Origin Player.

Chapter 788 The Thirteen Blood Clans (9K)

at night.

The area around the Third Bridge has fallen.

The various units of the 10th Mountain Battalion lost unified command.

The main forces of the vampires and humans clashed in a stalemate at the old-era Majui County Hospital, with both sides' battle lines remaining almost completely stationary.

Inside the massive ruins, which resembled a garbage dump.

Jiang He walked silently beneath the ruins of the buildings. Holding a short knife, he eliminated one vampire ambush point after another, while his secret technique, Rhythm Detection, transmitted all biological reactions back to his mind.

"Dijiang, about 300 meters to the left, at the bottom of the hot pot restaurant, a vampire count is attacking Yuan Liang and Mu Tou Nu. You might want to see if there's an opportunity; both of them have good innate talents."

"understood."

Jiang He changed his route and moved forward.

Amidst the ruins of the ground floor shops, a hot pot restaurant still retains some basic structure. About ten Blood Nobles stand around, chatting and laughing, savoring wine and cigarettes.

Inside the hot pot restaurant, Count Thorne kicked Yuan Liang, who resembled a dragon, sending him flying back more than ten meters. His arm bones shattered, and he staggered to one knee.

A vampire count is equivalent to a C-rank, and the difference between a C-rank source power user and an E-rank one is like the difference between a gold elite and an ordinary silver-rank user. In the world of the night, there is no precipitous gap between the superhumans, but the sheer numerical superiority is enough to make the outcome of the duel a foregone conclusion.

boom!
Count Thorne punched Yuan Liang in the abdomen, and seeing that the other man was gritting his teeth and refusing to cry out, he couldn't help but laugh loudly: "That's right, just like that. I like your unyielding attitude even in the face of death."

"The angrier, more resentful, and more pained one is, the more delicious the taste of blood becomes!"

Snapped!
Count Thorne grabbed Yuan Liang by the neck with one hand.

In a corner of the hot pot restaurant, a wooden woman, whose entire body had turned to wood due to overuse of her abilities, was sobbing uncontrollably.

Several nobles of blood were discussing amongst themselves, their faces beaming with smiles.

"They must be students, otherwise they would be hard to fool so easily."

"The civilians of Majui County have all died long ago. This guy who sneaks over after hearing the radio call for help is probably going to the battlefield for the first time."

"Thinking you wouldn't be discovered, haha."

The wooden woman roared in remorse, "Release Yuanliang!"

No one paid her any attention. The nobles gathered around Yuan Liang. As primitive blood believers, a considerable number of vampires believed that negative emotions could make blood more delicious, just like the brewing of wine, which has many details worth studying.

click!
Count Thorne crushed Yuan Liang's neck bone, and the fragrant blood brought a satisfied look to his face. The others followed suit, and some particularly thirsty nobles chose human arteries, not caring whether their dinner was alive or dead.

"You bedbugs! Bedbugs!"

The wooden woman's eyes were bloodshot. She never imagined that one day, a banquet equivalent to a noble party in vampire culture would happen before her eyes, especially to Yuan Liang, whom she had always admired.

"Why? Why hasn't the command center responded!"

After Yuan Liang was reduced to a dried corpse, the expressions of the nobles became relatively languid, as if they were fainting from exhaustion or drunk.

Suddenly, Yuan Liang's mummified corpse disappeared.

Swish!
Count Thorne was stunned. Before he could recover, a battle blade imbued with invisible sharpness and lightning pierced his blood core.

At this fleeting juncture, Count Thorne felt a sense of absurdity. The feeling of blood draining from his body was so clear, and it seemed as if a demon that sucked the blood of vampires had launched a surprise attack on him.

Whoosh!
Jiang He raised his knife and slashed upwards, severing Count Thorne's head.

His entire body erupted with steel spikes imbued with lightning, piercing through the surrounding blood nobles, leaving only one alive. The blood flowed into his body, propelling his growth along with the fruits of his previous hunts.

[Energy: D→D+]
A count, a viscount, and seven barons were killed in action at a small-to-medium-sized family dinner.

The last remaining vampire viscount was severely injured, his eyes filled with terror.

Jiang He casually straightened his military uniform jacket, took out a filter cigarette and lit it. As a matter of common sense, other nobles would not disturb the vampire family banquet.

Heads were chopped off one by one.

Jiang He thoughtfully strung the heads together and handed them to the vampire viscount, saying, "Give this to Earl Thomas for me. Tell him I'm waiting for him at the Maju County Hospital. Is that alright?"

The vampire viscount shook his head frantically. The speed assassin, at the level of a D-rank source power user, had killed a handful of earl-level nobles. He was now vaguely known as the number one genius among humans.

Jiang He activated the Concept Gene - Ignore, concealing the existence of "Spatial Flicker," and then let the viscount go.

Just as he was about to leave.

The wooden woman suddenly spoke up: "I knew you'd been here for a while."

Impossible. It's too much of a coincidence that Dijiang arrived here at the exact moment Yuanliang died. The possibility is too low.

Jiang He did not answer. There was no need to save Yuan Liang's injuries. Even if he survived, it would be difficult for him to survive in the enemy-occupied area. Of course, this was his personal judgment.

"I will never forget this humiliation!"

"One day I will become stronger, and then I will kill you!"

The wooden woman's eyes and words were filled with indifference.

Luo Yeli, who had been monitoring the situation, scratched her head upon hearing this. It seemed that Yuan Liang's experience of the "feast" had caused considerable shock and psychological trauma to this Class A student. Strictly speaking, Di Jiang was the only factor that allowed the wooden man to survive, rather than the culprit behind the misfortune.

Jiang He slowly stopped in her tracks.

Luo Yeli sensed something was wrong and hurriedly said, "Wait for Dijiang, she..."

"Are you sure you want to speak?" Jiang He said calmly, "Some words, once spoken, cannot be taken back."

Jiang He's attitude remained unchanged. Even if Luo Yeli had a close connection with Lilith, the outcome would not change. The only difference was the position Luo Yeli chose because of this matter.

Luo Yeli's expression turned slightly somber, and she remained silent for a long while.

Jiang He approached the tall, wooden-like girl.

"Kill me, kill me if you dare!" the wooden woman taunted wildly.

"It seems you no longer want to live in this war."

Jiang He calmly severed the other's head, the feeling like hitting a wooden stake, with not much blood flowing out. As for the wooden woman's choice, he could understand it to some extent. In the countless wars he had experienced, such a desperate person was not an isolated case.

"I thought she hated you."

"There's no conflict."

Jiang He left the hot pot restaurant and sat down at a fruit tea shop some distance away. Zi Shu went to get some food, while his primary task now was to wait.

……

The ruins of the steel fortress.

The young count, dressed in a tailcoat with a few precious jewels adorning his fingertips and collar, appeared elegant and composed.

In fact, vampires existed in the world long before the Dark Ages, but they were limited by the power of the [God of Order] and could not leave the underground. However, the underground does not refer to underground space in the actual sense. Vampires had always maintained contact with humans at that time, including in the realm of cultural consensus.

"It's truly an artistic design."

Earl Thomas ran his fingertips along the steel wall and exclaimed, "Such precise energy shaping, no wonder its essence is only D-level, yet its tactical analysis requires three B-level source energy shells to destroy. I have never seen such a level of control even in the Duke."

Not far away, a cloaked figure said coldly, "You failed, wasting a rare Grade A bullet."

"So what?" Count Thomas laughed. "Shadowman, you are just a half-blood. Perhaps the dukes value your status in the fortress city, but your strength is basically fixed at C-level for life. Once you advance to B-level, you will attract the attention of the Blood Tomb troops. You gentlemen will not want to add any variables."

The figure remained silent for a moment.

The other party is right. As a player in the final battlefield, I am equivalent to the reincarnation of a peak hero, but I still can't do anything about the source blood. I became a C-rank in the early stages of my arrival because of the Duke's blessing, and I am still firmly stuck at the C-rank level without any change.

The bloodline of the vampires in the world of darkness is extremely strong.

“I can give you another Class A annihilation bomb. Dijiang is in the top ten of my kill list, so this would be a tremendous contribution for you.” “Everyone says that annihilation bombs are exclusively for me. You wouldn’t sell them to someone else, would you?” Count Thomas laughed.

"Who knows? Maybe I'll collaborate with someone else."

The shadowy figure threw out a black bullet. Relying on his C-rank strength at the early stage of his arrival, he had already hunted down several renowned and highly skilled creatures. According to the results of the investigation, Dijiang was very likely a player. After all, it was not normal for a sharpshooter to become cannon fodder for the Night Brigade.

"I feel like I've forgotten something."

The shadow figure muttered to himself, not really caring, and his figure vanished into a shadow.

Count Thomas sneered inwardly as he watched the other party leave.

"A surviving experimental subject of a nighttime journey."

"They really think they're something special."

Outside the steel fortress, a lady-in-waiting approached and said softly, "Count, someone wants to see you. Count Thorne is dead, said to have been killed by your enemy. Only one member of the Thorne family survived."

Count Thomas asked curiously, "Let him in."

"Yes."

The vampire viscount entered in a daze, clutching a steel chain through which the heads of nobles were linked together, a gruesome and bloody sight. He removed Earl Thorne's head and presented it to him.
“My lord, that person asked me to give this to you, and also said…”

Count Thomas asked coldly, "How did they die?"

The vampire viscount suddenly froze, his eyes filled with pain.

His memory seemed to be missing the most important link. He witnessed the whole thing when Dijiang killed the nobles, but he couldn't remember it, couldn't bring himself to say it, and couldn't recall it.

The vampire viscount broke down, saying, "I don't know."

The next moment, the vampire viscount's eyes widened, the effect of ignoring him disappeared, and Count Thomas also felt a chill in his heart, he had completely forgotten Di Jiang's most powerful strength.

"Spatial Flash!"

Whoosh!
Count Thorne's head disappeared.

Jiang He descended, his gaze fixed, and a ouroboros mark landed on Count Thomas's brow. The spatial positions were reversed, and Count Thomas's head was instantly severed, blood gushing out.

But death did not come.

At that moment, Jiang He seemed to hear the mournful cries of the surrounding flowers, grass, and soil.

The soil was parched, the flowers and grass withered, and even the moisture in the air had become lifeless. The natural environment within a radius of thirty meters seemed to have lost its life. A huge life force was poured into Count Thomas's body, and his head was restored to its original state in the blink of an eye.

—Original Talent: Child of Nature, Sequence 32.

—Secret Techniques of the Domain: Return of Vitality.

By drawing on the life force of the natural environment to repair itself, this is even a passive ability, thanks to nature's favor.

"A madman!"

Count Thomas was furious at the enemy's assassination attempt and immediately drew his longsword, but he still underestimated Jiang He's speed.

Swish!
As the azure lightning began to surge, Jiang He instantly appeared before the enemy. The invisible blade and lightning intertwined, creating a dazzling display of light, and the cold blade beheaded Count Thomas.

Death is imminent.

Count Thomas only had time to strike Jiang He's left shoulder with the hilt of his sword before activating the Domain Secret Technique: Natural Reversion. Jiang He's left arm and left chest quickly "reverted" to their original components, such as water, fat, and vitamins, and crashed to the ground. This kind of attack would be a nightmare for most defenses.

Regenerative gene operation.

Jiang He's body was repaired at a speed visible to the naked eye.

After losing his head for the second time, Count Thomas, having exhausted the vitality of the surrounding environment, began to draw upon the vitality contained within Jiang He herself, albeit relatively slowly.

Wow!
With the second strike, Jiang He shattered the blood core and absorbed an exceptionally large amount of blood essence.

[Constitution: D→D+]
[Spirit: D→D+]
[Speed: D→D+]
"Die!"

A loud shout rang out, fierce as a storm.

Marquis Noah arrived after running several miles, his face full of anger. He had already realized the death of the Duke of Tucson's younger brother.

Jiang He activated the Space-Time Technique and vanished in a flash.

The death of Count Thomas on the spot caused nature to grieve, and the vast Jing Shui A Block area began to come alive. Steel, rubble, debris, and soil seemed to come alive, forming a towering giant tens of meters high, its eyes filled with an instinctive killing intent towards Jiang He.

A chemical plant ten kilometers away.

Jiang He sat on the exposed steel bars, watching the natural giant wreak havoc on everything around him.

"Will it be the same even when you die?"

Luo Yeli sighed, "I have never died, but according to accurate records, the commotion is even greater when the Listener of All Things dies. This Majui County will probably be revitalized. The revitalized thing has no self or consciousness and will only attack the existence that the Source Power user hated the most in his life."

The Child of Nature is the next in rank in the sequence of those who listen to all things.

The power to listen to and communicate with all things is only the surface. Being able to communicate means being able to make requests. Streets, buildings, mountains, lakes, seas, and even the day and night of heaven and earth will respond and obey the listener of all things as if they were close friends, and will not hesitate to attack enemies.

The top twenty-two talents in the talent ranking are essentially the same, with no distinction between them. However, the ranking based on performance and strength still has reference value. The third-ranked talent, Listener of All Things, is truly deserving of the title.

"What does 'second awakening' mean?" Jiang He asked.

Luo Yeli hesitated for a moment before replying, "Find the forbidden object that corresponds to your original talent and fuse with it to enter the second awakening. Spatial blinking theoretically corresponds to the Moon Shadow Gate, but your original talent is not actually one. After the second awakening, the life of a Tarot-level talent Source Power user will directly leap to A-level."

“Non-Tarot-level talent is C-level.”

"The biggest problem is that even I don't know when the awakening will end. I only know that there is still a long way to go, and during this period I am just an ordinary person."

Luo Yeli couldn't help but feel annoyed. She had been too impulsive before, thinking that with the love of all things, she could quickly end this process, but the result was that she was stuck in the middle.

Upon hearing this, Jiang He thought to himself, "He is a Tarot-level forbidden object, Lover. There is a high possibility that there is a corresponding Source Power user in the Dark World."

What talent does "Forbidden Item - Lover" correspond to?

"Sequence 8 - Alluring Beauty, currently held by the vampire queen of the Lost Clan - Cardopasia, an S-rank demigod."

……

The rat obtained military rations and went to the chemical plant.

Jiang He then crammed on some basic knowledge about vampires.

The vampires currently consist of thirteen clans, each representing at least one S-rank demigod, also known as a clan prince, second only to the "Sole Progenitor" above them. The thirteenth clan is practically extinct, with only Queen Shia walking alone on the land, her whereabouts unknown. The last time anyone saw her was a hundred years ago.

The remaining clans, roughly in groups of four, formed an alliance that surrounded the Anxi Fortress City, the Giant Enterprise Alliance, and the Night Papal Kingdom.

The four clans surrounding the fortress city are Gangro, Toridor, Bruch, and Nosferatu, each corresponding to a symbol of beast, art, warrior, monster, etc.

The current war in the Tongchuan war zone in the north is neither a full-scale war nor has it reached the point of alarming the demigods. The vampires are in charge of the situation by three dukes, all of whom are members of the Night Council, and the chairmanship is rotated among the demigods.

"No one is qualified to influence the world's direction unless they reach Level A."

Jiang He chewed on the military ration can, which was not issued to officers and tasted rather bad. The cigarettes were now in a six-pack, and tasted like dry tobacco mixed with chili powder. One puff made his brain tremble.

"You already have two A-level military achievements. Thomas is a genius on par with the Red Knights."

"Help me find a nighttime base in Majui County."

"clear."

Jiang He fell into thought. It took ten B-level military merits to create a B-level evil spirit soldier. If he wanted to enhance it to the level of A-level, he estimated that he would need at least one S-level military merit.

Given the current situation, Jiang He is more inclined to create two more B-level evil soldiers. He has never had the habit of saving money. Whether it is attribute points or game currency, he always spends it whenever he can, which may be related to the environment he grew up in.

(End of this chapter)