Chapter 105: That Big-Breasted Vampire’s Phantom

The Five Wastes of the Vampire Race.

Literally, it means they’re quite useless.

This woman, in the Demon God’s daughter route, could be recruited as a supporting character.

Because the number of pure-blooded vampires was small, they had a huge racial advantage.

Basically, everyone had a magic talent of at least C, not to mention vampires with noble bloodlines.

But unfortunately, the buxom Parousia was a magic idiot.

Her magic talent in the data card was only D-.

Basically, she was the shame of the vampire race, which led to her inability to use blood magic proficiently.

She had a very outstanding swordsmanship talent among the vampires.

Pure-blooded noble vampires’ swordsmanship talent was basically S- or S+.

But that was already amazing.

Most vampires were dual-wielding, and blood magic was very domineering.

As long as it caused a certain wound on the enemy, it would cause continuous bleeding damage.

But if there was no wound and blood magic was used directly to cause absolute suppression of the liquid in the body, then the magic level needed to be completely higher than the opponent’s level.

A powerful vampire’s swordsmanship talent and magic talent complemented each other.

In a team situation, as long as a teammate made the enemy bleed, then they could just use magic to suppress them.

Unfortunately, Parousia was a magic idiot.

Although there were many supporting characters that could be recruited among the vampires, the vampire empress would not allow the player to recruit a large number of pure-blooded noble vampires.

There were limitations.

And blood magic was an extremely special magic system that the heroines did not know.

They had to rely on vampires to have a countermeasure.

So in general, it was a chicken rib.

Parousia, as the best but limited foreign aid—the vampires.

Her status was extremely awkward.

The difficulty of recruiting a vampire supporting character was already high.

If the player worked hard and could recruit a vampire supporting character, it would inevitably be two out of the three main sword heroines: Sophia, Himan, and Ye Wangxue.

If that wasn’t possible, there was still Julia.

Besides, as a supporting character, the player couldn’t let her and Hall replenish magic too much.

Recruiting a swordsmanship talent of S was still S at the end of the game.

It was an investment with no growth potential, not worth it.

And her abnormal status resistance was extremely low.

She had to be accompanied by a full-blessing master like Christine at all times to ensure that Parousia’s output was not affected by abnormal statuses.

So Parousia’s attributes were directly labeled as a waste.

Players on the forums would only sharply comment—”Besides having big breasts, she’s useless.”

But in the game’s setting, Parousia wasn’t the biggest either.

There was one bigger than her.

So she really didn’t have any strength or beauty.

In the end, it could be summed up in seven words.

Not even a dog would recruit Parousia.

“Heh, you have a big mouth. Then state your name. This viscountess will leave you a complete corpse. Of course, I won’t suck your blood. The blood of an adult human male is very dirty.”

Parousia was in the shadows.

She just felt that this guy who was following her was talking very ridiculously.

This guy was around twenty years old.

A human of this age, unless they had a rare special bloodline, would at most be in their seventies.

And she, Parousia, was a level eighty vampire.

Otherwise, with her magic talent, she wouldn’t have been able to get the position of viscountess.

But to deal with a twenty-year-old human male, did she need to use blood magic?

Not at all.

If she used human years to count her age, she could be Hall’s grandmother.

“You don’t need to know my name. For your own safety, Viscountess Parousia, you should leave Saint Louis as soon as possible.”

“Heh?”

Parousia thought to herself, what does this guy mean?

But at this moment, she had finished charging up, and her vampire wings behind her back could be spread at any time.

With her super-high burst movement speed against this young human, it was simply an instant kill.

She only needed a moment to separate his head from his body.

But she was in no hurry.

She would play with him for a while.

“I know you must have met with Mandosha Flower these past few days.”

The moment these words were spoken, Parousia’s face instantly showed alarm.

How could this guy know?

“Who are you?”

“Why does Viscountess Parousia need to know who I am?”

“Did the Church find out?”

She had come with a mission, to find the princess’s contractor.

If she couldn’t find him, what face would she have to go back and face the Prince and the Empress?

But she was more worried that if the Church knew she was looking for the contractor, they would surely be able to lock down the contractor’s scope.

If the Church found him first, it would be terrible!

She had to test this person.

“You guess.”

Hall also wanted to get some information.

As a key organization in the game like the Salvation Church, the vampires could, in some ways, also determine his life and death in the game.

For example, if the vampire empress discovered that he could replenish magic, he would most likely be sucked dry, and then the vampire empress’s strength would surpass the other Demon Lords.

She would either be besieged and killed by the Demon Lords, or she would have the potential to unite the world.

In a special heroine plotline, in a certain ending of the vampire empress’s route where she sucked Hall dry, there was a huge CG of the vampire empress’s army attacking the Bal Empire, all the way to the imperial capital of Bal.

And the Bal Empire was the oldest human nation on the Western Continent.

If Saint Louis was the holy capital of the new era of humans.

Then, this was once the old capital of humans.

If the vampire empress could take it, the morale of the western demon army would skyrocket.

But the plot ended abruptly at this moment, and then the text in the game would be displayed.

In this battle, the western demon domain had put in all its effort, and all the forces had gathered in the Bal Empire.

In the end, a huge CG of the vampire empress standing in the air against the backdrop of a blood moon appeared.

Careful people could find the Demon Lords who had not allied with them on the edge of the CG.

The figures watching in the dark, and the heroines who had not been recruited were standing on the black city walls of the Bal imperial capital.

As for the outcome, the text did not say explicitly, it was all up to the player’s guess.

In addition, this ending was very easy to achieve.

After starting the vampire empress’s route, just recruit Hall to death, and then declare war on the Bal Empire, and you could achieve this ending.

But because the number of heroines recruited, and the number of allied Demon Lords in the process were different.

So there would always be people who would post their clearance screens and say, “Brothers, what do you think? Can I win with this lineup?”

Knowing that the vampire empress was very dangerous, he pretended to be mysterious, wanting to test the vampire empress’s thoughts at this moment from the side.

“I’m not guessing! I’ll catch you first, and then I’ll have ways to force you to talk!”

Parousia hated guessing and didn’t like to use her brain much.

Especially when it came to using her brain with unimportant people.

If it was with the Prince, or Her Majesty the Empress, it was fine.

For a human man, she really couldn’t be bothered to use her brain.

Then she spread her wings in the darkness and was about to flap them.

But she suddenly felt her five senses disappear, and a seven-colored rainbow light exploded in her vision.

“What?!”

“Viscountess Parousia, how about now?”

“You… you human, you’re despicable and shameless!”

“You can’t blame me. Doesn’t your viscountess’s blood sword also have a special effect? You didn’t use it yourself, how can you blame me?”

The time was three minutes later.

When the rainbow light disappeared, Hall had already placed his sword against the place where Parousia’s wings grew from her back.

If he pierced in, he would destroy the vampire’s magic circuits.

This would make her completely lose her combat power, and she would not be able to recover for a long time without special treatment.

Simply put, Hall had won.

For a player with extremely low abnormal status resistance, the five-sense-blinding effect of the Rainbow Sky Sword was simply an instant kill, so he won very easily.

And in the game, the solution to Parousia’s abnormal status problem, besides having Christine provide full-time blessing, was to have Parousia level up to ninety and learn the universal skill [Super Perception].

But unfortunately, Parousia was still some distance away from level ninety.

“To defeat a mere human, I don’t need to use my beloved sword.”

“The one who lost is you, Viscountess Parousia. You don’t want your identity to be exposed to the Holy Church, do you?”

Hall slowly approached from Parousia’s side, and before that, he made a cut on Parousia’s right little wing with his sword’s edge.

This way, Parousia, who couldn’t use her wings, also couldn’t accelerate.

The Rainbow Sky Sword he had just activated was an innate effect when he drew his sword.

He still had the active effect of the Rainbow Sky Sword and was not afraid that Parousia could escape.

Hearing this, Parousia’s waves rose and fell.

“Are you threatening me?”

“Oh, yes.”

“Who on earth are you?”

“I’m not your enemy. By the way, I have a good relationship with Mandosha.”

“You have a good relationship with Mandosha? Then you’re not a member of the Holy Church?”

…

Hall was speechless.

In the game, some characters’ intelligence was usually inversely proportional to their breast size.

Although Parousia was not brainless, she was indeed the type who often shouted “just kill them” without thinking.

“Then since you know Mandosha, why did you follow me!”

Parousia was anxious.

“I know her, but I don’t know you.”

“You’re a liar, stay away from me! You have something on you that makes me uncomfortable. That thing, stay away from me!”

“What?”

“That protruding, very hard thing.”

Parousia said through gritted teeth.

“Oh, you mean the cross?”

Hall, with his non-sword hand, lifted the cross pendant Christine had given him.

The two disproportionately sized little wings on Parousia’s back and chest trembled violently.

Was it so effective on vampires?

Although Christine’s divinity was very high, it was unlikely that she could mass-produce this kind of treasure.

To make a cross that could suppress a pure-blooded vampire would take at least a few months of free time, and the materials were not spared.

It seemed to be cut from a piece of pure white magic stone soaked in holy water.

Did she put in so much effort?

“Liar! You’re carrying such a high-divinity treasure and still say you’re a member of the Salvation Church! Only a ghost would believe you!”

Parousia wanted to curse.

She was actually being controlled by such a young human male.

And under close observation, the other party’s clothes were also those of a noble.

Human noble men were very evil, she knew.

The reason why the vampires were mortal enemies with the humans was not only because of the grudge from a thousand years ago, but also because the price of a vampire girl on the black market could even exceed that of an elf.

Not to mention a pure-blooded one.

“Aren’t you a vampire yourself?”

Hall was too lazy to continue talking nonsense with this vampire otaku and just continued, “I don’t care what your purpose is. Hurry up and notify your colleagues to leave Saint Louis together. Don’t show your face again tonight. If you’re caught by the people from the Judgment Bureau, the only thing waiting for you is cremation.”

“No, I won’t leave until I’ve completed the Prince’s mission.”

“What mission?”

“To find someone.”

“What person?”

“I’m not telling you! Even if you want to kill me or force me to do that shameful thing, I won’t tell you!”

“Oh, I’m not interested in knowing either.”

Hall was too lazy to say more.

Although Parousia’s attributes were a waste, her loyalty to the vampire queen in the game was indeed full.

“And, what colleagues? I have no colleagues at all. I’m the only one from the vampire race who came to Saint Louis this time. Don’t you dare try to trick me for other information with this!”

Facing such a frank Parousia, Hall was first speechless, and then felt it was strange.

“The person who attacked the Saintess Candidate of the Bal Empire wasn’t a vampire?”

It was precisely because he knew that this one of the five vampire wastes was qualified to attack a Saintess Candidate and succeed that he guessed there was another vampire in Saint Louis at this moment.

And to be able to succeed against a Saintess Candidate on a day like this and get away scot-free, it was probably at least a main-combatant vampire duke, but more likely a vampire prince.

And the existing vampire princes, there were only five.

In the game’s setting, two were stationed on the western border, and two were stationed on the northern and southern borders respectively.

And there was one who was always by the vampire queen’s side, giving advice.

Players jokingly called him the “little Zhuge of the vampires,” which was also Parousia’s superior.

“Of course not! What good would it do for us vampires to attack the Saintess Candidate of the Bal Empire? If we were to attack a Saintess Candidate, we would attack Christine… ah, no!”

Realizing she had let it slip, Parousia quickly covered her mouth with both hands.

She had another purpose on this trip, which was to find an opportunity to observe Christine’s current divinity, investigate Christine’s reputation in Saint Louis and the Papal State, and analyze how likely Christine was to become the next Saintess at the end of next year.

Of course, she was only responsible for collecting data and observing.

The real analysis would be done by a specialist.

“Attack Christine?”

Hall touched his chin, thinking this was a bit troublesome.

In the game, Christine encountered vampire assassins, basically in the early stages of the Saintess election.

Which was around August or September of next year.

“You can’t tell anyone else, I’ll be blamed by the Prince…”

“Fine, then you have to leave obediently tonight and not take any action. A Saintess Candidate has been attacked, and now the whole of Saint Louis, except for the underground street, probably has plainclothes officers from the Judgment Bureau everywhere.”

“I… I… I… I… I… I still have to go see Christine’s New Year’s blessing ceremony. She’ll be using her full strength then… ah, no.”

Parousia was very anxious.

She had just gone to the restaurant to get in touch with the people from the Salvation Church to find out the best observation position.

“You don’t have to worry about Christine. She’s not strong now, and she’s unlikely to be a match for your vampire queen in the future.”

Hall emphasized, “Besides, a Saintess Candidate has already been attacked. The New Year’s Eve blessing ceremony tonight is very likely to be canceled, you know?”

“You’re lying to me.”

“Can’t you use your brain?”

Parousia didn’t want to think, but after thinking about it, she felt it was indeed the case.

“Alright, then who on earth are you?”

“You don’t need to know. Anyway, you and I will not meet again.”

Hall said faintly.

Anyway, Parousia was a pure-blooded vampire and basically didn’t live in Sunset City, but in the vampire castle cluster around Sunset City.

Besides, she also had a small fiefdom.

It was unlikely that they would meet again like he would with Ye Wangxue, his fiancée.

What’s more, Parousia’s biggest impression of him tonight would probably come from the cross Christine had given him.

When he went to Sunset City to buy property, he would not wear it.

“Heh, what’s with the mystery? This viscountess isn’t interested in knowing. You human, I’ll just ask Mandosha later and I’ll know.”

Before Parousia’s voice had finished, she heard someone coming from the dark alley they had just entered.

“Oh, hello, you two are having a very elegant New Year’s Eve like this.”

Mandosha waved her hand, holding a dimly lit magic lamp, and appeared in their sight.

“Hasn’t Christine arrived yet?”

“Back to Your Majesty, not yet. Perhaps she learned that Hall has left and has gone to prepare for the blessing ceremony.”

It was already past nine-thirty in the evening.

The welcome party had entered its second half.

The noble men and women who had stayed behind were dancing to the melodious music in the hall after the tables and chairs below had been cleared.

And more people chose to come and pay their respects to Sophia before leaving.

Himan and Ye Wangxue had not left.

They were not sure if Hall would come back.

But if Hall had not returned by ten-thirty, they also planned to leave.

And Sophia was paying attention to Christine’s information.

She had originally wanted to take advantage of this party to confirm the relationship between Christine and her sister’s divinity.

But it was already this late.

She probably wouldn’t come.

She didn’t have much hope.

But at this moment, another diplomat from the Cateline Kingdom’s entourage came in from the embassy.

And approached Sophia, softly informing her of a fact.

“The Saintess Candidate of the Bal Empire was attacked by a mysterious assassin and may have to cancel the later New Year’s Eve blessing ceremony?”

“Yes, Your Majesty. This is what Saintess Candidate Brand said…”

In the Kingdom of Cateline, the Church had the least power, and the Saintess Candidate was basically in communication with the empress.

‘I see. But what on earth are the cardinals doing, to let a Saintess Candidate be attacked on a day like this? What are they going to do about next year’s Saintess election? The Saintess Candidate from the Bal Empire is mediocre…’

Sophia was a little surprised.

Moreover, the cardinals who controlled the behemoth of the Papal State had always been known for their rigor.

“I don’t know, Your Majesty. The other party is suspected to be a vampire. The relationship between the vampires and our Kingdom of Cateline is not good, and there have been wars in the early years. To ensure Your Majesty’s safety, it is better to dismiss the guests quickly and close the embassy. If that assassin gets in, it would be bad.”

“Yes, Your Majesty.”

Tarasha, who was listening on the side, deeply agreed.

At this moment, most of the men and women who had stayed behind to dance at the party were minor nobles or the young children of great nobles.

An assassin who could attack a Saintess Candidate, if they were to attack at night, it would simply be a massacre.

At that time, it would be difficult for them to protect these people or not.

Furthermore, the special magic of the vampires was that the more blood they could freely control, the stronger they would be.

These people were all blood banks for the vampire assassin.

“There is indeed this possibility, but I really don’t think it will happen now at night…”

Sophia thought for a moment.

A vampire who could attack a Saintess Candidate must have a high level, but the vampire race was a race with a long lifespan and an extremely low birth rate.

The other party was unlikely to launch a suicide attack at the party.

And the Saintess Candidate of the Bal Empire had been attacked while she was alone with her maid for the New Year’s Eve blessing ceremony.

Because she had to bathe and change clothes during that time, she would not be followed closely by the Silver Knights.

Impossible.

A vampire prince or duke would not be so reckless with their life.

If they died, it would be a major blow to the vampire race.

This was the main base of the Holy Church.

Seeing that Sophia was very sure, Tarasha did not say any more.

She respected Her Majesty’s wishes.

Besides, with Marquis Chekov, who had fought in the war, here.

The party continued in harmony.

Ye Wangxue and Himan, on the other hand, exchanged opinions on the topic of Hall.

Time passed minute by minute.

And so it came to ten-thirty.

“It seems Hall is not coming back. Cousin Himan, are you planning to leave?”

Ye Wangxue finished the red wine in her glass and felt a little bored.

“No hurry, let’s wait another ten minutes.”

“What do you think Hall is doing?”

“I’m not sure, but the minister from Cateline just came over and said something to Sophia. The Empress’s brows were tightly knitted. Something big might have happened in Saint Louis, but I wasn’t notified…”

Himan thought of the underground incident more than two months ago.

At that time, she would still be notified to go to District Six to catch Xia Kingdom spies.

But now, only Hall was taken away by the amateur investigator from the Judgment Bureau for questioning.

This proved that her ability, in the eyes of the cardinals, was no longer as good as Hall’s.

Although Himan also admitted it, she still felt a little uncomfortable when it was clear that others were also distinguishing between her and Hall.

She seemed to have been left far behind by him again, just like when they were children.

The current Hall was so much like the childhood Hall.

She should be happy that she had become excellent, but in reality, she was very depressed.

For the past three years, she had been trying to manage Hall, but Hall didn’t need her management, no matter when.

He was always like that, whether strong or not, it seemed he didn’t need it.

Himan had been thinking this way a lot lately.

She drank a glass of red wine in one gulp, trying to numb herself.

But, her constitution was [A], and she sobered up very quickly.

Unless she drank a lot, she wouldn’t get drunk.

She would just have two alluring blushes on her cheeks.

“That’s true. Let’s wait for him a little longer. If he’s not back by eleven, I’m going to the Child family to catch him.”

Ye Wangxue knew Himan would not give up.

She understood her, and she understood her.

So she continued to sit with Himan.

But soon, the venue suddenly heard Sophia shout.

“The people in the middle, get out of the way!”

Before her voice had finished, a huge arrow about three meters long, wrapped in a bloody light, flew in from outside.

The bloodline of the Winter Saintess made Sophia’s battle sense keen, and she had discovered it in advance.

A guard’s corpse was impaled on the arrow.

Sophia instantly drew the Glory of the Snow Kingdom and went up to meet it with the Eternal Winter Domain.

If she didn’t do so, there would probably be countless casualties in the hall.

This vampire assassin actually dared to launch an attack?!

Marquis Chekov also immediately drew his sword and went forward with a powerful force.

A layer of pale aura formed around him.

He and Sophia used their swords to block the tip of the huge arrow together.

The arrow couldn’t advance, but it still exploded in the hall with the corpse.

The shockwave knocked over the dancing crowd, and the scattered blood magic energy injured dozens of people.

Ye Wangxue and Himan stood up.

Tarasha, on the other hand, jumped up and supported the Sophia who had been sent flying.

“Chase!”

Sophia shouted into the night outside the hall.

Marquis Chekov, who had chased out first, then shouted.

“Your Majesty, it seems someone has gone after the assassin before us.”

But Sophia, who had chased out, suddenly felt a chill.

Because she could feel Hall’s aura hidden in this early night wind.

And this aura was much stronger than when they were in the Demon God’s Labyrinth.

“Could it be that the person chasing that assassin is Hall?”

The white-haired empress couldn’t help but mutter.