How much blood Murphy still had in his hands was a question that only he knew the answer to.

He didn't know what it could do, other than breaking the bloodline contract and strengthening the vampire's powers. But that's undoubtedly a good thing! Since it's a good thing, you have to stock up on it yourself.

At this point, in the face of Tracey's question, Murphy in the dark blinked and replied:

"Guess?"

"You nasty little one, your justice is asking you serious questions."

Tris was stunned for a moment.

But the relationship between the two that had just changed seemed to have returned to its previous intimacy and relaxation because of Murphy's joke, and Tracey breathed a sigh of relief in her heart, she didn't know what she was nervous about.

The Grand Duke snorted and hooked her finger at Murphy.

The two returned to the vault, where they could be separated from snooping and eavesdropping, and after Murphy closed the door, Tracy sat down in a chair and explained to him:

"I'm not coveting the source blood in your hands, Murphy, the effect of that thing's power to grant and break the contract will only work once in every vampire's long life, you and I have drunk it, and its meaning to us is only a momentary healing at a critical moment.

I ask if you have the source blood in your hands because it relates to the research I'm currently doing

Research related to your otherworldly warriors. ”

"Huh?"

Murphy looked at Tracey in surprise.

The Grand Duchess stretched out her hand to take off her crown and play with it in her hand, and stretched her body back to her lazy "waste form", she explained in a long voice:

"Actually, the study of them started when I met them, and after you taught me how to build a good relationship with them, I took the opportunity to keep them running errands, and I collected some 'specimens of psionic energy' from them.

Little Murphy, the skill you use to summon them into our world is not fundamentally different from the skill you currently use to summon that astral wolf.

They enter our world like a projection of the astral plane, and absorb the psionic factors that are separated between heaven and earth to exist for a long time, and need to be regenerated after their own psionic projection is destroyed, and this process is exactly three days.

You seem to be very good at summoning, and perhaps you can follow this path in the power mining of psionic powers.

But that's for later.

What I want to tell you is that since your Otherworldly Warriors are special 'summons', they can also be enhanced by some special skills of the summoner.

Although their forms of existence are more complex, what I can confirm through my research during this period of time is that it only takes some subtle medium to change the form of their existence in our world. ”

She looked at Murphy and announced her conclusions.

She said:

"You told me that the key to what drives your warriors to do things and realize their potential is reward, so I ask you, have you ever thought of giving them the power of the Mother of Midnight as a reward?"

"This"

Murphy clenched his fists, and he said with great excitement:

"Of course I thought about it! But they can't become vampires through the first hug, they don't have physical blood to use for the first hug. ”

"That's exactly what I'm going to tell you."

Triss stood up, and while moving the limbs of her body, which seemed to be somewhat energetic because of the return of strength, she jumped up and down in place without the majesty of the patriarch, and said to Murphy:

"We can weave psionic mediums to make them 'vampires' without having to go through the traditional first embrace! Of course, to do this, I need a very special blood sample, the kind of blood that can resonate violently with psionic energy and be integrated into it for a long time.

I had thought about using the blood of the Grand Duke of Salokdal to do this, but after realizing that you still had a lot of source blood in your hands, I had a better medium to experiment with. ”

She walked up to Murphy and held out her hand to him, saying:

"Give me some, it doesn't take much, it's enough to do repetitive experiments, my theory is complete, and after I'm ready for the ritual, one of your warriors may need to volunteer to be a test subject.

But I have to say it up front.

This test can be accompanied by certain dangers.

If their physical projection weaving process is disrupted to the point of failure and cannot be unrecovered, it means that you may lose a champion forever. ”

"I can understand the risks, and what I want to figure out is, will our experiments in this world affect their entities in the other world?"

Murphy said in a serious tone:

"This must be guaranteed! I can accept the loss of a Warrior, but I don't want these Warriors who have contributed to our cause to suffer any real harm. ”

"Of course you can guarantee it! How can what happens in the physical world affect their entities in the other world? Your psionic basics are so unreliable! ”

Triss tapped Murphy's head, rolled her eyes, and said:

"And I'm a dignified spiritual master, so I still have such a guarantee."

"Well, I'm ready to cooperate with you."

Murphy happily opened the psionic bag, took out a jar of source blood from it, and handed it to Tracy.

But the Grand Duke's eyes were staring straight at the gap between Murphy's psionic packets that had not yet closed, and the flickering source blood light inside dazzled Tracey's eyes.

After a few seconds, the new Grand Duke of the Vulture jumped on the spot in a rage and cursed:

"Good Murphy! You're emptying the pool of holy blood, aren't you? You have no less than thirty jars of Pure Blood in your bag alone, and I have enough reason to believe that there must be more Pure Source Blood hidden somewhere else in your hand!

This is a family relic! Little bastard!

Hand it over!

With it, the Blood Vulture Clan will be able to re-grow its members quickly without risk. ”

"No, I refuse, this is what I worked so hard to get, you can't take it all so harshly."

Murphy clutched his psionic bag and stepped back, saying:

"I asked Paliano, and he told me that the Blood Vulture Clan's lost pool of holy blood can be reclaimed from the mysterious origin of the Crimson Sanctuary in the 'Holy Blood Seal' starting next year! Wouldn't it be nice if you came along and got some more?

These are our private collections!

This is the Origin Relic, a true Treasure! Who doesn't want that? ”

"You, you, you! Are you going to me off? ”

Seeing that Murphy was so resolute, the new female princess stomped her feet on the spot, and no longer had the graceful and majestic demeanor that was unparalleled in the world, she said with a little anger:

"In the more than a thousand years that vampires have existed on the continent since the Holy Blood Parade, there has not been a single bastard vampire who is as disrespectful to the Origin as you are, Murphy!

I know you hate the rules and regulations of the Blood Vulture Clan, but the most basic respect for the ancient and sacred principles is something you must have, and if you hide so much blood and are known by Lord Pa Ying or other vampire patriarchs, it will be a collapse first and then a question!

We are blood vultures!

We have to play by the rules. ”

"But you are the Archduke, I am the heir of the Archduke!"

Murphy asked rhetorically:

"Isn't our word the new rule? In the past, we were marginal people and had to be oppressed by the family rules, but now we are all patriarchs and earls and we are bound by the rules, isn't everything in vain? ”

"You're young, you don't understand, these ancient rules not only bind us, but protect us."

Tracey sighed.

She no longer mentioned the matter of asking for the source blood, but shook her head helplessly and turned around, planning to pack up her things and leave her "big public tent" this time to have a good rest, and by the way, consider the events of tonight.

Murphy looked at the back of Tris packing up her things and leaving, and suddenly spoke:

"That. Tracey, I feel like I have the answer to the question of how you asked me to calm down and think about our relationship before you asked me to calm down. ”

"Huh? So fast? ”

Tracey will leave in a hurry, in addition to really going back to the experiment, in fact, there is also a little consideration to avoid being alone with Murphy during his "cooling-off period", so as not to affect his consideration of this matter again.

"I think you should have spent more time. Hmm."

Her answer was fiery lips.

When Tracey sensed something was wrong, Murphy's arm had wrapped around her slender waist and pulled her whole body towards her, and then in the dilated gaze of Trace's pupils, the young vampire who was only nineteen years old in front of her came up.

The lips of the two touched together.

At this point, there is no need for anything to answer in any language.

Murphy shows Tracy the impression he has re-established in his mind after stripping away the effects of the bond, and the final decision he has made about the relationship.

It's so sudden.

Suddenly, the Archduke of the Blood Vulture was a little at a loss.

Of all the situations she had envisioned, there didn't seem to be such an option that didn't quite fit the vampire's haze style.

This made her instinctively want to push Murphy away.

But the initial struggle soon became weak in the undisguised fiery heart of the other party, and then his own actions also became gentle in the symbolic pushing, and even catered to.

The feelings that had been accumulated in the past year or so had exploded in her heart in a violent way.

All that fills my mind at this moment is the bits and pieces of Murphy's care for her, and the almost coquettish banter when the two are occasionally intimate.

The two beings with complicated relationships embraced each other in this golden place, their lips and teeth intersecting and answering the passage of time with arms and kisses, until Trace's tongue clumsily fit into Murphy's lips and teeth, and she suddenly woke up.

Scald!

What are you doing?

Her struggles became violent again, and Murphy felt the change and let go of her quite gently.

He is not one of those little virgins who are anxious, and the life of more than forty years in the past and present lives together is enough for him to become gentle and considerate at this time.

"That's my answer."

Murphy wiped the blood from his lips.

Trissy's kissing experience can't be said to be clumsy, it can be said that there is no at all, to put it mildly, he just felt like a little fragrant pig was gnawing on the mouth when Trisy was emotional.

No tricks at all.

It's all feelings

In the complicated gaze of Tracey's eyes, Murphy ruffled his long, somewhat messy hair, and said to her:

"I thought that after shutting off the influence of the bond, I wouldn't be as lost in your style as the bloodborn's pursuit of the Lord's affection, but it turns out that I seem to be thinking a little bit about it, after all, it doesn't make sense to be tempted."

At this time, Murphy remembered the words that the other party told him when he said goodbye to Revenor before, and pressed the deepest part of this body's heart, so Murphy naturally said it:

"Tracey, I admit it's a bit obscene, but in the more than a year I've been taking care of you, my purpose is not to simply connect the contract and not affect my feelings for you, but to use that mysterious power to rationalize the attachment and pursuit of this young man.

So after its effects were removed, I was finally able to calmly examine how I felt about you.

Then I realized that I hadn't changed all along, especially in the last month or so, and of course, we really haven't gotten to the point where we can appeal to it as 'like' or 'love'.

But I can't deny that I do have a deep affection for you, which is different from that of other ladies.

And judging by your reaction just now

I'm honored to say that you seem to me as well. ”

"It's not like that!"

Tracey covered her cheeks, which were a little hot, and she said in a pale tone:

"You're just too young to understand the way the Immortals treat feelings, you can't transform the outburst of feelings into such a radical relationship in such a short period of time like a human being"

"But beneath the vampire exterior, I have a human soul!"

Murphy complained helplessly in his heart.

He also wanted to explain.

But Tracey took a deep breath to calm herself, and she reached out to touch the scar on her neck, and said to Murphy with a low sadness:

"And, most importantly, you don't know me, little Murphy, all you know is that Tracey, the wreck, who has lost her power and had to give up all her ambition and malice in peace.

You don't understand what kind of monster the crazy and vicious Scarlet Witch was in the first half of my life.

This scar is the hard lesson she left me.

You don't know."

Tracy looked at Murphy, she hesitated, bit her lip and said:

"As I told you before, I came up with the crazy plan that Sarokdal devised for Phimis, perhaps it was just my crazy conjecture at the time, but Sarokdal turned it into reality by learning some mysterious subspace knowledge in a more radical way than I did.

And that was just one of the many wrong things I did in my crazy times.

Murphy, that's what I'm trying to say.

After you really know me, you will fear me, stay away from me, and even be hostile to me.

The Scarlet Witch doesn't fit in with you

I used to be able to convince myself that that crazy and vicious bastard had been completely buried by me when I was weak, but now that the power has returned, maybe that ghost will reappear. ”

She grabbed the braid on her chest, and the worry in her words was undisguised.

But Murphy shook his head and stepped forward, gently and dexterously unraveling her hair braids in response to Tracey's stiff body, and turning her back into the long hair shawl she had before, covering the corners of her bewitching eyes.

"It's much more pleasing to the eye."

Murphy took a gentlemanly step back, looked up and down, and said to Tracey with satisfaction:

"Your past is a trouble that you need to deal with yourself, I don't participate in it and I don't care, as long as you don't want to destroy the world, I think I can accept it, and even if you really want to destroy the world, I can smile and hand you the torch that lights the world if necessary.

The distinction between good and evil, light and darkness doesn't mean much to me, I yearn for a kind of freedom that you may not understand, and I am sure that the perception of the world is not the same in your eyes and mine.

You have your madness, and I have mine.

After all, what vampire doesn't have some innocuous little secret in his heart?

Besides, we vampires have always had a long life, so don't jump to conclusions so early, and we're not here to make a lifelong decision, but there's a lot more to be done after we have a good impression of each other.

Believe me, Miss Trissy, I'm not such a casual person when it comes to feelings.

I don't think you are either. ”

"What the hell is this called?"

Tracey scolded dissatisfiedly:

"I'm 432 years older than you! Would you like to be respectful to me? ”

"Alright, Lady Trissy."

Murphy shrugged his shoulders, and confided in him that he was happy, and took Tracey's hand as he had done before, and said:

"Do you want to go back together? It's not my style to let ladies walk alone at night, and given that I'm trying to win your affection, I should probably behave more gentlemanly? ”

"Poor mouth."

Tracey rolled her eyes, calming her mind.

She rolled her eyes and said:

"Carry me!"

"Huh?"

Murphy looked at her in surprise, and that blank look said everything.

I used to carry you out of the city because you were about to hang up at that time, but now you are a gold-level psionic master, and your wings are three times bigger than mine! So, are you so lazy that you don't even want to walk?

"Count Cadman! Carry your Grand Duke back to the camp, I am tired tonight and frightened by your crazy speech, and now I am too lazy to walk or fly.

This is the Grand Duke's order!

Your Excellency Lord Cadman, you don't want to be severely punished by your superiors for refusing the Grand Duke's orders, do you? ”

Tracey said as she played with her serenade cane.

A few minutes later, Murphy left the Vulture Corridor through the secret passage with Tracey on his back, and the intimacy of the new Grand Duchess and Earl Cadman was seen from the outside.

Murphy walked briskly over the water and waterfall of the underground cavern, and in the dark night, Lady Tracey comfortably rubbed Murphy's back, then stuck to it and closed her eyes.

I always feel that this strange relationship will become quite troublesome if it goes any further, besides, does this young man Murphy know what love is?

What better could he know than himself, a vampire ancient who was almost 500 years old?

Therefore, it is better to maintain this comfortable distance between the two of you for the time being, and those troubles will be talked about later.

She thought so, as if convincing herself.

As Murphy carried her on her back and jumped down the waterfall and glided into the darkness, Tracey quietly touched her lips, where there seemed to be a little warmth from the intense kiss just now, and Murphy's gentlemanly hand left an equally unsettling temperature on her waist.

That's a temperature that makes a vampire panic even more than the scorching sun.

"Tris!"

She said to herself in her heart:

"You're such a coward."

(End of chapter)