Blue Sword

He took out a soul contract from the bag, with the terms already written on it. Peggy took it and browsed through it. They were basically some necessary team cooperation terms, for example, Party A and Party B must not harm each other directly or indirectly, etc. It’s worth noting the last one:

This contract is valid for 5 years. Party A (Asker) provides Party B (Peggy) with sufficient knowledge and training to help it grow to a level that can protect itself, while Party B needs to follow Party A's instructions without violating the above cooperation terms. Party A is responsible for distributing the trophies jointly obtained by the team.

Standard mercenary apprenticeship treaty.

"So you taught me fighting skills in exchange for me working for you?" Paige asked.

"That's right." Ask said with a smile:

"You now have the basic level of extraordinary power, but you don't know how to use it. I will teach you how to use your own strength effectively in exchange for you working for me for a period of time. Is it reasonable?"

"Additional one," Peggy said, "Help me take revenge and kill the vampires in your house. There must be a time limit."

Obviously, the girl was still wary and distrustful of him, but Asik didn't care.

In fact, according to the main plot, a world-class all-out war will only take place in the past few years.

If fighting alone, no matter how powerful the extraordinary person is, he will inevitably be killed.

Therefore, to establish a high-level combat team that obeys his own command, Asker has sufficient reasons to advance this matter.

As for these teammates, it doesn’t matter if you believe me or not at first. As long as they taste the benefits later, they will naturally be tied up in benefits.

"Okay." Asker wrote, "Within a week."

Can you get revenge within this week? Paige was suddenly excited, but in front of Asker, she suppressed her excitement hard and just watched him coldly sign his name on the soul contract.

"Okay." Asik handed over the contract, "Take a look."

Peggy reviewed the contract again and confirmed in her mind the key terms of the contract: Ask taught herself to use extraordinary power in exchange for serving him, and it was valid for 5 years. As for revenge, that's just a bonus.

To myself, this is not unacceptable. If she could have supernatural powers that night, how could her parents be killed by a vampire who broke into the house?

Moreover, she is also a vampire now. If she does not have the power to protect herself, she may be discovered by the church and executed by the church one day.

Thinking of this, Peggy signed her name on Party B at the end of the contract.

"Okay, then we will be partners who can live and die together." Asik smiled and put away the contract, sensing that there was an invisible and extraordinary power connecting the two parties.

"Please also remember the one about helping me get revenge, Mr. Asker." Peggy said coldly.

"Don't call me sir, just call me by my name." Asik said, taking off the dagger hanging from the belt around his waist, "This is the weapon prepared for you."

"Weapon?" Peggy took the dagger.

"Some vampires believe that claws and spells are their best weapons." Asker explained, "In fact, it is not. Before you advance to level 5, an excellent weapon is still necessary. You know why you have Attack me, but I block you every time?"

"Why?" Paige asked.

"Because the sword is long but the arm is short." Asik said matter-of-factly, "My sword has already touched you before you hit me."

"If that's the case, why not use a longer weapon?" Peggy tried to reason, "such as a long sword, or a spear."

"If you are blindly pursuing distance, why don't you choose a sniper rifle?" Asker shook his head and said, "The farther the attack range of a weapon, the more vulnerable it is to close attacks. This is why an inch is long and strong, and an inch is short and dangerous. .”

"For vampires with high agility, daggers and daggers are the most suitable weapons, because your speed can make up for the lack of distance. Daggers are strong in attack and weak in defense, while daggers are more balanced."

"You have only recently become a vampire, and you are not yet familiar with your own extraordinary power." Asik continued, "Extraordinary power must be digested through actual exercise and transformed into the corresponding physical strength or spiritual power. Anyway, vampires are nocturnal animals. , No need for sleep, the first training plan starts tonight."

"You run as fast as you can across the hill to the cemetery, cut off a branch from the bushes outside the fence with your dagger, then rush back and throw it into the fire, and keep the fire going all night, that's it."

"What about you?" Paige asked, "Will you look at me?"

"Of course not." Ask said, "I am a human being and I want to sleep."

He took off his dried cotton armor and mail armor, found a flat place near the fire, lay down and covered himself with them to sleep.

Paige looked at him silently. Then she picked up the dagger, turned around and went out.

Running under the moonlight was a novel experience that Peggy had never had before - she had always been a good girl at home and never went out after 7 o'clock in the evening.

Now that she is a vampire, she has adapted to the dark night unexpectedly smoothly, and she seems to still have a faint impulse in her heart.

It was a bloodthirsty urge to kill and hunt.

Rushing to the end of the cemetery, there are dry bushes outside the fence. Peggy flew over the fence and struck the nearest bush with her dagger.

The bush was crushed by the dagger, then bounced back unscathed.

Peggy looked at it in silence for a while, and then she saw the reason: the edge of her dagger was not sharp, and the bushes were elastic, and simply cutting them would only deform them.

She reached out and grabbed a bush, holding a dagger in her right hand to cut off the branch at the bottom, then picked up the branch and ran back at high speed.

Rushing into the abandoned house, Peggy was shocked to find that the fire was much smaller. It turned out that because no one added firewood, some of the firewood inside was burned out. She quickly threw the branch into the fire, turned around and rushed toward the end of the cemetery like lightning.

After going back and forth several times, Peggy finally understood the design idea of ​​Asker's training plan: only one branch can be cut at a time, and the fire burns quickly, so the time of running back and forth must be shortened, and the sprinting speed must be Mentioned Max.

Stopping and cutting branches is a waste of time. You can grab the branches of the shrubs while sprinting, reach the bottom of the branches with the dagger in your right hand, and use the momentum to directly cut off the branches, without even waving your arms.

When you return to the abandoned house, you don't need to run to the fire to add more branches. You can throw the branches into the fire five or six steps away, which saves a few seconds.

After running back and forth for more than a hundred times, Peggy finally found that her physical abilities had increased, including the explosive power of her legs pushing off the ground when running, the ability to maintain balance when running on rough ground, and the ability to catch the target while sprinting. The reflexes of accurately swinging a sword and so on and so forth.

The vampire characteristics injected into her body by First Embrace, and the huge extraordinary power contained in them, are constantly improving and enhancing her physical strength.

I am getting stronger at a speed visible to the naked eye!

early morning.

Ask sat up from the ground and tapped his sore shoulder.

The feeling of sleeping on the ground is not pleasant. It is not unreasonable why people all over the world use pillows to sleep. He opened his eyes and looked at the fire in the center of the abandoned house.

The fire has become much smaller, but it is not completely extinguished. You can see a few branches inside, crackling and burning. Suddenly the wind blew, and another branch was thrown into the fire. Peggy stood at the door of the abandoned house, looking at him expressionlessly.

"You're awake," she said.

"Wake up." Asik stood up, put on his armor again, and put on his sword and pistol.

My mouth feels dry and I really want to brush my teeth.

"The training is effective, right?" Ask said, "It's time for us to leave here."

"When I was training," Peggy hesitated, "I always had a bloodthirsty urge to tear open or chew some creature. I don't know if it was my imagination."

"The extraordinary qualities from Flesh I contain a small amount of alien emotions." Asker waved his hand, "When absorbed, it may cause changes in your own consciousness. However, you are only at level 1 now, so the negative impact should not be big. I guess if you just concentrate a little bit, that urge will be suppressed, right?”

"Yes," said Peggy.

"That's enough." Ask walked out of the abandoned house.

The two walked down the hill and left the cemetery. Asker bought a black robe from a nearby clothing store and replaced Paige's linen shroud. It also covered her face to prevent familiar people from thinking she had returned from the dead.

The two left the clothing store and ran non-stop to the next store, which was the blacksmith shop they visited last time, located near the school where Aske worked.

"Boss." Walking into the store, Asker pointed to Peggy, who was wearing a black robe behind him, and said to the store owner who hurriedly came to greet her, "Give this lady a chainmail armor. It must be made of all steel rings and will not affect normal function." The active kind.”

"There is another set of close-fitting leather armor inside. It must be fully tanned. The joints must be flexible enough. There must be weight-dispersing reeds on the shoulders. It must also be lined with three layers of linen."

"Yes, Master Achilles." The shopkeeper nodded and bowed. He had already determined that Asker was a big customer. "However, the all-steel chain mail armor needs to be customized by a blacksmith, and the delivery time is estimated to be one month later. "

"Five days." Asker said, "I will give you 50 pounds. You can go to the factory opposite the Golden Horn to get the iron rings done. You can hire people from other blacksmith shops to knit the rings. I will pick up the goods in five days. I'll deposit the deposit here. Pay 20 pounds in advance."

The shopkeeper quickly calculated and found that he could get 5-15 pounds of profit. He immediately nodded and agreed: "No problem, Master Achilles. Hasda, damn Hasda! Call your mother-in-law." Come quickly and have this distinguished lady measured!”

"Nordrik! Hurry up and find a factory across from the Golden Horn and order 15,000 chainmail rings. If you can't finish it before 5 p.m., don't eat dinner!"

Following the owner's urgent command, the entire blacksmith shop was in a state of uproar. Soon a hired worker's wife came out in fear and took Peggy into the inner room to be measured. Ask stood outside the store, looking at the streets with people coming and going. After a while, Peggy came out wearing leather armor.

"Because you said before that you were afraid of being recognized by others, so I asked for a mask." Peggy opened the hood of the black robe, revealing the mask underneath. It was a simple black crying face mask, the kind often worn by tragedians in ancient Cyrus plays.

"Okay." Asik nodded, "Next, let's go get your revenge."

The two came to the block where Ask's ancestral home was located, found a hotel, and booked a room on the fifth floor. From the window of the room, you can clearly see the street in front of the ancestral house in the distance.

"Are you planning to use a sniper rifle to kill the vampire from this position?" Paige asked.

"No." Ask said, "This room is reserved for you to watch the death of your enemies."

"Oh." Paige nodded in realization. Her understanding was that her strength was too low, so Asik chose to go back alone and stay here to watch the results.

Leaving Peggy in the guest room, Aske quickly left the hotel, returned to the St. Sophia neighborhood where he bought the gun yesterday, and walked directly into the cathedral.

"I want to report it," he said to the bishop on the pulpit.