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Chapter 846 Scarlet Courtyard (7)

"This is an exhibition room. Those nobles..."

When those nobles have fun, they naturally have the need to show off. They may not bring vulgar things like gold coins, but it is common for them to bring some works of art and other treasures to demonstrate their strength.

We entered a casino in front, and the gold coins there filled the small treasury, and we also found many leftover objects and even extraordinary equipment here.

The blood descendants lost interest in these things. Although Lance said he didn't care, he still collected them...

"I sense a strong aura over there. It should be the descendant of the nobles left over from that time."

Yulia swung her sword to kill the last blood descendant, looked up and forward, blood slid from the sword in her hand but did not drip onto the ground, but turned into blood mist and flowed into the holy grail in Lance's hand.

Lance didn't care about her words at all. He was just curious about a question that had been bothering him for a long time.

"Why are the descendants of nobles stronger?"

"Because the infection methods and targets are different, drinking the blood of a powerful vampire directly is more effective than a bite from the vampire. However, most people cannot withstand this power. Only those with a strong will or some kind of strong obsession can persevere.

Another thing is to stay rational under the impulse of hunger and thirst, so as to control the mutation, otherwise you will become something that is neither human nor ghost. "

This explains why all we see are small fry. It turns out that not all nobles can be transformed into that kind. The higher the priority of infection, the more power they gain, but also the greater the price they pay.

Only a strong desire can hold on. The baron whose hands turned into a whip is an example. The inferiority complex had long distorted his will and allowed it to complete its transformation, although it was a degraded one.

However, although Yulia's words seemed to explain something, Lance felt that it was more like her experience.

When she introduced it before, she just mentioned the experience of losing everything and coming back in the end. Now it seems that it is not that simple.

One could probably guess that the scarlet rose infected her in order to control her, but who would have thought that Yulia did not sink into the hungry desire, but the strong obsession with revenge allowed her to maintain her self.

Maybe the original plot was that the ancestor pretended to die like he killed the countess, then resurrected and escaped, hiding in the wilderness to practice, and withstood the erosion of the curse, and instead controlled that power to complete the transformation. Only she herself knew the hardships involved.

This is also a "protagonist" type character, but Lance has no hobby of exposing other people's scars, so he did not dwell on this topic and instead gestured to take action.

"Then kill it, it's just a bug blocking the way."

The two continued to go deeper and found something wrong. The blood descendants did not appear near this place. It can be said that they have entered the "territory" of some existence.

“In the front was the dining room, where banquets could last for weeks, but there was never a shortage of food.”

When he pushed the door and entered the restaurant, the first thing that caught his eye was the huge stone table and countless corpses placed on it. Now Lance knew why there were no blood descendants around. They were all on the table.

There were also countless corpses wrapped in a strange, bright red mucus that looked like flesh and blood, and then hung from the roof, which reminded people of the way those insects stored food.

And among these smelly and corrupt garbage piles, there is a blood descendant whose body is not huge, but whose upper, middle and lower parts are extremely strange.

It was probably more than two meters tall, with its entire head completely insectoid, a black chitinous face, large protruding black eyes, a mouth full of fangs, and a tattered coat visible on its upper body, with a napkin stuffed on its chest.

His hands did not transform into insect limbs, but they looked thin and sharp, with a knife in one hand and a fork in the other, just like a gourmet.

The baron in front had a big mouth on his abdomen, along with the cocoon behind it, but this one was different. His abdomen was covered with fallen cysts, like many layers of fat belly, except that there were many of them overlapping each other, which looked very disgusting.

However, the lower part is fat and short, with a large area covered with black carapace. You can also see that the lower abdomen is bulging red due to congestion or fullness, just like a bloated flea.

The image of the monster reminded Lance of a viscount who was addicted to eating to the point of madness and was complained about in his ancestor's diary.

The feasts and revelry would last for days or even weeks, during which time restaurants would produce a steady stream of sumptuous delicacies and the attendees would eat until the food became bland.

Not eating does not mean there will be enough space for food at the banquet. The huge amount of extravagance and waste causes the abundant food to start to deteriorate over time.

At this time, a greedy gourmet happily suggested that everyone should taste this smelly and corrupt garbage dump!
Naturally, this proposal was rejected by everyone as being detrimental to health, and no one paid attention to it.

But a few days later, he was found in a pile of stale food, giggling wildly and licking his fingers with delight...

A viscount who calls himself a gourmet, he has endless greed and hunger for food, and of course, a distorted definition of food.

This idea was not only not forgotten after becoming a blood descendant, but became even more crazy.

No wonder there are no vampires around, it turns out they were all caught and eaten by it, or turned into food reserves.

The Viscount noticed the fast food delivered to his door when they came in. He immediately raised his knife and fork excitedly, jumped up, and came directly in front of them, swinging the knife.

Exquisite side dish!

The action was that of a dinner knife, but the real attack was the blade-like forelimbs swung towards the two men.

Lance retreated behind him, and Yulia rushed forward without wasting any words, raising the greatsword to block in front of her. One could vaguely see the blood-colored phantom that was aroused enveloping her.

Iron Maiden!
At this time, the crisp sound of the collision between the forelimbs and the sword body shows its hardness and strength.

However, her two forelimbs were quite flexible, and she was still scratched after blocking the attack. The damage was not serious, just some minor flesh wounds, but it angered her.

revenge!

The big sword in front of her burst out with power as she grasped it with both hands and swung it directly at the Viscount.

The blade cut open the cysts on the chest and abdomen the instant they came into contact, but the Viscount would not stand there to let her hit him. He immediately jumped back, grabbed the corpses around him and stuffed them into his mouth.

Try a small handful!

After eating, the wound on the Viscount's body healed quickly, but Yulia would not give it a chance to recover, and immediately rushed forward with sword raised.

A noble duty!
Only in some very traditional aristocratic education will you be told that the reason why aristocrats become aristocrats is not because of their bloodline, but because of their responsibility to protect others and their obligation to charge forward. Unfortunately, many people have forgotten this. But Yulia did not forget it. She rushed forward and stabbed the Viscount with her sword, interrupting his eating. Lance, who was watching from behind, felt that he was in a bad state and seemed to be not full.

This was a humiliation for a gourmet, and he expressed his anger by moving closer and pushing forward with the limbs that kept hitting the ground.

Present delicacies!

The moment it got closer, the two pieces of carapace covering the front of its lower body suddenly split open like wings, revealing two retracted sharp insect limbs that suddenly popped out from under the bloody flesh, as if they were hands being presented.

Julia was caught off guard and stabbed by the spikes, but she fought back firmly as if she didn't feel any pain, swinging her sword and slashing directly at the front of the insect's body which had no shell protection. The viscount was immediately frightened and retracted the spikes, but the damage had already been done and blood kept dripping.

The weakness brought by the injury, coupled with the smell of blood in front of her, made Yulia's hunger and thirst worse. She wanted blood...

But Yulia's instinctive resistance to this bloodthirsty desire caused her to miss the chance to pursue.

The injured viscount turned around and jumped to the other side, grabbed the hanging corpse and started to eat it.

Enjoy the meal!

This time no one disturbed him, so he ate to his heart's content. His condition quickly improved, and the aura that had just fallen became even stronger.

Of course, Yulia also noticed it. She did not rush to urge Lance to help, but continued to charge with sword in hand.

Yulia used to practice the rapier that was common among the nobles, and her swordsmanship tended to be flexible and swift, but after experiencing those things, she realized that it was too weak. Now she wears heavy armor and holds a big sword in order to show her advantages.

The vigorous swordplay would easily cause exaggerated wounds on the Viscount, but after understanding the Viscount's attack methods, she could deal with them easily.

Even if she was slightly injured during the fight, it didn't matter. As a blood descendant, she was also a blood cow. Soon the seemingly chaotic situation was under her control.

But the Viscount naturally could not sit there and wait for death, so he suddenly opened the two pieces of shell on the front of his body that were riddled with sword marks.

Watching with eager eyes!

However, this time, it was not the hidden spikes that attacked, but the dense black eyeballs that emerged from the two open shells, accompanied by an unknown buzzing sound, and a strange force suddenly hit Yulia.

This hidden move was indeed unexpected. Yulia had been prepared to guard against the spikes, but now she was caught off guard and fell into trouble.

The Viscount finally had the chance to create distance again and eat the large piece of corpse.

Greedy feast!

It turned its weakness into a morbid appetite and continued to devour the corpses. It was even somewhat difficult to restrain itself. Its belly was so fat that it even slowed down its movements, but it was visibly that the wounds on its body were beginning to heal.

After watching this scene, Lance finally finished his observation and probably figured out the Viscount's abilities. Its most powerful ability was to recover by devouring corpses. Its other means of attack were too poor. It only relied on its two front limbs and the hidden spikes. Of course, the strange eyes might mean that the lower body was the main body.

"From now on, you just need to attack freely, and leave the rest to me."

Lance calmly raised the Holy Grail and let a drop of blood fall into her mouth. The burst of vitality healed the wound and eased the thirst, summoning her consciousness back.

With the help of Lance, Yulia suddenly opened her bloodshot eyes and dragged her sword forward to fight with the viscount again.

Lance launched a sacrifice and cleaned up all the messy corpses. Without the obstruction of the corpses and the devouring, the Viscount fell seriously injured in just a few seconds when facing Yulia.

The newly grown carapace on his body was knocked open by the sword again, and blood continued to ooze out. The part without armor was even worse, and the upper part was almost cut off. He struggled to hold on but couldn't escape at all...

To be honest, the battles along the way were like chopping melons and vegetables, and Yulia's true strength was not shown at all. This is why Lance chose to stand by and watch just now. He just wanted to see Yulia's strength.

After fighting with the Viscount for so long and still failing to defeat him, can you really say she is weak?
This is probably not possible, because Yulia has not exerted the most powerful power of the bloodline, she has been suppressing herself.

The Viscount has been able to hold on until now only because he is flexible enough to jump around, has a lot of blood and means of recovery. Once this advantage is gone, he will not be able to withstand a few swords.

Just like now, the Viscount whose legs were cut off still wanted to struggle and open the broken shell in front of him.

However, Yulia, who was well prepared, did not give the insect any chance at all. She thrust her sword straight in and pushed the entire blade into the fat and short insect body. If the cross hilt had not been stuck, it might have slipped in. She even used both hands to push it back a few steps.

Instead of pulling it out, Yulia twisted the blade, turned sideways and pulled it out, tearing a hole directly from the inside.

This time, even the blood descendant's powerful vitality could not resist it. His bulging belly burst and blood flowed all over the ground. The Viscount's entire two-meter-tall body collapsed and fell to the ground with a dull thud, and he died on the spot!

"Hmph!" Yulia put the greatsword upside down and stood with the sword in her hand. Her body was stained with blood, but she looked extraordinary and heroic.

Lance watched the entire battle and realized that she was still very powerful, even among legendary swordsmen.

His strength is far beyond that of ordinary people. His heavy armor reduces damage, and ordinary attacks cannot even break his defense. He also has thick blood and strong recovery ability, so his condition will not be affected unless he is fatally injured.

He went forward and sacrificed the Viscount directly, and a dining knife dropped. Its effect was to attack, suck blood and heal the user, which really corresponded to the Viscount's ability.

"Open your mouth."

Lance took out the Holy Grail and gave a drop of blood to Julia to make up for her loss. Vampires will not get tired, but they will also consume energy, and the Scarlet Curse will draw power from the blood to replenish it.

Smacking her lips, Yulia did not ask Lance for more. She just silently cooperated with Lance to clean the yard in exchange for essence and blood.

After killing the Viscount, there was nothing left that could restrict them. Even the crocodiles roaming around were nothing but a joke.

Lance dragged the grappling spear out of the reeds, and Yulia went up and killed it with a few swords. They continued to explore and basically found everything they could. Lance picked up a lot of garbage, but nothing was cheap. It turned out that junglers still have to go to the rich area.

The courtyard is a small kingdom, with basically all the means of enjoyment of that era, such as casinos, high-end clubs, knight fencing, hunting and beast fighting, singing and dancing, poetry, art exhibition halls... it has everything, and even some "small games" that are not allowed to be seen in the light. The only thing is that there is no brothel because there are too many women.

"We are close to the core of the courtyard, and our enemies are just ahead."

Suddenly, Yulia spoke, interrupting Lance's thoughts, and he couldn't help but look at the palace vaguely visible in front of him.