The bishop who came to preach today is Metropolitan Pacidos Cadric of the St. Sophia neighborhood. He is a hale old man in his fifties, with a full forehead and a lush white beard. He is dressed in exquisite and elegant Orthodox clothing.
He was wearing a robe and holding a silver cross in his hand. Hearing the word "report", he immediately looked over with sharp eyes.
"Son, who do you want to accuse?" Pacidos said majestically.
"I want to report my cohabitant, who is also the mistress of my house, as well as my housekeeper, my valet, my head maid, plus other servants in my house, a total of 24 people, all of whom are evil vampires." Ah.
Sk said righteously, "They murdered my parents and kept me in the dark. Now that I have discovered their identity, I will come over and report to you immediately."
"Vampire?" Metropolitan Pacidos frowned. In the Eastern Solomon Empire, vampire extraordinary people are not the target of hunting according to the law, provided that they must be officially registered by the church and live in a designated place. Like Ask
If what is said is true, then there is no doubt that they are foreign filthy vampires that need to be cleaned up and purified.
Asker stood there and suddenly felt a glimmer of light. The glimmer of light surrounded him, as if passing through every inch of his hair and skin, with a sense of meticulous inspection. There is no doubt that this metropolitan
It is not an ordinary person, but a strong person with at least level 7 or above who has mastered the power of the law, who can use his spirituality to activate the identification aura in such a secret way.
Considering that the demon tide in the Sixth Age has just begun to rise, it means that this metropolitan is at least an ancient person born in the Fifth Age, and is at least 200 years old.
"In that case." Pacidos confirmed that the man in front of him was a pure human, and nodded cautiously and said, "I will send a team of armored holy cavalry directly under the church, and you will lead them to your mansion to complete the purification task. May you
God bless you, child."
"God bless you." Asik said solemnly immediately.
Quickly walking out of the church door, Asker saw a group of knights walking from the left. They were all wearing holy white power armor, with various sacred runes printed on the armor, and they were holding high-frequency shock swords or swords in their hands.
It's the engine that powers Warhammer.
"My dear, Alvin Gullins." The leader of the Iron Paladin Captain held up his war hammer with both hands and spoke with condescension and arrogance, "Are you the citizen who reported that there is a vampire in your house?"
"It's me." Ask said.
"Very good." The paladin captain said, "We are not as easy to talk to as the metropolitans in the church. If you are just playing mercenary games and deliberately lying about the case... the cost of one attendance of our armored paladin is enough for you to even do this.
I will lose all the money I spent on the coffin in my life."
"No problem." Ask said, "In fact, as soon as you get to my house, you will know whether what I said is true or false."
"I hope so." the paladin captain said, "I'm not sure if the people near the church are spies arranged by your vampires. Let's head to our destination quickly."
As soon as the knight soldiers walked out of the church, they immediately attracted the attention of the surrounding people. No way, these full-coverage power armors are too eye-catching, and they can feel unparalleled deterrence just by looking at them. Asker naturally understands the other party
The meaning of what he said was that he took the knights to his ancestral home at a trot, pointed inside and said:
"right here."
In the hotel room, Paige was standing in the bathroom, staring at her pale self in the mirror on the wall.
The face in the mirror is still young and beautiful, but it is less red and more pale than usual. Her lips, which were originally full and tender red, have now become dim, as if she is seriously ill.
She knew that it was caused by not drinking blood. The knowledge gained from the extraordinary traits told her that the owner of Flesh I must consume at least 2 ml of blood every day in order to maintain a youthful appearance, otherwise the appearance will quickly age.
Eventually it will turn into a living corpse.
Of course, not drinking blood is only a deterioration in appearance and has no impact on the vampire's own strength.
She took out a razor blade from the mirror cabinet, was silent for a moment, and cut her wrist hard.
Blood immediately flowed out, making her face, which was already anemic, even paler. However, after a while, the skin and flesh at the wound rolled up and bonded together, and soon it was intact as before.
I'm...not human anymore.
She came to the window in despair, hugged her slender legs, and stared out the window. The house in the distance used to be her home, but now it has been burned to rubble. Her parents are no longer there.
If they were still alive and saw their cherished daughter turned into a monster, what would their reaction be?
Suddenly she saw a group of church armored knights running straight from the opposite street and stopped in front of the ruins of her house.
Is it Ask? He reported the vampire to the church? Paige suddenly understood. It turned out to be that simple. Because she became a vampire and was afraid of the church, she didn't think about it subconsciously. In fact, even if she couldn't come forward, she could pass
Use your anonymous identity to induce others to report on your behalf, and use the power of the church to kill those vampires.
She couldn't help holding her breath and looked at the street below in the distance. The surrounding onlookers were squatting down with their heads in their hands. After all, they were citizens of the Imperial City and were used to all kinds of extraordinary events. Therefore, under the official command
They are also very cooperative.
The church knights had torn open the scroll, and a large number of identification lights lit up, covering the entire area around the house.
Among the people squatting with their heads in their hands, someone's body suddenly lit up with an unusual red light. Peggy took a closer look and found that that person was the housekeeper of Aske's family!
Before the butler could tell the difference, the nearest armored knight was chopped off with a sword on the head. The high-frequency concussive sword tore open his upper body, as smoothly as a hot knife cutting through butter. The butler's body that was chopped into two parts was still squirming.
He tried desperately to stick it together, but finally he had no choice but to stop struggling.
Asker stared at the butler's corpse. Bloody brilliance gradually gushes out from the corpse, condensing into a red drop of sticky dew on the body surface. It was the extraordinary quality of the butler who condensed into substantial flesh and blood after his death. All he had to do was take it.
By gently squeezing it, you can successfully absorb the extraordinary power of these masterless people. If you add supplementary ingredients to make a Flesh I potion and drink it, you can become a level 1 vampire.
Of course, I wouldn't do that myself.
The church knight who took action took out a box made of magic copper from his luggage. Inside was a pair of shiny yellow tweezers. He carefully picked up the dewdrop with the tweezers and solemnly put it into the box. He closed the lid and the magic
The surface of the copper box immediately lit up, as if some sealing circle had been activated.
The knight raised his head, nodded at Ask, who had been watching here, and said: "The energy that escapes after the death of a vampire is a very dangerous substance. If not handled properly, it can kill the residents of this entire neighborhood."
"I can understand, Your Excellency." Asik nodded in agreement.
Two church knights rushed to the door, picked up the engine war hammer and started to smash the door. The end of the engine war hammer was equipped with a jet device. When it was swung, it sprayed tail flames backwards. The accelerated war hammer directly smashed the door into pieces. Then the church knights
People swarmed in, and the whole house was instantly filled with all kinds of chaos, screams, roars and the sounds of steel colliding with flesh.
Less than five minutes later, the paladin captain appeared at the door of the house again. The power armor printed with sacred runes was still bright, but it was covered with red flesh, white bone marrow, and strips that looked like intestines.
The same thing. He tapped a certain rune on his body and let the magical brilliance cleanse the armor. Then he walked down the steps and said to Asker:
"They have all been purified. Including the corpse outside the door, there are 23 vampires in total. In addition, your cohabitation partner is not in the house and has become a fish that slipped through the net. I suggest you stay in the church tonight to avoid being reactive.
Revengeful harm... Women are very vengeful. I went out yesterday morning because I forgot to take out the trash, and my wife didn't even prepare dinner for me."
"Thank you for your suggestion, Your Excellency." Ask bowed and said, "But I believe that my cohabitant is not a fool. Unless I hide in the church for many years until she loses her patience, she can wait for me in a few days
Come out and take revenge. Accepting the protection of the church is not free, right?"
"As a reward for effective reporting." The knight captain was silent for a while, "The first week of asylum in the church is free for you, and you will only be charged one pound per day after that."
"Forget it then." Asik said easily, "I believe that even if I didn't hide in the church, you would have set up surveillance nearby. Maybe this vampire will expose himself faster in order to take revenge on me.
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"Of course." The knight captain nodded and said, "In that case, Mr. Asker, you are not allowed to leave this neighborhood within this month unless the target vampire exposes himself in advance."
"No problem." Ask said.
Peggy stood by the window sill, watching all this from a distance. Half an hour later, Aske returned to the hotel room.
"All the vampires are dead, except the culprit." Ask said.
"This does not complete revenge." Peggy reminded him of the soul contract in a subtle way.
"I know where she is." Ask said, "Let's go."
"The Church Knights are currently monitoring this neighborhood, right?" Peggy asked warily, "If I act with you, won't they discover me?"
"Authentication scrolls are very expensive. It is impossible for a church knight to just throw them at someone he sees." Asker said, "As long as you don't wear a mask to avoid causing unnecessary suspicion. In five days, wait for your chain mail to arrive.
Once we have the goods, we will go hunting."
"Okay." Peggy said coldly.
"Now, let's go practice first." Ask said.
On the second underground floor of the hotel, there is a training ground open to the public, including steel-cast dummies for melee warriors, mobile shooting ranges for gunners, meditation practice rooms for spellcasters, etc. Why is there a training ground below the hotel? This has to be
Mentioned the history of the Eastern Solomon Empire.
Since the beginning of the Sixth Age, with the rapid development of commerce and industry in the Eastern Solomon Empire, the quality of soldiers within the empire has also been declining rapidly. On the one hand, it is human nature to forget about danger in peace, and on the other hand, the extraordinary creatures within the empire have also become more and more sophisticated.
Come less and less.
On the Bithynia Plateau of the Anatolian Peninsula, the empire designated a large area of jungle as a "Primitive Reserve for Extraordinary Creatures" in an attempt to raise extraordinary creatures in captivity and harvest extraordinary power on a regular basis. However, the effect was not very satisfactory.
After all, extraordinary creatures still need a large amount of territory to reproduce. A low-level goblin may only need a small hill to feed his family, while a high-level cyclops needs a vast wasteland and a huge biological system to survive.
This is contrary to the civilization development needs of the empire itself. Agriculture requires a large amount of land, industry requires a large amount of minerals, and transportation requires a developed road system. As long as human society is still developing, it will inevitably encroach on the territory of extraordinary creatures. Since only extraordinary creatures can follow the devil
Drawing extraordinary power from the tide, the decrease in extraordinary creatures will inevitably lead to a decline in the quality of the empire's military resources.
Now the whole world has fallen into such a strange circle: the more powerful the civilized country is, the fewer extraordinary creatures are in its territory, so the amount of extraordinary power that people can obtain is also decreasing. Then the civilized country is defeated by the barbaric country, and the barbaric country harvests a lot of
After the wealth began to develop, the barbaric country turned into a civilized country and embarked on the path of decline again. From the ancient Cyrus city-state alliance to the ancient Solomon Republic, from the Solomon Empire to the Frankish Kingdom, to the current division of the countries, it is all the same.
In order to solve this problem, the Western Solomon Empire once chose to hire foreign mercenaries. As a result, the foreign mercenaries turned against the foreign mercenaries. The emperor was killed and the country was destroyed. The Eastern Solomon Empire learned this lesson. The late emperor Basil II of this dynasty once proposed "
The state-owned army serves as the main force, and the foreign mercenaries are responsible for attacking tough targets." This national defense policy of focusing on both sides and being tough on both sides has affected the entire Macedonian dynasty, leading to a large number of Western mercenaries coming to Constantinople in recent years to seek a living, such as now
The empire's first-class royal shield guard is the "Varangian Guard" composed of northern Norman mercenaries.
In Constantinople, if you see someone walking around wearing armor and weapons, you don’t have to think that he must be an armed mercenary. Because of this, taverns and training grounds are also particularly dense in Constantinople. The ground floor
Mercenaries can usually find an open space to vent their excess energy, and the training ground on the ground floor of this hotel is already considered a mid-range one. It is open to mercenaries who need specific training equipment for a fee.