Volume 4 copy Chapter 11: Stupid Giantization (Part 1)
"...He always likes to dig up secrets buried deep underground, but there are always some secrets that should not be discovered..." This is what Marquis Meneval said after learning of the death of Robert Willanster, the "Quencher". At that time, his words were meaningful, but I didn't notice it at all.
Now, I think I know what he calls "secrets that should not be discovered."
Once his identity is revealed, this series of events will be presented clearly before us, just like the clouds in the sky and the duckweed on the water. I am very sure that it is no coincidence that Marquis Meneval sponsored Robert Willanster. Perhaps he already knew where the soul great lich Mackenscar was sealed, so he specially sponsored the mine of the dwarf metallurgist. He knows this metallurgist who is loyal to his expertise, and knows that his strong curiosity cannot resist any new things found underground. He will definitely find the seal of the great lich - even if the dwarf metallurgist can't find it, Marquis Meneval will find a way for him to find it.
He rescued the great lich from the endless seal without anyone noticing, and no one would associate this matter with him. If Robert Willanster did not have a magic pendant that protected the soul, no one would even know about this. Even if the matter was exposed, he still hid safely in his marquis's mansion, carrying out his huge conspiracy to welcome the last king of the world, Darendil, the "Heartbreaker".
"Be careful, this old white-faced man is coming to kill us!" Chang Sanjiao exclaimed, bringing my thoughts back to the fight, and then he skillfully crouched in the shadows and disappeared in an instant.
Without waiting for our call, Krado had already planted four totem poles in succession at the four corners around him, and then stood in the center with a big axe in his hand, looking majestic, with the heroic spirit of one man blocking the pass and ten thousand men unable to pass.
However, his preparations did not work on the vampire marquis. As soon as Marquis Meneval walked out of the secret room, he completed a magic spell and pointed in front of himself . Two huge skeleton warriors, two people tall, immediately rose from the ground. The bones of these two skeleton warriors were thick and hard, and they looked very different from ordinary skeletons. They approached us step by step, waving two huge machetes. As they walked, their mouths with only two rows of teeth left kept clicking, making a strange "clicking" sound, and rushed straight into the circle of totem poles planted by Crado.
Seeing the white jade-like high-quality bones of the two skeletons, weapon maker Changgong Sheri immediately became interested and had a lot of thoughts. While struggling to withstand the attack of the "giant skeleton guard" in front of him, he shouted anxiously to the vague figure in the Yangtze River Delta: "Fatty thief, hurry up and check their pockets for something..."
Chang Sanjiao's eager promise came from the void. It seemed that the "corpse poison dagger" had not yet satisfied the orcs' greed. Indistinctly, a transparent and sturdy figure approached a skeleton guard, and then we heard Chang Sanjiao's strange cry - judging from the cry alone, I really couldn't tell whether he was excited or annoyed.
"What did you touch?" Changgong Sheri asked repeatedly.
"A medical science handbook..." Chang Sanjiao replied with both anger and amusement, "...on the title page it says 'How to distinguish between arterial blood and venous blood'. The funny thing is, the footnote says 'Vampire's Recipe'."
"Let's go check out another one..." Changgong Sheri looked cloudy.
Soon he received a reply from the Yangtze River Delta: "This is even more amazing. It is a medical manual that explains how to treat bleeding wounds. The title of the manual is 'How Vampires Preserve Food'."
Our dwarf priest immediately felt a sense of grief and indignation as if his emotions had been cruelly played with. He roared in anger and immediately turned from humiliating passive defense to an all-out attack, dancing the bone nunchaku in his hands vigorously, and the bones hitting each other made a rapid and pleasant sound like a xylophone.
Since the theft was unsuccessful, Chang Sanjiao immediately entered combat mode. He went around behind a skeleton guard and stabbed him in the neck with a dagger...
The expected bloody scene did not appear, and the damage caused by this powerful weapon was unexpectedly low. My mind moved, and I suddenly remembered the knowledge that the dwarf bard Nocturne in B-flat Minor told me in the underground mine: "This is a skeleton monster, the assassination effect is very low, use your hammer to hit it!"
Somewhat similar to the vampire Count Berkshire whom we killed before, although these two skeleton guards have strong attack and defense capabilities, they do not have any special means of attack. Under the joint defense of the three of them in the Yangtze River Delta, a safe but boring war of attrition soon emerged.
Ever since I entered the mausoleum in the forest, my luck has not been very good. Just like now, the vampire leader, Marquis Meneval, seems to have made up his mind to make things difficult for me for some reason, and has been chasing me endlessly.
Unlike those two stupid skeletons with empty heads, Marquis Meneval is very good at choosing the right techniques to fight, making it hard to defend against. The same offensive spells of "Blood Extraction" and "Blood Stab" are completely different from those of the low-level vampire nobles. If it weren't for Black Aurora providing me with strong support, and me always staying by the side of Crado's "Life Totem", and Longbow Shooting Sun lending a hand to help me from time to time, I'm afraid I would have died by now.
In addition to the unique blood magic of vampires , Marquis Meneval was unexpectedly also a master of swordsmanship. The seemingly slender and weak rapier became extremely sharp in his hands, and every blow came with a whistling wind. He was agile and swift, just like a ghost that was lingering on me, not at all like an old noble with white hair.
Not only was his skills not that good, the skin on his face was now smooth and smooth, without a single wrinkle, and apart from the white hair, how could he look old? Stripping off that deceptive disguise, he was completely a purebred middle-aged vampire with red eyes, pale face, sharp teeth, and a lithe body.
I was wearing the "exquisite chain mail" given to me by Marquis Meneval. It was a reward from him when I reported to him the death of Robert Willanster, the master dwarf metallurgist. We all know that chain mail has an extraordinary ability to resist strong damage such as axe chopping and knife slashing, and it once helped me overcome many difficulties. However, in front of the sharp rapier of the vampire marquis, the protective effect of this armor woven with metal rings was really pitifully weak. Every time his sword flashed, I would feel a needle-like stinging pain in my body - no, it felt much more painful than a needle prick - which made me hate the white-haired old ghost in front of me even more. I almost suspected that he had guessed that we would face off in a hostile position, so he gave me a useless decoration as a protective gear.
