Cold.

It's cold.

Peggy, who was staring blankly, lay in a small coffin, and gradually came to her senses, only to feel that her whole body was full of burning pain, and it was like thousands of caterpillars burrowing into her skin, full of unbearable itching sensation.

Father, dead.

Mother, dead.

The house was burned.

Even me......

The image of her time before death suddenly came to her mind.

The killer bit her neck, and she struggled and screamed, but she could not get out.

Her screams woke her parents, who pushed the door open and came in to check.

Then, the killer's claws cut open the father's trachea and pierced the mother's chest.

She turned her head, and there was still blood on her lips, it was Livet, the handmaiden of the Achilles family. In the past, when Peggy went to high school, she greeted her at the door.

Then she lit a fire and turned the entire bedroom into a sea of fire......

It hurts, it hurts.

Peggy in the coffin screamed hoarsely, her voice as piercing as that of an old dove, full of death's unwillingness, sorrow, and hatred.

Finally, she pushed the lid of the coffin open, and one hand broke through the ground, feeling the cool air that she had not felt for a long time.

Well? Asker, who was sitting on the tombstone, looked over. This guy woke up so soon? I thought I'd have to wait until the second half of the night......

Peggy struggled to pull herself out of the grave, covered in dirt and fallen leaves. She was a seventeen-year-old girl of Armenian descent, with black hair falling out at the back of her head and her hair tied in pigtails on the left and right sides of her face.

Her appearance has obvious East-West mixed race characteristics, with both the deep and three-dimensional facial features of Westerners, and the delicate and fair skin of Oriental characteristics, and she is an out-and-out little beauty NPC.

It's no wonder that when I was sleeping on the street in my previous life, I was noticed by players passing by at a glance.

The scabs that burned out of the body in the fire before death fell off like molting, revealing the smooth skin underneath. She gasped slightly, her hands on the edge and pulled her lower body out.

Then she saw Asker, who was sitting on the tombstone.

"Back from the dead." Asker snapped his applause, "It's worth celebrating." ”

"Achilles!" Anger erupted from the bottom of her heart like a volcano, and Peggy instantly kicked back on the ground, and the five fingers of her right hand stretched out their claws to pounce on Asker.

She's going to tear this murderer to shreds!

However, a cold light greeted her, and her whole body was slashed out.

Collapse of the mountain.

As Peggy rushed out, Aske had jumped off the tombstone and slashed down with his sword in both hands.

This is a military sword attack from the Holy Solomon Empire, which makes the swordsman hold the sword high above his head with both hands, and slash down with a high position, as long as he hits the enemy, the battle is basically over.

It's just that Peggy is not an ordinary person, she staggered to her feet, and a horrific wound was cut from her left shoulder to her right lower abdomen, and the ribs and internal organs were almost visible inside.

Knowledge from Flesh I flooded into her consciousness, directing her to pour her physical power towards the wound, and soon the flesh around the wound wriggled and glued, and in the blink of an eye, it was back to normal.

"Not bad." Asker expressed satisfaction.

With such an easy-to-use supernatural ability, Peggy can not only be an output (damage bearer), but also temporarily act as an MT (damage bearer) when necessary, so it's perfect to join her own team.

Peggy lunged forward again, and this time instead of rushing straight ahead, she spun around in a short arc and lunged down to Asker's undefended back.

Another flash of cold light flickered, and she was slashed out again, the sword slashing at her skull, leaving a terrible wound.

"Teach you common sense." Aske had already turned, his sword slung over his shoulder, "When trying to attack from behind, don't glance to the side, be sure to keep an eye on me, and pretend that you're going to charge head-on - it's important to cover up your tactical intentions." ”

"It's you!" Peggy lay on the ground in pain, physical strength healing the wounds on her face. Her spirituality began to dry up due to the excessive consumption, and her consciousness was almost collapsed, "Achilles! You killed my parents, didn't you?! ”

"It's not." Asker said directly.

Peggy was stunned, the expression on her face stiffening.

After the two encounters just now, she has realized that she is no match for Asker at all.

Although she didn't know how the aristocratic young master in the past suddenly became such a terrifying swordsman, if the other party could easily kill her, then there was no reason to deliberately tell a lie to deceive.

"The murderer is your maid, Livitte." Peggy said word for word.

"Yes, but it wasn't at my behest." "In fact, they only obey the present mistress of my house, and she's a vampire. ”

Peggy's body trembled, and the clues in her mind were finally strung together.

"You're not?" She asked tentatively.

"I'm not." Aske said, "You are." ”

"I'm ...... I'm ......" Peggy looked at her hands, her face pale, "Vampire." ”

The summer thundershowers came so violently that in an instant the raindrops began to fall intensively.

Asker stood with his sword in the rain and watched as the girl in front of him knelt on the ground, curled up in pain, fingers digging deep into the dirt.

The heart-rending cries were drowned out in the sound of the wind and rain, and no one could hear them.

The rain was getting heavier and heavier, and it showed no signs of stopping for a short time.

Asker sighed and went over to carry Peggy. The latter did not struggle, nor did he resist, but just let him carry himself like a puddle of dead rotten meat.

The cemetery is built on a small hill and at the top of it is an abandoned house where the grave keepers occasionally stay and keep vigil. Asker came to the ruined house and knocked on the door.

There was no one inside.

So he pushed the door in, found the last unburned firewood in a dark corner, and lit a fire. Peggy was placed next to the fire, her eyes lying on the ground, as if she had lost all her sanity and consciousness.

"Actually, it's not bad to be a vampire." Aske took off his soaked cotton armor and tried to dry it on the fire, "On the bright side, your appearance has been fixed at 18 years old since then, which is the age of youth and love. Forever 18 years old, how enviable. And you don't have to eat, drink, or breathe, as long as you take your blood regularly, you can stay young forever. Haha, other women bleed every month, you are sucking blood every month. ”

"I'm a monster." Peggy's mouth opened and closed sluggishly.

"What's wrong with the monster?" Aske said, "The ugly ones are the monsters, the ones who are good-looking...... That's called a foreign mother. ”

"Is there a difference?" Peggy laughed miserably.

"Of course." Asker stirred the fire and crackled, "Have you ever heard of the Demon Tide?" ”

Peggy was silent.

"When the tide comes, troubled times will arise, and heroes will emerge." Aske said, "Now is the beginning of the Demon Tide, the transcendent level cap has been raised to 5, and the knowledge of the secret bloodline is about to cease to be a secret. You may not understand what I say, but let's explain it with an example. At the end of the Third Age, you know the post-triumvirate of the Solomon Republic, right? Octavian chose the blood of the dragon, Mark. Anthony chooses the bloodline of the devil, while Lepida is a human pure-blood and refuses to choose the otherworldly bloodline. ”

So Lepida was the first to go out. In the end, Octavian won the civil war and proclaimed himself the head of the Solomon Republic for life, a move seen as a landmark in the transformation of the republic into an empire. Aske continued, "In Octavian's old age, the blood of the dragon had corrupted his human bloodline. After his death, his supernatural power escaped, and he could no longer maintain his human form, revealing the true body of a giant dragon nearly twenty meters long. It took 40 Power Armored Knights to lift the dragon's massive corpse out of the palace. ”

"Won't people be scared?" Peggy asked, looking up and biting her lower lip.

"I'm not afraid." Asker explained, "There was no Solomon religion at that time. Under the Pantheistic belief system, people take pride in their family's transcendent bloodline. In fact, after Octavian's death, its dragon body was sent to the Pantheon of Solomon, where it was named Caesar, the dragon god. Augustus. Since then, Roman emperors have named themselves after Augustus, believing that this name contains the power of the dragon god, which can protect them from controlling power and overlooking the world. ”

Peggy hugged her knees uneasily. She was somewhat persuaded by Aske, and of course instinctively afraid, and after thinking about it, she asked again:

"Is there any vampire blood in history?"

"Yes." Aske said, "Vlad III, Grand Duke of Transylvania, is in the blood of the blood line. I think he seems to have reached level 4. The Duchy of Transylvania itself was a Solomonic Catholic, and you see the Grand Duke himself had nothing to do. This is because the Duchy of Transylvania and the Duchy of Khangri are part of the Eastern Defence set by the Holy See against the invasion of nomads migrating from Siberia. ”

"Hmm......" Peggy felt that her brain was not enough. She never left Constantinople as a child, and she knew nothing about the world outside of the Eastern Solomonic Empire. But Asker's words greatly encouraged her, the vampire bloodline was not terrible, it was just one of thousands of transcendent bloodlines.

"Why are you helping me?" Peggy looked at the fire faintly, and her expression changed inexplicably from the light of the fire.

"Because we have the same goal." Asker replied, "You want revenge for your family, don't you?" ”

"Yes." Peggy tightened her pant leg. She was still wearing the linen shroud that had been changed before the burial, and the rough touch made her feel a little trance-like, "So what do you want to do?" ”

"Kill the whole family." Asker threw a piece of wood into the fire, "Killing my whole family, of course." ”

Peggy turned her head away and looked at him in amazement.

"Don't look at me like that." Aske laughed and said, "My parents have been killed by that woman, and the housekeeper and servants have been transformed into vampires, and they still occupy my ancestral home. Although I don't have a lot of nostalgia for that house, after all, it is also the inheritance left to me by my parents, and I can't afford to be cheap to those outsiders. ”

"I see." Peggy whispered, "We have a common enemy. ”

"That's right." "In the near future, your enemies are the vampires who killed your parents. In the long run, the Church, the Night's Watch, and the Demon Hunter are your arch-enemies. If you don't have the corresponding extraordinary strength, once you are exposed, you will be found and killed soon. ”

"You have the transcendent trait of Flesh I, and you can say that you have a starting point higher than the vast majority of people in this city, including me. All you lack now is the experience to transform supernatural powers into physical powers and to use them. I can teach you this, of course, it is not free, and requires you to sign a soul contract. ”