The small room is richly decorated and delicate, with an elegant palette gilt pattern on the walls, and a little dim daylight through the dark green glass windows, which casts a less pleasing shadow over the inside of the cottage.

If you know that this place is inhabited by a vampire duke disguised as a great nobleman, then this seemingly discordant shadow is not so difficult to accept.

Contrary to rumors, vampires are not inactive during the day, but the blazing sunlight makes them very uncomfortable and their strength is greatly attenuated - so they are active at night, but the more powerful the vampires, the stronger their resistance to the sun, and at the level of the duke, the effect of the sun on them is minimal, as long as they are not stupid enough to sunbathe, it is not a big problem to live in the sun like ordinary people.

Of course, vampires' habits dictate that they don't deliberately approach sunlight, and the chair in this small hall is placed in the corner of the wall, and the pale and almost transparent palm holds a wine glass, and the swaying wine reflects a pair of blue pupils, and in the center of the pupils is a pale young man kneeling on the ground.

Or rather, male vampires.

"So, Merses is dead? it's amazing you're still alive, well, it looks like you're using some tricks behind her back, my dear clown. ”

"My lord, it's Merce who is too reckless to ......"

"Shut up, coward, but ...... Well, cowardice is indeed a little bit stronger than recklessness. A bone spur poked out from his finger holding the crystal cup, and quickly retracted: "Especially for our race, clown, you have to be glad you qualified." ”

"Thank you for your forgiveness. Duncan sighed slightly.

"Forgiveness?" the Duke chuckled lowly, and Duncan shuddered at the sound of his laughter, "Verbal forgiveness is worth nothing, Joker, but I'm actually angry, and not so long ago, this anger was still urging me to kill you." ”

Duncan shuddered, his body lower.

"But a good subordinate is always hard to come by, and Merce paid for her stupidity, so I have no reason to lose another one. The Duke sighed, raised the flask with his other hand, filled the crystal cup, and the slender and hidden fingers brought the mouth of the glass to the red lips, and the red liquid slowly poured in along the small slit that opened, like cold blood: "Stand up." ”

It is not easy for a vampire to get a powerful minion, and it takes hundreds of years for a lowly vampire to rise from that weak level to the level of an earl, and it takes a certain amount of risk to directly adopt a person who already has good power as a descendant - this risk does not only include backlash, even if both parties are willing, this level of initial embracing ceremony will expose the supporter to great danger.

So a high-level vampire minion is extremely rare.

Rejoicing in his luck, Duncan straightened up.

"Oh, so you've got to do something to quell my anger. The Duke put down the crystal cup: "Tell me, what is the origin of the wizard who broke my big deal." ”

The crystal cup foot slammed on the case, the fragile cup foot could not bear the sudden collision, and it shattered immediately, the Duke frowned, and the cup disappeared with a cloud of black mist, and when she picked up another cup, Duncan's brief introduction to the wizard had already entered her ears without a word, and it also made her eyebrows lock tighter: "You mean...... This wizard has contacted the church in Tyre and sabotaged our plans. ”

"Yes. Duncan lowered his head.

"He's powerful?"

"Yes, he has at least the ability to cast the Fifth Ring Arcane, maybe even higher, and is very good at spellcasting combat. "The last one is very important, if a caster of the same arcane level has the latter one, the danger may vary several times.

Goo~

The Duke took another sip of wine, and slammed the crystal cup on the table, and in the same way, the cup could not escape the fate of shattering.

The atmosphere fell silent.

"Our plans can't be stalled because of this man. After a moment, the Duke spoke: "If the group of lunatics from the Church of Tyre, the Wizards of the Coast, and the Edmont family collide with each other because of this wizard jumping up and down in the middle, and come together to make trouble for us, this is not the scene Your Majesty wants to see." ”,

"This ......"

"Now I'm going to tell ......Your Majesty the information about this wizard," the Duke muttered for a moment, suddenly feeling that His Majesty the Night King, who had always been holding on to his whereabouts, might not be easy to act because of a wizard, she stretched out her hand and pointed at Duncan: "You go and make some trouble for him, but don't let him do the things that worry me." ”

"Yes. Duncan knew it was time for him to show his immediate boss.

As if feeling that it was not enough, the Duke looked at the outside of the screen, snapped his fingers slightly, and a female vampire walked in with seemingly slow but definitely not slow steps: "Lord Duke." ”

"This guy is called the Joker, and he's your boss from today, oh, you've got to take care of him. The Duke yawned, said childishly, and turned to Duncan again: "Oh, I hope I don't hand over my resources to a waste." ”

Duncan bowed and watched the Duke disappear into place with a black mist, and the female vampire bowed to him, "Dear Clown, I am Thallisis, is there anything I need to serve?"

The female vampire's mouth uttered a salutation that undoubtedly made Duncan feel infinitely humiliated, and he issued his first command to this new subordinate with a grim face: "Oh...... Please call me Lord Duncan. ”

"Yes, Duncan, 'Your Excellency'. The female vampire said respectfully.

The title seemed to give Duncan an incomparable sense of glory and satisfaction—for the first time in his life he had been called so respectfully, and a smile he hadn't seen in a long time appeared on his face, but it looked a little poisonous against this gloomy background.

"Lord Duncan, what should we do?" Deciding what to call each other, the female vampire Thallises asked about her next move.

"First of all?" Duncan thought for a moment, countless intrigues swirling in his heart, of course he didn't have the courage to openly oppose the wizard before he had enough strength, but he seemed to have a natural strength in disgusting people, and soon he knew what he should do: "Let's send some spies first to find out what he is doing, by the way, we can also spread some rumors......"

......

The bells of the harbor swayed and gave out a terrifying echo, and when they reached the Edmont Mansion it became a hollow gust of wind, and Nephes, lying on her stomach on the soft bed, jumped up alarmedly when she heard the sound of the wind, and her freshly arranged hair was scattered.

"Hey?" Hiccor picked up the comb that had fallen on the bed, and saw that the hair that had been finally arranged became messy under the little girl's movements, and his brow furrowed slightly, Nephis stuck out her tongue, as if she was a little embarrassed, and sat down obediently beside the girl again.

Seeing Nephiss like this, it was really difficult for Hicol to connect the little devil who was covered in blood and cut people like vegetables, with the little girl in front of him, and now Nepher looked very well-behaved, with a small head at her fiddling with and constantly blinking her eyes.

"That's it. Turning the little girl's hair into countless braids, and then wrapping them into a very cute shape, Nephis's eyes flashed, and when she saw the mirror in the corner, she gradually opened her mouth wide, and jumped back to Sheckel, hugging the girl as if she were holding Lanny—but unfortunately because of her height, she could not shrink her head into the girl's arms, and could only look at Sheckel's face with two eyes: "It's so beautiful, thank you." ”

"Nothing. She shook her head and pulled the quilt on, as if she was a little overwhelmed by Nephis's enthusiasm.

"Don't like it?". Nephies lifted her little head.

"Nope. Sicole touched the little girl's hair, and her expression became gentle: "Why do you never arrange your hair?"

"This ......" Nephes bit her finger and blinked, "Because adults always mess it up." ”

Her answer made the girl laugh, and her eyes were a little scattered, and she seemed to be distracted: "It seems that Penny likes you very much." ”

"Nope. Nephies shook her head, looking a little frustrated: "How can an adult like a child like me who has not grown up?"

"Not that kind of like. Hiccol shook his head, smiled wryly, and then froze.

"Like?" Nephies frowned, feeling a little strange, it should be a very happy thing to be loved, but why did Hiccol look so distressed?

Although she was indoctrinated with a lot of forbidden concepts, there were still some things she couldn't understand, she only knew that she loved everything about adults, and everything that went against Lord Sean was her enemy

This not simple mind is full of such simple and crude thoughts.

As for growing up, let's talk about it later.

Enjoying the warmth of the girl's arms, Nephies fell asleep groggily, often following the wizard from north to south, and she developed a unique sleeping habit - she could fall asleep quickly at any time and place, and be alert to the wind and grass, just like the hounds of the Northland.

This sleeping little face looked extremely innocent and cute, and it also infected Hiccol's mood, and at the same time fell asleep.

However, the wizard upstairs was not affected by this mood, and he was trying to reduce the anger on her face with an insincere apology in front of the angry Vika, and the source of Vika's anger was holding his calf under the wizard's feet and crying for his mother.

"Please, have mercy, don't let me see these guys again. A few days ago, the arrogant young master Claude's distorted face was full of snot and tears, he was snorting like an epilepsy, one hand tightly grabbed the wizard's calf, while desperately avoiding the two big men from the Black Sea gang at the door: "I beg you, let them disappear quickly, you can do whatever you want, don't let them look at me like this again, please." ”

He roared hoarsely, his eyelids trembled, and he seemed to be about to collapse at any moment, and the two thugs of the Black Sea Gang saw the wizard's ridiculous expression, and looked at each other, and laughed hehehe, this laughter drilled into the ears of the young master Claude, as if to evoke some unbearable memories, he screamed, rolled his eyes, and collapsed directly at the wizard's feet.

"You ...... What did you do to him?" Vika looked at her brother, her eyes reddening, as if she might shed tears at any moment.

"No, Lady Vika, we didn't abuse him, and if you don't believe it, you can examine it carefully, and your brother has no external injuries at all. One of the thugs said solemnly.

The wizard coughed dryly, and waved his hand with a slap of the eye, and the two fellows were very amused, and soon disappeared in place, and as they disappeared, as if to sense, Claude immediately came to his senses, and crawled to Vika's side, holding her head, and howling loudly.

Claude's movements undoubtedly made the wizard feel awkward, his eyelids jumped, and he took a step forward, the footsteps instantly attracted Claude's attention, he let go of Vika like a rabbit, rubbed the ground in two steps and shrank into the corner, and yelled at the wizard: "I'll give it to you, you can do whatever you want, don't come here, I'm begging you, Vika, stop him"

"Quick, Augen, find two men to help him back to rest, and by the way, go to the temple district to find a priest. As if to endure her excitement, Vika instructed the new butler to settle down her howling brother, and instead stared at the wizard's face motionless with red eyes.

"I'm sorry. Although the wizard had been mentally prepared for Vika's reaction, but he was stared at by this pair of eyes, he still felt hot on his face, with this apology, tears poured out from the red eye sockets, his hands covered his face, his body shrunk into a ball, Penny took two steps closer, hugged her neck tightly, and kept apologizing in a low voice, until it was a long time before she stopped crying, raised her head, and shook her head gently: "No need to apologize, Penny, I don't blame you for anything, really not." If I had discovered Corradi's trick earlier, this would not have happened, and I know you can't do it. ”

"This time it was a last resort, things were changing so fast that I had to act as soon as possible. The wizard couldn't help blushing a little when he said this, although the torture was a last resort, but after Claude gave in, it was indeed a bit excessive from Vika's point of view, but the wizard did not think that this practice was dispensable.

He doesn't want to cheapen this son-in-law who has suffered a lot to Vika, and he can't accept that such an unkillable fly constantly destroys his relationship with Vika, and it is of course good to be able to solve it once and for all, but it will inevitably have an impact on Vika.

Thinking of this, he frowned, and began to praise the 'education' level of the Black Sea Gang's group of thugs, and also had the idea of using it in the future, but now he couldn't express this idea publicly, just tried to please and apologize, trying to calm Vika's excitement: "If you were sober, I would never use such means." ”,

"Forget it, Penny, I don't blame you. Vika wiped her eyes, she didn't want to investigate how much water was in the wizard's statement, she also had a certain understanding of Penny, and knew that this wizard who seemed to have a gentle temper was definitely not a magnanimous fellow, with Claude's virtue, he must have suffered a lot in the hands of the wizard, and it was not difficult to guess what it would be like to see him insane.

But in the end, his life was saved, and he was indeed 'unharmed'.

She met the wizard's concerned gaze, smiled bitterly, and wiped her eyes: "Come with me." ”

The wizard's face straightened, and it was time to get down to business.

The two walked out of the small hall and through two corridors to Old Edmont's hospital room.

Compared to the 'quasi-corpse' who stepped into hell in half a breath a few days ago, the current old Edmont is still unconscious, but his face looks much better.

"After taking your medication, he looks much better. Vika stood behind the wizard who was examining Edmund's body and whispered, "I should have thought that my father's illness was a bit strange, but it turned out that it was Hoscoradis, and I always believed in the doctor they arranged. ”

"That's normal, you're responsible for all the external business of such a big clan, and it's hard to spare energy to pay attention to your family's affairs. The wizard peeked at Old Edmund's head with a visitation spell, and his eyebrows gradually raised: "What's more, they are still using their hands and feet on the forbidden area of the brain, and the magic is powerless." ”

As an organ that has a direct connection with the soul, if a person's brain is attacked by a disease, it is difficult for the magic to work on it, and as the patient's spirit becomes weaker and weaker by the disease, it becomes more and more hopeless.

The trick used by the Corradis father and son to control the old Edmont was quite heinous, it was actually a bug that was put into the brain of the old Edmont, and having seen the power of the female vampire, it was not difficult for the wizard to guess where this technology came from, and the parasite with the ability to move was obviously more difficult to deal with than ordinary diseases.

"Can it be cured?".

"I've taken out the bug. ”

For Penny, it was not difficult to find the cause of the disease, and with some knowledge of the structure of the human body and arcane techniques, it was not difficult to remove the parasite: "But his spirit had been damaged too badly by the worm, so even if the wound could heal, he would ......"

"It's hard to come to your senses?" Vica was a little dizzy again when she learned of the fate of old Edmund.

"It's fine. The wizard hurriedly held her body: "His life is no longer in danger, we just need to wait, he will wake up sooner or later." ”

"Hopefully. Vica smiled haggardly, having just recovered from the poison, and the changes of the past few days had made her a little physically and mentally exhausted: "Penny, the vampires won't let us go easily. ”

"So we have to prepare early. The wizard lifted his chin: "I'm still a little undergrounded here, well, now I have a good opportunity to expand my influence." ”

"You mean...... Wizards of the Coast?" Vika raised an eyebrow.

"Yes, the position of vice president is not important. The wizard pondered and said, "It is important to have enough say to involve the resources of the Wizards of the Coast Association in this battle, so that our capital will be more sufficient, you know, the Ruling Council does not know how far it has been eroded, and with the power of the Tyre Church and your hands alone, I am afraid it will be difficult to resist those bloodsucking guys." ”

Vika pondered for a moment, then nodded in agreement......

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