Grand Duke Shani had never imagined that she would come to Transcia one day.

After all, in countless times in the past, Transcia rarely represented anything good, but since the appearance of Murphy and the rebuilding of the Blood Vulture Clan, Grand Duke Shani has been here three times in just two months.

This made her wonder if there was really something "unclean" in the ghost place of Translancia?

But if you think about it, isn't the most unclean thing that exists in this land the vampire itself? Could there be anything strange here that transcends the nature of vampires on a level of evil and depravity?

No way!

Is there really such an evil thing on this continent?

Grand Duke Shani pondered this question.

She was so serious that when Murphy and Tracey walked into the drawing-room, the beautiful Grand Duke with her twin braids resembling Jamie was still immersed in her thoughts.

Of course, both Tracey and Murphy knew that it was just Shanee pretending.

As a gold-rank vampire assassin, it would be truly strange if she didn't even have the slightest vigilance.

"Everybody's busy, so let's get straight to the point."

After taking his seat, Murphy took the initiative to speak:

"Did you find anything noteworthy in your handling of the Thieves' Guild in Bernie City?"

"Yes, and a lot."

Archduke Charni played with the braid of her blonde hair, and she leaned back in her chair in a relaxed position, her pretty eyes swaying back and forth between Murphy and Tracey, and then said with a smile:

"But I can't tell you. To put it more bluntly, I don't want to tell you unless I can confirm that you are actually on my side.

I mean, I can't stand with the fools and the weak in the face of the twilight problem, and whatever you belong to, it will leave me and my clan wiped clean by the danger. ”

"Huh? You mean, we still have to prove our abilities to you first? ”

Triss replied very unhappily:

"Say what you want, leave if you don't want to, you've proven that you're alone and in desperate need of help in this regard.

Shani, stop pretending!

If even Lord Pa Ying needs to take Dusk seriously, then we Blood Grand Dukes have even more reason to be united.

It's not for you or me, or our clan and subordinates.

It's for something more profound.

While the peace of the world and the quest for an existential future may seem magical from the lips of vampires, if you really know what the Twilight believers want, you should know what I'm talking about. ”

"Sharp teeth."

Xia Ni snorted and said quite lightly:

"Speech has become so flexible, it seems that little Murphy has been blessed lately."

"Hey! Is this what you, the Grand Duke of the Blood Clan, should say? You, the Grand Duke of the Blood Clan, who was born in a royal family, have always been decent? ”

Tracey's anger out of her mind.

Apparently understanding the hidden obscenity in Shanny's words, she jumped up like an enraged lynx, and was pressed back into her chair by Murphy, who couldn't stand it.

What the hell is going on with these two women!

Why is the scene so hot every time they meet? Could this be the rivalry between the legendary beauties?

"Get down to business! Lady Shane. ”

Murphy soothed the angry Tracey and immediately took over the conversation, and he said very seriously:

"If you're just here to provoke or spread some meaningless and vicious gossip, then I can only ask you to go back.

As for any nonsense to prove ability, Lord Pa Ying approved of our pursuit and sent us assistants on the way, I don't think it is up to you to judge whether the Blood Vulture Clan is qualified to participate in the pursuit of Dusk.

Tell me, what did you find in the Thieves' Guild? ”

In the face of the Pa Ying Venerable Lord raised by Murphy, Grand Duke Xia Ni had no way to refute it.

She could only pout her lips, and then said in a deep voice:

"Corrosion!

Terrible, pervasive, almost impossible to clean up the corrosion and depravity.

The Thieves' Guild in Bonie City has a total of 371 people, which is not much, after all, it is only a stronghold in a remote place, far from the size of their Grand Guild in Borean Castle, but at least two-thirds of these 371 people have become followers of puppets and evil creatures.

If I hadn't personally presided over the cleanup there, relying only on the heirs of the Thorn Clan stationed in Bonie City, I am afraid that this wave would have overturned.

I heard you caught a spider?

It's fantastic.

Because I killed twenty-seven spider demons with my own hands in the Thieves' Guild Castle in Bernie City, it's really terrible! Before we could break through, the lunatics who were released slaughtered almost all the rebels.

The Thieves' Guild's stronghold in the Kafhoka region could have been wiped out, one of the worst losses in the guild's three hundred and fifty years.

Even in the Black Plague, those cunning guys have never been so miserable. ”

"Then here's the problem."

Murphy and Tracy looked at each other, leaned forward, and asked:

"What exactly do the Twilight believers want? What do they want from the Thieves' Guild? Don't tell me, you overthrew an entire colony and didn't even find out about it? ”

"That's what I'm here to explain to you today."

Shani's tone became serious, and she said:

"You probably can't understand the threat to my strategy from your sudden intervention, I was aware of the fall of the Thieves' Guild in Bernie City before, and I intended to keep them to get more clues through observation and tracking, but your pursuit of the Snegov family directly alarmed them.

This has irretrievably slipped to this point.

I'm not accusing you of being reckless, but the truth is, since the Blood Vulture Clan has never been good at stealth operations, don't pretend to be assassins or stalkers.

If I hadn't intervened in time, the situation would have been even worse this time!

Even to provoke a terrible massacre and panic in the city of Bernie, I hope you will give me a breath of air before the next operation, so that I can be prepared. ”

"Hah, another idiot trying to get the truth out of the mud! Another confident person who tries to get his hands dirty to hunt down the murderer. ”

Tracey immediately replied:

"Do you know who the last person to do that was? The last White Knight Sage of the Church of Avalon, Old Finoch Lawson, made the same choice as you.

He tries to join Twilight to get their core secret, but guess what happens to him? ”

Seeing Xia Ni's shocked expression, Murphy also sighed and said:

"Old Finock told us before he died that we must not spy on the enemy at dusk by this way of penetrating into the enemy's interior, because that is what they want you to do.

Old Finok was able to stay awake at the last moments thanks to the blessing of the god Avalon, but we vampires don't have a god to protect us.

Therefore, Lady Shane, stop your act of sending you to death.

You think you're a shrewd hunter, but you're actually the prey of a trap step by step, and your actions are fundamentally wrong and risky, and you can't get the information you crave from them.

All that awaits you is to be assimilated into the same degenerate as they are.

That's a cult organization related to subspace!

I don't think you're strong enough to stand firm in the shadows of the subspace.

No!

You are a son of envy.

You have terrible darkness hidden in your heart, so you can't do it! ”

The persuasion of the two made Xia Ni hesitate for a moment.

But the Grand Duke of Thorns did not respond positively, and she turned the conversation back to the question just now, saying:

"For about five years, the Thieves' Guild in Kafhoka has been receiving orders from mysterious forces asking them to visit the homeland of all the heroes who have appeared throughout the Confederacy of Portia and to reactivate the power they have left behind.

Well, that's the 'literary' term.

The unbearable truth is that in the past five years, a group of tomb robbers under the Thieves' Guild have been digging everywhere, and what happened in the tomb of Count Sico is not an isolated case.

The tombs of ancient heroes such as Nolan the Wind Chaser, Carter the War Dog, and Huth the Savage Fighter were stolen before you captured the grave robbers, whose footprints even crossed the border into the kingdom of Nordtov at the height of the Ten Years' War.

That's when we noticed their movements.

The people behind these guys have a great appetite, and they have even been so arrogant that they have peeked into the mausoleum of the hero king Boris, my ancestor. ”

Xia Ni shook her head and said:

"I have every reason to believe that those guys aren't just doing this kind of thing in the Kafhoka region, and that the thieves' guilds in other regions must have similar orders. Unfortunately, the Thorns are only one of the founders of the Thieves' Guild, and I don't have the authority to call up the order instructions for each mission at the Thieves' Guild headquarters in Genoa.

However, based on the information I have so far, it is inferred that in the past five years, they have stolen at least 8 bones of Gold-rank heroes, and at least 35 corpses of silver-rank heroes.

I still can't understand what these guys are going to do by stealing these remains that have been weathered by time.

Performing some kind of evil ritual?

Or are you planning to use some necromancy to bring back the souls of your heroes?

But that's not how the law of Hades is exercised!

Even though my knowledge is far less than that of an old man like the Scarlet Witch who has left legends all over the continent, I know that the gates of Hades have always been guarded by the Moon Holy City of the Songhai Empire, and those Bright Moon Priests have firmly guarded the line between life and death.

Even at dusk, it is impossible to enter the plane that belongs to the dead at will, let alone such a large-scale summoning of the dead. ”

The atmosphere in the living room was calm for a while.

Shanny's expression changed slightly, as she quickly realized from the change in Tracy and Murphy's expressions that something bad was probably happening in Translancia that she didn't know about.

In her gaze, which became heavy, Murphy sighed and said:

"Your understanding of the Hades plane is obviously still in the previous version, but the situation has been updated, Lady Shani, Twilight already has a fairly complete system of undead in her hands.

Like everything that happened in the city of Sico."

He briefly told Xia Ni about the Hades army in Xike City, and the Great Duke of Thorns got up.

At this time, Xia Ni no longer had the gentle smirk of his wife's wife, but instead had a touch of anger and slight fear.

If the information she just said was true, it meant that Twilight had secretly saved up a super-luxurious Underworld Legion commander sequence consisting of at least eight Golden Necrons and 35 Silver Necrons for them during the five years of tomb robbing.

It is no exaggeration to say that the deterrence formed by these strong men alone is enough to make a vampire family like the Thorn Clan retreat.

Damn, a vampire family only has one or two golden powerhouses at most, and there are eight over there!

Although the strength of a character of this level must have decreased after being resurrected, but you can't say that you are a tiger or not just this number, right? With the fact that Lord Pa Ying and the Blood Alliance clan do not participate in the war, this is enough to single-handedly fight the vampire civilization that is now in decline as a whole, right?

"I have to go to the Thieves' Guild headquarters!"

Shani is a decisive person.

Realizing that the situation was out of her control, she immediately made the decision:

"I will compile and list the remains of heroes and powerhouses that have been stolen over the years as quickly as possible, and I will share this information with you later.

In addition, I will personally report this matter to Lord Pa Ying.

However, based on what you just said, that 'source' is clearly not in the same league as the Shadow Elf cultists involved in the Thieves' Guild, which means that we now have two different factions under the forces of Twilight? ”

"Three!"

Murphy looked up and said:

"There is also the 'Wolf Vulture' faction led by Lady Cecilia, which can be identified as the Twilight Force, and she is currently hiding in Greene Island, under the system of the Wolf Venom Clan. Maybe it's a wedge that dusk drives into the interior of vampire civilization. ”

"Didn't you report it?"

Shani asked:

"Lord Pa Ying just allowed such an unstable factor to exist in our race?"

"I told the Lord as soon as I could, but he told me I didn't have to care."

Murphy sighed helplessly and said:

"I guess it's a game of the ancients, and he and old Edward must have a plan against Lady Cecilia, but I don't know if they're going to get away with it.

To be honest, I'm pessimistic about this.

However, since the Venerable Lord has opened up the relationship with the Moon Holy City, it means that we don't have to worry too much about the undead legion.

There will be a thick enough golden thigh to reach for us to carry it. ”

"That's enough!"

Xia Ni will become "dignified" again, and she will not see the arrogance when she opened her yellow tone with Tracy just now, she snorted, waved her hand and said:

"It's unseemly to talk about, but I have to admit that you have gained no less than I have gained in tracking Twilight, so I approve of you.

We can deepen our cooperation in this area in the future.

However, in the current situation of the approaching black plague, the tracking of dusk is destined to be placed in second place, if we can't withstand the black plague, no matter how troublesome dusk is, it is not a problem we need to consider. ”

"Your idea"

Murphy was even more helpless.

He didn't even bother to speak, and Tracey leaned back in her chair and sneered in a long voice:

"Xia Ni, Xia Ni, when you are smart, people want to twist your head off, but when you are stupid, your poor brain is probably not as big as the two lumps of flesh on your chest. Why don't you want to think about it, if this black plague is also one of the plans that Dusk uses to destroy the world? ”

“？”

This statement made Grand Duke Xia Ni not even have time to get angry, she stared at Triss and said:

"It can't be! Twilight appears for a maximum of a hundred years! But the existence of the Black Plague is far away from this time. ”

"What's impossible? The gnolls couldn't conquer the continent after four attempts, so in order to win, was it incomprehensible that those barbarians and cultists should cooperate? ”

Tracey snorted and said:

"In fact, just under the noses of the Krimu Fortress that you now control, there is a clan of Gnoll Warlocks hiding in the filthy swamp.

The spells they use are all from the bounty of dusk.

My little Murphy is about to launch a clean-up operation for the filthy swamp, and if you don't believe me, we can give you a chance to get in on the action and see with your own eyes.

Then you will know that the Black Plague is just a matter of immediate trouble, and twilight. It's a terrifying threat that will drag everyone to hell.

Shani, I'm not praying for you.

The current fact is that the Holy Blood Alliance that we agreed to deal with the Wolf Venom Clan before seems to have to add one more. ”

"We can form an anti-twilight group."

Murphy proposed:

"The common enemy that comes before us is not a threat that the Blood Vulture or the Thorn Clan can deal with alone, we must work together.

I believe that this is what Lord Pa Ying wants to see.

If you agree, I can share more information about Twilight, such as the name of the subspace shadows that stand behind this cultist."

"You even know this?"

Grand Duke Charni was genuinely shocked by Murphy and Tracy's intelligence-gathering abilities, and said:

"How the hell did you do that? With the current level of rebuilding of the Blood Vulture Clan, you simply don't have that much energy to get so many things done at the same time.

You must have a secret! ”

"Our secret is our warrior."

Murphy stood up and said with a smile:

"I told you when we first met, Lady Shane, that you should value my warriors, who are all 'children of miracles'. Why don't you open up the prestige of the Thorn Clan further and give my warriors a try?

How about a prestige location in the Crimean Fortress?

Give my warriors the freedom to enter that fortress and earn in it the right to serve you and exchange them for your unique items.

I am sure that you and your people will soon be able to see their true potential.

If I'm not satisfied, I can return it. ”

(End of chapter)