"The Blood Demon Order! Zachary! You actually took refuge in the Blood Demon Order!"
Looking at the iconic devil's eye mask, Count Jurst was shocked and angry.
The Bloodborn captain unnaturally looked away, stepped aside with the other crew members, and made way for them.
In the sky, the majestic black dragon slowly landed on the deck, its body shrinking continuously.
The blood demon cultivator in black robes jumped off the dragon's back, walked slowly to the completely exhausted Earl of Yurst, and looked at him condescendingly.
The scarlet eyes were a bit playful, and the voice under the mask was slightly hoarse:
"Yourst Ness, one of the fourth generation blood descendants of the Ness clan, holds the rank of earl."
"One of the ten great dukes of the Ness clan - a crony of Duke Yorock, the person directly responsible for the Return to the Star Plan. However... because he was addicted to the study of magic inscriptions, he often acted as a hands-off shopkeeper, so that the execution of the Return to the Star Plan was bloody.
The descendants fought on their own, and their efficiency was impressive..."
Listening to the other party exposing all his old background, Yurst's face turned blue and white.
He gritted his teeth and said angrily:
"You bastard from Sherdet! Are you trying to start a war by interfering in my affairs with Ness?!"
The Blood Demon Cultist chuckled lightly and said:
"Starting a war? Oh, of course not."
"To be more precise, my dear Lord Earl, we Sherdit... are obviously allies of Ness!"
As he spoke, he licked his lips under the mask, and his pupils were filled with heat:
"I have never owned a count-level blood servant. Today... I might be able to try it."
After finishing speaking, the Blood Demon Cultist gently raised his right hand and raised a black staff. Dark red light gradually condensed on the staff.
Feeling the pressure coming from his bloodline, Earl Yurst's expression changed slightly.
However, just when the Blood Demon Cultist was about to release the spell, the Blood Captain Zachary took a step forward and stood in front of Yurst:
"Special envoy, the Duke has an order. How to deal with the conservatives is an internal matter of the blood descendants of Ness. Even if we cooperate, Shedite cannot interfere, let alone use the blood-blaspheming staff against me, Ness!"
The Blood Demon Cultist stopped and looked at him steadily with his scarlet eyes. After a moment, he chuckled:
"Since it is the Duke's order, then I will naturally abide by it. This Earl...leave it to the Duke to try the new holy staff."
After saying that, he slowly took back his scepter and looked at Yurst with some pity.
Duke...my lord?
Yurst was stunned.
A bright light flashed in his mind, and a familiar figure faintly appeared.
Yurst's expression changed slightly.
He wanted to say something, but the side effects of the trauma to his mental force field made him increasingly dizzy, and even the phantom poison in his body completely exploded as his strength weakened.
In the end, he fainted directly...
…
Yurst didn't know how long he had been unconscious.
When he woke up, the mental pain was over and the phantom poison in his body had disappeared.
Remembering the attack he suffered before he fell into coma, Yurst quickly sat up and found himself in a dark room.
"you're awake."
An old and gentle voice sounded, attracting Yurst's attention.
He looked up and saw an old man wearing aristocratic robes sitting behind a desk not far away under the candlelight, looking through the parchment in his hand.
The shadow covered the old man's appearance, and Yurst couldn't see the other man's face clearly, but under the candlelight, he could clearly see the parchment on the desk.
It was none other than the handwriting he had written in the middle of the boat!
Yurst looked stern and quickly reached out to touch his arms.
And sure enough, the handwriting he put in his arms, the communication crystal used for daily communication with Duke Yorock, and the storage equipment for storing daily necessities and magic equipment were all missing.
"No need to look for it anymore, I have collected all your things. Of course, if you cooperate, I will return them to you soon."
The old man slowly put down the parchment and said calmly.
The candlelight flickered slightly, clearly illuminating his appearance behind the parchment.
After seeing his appearance clearly, Earl Yurst's expression suddenly changed.
Because that person was none other than one of the standing elders of the Ness Clan Presbyterian Council, another older third-generation blood-dwelling Duke who Duke Yorok didn’t deal with very much on weekdays—Maxim Ness.
"Elder Maxim?! It's actually you!"
"You...really haven't given up on cooperating with the Blood Demon Cult!"
"What on earth do you want to do? You want to kidnap me... Do you want to completely break with Lord Yorock?!"
Earl Jurst said angrily.
Elder Maxim looked at him lightly and chuckled:
"Haha, break up? My relationship with Yorock has never been good, so why should we break up?"
"Then why did you attack me? Aren't you afraid of arousing the wrath of the Great Elder by uniting with the Blood Demon Cult to attack the blood descendants of the same race? By destroying the negotiation plan between the Duke and Castel, you are trying to destroy Guixing
Any plan?"
Earl Jurst continued to speak angrily.
Elder Maxim smiled lightly and said:
"Yourst, you don't need to trick me. I have spent more time lifting the lid of the coffin than you have spent sleeping. Put away your little temptation. The title of Great Elder cannot suppress me.
"
"As for ruining the Return to Star Project... Haha, it is Yorock who will ruin the Return to Star Project and Ness. As for me... I am seriously considering the future of Ness."
"Hmph, negotiating with Castel, what a waste of his imagination! He really seems to be getting better and better, and he would put his hope on an illusory 'god' who doesn't know whether it is real or fake!"
Yurst's eyes widened:
"Are you... crazy? All of Lord Yorock's actions are approved by the Council of Elders and observed by the Great Elder!"
"Are you... questioning the Presbyterian Council and the Grand Elder?!"
Elder Maxim looked at him lightly and said meaningfully:
"Oh? The great elder's observation?"
"Yulst, let me tell you a secret that even your Lord Duke doesn't know."
"Our Great Elder, you have not heard the voice of the gods for nearly five hundred years."
"Succeeding is also the dependent of the gods, and failure is also the dependent of the gods. As a dependent of the gods... he actually no longer has the power to observe and grasp."
The Great Elder... no longer has the power to watch?
No! Wait... Great Elder, he hasn't heard the voice of the gods for hundreds of years?!
Yurst's eyes widened.
As if he thought of something, his face gradually turned pale.
Seeing his appearance, Elder Maxim said meaningfully:
"It seems that you have already thought of it."
"That's right...the gods we serve may have fallen into true 'eternal sleep'."
Sorry, today is short again.
I don’t know if other people have this situation, or if it’s just my personal situation. After the COVID-19, my energy has obviously decreased a lot, and my brain thinking about the plot has become slower than before.
If I were working full-time, it might not have much of an impact, just spending more time coding. But I am working part-time, and recently a colleague in the department had a baby and asked for leave. Now I am doing the work of two people, which is very tiring, causing me to spend every night I don't have enough energy after I get home.
The instability of updates also started in December. The main reason is actually that my colleagues at the workplace have taken leave, and after months of lockdown, I have accumulated a lot of work to do. Now I am picking up the work of two people.
I really want to keep a steady update of big chapters every day, but really, my energy has been too limited recently. I used to have the energy to play games after finishing writing, but now it’s hard to maintain full attendance. After I finish writing, I just want to sleep. The grass in the game has grown tall and tall.
No one wants to struggle with money. I also want to update more, especially now that I am also short of money, but I am really powerless recently.
too difficult.
If I think it's short, you can support me. I'm really, really sorry.