Early in the morning, Carter City.

Carter City is located in the north of the Empire, and the weather here is harsher than in the south. Even though it's June, the cold still lingers, and the air is warmer every day at noon.

With such weather conditions, the farming industry here is naturally not much better. In general, this is a small city at the bottom of the empire's economy. The city is managed by a family of viscounts, the Carter family, and now the head of the Carter family is Aesop Carter.

The eastern part of the city is an area where civilians and displaced people are mixed.

In a certain dilapidated wooden house, a coughing sound kept coming.

A little girl of five or six years old with some black ash on her face walked into the house with some broken wood branches.

The little girl saw the woman coughing incessantly in bed.

"Mom, what's wrong with you?" the girl put down the firewood in her hand and climbed into the shabby bed to the woman's side.

The quilt on the bed was very shabby and smelly.

"It's okay, mom is fine. Good Leah!"

The woman on the bed was extremely pale and in a very poor state of mind.

"Mom, I'm back from collecting firewood. When Leah turns the fire up, her mother won't be cold when she gets up. As she spoke, the girl wiped the soot from her face with her hand, but she wiped her face even more.

"Well! Leah is so nice!" the woman doted on the girl's golden, dry hair.

The girl got out of bed and started a fire with the broken wood she had just picked up.

"Ahem, ahem," the woman began to cough incessantly again. Spread out the hand covering his mouth, and the scarlet blood was already coughing up in the palm of his hand.

"It's alright, it's alright," the woman muttered something in a low voice.

The woman on the bed curled up in a ball, wrapped tightly in a shabby quilt.

"It's so cold.. It's cold. The woman thought unconsciously.

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"Mom, Mom.... The fire is up, you won't be cold, mom.... Mom, what's wrong with you, Mom, don't ignore Leah... Mom.... Woohoo......"

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Pierced collar. Sally walked in the basement towards the master of the family's cultivation room. The basement is large, and there will be a bonfire on the wall every other section of the walkway, which illuminates the dark basement dimly, and although it is not bright, you can see the road clearly.

Sally held his hand against the wall, and there was a slight vibration on the wall, and although no sound came out, Sally could still guess what was going on. Thinking of this, Sally's brow furrowed tightly.

After continuing on his walk, Sally came to a steel gate. There was only one key to the door of the cultivation room, which was held in the old butler's hand. Neither did Sully.

"Bang Bang!" Sally slammed the door, this steel gate was too thick, Sally might smash it open if he turned into a giant form, but it was basically impossible for him to smash it in his normal form. So, he was actually knocking on the door just now.

"Who!" Sally could faintly hear a weak voice coming from the training room.

"Father, it's me. Sally exclaimed.

Half-ringing, without a single response, just as Sully was about to use special means.

"Click... Click" was heard with the sound of metal gears turning.

After about half a minute, the thick steel gate slowly opened.

Sally pushed the door open and entered, just in time to see his father's back walking towards the secret room.

"Father. Sully called.

Sally looked at his surroundings, and although there were no signs of shattering, Sally was sure that the previous tremors had come from here.

"What are you doing here, Sarri?" replied the Earl.

Then he sat on the animal skin in the center of the cultivation room.

Sally frowned, the Earl's tone was flat, but Sally felt a hint of indifference and distance from it. There is no such closeness as before.

"Father, will the Demon Soldier change the personality of the user?" said Sally directly.

The Count was stunned for a moment, then smiled bitterly.

"Do you feel it?" said the Earl mockingly, and before Sally could reply, the Count continued, "Father has never smiled at me since I was a child. He never comforted me when I was sad. Growing up, my father gave me the impression that it was like ice, cold!

This impression did not change until his death. Still, I love him very much. Later, when I became the head of the family, I finally learned the reason for my father's indifference, and from that moment on, I made up my mind to seal it forever!

I don't want my children to go through the same childhood that I went through. I want them to grow up in a normal and healthy environment, enjoy the love of their father, and enjoy the love of their mother. I don't know what my father's personality was, but the housekeeper told me that my father was very gentle, and he said that he told me that he loved me. At that time, how pale that sentence was, and I couldn't feel the love at all when I thought of my father's attitude towards me since I was a child.

But Sally, you're different, and no matter what I become, you have to remember that I love you!"

Sally had been listening carefully to what his father had to say.

Halfway through, Sally said, "Is there no other way?

"It's too late, and now that my life is tied to that gun, and it's sealed, I could die at any moment. ”

"What if I inherit that gun directly?" said Sally coldly.

"No, I can't. The previous host must sacrifice the Demon Soldier before the next host can inherit the Demon Soldier. The Count said directly.

Sally looked into the earl's eyes.

"Okay, I got it!" said Sally. He didn't see any signs of lying, maybe he really couldn't.

If you want to say how deep Sully's affection for the Count is, that's not enough. But to say that there is no emotion at all is also false.

In this world, the only thing he can still care about is this "father". Therefore, Sully cherishes this father-son relationship.

"Then pay attention to yourself. This was the only thing Sully could say, and he had no way to fix it. Moreover, they are already in a whirlpool, and that gun is not necessarily a disaster. At the head of the family was his father, and as for what happened to Sully, it was all his own doing.

"Hmm!"

"Then let's talk about the purpose of my return. Straight to the point, Sully said, he didn't have much time right now, after all, he had to think about the royal family.

"You say. ”

"Vampire, what do you think?" asked Sally.

The Count frowned.

"The heretical-like monster?"

"That's right, and the team of knights you just transferred to me are all dead, and the vampires did it. They are different from ordinary heretics, they have their own organization, and their intelligence is not inferior to that of humans at all. Moreover, I got the news that vampires can crush the existence of the knight of the title, and that existence is not the highest level of vampires. ”

The Count's brow furrowed.

"When has there been so many monsters in the royal city?" the Count muttered.

"What is your opinion?" asked the Count.

"For some reason, we've been completely confronted by vampires. ”

"Some reasons?"

"The group of vampires who slaughtered the family knights were killed by me, so they can't rest on their laurels. Sally said lightly.