Chapter 742: Murphy? What kind of cow or horse is that? I’m a gold

Chapter 740: 739. Murphy? What kind of cow or horse is that? I’m a golden psychic master that he can meet whenever he wants?
“The operation failed, Your Holiness.”

A few hours later, Archduke Shani, who had just arrived in Bernie City, received bad news, and she turned around and whispered to Venerable Lord Paying, who had followed behind her all the way here in a flying carrier braving the snow:
“But it’s been confirmed that the target is ‘Dragon Flame’ Lina, the one Murphy asked for by name, her signature Dragon Breath Technique set a small half of the street ablaze in a few seconds, it’s really a treasure to be reckoned with.”

“What about casualties?”

His Holiness asked, and Shani immediately replied:
“There is a market area there, storing a large amount of food all year round, other things may be poor, but the fire prevention measures are first class, the fire was quickly extinguished, there is also a market sitting in the psychic master mercenary rescue, the injured are quite a lot, the deaths are not.”

“Well, it seems that the city under your rule is in good order.”

Venerable Lord Paying appreciated, then asked:

“But what are you going to do in case the people aren’t captured?”

“If Ms. Lina thinks that hiding on a slave ship is enough to escape the Thorn Clan’s search, then she clearly equates us with those third-rate forces.”

With a subtle smile, Shani explained:

“She and that strange apprentice of hers have never left our sight from the beginning, mainly because the slave ship they boarded was headed precisely to Transylvania, which is why my subordinates did not harass them further.

Now that they’ve gone to Transylvania, we can leave the rest to Tris and Murphy to take care of.”

“No!”

His Holiness shook his head gravely and said:

“Murphy and Tris have a more important mission on their shoulders, whether it’s the Black Plague or something else that’s far more important than persuading a fleeing Spiritual Energy Master to join our little group, and I don’t want them wasting their time on this kind of thing.

You seem to be a bit too weary of corruption, Shani, do you think that you need to ‘divide and conquer’ between the clans in this fight against the Twilight?

You are also a member of this small group, shouldn’t you take the initiative to take on more duties?”

“Uh.”

Archduke Shani looked at His Holiness Pa Ying in front of her.

She felt that His Holiness didn’t seem to be the same as before… Hey, have you been fed some kind of ecstasy by that handsome boy Murphy? I’ve already sent the bowl to him, do I still want this Grand Duke to personally feed it to him?

But this kind of words is obviously not good to say in front of your lord, in case of being beaten up can not be good.

“I’ll set off immediately.”

Shani said softly:
“I will personally ‘persuade’ Ms. Lina to return to her lost ways and send a willing Dragonflame Warlock to our partner, please wait here for a moment.”

“No need, I’ll go with you.”

His Holiness waved his hand and said with a hint of nostalgia:

“In the last Black Calamity, Ms. Lina and I had another collaboration, and I have to say that it was a hmmm, unique and strange woman in every way, and she and Tris surely hit it off well.”

“Huh?”

Shani was genuinely surprised now.

Some very strange speculations had even begun to surface in her little brain, Your Holiness you weren’t like this before! You used to be very high-strung, and you definitely wouldn’t personally do things like this that could be left to others.

How did you become so enthusiastic all of a sudden?

And why do your words seem to have changed so much?
Where’s the cool, beautiful man you said you’d be? Hey, it’s Murphy who’s got you in some kind of fucking trance, isn’t it?

But the words of the Thousand-Year Venerable Lord had already been spoken, so no matter how unwilling she was, Shani had to make arrangements, she couldn’t just let the Venerable Lord chase after her on a flying mount, could she? This is to their own territory, how also have to let the Honorable Lord look at the strength of the Thorn Clan ah.

So after ten minutes, a luxurious merchant ship that had been “recruited” from the local merchants quietly set sail from the pier in Bernie City, and chased the slave ship along the direction of the river all the way to the front.

Four Thorn psychics were at the stern of the ship, creating swirling wind currents to accelerate the ship, and all the bigwigs of the entire Thorn Clan who could make it over had already gathered on the ship.

Just like before when His Holiness arrived at the Valley of Shadows, Thorns brought the bigwigs of the Blood Vulture Clan to “receive” him, you don’t care if His Holiness needs this kind of honor, if you don’t make the arrangements, once His Holiness blames him, then it will be all your problem!
How could a shrewd vampire like Shani make such a mistake?

Your Holiness is also an old scene person.

He accepted the gifts of artwork prepared by those faction leaders, met with them one by one and encouraged them with a few words of courtesy, and the Thorn bigwigs also made a good appearance of listening to the teachings, saying that they would definitely send their respective elites to support the Black Plague.

Thus, the guests and hosts were happy.

After these formalities were over, Shani was summoned to the cabin, she had discussed some ancient memories with the Exalted Lord on her way to Bernie City, and now she was called over to talk about the real core part.

The Exalted Lord, who was admiring a gemstone egg artwork made by a Nord master, didn’t have any pleasantries either, as he discerned the craftsmanship used in this gemstone egg and said straight to the point:
“Oksana’s memories left you with the route to the ruins of the Eden District, correct? How many times did she go there? What kind of hidden agenda was there to her death?”

“That route is not very clear, Your Holiness.”

Shani folded her hands on her stomach and stood in front of the Venerable Lord’s eyes as she answered honestly:
“There seems to be a force interfering with the transmission of ancient memories, and I can only roughly discern that the ruins of the Eden District are in tatters, and that most of them have sunk into certain areas of the Spectral Regions in the midst of geologic changes.

There are only six surface ruins that can be traced at present.

Ms. Oksana went there three times before her death, and she went into separate ruins, but she didn’t go there to gather some sort of power, she simply wanted to retrieve memories that had been erased.

I can confirm that the lady had remembered many memories before she was murdered by Archduke Charlemagne and Archduke Salokdar.

But that was never through normal means.

What you are concerned about has actually happened, and towards the end of her life, Lady Oksana was already showing signs of being contaminated by subspace, and she could hear the shadow called ‘Original Sin’ making all sorts of invitations to her.

I can even tell that Ms. Oksana did not die by homicide; it was actually a well-orchestrated suicide.

She wanted to die at the hands of her former lover.

This incident may have affected Archduke Salokdar as well.

I don’t have the records of the Blood Vulture Clan in my hands, but I’m guessing that after killing Lady Oksana with his own hands, Archduke Salokdar may have been affected by it, even Archduke Charlemagne of the Blood Fear Clan.

This is most likely the result of subspace shadow intervention.

Therefore, I’m now hesitant to follow the route in the Ancient Memories to the Dark Mountain Range to search for those Golden Era relics, and I’m afraid that I’ll be stepping on the same ending as Ms. Oksana.”

“Your thoughts are correct, don’t touch those ruins and keep this secret in your heart.”

After Venerable Lord Paying heard Shani’s description, he said:
“I will arrange a suitable time, I will gather the current clan elites, and we will step into it together as a way to ensure our safety, and most importantly, there must be Murphy accompanying us in this matter.”

“Uh-huh.”

Shani had also been subjected to Murphy’s “personality modification fight” when she was almost captured by Subspace in the previous exhibition hall, and she knew why His Holiness had to name Murphy to accompany him.

However, considering the previous two embarrassing situations, Shani was actually a bit resistant to staying with Murphy.

Although both of them know that those damn peach color memories are between Salokdar and Ms. Oksana, but if these damn memories resonate with the two of them as the carrier, then frankly speaking there is no need to continue to look deeper.

You know, this kind of memory will undoubtedly affect human behavior and thinking, two embarrassing experience has made Shani to Murphy have some kind of hard to describe similar to the symptoms of “PTSD”.

But she knew that in such matters concerning the past and future of the blood race, she, a small and helpless Archduke, had no say in the matter.

“This thing. Is what you’ll be working on next.”

Venerable Lord Paying took out a special vial from his bosom, which contained some special liquids, but with the vibration of his fingers, these liquids would take on a very special diffused form.

Shani instantly recognized this thing.

It was liquefied energy, to be precise, it was some kind of power characteristic that had been processed. “You are the best assassin of the vampire ethnicity, and this bottle contains the power signature of ‘Source’, the faction leader in the Dusk organization, which you will use to search out Source’s various hideouts then strike mercilessly to destroy them.”

Venerable Lord Paying said:
“The whole process must be made sure to be quick enough, do not touch anything left of her that is connected to her, do not have any conversations with her, and do not try to make some nice sounding deal with her.

Shani, you’ve seen firsthand in your ancient memories what the Golden Age ended because of, and you should know that subspace is the enemy of all things! Especially for vampires, that is an object that cannot be compromised in any way.

I will give you this item to take with you to minimize the effects of the Subspace Shadow, but it is still required that you meet with Murphy once after each stronghold you destroy, so that he can help you clean out the filth left behind on the spiritual plane.

I won’t hide it from you.

This is also a kind of detection and constraint, once Murphy finds out that you have made some kind of deal with the lapdogs of subspace that you think is beneficial to the Thorn Clan or Nordoff, then there is no need for him to do it.

I will personally come and give you a dry and merciful end.

We have already been victimized by the Subspace Shadows as we are now, and I will not allow any more Clan members to attempt to profit from it.

Therefore, keep your hands to yourself, discipline your mind, and swear by the name of Clan Thorn that you will finish this properly.”

“I swear!”

Shani’s expression was austere.

She knew that Venerable Lord Paying was not joking with her.

This was a very serious warning and conversation, which also made her secretly regret a little bit that when Murphy had asked her to join this small group before, she had been a little unimpressed, but now that Venerable Lord Paying had joined in it dominated the course of things.

It was too late to regret withdrawing.

If she dared to mention her application to leave, the Exalted Lord in front of her would dare to poke a few holes in her body with his holy spear.

Damn it!

It was killing me to be on the ship of thieves.

She sighed in secret, took the vial that recorded the characteristics of the source power, and received a rather sci-fi head ring from the Exalted Master, and under his guidance, put this “Spirit Power Enhancement” component on her forehead like a small silver-gray crown.

You don’t say, it’s quite pretty, adding a touch of superiority to Shani’s already dignified wife’s posture.

And this thing has a powerful effect, after being activated, Shani felt that her spiritual power was expanded by at least three times at once, and her already sharp midnight perception was pushed directly into another level.

She could even feel her spiritual power being materialized.

Being able to form invisible mind shields according to her own mind, or use it to strengthen the ability of the Thorn Clan to ignite emotions, like the controller of a mind nuke, under this kind of intensity, even if it was a Golden One once she caught a hole in her mind, a single shot of ignition could create enough of an opportunity to be fatal.

Divine artifact ah!
Worthy of being an Exalted Lord, it was a generous offer, presumably this was to make up for the embarrassment of losing the Thorn Clan’s sacred artifact?
“That slave ship is just ahead, Exalted Lord.”

After Lady Shani familiarized herself with the usage of this mental power enhancement component, she got up and said to Payeng:
“I will go ahead and persuade Lady Lina to join our very powerful little group, and if she is unwilling, I will ‘persuade’ her in another way.”

“If she doesn’t want to just yell at me.”

Venerable Lord Paying waved his hand and said:
“Can’t waste too much time on this matter, Her Majesty the Wolf Girl’s time is also precious, we can’t have the entire continent’s war waiting for Ms. Lina to come around alone, right?”

“Understood.”

Shani turned to leave.

As soon as she stepped out of the cabin she saw the slave ship ahead that had been stopped by members of the Thorn Clan, the owners and sailors looked bereft thinking that they had violated the Thorn Clan’s taboos but in reality these vampires were uninterested in the illegal act they were engaging in.

They were merely berating the ship’s sailors to hurry up and move the poor serfs to another area, where a nobleman was about to enter the ship to talk to the guests hidden within.

Vampires had always been a very formalistic race, so the cabin where Lena and Chuchuat were was constantly being urgently cleaned as Shani boarded the ship, even to the point of laying down a red carpet and spraying it with perfume to cover up the awful smell in the cabin.

A water of superior vampires were eager to show off in front of the Archduke and the Exalted Lord, so there was almost a guard at every step, not to mention Chuchoot, even Lena, who had just woken up, was desperate.

This big battle
Could it be that the Wolf Girl herself had come over?

Can’t be?
I’m just a fugitive mage, what can I do?

“Bang!”

The door to the cabin was pushed open, and Lady Shani, who had strolled in with a silver-gray crown she had just named “Heart of Thorns,” stepped inside, and in the light of a few extravagant lamps that had been added, she looked down on the haggard and sickly Lina and the cowering Chuchoot at her side.

She said:

“Don’t worry. Lord Lina, I’m not here to hurt you.”

“Archduke Shani. The last time we met was last time, right, when you went to the Tower of the Ring to attend the graduation ceremony of that Lord Andre.”

Lina tried to put on her majesty, mentally lamenting her bad luck, and said with a very stiff upper lip:
“As you can see my current situation, please forgive me for not being able to get up and salute you, but I must state that my disciples and I have no intention of offending the Thorn Clan in any way, much less any thoughts of undermining Her Majesty the Wolf Woman’s rule.

In fact, we are only traveling to the ancient kingdom of Calum by way of a loan, and I have on me the personal token of the Marshal of the Western Legion under the Dragon Emperor, and that is proof of that.

We will not be staying in your realm for long.”

“Well, you’ve stated your goal before I even asked, so it seems you’re really desperate right now, Master Lina.”

Shani put up a front and flirted in a gentle but not too distant tone:
“The Thorn Clan is not your enemy either, I just came to offer you a suggestion.

Don’t go to the ancient kingdom of Calum, the journey is long and dangerous, you may not be able to hold out until then, look at you, using the words “run out of gas” can’t even describe your poor state at this moment, you’ve lost more than half of your life force, and you need to hang on to your life with evil potions.

Go to Transylvania.

Visit Grand Duchess Tris and meet with His Excellency Murphy, the Governor of Transylvania, who has a matter of great importance to discuss with you.

I also have a very uppity invitation here.

Between the scenes of our last meeting were quite satisfactory, so my advice to you is not to refuse!”

“Murphy?”

Lena screamed with a terrible expression on her miserable face:
“With all due respect, Archduke, my answer is. I’d rather die here, I’d rather jump off this boat and drown in the cold river water than have anything to do with that guy. The ‘Grand Abbot’ of the Tower of the Ring has foretold his fate, and the entire continent and indeed the entire world will be stirred up by him!

We’re not targeting him because we have a problem with him, this isn’t personal!”

“Well, so your answer is no?”

Shani made a very regretful face as she glanced at Lina with a sneer and said softly:
“For the record, I warned you, so let the other big shot talk to you for the rest of the conversation, I’m sure he’ll be able to persuade you to come around.”

After saying that, Shani courteously bowed her head to Lina and Chuchut to say goodbye, and turned to leave taking all the members of the Thorn Clan with her in the process.

The cabin was quiet for a while, causing Lina to be a bit surprised, while beside her, Chuchut seemed to feel a great distress, as she shrunk down and shivered with her head in her hands.

In the next instant, a scarlet light lit up in front of the cabin.

Lina’s body trembled when she saw the figure appear.

She had seen a lot, so she naturally knew what she was going to face next.

So, she screamed to:
“No I’m not guilty! Hell, don’t judge me with your damned eyes! The last time you ‘disciplined’ me you gave me a headache for thirty whole years! Payeng no, Your Holiness! Spare me, I know I’m wrong!

I promise!
I promise!”

(End of chapter)