The bishop who has come to preach today is Metropolitan Pacidos of the Hagia Sophia neighborhood. Kadrick. He was a sturdy old man of about fifty years, with a full forehead and a lush white beard, dressed in delicate and elegant Orthodox robes, and holding a silver cross in his hand. Hearing the word "report", his sharp eyes immediately looked over.

"Kid, who are you going to report?" Pasidos said majestically.

"I'm going to denounce my cohabitant, who is also the mistress of my house, and my butler, my valet, my head maid, and the other servants of my house, 24 in all, all evil vampires." "They murdered my parents and kept me in the dark. Now that I've found out who they are, I'm going to report them to you right away. ”

"Vampires?" Metropolitan Pacidos frowned. In the Eastern Solomonic Empire, the Blood Transcendents are not legally required to be hunted, provided they are officially registered by the Church and live in a designated place. If this kind of vampire is true, as Asker said, then there is no doubt that it is an alien filthy vampire, and it needs to be cleaned and purified.

Asker stood where he was, suddenly feeling a glimmer of light. The glimmer of light surrounded him, as if through every inch of his hair and skin, with a certain sense of meticulous examination. There is no doubt that this Metropolitan is not an ordinary person, but a strong person who is at least rank 7 or above and has mastered the power of the law, so that he can use his spirituality to use his spirituality to use the identification aura so secretly.

Considering that the demon tide of the Sixth Age has just begun to rise, it means that this Metropolitan is at least an ancient person born in the Fifth Age, and he is at least 200 years old.

"In that case." Confirming that the person in front of him was a pure-blooded human, Pacidos nodded cautiously and said, "I will send a team of Ironclad Paladins directly under the Church, and you will lead them to your mansion to complete the purification mission." May God bless you, child. ”

"God willing." Aske immediately said solemnly.

Walking quickly out of the church gate, Aske saw a group of knights approaching from his left. They were all dressed in holy white power armor, their armor was stamped with various sacred rune circles, and they also carried high-frequency concussion swords or engine-boosted warhammers in their hands.

"Contemptible Elwin. Gullins. The Captain of the Iron Paladin, who was at the head of the group, carried a two-handed war hammer, and his tone was condescending and arrogant, "You are the citizen who reported that he had vampires?" ”

"It's me." Asker said.

"Good." "We are not as talkative as the Metropolitan in the church. If you deliberately lied about the crime just by playing mercenary games...... The cost of one attendance of our Iron Paladin is enough for you to pay for the coffin in this life. ”

"No problem." "Actually, as soon as you come to my house, you know if I'm telling if I'm telling it." ”

"I hope so." "I'm not sure if the crowd near the church has any of your vampires' eyeliner. Let's hurry to our destination. ”

As soon as the knight soldiers walked out of the church, they immediately attracted the attention of the surrounding crowd. It can't be helped, these full-coverage power armors are so eye-catching, you can feel the unparalleled deterrence just by looking at them. Ask, naturally, understood the meaning of what the other party said, and trotted all the way to the knights to their ancestral house, pointed to it and said:

"Right here."

In the hotel room, Peggy is standing in the bathroom, staring at her pale self in the mirror on the wall.

The face in the mirror is still youthful and beautiful, but it is less bloody and more pale than usual. Her lips, which had been a full, tender red, were now dim, as if she were seriously ill.

She knew it was because she didn't drink blood. The knowledge gained from the transcendent traits told her that the owner of Flesh I must ingest at least 2 ml of blood per day in order to maintain his youthful appearance, otherwise his appearance will quickly age and eventually turn into a living corpse.

Of course, not drinking blood is just a deterioration in appearance, and has no effect on the vampire's own strength.

She took a razor blade from the mirror cabinet, fell silent, and slashed her wrist hard.

Blood suddenly flowed out, causing her already anemic face to turn even paler. In a few moments, the flesh of the wound rolled and glued together, and it was soon intact.

I've ...... It's not human anymore.

Dejected, she came to the window, picked up her slender legs, and stared out the window in a daze. The house in the distance, once her home, had burned to the ground. The parents are also gone.

How would they react if they were alive and saw their cherished daughter turned into a monster?

Suddenly, she saw a group of church armored knights running straight down the street across the street, stopping next door to the ruins of their house.

Is Asker? He reported the vampire to the church? Peggy's sudden realization. It's so simple, because I became a vampire and was afraid of the church, so I didn't think about it subconsciously. In fact, even if you can't come forward, you can use your anonymous identity to induce others to report for you, and use the power of the church to kill those vampires.

She couldn't help but hold her breath as she looked at the street below in the distance, and the crowd of onlookers around her were all squatting down with their heads hugged. After all, he is a citizen of the imperial capital, and he is used to all kinds of extraordinary mutation events, so he is also very cooperative under the command of the official.

The church knights had torn open the scrolls, and a large number of identification lights had lit up, enveloping the entire vicinity of the house.

Among the crowd squatting with their heads in their hands, someone's body suddenly lit up with an unusual red light. Peggy looked at it, and it was the butler of Asker's house!

Before the butler could tell, the nearest armored knight slashed down with his sword, and Gao Zhoubo's concussive sword tore through his upper body, as if it was as smooth as a hot knife cutting into butter. The butler's body was still wriggling, desperately trying to glue it together, but finally reluctantly stopped struggling.

Asker stared at the butler's corpse, and a blood-colored light gradually poured out of the corpse, condensing into a drop of crimson sticky dew on the surface of the body. It was the flesh and blood I transcendent trait that was condensed into substance after the butler's death, and he only needed to pick it up and pinch it lightly, and he could smoothly absorb these ownerless transcendent powers. If you add the main ingredients and auxiliary ingredients, make a potion of flesh I, and drink it, you can turn into a level 1 vampire.

Of course, I wouldn't do that.

The church knight who did it pulled out a box made of magic bronze from his bag, and inside was a pair of yellow shiny tweezers. He carefully picked up the dew with tweezers and solemnly placed it in the box. When the lid was closed, the surface of the magic copper box immediately lit up, and it seemed that some sealing circle had been activated.

The knight raised his head and nodded at Aske, who had been watching this way, and said, "The energy that overflows after the vampire dies is a very dangerous substance. If left right, it could kill the entire neighborhood. ”

"I understand, Your Excellency." Asker nodded in agreement.

Two church knights rushed to the door, lifted their engines and hammers and began slamming on the door. The engine's warhammer was equipped with a jet device at the end, and when it swung it, it instantly spewed a tail flame backwards, and the accelerated warhammer smashed the door apart, and then the church knights swarmed in, and the entire house instantly resounded with all kinds of chaos, screams, roars, and the sound of steel colliding with flesh.

Less than five minutes later, the captain of the paladin reappeared at the door of the house. The power armor stamped with divine runes was still bright, but it was covered with red flesh, white bone marrow, and something that looked like intestines. He tapped a rune on his body and asked the Divine Light to clean his armor, then walked down the steps and said to Asker:

"It's all clean, and there are 23 vampires with the corpse outside the door. In addition, your cohabitant is not in the house and has become a fish that has slipped through the net, so I suggest that you stay in church tonight to avoid retaliatory harm from the other party who reacts...... Women are very vindictive. I went out yesterday morning because I forgot to take out the trash, and my wife didn't even prepare dinner for me. ”

"Thank you for your offer, Your Excellency." Aske bowed and said, "But I'm sure my cohabitant isn't stupid. Unless I hide in church for so many years until she loses patience, she can wait for me to come out in a few days before retaliating. Isn't it free to receive church shelter? ”

"As a reward for effective reporting." The knight captain was silent for a moment, "The first week of the church shelter is free for you, and after that, you will only be charged one pound per day. ”

"That's it." Aske said lightly, "I'm sure even if I hadn't hid in the church, you'd have been around to keep an eye on you." Maybe this vampire will expose himself more quickly in order to get revenge on me. ”

"Of course." The knight captain nodded and said, "In that case, Mr. Asker, you are not allowed to leave this neighborhood for this month, unless the target vampire exposes himself in advance. ”

"No problem." Asker said.

Peggy stood by the windowsill, watching it all from afar. Half an hour later, Asker was back in his hotel room.

"The vampires are all dead, except for the culprit." Asker said.

"That's not revenge." Peggy vaguely reminds him of the soul contract.

"I know where she is." Aske said, "Let's go." ”

"The Church Knights are currently monitoring this neighborhood, right?" Peggy asked warily, "If I act with you, won't they find out?" ”

"Identifying the Spiritual Light Scroll is very expensive, and it is impossible for a church knight to throw it when he sees a person." "Just don't wear a mask and avoid raising unnecessary suspicions." Five days later, when your chain mail arrives, we'll go hunting. ”

"Okay." Peggy said coldly.

"Now, let's go to cultivation first." Asker said.

On the second basement floor of the hotel, there is a training ground open to the public, including steel dummies for melee warriors, mobile shooting ranges for gunners, and meditation practice rooms for spellcasters. Why is there a training ground underneath the hotel? This brings us to the history of the Eastern Solomonic Empire.

From the beginning of the Sixth Age, with the rapid development of commerce and industry in the Eastern Solomon Empire, the quality of soldiers within the empire also declined rapidly. On the one hand, it is human nature to forget about danger, and on the other hand, there are fewer and fewer transcendent beings within the empire.

On the Bithynian Plateau in the Anatolian Peninsula, the Empire designated large areas of jungle as "primordial reserves for supernatural creatures", in an attempt to breed supernatural beings in captivity and harvest supernatural powers on a regular basis, but the results were not very satisfactory. After all, supernatural creatures still need a lot of territory to reproduce. Low-level goblins may only need a small hill to feed their family, while high-level cyclops will need vast wastelands and vast biosystems to survive.

This, in turn, is contrary to the needs of the empire itself for the development of civilization. Agriculture needs a lot of land, industry needs a lot of minerals, and transportation needs a well-developed road system, and as long as human society is still developing, it will inevitably encroach on the territory of transcendent beings. Since only transcendent beings can draw transcendent power from the demon tide, the reduction of transcendent creatures will inevitably lead to a decline in the quality of the imperial army.

Now the whole world is trapped in a cycle where the more powerful the civilization, the fewer transcendent beings in its territory, and the less supernatural power people can obtain. Then the civilized country was defeated by the barbarian state, and the barbarian country began to develop after reaping a lot of wealth, and the barbarian country became a civilized country and went back on the path of decline. From the alliance of ancient cyrius city-states to the ancient Solomon Republic, from the Solomon Empire to the Frankish kingdom, to the current division of the kingdoms, this is all the same.

In order to solve this problem, the Western Solomonic Empire once chose to hire foreign mercenaries, but the foreign mercenaries turned against the guests, causing the emperor to be killed and the country to be destroyed. The Eastern Solomonic Empire learned this lesson, and the first emperor Basil II of this dynasty once proposed that "the state-owned army is the main force, and the foreign mercenaries are responsible for attacking the fortifications", this kind of national defense policy of grasping both hands and both hands has affected the entire Macedonian Dynasty, resulting in a large number of Western mercenaries coming to Constantinople to seek a living in recent years, such as the current empire's first-class royal shield guard, which is the "Varangian Guard" composed of northern Norman mercenaries.

In Constantinople, if you see someone walking around in armor and weapons, don't think it's an armed mercenary. Because of this, taverns and training grounds were also particularly dense in Constantinople. The mercenaries at the bottom can usually find an open space to vent their excess energy, and the training ground on the ground floor of this hotel is already considered a relatively mid-range one, and it is open to mercenaries who need specific training equipment for a fee.