Chapter 723: Such a cool Exalted Lord also comprehended grief.
Chapter 721 720.Such a cool Exalted Lord also comprehended grief.
Venerable Lord Paying’s generosity exceeded Murphy’s expectations.
Without even needing the vampire lord to ask, the venerable lord offered the entire Blood League Knights “with both hands”.
Though the Blood Covenant Clan is not among the larger clans, the count of its vampire members along with their attendant forces surpasses the mark of fifty to sixty thousand. Including the attendant forces’ families and the reserve warriors attached to the Blood Covenant Clan, the total nears an impressive one hundred thousand.
Although he was only fighting in the Transylvanian camp under the name of “Supporting the Black Plague”, when Murphy received the roster handed over by His Holiness Lord Paying, the prompt that hadn’t appeared for a long time still made His Excellency the administrator happy:
[Territory New Camp Acquisition Prompt! The Transylvania Governor District has added a new subordinate administrative unit ‘Blood Alliance Clan’, included the administrative stronghold ‘Blood Alliance Knights Large Residency’ X7, and included the number of territorials as 97,854 people.
Tip!
The Blood Alliance Clan is a special administrative unit, with a completely different independent management mode from the basic administrative unit of Transylvania, as it is currently in the nature of ‘dependency’, therefore the Governor and Consul of Transylvania do not have direct management authority over the Blood Alliance Clan, and are unable to appoint the corresponding administrators.
The current administrator of the Blood League Clan is Vernon Payn Cappadocia.
Tip!
New Race Template – Blood Alliance Clan Acquisition! Due to the special individual Vinon Paying Cappadocia’s deep memory awakening using a bio-pod in the Swamp Exhibition Hall, his power traits have been fully collected.
The Blood Alliance Clan racial template is currently 100% collected!
Administrators may choose to apply the template at any time.
Tip!
Vampire camp special unit – ‘Knight of Judgment’ has been unlocked.
This profession includes three different transfer routes, for specific profession upgrade modes and skill unlocks, please visit different Blood Alliance Lords or directly ask the Blood Alliance Archduke for advice].
“Increasing the quota by 1,000 people at once, this feeling of being open is really cool!”
Murphy’s eyes had narrowed into a line with joy, with 1000 slots in hand now, it was finally possible to massively absorb more fresh blood into Transylvania.
Of course, the increase of 1,000 places still can’t alleviate the desire of the current reserve players for helmets, the number of people using the Transylvania Tavern App has already exceeded 150,000 people in the past few days, and these are all the pre-selected “high-quality cannon fodder”.
But in order to get them all into the game, Murphy’s population would have to exceed 15 million.
What kind of concept is that?
Back then, before the Westland Kingdom annexed the Greenie Kingdom, its population was just over 18 million, and now the Golden Flower Kingdom, which is located in the northwest corner of the Old Continent and has completed the dismemberment and annexation of the Confederacy of Bohemia, has a total population of just over 30 million.
This is basically the same as asking Murphy to create a medium-sized country in this chaotic continental situation.
It’s not that it can’t be done.
But the difficulty of accomplishing this in a short period of time would be better than falling asleep in Tris’ fragrant and soft embrace right now.
Dreams were everything.
But Murphy was not in a hurry, according to the current progress and situation of the Black Plague, if everything went well, Transylvania would soon be able to usher in a wave of high population growth.
Not to mention, the loss of the Brass Fortress and the Gorgon Pass is only a matter of time, the Genoa Peninsula’s population migration will soon come, and if the war in the direction of Transylvania is unfavorable, then the Cato region will also become Transylvania’s “big blood bag”.
“I won’t say any more words of thanks, Your Holiness, I can only say that you’ve really helped a lot this time.”
Murphy bowed to Venerable Lord Paying.
This time he was sincere.
The Venerable Lord also nodded and did not say anything more, but with his astounding wisdom he had probably already discovered the delicate ratio that existed between the population of Transylvania and the number of foreigners, and that was why he had waved his hand and attached the entire clan to Murphy’s power.
Worthy of being the Honorable Lord of the Millennium.
Seeing this kind of handiwork, it couldn’t help but make Murphy raise a kind of simple thought of “following the Exalted Lord will have food to eat”.
The conversation and dialog between the two was coming to an end.
His Holiness Pa Ying came all the way here to check the defense situation of Transylvania, he could not delay too much time here in Murphy, he also had to go to the Maginot defense line to see the situation, and by the way, knocked the wolf girl and King Louis, and by the way, let this will still be in the state of “touching the fish” Wolfsbane Clan hurry up to take action.
Other clans have been involved in the war, even the blood fear clan has begun from the Sea of Mist large-scale recruitment to assist the godslaying business of the Wise Wolf, your old Edward obviously strong troops, but as a spectator, it seems that you really need to be the Holy Lance of Eternal Silence to teach you a good lesson.
However, before bidding farewell to His Holiness, Murphy still asked that question he was curious about.
He glanced at the Venerable Lord’s face and whispered:
“About Lord Heather . I’m curious about how she was bound to the Lord of Darkness. Was the process handled by you? You must have used creation technology, right?”
“Well, I won’t deny that.”
At the mention of Heather, the Exalted Lord’s expression turned sad.
He said softly:
“That was just an accident.
When Heather became my heir, the Fourth Black Plague hadn’t even had a hint yet.
She was the young head of House Hoffman at the time, driven and ambitious, and by that time the Brass Dwarves had been influenced by the Burning Gold, making their greed more and more outrageous and unchecked.
The gold-burning reserves around the Gorgon Pass and throughout the Hungry Plains were no longer enough to satisfy their needs, so the dwarves kept prospecting parties exploring deeper into the dangerous Dark Mountains, each of their mineral companies having their own prospecting parties.
But Heather belonged to the Shield Dwarves.
Their branch belonged to the stubborn and conservative in the Brass Dwarf society, and had never been accepted by the mainstream, but because they were a subspecies of the Brass Dwarves they were also assigned a small mining area by the Supreme Lord.
Heather had just taken over the reins from her uncle Vant, and was bent on growing the Hoffman Mining Company, so that the clansmen of the Borut Pass could live as well as the dwarves in the Brass Fortress.
They’re also ambitious and ready to build their own city, but in order to get there, they’ll need to find more gold-burning mines ahead of the other prospecting teams.
Heather has a talent for that.
She was quite the hill lord and master shield warrior before she became a vampire, and every operation she commanded was a huge success and allowed the Hoffman Company to flourish under her, however, the smooth sailing has caused Heather to lose her reverence for the power of the earth.
It was on her 170th birthday that she undertook a risky exploit.
Just somewhere in the Dark Mountains, she found a piece of raw gold-burning ore, but while digging for samples she accidentally fell into an ancient ruin.
The dwarves’ characteristically silly and bold nature got her in trouble on this day, and I don’t really know what she touched there, but the result was that I realized something big was wrong after Lily, who happened to be patrolling nearby at the time, reported the incident to me.
I lost my memories of the Golden Age, but I still have certain indescribable obsessions about my last job.
I happen to have a sealing implement on hand that I don’t understand but know how to use, one of only a few things I had on me when I left the Dark Mountains over a thousand years ago.”
His Holiness closed his eyes and continued to describe it:
“I rushed there and entered the shattered ruins to reseal the Dark Lord who had escaped his cage, but Heather was dying as well, and she knew that she had done something horribly wrong, so until I arrived, the brave young dwarf had been fighting against the power of the Evil God, which had caused her to be tainted as well, and even her form had been destroyed.
I saved her with my own blood, and since then she has been my second heir.
A sliver of the Dark Lord’s power was coiled in her, and Heather’s ancestral helmet was the sealing switch; I had warned her not to open the seal at will, but she made her choice resolutely in that moment of crisis.
I feel proud of her, but”
“Don’t worry, Your Holiness, she can still be saved.”
Murphy soothed:
“I learned from the administrator’s power that there exists on this continent a ‘Shining Artifact’ left to me by the Creator, as long as we get that we can completely drive away the power of the Dark Lord, and Lord Heather will be free of the plague as a result.
The only problem is that I don’t know where the Creator hid that thing.”
“The Land of Origin!”
Venerable Lord Paying’s eyes lit up and he immediately said: “As long as it’s related to the word ‘radiant’, it’s certain that that thing is definitely in the hands of the Brilliant Blaze Church! The Sanghai people have been doing their best to collect items left behind by the Creator, and during the Golden Age it was also the location of the most important creation facilities outside of the Eden District, so there’s a high probability that that item is in the Sanghai Empire.
However, the Lord of Darkness belongs to the ‘Deities of the Olden Days’, which represent supernatural entities that are extensions of certain natural concepts of the world itself, so I’m more inclined to seal it rather than outright destroying it, or else there might be some repercussions on the world itself.
This is also the reason why the Creator wanted to seal these Old Day Deities in the Old God’s Cage in the first place.
They are conceptual aggregates that are difficult to actually exterminate.
The Lord of Darkness represented the aggregation of night, darkness, and all the concepts associated with it, and was considered to be quite an ancient and powerful one among the Old Gods.
Similar existences include the Nightmare Tyrant Baphomet, the Winter Witch Barbayago, and the Oak Evil Spirit Kelan, all of which are big names in the Cage of the Old Gods, but there are actually a lot of Gods of the Old Days, and most of them are pretty weak.
There was no need to say that they couldn’t have any advantage compared to the Subspace Shadows, even in front of the New Gods.
But since you suggested a method, I will try it even for Heather’s sake, and after the end of the Black Plague, I will personally travel to the Land of Origins with you, and make sure to find or borrow the Light Shining Artifact.
Just for now, let’s focus on this Black Plague.”
“Well, indeed, your duties in this war are no easier than mine.”
Murphy fished out his broken pocket watch and looked at it as he said:
“Then let me see you off, I will spend my energy on the few things you have instructed me to do, and I will contact you as soon as I have any news.”
Venerable Lord Paying did not answer immediately.
He gazed at the pocket watch in Murphy’s hand.
It was worn out, and there were still traces left by the impact of power, and that style was not the style of accessory that vampires often used, it should be this young man’s remembrance of his human time.
His Holiness stood up and took something out of his own pocket that made Murphy’s eyes widen, put it in his hand and stroked it a few times, and said:
“When I initially awakened in this era, I always thought that this was something that represented my past life, so I always carried it with me, but now that my memories are retrieved I realize that this is not actually mine.
It belongs to another person.
It belongs to a brother I once had.”
Venerable Lord Paying glanced at Murphy and handed over the thing that was filled with a sense of futuristic technology and had the appearance of a mechanical pocket watch style as he said:
“It’s for you, perhaps you will be able to use it sometime in the future.”
He even shoved the item into Murphy’s hand without allowing him to refuse, then turned around and left.
There was no need for Murphy to send someone out, as a member of the Eden Management Committee back then, Venerable Lord Paying had probably been to the exhibition hall more than once, and his familiarity with this place was much deeper than Murphy’s.
Moreover, it was only after His Holiness left that Murphy noticed from the curator’s assistant’s report that His Holiness had taken away a component labeled “Spiritual Power Enhancement Device”, and this pocket watch might be his compensation to Murphy.
“Wow, I hid in the bedroom and eavesdropped on you and His Holiness chatting, it’s really something.”
After Venerable Lord Paying confirmed his departure, Tris, who was wearing a nightgown without buttons, ran out barefooted, holding an exquisite notebook in her hand, obviously, the conversation between Murphy and Venerable Lord just now was recorded by her as a secret.
“He must have known that you were eavesdropping, but not caring means that these things were said to you as well.”
Murphy played with the mechanical pocket watch in his hand and glanced at Tris, who was very excited to hear a lot of the Blood Clan’s secret stories, as he whispered:
“Just don’t spread it out.”
“It’s the first time I’ve seen the Millennial Exalted Lord so close to a vampire, honestly, it makes me feel a little jealous.”
Tris skimmed her lips:
“You may not know it, but when I was young, Venerable Lord Paying was my idol, he was the idol of every vampire with ambitions and pursuits, but now you, a young fellow, are talking on an equal footing with my former idol, and even the Venerable Lord treats you with a kind of deliberate respect.
The origins of this fellow of yours are truly becoming more and more terrifying.
What did he send you though?”
“His Holiness gave me a cool ‘car’, he really knows exactly what kind of gift a young man such as myself wishes for.”
Murphy shrugged and tossed the mechanical pocket watch in his hand up and down.
This mysterious statement made Tris dissatisfied, but Murphy didn’t mean to hide it from her, it’s just that the “pocket watch” casually given out by His Holiness is so hot that it scares people:
Name: Chief Navigator’s Personal Authentication Device
Quality: Miraculous artifact
Effect: Used to authenticate the navigator’s authority in the cockpit of the Scarlet Dawn, and after passing the authentication, the navigator can obtain the secondary control of the ship.
Manufactured by: World of the Dead – Untraceable
Item Description:
Salokdar lost his memories as well as his most beloved possession, even forgetting that the shell was handmade by his wife Oksana as a gift for his 3000th birthday.
But the instinct for flight was not silenced, and after becoming an Archduke of the Blood Vulture, Salokdar still possesses the most perfect wings of any vampire.
And he hasn’t forgotten to use his fearsome rapier to pierce Lady Oksana’s torso at some point This may also be some strange tradition of the Blood Vulture and Thorn.
So, my dear Murphy, on the occasion of your future opportunity to impale Archduke Shani, I hope you’ll take safety measures ahead of time this time.
Lest you mess up someone’s life.]
“Blanch, what the hell joke?”
Murphy cursed inwardly.
Of course he knew it was the item description making a nasty and creepy pun.
Salokdar and Lady Oksana were dependent on each other during the Golden Age, but the only time the two had been close since the New Age was during the murder at the Red Sea Cliffs, when the Archduke of Thorns was stabbed through the heart by the Blood Vulture’s Great Commons Necessary Evil.
Okay, that does fit that description pretty well too, but don’t think I don’t know what kind of nasty description you’re making okay?
“If those memories I just saw are correct, then the Scarlet Dawn should still be sleeping in the Sacred Bloodlands right now, that was Salokdar’s favorite airship, so that’s also the property of the Blood Vulture Clan, and it’s right that Thorns should inherit it and use it as a dowry for the woman by me.
That logic shouldn’t be a problem, right?”
Murphy thought so, placing his old pocket watch, which he used smoothly, on the workbench of the exhibition hall as an ornament, and hanging his cool new pocket watch on his chest.
He glanced back at Tris, who was still taking notes, and suddenly asked:
“Lily. Who is it?”
“Hmm? Where did you get that name!”
Tris said as she jerked her head up:
“That’s my best sister and the first heir of the Venerable Lord Paying, once the First Lord of the Blood League Knights, who picked up the Lordship of Paranor from Lily. I’ll give you that, my best friend in vampire society back in the day was her and Shani’s venerable Sophie.
Unfortunately, both of them died.
Lily died in the last Black Plague, I’m not really sure of the details, and Paranor won’t say much about it, so I guess it was pretty gruesome.”
“Have you seen Lily’s face?”
Murphy pursued:
“Don’t you think that Lily’s face is exactly the same as Venerable Lord Paying’s?
The relationship between these two people is not just as simple as an honored elder and an heir, Tris, I saw in my memories that Lily is a heterosexual clone of Venerable Lord Paying, well, I don’t know if you can understand that concept.”
“Of course I can!”
Tris retorted:
“I’m not just watching another world’s fandoms, I’ve been studying, but when you say that, I suddenly realize that Lily’s habit of always wearing a veil does seem to be a bit of a problem. Well, I don’t know if I should tell you this or not.
But actually, the relationship between Lily and Venerable Lord Paying isn’t pure.
Sophie once told me that she had seen an image of Lily kissing the Venerable Lord, which means that there might actually be a forbidden relationship between Lily and the Venerable Lord just like you and I. And it’s even more forbidden between those two, no less, the Venerable Lord wouldn’t like anyone else but her other self .
But you should not bring that up in front of Venerable Lord Paying!
If those rumors are true, then Lily’s death definitely created a rather horrible and even lifelong psychological shadow for the venerable lord yet.
Alas, an outstanding person like him can’t avoid emotional torment.”
(End of chapter)