Moonlight Greatsword!
Miss Olanorde's combat skills taught Xia De how to attach an invisible spiritual weapon to a physical weapon. The sword, transformed from a tree branch by the middle-aged witch, now shone with the glow of the Silver Moon and was thrust by Xia De towards the bats in the blood mist behind him.
The swarm of bats easily dodged Xia De's attack, but because Xia De stopped to counter, the blood mist caught up to them.
The bat swarm converged, and the woman who emerged from it summoned her eleventh-ring Destiny Ring without even speaking. A blood-colored greatsword, larger than the surrounding trees, slashed through the air. Xia De hurriedly swung his sword to counter.
With a harsh clang of metal, the sword flew from his hand. But the blood-colored greatsword did not attack the enemy again; instead, it transformed into a giant hand reaching for Grace and Helen:
"Sorry, you can't take the Red Butterfly Twins!"
"Silver Moon Slash!"
Xia De launched a flying kick, but the arc-shaped light blade did not disperse the blood hand.
However, in the uncorrupted white mist, new souls emerged. He picked up the longsword Xia De had dropped, leaped high, and shattered the giant red hand. After drinking the potion, he struck forward fiercely, and with a roaring sound that twisted the air, he dispersed the pervasive blood mist.
The white-haired old man's face gradually became clear. He was dressed in brown cloth armor, wore long-sleeved leather gloves, and his face was full of weathered cracks, but his eyes were exceptionally sharp.
It was the old man from the God's Wine Party; he was also once the owner of the Night Watchman, and finally died in the Sicar Mountain region.
"Sir, take the girls and leave."
Perhaps in his era, males could not become Ring術士. But transformed into a soul, accumulating wrath, and holding a longsword, he also gained the power to fight:
"Girls, this is to repay you. Thank you, thank you for the pills (609) you gave me. After so many years, I finally have a chance to repay you!"
He held his sword and faced the eleventh-ring Vampire, while Xia De pulled Helen and Grace, running further away:
"Thank you! Thank you so much!"
Above Middlesburg, more and more terrifying and twisted limbs stretched out from the giant cocoon. The giant cocoon writhed as if disgusting things inside wanted to break out immediately. Every time these limbs were eliminated by the Orthodox Church, they would grow back even faster.
As more and more holes appeared on the cocoon, even Xia De at the foot of the mountain could clearly guess how terrifying the monster hatched from the power of the Gap within the cocoon would be.
"Roar~"
Even before it was fully born, the terrifying roar, as if from the abyss, was already deafening. Above the white mist, black lightning suddenly appeared in the night sky. At the same time, in the City below the giant cocoon, the traces of the ritual became brighter and brighter, and more and more Ring術士 appeared in the air.
Xia De still held Helen and Grace's hands, running through the Woodland. Even though a brave soul blocked the pursuing Vampire for them, the blood mist and bloodstains on the ground still chased them.
"Sir, it seems we can't escape."
"Don't talk nonsense."
Xia De retorted without looking back:
"If I wasn't confident I could save you, why would I have come here?"
Grace and Helen's powers were recovering. While running wildly through the Woodland, Xia De couldn't even tell if he was running or had already transformed into a swarm of Red Butterfly flying forward.
But the dense Woodland was gradually thinning, and they seemed to be about to leave this blood mist Woodland soon.
"When this is over, I still want to invite you to visit Saint Delan Square, to see my home in this era. I also want to invite you to travel together to Tobesk, to experience the scenery of the Northern Pearl, the most developed industrial civilization in this world. I also want you to help my friends; I know two other girls whose souls are connected, but they can never meet..."
Xia De babbled about his thoughts, not only wanting to give Helen and Grace confidence but also wanting to give himself confidence.
The girls in white and black dresses followed behind, looking at his back, and thinking that everyone from the Wine Party had actually met again tonight. For a moment, they felt as if they had never left the Night Manor's Wine Party.
When Xia De finished telling the story of Dorothy and Leia, the dense Woodland had also reached its end. Xia De suddenly leaped out from the last bush, but what he saw before him made him stop.
He, Grace, and Helen had once again arrived at the shore of Bena Lake. And this time, the lake water had truly all turned blood-red.
Blood mist swirled, and the strong scent of wine mingled with the thick smell of blood. On the dense wooden stakes standing by the lake, the original mummies had transformed into nobles dressed in lavish costumes from different eras.
They were impaled on the stakes but did not wail; instead, they faced the lake with solemn expressions, as if awaiting the arrival of a noble one.
The blood-red lake water remained calm, even the water at the edge of the mudflats was still. But the antique coffin that had been floating in the lake was gradually drifting towards the shore.
There was only a faint blood mist on the lake surface at this moment. In the distance, between two small hills, the scarlet full Moonlight seemed about to fall into the lake in the next the moment.
That red Moonlight was so clear, so beautiful. Just looking at it, his gaze felt as if it was drawn by a black hole, completely unable to move away.
The Red Moonlight was like a flawless transparent bead, but also like a disgusting mass of flesh covered with tumors. The red light shone on the faces of the three who had just escaped from the bushes. Helen and Grace's expressions gradually became peaceful, but Xia De felt his eyelids involuntarily wanting to droop.
He was too tired. Since leaving the House of the Blind in the afternoon, he had fought several battles consecutively, went to the past once in between, and then experienced the great battle in death. After emerging from death, he rushed to the auction house without stopping, and then experienced the battle in the mountains.
And now, looking at the increasingly clear scarlet Moonlight, Xia De instinctively wanted to close his eyes motionless like this.
"No..."
He forced himself to stay awake, tightly gripping Helen and Grace's hands, and turned to return to the Woodland. Unexpectedly, after plunging into the dense Woodland, what he saw before him was still the Bena Lake shore shrouded in red Moonlight and blood mist.
They could no longer leave. The midnight bell was about to chime, and this scene at the foot of Sicar Mountain was so sacred, solemn, and strange.
The black-robed Vampires prayed in unison, and the sacrifices impaled on the wooden stakes praised blood and Moonlight loudly, their voices almost shattering Xia De's eardrums. The scarlet lake water seemed to have countless people's blood dripped into it, yet it was only a wonderful glass of red blood brew.
The smell of blood and wine was so intoxicating that when an unknown sacred song sounded in his ears, Xia De did not immediately look for the source of the singing.
"Can't escape... It really is the worst situation..."
He took off the fishing rod from his back, stopped, and listened to the song praising the blood Moonlight. Childish singing voices mingled together, but unlike the grand holiness expressed by the Orthodox Church choir, there was an eerie sense of holiness.
The calm blood lake surged with waves, slowly bringing the coffin closer to the shore. A beam of blood-colored heavenly light pierced through the blood mist above, descending from the high sky, enveloping the coffin, and moving with it.
Everything before his eyes appeared double. The kneeling figures were sometimes Vampires, sometimes dried corpses with their blood drained; behind him was sometimes a blood mist Woodland, sometimes a red rose garden surrounded by thorns; and on the Bena Lake before him, the lake water emitted a red glow, stimulating Xia De's Blood Echo to operate on its own.
The metal coffin, enveloped in the red light beam, had already reached the shallow water near the shore. The mental pressure increased little by little, and the chaotic, out-of-control blasphemy power permeated little by little.
It was clearly just a coffin, but in Xia De's eyes, it was "larger" than the entire Sicar Mountain, larger than the entire Rommel Mountains. The coffin's surface reflected the light of the Red Moonlight. The originally badly rusted metal was slowly repaired under the Red Moonlight until it became pure silver.
A huge inverted cross appeared on the silver coffin's surface, and lines of intricate carvings were automatically adding more external decorations to the coffin. Then, the surface of the silver metal coffin recessed, revealing nine grooves for placing items.
Holding the fishing rod in his left hand and taking out the blood brew made from a quarter of Joey Barton's soul with his right, Xia De no longer tried to escape but walked forward.
Helen and Grace unconsciously followed him until the three of them reached the lakeside.
The pure silver coffin did not reach the shore but stopped in the shallow water. The scarlet lake water suddenly surged with waves, and layers of blood color continuously covered the surface of the pure silver coffin amidst the increasingly loud sacred song.
Blood color was added to the silver, and as the lake water washed over it, it completely turned into a blood-colored metal coffin.
Pulled by an invisible force, the coffin stood upright and slowly ascended into the red heavenly light. The eight relics held by the impaled mummies on the stakes, and the blood thorn scepter from deep within the dense Woodland, flew out simultaneously and were embedded into the coffin's surface.
For a moment, Xia De seemed to hear the "click" of gears turning. He didn't know what this meant, but he knew that He was coming. A bell rang from an unknown distance, and large swaths of bat swarms flew from the blood Moonlight in the valleys towards the Woodland.
"It's midnight."
"She" sighed softly in Xia De's ear.
In the distance, above Middlesburg, the undead and Ring術士 seemed to be completely oblivious to the blood mist and light column at the foot of the mountain. Penetrating cracks appeared on the giant cocoon's surface, and after the last black lightning strike hit the giant cocoon, the white mist cocoon completely shattered.
What was revealed before the Ring術士 was an indescribably shaped, monstrous undead beast with a terrifying giant head surrounded by countless grotesque limbs. Black giant hands, writhing disgusting tentacles, the head of a grayish-white bone dragon, and even the long slender body of an underground worm. The giant beast seemed to have stitched together all the powerful beings who had died in the Sicar Mountain region onto itself, and as the giant head roared, black ripples rapidly spread, knocking down all enemies surrounding it.
The night mist of Middlesburg grew thicker.
And by the Bena Lake, above the blood lake, beneath the blood mist, within the blood Moonlight—
"Creak~"
With a clear creaking sound, the blood-colored metal coffin standing in the air was pushed open a crack.
Xia De reached out and blocked the two girls behind him. Even though the Divine Radiance was still present, without the divinity, the bursting headache he was experiencing still brought him close to unconsciousness.
And in the illusion that felt as if the entire world was about to be filled with blood, the metal coffin opened little by little.
The Boy dressed in old-fashioned noble attire, Mr. Armand Bernhardt's "nephew" Leicester Bernhardt, was Sleep with his eyes closed in the coffin. The sacred song, praising blood and Moonlight in unison, had reached its climax.
The great battle above Middlesburg behind him erupted with endless light and brilliance, but at this moment, the blood Moonlight above Bena Lake was still so serene. The two places were clearly in the same world, yet so different.
The blood tide surged, and the sacred song was loud. The whispering prayers finally turned into deafening shouts at this the moment. In the opened coffin, the Boy's eyelashes trembled, and then he opened his eyes.
Time was stagnant at this the moment, and Destiny and years solidified at this the moment. Xia De could not describe his feelings at this the moment. Even with his eyes closed, from which blood tears flowed, he could still "see" the Boy open his eyes, and the blood coffin transform into a red glow to clothe Him.
In that heavenly light, the Boy stepped through the void towards the shore, and nine relics merged into his body. With every step the Boy took, his body grew larger, until—
When He finally stood on the surface of the blood lake, looking across at Xia De on the lakeside, that familiar figure, that sacred body, that magnificent power, that indescribable appearance...
God of Vampires - Vampire Duke Loyaer, in his Saint Form, had descended.
