Whispering Verse

Shade summoned the [Moonlight Great Sword] and followed Mr. Bernhardt forward. Since the temperature here is still frighteningly cold, the resentful spirit should not have gone far yet. Therefore, Shade thought they would find each other soon, but he didn't expect that they would go around a long circle in the sewer and finally return to the secret passage connecting the river and the bathhouse.

Although the suspicious two people suspected that it was a trap, they continued to follow the smell of the resentful spirit and turned into another fork in the road that they had not had time to investigate. After advancing for more than ten minutes, Mr. Bernhardt stopped in front of a wall in the middle of the pipeline:

"If I smell it right"

He himself spoke with an uncertain tone, after all, the resentful spirit seemed to be leading them in circles:

"The other party got behind this wall."

Ignoring the dirty appearance of the wall, he put his hand on it, then turned to Shade and said:

"The back is empty."

"Enhanced Spatial Perception" also showed that the back was empty. In fact, Shade had noticed this place in the morning, but the gap between the map and reality was a bit large, so before he saw this place, he was not sure that it was an unmarked branch. Or something else.

"There should be a secret door."

Mr. Bernhardt said again, taking a step back to let Shade step forward, and then watched as Shade turned sideways and slammed forward, directly smashing the wall with a deafening sound. As the bricks fell to the ground, Mr. Bernhardt also saw the long strip of stone blocking the road behind the wall shattering, wooden sticks breaking, and metal poles bending.

Shade just shook his arm:

"The secret door was artificially sealed from the inside. It seems we have finally found it."

Not far from the secret door lies a corpse that committed suicide. After trying to channel the spirit to no avail, it can be judged from the hand marks on the corpse that he sealed the passage from the inside. Walking along the passage inward, the remaining blood stains became clearer and clearer. At the same time, Shade also recognized that this place began to overlap with the passage scene in Herman Wood's memory:

"Be careful, we really found the right place this time. But what happened to the resentful spirit? Did it lead us here on purpose?"

"Even if you lure us into a trap, you should wait until we find this place before showing up, right? Taking the initiative to let us discover the passage that has been painstakingly hidden, is this something a normal person can do?"

Mr. Bernhardt was equally puzzled, and he was also ready to fight at this time. He did not take out the black and white guns he usually used. Instead, while his face was dry and wrinkled due to loss of water, his hands gradually enlarged into the shape of claws.

This is the true appearance of a vampire. The original appearance of a handsome middle-aged aristocrat is just a disguise formed by manipulating blood. Although Shade has known Mr. Bernhardt for a long time, this was the first time he saw him like this. Seeing Shade looking at him curiously, Lord Vampire Seed explained:

"Sooner or later, the church will investigate here. Now that I am using the power of vampires to fight against possible dangers ahead, the church will know that the vampires are also investigating the murderer. Don't see that I rarely fight in this posture. In fact, I'm stronger this way. I didn't use it before, either because my opponent wasn't strong enough, or he was too strong."

The resentful spirit was still in front, attracting the two of them forward, and the prison-like place connected to the passage soon came into view. The summoned light ball flew in all directions and illuminated it. At this time, all the metal fence doors were wide open, as if there was no living thing here.

"Look separately."

Mr. Bernhard said, turning around and bending down to enter the cell on the left, while Shade continued to walk forward, looking left and right cautiously.

The silver ball of light followed him, but in the darkness that was not illuminated by the ball of light, something was squirming abnormally.

When Shade was attracted by the stone under his feet and lowered his head to check, the thing crawling on the wall instantly pounced on him.

But this blow was completely missed. Before the thing could land and adjust its posture, Shade used "Raglai's Jump" to dodge, and a ray of moonlight was violently struck from behind it.

The moonlight passed through the monster's body in the darkness. It screamed and fell apart. Countless little bats flew in all directions, and then gathered again to resemble the monster itself.

Shade was very familiar with this method of using transformation to avoid attacks, so when the bats appeared, he had already thrown the thunder gun in his left hand.

The gathered bats had just recovered into monsters when they forcefully ate Shade's thunder gun. It exuded blood mist all over, turned into a blood shadow and rushed towards Sha De and collided head-on with Sha De. The collision of pure power and physical strength finally allowed Shade to see clearly that the monster looked like a big bat with dragon horns but no wings.

The blood mist corroded the clothes on his body, but this time during the impact, Shade's power still had the upper hand:

"ha!"

After the monster was bounced away by the reaction force, it immediately turned into a ball of blood mist and fled into the distance, but Mr. Bernhardt, with his two giant claws hanging down naturally, was already waiting for it.

Lord Vampire Seed also exuded blood mist all over his body and rushed towards the monster entangled in the blood mist. The two people's claws collided, making a metallic clang sound. Then the two masses of blood mist exploded on the spot and reunited at the same time five meters away. The two people emerging from the blood mist once again waved their claws and struck each other.

The flickering blood mist chased and collided at extremely high speeds. Shade stood still, frowning as he watched Mr. Bernhardt fight with his opponent. Finally, in the two blood mist reunited, the monster and Mr. Bernhardt fought again. The vampire seed Lord pressed the monster's claws to the ground with his right claw, and then cut off the monster neatly with his left hand. head as the ending.

But the corpse that fell to the ground immediately began to tremble, and then blood mist began to seep out from every pore of the monster. The corpse swelled, and the blood mist shone with an extremely dangerous red light, but before the corpse exploded, Mr. Bernhardt penetrated the chest with his right claw and took out the heart with scales attached.

The explosion of the corpse ceased, but the head that had rolled into the shadow suddenly flew up. With an expression of hatred on his face, he tried to bite Mr. Bernhardt's neck, but was cut in half by Shade's sword.

"Bastard!"

Lord Vampire Seed, who has always been very civilized, cursed:

"This is a monster cultivated with human beings as the mother body, mixed with vampire blood and dragon blood. The self-destruction of this thing is impossible to deal with without the presence of a pure blood vampire warlock like me. This is what those people gave the church The 'gift' left behind."

He looked angry, but Shade understood. Vampires are very proud of their pure blood, and therefore despise any vampire race except themselves. The "Vampire God" who has a close relationship with Shade protects all vampire races, including humanoid vampires. Humanoid vampires like Mr. Bernhardt and Mr. Ptolemy Albert, They usually consider themselves to be the noblest bloodline holders in the entire vampire population.

Of course, judging from the overall strength and intelligence of vampires, there is no problem with this view. Therefore, experimenting with the blood of vampires and creating such a hybrid monster would certainly make Mr. Bernhardt so angry.

"Although this corpse is not enough to prove that the female corpse has nothing to do with you, it at least tells the church that this matter is related to the [Dragon Feast Order]."

Shade comforted him. Mr. Bernhardt nodded and looked down at the corpse with disdain:

"Leave this thing here. Although the church is distracted by the investigation of the dock incident, it should be able to find it within a day or two."

Shade looked at his surroundings again:

"I think we can't find any clues using ordinary methods. Let's use our own special methods to take a look here. Of course, there is one more thing that needs to be solved before that."

He and Mr. Bernhardt turned around at the same time, and balls of red and silver light illuminated the thing that had just stood behind them.

Not a monster, but a black kitten, squatting on the ground looking up at them. The seemingly normal cat is actually translucent, with a cold feeling constantly seeping out of its body and affecting the surroundings. It was the soul of this cat that led the two of them here just now.

"A resentful spirit that has almost turned into a physical entity."

Mr. Bernhard sighed softly, raised his paws and prepared to fight again, but was stopped by Shade again.

He looked at the cat soul in front of him suspiciously. Although the other party was a real and powerful resentful spirit, almost comparable to the ones he first encountered at Fort Midhill, he did not feel any resentment on the other party.

The cat continued to look up at them, showing no intention of running away, and the transparent tail behind it was still wagging back and forth. Facing Shade's probing gaze, the cat gave a gentle "meow~", and even the vigilant Mr. Bernhardt relaxed. The flesh and blood on his face filled up, and he changed into the appearance of a handsome middle-aged man again, and his claws also turned into hands:

"What does it say?"

He asked Xia De, who asked in surprise:

"What makes you think I know cat language?"

"Because you seem to be the kind of person who understands cats very well."

"Yeah?"

But Shade really didn't understand cat language, so he made sure that the cat had no intention of attacking them, so he tried to squat down and clap his hands at the cat, and the cat walked over obediently. The cold and biting soul rubbed Shade's hand and was hugged by him.

Mr. Bernhardt on the side had an expression of "Look, I'll just say that". Shade took out the "Fish Training Ring" from his pocket again, and then realized that the cat's soul was also a cat and could not be used in his hands. The rings speak human words.

"Hello you all."

So the black cat in Shade's arms, licking the hair on its fur and soul, spoke, and then ignored Shade and Mr. Bernhardt's surprise that it took the initiative to speak:

"Aren't you looking for this place? I found it for you, and you have to help me next. Aren't all humans like this?"

PS: Additional update 3/5.