Chapter 312: Ritual Preparations
In the wee hours of the morning, in the iron-gray hall, Emlyn and the other bloods woke up on time.
Emlyn looked around in confusion, as if nothing had happened here. In front of him was the vigorous tomb, and there was no sign of destruction in the hall.
This made him a little suspicious, during the time he entered the dream realm, whether the embers came or didn't come?
Just as Emlyn's thoughts were wandering, a mellow voice came from the vigorous tomb:
"Is there any progress in your exploration of the dream world?"
Casimi and the other bloodlines subconsciously set their sights on Emlyn White-
Although they usually laugh at each other as a disgrace to the Bloodline, they also have to admit that Emlyn White is the fastest one in the process of exploring the dream world.
Emlyn gathered her thoughts and replied respectfully:
"Lord Duke, I have left the immortal settlement and arrived at the path of the living sacrifice."
Emlyn recounted what he had seen during his exploration, including the knight Iggo, who claimed to be from Kalim and had been guarding the cage. According to him, there was supposed to be a saint in the cage, but the saint had long since disappeared, and it seemed that she had been taken away by other 'immortals'.
And in addition to this, there are giants in the tower, fighting alongside the Onion Knight to slay the fire demon.
Emlin recounted what he had seen and heard, but kept silent about the strategies he had received from the 'world'.
Emlyn's chin quietly lifted a little, and said in a tone that seemed ashamed but was actually ostentatious:
"I'm sorry, Lord Duke, but I've only just arrived at the Living Sacrifice Path, and I don't know much about this area."
Duke Olmer murmured 'um':
"Well done, what reward do you need?"
Kasimi and the other bloods couldn't help but cast mixed glances at Emrin, mostly with envy and a hint of inexplicable jealousy.
Many of them are already viscounts, but they are not even as fast as the Baron Emlin, or even a big step behind!
So much so that every time Emlyn is the first to go to a new area, and often the first to get the reward of Duke Olmer-
The first to defeat Gudat and reach the high walls of Lothric.
Kill each Bordeaux and arrive at the undead settlement.
And this time, the first to clear the undead settlement and arrive at the path of living sacrifices.
Emlyn was not very polite, and said seriously:
"Preferably gold pounds."
Olmer laughed:
"Yes, you go to Casimi and advance 5,000 gold pounds."
Emlyn was overjoyed, for the Viscount's extraordinary trait promised by Mr. 'Lover' was exactly £8,000!
The last time he bought the Baron's extraordinary traits, he still had around £2,000 in cash, but most of it had been used to buy new dolls and clothes for them, and there wasn't much left.
And the rewards he received three times in a row allowed him to get a total of 10,000 gold pounds in cash!
And even if this money is used to buy the extraordinary characteristics of the Viscount, it can save 2,000 pounds, perfect!
Of course.
Even if you have the extraordinary characteristics of a viscount, it doesn't mean that you can be promoted immediately. He needed to finish digesting the baron's potions first, but that wasn't a problem, because the dream world could speed up the process—
Sequence 6's potion digestion only costs 100,000 souls, and Emlyn has already digested 100,000 souls to complete the potion digestion when he defeated Guda-sensei.
For Emlyn now, the viscount is nothing, and his target is the earl!
Sequence 6 potion digestion requires 100,000 souls, and sequence 5 potion digestion requires about 1 million souls.
And counting the remaining 200,000 souls of Teacher Guda, as well as the Bordeaux of the Cold Valley and the Cursed Tree of the Undead Settlement that he killed in the follow-up, plus the mobs killed along the way, he already has more than 800,000 souls on him!
As long as he can kill the crystallized old man in the mouth of the 'world', which is located in the path of living sacrifice, he will be able to complete the digestion of Sequence 5 potions in one go!
At that point, he will be able to become an Earl as long as he obtains the extraordinary traits of Sequence 4 from the 'Lover'!
Emryn is in high spirits, and it won't be long before he becomes a true demigod, above most of the Bloods!
By then, everyone will be calling him Lord Earl Emlyn White!
He wants these bloodlines who once dared to laugh at him to go to the Harvest Church to volunteer!
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160 Berlund Street, Daun Dantès House.
Entering the house, Klein's first sight was an entrance hall, which was very spacious, with many chairs and umbrella stands, and was elegantly furnished and decorated, so that if he hadn't known the structure in advance and had visited the site, Crane would have even thought it was a living room.
Through the second door, he saw a cheerful hall for dozens or hundreds of guests to dance.
In the center of the hall is a brightly colored thick carpet, surrounded by bright marble tiles, placed with pianos, stone carvings and other objects, and stone pillars inlaid with ornaments to support the second floor.
It has a row of floor-to-ceiling windows on the left and a green lawn and blooming garden on the outside, and walls, wooden doors and hallways on the right that lead to places such as the lounge, pantry, washroom, kitchen and butler's room.
The hall is two stories high and has crystal chandeliers hanging from the ceiling, giving you a glimpse of what night will look like.
At the end of the road, there are stairs on each side leading to the second floor.
The cloister here is square, and the empty part in the center is exactly where the hall is carpeted, and Klein can take a glass of wine and stand behind the railing on the second floor to enjoy the dance below.
There are many rooms on the second floor, there is a living room, a living room, a dining room, a washroom, a billiard room, and a large number of bedrooms, so guests will stay here if they need to stay overnight.
Similarly, there are two staircases on the second floor leading to the third floor, where Daun Dantès lives, with an exaggerated master bedroom, a semi-open room with a bar where you can enjoy the sun, a study room that can be called a small library, two cloakrooms and a small bedroom where the valet and the maid on duty live, as well as a room and a bathroom for the family members, but Klein is currently only single.
As for the other servants, they were in the row of bungalows at the back of the building, and in the other direction were the stables.
The basement of the building is equally spacious, with a large storage room and wine cellar.
Crane, who took off his coat, stood on the large balcony of the semi-open room on the third floor with his back straight, looking at the scenery of the surrounding blocks, and couldn't help but sigh in his heart:
"Expensive is still expensive, and the rent of 315 pounds is not too wasteful."
He had paid a year's rent yesterday afternoon, and he could only force himself to be more and more pleasing to the place.
Klein's heart ached, and he regretted more and more why he chose to be a businessman in the first place. For he now has 885 pounds a year for the fixed expenses of renting this villa and hiring servants! And that's not even counting the cost of food, clothing, and daily necessities.
But fortunately, the identity of Dawn Dantès can be used for a long time. And these expenses are not necessarily unrewarded, because he can use the status of Dawn Dantès to contact the upper nobles of the Kingdom of Rune and use this opportunity to make up for the loss.
And if the losses can't be made up within the year, then Klein can only change his identity.
As he relaxed, there was a knock on the door, and Richardson, the valet, said:
"Sir, Ms. Wahana Haysen is here."
Hearing this, Klein put down the newspaper, raised his head, and glanced at his personal valet.
A quarter of an hour later, he embraced his etiquette teacher, Vahanna Haisen, and learned a dance that was commonly used in social situations.
"I feel like I'm going to lose my job in a few days."
After a while, Vahanna implicitly praised Daun Dantès's progress, and finally said,
"But you're still a little restrained, although you don't need to be like the Intis man, always close to the lady, but you don't always have to keep a certain distance, occasional contact is normal, you look too stiff and dull now."
Klein pulled the other party a little closer and responded with a smile:
"I'm afraid of being rude."
Does this mean that it is rude to get too close to a lady? It also contains the meaning that I am very attractive, and he will make a fool of himself if he sticks too close? This is a subtle compliment...... Vahana turned her mind and said with a light smile:
"You're a good learner."
During the lesson, Klein's butler, Walter, suddenly knocked on the door, and after receiving permission, entered the room, and said to Klein:
"Sir, a gentleman who calls himself Ash Black has come to visit."
When Klein heard this, he looked at Wahana on the side apologetically:
"I'm sorry, ma'am, but that's all for today."
Vahana smiled lightly:
"It's okay, it's your freedom."
Seeing Wahanna leave, Crane turned his head sideways and said to the butler:
"Mr. Ash, please, come to the study."
Walter respectfully stepped back, and Crane got up and went to the study, walked behind the desk and sat down.
After a while, there was a knock at the door.
After receiving a response, Walter, the butler, pushed open the door of the study and said respectfully:
"Sir, here comes Mr. Ash."
Crane bowed his head slightly, and instead of looking at the embers on the side, he commanded:
"Walter, find out what trouble Ms. Wahanna is in, and if she can't solve it, we'll help in time."
"Yes, sir."
Walter respectfully exited the room and closed the door before leaving.
Ember sat down across from Klein and asked:
"What's the matter with coming to me all of a sudden?"
Klein asked:
"How many of the demigods of those three paths have you found?"
Ember muttered for two seconds and said:
"The Aurora Society's Secret Sage is an Arcane Mage, and I've already negotiated with the Aurora Society, and they're trying to figure out how to get him to visit Beckland in the near future."
Klein mourned for two seconds in his heart for the Secret Sage, and after sorting out his thoughts, he spoke:
"I have asked Arodes for information about these three demigods."
"The number of demigods in the 'Apprentice' path and the 'Thief' path is extremely rare, and there are less than 10 in the entire Northern Continent."
"Most of the former are from the Tamara family, and the latter are mostly from the Jacob family."
"As for the sophists, although there are more sophists in existence, almost all of them belong to the Esoteric Society. Something seems to have happened to the Esoteric Order lately, causing the sophists who were originally located in Beckland to leave in a hurry and go to those inaccessible areas, which are difficult to find. ”
As an 'omniscient' magic mirror, Arodus is very useful. But no matter how good the seal is, it will definitely have its limitations.
For Klein, the limitation of Arodes is not that he has to answer a question at the same time, because the magic mirror will intimately ask questions such as, 'My dear master, have you eaten today?' 'Something like that.
The real limitation is that while it is possible to find out the location of the soothsayers, thieves, and demigods of the Gate by asking Arodus, even if these demigods are not dead after all, they will not stay in the same place forever, waiting for the embers to come to their door.
And although these demigods are not able to detect the prying eyes of Arrodus, occasionally some demigods will receive some kind of spiritual warning, so that they can quickly flee the current area.
On the other hand, the extraordinary people of these three paths are extremely good at 'concealment':
The 'Sorcer' of the 'Fortune Teller' path has advanced versions of the 'Faceling' and 'Puppet Master' abilities, and it is difficult to find once it enters the crowd.
The 'Secret Mage' of the 'Apprentice' path has the ability to teleport, and if he senses that something is wrong, he can directly teleport thousands of miles away.
And although Klein doesn't know much about the extraordinary person of the 'thief' path, he also knows that the sequence 4 demigod name of this path is 'parasite', and the other party can completely parasitize on ordinary people, and it is difficult for people to detect -
Like the poet's classmates, he is parasitic with an angel of the thief's path, whose hidden abilities are not even discovered by the goddess of the night.
In other words, if you want to lock the position of these demigods through Arodes, you must keep Arodes staring at them at all times.
But this is not possible.
Because Arodus would attract the gaze of certain beings every time he appeared, Klein did not dare to use Arodus for a long time at all, and he would not ask him more than 2 minutes at a time.
And by the time these two minutes had passed, the demigods had already disappeared without a trace.
Therefore, Klein can only determine the location of these demigods through Arodes, so as to lock the whereabouts of these demigods in reality.
Klein explained the reason in detail, and then added:
"The bad news is that there is only one qualified demigod in the entire Bakerland region."
After a pause, Klein smiled again:
"The good news is that the demigod isn't in great shape, and I already have specific information about him."
Ember's expression moved slightly, if you count the secret sage of the Aurora Society, he has now gathered two demigods.
The only problem now is where to find the 'sophist' of the 'soothsayer'.
But there's no hurry, the Bloods have promised to help find it.
It shouldn't be difficult to run a network of people with blood for thousands of years.
(End of chapter)