Chapter 1 The Humble Human

Seeing the three of them staring intently at him, the vampire Augusto muttered disdainfully in his heart, "Humble humans," satisfying his own sense of superiority.

Zhang Yuanqing smiled knowingly. "This guy is looking down on us in his heart. Knight, go up and slap him."

"Why don't you go?" Zhai Cai retorted as if to argue, but still stepped forward and gave the vampire a slap.

How could the dignified King of the Night endure such humiliation? Alas, the situation forced him.

The two young-looking men and the masked mysterious man whose physical strength was much stronger than his, had just leaked a trace of aura, which made him instinctively fearful.

He could only choose to endure humiliation and bear the burden, daring not to indulge in too much inner drama, and honestly recounted the history of the Blood Clan: "A legend circulates within our vampires that the progenitor of the Blood Clan was sent to the human world by the God-King Odin to watch over humans, but only the true high-ranking members of the Blood Clan know the truth."

"In fact, the progenitor of the Blood Clan came to the mortal world to escape the pursuit of the God-King Odin. The reason Odin pursued the progenitor was that the progenitor stole something from the God-King Odin!"

"The vampire progenitor is also related to Odin from Norse mythology? I haven't heard of any vampire legends in Norse mythology," Zhai Cai said with some surprise, searching his store of knowledge.

In the stories of witches, vampires, and werewolves, the righteous characters are often bounty hunters and the Holy See.

And the Holy See's profession belongs to the first district and leans more towards Greek mythology.

Thoughts flashed through his mind as he heard Yuanshi Tianzun ask, "What was stolen?"

Chairman translated simultaneously.

The vampire Augusto did not answer directly, maintaining his own rhythm. "Legend has it that in infinitely ancient times, the God-King Odin, in order to fight against the evil gods who would destroy the world, hung himself on the trunk of the World Tree and pierced his own heart with a spear. He sacrificed himself to the World Tree, thereby obtaining the supreme power—the Rune Magic. Rune Magic evolved into fourteen types of magic and is the source of all magic in the world. This was bestowed upon Odin by the World Tree, and it is also his power and reliance to rule the gods. No living being can窥视 it."

"However, two caterpillars on the World Tree, taking advantage of Odin's weakness, stole the powers of death magic and life magic, respectively."

"The caterpillar that stole death magic transformed into a beautiful woman, while the caterpillar that stole life magic transformed into a handsome man."

"The God-King Odin was furious and established a curse with his godhood, cursing death magic to corrode women, turning them into gloomy and evil witches, and she and her descendants will be subjected to the flames of punishment; cursing life magic to corrode men, turning them into demons in the night, and their descendants will never be able to touch the sunlight, forever living in the shadows."

"They will feed on blood and be forever hated and despised by humans."

"Those two caterpillars are the progenitors of witches and the Blood Clan."

The three looked at each other.

The single-lineage knight looked at Chairman. "Is this legend credible?"

Chairman fell into deep thought, neither affirming nor denying.

Zhang Yuanqing said in a low voice, "It should be true."

Chairman and Zhai Cai turned their attention to him. Zhang Yuanqing explained, "I once entered a special dungeon where I witnessed the arrival of the Demon Seed. There was a cardinal in the dungeon who told me that the black magic of witches is a branch of Rune Magic. Therefore, the power of vampires and witches both originate from Rune Magic."

Zhai Cai frowned. "But I remember that the Holy See's classics record that vampires are aberrants."

Chairman translated his words to the vampire Augusto, who sneered, "That is the shameless Holy See slandering our Blood Clan, describing us as that kind of low-level creature."

Chairman suddenly asked, "You are a Blood Clan who lived in the Middle Ages, you should know Norse mythology and Greek mythology. The Holy See's Stormwind Magic, knights, Drunkards, and Breaking Bad, etc., all belong to the Greek mythology system."

"The Blood Clan is, stole power from Odin's Rune Magic, should belong to Norse mythology, why do you mix in Greek mythology?"

The main reason he asked this question was to understand the relationship and timeline of the major mythological factions in ancient times.

The vampire Augusto said, "Wasn't I clear enough just now? The Blood Clan progenitor stole Odin's power, of course he had to flee. He and the witch progenitor fled from the Southern Continent all the way to the distant Northern Continent."

"The division of territories between the gods is very strict, and an agreement of non-aggression was reached in infinitely ancient times. So Odin couldn't send warriors to pursue them either. Well, these were what I heard from the Blood Clan seniors."

In ancient times, several major mythological systems coexisted and knew of each other's existence...

Zhang Yuanqing suddenly thought, did the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors also know the gods in Norse mythology and Greek mythology?

But foreign gods have never appeared in Chinese folk mythology stories. Just as he was thinking, he heard his uncle say in a low voice in Italian: "The deeds of the Blood Clan progenitor are infinitely distant to you. Odin has long ceased to exist in your era. Haven't you Blood Clan descendants ever returned to your homeland?"

"Of course," the vampire Augusto revealed a trace of confusion. "My footprints have already spread throughout the European continent. If I didn't hate the life of drifting at sea, I would even choose to go to sea to see the outside world."

"But having traveled all over the European continent, I have never encountered any transcendent creatures in the Norse mythology system except for werewolves."

"That's right, werewolves are also transcendent creatures in the Norse mythology system, but their bloodline is not pure. They are descendants of the Icefire Direwolf. The pure-blooded Icefire Direwolf has already become extinct."

After his uncle translated, Zhang Yuanqing immediately thought of the Little Red Riding Hood item. Its affiliated profession is the Icefire Direwolf. It was when Fu Qingyang searched all the information and did not find the information of the Icefire Direwolf that he speculated that it was an unactivated Third District profession.

The information matched.

Zhai Cai啧啧 said, "The notorious witches, werewolves, and vampires in medieval legends are actually all from the Third District."

After saying this, he saw Chairman’s solemn expression and asked, "What do you think?"

Chairman said in a deep voice, "We all know that there are three districts in Lingjing, of which the first and second districts have been opened, and the third district has not yet been opened. We know very little about the information of the third district."

"The number of professions, abilities, and relics in the third district have never appeared. I have searched for the third district in Lingjing and reality for several years and found a few items suspected to be from the third district, but these items were found in the relics of the first district."

"They were spread over when the two major mythologies came into contact. Strictly speaking, they do not belong to the third district."

He looked at the two young men and said, "Therefore, a strange phenomenon has appeared. Where did the ancient cultivators of the third district go? Of course, we can't find the ancient cultivators of the first and second districts in history either. It was through dungeons that we unveiled the mysterious veil of ancient cultivators."

"The third district has not yet been opened. It is normal that we cannot discover the ancient cultivators of this district, but this vampire is an ancient cultivator from a thousand years ago. Logically speaking, in his era, there should be intersections with the ancient cultivators of the third district."

Zhang Yuanqing and Zhai Cai looked at each other and finally reacted.

"It's really not normal," Zhai Cai thought. "That is to say, the cultivators of the third district had already perished a thousand years ago."

Zhang Yuanqing raised the corners of his mouth. "Why think so much? Just ask this guy directly. Since the Blood Clan progenitor comes from the third district, these descendants must have studied Norse mythology and pursued their ancestors. Researching ancestors is the common trait of all intelligent life."

The other party is a high-level creature with wisdom. They have probably already studied and pursued similar things, and there is no need for them to use their brains to guess. Just ask directly.

His uncle told the vampire Augusto his nephew's request. The latter shook his head and said, "Our knowledge of the gods of Norse mythology comes from myths and legends. Many transcendent creatures believe that Odin and the gods do not exist. Apart from myths and legends, there is no evidence that any of the Norse gods ever existed."

"Only the strong among witches and the Blood Clan know that the Norse gods really existed. But they died in Ragnarok."

Chairman asked in a low voice, "What guesses and research do you transcendent creatures have about Ragnarok?"

"The evil gods who destroyed the world descended and destroyed the Norse gods," Augusto said.

"Since it is the evil god who destroyed the world, why didn't it destroy you too, but only destroyed the Norse gods!" Chairman retorted.

Vampire Augusto was immediately speechless. After a few seconds of silence, he said with some annoyance, "I am a noble Blood Clan, a King of the Night, not a historian!"

The three ignored him and communicated with each other.

Zhang Yuanqing said, "A terrible disaster did happen in ancient times, leading to the death of the administrator Nuwa of the Second District. There are similar disasters in Greek mythology. I think Ragnarok in Norse mythology also refers to that disaster."

Uncle nodded. "But the problem is, after experiencing that disaster, the order of the First and Second Districts was restabilized, and ancient cultivators emerged. Only the Third District does not know what happened, and the inheritance was directly cut off. This may be why the Third District has not been opened yet."

"It can be affirmed that the Third District was affected far more than the other districts." Zhang Yuanqing said, "The Icefire Direwolf should have fled to the Second District during that disaster, and thus the werewolves were bred. The entire mythological system only escaped one profession."

"That's not right!" Uncle agreed with the first half of his nephew's words but did not agree with the second half. "Icefire Direwolf is an evil profession. Since the evil profession is a foreign profession, the Icefire Direwolf did not escape from that disaster but was born in that disaster and survived by chance, wandering to the First District."

The single-lineage knight glanced at Yuanshi Tianzun and then at Chairman and muttered, "Your discussion of intelligence is too high-end. Can you consider the feelings of someone like me at the bottom?"

"If you want to know high-end intelligence, it depends on what you are willing to exchange." Zhang Yuanqing patted the single-lineage knight's shoulder.

Immediately, he looked at the vampire in the coffin. "How should this guy be dealt with? Kill him and refine him into a Yin corpse, or seal him back, or train him into a red pole for the gang."

Chairman laughed. "A world-class protected animal. It's a pity to refine him into a Yin corpse. But this guy is untamed and savage. He is an ungrateful wretch who is easy to stab in the back at a critical moment even though he can be controlled in peacetime. Give it to the single-lineage knight."

"Only the knight's contract power can control him." Speaking of this, he looked at Zhai Cai and added, "This guy counts as two Level 7 Dominator items."

Zhai Cai shrugged. "No problem."

In his opinion, having a vampire with a long life span that is difficult to kill as a lackey is more useful than two items of the same level. After all, items have no intelligence and require payment.

So, he took out the knight's long sword, inserted it in front of him, pressed the hilt with both hands, and said in a deep voice, "Vampire Augusto, I, Zhai Cai, in the name of a knight, sign a contract with you to become master and servant, never betray. Help each other until the end of life. Are you willing?"

His temperament became sacred and solemn, and his body faintly exuded a brass-colored halo.

His uncle translated his words to Augusto. "You only need to answer: willing or unwilling."

Augusto's face was full of resistance, even disdain. He said in a deep voice, "What will happen if I refuse?"

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"We will seal you back into the coffin." Seeing that Augusto was planning to refuse, his uncle leisurely added, "Let me remind you first that after the demise of the Holy See, the vault fell into a strange space. Except for us who have the key, no one will ever enter here again. That is to say, you will continue to sleep until the end of your life."

"I don't believe it!" Augusto shouted. He wanted to wait for the next batch of treasure hunters.

"Who do you think you are that it's worth my lying to you?" His uncle said with a smile.

Augusto's expression twisted, and his black, sharp fingernails scratched traces on the silver coffin.

After a long struggle and weighing, he finally compromised. "I am willing..."

Uncle nodded towards Zhai Cai.

Zhai Cai said in a deep voice, "Offer your blood."

Augusto, who had dealt with knights before, used his sharp inner fingernails to cut his wrist and guided the black blood to fly towards the knight's long sword.

The blood instantly merged into the sword, and a strong and bright brass light spread out like ripples.

In the dark, it seemed that a rule was established to witness the contract.

Zhai Cai retracted the straight sword and said faintly, "Walk with me!"

Chairman carried the gas lamp and passed the silver coffin, continuing forward. Zhang Yuanqing and Zhai Cai followed like lackeys, and there was also the unwilling vampire Augusto.

But soon, his attention was attracted by the weapons hanging on the wall not far away. Chairman, who was leading the way, also stopped.

On the wall hung three items: a scepter entwined with cyan air currents, about one meter long, with a pure white body. The body of the scepter seemed to be made of white jade, and the head of the scepter was a pair of jade-carved angel wings.

A silver knight's straight sword with a cross on the hilt. The sword body was sharp and reflected the warm light emitted by the gas lamp. After half a year, there was no rust. A wooden puppet half a meter high, the image of a boy with a grinning face.

Beside the wall was a brass box with a lock. The box was also engraved with sealing patterns. Uncle's tone was somewhat joyful: "They are all Dominator level."

Zhang Yuanqing and Zhai Cai rushed over like hungry tigers pouncing on sheep.