Chapter 162: Reappearance of traces

Vampires are a very widespread non-human group in the Elder Scrolls world. Their origin may be related to the arrival of Morag Bar, one of the fifteen most powerful demon princes in ancient times, who was enslaved and destroyed by the Demon God of Destruction, known as the "Father of All Beasts".

In the world of the Elder Scrolls, the eight holy spirits (excluding the absent gods and the sealed legendary demon god Rokhan) brought order to the world, and among them, the god of death Akai brought the cycle of life and death and cycle to the world. According to the laws set by Akai's divine nature, all life on this planet, no matter how powerful it is, will eventually return to the embrace of death.

But the demon Morag Barr challenged Akai's realm. He came upon a man and raped a virgin, causing her body and spirit to be severely damaged. The young woman eventually died of injuries, but during the cremation ceremony, the dead body came back to life and killed everyone present in the flames, including children.

This is the birth of the original vampire "Blood Mother" in this world.

The essence of vampires' existence is a distortion of the rules of life and death in this world, which is an abnormal and distorted product. Their Creator Morag Barr was indifferent to them, but they had the bloodline and power that was closest to the demon clan, immortal life, powerful power and magic power... Later, some demons began to interfere in things of this race. According to the influence of different sources, the creatures of this tribe began to continue to differentiate, and gradually transformed into vampires who were different clans and were hostile to each other as time passed.

What’s special about vampires in Skyrim Province is that the sunshine in this world cannot kill them, but can only weaken their power.

When fighting with them, they are easily changed by their blood-sucking spells. They are infected with a disease called "Scarlet Vampire fever". If it is not cured in time, it will be quickly transformed into the same creature. Most of the time, humans who become vampires need to intake trace amounts of blood in exchange for peace of their own strength. Unlike the settings of other worlds, vampires in this world do not absorb blood for a long time, not only will they not become weak. Instead, their power will gradually increase with pain, until their bloodthirsty nature completely overwhelms reason and becomes an unsuppressive form of a crazy vampire.

The Miss Sibilly Stanter, whom Lu Mengyao targeted, was hiding her identity and living in human society, and because of her immortal life, she could gradually hone her magic skills to gradually improve her status in human society. In her hundreds of years of mage career, her magical attainments have become so powerful that even high elves born with powerful magical talents are respected by them.

According to Lu Mengyao's judgment, based on the adventurous's strength judgment method, she has enough strength of four stars or more. Among the humanoid creatures in the entire Elder Scrolls world, it may only be the gray beard at the peak of Hosga. As well as the ancient blood clan king and another dragon descendant in the expansion pack. Considering that a large part of her four-star peak intensity judgment is due to various props, it can basically be said that when facing the front, the opponent has a relatively large chance of winning...

However, one thing is more beneficial to her plan: vampires in this world are also afraid of silver. For them, silver is a toxic substance. According to Su Jing's investigation of demon insects in the past few days, there is no silver in this Sibilly Stanter's room, and everything is replaced by wooden items.

In order to facilitate Su Jing's assassination, Lu Mengyao specially found a batch of silver ingots to make a highly toxic silver nitrate solution for vampires. These silver can also be applied to the blade of the weapon, turning it into a weapon with special effects on evil creatures. For a mage, the manufacturing of these things cannot be simple.

Then observe the lady's every move.

Sibilis Stanter is a simple person. As a court wizard in Dugu City, she does not need a lot of time to do magic research like other wizards. In addition to being the magic consultant of Queen Elisif's Regent, she also helped Queen Elisif handle various government affairs like Foke Huohu. The experience and wisdom accumulated over hundreds of years of life gave her a strategic and political vision that was more than ordinary people, making the queen trusted this vampire wizard.

On weekdays, she hardly leaves the Blue Palace and hikes out at night. Day is her sleep time. She will only get up at dusk. She will secretly go to the dungeon of Dugu City at midnight to suck the blood needed from the prisoners in the imprisonment... and this is the best opportunity.

The biggest obstacle is to get close to Queen Elisif and Sibilly Stanter, the court wizard who guards the royal family of Dugu City. In front of the blood clan who is best at fiddling with people's hearts, Lu Mengyao felt that she could not hide her means. After completely disappearing the blood clan, she would inherit her position and become the new palace wizard in Dugu City.

The reason why she didn't do it herself, but let Su Jing come, was to save some trouble, and on the other hand, she wanted to see what level Su Jing's current strength has reached...

In fact, assassinating this Miss Stanter was not too difficult for her. She had a mental arithmetic and unintentional one. Even if the other party had extremely profound magical attainments, she still did not have much advantage in front of a transplanar traveler like Lu Mengyao. Another question: how to settle Su Jing in the subsequent duel is the focus of her thinking.

Undoubtedly, the two are similar in their mentality. They are reserved and proud people, and their ways of acting have their own bottom line. They don’t like chaotic games, but like to use more stylish ways, such as using "games" to decide the outcome. This kind of casual game is an entertainment event they often played in the past, examining each other and using it as training to polish their own abilities.

In this kind of game, both of them often use some extra-plate tricks as "embellishment". After all, cheating is also part of the game.

Three days later, the palace mage of Dugu City, Sibilis Stante mysteriously disappeared. Someone found her remaining clothes in an underground storage room in the Blue Palace, with large pieces of damage on it. From this point of view, Miss Sibilis may have been killed, but her body has not been found.

During the investigation, no one noticed a layer of gray dust on the storage room floor, or they saw it as a large bag of flour in the storage room leaking, and no one thought that this was the last trace of a powerful vampire left in this world.

Because before that, the wolf-hearted queen who tried to revive, a notorious butcher and power thief in history, and an unknown undead warlock, Lu Mengyao took over as the honorary jazz of Dugu City. She also inspected the storage room that day. When no one else noticed it, she quietly took some dust back to analyze it.

Among the dust ingredients, in addition to the vampire ash and flour in the storage room, there is also some light silver powder. Its purity is very high, and the size of the particles is so delicate that it can only be discovered by special testing. She couldn't imagine how Su Jing got these things.

In this process, she quickly pieced together the whole process of Su Jing assassinating the vampire. He lured Sibilly Stante into the underground storage room in some way, and after that... it should be fighting with her. At this time, Sibilly Stante would find that she was gradually weakening and bleeding internally. At first, she would not have thought that the dust in the basement was mixed with a lot of syrup, because there were bags of flour everywhere, and it was estimated that Su Jing would deliberately break some flour bags... If her mind was flexible enough, maybe after a minute or two, she would realize what kind of desperate situation she was facing. At that time, Su Jing's strength had surpassed the vampire mage who was suppressed by the environment...

Lu Mengyao pulled the corners of her mouth slightly. She was now in a secret room. In front of her was a complete skeleton, a blue night eggplant flower, a human heart and a dagger. In the circle of spell power painted with black toner and white candles, she was performing a ceremony to summon Night Mother.

Night Mother is the patron saint and intermediary of the Dark Brotherhood, the most powerful killer organization on the continent. Some say that the Dark Brotherhood originated from a killer gang named the Morag Gang in the ancient elf empire, and some say that the Dark Brotherhood is a branch of the thief union due to different ideas. But no matter which theory is mentioned, a woman called "Night Mother" cannot be bypassed.

At the beginning of the legend, "Night Mother" was a position in the Morag Gang. Later, after a dark elf became Night Mother, she claimed that she heard the voice of Sidith, the god of nothingness, and was favored by Sidith. In order to sacrifice to Sidith, she killed five of her children with her own hands (there is a saying that Sidith conceived her and gave birth to these five children) and sent her children to Sidith. Because of her outrageous evil crime, she was tied up and burned to death by the locals.

After that, about thirty years later, a believer of Sidish heard her whisper and established the Dark Brotherhood and became the first "listener". From then on, Night Mother became a ghost serving Sidish and the leader of the Dark Brotherhood. As long as the dark ritual is held and the person he wanted to assassinate, Night Mother will hear the request of the teller and convey it to the killers of the Dark Brotherhood through the "listener".

After reciting the spell, Lu Mengyao gently spoke out the message she wanted to convey to the Dark Brotherhood.

"I want you to kill... the palace mage of Dugu City, Lu Mengyao."

Perhaps because of the mage's sensitivity to elements and mental power, she noticed that some kind of "power" seemed to hover in this secret room. Just after she spoke out her assassination target, she seemed to hear a voice saying in her ear:

【Contract established.】

Why is the principle of this ritual? After confirming that the contract ceremony was successful, Lu Mengyao spent about half an hour studying the spells and ritual items that summoned Night Mother. After roughly sorting out a clue, she heard another voice:

【How is your mission going?】

Cold words came from the phone she carried with her voice, but this was not Su Jing's voice.

"...Don't urge so urgently, Mr. Qianye Lion Roar." After hearing this voice, Lu Mengyao's original good mood completely disappeared, and she replied impatiently.

[...This is your test of joining the society. It is too late to quit now. I am your supervisor, so naturally I have the responsibility to execute you after you fail...]

"Enough. Stop talking nonsense. I will get rid of that man." Lu Mengyao interrupted the other party.

[...You have not forgotten the purpose of our Chaos Schizophrenic. Only in the struggle between life and death can you choose the best life... Don't forget.]

“That’s natural.”

[In order to speed up your speed, I may push you a little...be mentally prepared.]

“……………………”

The call was cut off, and Lu Mengyao sat alone in the secret room.

"...Su Jing, Su Jing...Why is it you..."
Chapter completed!