Strength 99999 but the Holy Sister

Of course, the little black dragon girl in front of him obviously could not be included in the category of "normal adult dragon", and her proficiency in the common language could only be described as disastrous.

Tricia and the girl had a brief conversation in Dragon Language while Aisha waited.

After a while, Tricia ended the conversation.

"Her name is Ruby, and she came here to find a piece of dragon's blood."

Tricia said to Aisha.

"She said it was her father's dragon blood—she must reclaim it, and to that end she journeyed across the continent from the Dragon Valley."

"Her father's blood?"

Elsa was a little surprised by this, but she was also keenly aware of the subtle sense of incongruity.

If the little girl wasn't lying, then weren't the recent events a bit too coincidental? Dragon blood wasn't something you could find everywhere. So far, Elsa only knew of one single instance of it, and yet everything that was happening seemed connected to it, the timing and location all so coincidental. So, could the dragon blood in the old vampire leader's hands be the one the girl was looking for?

If this is the case, it would explain why the girl appeared in the vampire territory at this time.

The only problem is that the dragon blood is long gone.

Tricia explained:

"Occasionally, dying dragons are willing to donate their blood to the clan. Although she was reluctant to elaborate, I believe this is the most likely origin of that blood. Furthermore, the disposal and use of dragon blood—especially the blood of those dragons who held a certain prestige during their lifetime—is a very serious matter within the dragon clan. Dragon blood is the last trace of a deceased dragon's soul left in the world, and it carries extraordinary symbolic significance.

She came here to retrieve her father's dragon blood."

As Tricia spoke, her expression became serious.

"Generally speaking, unless it's an exiled dragon, dragon blood rarely appears outside of Dragon Valley."

This is also one of the reasons why Tricia was surprised when she saw the dragon blood from the old leader.

"It's getting weirder and weirder..." Elsa looked at the girl, and the girl's big golden eyes were also looking at her, with strong reluctance, vigilance and fear.

"Father, dragon blood!"

She seemed to be emphasizing something, and clenched the cloak in her palm. Perhaps she was using too much force, and she scratched the cloak with several holes, stained with blood - her sharp claws were almost all shattered when she fought Elsa, and her fingers were covered with blood.

Elsa glanced at the girl, then looked at Tricia. "But... can it really be recovered? If someone got the dragon blood, they would definitely hide it, right?"

"That's true, but the dragon's soul is very resilient. Her bloodline and soul connection with her father can provide her with assistance. The soul's resonance will guide her direction after she gets close enough. As long as the soul mark on the dragon's blood has not completely dissipated and the dragon's blood appears within a range of about two thousand steps, she can probably sense it. This effective range will increase or decrease due to the fluctuations of her own soul strength.

Of course, this assumes the dragon blood still exists. Although few dare to consume violent dragon blood directly, skilled alchemists and weapon craftsmen have ways to refine the dragon soul. If the soul's characteristics are lost, then all of this becomes meaningless.

Elsa was thoughtful.

"Did she find out, then?"

"Unfortunately, there is none yet. It is not easy to find something in such a vast land."

Tricia shook her head, and Aisha also saw doubt and thought in Tricia's eyes.

"Tricia, I'm thinking of a possibility."

Aisha said and Tricia nodded.

"Me too."

The two looked at each other, and tacitly understood each other's thoughts from each other's eyes - so, could the dragon blood in the girl's mouth be the same as the dragon blood in the hands of the old vampire leader?

"Let's continue asking her," Aisha suggested. "Since soul resonance only has a range of a thousand meters, then she must have been guided here by someone."

It couldn't be that she had just had a sudden flash of inspiration and decided that the dragon blood was in the vampire territory, so she ran over here? The girl's appearance in such a place couldn't be called a coincidence.

Tricia also has the same plan.

But just as she was about to continue asking, Elsa suddenly raised her eyes as if she had sensed something, turned around, and looked towards the north where the black dragon girl came from. She looked into the distance. It was already past dusk, and the sky was getting darker. A bunch of densely packed black dots appeared between the dark green forest where the snowflakes had been brushed off and the dark sky in the distance. They were hidden in the wind and snow and were moving quickly towards this side.

Covered by the sky, wind and snow, their appearance was not noticeable, but Elsa still discovered them.

"Tricia, there's someone over there."

Elsa watched the shadows slowly approaching. The wind and snow blocked Elsa's sight, but she could vaguely see that the shadows took on human form - those shadows all had a distinctive feature: white hair.

"I'm afraid it's the vampires."

Elsa lowered her voice.

Tricia also used her farsighted magic to observe the shadows, frowning slightly.

"The vampires...are making such a big show, I'm afraid they're well prepared."

As she spoke, Tricia glanced at the girl.

It was so strange that Tricia immediately felt that all this might be related to the black dragon girl.

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374 Let’s Go and Capture Her

The black dragon girl's cloak was torn into several pieces by her sharp nails, and the unhealed wounds left blood marks on it.

Elsa glanced at the uninvited guest in the distance, then took out a coat and wrapped the black dragon girl's exposed body tightly. The girl was a little resistant. It didn't look like she was not used to wearing clothes, but she didn't like Elsa touching her.

But facing Elsa, she could only pout to express her dissatisfaction and put on her clothes reluctantly.

Only then did Aisha stand up and look into the distance.

At this time, the vampires had already appeared within a distance visible to the naked eye of ordinary people.

Elsa roughly counted and found that there were more than seventy black shadows, all of them were aggressive, and their goal was very clear, they were coming towards this side - they were all vampires, with white hair and red eyes, and some even deliberately showed their fangs, these characteristics were very obvious.

Elsa didn't think that the appearance of these vampires was just a coincidence. Vampires rarely gather together for action, let alone suddenly appear in such a deserted place. And there happened to be a young dragon looking for dragon blood here - is it possible?

The other party obviously also discovered Elsa, Tricia, and the black dragon girl - they did not move forward, but just stopped in the distance, looking at this side from afar.

"Why don't they come over?"

"Because they can't confirm our identities, it's probably out of caution."

Aisha nodded but didn't say anything else.

Aisha saw that their leader was an elderly man with pale and withered skin, wrinkled cheeks and sunken eye sockets. He was hunched over, and his skinny appearance made him look like a terminally ill dying person.

The old man said nothing, staring at Elsa and Tricia with a gloomy look, and then quickly glanced at the land that had already become a mess in the battle between Elsa and the black dragon girl. His expression suddenly became complicated and tangled.

If Baron Fisher were here, he would recognize that this old man is actually the vampire duke that Elsa and Tricia are investigating: Duke Charlbris.

Duke Charblis, it was no coincidence that he came here. It had been quite some time since Alman promised to offer the dragon's blood. Duke Charblis could not stay in the empire for a long time due to his identity as a vampire duke. He returned to his territory and waited day and night, and sent people to monitor Alman's every move. He expected that the precious dragon's blood could pull his increasingly dying life back from the brink of death.

But just a few days ago, a very powerful black dragon suddenly came to his territory. He and the black dragon had no more than a few words to say before the black dragon started fighting, and he was forced to fight back hastily.

As a result, he was slightly injured and the black dragon's wings were also injured by him. At the same time, in order to communicate with the black dragon, his patience was almost worn out. After much persuasion, he finally understood from the black dragon's fragmented language that was difficult to express in words - it turned out that the black dragon was here to look for dragon blood.

Dragon blood? Where did he get the dragon blood?

Even if he had it, he would never return it to the black dragon. He needed that piece of dragon blood more than anyone else, and he was determined to get it.

However, the black dragon got the news from somewhere and was convinced that he had dragon blood in his hand. If he didn't take it out, the black dragon would fight him to the death - he was not afraid of the black dragon, but his strength was not enough to kill the black dragon in a short time. Even if he tried his best, he and the black dragon might end up dying together.

He doesn't want to die.

He tried his best to appease the black dragon, and finally made the black dragon calm down a little by speaking humbly, but the black dragon insisted on finding the dragon blood, which made him very worried.

Just when he was at a loss, he suddenly received news from Baron Fisher - he claimed that he had information about dragon blood in his hands and hoped to join him and receive protection like Alman.

The Duke of Chalbris immediately figured out a problem.

Alman, or Baron Fisher? None of this mattered, and he didn't care. What mattered was where the dragon's blood was. Charlbliss's days were numbered, and there had been no news from Alman. Baron Fisher clearly had ambitions to replace Alman, and was therefore secretly investigating the dragon's blood. This was their internal strife, and Charlblis didn't bother to pay attention. He simply wanted to obtain the dragon's blood.

The appearance of the black dragon is undoubtedly an opportunity.

Instead of placing his hopes on small figures like Alman and Baron Fisher, it would be better to try to use the black dragon that can sense the location of dragon blood. At that time, he really couldn't do anything about the black dragon, so he came up with a very bold plan in his heart.

Let the black dragon help him find dragon blood.

No matter whether the dragon blood is with Baron Fisher or with Alman, as long as the Black Dragon searches around, he will always find it. Then Baron Fisher and Alman will have only two choices: hand over the dragon blood, or fight the Black Dragon to the death.

No matter what choices these minions make, there is only one final result: the black dragon will get back the dragon blood. However, perhaps those vampires will bring a little trouble to the black dragon, but that's all.

And he, Chalblis, will be the final winner - because while the black dragon was searching for dragon blood, he had gathered all his most elite vassals and slaves, and at the same time quickly recovered from his injuries - as a vampire duke who had lived for five hundred years, the various resources and wealth in Chalblis's hands were his most powerful strength. Now he came here in his prime, in order to use the power of his entire clan to kill the black dragon, seize the dragon blood, and even extract a second portion of dragon blood from the black dragon.

Become enemies with the dragon clan?

Anyway, his life span is short and he is doomed to die. If he gets the dragon's blood, maybe he can still have a chance, right?

Chalbliss had never been so crazy.

But he was fearless.

So he brought all the strong men of his clan and chased after them, thinking that he would witness a great show, but...

As Chalblis looked around, all he saw was a mess. It was snowing heavily, but he felt a burning sensation on his face - there was no snow within a few kilometers. The forest was cut in half, there were sunken mounds, spiral gullies, and cracked frozen soil. All these shocking things showed him that a fierce battle had taken place here before he arrived.

Was this caused by Baron Fisher's battle with the dragon? -- It was impossible even to think about it.

There were no bodies on the ground at all.

Chalbliss instinctively looked past the girl with dragon horns, who was obviously the incarnation of the black dragon, and focused his gaze on the other two women who were simply dressed.

There was something seriously wrong with those two unidentified women—that's what the voice in Chalblis' heart told him.

So, what now?

At this time, a young vampire beside him suddenly said eagerly: "Your Excellency, that girl seems to be the Black Dragon. Let's go and capture it!"

The Duke glared at him as if he were an idiot.

That girl is a black dragon, how could he not know? He is not blind.

But the current situation is obviously wrong!

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375. White and tender fist (3K6)

Aisha glanced at Tricia and said:

"These vampires look much more powerful than Baron Fisher's men. We can't just leave so many vampires gathered here alone, right? I'll go talk to them. If they have ulterior motives, we'll arrest them all."

In fact, Elsa originally wanted to see what these vampires were doing here, but the vampires didn't make any moves, so Elsa didn't want to waste time. Since the vampires didn't move, Elsa would take the initiative to ask.

After all, she has a meeting with Duke Charlbris tonight. Elsa doesn't want to miss any clues from the Duke. It's getting late now, so Elsa plans to resolve it as soon as possible.

Tricia nodded. "Let's go together. These vampires seem to have quite a few superior species. Perhaps they have had contact with Alman and Duke Charlbliss. They might be some valuable clues."

Aisha looked at the black dragon girl and said, "Wait here."

Tricia repeated it again in dragon language. The girl pursed her lips, just looked in the direction of the vampire, without saying a word.

And the moment her gaze swept towards Duke Charlbliss, her golden vertical pupils slowly became fierce, and Elsa and Tricia also keenly noticed the change in the girl's aura.

the other side--

“H-What happened…?”

The young vampire was a little frightened by Charlblis's deep gaze.

In fact, the young vampire is not young at all, he just has a young face - for vampires, as long as they are not old vampires like Charlbliss whose life is about to come to an end, it is not difficult to make themselves look young and beautiful.

Vampires who think highly of themselves often make themselves look elegant and noble, and their appearance is naturally important. Some vampires even rely on this power to seek pleasure and hunt their prey.

"Open your eyes and take a good look. How much force do you think it would take to raze this forest to the ground?"

Chalbliss stared at the young vampire, making him afraid to look directly at him.

Chalbliss knew what the young vampire was thinking. In fact, the group of vampires who followed him here this time were probably just like the young vampire, unable to suppress their inner tension and anticipation. This feeling would make people unconsciously become anxious, and thus ignore many dangers that should not be ignored.

All vampires want a piece of the action after killing the dragon.

Although the presence of Chalblis meant that the others were destined to be unable to obtain the most essential true dragon blood that contained the soul of a giant dragon, they would definitely have enough ordinary dragon blood - even if it was not as good as the blood of a true dragon, ordinary dragon blood was also a rare treasure. It was the blood of the most powerful creature in the world, and its temptation to the vampires was imaginable.

The vampires here are all elites under Duke Charlbliss, but due to the limitations of their bloodline, many of them have already reached the bottleneck of bloodline evolution. Among them, there are also individuals who are about to reach the end of their lives like Charlbliss. They all need precious bloodline such as dragon blood to evolve their own bloodline.

Moreover, it is not only the blood of the dragon that is extremely precious, its entire body is full of rare treasures - dragon eyes, dragon horns, dragon scales, etc. After hunting the dragon, these precious things will be divided up by the vampires present.

All of these were conditions promised by Duke Chalblis before he set out - if he didn't offer enough benefits, how could he get these vampires to fight for him?

Hunting a dragon is something that they would never dare to think about under normal circumstances. Only with Duke Chalblis taking the lead did they have the courage to try it.