Chapter 121: Troubled Waters
Ever since Skuna escaped from Phocles with a group of men, the whole of Phocles felt as if they were shrouded in a cloud. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 infoThere are refugees pouring out of the territory, and families are moving to nearby Snow Manling or Half Moon Town, and a little farther to Ruichi and Hafinga. Anyway, it is rumored that the Phocles are already full of vampires, and the inhabitants of the territory may one day be caught and used as food rations.
"Huh? Have you heard of it? The Phocles collar seems to be under the control of vampires. A tavern drinker brought up the rumored rotten old meme. There is basically no entertainment in Skyrim Province or the entire Tamriel Continent, and people's entertainment activities are nothing but drinking, bragging, and singing, and even some people have come up with the story of the one-eyed Olaf to ridicule it.
"What's the matter, it's obviously a rumor that the mayor of Half Moon Town wants to plot against the territory of the Phocles Territory, and I am the refugee you said from the Phocles, where are the fugitive vampires, it is to escape the war, and the Phocles Territory is about to fight." A drunkard dressed in a bit of ragged clothes spoke, claiming to be someone who had fled the war from Phocles.
"Isn't the mayor of Half Moon Town very good? Collect refugees, divide arable land, and finally reduce taxes for new refugees, he looks pretty good. The drinker who brought up this meme was a little surprised.
"Isn't it a trick of the authorities......" The latter said something that was very inconsistent with his identity, and then turned around and blended into the crowd, a world where ordinary civilians would not dare to say that.
Half Moon Town.
"Boss, there are many vampires who want to infiltrate the border outcasts recently, and our patrol has also caught many vampires who want to sneak into Half Moon Town, all of them are Vampires from Phocles." Puton was reporting the situation in Half Moon Town to Wei Xu, who was teaching Ott alchemy.
"Normal, it seems that Faucres has already exuded deep malice towards us. I guess this is only what you discovered, and some of the ones that didn't find it probably infiltrated the town. What's the latest news on the market? Wei Xu stopped what he was doing and asked Purton.
"What's more, it's been rumored that the so-called Vampire of Phocles in the market is all made up by us......" Purton said with a little indignation.
Wei Xu had a calm look on his face, he had thought of these things a long time ago, and he was not the only one who would spread the news. But then again, that's fine, after all, the news spread by the other party is fake, and there is a party on his side to prove that no matter how bad the other lords are, they will choose a wait-and-see attitude, and they will not be one-sidedly biased to the opposite side, which is enough.
"The recent increase in the frequency of vigils has led to the hassle of silver weapons at Ihad's artisan's house, and the organization of the townsfolk to go to the various altars every three days to pour the anti-disease potions currently stockpiled into the well water just in case." After thinking for a while, Wei Xu made a decision.
No one can say the origin of the vampire race, it is not like werewolves, it is from the curse of the banshee, it seems that since the appearance of people, vampires have appeared. The most pure-blooded vampire that has survived to this day is the Lord Haakon, who lives on a small island in the northernmost seas. Pure vampires can transform into a different non-human form, with a stronger spell affinity, a tougher body, and a more agile reflexes. The vampires that followed were all created by vampires of the Maharaja Haakon's lineage who injected toxins into human bodies through their own teeth. Vampires of this generation can directly transform into the form of the Maharaja. Each generation of vampires has the ability to infect humans with toxins, and then form the next generation, and each generation of vampire toxins spreads, the chance of having the ability to transform is greatly reduced.
Originally, Haakon's family was a big family, but it was later expelled from Tamriel by humans, and the pure-bloods of the family were also killed and wounded, leaving only Haakon as the last vampire lord, and the rest were non-pure-blood vampires, and there were almost no who could transform.
The bloodline of the vampires gives them a better affinity for magic, especially illusion spells, ice-destroying spells, and necromantic summoning spells. It also increases their resistance to the ice element, as well as their body's ability to react. On top of that, vampire bloodlines make it easier for them to hide in the dark at night, making it difficult to detect.
Of course, there are pros and cons, silver items have a great corrosive effect on vampires' blood, just as they do on the breath of the undead. Plus they can be detected by death-detecting spells, so there is a theory that they belong to the undead from the moment they become vampires. Vampires are afraid of the sun, and the sunlight can prevent their physical and magical regeneration, and the healing spells that simulate sunlight can cause them great damage, and they call the sun's nourishment to living beings the tyranny of the sun. At the same time, this bloodline is also extremely afraid of the fire element, and even the Great King has to retreat from the burning of the fire element.
Becoming a vampire also achieves eternal life, of course, there is a price, the price is that they can only live on human blood, if they do not drink human blood for a long time, their human appearance will gradually show the characteristics of vampires, first the eyes become blood-red, then the ears become pointed, and finally the face begins to be hideous, delirious, relying on instinct to hunt "prey". The prey here is naturally human. It wasn't until later that vampires began to live on human blood, and human flesh was used as a snack at their usual gatherings, and eating human flesh raw was their greatest pleasure.
Under normal circumstances, vampires in a crowd are extremely difficult to recognize, and an unsuspecting village can be infected by a single vampire in a matter of days. It can be said that vampires are the natural enemies of humans. Therefore, if Phocles wanted to secretly invade Half Moon Town, Wei Xu could only ensure that the people around him were not harmed. Even if you throw medicine into the well water and worship the altar, there will always be fish that slip through the net, and maybe one day in the future, these fish that slip through the net will become a big disaster.
"What are you thinking, sir?" Ote came over to show Wei Xu the invisible potion he had just made, and found that he was in a daze, and Otte, who had been waiting for a long time, finally spoke up.
"I was thinking about vampires just now, it's nothing ......" Wei Xu came back to his senses, shook his head, and then took the potion from Oth's hand and drank it down. Not...... It lasts 6 seconds, but there are no side effects, so it's good. "The stealth potion is extracted from a few vampire ashes after receiving a bunch of chasing soldiers, because there are no other medicinal materials as ingredients, it is already very good that the vampire ashes purified for 6 seconds can last for 6 seconds, and Ote successfully activated the star power of the alchemy system a week ago, it can be said that this guy's talent in alchemy is outstanding.
"My lord, when are we going to send troops?" Ote suddenly asked, he also heard the situation just now, and the counterattack on the other side made him feel very tricky, so he was very curious about how the man in front of him, who was not a few years older than himself, but was also a mayor, a mage, a swordsman, and a part-time alchemist, would face the next situation.
Wei Xu looked at the south, separated by a space of tens of thousands of meters long wooden planks, and suddenly felt like he was playing a game before, overlooking the entire Phocles, and said softly: "The time is almost up, just wait for the last fire, and we can send troops." ”