Chapter 368: The Countess
Abel didn't expect that this time when he entered the Tower of Oblivion, he had already obtained two bottles of 'Ability Elixir' before he saw the countess, and the 'Ability Potion' was a shortcut to improve the combat effectiveness of summons and contract beasts.
In order to improve the combat effectiveness of the dark gold level boss, there are many types of enhancement methods that Hell has researched to enhance its strength, each of which can enhance a certain aspect of the ability of the creature, and as the level of the creature itself increases, this enhancement will also increase.
However, the entrance to the fifth floor was in front of him, and Abel didn't plan to use these two bottles of 'ability potion' at this time, after spending so many days, he was finally going to see the countess, and he didn't want to wait any longer.
Strangely, when Able entered the fifth floor, he didn't find a single hellish creature, as if it was an empty dungeon, but the blood here was very heavy, and the air was filled with the smell of blood mixed with heat.
As he advanced, a huge iron pot appeared in front of him, the pot was full of red liquid, he just sniffed it and knew that it was full of human blood, but the human race had disappeared from this continent, where did the blood come from, at least he had never seen a human since he came to the dark world.
If Abel was an orc priest or an alchemist who studied blood very well, then he would know that it was all virgin blood.
Turning around a few vacant rooms, there was the innermost room in front of him, Abel felt a burst of heat, unlike the other rooms, the innermost room was full of fire-colored red light.
Abel ordered the captain of the Ghost Knights, who had the strongest fire resistance, to stand at the front, and several other Ghost Guardian Knights stood guard around him, and he stepped into the room.
"How many years have we not had a visitor!" a faint sigh of a woman came, and in the midst of the firelight, a noble lady dressed in a splendid aristocratic robe stood in the center of the room, flanked by seven attendants dressed in maid's clothes standing respectfully on either side.
Abel didn't expect the countess in front of him to say such a thing, he always thought that all hellish creatures were the same, their souls and bodies were corrupted by hell, and there was no way to have the original mind anymore, and now it seemed to be a little different from what he imagined before, but before that, he still wanted to confirm whether the other party was a countess, and the current situation was a bit too strange.
"Are you the countess guarding this place?" Abel asked as he looked at the noble robes on the other party's body, and naturally performed a standard knightly salute.
"Countess, what a long time ago, for so many years, I've almost forgotten it, and no one has called me that since I've been trapped here!" muttered the countess, as if remembering a long time ago.
When Abel heard her admit that she was the countess, he was already ready for battle, and a dark gold staff appeared in his hand, which was the Grey Staff of Bane, which had +50% fire resistance among its attributes, and was the only equipment in his hand that could strengthen fire resistance.
"Brave adventurer, can you listen to my story and fight?I can feel that this world has lost the support of hell, I can die countless times and be resurrected, but I know that now if I fall, I will fall into eternal sleep, so I beg you to listen to my story first, so that I am killed in battle, and at least there are still people in this world who can know my story!" the countess made an unready gesture to Abel with empty hands, and then said in a soft pleading voice.
"Please!" Abel did not put away the ashes of the bane, but just suppressed all the summons and guarded his side.
"Adventurer, you just gave a knightly salute, which reminds me of my husband many years ago, who was also a knight!" A look of happiness appeared on the countess's face, and although this happiness appeared on her face for a short time, Able saw it clearly.
"The fate of the knight is to die on the battlefield, and he is the same, and the only thing I can commemorate him is his favorite, my face!So in order to be able to keep my face unchanged, I searched for countless scholars, alchemists, and finally the alchemist of the City Lord's Mansion told me that I can use the blood of a virgin to keep my face immortal!"
When Abel heard the countess's words, he couldn't help but think of the blood in the huge iron pot in the largest hall on the fifth floor.
"I have collected a large basin full of virgin blood through various means such as purchase and inducement, and placed it in a container that has been placed in a circle by the alchemist, so that it can be guaranteed to be fresh forever!
The countess's expression became very hideous, as if something good had been destroyed, and she continued: "My riches have made many people blush, and the death of my husband has made them see an opportunity, and they want to get hold of my family's wealth, so they have laid this trap!"
"Countless people rushed into my house in the name of getting rid of evil, and I was forced to retreat to the dungeon, but they did not find the rumored riches, so they set fire to my house in a fit of rage, and I waited for death in the dungeon!"
The countess's voice became sharp, and her voice was full of resentment: "Just before death, I prayed to hell, I want revenge, I will exchange everything I have for the chance of recollection!"
"Hell answered me, so I became a member of Hell and maybe my resentment was greater than the corruption of Hell, I retained the ability to think, and many years later, Hell entered this world with Heaven, and everything was gone, my enemies, my relatives, my everything!"
"I hate humans, they made me what I am now, I hate hell even more, it keeps me trapped in the five layers forever for thousands of years, I drove all the original hellish creatures to the upper floors of the dungeon, leaving only some little demons to clean up, I don't like them to appear in my home, this is my only home!"
"Honorable Countess, I believe everything you say, but whoever is right or wrong, it has passed with time!"
Able could no longer judge the righteous and evil sides in this matter, because collecting human blood for casting spells was a taboo thing in itself, and if it happened in the Holy Continent, it would also be besieged by a crowd.
"Young knight, where did you come from, in this world, the knighthood profession has disappeared from a long time ago in my memory, only the paladins who exist because of faith have always existed, you don't have the breath of faith in you, you are a real knight!"
"Why don't you think I'm a trialist?" Abel asked.
"Quite simply, you don't have the breath of hell and heaven in you, you are not their trialist, and heaven and hell have not returned to this world for countless years, perhaps a world that has been drained of all its life force is not worth paying attention to!" replied the countess.
"I'm an outsider!" Abel thought for a moment to use the word outsider, not knowing if the countess could understand it.
"You're from another world?" asked the countess, her eyes lit up.
"Yes, I'm from a world where there is no breath of heaven and hell!" Abel nodded in affirmation.
"If, I mean if, do you need a butler, a housekeeper with a good aristocratic education, and the ability to control the fire elemental and some melee skills!" the countess hesitated, perhaps she didn't want to waste this rare opportunity, so she said what she thought anyway.
Abel paused for a moment, as if he didn't expect the countess to ask this question, but before he could speak, the seven elite maids beside the countess had already drawn their sabers from their waists and killed the countess.
The countess snorted coldly, her body retreated rapidly, and a wall of fire appeared in front of her with a wave of her hand, and the seven elite maids seemed to completely ignore the wall of fire and rushed directly towards the wall of fire, but then the elite maids screamed one after another!
"Without my strengthening, how could you possibly have the ability to control flames!" the countess said with a sneer.
As the countess spoke, the gorgeous aristocratic robe on her body shook off, and a light battle armor and a long knife at her waist made her instantly transform from a noblewoman to a female warrior.