RNP Chapter 3967 The Vampire Crimson Moon and the Demon Eye
Chapter 3967 The Vampire Crimson Moon and the Demon Eye
Chapter 3967 The Vampire Crimson Moon and the Demon Eye
Shad looked at Mr. Bernhardt, and the middle-aged vampire who had seen the image of the dirty eyes also twitched at the corner of his mouth:
“In any case, this is a valuable lead for the investigation. You stay here and keep watch, I'll go check things out over there. If there are no problems, a simple hypnosis session will give me the answers I need.”
As he spoke, he transformed into a small black bat and flew towards the center of the lake. Shad stood alone on the lakeshore, watching the bat approach the small boat. Then, Mr. Bernhardt reverted to his human form beside the boat.
For high-level vampires, using mental power to hypnotize is practically instinctive, and Shad wasn't worried at all that Mr. Bernhardt wouldn't be able to get an answer.
But what happened next was beyond Shad's expectations. In Shad's view, Armand Bernhardt had just opened his mouth after regaining his human form when he immediately slumped onto the water's surface. He then lost even the ability to float and sank directly into the lake.
"Ok?"
Xia De immediately wanted to check the situation, but just then he heard a voice behind him.
“Friend, I don’t think you’re a vampire, so it’s best if you don’t get involved in this kind of thing.”
Shad turned to look and saw a man, almost blending into the night, staring at him from the woods of the lakeside park. This man had just appeared; Shad sensed he must have used spatial abilities.
Moreover, he possessed a level of nine, just one level higher than Mr. Bernhardt. At this moment, the small bat insignia floated above his head, indicating that he was also a vampire, and next to the racial insignia was a string of letters written in the language of Draurion.
“Alistair Wispucci, are you trying to stop me?”
Shad then calmly asked in a low voice, and while the unfamiliar high-level vampire was astonished, Shad disappeared into the night.
The vampire instinctively turned to fight, only to find nothing behind him. He then looked back at the lake; Shad hadn't come looking for him at all, but had instead appeared directly in the depths of the lake, almost reaching the small boat in the center.
"They don't dare to confront me head-on; their level probably isn't high-level."
The vampire had a guess in his mind, and immediately transformed into a streak of bright red light, rushing towards the center of the lake. Then he saw the young man who had been moving forward suddenly turn his head:
"Spatial Stability Aura - Moonlight Slash!"
The crimson moonlight clashed with the bright red light transformed from the vampire. The vampire confidently charged straight at it, and then, severely injured, instinctively scattered into a large swarm of red bats in the air, thus avoiding being killed instantly.
Even so, when he vomited blood and fell back onto the water's surface to look at Shad, who stood on the lake with a cold face, his entire upper body was almost cut in half, and he felt as if the blood in his body was about to boil.
The crimson moonlight not only caused lacerations, but also affected his blood after it touched his body.
This wasn't any magical technique of Shad's; it was simply that during his vacation, while learning about the "Red Moon" from Daniste, he gradually uncovered its true nature. The essence of the Silver Moon was "divine," something Shad had fully understood and was able to manifest since his lower rings, while the "Red Moon's" powerful influence on flesh and blood was something he had only recently begun to deeply comprehend.
"If I hadn't confirmed that you were male and didn't have that earth-shattering level suppression feeling that you have when you use your thirteenth ring, I would have even thought that you were the legendary 'Red Moon Witch'."
The vampire continued weakly, and Shad could sense that Mr. Bernhardt's heartbeat was still at the bottom of the lake, so he was slightly relieved:
"I'm curious, are other high-level vampires in this area also attracted and disappeared by this method? I roughly understand. You first make ordinary people show characteristics of having drunk the blood of vampires, and then capture the high-level vampires you want to investigate when they get close. This is really a good plan."
But I don't recall vampires in this era killing each other. What exactly are you trying to do?
The nine-ringed vampire with the name "Alistair Wispucci" would naturally not answer Shad's question. The investigation team sent by Velendale had clearly figured out the details, but they did not expect that a powerful person who was not recorded at all would suddenly appear.
Shad called out his name and demonstrated the ability to severely injure him with a single blow, and he knew very well that he was probably no match for him on his own.
Convincing himself of the worst, he watched as five more figures emerged from the lakeside woods. Three were men and two were women; one was also a vampire, and the other four were humans. Only one of the human women was a tenth-ring mage; the others were mid-ring sorcerers.
They were dressed in identical, unmarked black robes, making it impossible to discern which organization they belonged to. However, Shad didn't ask again; the location was too sensitive, and he didn't want the church to notice. Therefore, it was best to deal with these six opponents in the darkness of the lake first.
"Lily, go and take that target from the bottom of the lake. The rest of you, come with me and hold him off!"
Clearly, the other party thought the same way. So, the talisman fell onto the water, and the illusion enveloped the surroundings. After simply isolating sound and light, the five of the six people, except for the woman with the lowest level, launched an attack on Shad together.
Even without using any special spells or incantations, their physical abilities were already top-notch. In a five-on-one situation, they coordinated their attacks, with three of them using ranged magical attacks, while the two highest-level attackers moved towards Shad together.
Shad was worried about Mr. Bernhardt's condition and had no patience to fight them here. Since the other party had the audacity to fight him under the moonlight on such a fine night, he naturally had to fight back with all his might.
With one hand, he formed the golden "Heathon Sign" for protection, while at the same time, Shad took a deep breath to charge up the "Miracle - Dragon's Breath".
This time, however, Shad chose neither the sacred moonlight nor the corrupting blood mist, nor the purest dragon breath.
He used a power he rarely unleashed:
"Roar!"
The gray mist spewed forward from its mouth, and the massive amount of spiritual energy propelled the mist forward in a cone shape, causing even the normal space to twist.
The spells of the middle-ring sorcerers vanished as specks of light within the gray fog, while the two high-ring sorcerers who rushed toward Shad paled upon touching the edge of the fog.
Their clothes decayed rapidly in the gray mist, their hair fell out strand by strand, and even their flesh, which had been enhanced beyond the limits of their race, gradually and irreversibly lost its power in the mist.
"Get out of the way! This is—the Mist of Decaying Time! The opponent is proficient in both time and space powers!"
Unlike the Moonlight's breath, which dissipates almost instantly, the Mist of Decaying Time truly drifts in the Moonlight as mist. However, the weakness of this move is that the gray mist moves much slower than the Moonlight, so although it is extremely lethal, it fails to reduce the number of opponents immediately.
But a terrifying gray fog lingered over the lake, and the six members of the unknown organization dared not move, fearing any contact with the fog. Most of their other injuries could be healed, but the lost time was irretrievable.
Just as the six hesitated, a sudden splashing sound rang out, and four black chains instantly emerged from beneath their feet, pulling the four mid-ring sorcerers directly into the water.
The remaining two immediately stood back to back, looking around warily. Then, the high-ringed vampire, whose injuries had not yet healed, sensed the change in space and split open, slashing upwards with blood.
The blood-formed blade collided with the red moonlight greatsword in Shad's hand. The crimson blade shattered after being soaked in the red moonlight, and Shad then cleaved the body of the high-ringed vampire with a single sword strike.
His body then exploded into a large swarm of bats that scattered in all directions, but this time, prepared, Shad swung out a palm with his left hand at the same moment the opponent's body exploded:
"Thunder Wave!"
The bats that hadn't had time to scatter immediately plummeted to the water's surface amidst the silver lightning. Just as Shad was about to annihilate them all, the human tenth-ring warlock suddenly closed his left eye, looking only at Shad, who was still in the air, with his right eye.
Circles of patterns appeared in the other person's seemingly normal eyeballs, and the appearance of the whispering element indicated that the sealed power of the demonic eye had been released at this moment.
The massive whispering element caused the man's entire left cheek to display eerie black iron-colored patterns, but the power was proportional to the price.
"go with!"
The moment the demonic eye gazed upon him, Shad felt as if a giant dragon had crashed into him, the powerful repulsive force instantly sending him flying through the air, unable to gain any leverage. Moreover, this repulsive force didn't just appear for a moment; it continued to act as long as the demonic eye was watching him.
In this situation, even if Shad disintegrated into a swarm of butterflies like the vampires before, it wouldn't make much difference. In his haste, instead of using [Lagray's Leap] to move out of the opponent's sight, he extended his right hand towards the person using the Mystic Eye:
"The Blood Moon Returns!"
The Mystic Eye exerted a repulsive force on Shad, while Shad, in turn, exerted an attractive force on the owner of the Mystic Eye.
The consequences of this were immediately apparent. Under the combined effect of repulsion and attraction, Shad seemed to be suspended in mid-air, his body simultaneously subjected to the tearing force of the two forces. Fortunately, his body was exceptionally strong.
The unfamiliar tenth-ring sorceress, though only experiencing the gravitational pull from Shad, possessed an unusually sensitive magical eye to this power. The black iron-colored markings on her face rapidly extended downwards towards her neck, and the excruciating pain as if her magical eye was about to burst from its socket caused her to hastily cease its power, then look down at the water at her feet.
With a deafening roar, all the water in the vast lake seemed to fly into the sky. The curtain of water blurred their vision, and Shad felt the effect of his magic being neutralized by the concept of "repulsion," but fortunately, the Demon Eye was no longer working on him.
The lake water then fell back down from the sky, and Xia De was completely defeated in the first round.
But instead of paying attention to the four mid-ring warlocks who had been pulled into the water and then imprisoned at the bottom of the lake by the "Imprisonment Aura," he took a step forward and appeared beside the unconscious Mr. Bernhardt at the bottom of the lake.
So when all the lake water returned to the Great Lake, on the rippling surface of the lake, Shad rescued his friends. The unfamiliar tenth-ring warlock was unable to immediately break the "Imprisonment Aura," and simply threw his four middle-ring companions onto the shore. Then, together with the heavily injured vampire who was barely able to stand up, he looked at Shad.