Shadow Apostle.

Chapter 19
(For those who followed the reading before 10 o'clock yesterday morning, I missed two sentences at the end of the last chapter. I added them after 10 o'clock. You can take a look.)
However, Horst seemed to have been prepared for it. He twisted his waist in advance and moved out of the front range of the shotgun.

After a burst of smoke, Horst rolled on the spot, quickly distanced himself from the opponent, and disappeared into the darkness outside the candle circle.

"Should I call you Your Excellency the Earl?" Horst's voice was erratic in the darkness. "When did you 'come back'? Let me think about it. It should be that the Countess suddenly and uncharacteristically came out of her grief. It started, um, two months ago, probably around the same time."

"boom."

There was a flash of fire, and a shot hit the place where the sound came from.

"The countess must have missed you too much. She found a way to bring you back from the world of the dead. Unfortunately, she is not a mysterious contactee. She doesn't understand at all. Those dead who have returned from the mysterious world , no one can tell what is coming back, like you?"

Horst's voice had already reached the opposite side of the magic circle. Miss Berndt ran a few steps to bypass the magic circle. However, when she ran over, Horst had already detoured elsewhere, and the shadow of the candlelight became his most important thing. Good cover.

"Haha, you can shoot too." Earl Bernt suddenly laughed, lowered the muzzle of his gun, and slowly walked back to the candle circle, "If you don't want to shoot, come over and have a chat."

There was no gunfire in the cave, and a moment later Horst walked out of the darkness.

Swinging his cane, he walked all the way to His Excellency the Earl, raised his hat and bowed and saluted: "Should I say we met for the first time or we met again, Your Excellency, good day."

"It seems that you are also a smart person and know when to do something." His Excellency the Earl said while playing with the folding fan, "Have you already guessed that I am in her body?"

"How is it possible? I am not a believer of the Lord of Silver Moon, and I don't know how to predict. The problem is that among the possible candidates for the identity of the mastermind behind the scenes, her suspicion has never been ruled out, but it is getting bigger and bigger."

"She is the only one left in the family who remains normal. It may be because of her high soul resistance, but it may also be because she has left a backdoor for herself. The Countess knows where the blueprint is, and so do you and her. Even the villagers did not look at it. As for the suspicious person, if the suspicious person is her, they won't say she is suspicious when she asks the farmhands by herself, not to mention that there is this escape route. She is indeed not familiar with it, but you are familiar with it."

"So of course I have to consider the possibility that she is the real murderer, otherwise I wouldn't have read so many stories in vain. But I would rather believe her. I don't think she is the murderer anyway, because I don't believe a person who is obviously afraid. I was trembling, thinking that a fool who cut off a stranger's back could do such a thing."

"Then the question is, if she is not the real culprit and the real culprit is her, what is the reason? The only possibility is that someone did these things without her knowledge." Horst suddenly laughed. , shook his head sadly, "And after she woke up, she foolishly went to hire someone for help. I should have known better. The embarrassment with the dark circles under her eyes at that time didn't look like she hadn't slept well for a day or two, but rather like she hadn't slept well for a day or two. She hasn't slept for months. It seems that you did these things with her body after she fell asleep. Since Your Majesty wants to talk, don't you plan to make these things clear? "

"It's almost as you thought. Wei Na missed me so much. An adult just gave her a way to temporarily wake me up from the underworld of death, and I came back just like that."

"Is there an adult? Is that level 4?"

His Excellency the Earl was silent for a moment and nodded slowly.

"Oh, it seems that she doesn't know what you are doing, but you have seen all her experiences. However, no matter how good the method is, the boundary between life and death is not so easy to break, right? Now these are, Your Excellency, the Earl Want a way back?"

"Use the power of blood to open the door to the Kingdom of the Underworld, maintain my awakening, and then use the souls of all my close relatives in exchange for my resurrection."

"No wonder the Countess is also affected. She is the one who woke you up. You want to send her to the Kingdom of Hades as well?"

"Since you've awakened me, wouldn't it be a normal sacrifice to exchange your life and soul for my return?" His Excellency the Earl said nonchalantly, "Now that the ceremony has been completed, what about you, have you considered it clearly?" "Huh?"

"You are a bounty hunter and you are employed by 'me'. I don't mind if you continue to be employed by me. You are a smart man and know how to cooperate with me. From now on, I will be the next Earl of Bernt , and you are the first knight I canonize." His Excellency the Earl said with a sneer, "Of course, you can also choose to disobey me and tell everything, but will others believe you or me? Or you can You can try to shoot and kill Jessica's remaining body with your own hands, and then be charged with murdering your employer and killing the kingdom's nobles. It's up to you to choose which path you take in the end."

"Tsk, you want me to betray my contract with Jessica and turn around and cooperate with you." Horst shook his head and said, "Actually, I quite like that woman, even though she is quite stupid and often does She makes some very stupid choices, but sometimes there are just such stupid people in the world. So, you want me to betray her? You have to pay more."

"Becoming a family knight, you will be fixed at three Golden Georges every month." His Excellency the Earl said without any surprise, "You are a person who knows the value of money. You should understand what three Golden Georges every month means."

"Hiss..." Horst's mouth trembled and he was silent for a long time before gritting his teeth and said, "It's a very good condition, but it's different from what I want."

"what do you want?"

"Those four are your most loyal servants. Are they going to die on their own initiative, or are they deceived by you into a dead end? I don't want to end up with the same fate as them. I want to live. And I don't want to. I hope you will silence me if you turn your back, and place all the blame on me."

"what are you saying?"

"Let me guess, Your Excellency, this ceremony is not completely over yet, right? You see, both the countess and the little earl are still breathing, which is not like you said that the ceremony is completed. So after you try , did not continue to chase me, but kept talking nonsense to me just to delay time. I am afraid that when the ceremony is really over and you successfully occupy this body, it will be my death. "

"you……"

"Actually, your promise is very tempting, and I almost fell in love with it. But who told me to promise Jessica already?" Horst sighed, "I asked her specifically before coming in, and she said she would do whatever it takes." I also want to save my loved ones. I promised her that I would help her with all my strength, and I will definitely do what I promised, no matter whether she is dead or alive."

"You can't do it, hahahaha." The count laughed, "You can only watch everything end as a witness to my return."

"No, during the time you were delaying, I have roughly figured out what to do." Horst squinted his eyes and gritted his teeth, "I admire that woman very much. You actually dare to attack her, then... Take your life to accompany me, this is the price you should pay to bribe me."

As he spoke, Horst grabbed Miss Berndt's body and pushed her towards the candle circle.

　I found that I really shouldn’t talk nonsense. There are many capable readers.

　　Yig is the snake god, and his dependents are snake people. However, one of the snake people does not worship Yig properly, but instead believes in Tsatogua.

　　Chapter 17 was supposed to be about someone who had changed his faith.But snake people are intelligent, and this place is not suitable for intelligent things, so I changed it and threw in a crypt worm.

　　But the name of the worm was too ugly, so I just called it Ig.

　　As a result, it was discovered, forget it, I changed back to the Crypt Worm.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)