307 A thousand years apart
"You're finally here, I'm about to look for you!" As soon as he finished speaking, a slender figure appeared in the adobe building of the factory. The man was dressed in a sumptuous red robe, with rattan ornaments on his chest, his skin was dark, of distinct African descent, and the whites of his eyes and teeth were distinct at night.
"Who are you?" Chongxu noticed that in addition to the person who spoke, there were more than a dozen vampires observing them downstairs through the window in the factory building that had not yet finished decorating the interior and exterior. It's just that for some reason, these vampires don't show murderous intent, but look timid.
The slender black man asked rhetorically, "You are Your Excellency Chongxu!"
"That's right!"
Negro: "Under the Duke of Goodwill, Latovana Jace." ”
"Duke Jace?" Chongxu had heard of his name. Each of the thirteen families of the Brotherhood has two dukes, one of whom is their regent Kepes and the other is Jace.
Unlike other families, dukes and marquis are usually direct descendants of princes. The Prince of Good Faith is missing, and the Duke of Kepez is in charge of power, and the dukes and marquis of the clan are his descendants.
While he was thinking about it, Sertet made a chaotic noise around his skeleton, walked to the front of the line, and said angrily, "Where's that bastard Kepez? Call him out for me." ”
7,000 years ago, when the war between the East and the West was about to end, Prince Setet was discovered by Chonglou that he was secretly in love with the water ghost. Chonglou suspected that the water charm was collaborating with the enemy, and scared the killer at them, but fortunately, the water charm Xiuwei escaped with Sertet behind him.
However, the Water Charm and Sertet paid a heavy price, and the Water Charm was scattered and only one soul remained, and Sertet lost his body and became a skeleton spirit.
After Thortet left the Demon Realm, he was taken care of by his most trusted descendant, Kepez. Later, the vampires infiltrated the human world, and Kepeth took the place of Setet in charge of the overall situation, becoming the titular patriarch of the Good Will.
For hundreds of years, although Sertet was not in the clan, he was very concerned about the affairs of the clan. Today, when he learned that Capez had led his people to attack Whitewater, he was furious. Half a year ago, he had written a letter to Capez with a hidden address. In the letter, he told Kepez that the Eastern Demon Clan was not easy to mess with, and asked him to hide away.
At the same time, he denounced Cain, the ancestor of the vampires, saying that he had planned to formally propose to the demons to marry the water charm after the war, and the reason why their relationship was known to Chonglou in advance was that Cain deliberately leaked the secret and let the traitors of the Eastern Demon Clan inform Chonglou.
Cain wanted to take this opportunity to get rid of the water charm, a big problem, and put him in too. There is an old saying in the East, "Tiger poison does not eat children", and Cain is not even as good as a beast in doing so.
Setet wrote thousands of words with a heartfelt heart, and instead of listening, Capez became a pioneer and came to White Water with the Slaughterers.
He was so disillusioned with Kepez that he couldn't help but think of his past in hell. At that time, Capes obeyed him and never disobeyed him. It is true that the curse of the prison prisoner made it impossible for Kepez to resist his will, but aside from the curse, he was always able to see a look of adoration from Kepez's watery eyes.
He knew that Capez admired him from the bottom of his heart and was loyal to him, not because of external persecution.
It was because of this loyalty that Sertet cultivated him vigorously. Unexpectedly, the years not only urge people to grow old but also change people's hearts, and the wings of Kepez are hard, and he is no longer the Kepez of the past.
Sertet was furious, and even more angry when he was about to use the prison prisoner's curse to punish Kepeth this morning, when he found that the prison prisoner was out of order. At this point, he realized that Capez didn't know how to remove the curse from his body, and said in his heart: "No wonder you dare to disobey me, it turns out that there is no restraint." ”
Now in front of the camp of the Good Will, he shouted angrily, "Where's that bastard Kepest, let him come out to me." ”
Duke Jace stared at the crystal clear skeleton in front of him for a while, and asked, "Your Excellency?"
"Lao Tzu is Setet, your prince. ”
Duke Jace was first embraced by Capez before 1778 and became the first human-converted vampire of the Good Will. Although he learned from Kepes that His Majesty Setet, the prince of the family, was with the Eastern Demons, he did not know that Setet had turned into a skeleton. Thinking of Capez's hand-painted portrait of Tyett, he said incredulously: "You are our king?"
"You still know that I am the king. I clearly told you not to go against the demons, why don't you listen to me? Call Capez out of me. ”
Duke Jace hurriedly knelt down, "Your Majesty, you have misunderstood us. We didn't come to Huaxia to fight against the demons. As for the Duke Regent...... He's, hey, he wants to see you one last time. After saying that, he waved his hand behind him, "Someone will carry the Duke up." ”
With that, four dark-skinned vampires dressed in red uniforms similar to Jace's walked out of the building carrying a coffin in which a withered figure lay inside.
The man's skin was shriveled and wrinkled in different shades like a ravine in the Gobi Desert, and his emaciated appearance was not much better than that of Prince Sertet.
Sertet recognized at a glance that it was Kepeth lying in the coffin. At this time, Kepez was out of shape, but to Setet, Kepez was like his child, father and son had been together for thousands of years, and Kepez could be recognized at a glance even if he turned to ashes. He wanted to touch Capez's cheek with the hard bones of his hand, but he was afraid of hurting the other party, and asked, "Son, how did you become like this?"
A "child" is worth a thousand words, Capez has never shed a tear in his life, and when he heard Setet's call before he died, his eyes couldn't help but moisten, and he choked up: "Your Majesty, we finally meet again." ”
He tried to get up and salute, but the blood in his body was about to be drained by the curse, and he couldn't move.
Sertet held him down and didn't let him move, "What kind of salute are you doing at this time, tell me what's wrong with you?"
Capez's answer confirmed his judgment, "I used the Blood Pact Oath. ”
Sertet asked, "What are you doing with that poisonous oath?"
"To come to you. ”
"Why swear if you want to come at any time?"
Capez grinned, a wound opening at the corner of his mouth as he smiled because of the chapped skin on his face. Duke Jace couldn't help but be stunned when he saw Capez's smile, this Duke Regent who was close to the prince had always been known for not smiling, and for the first time in more than a thousand years, Jace saw him smile from the bottom of his heart.