Strength 99999 but the Holy Sister

"Just like last time, I'll weave the illusion, and I'll leave the rest to you, Elsa."

Elsa took out the scepter.

“No, no! No!!”

Alman seemed to have guessed something and retreated repeatedly holding the parchment, but the next second he saw a faint golden cross pattern appear in Elsa's eyes. His eyes quickly became empty, and soon, Alman completely lost consciousness and fell into an endless illusion.

The other him stood in the distance, watching the scene nervously, and it took him a long time to finally breathe a sigh of relief.

……

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527 Visitors to the Manor

West Coast, Polmo Harbour.

In recent days, the wind and snow have not been as fierce as before, and the city has become lively again after a long time. The snow on the busy streets has been cleared, revealing the bluestone slabs underneath.

Tate arrived in the port city earlier than planned. After settling in, he sent someone to contact the local Chamber of Commerce in Bolmore Harbor, trying to find clues to the missing informants. He needed to recover that important intelligence, otherwise all his previous efforts would be in vain.

He even took action personally for this purpose.

At the door of the tavern, Tate had just learned some information from a few sailors. As soon as he walked out, he saw that the servants were already waiting by the carriage.

He glanced around and got into the carriage.

"Sir, someone is looking for you," the servant said respectfully as he boarded the carriage. "I've temporarily placed him in a manor outside the city. Would you like to go and see him?"

"Who?"

"It is the Count of Bardo, my Lord."

"Count Badu..."

Tate's eyes flickered in thought, and he remembered the name.

Badu is one of Alman's cadres and can be considered a colleague, but Tate doesn't have a good impression of Badu.

Because Badu is a lazy and opportunistic guy. Although Badu is of the earl's bloodline, his control of blood curse magic is simply a piece of shit. He obviously possesses the blood power of the earl level, but the strength he can exert in actual combat is less than 70%. He is considered to be the weaker one among the earl's bloodlines. Tate has always disdained to have any dealings with such a useless colleague.

Therefore, when Tate was still working for the old chief, he had no intersection with him. Even now that they are both cadres, Tate never looks at each other straight in the eye - Tate is a marquis, Badu is an earl, and there are differences between cadres.

"Shouldn't he be staying in the forest? Why is he coming to see me? Did the chief ask him to come?"

"Well... I can't explain it clearly..." The servant was a little embarrassed. After thinking for a while, he said, "He said he came to seek refuge with you, sir. Also, he said he is not the only one coming to seek refuge with you this time. Others will be here soon."

As he spoke, the servant took out a magic stone. Tate saw at a glance that it was a magic stone that could leave images.

"He asked me to give this to you."

"I'm really surprised. Can this guy join me?"

Tate laughed.

Although he had limited knowledge of Badu, he knew clearly that Badu had always been on the opposite side of him - a waste like Badu who had no strength and only knew how to scheme would soon be abandoned if he did not find a big tree to lean on. In order to reflect his own value, he had to find a balance point between the two sides of the balance.

Tate had his own power and loyal subordinates. Though weak, he was as strong as a steel needle, making it difficult for Armand to remove him. Meanwhile, Armand, while in control of the current organization, most of his loyalists had perished in Dammas, and the ones he subsequently recruited were either ragtag or fence-sitters. While Armand appeared to possess immense power, his relationship with his leaders was like rotten wood, fragile and prone to breaking at the slightest touch.

That's why Badu firmly chooses to stand on Alman's side, because Badu understands that as long as he shows loyalty, he will be "needed" by Alman.

Tate saw it clearly. He and Alman were getting increasingly at odds with each other. Badu must be crazy to come to him for help at this time - if that really happened, Alman would be the first to kill him.

"I'm afraid the leader is still worried about me, so he found someone and a reason to keep an eye on me."

Tate concluded, and the servant nodded in agreement.

But when Tate activated the magic stone, he was stunned - unlike what he expected, there were several other cadres inside. Tate knew these cadres. They were all from Alman's faction. However, they were very humble and quickly explained their purpose after a simple greeting.

Basically: they have decided not to follow Alman anymore and support Tate as the new leader.

"Are you serious?"

Tate was dumbfounded. He instinctively felt that something was wrong.

"We're not going to the Chamber of Commerce today. Let's take a different route," he said to the driver, "back to the manor."

Tate owns a winery outside of Bordeaux.

The winery is quite old, but business is very bad, so there are not many people in the entire winery.

Of course, this winery was not originally his.

But under his manipulation, the original owner of the winery and his family have now become his blood slaves. He moved in here as a newly hired housekeeper, and with the convenience of this identity, he swaggered in and out of the city to implement his own plans.

When Tate returned to the manor, Badu had been waiting in the reception room for a long time. As soon as he saw Tate, Badu hurriedly came forward with flattery.

"You have something to say."

Tate ignored Badu, strode to the main seat, and got straight to the point.

"I'm busy, don't waste my time."

This is true. Tate is really busy now - he has heard some rumors that the blood slaves who were sent out recently suffered heavy casualties. From the attack to death, no one spread the news. Obviously, the enemies who attacked them were much stronger than them, and they had no power to resist at all.

There is no need to guess, it is very likely that Elsa Faris has already taken action.

Tate knew that he didn't have much time left.

……

Elsa and Tricia stayed in the forest for a whole day.

On this day, the organization was destroyed.

Chief Alman died silently, his soul annihilated in the illusion. Before his death, he issued a final recall order, calling back some vampires who were still willing to obey orders to the forest. However, what awaited them was the trap set by Duke Chalblis.

Under Tricia's hypnosis and Adele's mind reading, they could not hide any secrets at all, and the whereabouts of other vampire accomplices naturally fell into Elsa's hands.

But unfortunately, Tricia did not find any clues about the mysterious man from Alman's memory.

and……

Elsa looked curiously at the parchment in Tricia's hand. The handwriting on it was densely covered, but it kept changing.

"Is this the Book of Daevara?"

So, the treasure that Alman regards as his most precious thing and never leaves his side is the Book of Daevara?

"Yes, but it's only a fragment... In Alman's memory, he found it among the old leader's relics. Since obtaining it, Alman's temperament has changed drastically. He is certain of his fate and believes that he will not die... But it's clear that he seems to have misunderstood his destiny."

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528. Me? Eloping? Really or not? (2K7)

"The Book of Daevara", or "The Holy Book of the Vampires", "The Book of Prophecy" - the legend about "The Book of Daevara" is not as well known to most people as those poems praising heroes. It is a rumor that is extremely hidden even among the vampires, but this does not pose a problem for the knowledgeable Tricia.

Tricia had naturally heard of the legend of "The Book of Daevara", but this was the first time she had seen it with her own eyes.

only……

This Book of Daevara seemed a little different from the legends she had heard.

Tricia squinted her eyes and stared at the parchment in her hand.

Unlike Elsa, whose eyes were full of curiosity, Tricia's expression at this moment was very solemn - she had directly read Alman's memory, and she knew that everything in Alman's memory was reality. Naturally, she also understood the weirdness of the Book of Daevara from Alman's memory.

As the first person, from the perspective of an observer, I read all of Alman's memories after he obtained the Book of Daevara.

It is not difficult to find that Alman was turned into his current crazy appearance by the Book of Daevara.

However, Alman himself, the person involved, was completely unaware of this.

What Alman didn't know was that from Tricia's perspective, the appearance of the old leader that she saw from Alman's memory was exactly the same as Alman's own appearance at this moment! - This alone was enough to send a chill down Tricia's spine.

so……

Was it really just because of the mysterious man's instigation that the old leader led his men to attack the Dammas Fortress?

The more you think about it, the more it feels wrong.

This is a strangeness that only a bystander of Alman's memory can feel.

In addition, there is another very strange thing - as long as Elsa starts to read the contents of the parchment, the text will change immediately, and each time will be different from the previous one.

In other words, it is really impossible to say whether the prophecy is accurate or not.

However, it seemed to only react to Elsa - it was useless to anyone else, whether it was Tricia herself or the captured vampires.

Tricia told Aisha everything she saw and heard in Alman's memories.

She didn't want to hide anything from Elsa, but she considered it carefully before deciding to tell her.

After hearing Tricia's speculation, Aisha was also a little surprised: "So, you think this is what made Alman become like this?"

"I don't know the exact reason... I can't see any magic in this parchment, but as you can see, it's definitely not an ordinary thing. In my opinion, this parchment may be our greatest gain this time."

As she spoke, Tricia solemnly closed the parchment, sealed it with layers of seals, and prepared to put it into her own space equipment.

"Wait a moment."

Elsa suddenly thought of something. Tricia's hands did not stop moving. The parchment was covered with fluorescent light and was about to disappear. Elsa didn't care about anything else and reached out to grab the parchment.

hum-

In an instant, the halo of space magic collapsed, the parchment solidified again, and fell smoothly into Elsa's hands.

"Elsa, you..."

"Let me keep this kind of thing."

Elsa chuckled and threw the parchment into her ring without saying anything.

……

Vassal state of Herancys Butanna.

As winter arrived, the cold wave from the far north equally invaded every piece of land in the north, and the royal capital was now covered in snow.

Helansis Butanna was a vassal state of the Linthesius Empire. This land, unique to the demi-humans, was once the most desolate mountain range in the northern border of the empire, nestled at the foot of a snow-capped mountain, and separated from the old capital of the empire by the entire Alba Mountains. The previous empress separated this uninhabited land from the northern border and awarded it to a demi-human woman who had made outstanding contributions in the Demon King War - Helanie Islina, now Queen Islina.

Since then, the Asians established their first independent country.

At this time, in the bedroom of the royal city of Helansis Butana.

Helanie Islina looked at a torn parchment scroll in her hand, her concentration so intense that her snow-white fox ears didn't move. Her eyes were solemn and serious, yet full of doubts. Yesterday, after she had dealt with the accumulated government affairs, she came to the bedroom to rest, but suddenly found that the content on the parchment scroll had changed again.

At first it was just a sudden flash.

Then suddenly there were continuous and countless changes.

Then still.

Soon it became messy again.

It went on and on like this, with a long pause in the middle and then started again just now.

This strange situation was really wrong - in fact, this was the second time that Helanie Islina saw the content of the scroll change since she obtained the incomplete parchment scroll.

At first, she thought that the words recorded in this book of prophecy were predetermined, and everything was predetermined, until two months ago.

That’s right, it was when the Dammas Fortress in the Western Province of the Empire was attacked.

Even earlier.

She had learned about the fall of the fortress from the prophecy a long time ago. She knew it all, but did not tell anyone because she deeply understood that nothing would change because of her. However, at that moment, the prophecy changed.

That was the first time she noticed the change in the prophecy. She watched with her own eyes as the contents of the Book of Prophecy continued to change, eventually evolving into new text.

She saw something completely new and was shocked by what was on it.

However, not long after, everything came true. A name that had never appeared before quickly spread throughout the continent under the promotion of the secret sage.

—Aisha Faris.

That was the first change in the Book of Prophecy.

Since then, she studied the Book of Prophecy like crazy. She was no longer just focused on the content of the prophecy, but was more looking for places where the prophecy had changed. Finally, she found some names, some names that had never appeared before, like Aisha Faris.

She began to investigate secretly.

Coincidentally, she discovered that one of them was close to the witch Grace who had followed her for a long time. Her name was Sophia Trawins, and the other was her daughter, Vivian Trawins.