Moon Witch, embark on the journey!

The Dark Ring rarely cares about wild apprentices born in its territory for various reasons. Modern wizards look at bloodlines, and many of these apprentices' ancestors were once members of the Dark Ring, and later their wizard families declined for various reasons.

It's a bit of a relationship.

On the other hand, it was almost impossible for them to become official wizards and they posed no threat at all.

"Bloodline and aptitude, it's really crazy."

Luna's fingertips covered with black silk were holding a tube of dark red blood, with bubbles swirling slightly in it, emitting an ancient breath.

"The blood of the vampires, but it doesn't seem to be the purest blood."

There is no doubt that the blood of the vampires is also a kind of extraordinary blood. In theory, there are human wizards with vampire blood.

But regardless of whether or not he exists, at this time, if such a person shows up, I'm afraid neither side will like him.

"With a bloodline like this, it would probably be difficult to create even a formal wizard. But creating an apprentice is more than enough."

Luna whispered as she carefully observed the liquid in the bottle.

However, actually implanting the bloodline is a very difficult task, at least most of the wizards in the organization cannot do it.

If as long as the bloodline is strong enough, it can be implanted at will, then the advanced wizards in the organization would have been looking for powerful monsters or extraordinary races everywhere, and implanted them in large quantities into their descendants.

At least a high-level wizard or even a legendary wizard is needed to achieve this.

But for such wizards, they are already very powerful, and many of them already have special bloodlines. It seems that it is not worth the cost to spend a huge amount of money, and the battle and witchcraft system that has been completed after hundreds of years cannot be changed at will.

In general, Luna didn't expect this little bit of blood to create a 'vampire wizard'. She mainly wanted to study the weaknesses of the vampires by studying this thing.

"Also, the imitation of the potion that increases mental strength must be put on a daily basis."

At present, Luna's external combat power is sufficient. No matter how much she studies puppets, it is difficult to fight against formal wizards, and there is a lack of precious materials. What she urgently needs to improve is her inner strength.

Because the disturbance caused by the previous incident calmed down soon without any follow-up. Occasionally, there were rumors of some vampires or blood servants appearing in the surrounding areas, but they never spread to Dark Cliff City, which proved that the deterrent power of the official wizards still existed.

In the blink of an eye, another half a year has passed.

65. Cleanup Tasks

There was a remote small village near Dark Cliff City. Two girls were walking on the road leading into the village.

The petite girl with brown curly hair and wearing a wizard robe walked while complaining in a low voice:

"How come it's our turn to go on a mission again? I've only just analyzed half of my latest trick and it's almost a success."

Next to her was a girl wearing a gray-black cloak that almost completely covered her body. She could only be identified by her pleasant voice.

"Everyone's been busy lately, at least no one's targeting us."

Luna looked around and saw that she was very close to the village. Her fingers, which looked like they were wearing black silk gloves, reached into the backpack behind her and gently unzipped it.

Several small puppets flew out of the backpack. After rising into the sky for a while, they became blurry and blended into the color of the background.

"It's so convenient. I think it's amazing every time I watch it."

"These are my mentor's blueprints. I can't create something like this out of thin air."

Since the last two months, the long trial phase is drawing to a close, and wars in various places have become increasingly fierce. From time to time, there are rumors of blood clans slaughtering cities and large numbers of wizard apprentices being killed.

Even one or two official wizards die from time to time. It can be said that there is no place that can be called absolutely safe in the entire area of ​​the four duchies surrounding the headquarters of the Dark Ring.

Of course, correspondingly, many vampires with titles also died, and a group of wizards took advantage of this to gain considerable fame.

Dark Cliff City is a remote area, but it is not very safe now. The blood clan has been restless recently, and it is obvious that a blood clan force has set its sights on this place.

"There are signs of an attack by a blood servant."

After exploring every corner of the small village with the help of the puppet, Luna sighed slightly.

"The attacker should be gone. Everything happened very quickly."

Such a small village could not possibly support wizards, even the most junior apprentices. Although many apprentices were not doing well, they were still upper class compared to ordinary people. Even weak apprentices with no future and ambition would only stay in larger towns.

The vampires, on the other hand, are a race where every individual is extraordinary. Basically, the weakest of them has the strength of an average mid-level apprentice, far surpassing ordinary villagers.

So when Luna and the others received the news and came to investigate, they were already too late.

"This scene is a bit tragic, do you want to stay outside?"

Senna hesitated for a moment, then raised her voice and answered:

"No...I'm not a child, I'm a great wizard's apprentice!"

"Okay, okay, don't pee your pants later."

"You are slandering me! When have I ever done that?"

Since she was sure that the attacker had fled and there were no signs of magic nearby, Luna was relatively relaxed. However, she found it difficult to be happy after seeing the scene in the village, and she felt a little depressed.

"This...I regret it, okay..."

As soon as she entered the village, Senna's face twisted and she looked conflicted.

Two bodies were not far away. A middle-aged male farmer, with a mixed look of anger and fear on his face, stabbed the other man's chest with the pitchfork in his hand.

Opposite him was a farmer with similar clothing and appearance, but with a ferocious look on his face and long fangs growing from the corners of his mouth. He also dug one of his claws into the farmer's chest, embedding it deeply.

Next to the two corpses was a large amount of coagulated dark red blood, which had seeped into the pile of straw below the corpses.

"Want to look inside again?"

"Hey? Wait...wait for me!"

The two had not walked far when they heard a slight noise coming from beside them. In a shabby room next to them, the wooden door was pushed open with a bang, and a black shadow suddenly rushed out from the room.

"Ugh!"

Senna was startled and dodged back instinctively, but Luna didn't panic at all, she just raised her hand and a small fireball flew over.

boom!

A wave of fire and impact exploded, and the black shadow that had rushed out flew back into the house at a faster speed than before, hitting the wall heavily with a muffled sound.

"Didn't they say the attacker got away?!"

Senna asked fearfully.

"The vampires are gone, but the blood servants they left behind are still here. You should have been careful when you saw the tragic situation here."

Luna walked into the dilapidated house and looked inside with the light from the door. The blood servant who had attacked just now was charred all over and completely motionless, looking like a middle-aged rural woman.

She noticed that in the corner there were two bodies of children, one big and one small. Both had hideous faces, ashen complexions, and bruises on their necks.

"How is it? Is it solved? Let me see it too."

"What's there to see? Keep going."

Luna stepped out of the door and closed the tattered wooden door.

"Blood races are nocturnal, and these low-level blood servants are also afraid of light. Pay more attention to the house and corners."

The average vampire wouldn't die in the light, they just prefer the night. But the blood servants they create have more obvious characteristics in this regard. It's fine if the vampire is nearby to control them, but if the master leaves, they will instinctively hide in the shadows.

In addition, wizards have their own spell resistance, and also have a variety of witchcraft and potions for purification, so they are not really afraid of being bitten by vampires. Many wizards who are transformed into blood servants are not as strong as the other party, and simply cannot beat them.

But for ordinary people, once infected, they would completely lose their sanity in a short period of time, and there was almost no cure. And even a secondary infection of these blood servants would be terrible.

So even though Luna and the others knew they were late, they still had to clean up the scene in order to eliminate the remaining blood servants as soon as possible.

Otherwise, when the sun sets, the blood servants here will spread out and plunge the surrounding villages into hell, unless a wizard happens to pass by.

"It looks like the other party doesn't intend to use this place as bait."

After cleaning up the completely extinct village, seeing the tragic corpses of her fellow humans, even Luna felt a little angry.

She was kind of expecting the vampires to make a surprise attack and use this place as bait.

This kind of thing has happened several times recently, when several mid-level apprentices were tracking down an ordinary vampire who had committed a crime, but they ended up attracting a vampire with the strength equivalent to that of a high-level apprentice and fell into the trap set by him.

Unfortunately, the vampires who attacked here seemed very cautious, and no trace of them was found until the end, leaving Luna with nowhere to vent her anger.

"Let's go, that's all for today."

After making sure there were no blood servants left, the two began their journey back, both feeling a little depressed.

After returning, they discovered that Dark Cliff City seemed to have welcomed a group of new guests that they were familiar with.

66. Confluence

The recent increasing activities of the surrounding vampires have caused the previously uninvaded Dark Cliff City to become increasingly lively.

Many people from the surrounding small villages and towns, whether they were apprentices, wealthy businessmen, or knights, abandoned their assets that they had run in the local area for many years and flocked to this big city.

As for the rest of the ordinary people? Ordinary people can only pray at home.

The impact of the large influx of population is that the land prices in Dark Cliff City have been rising all the way. Even the houses in the slums on the edge are more valuable than those in the center of many small towns. The prices of food and various supplies have also soared.

Take Luna’s own example.

The mansion she bought casually has now increased by at least three times, and this is because the price of the house was originally expensive. The servants working in the mansion are trembling with fear and have a very good work attitude. They are afraid that if they do something wrong, they will be fired by their master and have to wander the streets in the future.

The result of the mixing of good and bad outsiders is the decline of public security. Some time ago, there were robbers and thieves everywhere, committing crimes in broad daylight.

But the local area is controlled by a wizard family after all. After a few days of strict inspections in the city by the security team led by senior apprentices, the number of overt crimes suddenly decreased a lot.

Those apprentices from outside dared not cause trouble when they knew that the Sale family had an official wizard in charge.

In a short period of time, the city showed an unprecedented prosperity.

When Luna and Senna returned to the city, they were stopped by a girl on the roadside.

"Customer, do you want to buy me? I have good skills, and I only need one silver coin a night..."

When the girl got closer, she realized that the person in the cloak was also a woman. She stood there in embarrassment, her face flushed red.

"puff."

Senna beside her couldn't help but burst out laughing.

"If there's anything funny, take it."

Luna took out a piece of bread from her backpack and handed it to the pretty girl.

“Thank you…”

The girl looked at the soft and fragrant white bread, her mouth was watering. She took it and turned around to see many greedy eyes in the alley behind her, just like the legendary ghouls.

The girl immediately stuffed the bread into her mouth, took big bites, and swallowed it in two or three gulps, choking and coughing continuously.

Although there was still desire in the other party's eyes, Luna did not give more. Although even if she gave a large sum of money, it would be a drop in the bucket for her, and gold coins were just pocket money for wizards.

But giving in this way would only hurt others, and she couldn't help them indefinitely. She had seen many people who had suffered worse, but at least the girl in front of her had healthy hands and feet.

She slightly opened her cloak, revealing the wizard robe underneath. Immediately, the greedy eyes behind her turned into fear and dissipated in an instant.

The two walked all the way into the aristocratic district in the city center. Suddenly, the streets were much cleaner and the pedestrians on the road looked very gentle. The neatly dressed guards patrolled the streets. When the noble gentlemen and ladies saw their apprentices coming back, they immediately took off their hats and bowed to salute.

Separated by a wall, the front and the back are like two different worlds.

"Luna, I want to stay with you for a while."

"Can't you bear the previous scene? You need to practice more..."

Luna exposed her mercilessly, and Senna still couldn't adapt to the bloody scene. Although it was much better than before.

When the two returned to the mansion, Luna quickly saw the witchcraft message stored in the small witch circle in the mailbox at the door.

"Luna, come to the Sale family's mansion as soon as you finish your mission. An old friend is coming. - Dole."

She and Senna looked at each other, somewhat surprised.

......

The two immediately went to the Saler family's mansion. After checking their identities and being allowed in, they walked into the banquet hall for receiving guests and immediately found it unprecedentedly lively.

More than ten apprentices from outside came here.

Some of them huddled in the corner in silence with dull expressions, some were eating the food on the table with big mouthfuls, as if they were starving ghosts reincarnated, and of course some looked relatively normal, chatting with the people around them.