"This is it! From here, you can go down the underground canal to the sewers of the Crimson Keep. ”

At night on the second day of the attack on the Gnoll camp, Hogg, riding a furious coyote, shrank his head and said to the vanity pioneers who followed him, beside a bay where the Cadman River flows through the Under Armour Hills:

"My people and I came out of here, but I must warn you that maybe they've discovered this place, and there's something dangerous in the third floor of the sewers."

"We know, ghouls."

The wolf venom vanguard is a tall guy, and if you look closely, you can see that this guy's face is somewhat similar to that of Jopan Makchi, who was killed by Murphy.

Especially the brutal eyes on his bearded face were exactly the same as Qiao Pan's.

He is the older half-brother of Chopan Makchi and another son of Corrando named Stander Corrando Gangero.

It is clear that although Lord Corando has been a vampire for more than thirty years, he still believes in the concept of "father and son", and in addition to his own sons, two daughters are also in his faction.

However, the two Crando sisters are still on Greeney Island to help their father take care of the territory there, and they are not involved in the operation in Translasia.

"Since you've arrived, I'm going back, huh?"

Hogg was scared.

It renders the form of a cunning but feared weak gnoll so real that the guys of the Wolf Venom Clan can even smell the terror in its heart.

This made these brutal fellows laugh with disdain.

"Go back? Where do you want to go back? ”

Stander sneered, lifted Hogg's collar and snatched it from his equally thin coyote mount, and pointed to the hidden crater not far away, saying:

"Your chieftain gave you the order to take us into the Crimson Keep to scout, how do I know you won't deliberately send us to death?

Go!

Lead the way ahead. ”

"It's not part of the agreement!"

Hogg let out a loud cry, only to be dizzy by the two slaps of a venomous huntress who pressed his claws against its neck with a sharper claw than the other clans, and said coldly:

"Either lead the way! Die or die! ”

"King Kenpot won't allow you to do that."

Hogg whined twice in great grievance, but he had no choice but to call his coyote mount to wait for him nearby, and then was coerced into taking the wolf vanguards into the passage to the sewers of the Crimson Keep again.

Its grievances are not faked.

Its fears are also real!

After all, the wolf venom vampires it came into contact with were very different from the previous members of the Blood Vulture Clan.

Even if it is difficult for the gnolls to understand what is called the "elegance" of a civilized race, it also knows that these guys around them are murderous thugs, and if they don't go their way, it will be a matter of a few claws.

And Kenpot will not turn against the wolf venom clan for the sake of himself, a "crippled scumbag".

The more this happened, the more Hogg hated these bastards.

Not only do you hate the vampire of wolf venom, but you also hate the idiot of Kenpot.

How can a big bastard like it lead a good Translantian Jackal?

If the so-called "nobles" in the Dark Mountains are just this stupid look, then it is really no wonder that the Gnolls have fought four black plagues but none of them have been able to capture the continent.

This kind of power, which is not restrained by wisdom, can only harm others and oneself!

On the other side, in the Vulture Corridor, Count André, who was discussing the plan of action with his subordinates, looked up and saw that the door to his room had been pushed open.

Lady Adele stood in the doorway and gestured to him.

The Earl of White Mountain immediately walked out of the door, and in the shadows Lady Adele whispered:

"The Pangolin's Orb signal is approaching the Crimson Keep, it should be that it is approaching here with the vanguard of wolf venom, I don't know how you are preparing, but there is no time for you to prepare.

Let's start your show. ”

"Good!"

Count André, who was at the end of the matter, took a deep breath and said to Madame Adele:

"Please tell Master Murphy that I'll be waiting for him at the Fight Club."

——

The vanguard of the Wolf Venom Clan were brutal and still hadn't shaken off their well-like aura, but they weren't stupid, and they had been very careful since Hogg took them into the underground tunnels.

The style of the Greypaw faction they belong to can be summed up simply, even in the notoriously unruly wolf venom clan, the Greypaws belong to the more "extreme" faction.

They crave expansion, they crave power, and because they are already fierce urban thugs, they have become more radical after being blessed with the never-ending fear and thirst of wolf venom blood.

The Greypaw faction has several cities of their own on Greeney Island, but they are not satisfied, and often set off actions to annex the territory of other factions, and do not like to be suppressed or controlled, which makes old Edward tired of transferring them to the mainland as the vanguard of the Wolf Venom Clan's participation in the affairs of the Plague.

The reason why Corrando was able to get the map of the wolf venom clan's defense in the Cato region was also because of this duty.

After offering their allegiance to King Louis, the Wolf Venom Clan was rewarded, and a portion of Cato was given to them as a domain, as a new stronghold on the continent for the Viva Vampires, and the elder Edward clearly intended to run it well.

Regaining a territory on the continent is of great significance to the Wolf Venom Clan, which was forced to withdraw from the continent and was even on the verge of extinction under the joint suppression of the Church of Avalon and the Tower of the Ring.

However, the Wolf Venom clan, who don't talk about inheritance, really can't understand the painstaking efforts of old Edward, and the eager Greyclaw faction has already regarded the entire Cato region as their own bag.

Especially for Corrando.

His most important job at the moment is to expand the influence of the faction, and he does not intend to confront the Dark Plague head-on, and use the demise of his faction to fulfill the duties of old Edward Sr.

A qualified member of Wolf Venom is far from that noble.

"There's an exit ahead."

Hogg, who led the way, held a torch aloft and illuminated the front at the end of the dark natural tunnel, pointing to the swirling stream of water and saying:

"You'll have to swim up on your own, I'll wait here!"

Before he could finish speaking, it was kicked into the water by the wolf venom vanguard behind it, and in desperation, it could only plop forward to avoid being drowned by the slightly turbulent water here.

The other wolf venom vampires were in no hurry to get into the water.

They waited patiently for Hogg to disappear into the water, and it took several more minutes before they crossed the underwater whirlpool under Stander's leadership.

Vampires don't like water very much, but their ability to be otherworldly creatures allows them to easily traverse this level of water resistance.

After several minutes of holding their breath for swimming, the pioneers entered the underground cavern on the third floor of the sewer.

As soon as they entered, they were disgusted by the smell that permeated the place, and a few of the good-eyed guys had already seen ghouls wandering aimlessly in and out of the walls of this honeycomb-shaped underground cavern.

"So much?"

Stander thought that there were only a few hundred ghouls under Crimson Keep, but when you look at it, there are at least a few thousand, and maybe even tens of thousands.

"You're cheating us?"

He drew his staff and sword and looked viciously at Hogg, who was huddled in front of him, and the latter said with a wince:

"As I said in advance, there are tons of ghouls here! Otherwise, how do you think we could have escaped so smoothly? We've been captured here as gladiators while being squeezed by the vulture vampires to clean them up of the scourge of ghouls, and that's how I've found this hidden path. ”

"How is this going to pass?"

A female wolf venom warrior scolded:

"There's simply no way we're going up the sewers without alerting the ghouls."

"Yes! I know a path that you can fly on! Don't you vampires have wings to fly? ”

Hogg hurriedly screamed:

"Above! Look there, there's a hole that was blown out before, and that's the passage they made when they killed the ghouls, and the ghouls around there have been cleared, and you can go up from there!

I swear!

I swear to the Lord of the Hunt!

That's the fastest way, but there's a vampire human dogleg Bloodrat Gang patrolling it, and I can't go up there!

Please!

Once they find out I'm running away, I'll be taken back into the Colosseum, and I don't want to go back. ”

No matter how threatening the warriors of the Wolf Venom Clan, Hogg was unwilling to move forward, even if he was whipped a few times, he just curled up in place.

It portrays the image of a coward very realistically.

Maybe it's not necessarily pretended?

"Judy, you stay here and watch it! The others followed me up to have a look. ”

Stander had no choice but to leave someone here to answer while the other vampires made a quick climb up the cliff of the cave.

Hogg, the bred gnolls, thought that all vampires could fly as freely as the vultures, but that was just a common misconception of midnight vampires among other people. The vampires of other clans don't have the wings to carry their weight to gallop in the dark, and the Wolf Venom Clan is especially serious in this regard.

They put all the emphasis on their muscles, making it difficult for them to glide perfectly even over short distances.

But there are gains and losses.

Other vampires of the same rank don't even want to defeat the wolf venom warriors in hand-to-hand combat, they are the muscular men of the bloodline.

The powerful force pushed them along the cliff quickly, and soon they entered the second level of the sewer with dexterous movements.

As Hogg revealed, there were Bloodrat Gang thieves patrolling here, but these ordinary humans couldn't catch vampires in the dark.

Stander used a psionic item very carefully, and after confirming that there was no large-scale detection spell in the sewers, he was relieved to disperse several of his followers and began to reconnoiter in the sewers with the vampire's keen sense of life.

He himself was very "lucky".

Soon, under the guidance of the breath of life, he approached the vicinity of the fight club at the entrance of Sewer Seven.

It was a bustling crowd as if it were a grand game, and the shouts of the Blood Servants could be heard far and wide in the sewers, and the members of the Blood Rat Gang who were supposed to be patrolling nearby even slipped away and hid to watch the game intently.

"Hey, that thorny little white face is no match for our Lord Murphy! He also dared to take the initiative to provoke, if I wanted to say it, I should scratch his face! ”

"You know!

I heard my cousin, who had joined the People's Army, secretly tell me that these hateful cubs of the Thorn Clan were spies sent by their coquettish female archduke!

We Murphy made a bet with their queen that the position of governor of Transancia would be the place, and that thorny little white face was the guy sent by the queen of the North to succeed Murphy. ”

"Huh? And what's going on? So why do you keep it? Wouldn't it be better to slaughter it directly? We Transansians are not used to the stinky problems of those northern Yankees! ”

"Can't be killed! Don't you dare to kill it, this little white face has a big background, I heard that it's a northern earl? Maybe it's their young queen's concubine.

Hey, hey, hey. ”

The whispers of a group of members of the Blood Rat Gang on the periphery made it clear to Stand, who was hiding in the dark, and as a vampire with "wolf" in their name, their hearing and perception were also a little more acute than that of other vampires.

This is determined by ethnic characteristics.

Sensing that he had received important information, Stander hesitated and ventured into the high ground of the fight club, leaning down against a broken wall to look down.

In the gladiatorial arena illuminated by gas lamps below, two young and handsome vampires are fighting to the death.

It's really a deathmatch!

There was no mercy in the attack, one with a strange claw of the night, the other with a sword that was chilling in his hand, but with the claw one was obviously more powerful, almost crushing the latter.

The latter was covered in blood, but he was not willing to retreat.

Unfortunately, will does not represent strength, and it was not too late for him to be struck on the ground by the opposite guy in the face during a surprise attack, as the victorious vulture pressed him down and left a scar on his handsome face.

This kind of injury is nothing to a vampire, they can heal scars, but being watched by so many lowly mortals is quite a terrible humiliation for a vampire.

"Arrogant Northerners, you have to obey our rules when you come to the territory of the Blood Vulture Clan!"

Murphy scolded:

"This time it's just a small lesson for you, Andrey! Next time, I'll take your eyes out and send it back to your sister!

Don't think the name of the wolf girl scares anyone!

We Transansians don't eat you! ”

The crowd next to them cheered, rejoicing at their lord's victory, but Stand, who was hiding, was heartbroken.

This thorny little white face who was just humiliated in front of everyone is actually the younger brother of the wolf girl?

That's big news!

Stander was overjoyed and was about to leave with his harvest, but in the next moment, he saw Murphy, who flapped his wings and flew into the gladiatorial arena, smugly waving to his blood servants, and beside him, a delicate and nasty female vampire flatteringly presented him with his weapon.

A staff sword.

A wolf-venom-style staff sword.

This thing made the second brother Qiao Pan's eyes widen, and he recognized that this was his brother's sword! The gray wolf head mark on the hilt of the sword cannot be faked.

It was his father's factional symbol.

"It's you!"

Stander gritted his teeth, he caught his brother's killer, this vampire named 'Murphy', a black iron bastard!

It seems that he looks like the current governor of Translasia?

The outrageous rumor is true, that a black iron vampire has taken control of the now devastated city of Transcia through rhetoric and currying favor with humans.

"Good, good"

The venomous warrior stared at Murphy as he was escorted out of the place by a few poor vampires, and he saw the humiliated vampire Count being helped out of the arena by his own minions.

He quietly followed.

The other party was a member of the Thorn Clan, and he didn't dare to follow too closely, so he could only prick up his ears to listen.

"Today's revenge, he will avenge it tomorrow!"

The little white face said sharply:

"I'm going to kill him! How dare you humiliate the bloodline of the Hero King like this! Vesta! What I let you do."

"It's all done, master."

Another negative voice replied:

"Murphy is having a headache for the gnolls warlords of the Under Mar Hills, and the assassins he sent out missed, angering them instead of burning their food.

He doesn't care about spying on us anymore.

I've stockpiled enough explosives in a few secret places in the Crimson Keep's sewers as you ordered, and if you give the order, this ridiculous Crimson Keep will be on fire.

This will be your fiefdom, my master! Today's humiliation cannot be let go casually, he will kneel in front of you and beg for your forgiveness, and you will cruelly refuse him!

Grand Duke Shane is secretly ready to do so, and if you can get rid of Murphy and his weakened Elder Trace, our people will support you in annexing it.

You will achieve your ambitions! ”

"But those gnolls."

Andrei hesitated, and his servant immediately replied:

"Their presence will leave Murphy with no time to take care of us, master, not to mention that in front of the Midnight Assassins of the Thorn Clan, they are just a warlord, and as long as there is no leader, the gnolls will scatter in a hurry!

They always do.

Don't think about them!

How to kill Murphy is the problem you need to solve urgently. ”

(End of chapter)