169 Dekan Strongly Condemns Morion
Morion was leisurely fabricating lies.
He and Countess Lislinna were as bold in speaking as they were in listening.
“Rebirth Church?”
Countess Lislinna was slightly puzzled; she hadn’t heard of such an organization in all her years.
“Hehe, have you been outside for all these years and yet your intelligence is not as well-informed as mine, a bloodline sealed for a hundred years?”
Morion’s chin slightly tilted upwards, his voice turning a little colder.
“No! My Lord Marquis! I have already done my utmost to save you, please believe in my efforts! I truly have not uncovered any traces of this organization!”
Lislinna’s hand rested on her chest, her expression toward Morion filled with sincerity and sorrow.
“…”
Morion seemed to have intended to say something, but sighed as if he couldn’t bear to proceed further.
“Sorry, Lislinna, my nerves are too tight. I know you are the only blood relative I can trust in the world today.”
Morion spoke with some self-reproach, the coldness in his eyes subsiding slightly, revealing a tenderness that didn’t seem to belong to the cold Marquis.
But soon, he returned to his icy expression as if trying to conceal the feelings he had just exposed.
However, Countess Lislinna had noticed all of this.
Her heartbeat in the quiet night seemed to become clearer.
“My Lord, I shall no longer doubt any of your words.”
After a while, Lislinna knelt down before Morion, her head deeply bowed as she spoke.
“No, your caution is right. Humans are too cunning. A moment of carelessness and we might fall into their traps.”
Morion seemed to be getting more and more into his act, to the point where Dekan couldn’t help but glance at him.
For a moment, Dekan even doubted if this guy was even human anymore.
Morion slowly walked to Lislinna, kneeled slightly, and pulled her up.
“Lislinna, the Rebirth Church is undoubtedly a great enemy of our bloodline. They are a secret society originating from the southern city-states, very adept at hiding. It’s normal that you couldn’t find them.”
Upon saying this, Morion shifted his tone,
“But, I want to ask if you’ve had any unexpected gains in the city-state in the past two days?”
“Yes, I captured two humans last night and tonight respectively who were investigating us.”
Lislinna looked straight into Morion’s eyes and replied.
“Good, there are still five escapees left. Even without my prompt, you’ve successfully caught members of the Rebirth Church. Isn’t this well done?”
A shallow smile appeared at the corner of Morion’s mouth.
“I dare not…”
Although Lislinna said humble words, the joy in her tone was hard to conceal.
“Hehe, if you leave them with a breath, remember to ask them about the four words ‘Rebirth Church’. Their expressions will surely be very interesting.”
“Yes, my Lord.”
“So the specific search plan you can discuss with my followers. After all, interrogating and hunting humans are what demons like him excel at.”
Morion gestured his hand, seemingly disinterested in the current situation, walking to the window by the corridor, gazing at the barely visible moon on the horizon.
In the dim corridor, moonlight seeped through the curtains, casting Morion’s slightly pale face as if sculpted from moonlight itself.
His expression revealed a sense of pride, sadness, or perhaps profoundness.
At this moment, if someone handed him a glass of red wine, it would add even more elegance.
Dekan looked at Morion and even doubted if the guy was too engrossed in his performance.
Or perhaps Morion happened to receive a perfectly matching script…
Dekan helplessly looked towards Countess Lislinna.
Morion had dumped the work on Dekan, the next search plan still needing Dekan to explain to the Countess.
However, Dekan noticed that the Countess had no sign of rushing into planning discussions.
She was instead infatuatedly gazing at Morion’s silhouette, her face revealing nothing but admiration and affection.
The noble Vampire Count, currently looked like a lovesick young girl.
But, from what Dekan heard earlier, Lislinna seemed to have admired Marquis Roderick for ages.
After meeting the Marquis again after hundreds of years, he was still so powerful and steady.
Cold and cruel, yet occasionally showing tenderness to her.
Countess Lislinna was already completely entranced.
Dekan couldn’t help but contemplate, if following the normal strategy of the Shadow World, and if something went wrong and allowed Marquis Roderick to escape, then these two vampires could become very troublesome.
If the Shadow World quest fails, these two vampires might end up as lovers.
It was only that Morion had done evil for long, deceiving this several-hundred-year-old young girl’s feelings.
For this behavior, Dekan strongly condemned it.
“Cough, Lady Lislinna, your assistance will be required in capturing the members of the Rebirth Church.”
Dekan gracefully bowed, like a demonic butler, before he spoke.
“Alright, please continue.”
Lislinna soon snapped back to reality.
“The plan is simple. Please have your female follower pretend to be severely injured and escape in the city.”
Dekan pointed to Lislinna’s only female follower,
“Then order the city lord to send out a large number of weak knights to chase her. Once someone comes to her aid, bring them to the Lord’s residence.”
“Under the premise of not causing too much commotion, try to expand the chase as much as possible, allowing all the experts in the city-state to have a chance to discover this disturbance.”
Dekan explained his plan.
This made Countess Lislinna slightly frown.
The plan proposed by the demon follower was not much different from what she had been implementing.
It was mainly different in the first step—
Dekan chose a female Vampire Familiar as bait, and she had to act weak.
“No problem, whether we can catch more enemies tonight is up to luck.”
Countess Lislinna replied.
“Hehe, don’t worry. Even if we can’t capture all five, we shouldn’t return empty-handed; everything is in the Lord Marquis’ plan.”
“Good, then I will prepare immediately.”
Originally, Lislinna wanted to ask Dekan if there were any other backup plans, but upon hearing that it was “in Lord Marquis’ plan,” she dared not ask further no matter how curious she was.
“Do not rush to kill the humans after capturing them; interrogate them first.”
Dekan added.
After all, there was a small probability of accidentally encountering normal challengers, so it was necessary to investigate them.
“Then without delay, I’ll implement the plan and have the Lord prepare your room.”
Countess Lislinna responded.
“One room will suffice. I’m still weak, so the followers need to stay by my side.”
Morion finally spoke up.
After all, currently playing with fire at the enemy’s stronghold, the team needed to stay together for the sake of rest shifts.
