy must find ways to do “professional balance”.

Well, this is his job as a dog planner ah.

(End of chapter)