Chapter 1 The Vampire

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Mr. Hui Zhang sized up the six-pointed star array, his eyes caressing the silver coffin as he said, "However, just to be safe, I'll set up a teleportation array around it first. If what's released is too powerful, we'll banish it to avoid damaging the props and materials in the vault!"

The suggestion was sound, and Zhang Yuanqing and the Single-lineage Knight nodded in agreement.

Uncle immediately took out materials and placed them around the coffin, setting up a simple teleportation array.

The array would activate automatically upon contact with the power of a peak Overlord, randomly teleporting the creature within!

Then, with a nod from Uncle, Zhang Yuanqing took out the Annihilation Blade and cut open the welded coffin lid along the seam.

Zhai Cai silently retreated to the side!

Zhang Yuanqing spat out a wisp of spirit, and six spirit servants manipulated it to lift the silver coffin lid!

With a heavy "clang," the contents of the coffin were revealed to everyone.

It was a stark white, naked man, his skin seemingly coated with a layer of white powder. His features were very handsome, his facial lines perfect, and his physique tall and slender with smooth muscle lines.

"Wow, he could be a male model!" Uncle praised, casting his gaze at the naked man's chest!

There, a thumb-thick silver nail was hammered into his heart. The wound was neither inflamed nor festering, but instead, black blood vessel lines had grown out, clinging to the silver nail, as if trying to assimilate the nail!

"Not a male model, a vampire," Zhai Cai said in a low voice!

Zhang Yuanqing stroked his chin and murmured, "Aren't vampires extinct? I remember you saying that vampires are actually created by some kind of mutated creature, but the method was lost, so they only exist in the Middle Ages!"

"Currently, vampires only appear in dungeons. The problem is, this is the Holy See's treasure vault. How could there be a vampire in a vault that originally existed in reality?"

Zhai Cai thought for a moment and analyzed, "In other words, a century ago, the Holy See found a vampire in the real world that should have been extinct and sealed it, preserving it in the treasure vault."

He lowered his head, examining the vampire, and reached out to touch the pale chest, "No item information detected... He's in a sealed state. Should we try to awaken him? Maybe we can learn some Middle Ages intelligence! But in the sealed state, we can't see his level."

At Mr. Hui Zhang's signal, the Single-lineage Knight stepped forward, pinched the silver nail in the naked man's chest, and pulled it out with force!

Mr. Hui Zhang conjured a drop of golden liquid at his fingertip and flicked it into the penetrating wound in his chest!

The golden liquid was instantly absorbed!

The wound on the naked man's chest healed rapidly, and a faint throbbing came from his chest cavity!

"Thump thump thump thump..."

The heartbeat went from faint to strong, and a terrifying aura permeated this pale corpse, sealed in the coffin for a full century.

It was like a Demon King sealed for endless years awakening. No, it was one!

The naked man in the coffin opened his eyes, his pupils scarlet, like rubies. Having just woken from a dream that spanned centuries, he immediately saw three humans surrounding the coffin, pointing and talking about him in languages he didn't understand.

"A bit weak."

"At most, early Overlord. Couldn't the Holy See kill this thing?"

"Gave me a scare, I thought it was a demigod-level monster!"

"Maybe the Holy See kept it as a specimen. After all, vampires are extinct and belong to a world-class protected species!"

The bewilderment in the naked vampire's eyes faded, replaced by undisguised bloodlust, cruelty, and coldness!

He slowly sat up, exhaling a breath of stale air. Even a single glance could kill these few ants before him.

But he still maintained his elegance and said in a low Italian, "It seems I have slept for many long years. Are you from the Holy See?"

Zhang Yuanqing didn't understand and looked at the Single-lineage Knight, "What did he say?"

The Lingjing didn't provide language translation, which meant that the vampire wasn't an NPC in a dungeon, but indeed came from reality.

Zhai Cai said, "Sounds like Italian. I don't understand either!"

Mr. Hui Zhang spoke, opening his mouth in fluent Italian, "The Holy See has been destroyed for a hundred years. We are treasure hunters. Are you a vampire?"

After speaking, he turned to translate for his nephew and the Single-lineage Knight, "The Holy See is destroyed."

The vampire was stunned for a second, then suddenly raised his head and laughed wildly, shaking the entire space.

"Fal'ang, I said that when I wake up again, I will personally destroy the Holy See and suck your blood dry! I didn't expect that in just a hundred years, the Holy See would have turned to ashes!"

Mr. Hui Zhang translated the vampire's words to the two.

Zhai Cai said, "Fal'ang is the name of the Pope. Looks like the Pope sealed him!"

At this time, the vampire restrained his expression, restored his elegance, and looked at the three, speaking slowly and methodically, "Treasure hunters, I am very grateful to you for waking me. As a reward, I can let you serve as my servants, but I have been craving blood for a hundred years of sleep, so only one of you can become my servant, and the other two can only be food."

The handsome vampire with pale skin gave the Single-lineage Knight and Zhang Yuanqing an elegant smile.

"I don't like servants who are too handsome, so you can only be my food!" With that, he raised his hand with black fingernails and made a grabbing motion towards the two!

Zhai Cai strode forward and slapped him back into the coffin. The slap was a bit heavy and loud, directly knocking the vampire silly and falling back into the coffin, unable to react for several seconds!

He popped out of the coffin, his expression bewildered, "You..."

Before he could finish speaking, Zhang Yuanqing strode forward and slapped him back into the heavy silver coffin again.

"Thump." With a shake, the vampire, his skull fractured, once again sat up!

Mr. Hui Zhang raised his hand for another slap. Seeing this, the vampire's pupils revealed panic and fear, and he said urgently, "Stop, stop, please stop."

Uncle lowered his palm and smiled, "Looks like your worldview has been refreshed."

The vampire didn't understand "worldview," but he understood the words "stop," "please," and "wait a moment."

But the elegance and arrogance in his eyes were gone, replaced by confusion and incomprehension. He was a majestic king of the night!

He had killed countless witches, werewolves, and demon hunters, and the Holy See had even listed him as a forbidden existence. He, who had long been invincible in the world, was actually being beaten in turns by three treasure hunters?

"Who exactly are you? Why do you possess such terrifying power?" the vampire asked cautiously!

"Terrifying?" Mr. Hui Zhang said indifferently, "People like me are a dime a dozen outside!"

He pointed at Zhang Yuanqing and Zhai Cai, "People like them are as common as stray dogs in the Middle Ages!"

Zhang Yuanqing: ...

Single-lineage Knight: ...

The vampire had a look of disbelief, but he didn't dare to refute or question, and could only remain silent.

Mr. Hui Zhang asked again, "Tell me about yourself. Who are you?"

"I am Augusto, the Dark Night Monarch. Those who know me have long turned to dust in the ages!"

Speaking of his name, the vampire raised his chin a few centimeters.

"What era did you live in?" Mr. Hui Zhang asked, "Why were you lying in a coffin?"

The vampire Augusto replied, "In the era I lived in, the ruler of the Byzantine Empire was Alexios I, the Pope was Urban, the power of the Holy See was above the king, and the power in the night was in my hands."

"I was considered a taboo by the Holy See. They could make the king submit, but they had no way to deal with me!"

"Even the invincible me had an invincible enemy!"

"Alexios I, what era is this?" Zhang Yuanqing looked at the Single-lineage Knight, and found that the other party also gave him a confused look!

"The king of the Byzantine Empire a thousand years ago!" Mr. Hui Zhang gave them a history lesson!

A thousand years ago, it was roughly the late Northern Song Dynasty. At that time, an Overlord-level powerhouse was indeed an invincible existence.

Zhang Yuanqing cross-referenced it with the history of his own country.

The vampire Augusto continued, "That enemy is life and time! Vampires have long lives but not immortality... I will still die! In order not to die like my companions, I fell asleep in an ancient castle in the deep mountains!"

"Until a group of treasure hunters broke into the castle and woke me up!"

"I slept for more than eight hundred years, and I am very fortunate to still be alive, but the world has changed greatly! The elves, werewolves, and vampires in the night have become extinct, and witches no longer exist! But what makes people hate is that the Holy See has continued!"

"I lived in human society for a while and discovered a way for extraordinary creatures to improve their strength that I had never heard of or seen before!"

"So, I began to hunt them, trying to figure out the reason, but I was also targeted by the Holy See because of this!"

"The contemporary Pope, Fal'ang, summoned a group of priests and knights to hunt me down. The cunning Fal'ang knew that I liked the blood of virgins, so he used pure girls to lure me."

"He injected mercury into that woman, making me weak." The vampire Augusto's expression became indignant, "But I still killed them all, except for the most cunning and powerful Fal'ang. That's how I was sealed in the coffin by the Holy See, until you opened it!"

So the Holy See once hunted vampires during the Holy See era. The silver weapons seen in the treasure chest earlier can be explained!

Well, the vampire who recovered from the ancient castle in the deep mountains is similar to the Pure Yang Sect Leader. No wonder this guy was so arrogant after waking up. He still thinks he is invincible in the world. The great era has changed!

Zhang Yuanqing could probably guess why the Pope kept this vampire. He probably forgot about it!

As the level increased and demigods appeared, there were more and more Overlords, and a small fry like him was no longer a threat, so he was discarded in the warehouse and gradually forgotten.

"Vampires have terrifying lifespans," Mr. Hui Zhang commented, and then said, "How many vampires like you are there?"

Hearing this, the vampire Augusto raised his proud chin and said, "I am different from those low-level vampires who cannot control their thirst. I am a blood clan who has obtained the power of the progenitor... a creature that can be compared to the blood clan of the mythological era!"

Power of the progenitor? Then you called the wrong name. Zhang Yuanqing couldn't help but complain after hearing Uncle's translation.

Zhai Cai then said, "Mr. Hui Zhang, I am very curious about how vampires are born! Although the Holy See's classics record them as a kind of mutant, I don't think it's very likely. Mutants rarely maintain human form, and instinct is stronger than reason, but this guy is too rational."

Mr. Hui Zhang asked, "Who is your blood clan progenitor? How were they born?"

The vampire Augusto said in a deep voice, "Our blood clan progenitor is a name cursed by the God-king."

"Who is the God-king?" Mr. Hui Zhang asked lazily.

"Don't ask one question and say one sentence. I don't have much patience!"

The vampire Augusto quickly said, "Odin. Besides this supreme being, who else dares to call himself God-king? Even our blood clan's god doesn't dare."

Mr. Hui Zhang's eyes flickered slightly, "Odin... really exists?"

Odin is the God-king of Norse mythology. In their speculation, Norse mythology is likely to correspond to the unactivated third district!

Although Norse mythology may correspond to the third district, the characters in mythology do not necessarily exist in reality, just like there are countless immortals and Buddhas in the mythology of the second district, but there are very few who actually exist!

Zhang Yuanqing immediately became interested.

The secret history of the third district is currently their knowledge blind spot, and even a demigod like Uncle is not clear about it!