Chapter Forty-Eight: Stephen's Ambition
"You ......," Baron Albert widened in surprise.
"Hehe, everyone is here! Princess Elizabeth, father, Bony, Laura, my Miller! The figure slowly landed, and the bat wings behind him slowly melted into the body.
"You're Stephen...... Stephen Albert? Nova snorted softly and looked at the young man in front of her in shock, "Another undead creature of the Albert family turned out to be like this!" ”
"Aunt Nova? Long time no see! Stephen grinned and said lightly.
"What happened more than a year ago? You just said that it is up to you to answer the matter of Miller? The uneasiness in Mel's heart rose spontaneously, and he asked vigilantly.
"As the heir to the baron, I have long known the secrets of the family, including the fact that each generation of Baron Albert has had to sacrifice himself as a summoner to sign a contract with the undead. But I'm different from these idiots of the Alberts! Stephen glanced at his family and said lightly.
"It is indeed a good thing to become an immortal being, but I do not have the great ideal of guarding the human world, and I do not want to be bound by the servant contract. By chance, I met Mary Claire on the edge of the Maiar Forest. Interestingly, this Maiya witch actually moved the hearts of mortals, hoping to restore the lives of ordinary humans. ”
A sneer appeared on the corner of Stephen's mouth, and his eyes were blank as he recalled, "Hehe, Nina, this little fool thought that she was hiding her ugly appearance, so I didn't know her identity." I didn't expose her, though, and I found out that this was my chance, a chance to be immortal without having to be bound by the Alberts......"
The exorcists looked at this young man with a cold expression, and a chill appeared in their hearts. In Stephen's autobiography, the events of more than a year ago are finally fully revealed.
"Actually, even Princess Elizabeth and my father didn't really know what was going on." Stephen said with a smile.
"They thought it was Nina who wanted to convert Miller into an immortal, but it turned out that Zhì Miller, the bloodline director of the Albert family, fell ill. In fact, the person who wanted to transform Miller into an immortal was not Nina, nor Princess Elizabeth, but someone else! ”
Stephen turned his head and smiled at the corner of the banquet hall, "You're right! Laura's sister ...... Oh no, Aunt Laura! ”
Miss Laura! Qin Lun raised his eyebrows, and looked at Laura as everyone looked at him, this kind of follow-up change was really ...... Unexpected! It seems that although he has grasped the general context of the incident, he is still incomplete in details.
Laura ignored Stephen and the gazes of the others, just crouched down and looked at Miller, and asked softly, "Little one, do you blame me?" ”
"No!" Miller shook his little head and threw himself into Laura's arms.
Laura smiled sweetly, happily picked up Miller, bowed slightly to Elizabeth, and whispered, "I'm sorry, Princess Elizabeth, I can't be as strong as you." After becoming an immortal, just over thirty years ago, I could no longer bear the loss of my loved ones. Miller ...... In any case, I can't watch Miller grow old and die like Thomas......"
"Haha, Aunt Laura, have you decided? Or the same question from a little over a year ago, would you like to leave the Albert family with me? Stephen asked with a hint of excitement on his face and burning eyes.
"Stephen, I'm not like you, I just want to protect Miller!" Laura said expressionlessly.
"Laura......" Elizabeth's little face showed a hint of gloom, she already realized what was going to happen next.
Laura...... My sister! Baron Thomas Albert looked at Laura with complicated eyes, "Stephen didn't sign a servant contract, and I can't control him." However, I will never allow you to leave here, and Miller must sign a contract with me after this matter is over! ”
"I know, brother!" Laura lowered her eyelids, a look of pain on her face, "As the controller of the contract, you can control me, but you can't control my descendants...... Kill him! ”
"Thomas, be careful!" Lady Nova's eyes widened suddenly, and she looked behind the baron in horror.
"Poof!" Before Baron Albert could react, he felt a chill in his heart, and a bloody tip pierced through his heart and peeked out of his left chest.
"You...... Jason! Baron Albert spurted out a mouthful of blood, turned his head in disbelief at the old butler behind him, and slowly collapsed to the ground.
"I'm sorry, Thomas, I can't go against my master's wishes!" The old butler Jason limped and shook his head with a wry smile, "Dr. Stan is right, you can't bear Thomas, or the Alberts can't take on this kind of responsibility." Lorenzo Albert was wrong, the Immortals were right, for whatever reason, it was not a power that humans could keep privately! ”
"Hahaha! Well done, Jason! The contract controller is dead, what about you, rush out with me, or stay here and wait for the exorcist to purify! Stephen looked up to the sky and laughed, his blonde hair fluttering, and pointed to the castle servants in the banquet hall and said, "We will usher in a new era for humanity!" ”
Looking at Baron Albert, who was lying in a pool of blood, a look of confusion appeared on the faces of the castle servants. A hint of grief slowly appeared on the faces of most of them, while a few others flickered their eyes and retreated towards the floor-to-ceiling windows at the edge of the hall.
"If the rebels die, kneel down, and the exorcist organization will rearrange the contractor for you!" Qin Lun's gloomy voice came from behind, looking at Stephen and the castle servants in front of him, all the exorcists, including Boni, slowly clenched the weapons in their hands.
"Kill them!" Stephen's wings fluttered behind him and he pounced on the exorcist first.
"Whew!" There were many inhuman roars in the banquet hall, looking at Miss Laura, who had transformed into a silver-white giant wolf, Qin Lun sighed softly, and resolutely turned around and walked out of the banquet hall, running towards the corridor without looking back.
At this time, a loud noise was already heard on the lower floors of the banquet hall, and the townspeople were rushing towards the upper floors of the castle......
"Apostle No. 70053, you have witnessed a key historical node, and the satellite-level plot has improved the quality of the plot. Witness the historical node of the root cause of the epidemic in the Odia region, and the plot quality has been upgraded to a planetary level. Witness the two dark ancestors who opened the dark era of this world, the werewolf ancestor - Laura Albert, and the vampire ancestor - Stephen Albert, and the plot quality has been upgraded to stellar star. ”
"Hint: Due to the personal witness of Apostle No. 70053 and the change of history, the exorcist organization discovered the harshness of the Dark Age in advance, eliminated a large number of second and third generations of werewolves and blood clans, greatly reduced the history of the Dark Age, and shattered the starry sky to plunder the origin of the world by 51 points."
"Hint: When the Apostle returns, the Shattered Starry Sky will calculate the world exploration reward according to the plundered world origin, and increase the mission evaluation appropriately!"
Looking at the large number of hints that appeared in the death list, Qin Lun shrugged his shoulders and quickened his pace of running. There are so few exorcists in the banquet hall that ordinary townsfolk can help the exorcists win the battle, but they can't stop all the werewolves and vampires.
In particular, the two ancestors, Laura and Stephen, are estimated to be able to escape from Albert Castle, and the fate of the others is unpredictable. Miller is too weak to die in the chaos.
As for Elizabeth...... Qin Lun's eyes flashed, and a trace of regret appeared on his face for the first time. The undead princess was not supposed to run away, and he had already seen in the banquet hall that Elizabeth had a will to die, or that she had become a walking corpse after she became an immortal.
The first generation of Baron Albert made this eight-year-old girl bear too much, "a thousand years of duty, a thousand years of protection, a thousand years of glory", in Qin Lun's view, it is better to say that it is a thousand years of sorrow.
Lorenzo Albert, the lion of Odia, did not know about his actions, which in a sense was equivalent to burying his own young daughter.
On the one hand, he opposes the belief in immortal exorcists, and on the other hand, he wants to use his immortal body to protect the ideals of exorcists, which is simply an unsolvable paradox. Lorenzo's ideals are great, and they are the foundation that supports Elizabeth in her fight against nightmares in the cycle of death of her family and relatives.
Today's events, however, show that Lorenzo has done something wrong, and that the foundation of this faith has collapsed. Even if the Exorcist Organization didn't punish Elizabeth out of respect for Lorenzo, she wouldn't be able to live.
Elizabeth's sorrow, Qin Lun could understand, but he couldn't understand it. He has no people and things to recall, and he does not grieve at the death of a person of identity. In fact, many times, the people around him were killed by his own hands. Even Frank's death was only his first taste of anger at a violation of his dignity, not sadness.
In the eyes of the killer, there is nothing wrong with being a bystander. His curiosity about mysterious events and new things is what drives his survival.
Qin Lun soon saw the townsfolk who had broken into Albert's Castle, and he wisely hid in a guest room, took off his dress, and walked out of the room wearing only a sweatshirt, disguising himself as an ordinary townsman.
The Medic continued against the flow of people towards the lower levels of the castle, but as he approached the exit of the castle's gates, his movements became more and more obstructed.
It's not that the townsfolk suspect his identity, it's that there are too many people under the castle. As time passed, aside from the hundreds of townspeople who had just broken into the castle, there were still countless Audia civilians on the mountain road who were coming one after another, almost cramming the entire castle, and the whole shape was developing towards an uncontrollable situation.
After Qin Lun squeezed out the main hall door of the main fort, his heart was finally relieved. Sweating profusely and gasping for breath, he continued to swim upriver towards the stone bridge outside the fort.
In the crowd, Qin Lun suddenly raised his eyebrows and looked up in surprise. At the far end of his left front, a bewildered, familiar figure came into the doctor's field of vision.