172 Dekan Starts to Exploit the Rebirth Church Believers
“Very well, my Lord Marquis.”
Countess Lislinna replied from outside the door.
She had received Morion’s approval.
The joy in Countess Lislinna’s voice was unmistakable.
But there seemed to be a tinge of disappointment as well as anticipation.
For the fact that she currently had no chance to see “Marquis Roderick,” and for the prospect of seeing “Marquis Roderick” again tonight.
She was like a lovestruck young girl.
Dekan listened to the noises and footsteps outside the door.
He was sure that this pitiful vampire, who had been completely deceived in her feelings by Morion, soon left.
Two vampire familiars were left waiting at the door.
“How should I start the fight…”
Dekan muttered.
Although during the day, the vampires could be ensured to not easily escape the mansion and bask in the sunlight.
But dealing with five blood-heavy sixth-stage vampires and Countess Lislinna inside the mansion was still too troublesome.
If only there were powerful explosives, he could blow this mansion away, and fighting vampires under the sun would be like slicing through melons and chopping vegetables.
Unfortunately, there was no such backup support here like in Tristin City.
Though explosives could be bought with money from the guild.
However, buying so many powerful explosives and then walking directly to the lord’s residence would likely not be overlooked by any knight.
Thus, the simplest way to eliminate these vampires without harming the innocent appeared to be exploiting those three prisoners.
The perfect labor force.
After all, Dekan himself did not enjoy killing and fighting personally.
He would rather sit on a fishing platform watching others fight on his behalf, if only he didn’t have to get his hands dirty.
Dekan shook his head helplessly and lightly poked Cornelia’s cheek.
“Hm?”
Cornelia opened her eyes, gazing at Dekan beside her.
“We should get to work.”
“Oh, all right.”
Cornelia quickly became alert and energetic.
Thus, the two of them put on their masks and stepped out of the room.
At this point, they had both used magical potions bought from the guild to disguise their hair into black.
After all, they did not want to give the Rebirth Church followers a chance to figure out their identities.
Even if they both wore masks, revealing even a slight bit of their abilities and showing their hair color would lead anyone who recognized them to quickly guess who they were.
“Please follow me, my lords.”
The vampire familiar dressed as a servant bowed respectfully to the pair.
Although they were all familiars of the bloodline, the levels of their masters differed, naturally making their ranks different.
Moreover, these two demons seemed to be close confidants of the marquis.
But to Countess Lislinna, they were not that important.
Hence, Dekan and Cornelia followed the two vampire familiars.
“By the way, did the enemies you captured yesterday use any magic?”
As they walked down the corridor, Dekan asked the two vampire familiars.
“They used those strange magical artifacts again.”
“Those cards?”
“Yes.”
“This is exactly the means developed by the Rebirth Church to deal with the bloodline clan, and it must be nipped in the bud!”
Dekan earnestly deceived the vampire familiar.
Then he inquired further about yesterday’s battle process.
The result nearly made Dekan laugh out loud.
The composition of the trio was too obvious.
From the descriptions of the two familiars, it was basically certain that the three captured individuals had all used the shadow-series magic cards produced by Shadow Bishop Minos.
Dekan was now starting to suspect that Minos might intentionally be trying to harm others by making the effects of the shadow series cards so distinct.
Though Minos’ cards were indeed popular among the Rebirth Church followers and had even become the mass-production standard of the church.
However, once these cards are revealed, it was almost equivalent to a self-confession of their identity.
Thus, even if ordinary people managed to seize the shadow series cards, they dared not use them lightly out of fear of being mistaken as members of the Rebirth Church.
Guided by the vampire familiar, Dekan quickly arrived at the basement under the lord’s residence.
This basement seemed particularly like a dungeon.
The faint light in the corridor flickered and was swallowed by the boundless darkness, failing to make even a ripple on the steel walls, while the heavy iron doors imbued with magic seemed like iron coffins embedded in a secluded corner, exuding a heavy oppressive feeling.
Originally, this basement was used as an emergency evacuation route for the lord.
It had now been temporarily converted into a dungeon.
When the vampire familiar opened the heavy iron door, a pungent smell of blood immediately hit the nose.
Perhaps for the vampires, this was a sweet fragrance.
But for humans, this smell was undoubtedly unbearable.
Soon, they saw the captured challengers.
The three heavily wounded prisoners were locked in shackles, their injuries severe, and some parts of their bodies were even bloody and tattered.
It was evident that they had not come out on top in their previous fierce battles with the vampire familiars.
As the vampire familiars and these challengers were both Sixth-stage, they did not dare to be complacent.
So to ensure certain victory, the vampires spared no effort.
Their lives were barely preserved.
As for the male wizard, the female warrior, and the other humans captured earlier, none of them survived the night.
But this led to the vampire familiars who had not eaten last night having to watch helplessly as these three humans were locked in the dungeon.
Terror showed on the faces of the three prisoners as they looked at the approaching silhouettes.
They were almost in despair.
“You may leave first, and wait for us at the door.”
Dekan instructed the two vampire servants.
“Very well, my lord.”
The two vampire familiars complied.
The vampires’ attitude made the three prisoners look at Dekan and Cornelia with eyes filled with even greater fear and unease.
Weren’t these vampire familiars subordinates to Countess Lislinna?
How could there be other “lords”?
Could it be that there was some hidden boss in this Shadow World?
They immediately came up with an extremely frightening guess.
Was it possible that Lord Marquis Roderick wasn’t defeated by the challengers, but rather was replaced by some more terrifying being from this shadow world?
Shadow worlds are indeed prone to linking situations.
For instance, while they were carrying out a sixth-stage shadow world mission in the southern part of the Holy Country, another timeline could see an eighth-stage shadow world mission being conducted in the northern part simultaneously.
In some shadow worlds, if by bad luck, the map and timeline align perfectly, and some wrong conditions are triggered, strong enemies from other difficulty levels might randomly intrude.
If such a situation occurs, their chances of survival would plummet from nearly zero to exactly zero.
Because the magic cards bound to their souls can be kept spiritually within their souls, they were not confiscated by the vampires.
They were waiting for the day, when the guard of the vampires is weakest, to break out.
Vampires exposed to sunlight can only exert about one-tenth of their strength.
As long as they managed to successfully escape from the mansion during the day and get outside, vampires would naturally refrain from pursuing them.
But the two new arrivals wearing bizarre masks made them feel an intense and impending threat of death.
“You foolish humans who dare to challenge the bloodline clan, are you ready to pay the appropriate price?”
Dekan said coldly.
As he spoke, he took out a small notebook from his pocket, writing on it: “You cooperate with me, I will save you.”
Then he showed it to the three prisoners.
Meanwhile, Dekan held up his Holy Ritual Church Priest Identification.
This caused the expressions of the three prisoners to become extremely surprised.
Quickly, Dekan once again wrote on the paper:
“We were originally the town’s priests and nuns, and close friends of High Priest Kevin. After the High Priest was defeated, I pretended to surrender to Countess Lislinna.”
“She thought she had mentally controlled me, but in reality, I resisted her with the power of the deity.”
“I have been lying in wait beside her, waiting for the opportunity to find someone who can discover her presence and defeat her together!”
“…”
The sudden change startled the three prisoners for a moment.
But soon, they understood the situation.
A crucial plot character had come to rescue them!
This “local” priest of the shadow world was surely the key to turning the tide in this seemingly unsolvable shadow world!
