Chapter 143: I Will Be Loyal to You

Daniel was truly beyond saving.

Such a rapid transformation into an undead was something even Rhys had been unable to accomplish that day.

The necromantic aura mixed into this arrow could even contend with a small amount of the Demon God’s power.

At this level, unless the Starfall Feather was inserted into his body within a short period of infection, or the Saintess Candidate herself was present, he probably couldn’t be saved.

But it was unlikely now.

Daniel’s transformation into an undead was irreversible, and because the necromantic aura within was too pure.

After being turned into an undead, besides losing his sanity, his strength would only be stimulated to its maximum potential.

As a young master of a rare and large elven noble family, even if he had a good father and mother, his level cap would be a mediocre ninety.

“Parousia, finish him quickly.”

Hall didn’t care anymore.

But considering there were still enemies hidden in the dark, he did not draw the Rainbow Sky Sword, but chose the two backup adventurer-grade blades, which he had, of course, stolen from Sula.

He now had four swords.

The worst one was for everyday use, and the two adventurer-grade ones were for dual-wielding combat.

The Rainbow Sky Sword was currently inlaid with the [Holy Silver Stone], which was his trump card.

If even this couldn’t defeat them, he could only contact Mandosha Flower.

Call for the music box’s emergency support.

And with the feather of the Starfall Feather, although it couldn’t turn into a blade without Christine by his side, it could still give him at least ninety percent resistance.

It was still quite strong.

But he was very cautious.

If not all the enemies were revealed, he would not use a cheat if he could avoid it.

And today, with Parousia’s cooperation, it was not a big problem to deal with the undead Daniel.

“Oh, I see. This guy is going to become an undead puppet, right?”

Parousia’s understanding of battle was much clearer than her understanding of political schemes.

Seeing Daniel’s state, she would not have much mercy.

The blood that Hall had applied to her wings had not yet been completely absorbed, so Parousia was now full of power.

“My blood sword, manifest in my right hand.”

She began to chant a string of ancient vampire texts.

A blood sword with a rose pattern began to appear in Parousia’s hand.

The blood sword that Parousia had summoned this time was obviously much more elegant than the one she had summoned in Saint Louis.

Just from its appearance, before she had drunk Hall’s blood, her blood sword could not compare to a forged legendary-grade blade.

Now, it looked almost the same.

Then Parousia did not hesitate and directly went to cut down Daniel, whose pupils had turned grayish-purple and whose expression was crazed.

Hall did not move.

He held his dual swords and began to empty his mind.

Sensing the situation around him.

If there was only the undead Daniel, then while Parousia was holding him off, he could easily kill him with one blow of [Wind Stop] in today’s storm.

But here, there was at least another of Samigina’s confidants in the northwestern demon domain, whose status was no less than Rhys’s.

And Rhys’s level, although it was less than eighty-five, was because he had appeared too early.

If he had appeared as a boss in the mid-game of Sophia’s route, Rhys, as one of the thirteen cadres of the Salvation Church and Samigina’s confidant, after being enhanced by the Demon Lord, his level could reach ninety.

And with a large army appearing at the northwestern border town of Cateline, it would be a bit troublesome to deal with.

“Swish, swish, swish!”

Soon, a few more arrows were shot from the dense forest.

Hall immediately activated [Flash Step], and with a speed faster than those arrows, he swung his right-hand blade and cut them all down.

“It’s a pity, Flash Step is a single-sword technique and can only maintain one attack.”

Hall looked into the depths of the dense forest.

The cross that Christine had given him had gradually turned grayish-purple.

This was a sign of approaching necromancy.

“Is it inside?”

He turned to look at Parousia.

Because he couldn’t confirm if Hall would come suddenly.

If Parousia was discovered by that confidant before she had digested his blood, he was at risk of exposing his ability to replenish magic.

So at this moment, he just immediately returned to Parousia’s side and made a small cut on his arm.

“Parousia, come here.”

“What for?”

“I’ll put some blood on you.”

“Hey, hey, hey?! Don’t put it on! I want to suck it!”

Parousia was in the middle of a fierce battle with the undead Daniel, but when she heard there was Hall’s blood, she instantly lost interest.

Her mind was filled with the memory of sucking Hall’s blood in West Town that day.

‘I want to suck, I want to suck, I want to suck… I want to suck.’

The big-breasted vampire couldn’t hold it back.

But when she returned to Hall’s side and was about to bite down on the small wound, she was stopped by Hall’s hand on her smooth, large forehead.

“Stop! No sucking! You can only put it on your wings.”

“Boo hoo hoo… Hall, let me have a sip, just one sip.”

Hall’s blood was almost like a poison to her.

Super addictive.

Besides, she had never sucked anyone else’s blood before.

It was a feeling that she couldn’t get rid of from the depths of her soul.

“No, no.”

“Boo hoo hoo, just one sip, just one. This viscountess is already begging you like this.”

The desire to suck blood suppressed Parousia’s already limited rationality.

Although she was being held back by Hall’s forehead, she was still opening and closing her small mouth, wanting to suck.

Very much wanting to suck.

“Suck? You didn’t suck the blood I gave you just now, and now you want to suck? I’ll give you a chance to suck next time. Kill this undead puppet, and the mission I give you, if you can’t beat it, you can suck blood.”

The master of drawing cakes began to draw a cake.

Parousia nodded excitedly.

“Alright.”

And after Hall had applied the fresh blood to her wings, he immediately left, bypassed the undead Daniel, and went alone towards the place where the necromantic aura in the dense forest was even thicker.

At this very moment, in the city lord’s mansion of Sunset City.

Vier had personally activated the forbidden technique map left by the former forbidden technique demon lord of the western demon domain.

This forbidden technique was buried in a huge area of three hundred miles around Sunset City.

Seven hundred years ago, the battle between the Hero and that [Forbidden Technique Demon Lord] had caused this map to become ineffective.

Later, after the vampires took over, they could not completely repair it.

So the vampire empress had chosen the method of elimination.

This forbidden technique could only be used to index [non-vampire existences] within the range, and it would work successfully.

But now Prince Vier had a big headache.

This forbidden technique could not index Sula, who had used [Nature’s Concealment], nor could it index the vampires.

And it couldn’t show the specific situation.

It could only give a rough judgment.

So she had no way of determining the position now.

And the [Other Race Pursuit Order] that the vampire elites she had released were carrying was also specially used to sense the presence of powerful [non-vampires].

“It seems the other party is also a vampire.”

After confirming this fact, Prince Vier thought for a moment.

She used the magic chain to contact a certain vampire subordinate at the coming-of-age ceremony site.

“How is Princess Sula now?”

“Reporting to Your Highness, Princess Sula seems to be in trouble too. But Young Master Daniel of a certain elf noble family, considering that the kidnappers might tear up the ticket, has us pretend that we don’t know that Princess Sula is in trouble. At this time, that Young Master Daniel and Viscountess Parousia have gone out to look for people…”

As the subordinate said this, Vier couldn’t help but add some details.

“Absurd! What’s wrong with the elves? They can listen to this?”

Prince Vier’s brow was in pain.

She said, “Today is Sula’s coming-of-age ceremony in the outside world. Even if her father didn’t come, her teacher, that highest priestess, should have come. When Sula and Parousia were in danger, didn’t she notice?”

“The highest priestess left in a hurry after the banquet at noon.”

“?”

Vier was even more confused.

After that highest priestess had returned to the forest elf race nearly four years ago, she had basically been taking care of Sula.

Sula was her disciple.

Wouldn’t she wait for Sula to meet the representatives of the various races of the western demon domain at her coming-of-age ceremony today and then go back together?

She had also planned to attend the banquet to chat with the other party.

But she had left at noon.

There shouldn’t have been anything too urgent.

“Forget it.”

Vier was too lazy to dwell on it.

It was better if she went herself.

In the northern forest of Sunset City.

The water droplets accumulated on the treetops were constantly dripping.

The sound of the wind blowing through the forest and hitting the leaves echoed in Hall’s ear.

He calmed his mind and listened carefully.

He wanted to find the special feature in it.

And the necromantic reaction in the cross was even stronger.

Suddenly, a few more arrows mixed with a foul necromantic aura were shot again.

And almost at the same time, a few emerald-green arrows emitting a natural affinity aura flew out from the side, intercepting those necromantic arrows one by one.

“Mr. William, what are you doing here?”

Sula appeared from the depths of the dense forest.

As an elf princess, she could sense that the earth veins of the forest were being eroded by necromancy.

And she had sensed that someone was fighting in the forest, so she had chosen to come and provide support.

But before Hall could reply, Yekanda and his deputy appeared in the distance.

This renegade vampire noble was now showing a crimson blood bow in his hand.

“So it’s this guy. I didn’t expect the most important branch line of the vampires to appear so quickly.”

Hall of course knew Yekanda.

Yekanda was the first boss in the relatively important side quest of the game—the vampire conflict.

In the Sophia and Demon God’s daughter routes, it would usually appear in the chaotic land where the Cateline Kingdom, the western demon domain, and the northwestern demon domain bordered.

This character and the heroine’s conflict would lead to the internal conflict of the vampires.

However, the side quest was very difficult.

Hall remembered that the two renegade vampire princes had both joined the [Necro-Demon Lord].

And the [Necro-Demon Lord]’s ambition was not small either.

In some routes where there was a conflict with the Cateline Kingdom, Hall, or the vampires, he might even share the method of controlling the power of the Demon God and the location of the Demon God’s heritage with the church, and team up with the church.

“Yekanda, you still have a chance to surrender. If Prince Vier gets here, you will surely die.”

Hall’s face was stern, and he said in an unquestionable voice, “Put down your weapon immediately.”

This stunned Yekanda.

He had long known that Hall and Parousia had come.

He had intercepted the familiar just now.

Parousia was just a junior in front of him.

He had originally thought that the elves or the vampires would send stronger people to search for Sula, but it was just these three.

So Yekanda had simply used the other half of the necromantic aura stored in the crystal ball to create arrows, and shot them with the blood bow that had been transformed from his blood source, turning Daniel into an undead puppet to let Hall’s group of three kill each other.

He would come and harvest when they were almost done.

But he hadn’t expected Hall to leave Parousia to deal with the undead Daniel.

He dared to come alone.

But also, Hall’s arrival had led out the Sula who had been hiding her tracks, which had allowed him to discover this elf princess’s tracks earlier.

But at this moment, Hall had made a third surprising statement.

This human, who looked to be in his twenties, was actually telling him to put down his weapon and surrender.

Interesting.

“Who are you? How did you come to save the elf princess with a vampire viscountess?”

Yekanda was in no hurry to make a move on Hall.

The necromantic aura was eroding the earth veins, and it was to his advantage to delay a little.

Besides, he was a little interested in Hall.

“I am a friend of the two Sages of the Salvation Church, a partner of the eldest princess of the Bal royal family, and have been awarded a royal envelope, one of the highest honors of the Cateline Empire.”

He directly brought out a bunch of titles, and then thought of saying, “Two hours ago, the noble Prince Vier of your vampires called me big brother.”

This statement made Yekanda’s brow furrow.

The first three titles did make him feel that Hall was not simple.

But the fourth, being called big brother by Prince Vier, was quite ridiculous.

Was this kid dreaming?

Vier Masara, an old monster who had lived for a thousand years, and a master who almost never lost out.

Although she was very tolerant of her subordinates and juniors, it was limited to pure-blooded vampires and people with equally noble bloodlines.

To a human boy, would she say this?

He couldn’t help but feel that Hall had read too many web novels.

Sula, who was pulling her green longbow on the side, was originally approaching Hall to protect him.

But after hearing Hall’s speech, she was also stunned.

But after all, Hall was here to save her, so she would not doubt the truth of Hall’s statement.

She just thought to herself.

‘What is Mr. William’s identity? He’s so formidable.’

“Boy, you’re very interesting. But, even if you really have so many identities, it has nothing to do with me. Now, immediately hand Sula over to me, and I can spare your life.”

Yekanda turned the longbow transformed from his blood source into a purple blood sword.

Because he had been enhanced by a physical strengthening, quasi-blessing necromancy, his blood source weapon did not look as pure as Parousia’s.

But as a level ninety powerhouse, the strength of this weapon was also formidable, comparable to a legendary-grade blade.

“I know you received a mission from that necro-demon lord—Samigina, to capture the little princess of the forest elves, Sula. But after you go back, you will surely die.”

Hall’s expression was feignedly sad.

He had become a full-fledged actor in his dealings with the heroines these past few months.

“?”

Yekanda pointed his sword at Hall and said sternly, “Do you think that by intimidating me like this, I will let you go?”

“You also captured another girl named Leticia. I think you don’t plan to tell Samigina about her existence either. Even if you do, your Demon Lord will be furious. If you take her away today, you will die no matter how you choose.”

Hall said faintly in the rain.

His statement was not without reason.

Samigina already had a conflict with the vampires because he had taken in two renegade vampire princes.

If the head of the Child family were to die at the hands of that Demon Lord, Cateline’s military expenses would very likely be contracted.

In Leticia’s route in the game, once Leticia died, the Child family would go mad and retaliate against the forces that had caused Leticia’s death.

It would be a river of blood.

That’s why the probability of Hall being stabbed by the Child family was so high.

“It seems you know a lot.”

Yekanda showed a moment of wavering under Hall’s verbal offensive.

The few necromancers beside him were all fanatical believers of Samigina.

“Yekanda! If you don’t bring back Sula this time, the throne of Samigina will surely be very displeased!”

“Shut up!”

Almost before the words had finished, the blood sword had already swung.

But the target of the slash was not Hall and Sula.

Yekanda had directly killed the few necromancers who were supposed to die in the plan.

To this, Sula was so shocked she almost covered her small mouth.

She had always lived in the elf wonderland.

She had never seen a real slaughter, let alone an enemy killing their own.

And Hall’s expression did not change at all.

He had clearly grasped Yekanda’s thoughts.

It was even more perfect than the plan he had come up with on the spot.

At this time, only four living people were left in the dense forest.

Hall and Sula, Yekanda and his deputy.

“How on earth do you know so much? I’m very curious. You shouldn’t be an ordinary human.”

Yekanda looked at Hall and continued, “Of course, you know so much, so you should also know that the earth veins here are already full of necromancy. If I wanted to, these corpses would all be for my use, and you and Sula wouldn’t be able to escape either.”

“I don’t have to escape.”

Hall put his dual swords back into their scabbards.

He had an even bolder idea.

The idea of completing the vampire side quest.

The reason why the vampire rebels had rebelled was that they felt that the princess and the vampire empress, as witches, were not acting.

They had great power but did not grow and develop it.

In the game, according to the follow-up plot, there would be two directions.

One was to eliminate all the vampire rebels and report back to the vampire empress.

At this time, the player would get a special reward of choosing a vampire prince to follow the team periodically.

This seemed like a very powerful reward, but in reality, the player could already eliminate all the vampire rebels.

The game was already in the late stages, and this special reward was rated as mediocre by most people.

And the other direction was to subdue these vampire rebels.

But the difficulty was even greater than the former.

Only in the route with the Demon God’s daughter as the main heroine could this be achieved by showing the heroine’s benevolence and the determination to lead the demon race to rule the continent again and not let down the sacrifice of the vampires in the war a thousand years ago.

However, one could regain the help of the two vampire princes, gain the recognition of the vampire empress, and very likely cooperate from inside and out to take down the [Necro-Demon Lord].

But since it was a route of re-ruling the continent.

The difficulty of the late-game strategy was naturally very high, and there were often super great wars, which was very exhausting for Hall.

Players commented, “Give me ten Halls, and all the heroines will be maxed out. I’ll just dominate.”

“First of all, Yekanda, you are no match for me.”

Hall recalled the vampire side quest in the game and continued, “I am indeed not an ordinary race. I am the Holy Son.”

“The Holy Son?”

“That’s right. I have the ability to prophesize, and I can also see through the future of the people around me and know the past of the people I have met. The past and the future are all in my control.”

He wanted to go big.

He would give himself the titles of [Holy Son] and [Prophet].

After all, before Christine safely became the Saintess, it was unlikely that he could slack off.

So he needed more secret identities to secretly influence the important side quests in the game.

To clear the obstacles.

“I am between the human race and the demon race. Like the human race’s Saintess, I have abilities almost on par with the human race’s Saintess. I think you can sense the feather on my left chest. It is a unique holy item in the world. But in return, I also control the power of the Demon God.”

Hall drew his sword again, and the [Black Blade] appeared.

When the pure Demon God’s power surged, Yekanda, as a former pure-blooded noble, could naturally recognize it.

“Who on earth are you?”

“What I have said can represent who I am.”

The black-haired youth said faintly.

Sula, on the other hand, was completely dumbfounded.

She, a little princess who had not experienced these things, couldn’t understand.

But it was a Saintess, a Demon God, and a Holy Son.

Of course, it was very high and mighty.

She couldn’t help but be curious again, and the way she looked at him also changed slightly.

“What you have said cannot completely convince me. Leticia is that girl with the same appearance as Sula. She is still safe, but she is sleeping in a necromantic coffin that can make people fall asleep. If you can prove that you really…”

“Now, I’m going to tell you a secret, Yekanda. It’s a secret that you must be loyal to me.”

Hall said the other party’s secret vampire clan name.

He was about to start pulling a real tiger’s skin.

He looked at the other party’s puzzled face, but did not immediately answer Yekanda directly.

He just looked at Sula beside him and said, “I hope the little princess will keep this secret that only we know for the rest of her life.”

“Huh?”

Sula was stunned, but Hall was here to save her, so she would not doubt him.

Then she nodded and said, “I swear to the forest that I will keep this secret for you for the rest of my life, Mr. William.”

At this time, Hall looked at Yekanda again, “I know that the Black Blade has a total of three categories, four stages, and twelve core sword techniques.”

“What does that represent?”

Yekanda was very shocked.

The various moves of the Black Blade, since the unprecedented battle between the Demon God and the Hero that had changed the world, no one had been able to fully perform them.

They didn’t even know what the six sword techniques of the last two stages of the Black Blade were.

This guy actually knew?

“It represents that I am a contractor. I think you understand the meaning of a contractor.”

This was the ultimate cheat of the Demon God’s daughter’s route, besides Hall, the universal cheat for all the heroines.

It corresponded to Sophia’s Eternal Winter bloodline and the Eternal Winter Sacred Sword, and Christine’s mythic-grade weapon and her sanctity that was superior to any other character.

That is, one could sign a contract with a heroine, and a new attribute called [Contract Value] would appear for both parties.

This would allow the other party to gradually master the power of the Demon God without any conditions as the [Contract Value] increased.

Hall, based on the various situations that had happened before, had also thought that his pre-amnesia self might have signed a contract with this heroine.

But there was a restriction in the game, “[You can only contract with female characters].”

He was not a woman, and even if he had done a lot of operations before he lost his memory, it was “unlikely to break the rules, right?”

So he felt that he had more likely dug up some important heritage of the Demon God.

But, now.

It was not important.

Because his first stage of the Black Blade was already complete.

And with his memory, it was enough to convince Yekanda.

Of course, there was still the last step.

In an instant.

He suddenly drew the Rainbow Sky Sword behind him in the heavy rain.

A rainbow light appeared like a curtain.

It took away Sula’s five senses, and Yekanda was also affected.

“This next sword of mine.”

The surrounding wind and rain stopped in an instant.

[Black Blade—Wind Stop], after a short delay of absorbing the power in the environment, turned into a ten-meter-wide arc of light and shot out.

All of this was invisible.

And when the rainbow light dissipated.

The vampire man, with several meters of retreat marks on the mud, had already put away his blood sword and was kneeling on one knee.

At this point, there was only one answer left.

He said.

“Welcome to the new divine throne. Yekanda will be loyal to you.”