The Divine Hunter Chapter 13: The price of blood

In the end, Regis took the lead to break the deadlock, calming his restless companions with rational and calm eyes, and then slowly looked at the five people opposite,

"Now two choices are before us. Fight to the death at all costs. You call your brothers and sisters, and we call the vampire banshee and Katakaan from the night and wilderness... Let the ruins flow like rivers of blood."

"But this is meaningless, and it will inevitably hurt innocent people," Regis glanced at the sleeping soldiers in the distance and said sincerely, "We have a better choice, communicate peacefully, open the skylight and speak out. ”

"Those sleepyheads have nothing to do with us, so threats are ineffective."

The cat vulture raised the sunglasses on the bridge of his nose with a cold face, but at the signal from Roy's eyes, he returned the sword to its sheath.

The oppressive atmosphere in the venue was greatly relieved.

"Come on then, what are you waiting for? You mutants, how dare you make excuses when you are clearly wrong?!"

Dettlaff suddenly added fuel to the fire and returned the cold stare, not hiding the anger on his face.

"What makes you so confident? Strength? Let me try!"

Then, he unexpectedly launched an attack, like a gust of night wind, flying towards the cat vulture with lightning and flint.

A black shadow flashed in mid-air.

Roy stood in front of his companions like a prophet, with red lava Quen burning on the dragon-skin armor. His hands were like red-hot steel pliers, and he accurately grasped Dettlaff's claws.

With the blessing of Arondette's "Guardian", magic potion and Arden's halo, his strength and speed have completely surpassed Gao Sui.

The vampire who was hit by the burning and huge force screamed, the sound was so loud that it almost shattered the eardrums.

Everyone's eyes were dazzled.

I saw a flaming human figure and a giant bat jumping into the air together, entangled in a ball, colliding rapidly, changing directions, and attacking in a dizzying and crazy manner.

The giant bat vibrates its dark wings to resist the silver sword, and turns into a swarm of bats to dodge the impact of flames and airflow. Sometimes it opens its **** mouth and roars a sonic hammer, throws a spear wreathed in blood flames, and waves its claws in mid-air. Dragging out streaks of bright red and dazzling blood.

The long sword in the demon hunter's right hand danced like an airtight sword, constantly breaking away the fangs and claws protruding from the void, and returning the favor from time to time, creating a streak of **** sword light.

The left hand squeezed the trigger repeatedly, and the crossbow arrows shot through the air, bringing out a ball of blood from time to time.

There are even more signs flying all over the sky, making the chaotic energy turbulent.

Bang bang bang!

Continuous collisions.

At the junction of the sword and the claw, the dark night shattered, and **** of colorful flames erupted in the sky above Fin Kahn, as if a gorgeous fireworks show was going on.

But the demon hunters and vampires below did not move. They maintained restraint in a tacit understanding and did not let the battle escalate.

Half a minute later.

Vos

The ancient roar shattered the void and roared across the night sky.

Everyone's heart stopped.

The big bat that bore the brunt froze and fell from the sky like a broken wing.

It instantly returned to its human form after landing, and the huge impact pushed it back several meters.

My feet and left hand are on the ground, and half of my right hand is empty.

The posture resembles a desert lizard resting with its forelimbs raised.

An abnormal blush flashed across Dettlaff's cold sweaty cheeks, and his hands, chest and abdomen revealed burnt skin and bleeding sword wounds, with several arrows trembling slightly in the flesh.

But all injuries are visibly healing, including the missing right hand.

Poof!

The demon hunter landed next to Coral, gave the latter a reassuring look, and twisted his neck.

Except for a few pale scratches on the leather armor, he was unscathed.

Even without using shock, he can still defeat Gao Sui!

"How about it, am I qualified to talk now?"

Roy stared at the embarrassed Dettlaff.

At this point in time, the curtain of blood and wine has not yet begun.

But with his memory, he already knew Dettlaff.

Being able to fall in love with a mortal woman of a foreign race, trust the other person unreservedly, and dedicate everything to her.

After being deceived and abandoned, he would lead a group of low-level vampires to bloodbath a city.

He has a clear distinction between love and hate, and is impulsive and irritable.

But in general, this guy can still listen to some advice before the situation cannot be ended.

As expected, Dettlaff silently retreated to his companions, with deep fear and respect flashing in his eyes.

Respecting the strong is the consensus of all races.

The expressions of the Queen of the Night, Regis, and Oriana when they looked at the witcher changed.

Finally, from the bottom of my heart, I regard them as equal objects of communication.

"Now, let's talk... You have to decide what's right and what's wrong." Roy looked around and said loudly, "If a few people hadn't taken Gaitan and Irene away, we wouldn't have disturbed this party. ."

"Are you so forgetful, Your Excellency? A few years ago, you killed Grufeld on a whim in Vizima, and you let a southerner die in my territory."

The Queen of the Night retorted with a gentle voice, her charming temperament was heart-stirring,

"The elder of Vicvaro angrily ordered me to catch the murderer. Unfortunately, I have been searching for it for several years to no avail. It was not until we luckily found Gaitan who was seriously injured and dying that we came up with a compromise method. Make up for the losses of the southern tribes and appease the anger of the elders."

"So you are the instigator of today's conflict."

A high-sucking guy died, so he took the cat away and sent an assassin to make up for it?

How to make amends?

Roy's heart moved, and he vaguely guessed the plan of the four people.

"The kind of scum that kills innocents indiscriminately and **** human blood wantonly will die when it dies..." Keyan raised his chin slightly, his scarlet pupils flashed with cold light, "Or, the four people who agree with Grufeld Evil deeds?"

"But you shouldn't desecrate his body..." Regis glanced coldly at the alchemy belts on the chests of several demon hunters. Four silver jars were gleaming with blood, and each of them had a copy.

"Haha..." Eskar crossed his arms and said fiercely, "Grufide preys on humans unscrupulously, and it should have been mentally prepared. Sooner or later, it will itself be used as material and food by others. ."

"Now it's just blood debt and karma retribution!"

"This is the punishment given to him by fate!"

The faces of the top recruiters were solemn, but they couldn't help but nod.

Even Dettlaff is no exception.

Birds of a feather flock together.

The two men present had already completely gotten rid of their blood addiction. Although they lived in isolation, their eating habits were no different from humans.

Although the two women occasionally drink blood, they strictly abide by the principles of fair trade. The Queen of the Night obtains blood from customers, and Oriana obtains blood from the orphanage run by her family.

What Grufeld did was contrary to their principles and violated the iron law set by the elders. He deserved to die!

"I completely agree with your words. The truth is this, but it's useless to tell us. You have to explain it to the Shadow Elder in person." A trace of fear flashed in Dettlaff's eyes.

"Now, it's too late if you don't want to take the initiative to meet us. The elders will soon be able to draw relevant memories from our bloodline and know that you are the culprits who killed Grufeld. There is no doubt that, One day in the near future, it will leave the underworld where it has been dormant for a long time and take the initiative to find you. When the time comes, you will not be able to escape the disaster of annihilation."

He paused and warned,

"Demon hunter, I admit that you are very strong, but you are incomparable to the elder. The elder has lived for more than two thousand years, and any words to describe his power are too pale."

Dettlaff clenched his fists and considered,

"To be precise, the elder is the **** of vampires. He can crush us to ashes with just a snap of his fingers."

Except for Roy, the other demon hunters and sorceresses were in deep shock.

They had never heard of the Shadow Elder.

More than two thousand years old.

There are actually such ancient creatures in the world.

Roy straightened his back and said calmly, "After today's matter is successfully resolved, I will go and give an 'explanation' to the elders, but I have to ask you to lead the way."

"I hope you will keep your word."

Regis looked deeply at the young man in front of him, as if to see through his heart to see whether he was bluffing or whether he had something to rely on.

The strong desire to explore surged in Roy's eyes.

Who is stronger and weaker than the shadow elder who beats Geralt and the lion-headed spider **** of omens?

In addition, he has a bold idea in his mind. If successful, the elder will become a powerful force for the brotherhood.

"Let's not mention the matter of the Shadow Elder for now. I have some other questions I would like to ask."

Roy paused and stared at the eyes of the four people,

"Irene and Gaitan, are you still alive?"

The witcher held his breath and concentrated.

The main purpose of their trip is to rescue the village chief's daughter and the cat-sect assassin.

The four high school students exchanged glances silently. Oriana held up her hair and tapped her pointed chin,

"As expected of a demon hunter who is good at reasoning, you are right. But now, even if you can calm the elder's anger, it will not help. It is too late."

"The deal is done. They have been completely separated from their old lives. It is absolutely impossible to return to the past environment."

"Let's be clear," Keyan raised his eyebrows, "Were they imprisoned? Or were they seriously injured and unable to move."

"I'm afraid that's not the case." Roy's eyes slowly turned, and he made another surprising guess, "The four of them want to transform Gaitan and Irene into the same kind, through some special ceremony."

He thought of what the old villager Dawo saw in his dream divination,

"Lying in a coffin and transforming, the process is irreversible?"

His tone was firm, as if he was stating a fact,

"I, a witcher, killed a high-level vampire. In its place, a witcher will be transformed into a high-level vampire?"

"This is what is called making up!"

For a moment, the ruins were so quiet that you could hear a pin drop.

Eskar, Cat Vulture, and Kyan's breathing was stagnant, and their eyes widened in a rare manner.

Converting mutants into high smokers sounds like a joke.

The bright coral blue eyes are full of brilliant colors, and the index finger is twirling the hair in circles. This is definitely a miracle in the field of life mutation!

The four suffering masters looked at each other in disbelief for several seconds.

Regis breathed a sigh of relief, almost blowing a loud and comical whistle. He looked up and down at the witcher in amazement,

"Sir Roy, admit it, you are a high-level vampire disguised as a demon hunter, right? Otherwise, how did you learn about our plan?"

"Your Excellency is quite humorous."

"This is no joke. In fact, you were half right. We usually don't call this sacred ritual transformation, but reproduction."

Regis touched the missing temple in a helpless tone,

"This is the way for our family to continue."

"According to your opinion, is it impossible for high-level vampires to reproduce in normal ways?"

Rita Nieder quickly grasped the metaphor in his words,

Taniben/span“Sorry, no comment.”

"Aren't you going to have a frank communication? We will not give up on a member of the fraternity until you come up with facts to convince us."

The sorceress touched her beautiful nails and emphasized reluctantly,

"You are strong and principled. You have been merciful a few times, so it's okay to speak out. But that period of history is too sad and heavy. Unless you swear a strong oath, you will never leak any of the following words to the outside world. ."

The Queen of the Night said,

"If you violate this, your destiny as demon hunters will be completely cut off in the near future."

Oriana clasped her hands in front of her belly and added a cruel condition with a dignified expression.

But this cannot deter everyone's curiosity.

They do what they say.

The night breeze is cold.

Everything is quiet among the ruins.

Regis’s magnetic and eloquent voice rang out.

"About 1,500 years ago, more than a thousand high-level members of our tribe, plus a group of low-level members, were involuntarily swept away by the power of time and space during the first celestial rendezvous. I left my hometown and came to this world."

"The three shadow elders were very ambitious, thinking that the tribe would take root in the new world and thrive. However, they did not expect that this was the beginning of a nightmare."

Regis paused and took Natanis's hand,

"At the beginning of the advent, everything was normal. The men and women of the tribe could successfully combine, reproduce, and raise offspring together. Although they could only give birth once in a hundred years, they could barely maintain the size of the tribe."

"But in the future, water sources, food, plants, chaotic energy, and all factors in the environment that are very different from home began to show subtle and irreversible power..."

"First, a large number of newborns in the tribe began to die prematurely. In the first five years of their lives, due to unknown reasons, their body organs became deformed and died of failure."

“One fifth of the lucky ones survived by chance, but their minds gradually became distorted as they grew older, and finally they were completely dominated by blood addiction and turned into beasts.”

"The elders tried their best but could not change the status quo."

At this moment, the four high school students lowered their heads with sad expressions, especially the sentimental Queen of the Night, whose shoulders were trembling slightly and a few crystals flickered on the edge of her long eyelashes.

If you don’t have family companionship in your long life, you won’t be able to enjoy family happiness, and loneliness will be inevitable.

At least Oriana can play with the children in the orphanage to kill her loneliness.

But the Queen of the Night can only endure loneliness.

"This is not over yet. In the next hundred years, the fifth and all high-level members will lose their fertility, and because of reproductive isolation, we will not be able to coexist with any other intelligent creatures. Procreate."

"Do you know what this means to a race?"

"In the face of annihilation, without a steady supply of new blood, no race can escape the fate of destruction, including high-level vampires with long lifespans."

Roy replied in a serious tone.

The coral next to him quietly held his arm, his pretty face turned pale, and a sigh of sympathy appeared.

The current situation of high-sucking is so similar to that of witchers and sorceresses.

"Six hundred years have passed. Due to various accidents, the number of clan members has dropped sharply from more than a thousand to five hundred."

“Seeing that our demise is not far away, fate finally shows mercy to us. The elders have gone through countless hardships... With the experience and strength accumulated in their long lives, they have created a way to continue the ethnic group and reproduce in this desperate world. method for future generations"

"That's what you call transformation."

"Who do you know? Me, Dettlaff, Oriana, and Natanis are all products of the transformation ceremony. We were once mortals."

Regis's words stopped suddenly, and a strange confusion flashed in his eyes,

Roy looked shocked, and even his "prophet" had no idea about it.

A high-level vampire actually has such a heavy past.

No wonder the Shadow Elder always longs to return to his hometown in another world.

"Can you tell me more about the transformation ritual?"

The sorceress is still unfinished.

"Witchers use mutations to create companions, while high-level vampires use transformation to reproduce offspring. Don't you think the two are strikingly similar."

Maybe this is the world's punishment for those who live longer?

"How can they be confused with two different things!" Dettlaff snorted angrily,

Regis patted him on the shoulder,

"It doesn't matter if you say it, you will retreat when the time comes."

"There are a few iron rules in our reproduction ritual."

Regis paces around a piece of upturned granite,

"First of all, it takes a hundred years for each tribe member to transform into a descendant. Because once a certain substance required for transformation is consumed, it takes a hundred years to recover."

"Secondly, the target of transformation must be someone who is terminally ill, or seriously injured and dying."

Roy suddenly realized, no wonder they took away Irene, who was suffering from cancer, and Gaitan, whose blood was running dry.

"Can't normal people do it?"

"If you are not grateful for the transformation and accept it wholeheartedly, you may not be able to survive it. This is the conclusion of a large number of experiments."

Only a dying person with strong unwillingness will accept a new identity without rejection in order to survive.

"Third, two high-level vampires must work together to provide a transformed blood."

"You guessed it, the main step in transformation is blood replacement, replacing the blood in the human body with our blood. The four of us just transformed two newborns."

No wonder.

Roy slowly scanned the four pale faces.

They all suffer from the negative state of weakness caused by blood loss.

"What about blood transfusion?"

Rita Nieder asked.

"First, drain their blood."

Oriana spread her fingers towards everyone.

Expose the cross-shaped scars on each fingertip.

"Then the ten fingers face each other and control our blood to enter their bodies at the appropriate speed."

Everyone couldn't help but marvel. This method of blood transfusion was unheard of and could only be achieved by high-intensity suction.

"After the blood transfusion is completed, they will need a month to transform. Our blood will transform their bodies from the inside out and let them be reborn!"

A flash of excitement flashed in Decarf's eyes,

"To tell you the truth, this is also my first time to 'reproduce' offspring,"

"So Erin and Gain have begun the countdown to transformation?"

"Yes, and it is completely voluntary. If you take them away now, the transformation will probably fail, and you can only take away two cold corpses."

"But little Erin is about to succeed."

Regis turned around and looked at the sky. As midnight approached, he turned to the tomb in the distance, with a trace of love flashing in his eyes, like a father who missed his daughter.

"After tonight, the one-month period will be completed, and she will get rid of the disease and regain her life."

"It's so simple, a mortal becomes a high-level vampire."

Kiayan raised his eyebrows in disbelief,

"The witcher's mutation carries countless risks and pain."

"Your transformation does not have any side effects and does not require any payment at all?"

Several pairs of vertical pupils flashed with a faint light.

The high-level vampires were silent.

"How is that possible?"

Regis shook his head regretfully and began his improvisation,

"Everything has a price, just think about it"

“You are terminally ill or seriously injured and dying, and you are about to face the end of your destiny in pain and weakness.

A rare opportunity suddenly appears in front of you.

As long as you accept it, you will soon be reborn. You will have resilience, immunity, speed, and strength reactions that are far superior to humans and comparable to gods. You will also have the ability to transform into a bat, summon monsters, teleport and become invisible. Your lifespan will be almost No end in sight.

But this opportunity follows the principle of equivalent exchange. ”

A resolute, truth-like voice sounded in the night sky.

"Whatever you get, you have to pay."

The demon hunters' breath was stagnant~IndoMTL.com~ had a bad premonition,

"First, all the mortal blood in the transformer's body will be drained, leaving not a drop left. Only the new blood we inject will maintain the last trace of consciousness. He will touch death at close range and enter a special state of nothingness."

"For the next month, he could only lie in the coffin while his body was gradually transformed. The whole process was as painful as being cut into pieces with a thousand cuts."

Regis took a deep breath, his body trembling quietly,

"But these are not the biggest price. Transformers will transform from the inside out, and the brain is no exception."

"This means that transformation will take away all his memories and completely cut off his past life."

"He is like a newborn baby chasing sweet food based on instinct."

"The first year of birth"

Dettlaff took over the conversation,

"The newcomers are a group of blood-addicted patients who have lost their memory and are confused."

"If there is no guidance from their elders, they will tear the necks of all the humans in front of them and **** them into mummies."

"And it's like a curse that goes deep into your bones."

"They will especially love the blood of their former relatives. Any smell will make them crazy."

"What's even more terrifying is that they have no memory and self-control, and will only kill all their human blood relatives without mercy."

Not only did everyone feel chills on their backs, but they also began to wonder, is this rebirth a gift or torture?

"As if all the relatives in the past are dead."

Regis sighed at the end,

"They will usher in a true new life."

……

At this time.

Aiden and Cohen, taking Old Davo, quietly bypassed the many traps and sleeping vampire banshees in the ancient tomb.

Finally, we came to the gorgeous tomb in the center and stood in front of two marble coffins.