Imperial Crown

The dark wind blew through the houses, and William felt resentful in his heart.

As a vampire, he is graceful, handsome, and powerful. As long as he doesn't see the sun, it can be said that he has no rivals at the same level.

But he just met this difficult guy Raven.

He was obviously a magician, but his reflexes were faster than those of a knight. His timing of casting spells was precise, link after link, making William feel like a fish swimming into a net, sinking deeper and deeper!

Moreover, Lei Ming obviously casts necromancy magic, so why is there no aura of death in his body?

He couldn't beat it, couldn't see through it, and couldn't understand it, so he had to run!

"Damn, why am I so unlucky!?"

The blood energy was being consumed, and William felt thirsty again. He flew between the eaves and roofs, and suddenly saw a beggar sleeping on the street.

More than 200 years ago, he would never have looked down upon this kind of blood food, but now he couldn't care less. He leaned down and grabbed it, intending to suck his blood.

"I advise you not to do this." Raven's voice came from behind, unhurriedly: "Continuing to suck blood will only make you more and more manic."

If it were anyone else, William would just think he was joking, but Raven not only defeated him head-on, but now he even caught up with him in some unknown way, and has already gained William's approval.

Moreover, he really has no energy left to fight with Raven now, and wants to know what Raven's plan is: "What do you mean by this?"

"It's very simple. I know that every time you suck blood, you will lose your mind." Raven said lightly: "I also know how to help you get rid of this state."

"Ha, do you think I'm a three-year-old child?" William looked at Raven warily and said disdainfully: "'Hemia of Thirst' is an incurable disease. Even in the ancestral land of 'Vansia', there is no solution. !”

"That's because you didn't meet me." Raven didn't care about William's attitude: "If I'm not mistaken, what you call 'blood thirst' is the sequelae caused by the inability to filter the rotten soul essence in the blood of living creatures. Right?"

"And I happen to know and master the technique of extracting the essence of rotten souls from living creatures."

With that said, Raven took out a crystal bottle from his belt, which immediately attracted William's attention, because it contained the purest essence of rotten souls.

"...Why do you want to help me?" William said.

Raven shrugged: "Put the person down first, and let's talk in another place."

"...Okay." William threw the homeless man aside, and with strong legs, he jumped onto the roof.

Raven followed closely.

Soon, the two came to a high slope, which was a famous park in Xiacheng District.

The view from the high slope is vast, the light rain has stopped, the dark clouds have dispersed, and the moonlight shines on the earth. Under the reflection of the rain, half of Meng'en City reflects a hazy silver glow.

"This is Men'en City." Raven said leisurely: "The Earl of Tyrone who rules here is a fifth-level powerhouse, and if necessary, it only takes half a day at most for a fifth-level archbishop to come here."

"If you continue to run and cannot restrain your bloodthirsty desire, even if you can get rid of me, you will only die."

William kept a suitable distance from Raven so that he could escape at any time: "But you still didn't answer, why did you help me?"

"First, to a certain extent, Meng'en City can be regarded as my territory. If you cause trouble here, it will give me a headache."

"Second, you killed 600 of my slaves, as well as my captain and crew. The economic loss was nearly 20,000 gold coins. Of course I want to take it back with interest."

William sneered: "Do you think you can conquer me?"

"It's not up to you." Raven said word by word: "Either continue to live like a beast and die like garbage; or surrender to me, so that you can continue to enjoy your long life."

"I think you are not stupid."

William was silent.

There are two ways for vampires to reproduce. One is "first embrace", that is, a vampire separates part of his blood essence and gives it to mortals.

The other is like other intelligent races, where men and women have sex.

The former are called "mongrels" and the latter are called "pure bloods."

However, due to the special physique of the vampires, the efficiency of reproducing offspring through the second method is worse than that of giant dragons. Usually, it may not be successful for hundreds of years, but they are naturally strong and have a higher status.

And William is a pure-blooded vampire!

He had long had enough of his uncontrollable bloodlust.

If not, he would not have been driven out of his ancestral land, nailed into a coffin, and sealed for more than 200 years!

"What do you need me to do?"

Raven said: "It's very simple. Come here and I will help you."

"Throw away the crossbow first!" William said.

He originally thought that Raven would refuse, but to his surprise, Raven took out the hand crossbow and threw it into the grass beside the road.

After a slight hesitation, William walked to stand in front of Raven.

Raven hesitated, took out a crystal bottle, raised his Eyes of Truth, and pointed his finger on William's eyebrows.

In fact, Raven had noticed before that this vampire was not in the right state. His moods were ups and downs, and his actions were unorganized, as if he acted entirely based on his likes and dislikes.

Vampires also have an organ that is similar to a magic core and is used to store energy. It is called a "blood core". It is supposed to contain the essence of rotten souls, but the essence of rotten souls in William's body lingers in his mind erratically. middle.

After William burst out of the Bone Maiden with blood energy, Raven found that the essence of the corrupted soul in his brain became more, and William's own sanity became weaker. He even forgot to use the weathering technique when charging.

Therefore, Raven concluded that William had been suffering from the loss of sanity.

Raven had lied to William about one thing. In fact, he had only extracted the essence of the corrupted soul from the monster eggs at most. He had never tried it on adult monsters or living people.

But fortunately, it seems to be effective at present.

And Raven's judgment was correct.

William once lived in the Slave Bay as a human, and had his own territory, castle and servants. If it weren't for the increasingly strong blood thirst disease, which aroused the fear of those around him, he would not have been sealed!

Now, with the operation of Raven's Eye of Truth, the essence of the corrupted soul in William's mind was slowly extracted, and a feeling of relief that he had never had before occupied his heart.

It was as if he had finally put down the burden in his heart, and it was as if he had completed a task before the deadline. The comfortable feeling made him almost groan!

Raven, Raven, you really have amazing abilities, but you don't look like a noble or a lord.

Do you think that this little favor can make the noble pure-blooded vampires bow down?

And most importantly, you, a magician, lost the most important distance, threw away the crossbow, and let me get close to you. This is your biggest mistake!

"Raven, your ability really makes me happy!" Just as Raven's fingers left his brow, William showed his fangs and pressed his hands on Raven's shoulders: "Now, become my descendant and serve me forever!"

Raven shook his head and sighed: "I wanted to talk to you about reason."

"Since you don't understand reason, then my lord, I can also fight!"

William's mouth curled up with a sneer. A weak magician actually won a blood in close combat...

His thoughts were in a trance at this moment.

Because he felt a huge force, it seemed that what he pressed with his hands was not Raven's shoulder, but a giant dragon that wanted to turn over.

The force bounced his hands away, and then he saw the golden light bursting out of Raven's eyes, almost melting him!

The last one was a fist that was getting bigger and bigger.

The moment the fist landed on his face, he didn't even have time to feel the pain. His vision began to deform, but he could clearly see his canine teeth being broken and smashed, and then his vision quickly opened up!

Under the moonlight, William spun and crashed into a rocky rockery. His body smashed the stone and flew out, leaving behind a long trail of dust and flesh and blood. He flew across an open space and fell to the ground with a bang!

His legs and right hand were as soft as a rag doll. William could only support his body with his broken left arm, and then he vomited a large mouthful of blood and broken internal organs with a wow!

The flesh on his back had been worn away, leaving only bones. His internal organs could even feel the wind blowing!

If it weren't for the vampire's strong vitality, an ordinary knight would have been dead long ago!

Footsteps sounded, and Raven's boots appeared in front of William. Raven shook his head: "Tsk, it seems that people still can't be kind. Since you don't want to surrender, I will have to raise you."

"I heard that the teeth, nails and blood of vampires are all very good materials."

William was trembling when he heard it. It would be better to kill him than to let him, a dignified blood clan viscount, be raised like an animal!

Raven continued to say casually: "Don't worry, it won't take too long. You destroyed my goods worth 50,000 gold coins. It's not too much to ask you to compensate ten times, right? When you produce materials worth 500,000 gold coins, I will give you a relief."

Shameless!

William spit out another mouthful of blood.

Didn't you say before that you only lost 20,000 gold coins! ?

William knew very well what the price of the materials produced by the blood clan was, because he had sold them when he was in a tight spot.

Generally speaking, the price of a third-level vampire's nail is between 130-190 gold coins, and 10 nails are 1300-1900.

Teeth are more expensive, with a fang costing about 1300 gold coins; as for blood, 1 ounce, or 30 milliliters, is worth about 10-17 gold coins.

William has about 130 ounces of blood, or about 5 kilograms.

In other words, if he wants to repay all his debts, if he only uses nails, he will need more than 3,000 nails; if he only uses teeth, he will need more than 100 sets; and if he uses blood, he will have to drain himself more than 300 times!

What kind of hell is that! ?

"I was wrong! Baron Raven!" William cried, "I was really wrong. I am willing to submit to you and do anything for you. Please don't treat me like a beast!"

Raven snorted, "Tsk, that won't do. I treated you with good intentions, but you want to enslave me and make me your descendant. Do you think I will suffer a second loss?"

"I, I am willing to sign a master-servant contract!" William said immediately, "I will always be your slave and pet!"

"Well..." Raven rubbed his chin and looked at William, "But I am an upright nobleman. It's not easy to raise a dark creature like you."

"Otherwise..."

William gritted his teeth, "I... I have a treasure to give to you!"

As he said that, he gently hit his chest, and a red gem the size of a pigeon egg grew out of his chest and fell into his hand.

After this scene, William was visibly weaker, and the speed of the wounds on his body closing was also slowing down: "... This is the treasure of our blood clan, the 'True Ancestor Blood Core'. I hope that the Baron, no, I hope that you can accept it!"

"It's this good thing!" Sikoret jumped out from nowhere, picked up the gem and jumped onto Raven's shoulder.

Reaching out to take the gem, a wonderful feeling flowed through Raven's body and mind, and then the blood vessels on his forehead suddenly beat, and his heart suddenly twitched.

Then, he clearly felt the power of the long-dormant blood curse again.

This power gathered in his palm, burning his skin, making the gem melt like a candle, and then slowly penetrate into the skin!

Crack——

A crisp sound rang out from Raven's mind.

His magic pool was broken!

The magic poured out like water, which would be a disaster for all magicians, but Raven did not feel anything wrong.

After breaking, there is rebirth.

Another dam is rising.

The difference is that before, Raven's strength had reached three stars of the third level, which means that he had filled about 30% of the magic pool. However, now, the water level has dropped to less than 10%.

The total amount of magic power has not decreased, but what has changed is the upper limit of Raven's magic power.

His magic power limit has increased to three times the previous one!

In the magic pool, the scale of the vortex is also larger, and the speed of naturally absorbing elements has also increased proportionally.

In other words, Raven's practice speed has not changed, but his magic power growth and magic power reserves are three times that of magicians of the same level!

Others can release one third-level magic, Raven can release three; others can continuously cast spells for one hour, Raven can continue for three hours!

With this magic power reserve, even if only a first-level fireball is released, it can knock the enemy unconscious!

What is a human turret! ?

However, after the joy, a new question came to Raven's mind. He lowered his head and asked, "Where did this True Ancestor Blood Core come from?"

William stammered, "I stole it from the family treasury before I was kicked out!"

Speaking of which, William was also an unlucky guy.

His father was a seventh-level vampire duke, and his mother was a fifth-level vampire marquis. Logically, he should be at least a fourth-level vampire earl.

However, after a hundred years of pregnancy, when he was born, he was only a first-level.

What's more terrible is that he was born with blood thirst. He couldn't stand not sucking blood, and sucking blood would make him lose his mind.

The combination of these two made his parents suffer from ridicule, and he couldn't raise his head.

So when he was 237 years old, which was only considered an elementary school student among the vampires, he finally couldn't stand the bullying of his tribe, stole some things from the family treasury, and sneaked on the cargo ship to Slaver Bay.

Among them was this True Ancestor Blood Core.

Now that I think about it, there should be his parents' tacit consent, otherwise, he was only a second-level baron blood clan at that time, and it would be impossible for him to hide it from others and steal things from the treasury.

The role of this True Ancestor Blood Core in William, in addition to being able to enhance his regeneration ability to a certain extent, is to store blood energy and use it when needed, but it can only store 50% of his own upper limit of blood energy, and the side effects are much greater than directly absorbing blood.

Therefore, William was more shocked than him that Raven could directly absorb the True Ancestor Blood Core!

After listening to William's story, Raven cast his eyes on Sikoret again.

Judging from the previous performance of this black cat, he must have known a lot about this True Ancestor Blood Core.

But the black cat just yawned, and then blinked innocent big eyes and stared at Raven, just like an ordinary cat.

Well, it seems that I can't ask it!

With doubts suppressed in his heart, Raven pulled out a roll of parchment from his belt, wrote a master-servant contract in detail on it, and chanted:

"Deeper than darkness, more distant than human heart, Lady of the Hidden, Lord of the Contract, knower of all secrets and history, I pray for your attention here, witness the contract before my eyes."

As the spell was chanted, the magic power aroused the mysterious power of the astral world, causing the whole parchment to tremble slightly, accompanied by a faint glow, the parchment flew into the air, and then fell down, held in Raven's palm.

The words that were originally written in ink have become as solid as engravings, and if you look closely, you can see the mysterious patterns.

After being witnessed by Lady of the Hidden, this contract has become mandatory. Once the signer violates the contract, he will be strongly sanctioned by this ancient god.

William signed his name without resistance and left his blood.

He knew that even if he resisted, it would be useless.

Shortly after the contract was signed, Weber and Mansene arrived at the scene with the security forces.

Raven asked William to find a place to hide, and then he came forward and said that he had completely dealt with the vampire, but most of his body was destroyed in the battle, leaving only an arm.

The arm was cut off from William's right hand, which was already comminuted and fractured. Anyway, with the regeneration ability of vampires, an arm would only take a month or so.

Weber and Mansene were shocked by Raven.

Especially Mansene, she knew Raven's background best.

Just two years ago, Raven was just a gangster on the streets of Mon'en City, a "little bee", but now he is a third-level magician with a magic pet!

Moreover, he actually killed a vampire viscount of the same level as a magician.

You know, vampires are swift and secretive, difficult to lock, and have all kinds of weird blood magic, so they have always been called "magic killers"!

The third-level divine magician who can restrain vampires was killed in one blow, but Raven defeated the third-level vampire despite the disadvantage. This is incredible!

When did he become so powerful! ?

"Seal off the scene on both sides and record the scene in detail." Raven said: "Don't be too anxious, the record must be detailed, after all, a priest died, and we have to explain to the Church."

The two commanders nodded in unison.

When they returned to the Chamber of Commerce headquarters, it was still dark. Raven did not sleep that night, but studied the changes in his body in a meditative way.

What is certain is that the blood core of the True Ancestor has indeed been completely integrated into his body, and in addition to the significant expansion of the magic limit, he also has the ability to see in the dark without magic.

The next morning, before breakfast, a carriage stopped outside the headquarters.

A man got off the carriage and handed a visiting card to the guard:

"Please tell Baron Raven that Earl Tyrone wants him to come to Snake Castle for a chat."

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