Our family is in decline

"I rescued you from here..."

Lance reached over and pulled her crooked nose back, talking about how he had saved her just now.

Following the guidance, she looked at the Iron Maiden. She was stunned for a moment, and then her eyes turned around. Soon her eyes became complicated, but her anger was undisguised.

Lance didn't mean to disturb her. This guy was able to speak. Although his voice was hoarse and stuck in the first sentence, it began to flow smoothly in the second sentence, which meant that his language ability began to recover.

This shows that her brain is working, and she knows how to ask questions, which is enough to show that she has self-awareness. This is something that Lance has not found in so many vampires before, not even in the special Baron.

Other vampires seem to still have consciousness in life, but in fact they are just subconscious imitations. They are essentially monsters driven by beast instincts.

But the one in front of me really still retains human consciousness, and now it has probably been in a deep sleep for too long, and is a little unresponsive.

This is why Lance is willing to communicate with her.

And the man's consciousness gradually woke up from his deep sleep. Suddenly he raised his hand and wiped the blood on his face, sat up and said something.

"I'm Yulia."

"It's a nice name, but why do you appear here?"

"I'm very familiar with this place. We can cooperate." Yulia did not answer, but spoke eagerly.

"What cooperation?"

"Revenge, help me kill these monsters."

"Why do you think I can help you get revenge?" Lance did not agree, feeling like another guy who was blinded by hatred.

"If a person can break into a place like this, ordinary people would have been torn apart by those monsters long ago. You are not an ordinary person."

Yulia was also looking at Lance, and as time passed, her condition improved rapidly and she calmed down a little.

Lance smiled and complained unceremoniously about her plan, "You said it yourself. The fact that I can get here shows my strength, but why should I help you?"

"This place is very big. I'm afraid you haven't even finished a third of the way here. I am very familiar with this place and can help you find those treasures."

"I'm not interested in money, and I didn't come in just for money."

"Then what are you doing?"

"Let's talk about your situation first. How did it become like this? If you want me to help you, just tell me and let's exchange information."

Although Lance herself wants to clear out all living things in the courtyard, which is consistent with her mission, she should not reveal her purpose casually. It is her own bargaining chip and trump card.

He didn't agree but didn't reject it completely, but said some vague words to test her. If you don't say it, I won't help you.

Who knew that Lance couldn't hold back as soon as Yulia opened her mouth.

"I am the Duke of the Empire, and I am the Lord of Totnes."

"Are you the missing duchess?"

Lance's expression was indescribably weird. Who would have thought that he would meet him here?

However, his words also made Yulia realize something. She seemed to want to ask, but she was afraid of hearing something, so she became entangled.

And Lance didn't waste any nonsense. He directly talked about the situation in the outer empire and Totnes in a few sentences, including of course the rumors of her disappearance.

After hearing this, she finally took off her strong mask, and spoke to herself sadly about her experiences back then.

"Our family is in decline..."

As she told it, Lance also roughly understood the story behind the name Yulia.

She comes from a very noble noble family and is one of the top nobles in the empire. She is even related to the royal family.

It is a pity that she is the only child of her parents. As her parents died one after another, the burden of the family fell on her.

As a woman inheriting the title of Duke, she faces challenges. Every day, countless people want to marry her to gain the family fortune, not to mention that the nobles below may not necessarily obey.

But she is not a delicate woman. She has shown very strong swordsmanship talent since she was a child. There must be an extraordinary inheritance behind this kind of family, and she is also a female swordsman who has been trained for many years.

She worked hard to run Totnes, but suddenly one day she was betrayed, and the key was a woman she trusted very much.

It can be said that Yulia did not expect that the man would actually set up a trap to seize power and usurp the throne, so that she would be infected with the scarlet curse and become neither human nor ghost. In the end, she lost everything, and she became a count instead.

"They took everything from me! I swear I must repay with their blood!"

I have said before that Yulia is not someone to be trifled with, especially for a noble with such a very traditional concept. Everything about the family is the mission. But now that she has lost these, she immediately begins to prepare for revenge on those betrayers.

For this reason, she accepted and developed the power of the blood descendant, went into the wilderness to practice, fought with wild beasts, ate flesh and blood alive, and finally gained the strength to return for revenge.

After investigating, the countess came to Hamlet, and she also sneaked into the courtyard to look for opportunities. This is how she knew this place so well.

Then there was the inexplicable scarlet curse that had spread in the courtyard, revealing a massacre. Unfortunately, he finally fell to the joint efforts of the countess and other blood nobles.

The countess also wanted to torture her, and asked the baron for torture instruments, and locked her in the Iron Maiden. She was not awakened until today.

Because it was an internal outbreak, not an external attack like Lance, so the outsiders had no contact with the battle and survived.

Lance felt that the ancestor's escape at that time was probably related to this battle, otherwise he had not devoted himself to the study of mysticism at that time, and no matter how powerful he was, he would have his limits with the blessing of equipment, and he could not be the opponent of a bunch of blood descendants.

However, Yulia was also defeated in that battle and was captured, and was stuffed into the Iron Maiden and tortured for an unknown period of time.

"You were actually deceived. The one who really took away everything from you was not the Countess. She was just a chess piece pushed to the front. The one who really hid behind was an ancient blood descendant named [Scarlet Rose] who had lived for an unknown number of years and was also the source of the curse."

Lance talked about the emperor's cooperation with that woman to bring down Hamlet at the cost of Totnes.

And what happened to Yulia was probably that the ancient blood descendant first infected the Countess and controlled her, and then set up a trap to infect her, the real owner, and seize the foundation.

She was kept in the dark from beginning to end, and only woke up now.

Yulia was in a complex mood after hearing this, but she remained silent for a long time before digesting the news.

"Who are you? Why do you know these things?"

"I am the current Lord of Hamlet, you can call me Lance."

Lance simply said this, which immediately attracted Yulia's attention. After all, Hamlet was also a victim.

"Are you here to seek revenge on those guys?"

"No, this is a game." Lance smiled and stretched out his hand to Yulia who was sitting on the ground, "We have been here for too long, let's burn the courtyard to ashes."

Yulia couldn't see through Lance. Even though she was once a powerful duke, she was not proficient in conspiracy, otherwise she would not have been pitted by the coquettish bitch.

As a swordsman, the thinking logic brought by sword practice determined that she preferred to use the sword in her hand to split everything.

The long-term idea of ​​revenge had long distorted her concept. As long as she could complete the revenge, she would do anything at all costs.

Lance's suggestion was very much to her liking, so she immediately reached out and held his hand, and was dragged up from the ground.

"I am the best teammate, you won't regret it."

"Let's put on our clothes first, what weapons do you need?"

Lance took out a set of clothes and handed it over, but Yulia didn't take it. Instead, she waved her hand to refuse, and then tore off the tattered clothes casually, not avoiding Lance's gaze at all.

She didn't care about it herself, so Lance glanced at her. The overall shape was indeed human. A well-trained swordsman must have a good figure with full muscles, but it was a pity that this health was destroyed by paleness...

However, the next second she suddenly cut open her palm with her sharp claws, and then pressed the bloody wound on the iron maiden made of black iron next to her.

Just when Lance was wondering why she did this and was curious whether she would get tetanus.

The scarlet breath was revealed, and then Lance saw a very strange scene. The gaps on the iron maiden actually oozed blood, especially the face on the head, which flowed from the corners of the eyes, which looked very strange.

However, the more magical thing is yet to come, because the Iron Maiden actually melted and turned into a blood-red color, flowing towards Yulia's arm. The red light became stronger and even blackened.

When the light faded, a very special set of clothes appeared on Yulia.

A black court dress, a corset with a straight chest and a narrow waist, loose cage-shaped sleeves for easy movement, and of course, more importantly, the black needle-pierced heavy armor on the outside.

What's more interesting is that the iron helmet on her head is simply a portrait carved on the head of the Iron Maiden, and then the face is wiped off and worn on the head to cover most of the face, leaving only the mouth and two diamond-shaped eye holes to reveal the scarlet eyes.

At the same time, a cross-shaped sword made of black iron was in her hand. It was very simple as if it was formed as a whole at one time, but the specifications were far beyond ordinary weapons.

Standing taller than her, it was a cross-shaped hilt, with hollow diamonds extending from the ends of both sides, similar to the end of the hilt.

There are runes on the upper part of the hilt, which is the place where the sword is grasped when operating, so it is usually not sharpened, and then two protrusions extend slightly, dividing the blade into two parts.

The four sides of the sword body can be three fingers wide, which is obviously wider than Lance's, but there are no fancy patterns and blood grooves. The special thing is that it gradually changes from black iron to dark red until the tip.

In short, this is a two-handed cross sword that is extremely simple and purely born for fighting.

"The power of the scarlet curse can even infect steel. This thing has been contaminated with too much of my breath over a long period of time."

Yulia explained briefly, and Lance didn't care about it. After all, the ancestor also forged flesh and blood, and he had seen activated metals, and even had a set of black armor himself.

It's just extraordinary power...

After Yulia simply changed her clothes to cover her white hair, blood pupils and face, she looked more like a person, but the pale skin and the wounds on her hands looked a little weird, but at least no one cared about these now.

Lance could feel that the operation just now must have consumed a lot of energy, and her breath dropped a lot.

"Open your mouth."

Although Yulia was puzzled when she heard this, she still opened her mouth and revealed her blood-sucking fangs.

Lance took out the Holy Grail, raised his other hand and flicked it, and a drop of condensed blood flew out of the cup and fell into her mouth.

The rich life force blooming in her mouth made her condition improve rapidly, and the wound on her hand that had just been bitten also healed quickly.

Yulia licked her lips somewhat unsatisfied, staring at the Holy Grail with desire. Now she knew how Lance saved her.

Fortunately, she had not lost her mind. She knew that if she wanted revenge, she had to rely on his power and suppressed her thirst. This was also the difference between her and other blood descendants.

This was actually Lance's test, deliberately showing the power of the Holy Grail. If she lost control, she would have to consider whether this cooperation was effective.

The test of both parties ended in an instant, and Yulia passed the test.

The two walked out of the room together. The long-term imprisonment made Yulia even a little uncomfortable, or it could be said that the current courtyard was too different from her impression.

The two began to communicate about the terrain and planning of the courtyard, and then continued to go deeper along the way they could.

Under Yulia's lead, they quickly passed through the baron's territory. What appeared were no longer those small mosquitoes that could be seen everywhere, but various blood descendants.

Lance had no intention of attacking, and she showed her extraordinary skills without hesitation, with the big sword flying up and down in her hand.

After being infected with the scarlet curse, her strength was strengthened. She could swing the big sword with one hand, and the power of the two-handed slash was even more terrifying. She could cut the knight's insect-like solid shell with one sword.

And the tirelessness made the big sword more deadly, and the movements were smooth and full of power and rhythm.

And what was even more powerful was her defense. The heavy armor transformed by the Iron Maiden protected her. Under the scarlet luster, even if the blood descendants attacked her, it would be difficult to cause too much damage.

But the big sword she wielded was full of killing, and she cleaned up the blood descendants like cutting melons and vegetables.

Now Lance began to believe what she said before. She was really a powerful swordsman. No wonder she could enter the banquet.

But what level was the countess who could defeat her?

Lance hid behind and didn't even bother to take out his sword. Instead, he used the Holy Grail to crush the mosquitoes surrounding him, or drew blood from the corpses and transferred the blood to Yulia for treatment and strengthening when she was injured.

Lance was like a summoner. He didn't care about his pets after releasing them. He just focused on picking up trash and adding some amplification from time to time. Anyway, Yulia was not afraid of hardship, fatigue, or infection.

Go! Yulia! Use...