"The ancestor of the blood clan?"
Mu You was stunned, wasn't he the ancestor of the vampire clan who had been dead for more than two thousand years?
A diary recording his birth...
Mu You looked strange, but when you think about it, it's true that all current vampires were created by this ancestor of the blood race. So where did this first vampire come from?
[Mai will hand you a dilapidated old book. 】
[You got the 'Incomplete Diary of the Original Vampire'. 】
Mu You took out the diary and took a look at it.
An extremely old book appeared in his hand. It was said to be a diary, but more like a newly unearthed cultural relic. The pages were yellowed and curled, and nine out of ten pages were torn and disfigured, and the writing on them was even more blurry. difficult to identify.
Mu You asked Mai to wait in the game, sat down and read the 'diary' carefully from beginning to end.
Because some of the handwriting was too blurry, and the diary narrative itself was intermittent, Mu You sketched for more than an hour, and in the end he only half-guessed some of the information in the diary.
The general idea of the diary is that this ancestor of the blood race was just an ordinary farmer in the star spirit world a long time ago. Until one day, he accidentally entered a mysterious city and stayed there for half a year, waiting to leave. Later, he had the ability to live forever and various magical vampire abilities.
However, he lost all his memories in this city. He had no memory of how his curse and powers came from. The experiences of the past six months were as if someone had forcibly cut them out of his mind. .
The only thing left in his mind was a name and a legend.
This man's name is 'Cain', and he is a farmer like him. Cain also has a younger brother named Abel, who is a shepherd. One day, a messenger from a certain god passed by their farm and asked the brothers to sacrifice their most precious things to the gods. something to show sincerity to the Lord.
Cain brought vegetables and grains from the ground as a tribute, and Abel sacrificed the fattest animals of his flock. The gods praised Abel's sacrifice, but they ignored Cain's sacrifice.
Cain was very painful about this. As a farmer, he had dedicated the best he had to the gods, so why could he still not satisfy the gods? Cain asked the messenger, who told him that what the gods wanted was the most precious thing in their hearts, and Cain must be hiding something to make the gods dissatisfied.
Cain suddenly understood, so during the second sacrifice, Cain pulled out a sharp weapon and stabbed his favorite thing, his brother Abel, to death and dedicated it to the gods.
The gods were very angry and said that Abel was not Cain's favorite person. Cain was just jealous that his brother was appreciated by the gods, so he killed his brother.
The gods then placed three curses on Cain:
First, he and his descendants will always be thirsty for blood and can only be parasites forever.
Second, he and his descendants will always be afraid of the sun and can only hide in the dark sewers like mice all day long.
Third, he will have no choice but to live and die. In the curse called eternity, he will endure the torture of the first two curses forever and ever.
Mu You frowned as he looked at the content recorded on the paper.
This man named 'Cain' was also the 'Blood God' generally believed by vampires in the Star Spirit World. He was recognized as the originator of vampires within the Vampire Clan.
However, this legend only mentioned that Cain was cursed with three kinds of vampires by a certain god, but it did not mention how he got his power or how he later became a blood god from a mortal.
In short, there is only so much information that can be obtained from this diary.
Mu You was about to put away the diary, but unexpectedly discovered that a corner of a piece of thin paper was quietly exposed between the pages of the diary.
Mu You pulled out the paper and opened it to see that it was a hand-drawn map.
The lines on this map are quite crude, like random graffiti. Only the shape of a continent can be roughly seen, and somewhere in the middle, a tiny cross is marked.
"Is this where the ancestor of the blood clan was born?" Mu You raised an eyebrow.
This map is included in this diary. There is no way it has nothing to do with the diary. It is most likely that the 'place' marked on it is exactly the 'place' mentioned in the diary.
Mu You hurriedly found a map of the Star Spirit Realm and compared it with the continent on the paper. After a while, he confirmed a very similar place: the Desert of No Return!
"In the desert?" Mu You was surprised.
The Laiwugui Desert is the largest sandy continent in the Star Spirit Realm. The Qingyan Desert and Scarlet Desert that Mu You visited before are both areas that belong to this continent.
Mu You didn't expect that the birthplace of vampires would be in a desert with plenty of sunshine. No matter what, now that clues have been found, whether they are true or false, you have to go and see them first.
Next, Mu You returned to the game and told Mai Yi that he was going to the desert. Mai Yi immediately asked to go with him, but Mu You refused.
The desert can be said to be the most unsuitable place for vampires to walk around in the entire star world. The Fool at least has other skins that he can use to move around during the day. The serious vampires go to the desert to find sin.
[With Mai Yi’s reluctant eyes, you bid farewell to her and stepped into the teleportation array of Eternal Night City alone. 】
[You appear in the City of Dawn. 】
The desert area is where City of Dawn stays, and Mu You has many acquaintances here. In addition to Solomon, there is also Evans, the legion commander of the Adromar Empire, who is also an old friend.
Mu You asked the locals casually, and got the location marked on the map - Yellowstone Desert, with no sound of water.
The Yellowstone Desert is the most arid area among the nearby deserts and is famous for its yellow sand that fills the sky all year round.
The 'Water Without Echo' is an extremely dry area at the core of the Yellowstone Desert. Even the top water magicians here cannot summon even a drop of water element, so it is called 'Water Without Echo'. place'.
Such an extremely dry land is naturally uninhabitable. It should be said that there are no human traces in the entire Shuiwuxiang and surrounding areas. It is also the only place in the entire Wugui Desert that is completely untouched.
Mu You did not expect that the origin of vampires would be in such a ghost place. At this time, he could not find anyone to accompany him, so he could only drive the land boat alone into the depths of the desert.
After a few hours of travel, Mu You arrived at the place.
[...The land ship stopped roaring, and you arrived at 'Shui Wu Xiang'. 】
[When you leave the land ship, you only see the sky full of yellow sand blowing towards your face. You feel thirsty in the corners of your eyes, lips and tongue, and your nose is as hot as fire. You subconsciously want to replenish the water source and unscrew the kettle, but before you can lift it, the water source has already been Not a drop of evaporation remains...]
Sure enough, it lives up to its reputation. This ghost place is so dry that even tears and saliva can dry up instantly. No wonder it is so inaccessible.
Mu You didn't want to stay in such a ghost place any longer, so he immediately took out the Moon Scepter and activated the artifact on the spot.
[You activated the Moon Scepter, and the originally bright sky around you instantly turned dark. A full moon appeared silently in the sky, and the mercury-like moonlight poured over the desert, but it was unable to offset the heat waves that rolled up here from time to time...]
[You switch to the Boiling Blood Wolf skin. 】
The Boiling Blood Wolf is the skin that Mu You brushed out from the werewolf boy before. It is the type of werewolf with the strongest ability to sense vampires. On a full moon night, the ability to sense will reach its peak and can be separated by hundreds of kilometers. From a distance, he could sense the vampire tombs buried deep underground.
This desert is completely bare. Even if there is something related to vampires, it must be buried underground and can only be sensed by werewolf skin.
Then Mu You took advantage of the full moon to run wildly in the desert with his werewolf skin. If the map in the log was true, then the skin should be able to sense something.
Sure enough, within a few minutes of starting the search, a prompt popped up in the game.
[...You feel a strong smell of blood, seeping from the ground not far ahead! 】
[The violently boiling blood in your body reminds you that there is probably more than one vampire hiding underground, and it is extremely powerful! You'd better approach with caution. 】
"oh?"
Mu You was surprised that a warning message actually popped up at the same time... There was more than one. Could it be that there were many vampire tombs gathered here?
[You are approaching the bloody land...]
[You are moving away from the crisis...]
…
Muyou kept adjusting the direction based on the text feedback prompts. After searching for about ten minutes, he finally found the right place.
【Exactly here! Your feet are where the smell of blood is the strongest. As a werewolf, you'd better leave this place as soon as possible! But as a vampire, you might be able to go down and have a look! 】
Mu You directly switched to the mecha skin, equipped an alchemy device called a 'pangolin earth drill', and started digging downwards into the sand.
[The drill bit is spinning, countless gravels are flying out of the ground, and the machine body is rapidly going deep into the ground...]
【Excavation...】
What followed was a long excavation process. After about ten minutes, the mecha dug through the sand layer and reached the ore area. The rock ore here is rich in metal and is extremely hard. Even the ground penetration technique cannot penetrate it. Can be drilled through hard.
[The roar of the alchemy engine resounded over the desert. After an unknown amount of time, you suddenly felt as if your feet were empty, as if you had dug into a hollow somewhere. You lost support and the entire machine plummeted down. 】
[Amidst the flying dust, you suddenly feel your feet on the ground again. When you open your eyes, you find that you are already in an ancient underground palace. 】
[There are various strange murals carved on the surrounding stone walls, and in the passage, mummies can be seen everywhere, with different forms of death...]
When it fell, Mu You had already held his pocket watch and was ready for a battle at any time.
As a result, none of the imaginary powerful enemies and various killing mechanisms appeared. There seemed to be no living people in the palace.
Mu You frowned, controlled the mecha to remove the drill, equipped the shotgun, and continued to explore.
[You approach the horribly dead mummy closest to you. Judging from the smell of dried blood around it, this person was at least a vampire duke during his lifetime...]
[The death of the second mummy was equally tragic. It seemed that someone had cut open the heart and lungs to death. Judging from the breath, this person also reached the level of a duke...]
…
Mu You searched all the way forward, and the more he looked, the more frightened he became.
This palace is full of vampire corpses. It is more like a mass grave than a vampire tomb!
What's more important is that these dead vampires are all Duke level, without exception!
"So many dukes?"
Mu You looked strange. Before he came, he was worried that the vampire tombs he found were not enough. You must know that just to upgrade from a marquis to a duke, you need ten drops of the ancestor's blood. By extracting the blood niche, you must find at least ten tombs of vampire dukes to achieve this.
What a rare identity a vampire duke is. The total number of dukes in the history of the entire vampire family may not exceed three digits. Just think about it, how easy is it to find ten?
However, the scene in front of him completely subverted his concept: at his feet alone, there were at least hundreds of vampire duke remains lying there, and further into the unseen places, there would only be more remains.
The majestic Vampire Duke, who is at the top of the vampire clan today, was so bad in the past?
[You take out the blood niche and place it on the remains at your feet. 】
[The blood niche automatically lights up and begins to absorb the remaining energy from the remains...]
[After the absorption is completed, you have obtained a small drop of 'blood of the ancestor', whose energy is only one-tenth of the normal blood of the ancestor...]
The absorption process was faster than expected, and it took about half a minute to absorb a corpse. However, I don't know if the corpse here was too damaged, and only one-tenth of the blood of the ancestor was obtained.
Fortunately, there were enough bodies at the scene.
Mu You took the blood niche and absorbed it all the way.
An hour later, after absorbing more than a hundred remains, 10 drops of the blood of the ancestors were finally collected in the blood niche.
[You have collected ten drops of 'Blood of the Ancestor', do you want to fuse them immediately? 】
[Note: After fusion, your Vampire Marquis skin will be promoted to 'Vampire Duke', the previously awakened vampire talents will be enhanced, and you will automatically learn a new talent ability. 】
"yes."
There was no need to hesitate, Mu You made an upgrade on the spot.
[Promotion completed, your vampire skin is promoted to 'Vampire Duke'. 】
[Your three talents of Giant Killer, Talent Absorption, and Speed have been strengthened. 】
[You have awakened a new talent: super sense. 】
The promotion was successfully completed, just like last time, only the talents of a few vampires were strengthened, and those devoured talents could not be improved.
Mu You took a brief look and found that none of the three talent improvements were too big. Giant Killer only had a higher multiplier; the divine speed multiplier remained unchanged, and the cooldown time was shortened from being activated once in one minute to once in half a minute.
As for talent absorption, the side effects are once again reduced by one level. In the future, the curses obtained after absorbing talents will be reduced by two levels in a row. Some ordinary curses will disappear directly. Even powerful curses will have their effects greatly weakened.
The last thing is the newly acquired super sense. Needless to say, this talent was first activated by his sister Mai. When Mu You acted with her before, he saw her use it many times. It is comparable to seeing and hearing, and it can be greatly enhanced. Field of vision, predicting enemy opportunities, anti-tracking, anti-ambush, etc., the effect is quite good.
The new talents here can be rolled with a pocket watch, but the other talents in their series, such as charm, huge power, atomization, deflection, and iron block, do not seem to be more practical than super sense. Mu You simply can No more effort to roll.
After selecting his talent, Mu You turned around, looked at the blood niche in his hand, and then looked at the remains on the ground.
Originally, being able to be promoted to Duke at once this time was far beyond his expectation. However, the current situation made him have some more greedy thoughts: It seems that he can continue to be promoted...
(End of chapter)
