It turned out that about 10,000 years ago, Alfred, the ancestor of the Nightblade Clan, inadvertently obtained a broken artifact, the origin of which is no longer known, and this artifact is so mysterious that even Alfred, who has lived for thousands of years, does not know any information about it, not even a legend.

Although I don't know if this broken artifact is of mysterious origin, the residual divinity on it is indeed real.

Alfred was overjoyed that there was still divinity on top of a broken artifact, knowing that few gods would bestow precious divinity on an artifact. Suddenly, a big gift package fell from the sky, and Alfred, who had been seeking a breakthrough, naturally couldn't let it go.

But in order to obtain the above divinity, Alfred tried countless methods, but still could not succeed. Because the divinity on this artifact is like a natural enemy for vampires!

In this way, thousands of years passed by, and just when Alfred was about to die, an opportunity arose. That is the underground seal of Askatra, an enclosed space that can naturally gather negative energy! Here, the negative energy is constantly gathered, and because it is sealed, the negative energy cannot be lost (although it will also be lost, but compared with the total amount of accumulation, that loss can be completely ignored), that is, the negative energy in this space will gradually become more dense over time, which is undoubtedly the favorite environment of vampires.

So, this ancient vampire named Alfred immediately chose this place! He's going to do something here that is completely impossible in the eyes of other vampires, no, it should be said that it's two, first, he's going to try to advance to the legendary ancient vampire in this perfect environment! Second, he wanted to rely on the massive amount of negative energy there to complete the transformation of divinity! Then absorb it!

These two things go hand in hand, because if he can't advance to the rank of Ancient Vampire, then there's no way he'll be able to absorb that divinity!

Ancient vampires, this kind of existence has always been a legend, in fact, after the appearance of vampires on the continent of Faerun, this legend has always existed, but there is no evidence that the so-called ancient vampires really existed. (I want to explain here, as I said a long time ago, the vampires in the Feron Continent were artificially created and not a natural race, so if you really want to talk about it, the vampire race is a relatively young race in Feron, so in fact, the real ancient vampires never existed at all)

The legendary ancient vampires, even separated from the vampire race, can be called another kind of creature, first of all, they are no longer afraid of the sun, the weakness of the vampire is the sun, even the strongest vampires, are also afraid of the sun, although not to really see the light to die, but it is still extremely painful, and at the same time will seriously weaken the combat effectiveness.

But the ancient vampires are different, they no longer have any reaction to the sun, and they can even move freely in the sun like ordinary intelligent races. Plus, ancient vampires will get infinitely close to immortality! They can be truly immortal.

Vampires are known to have a very long lifespan, to the point where ordinary humans think they are immortal. In fact, these guys will also die normally, and they also have the limit of lifespan, for example, Alfred lived for almost 10,000 years, but he still reached the end of his life.

Ancient vampires are different, they have no lifespan limit and can live forever without even being killed! They don't have any vampire weaknesses, and even if their head is cut off and their heart is completely destroyed, they will still be alive! Even if they are torn into pieces, they will be resurrected immediately. That's why it's called immortal.

All in all, there doesn't seem to be anything in common between ancient vampires and vampires other than the need to suck blood!

As mentioned earlier, most of the people who can become vampires are afraid of death, and in order to escape death, many vampires who are about to reach the end of their lives choose to believe in this legend that sounds nonsense.

And the process of progressing to the ancient vampire is also very simple, that is, to enter a deep sleep like death, until it is truly transformed, or simply turned into ashes. So many ancient vampires gradually turned into dust in their sleep.

And Alfred made that choice too! But the difference is that his goal is bigger, he wants to become a god! Because as long as he becomes an ancient vampire, then he can rely on a near-immortal body to forcibly absorb divinity!

Of course, another main reason why Alfred chose the Underground Seal of Ascatra is that this seal is quiet, and if nothing happens, no one will bother it. 、

After falling into a deformed slumber, the vampire itself will enter a state of infinite proximity to death, and his body will fall into the most complete sleep, extremely weak, and the original various vampire talents and abilities will disappear, just like a corpse. Even the soul will be completely silent. He doesn't react to anything in the outside world, and in this state, if he wants to kill him, a child can do it.

This is also the reason why Alfred chose the Underground Seal, he sealed himself inside the core of the seal, in order to isolate all threats, which is almost the best place in the entire Torel plane. Elsewhere, there is either not enough negative energy or it is unsafe.

To this end, Alfred did not hesitate to embrace a mage who had participated in the construction of the seal for the first time, so as to enter and understand everything about the seal, so that he could seal himself in the core of the seal. At the same time, he also mobilized most of his descendants to desperately help Ascatra erase any news about the seal, otherwise the existence of the seal would not be so unknown.

It is also because this Alfred's secrecy work is so good that no one among his descendants knows how to enter the seal, and this Alfred also has a hand for his descendants, and he uses his absolute control over his descendants to make all the descendants have their memories of this matter tampered with!

If it weren't for the Arcane Brotherhood accidentally learning about the entry method of the seal from the tomb of an Amm mage, it is estimated that the Nightblade family would still be blind. However, the Nightblade family still paid a heavy price for this, not only sacrificing thirty family members, but also being used as a sword messenger by the Arcane Brotherhood.

As for the apparent ambition of the Nightblade, in the eyes of the Arcane Brotherhood, it is simply not worth mentioning, even if the seal is broken and the entire Ascatra is killed, what does it have to do with them to the Arcane Brotherhood? What they wanted was to fight Am, and it would be acceptable for them to abandon an Askatra, which was not their city anyway.

As for the vampire's growth, hehe, the Arcane Brotherhood is an evil organization? How would they care about that? Because of this, the Nightblade family finally hid their true purpose.

After hearing Rhine's account of the plan, everyone fell into a deep shock, it turned out that their ancestor had such great ambitions. But then came a deep doubt. How exactly did the family determine that now was the time to break the seal? Also, did the Ancestor succeed or fail?

In the face of his subordinates' doubts, Rhine did not hide it.

"Hehe, on this point, I must be honest, the family is the same as you thought before, and I also feel that this plan is mostly a failure, and the elders just regard this as a secret and don't pay attention to it at all, until the only three ancient elders (ancient vampires) of the family feel the pulse of the ancestor! The closer the bloodline is to the ancestor, the clearer the pulse will be! Only then did the family determine that it was the ancestor waking up! That's him calling for his descendants! ”

"Then why, why didn't the Ancestor come out on his own? After all, if the ancestor wakes up, it means that the ancestor has succeeded, at least he has become an ancient blood clan, according to legend, the power of the ancient blood clan will be the apex of the mortal world, such a seal is not difficult for him. ”

Since the ancestor Alfred fell into a deep sleep of transformation when he was about to die, then he woke up again, not to mention becoming a demigod, at least becoming a legendary ancient vampire is certain, but since he has successfully become an ancient vampire, why can't he even break the seal in front of him?

Faced with such a question, Rhine pondered for a moment, and then said: "Regarding this point, the Council of Elders has also discussed, first of all, the awakening of the ancestor is absolutely real, and the pulse in the bloodline cannot be fake, not only the three ancient elders, but most of the elders in the family who have lived long enough have felt the weak pulse, if it weren't for our bloodline being too far away from the ancestor, we should also feel it." ”

"Secondly, we don't know much about the specifics of the transformation into an ancient vampire, and we don't know what it was like for the Ancestors to become ancient vampires. According to the elders' guesses, it should be that the first ancestor did not suck blood for too long after sleeping for thousands of years, which caused weakness. After all, ancient vampires also had to suck blood, which is also mentioned in the legend. ”

In fact, no matter why the Ancestor Alfred couldn't open the seal, the elders of the Night Family would also rescue the Ancestor at any cost, because anyway, Alfred was the first ancient vampire to awaken again after entering the Eternal Sleep of Transformation.

Because it means that it is possible to succeed in the metamorphosis of eternal sleep! Even if Ancestor Alfred didn't become an ancient vampire, because in any case, Ancestor Alfred's experience is very significant! For the sake of the path after the vampires, the elders will also do everything to save the ancestors. Because that also represents their future path, after all, those elders will also usher in the end of their lives!