Skill extraction from Dragon Clan

Chapter 631: Plans of Both Sides (Two in One)

Feimto took Zheng Shu and talked as they walked, and they soon arrived at a tall building that looked like a tower.

The two men did not show any identification at all, but just performed a little magic trick to make the security guards in the high-rise building ignore them.

We rode the elevator up as if there was no one around and soon reached the top floor of the building.

Even at this height, thick fog still shrouded the building. The lights faintly shining through the fog below made this area look like something other than a human world.

"Why did you choose such a high place to meet? Is there any explanation?"

Zheng Shu lay on the railing next to the tall building, looking at the thick fog around him and the sun that was about to turn into sunset, feeling the strong wind at height, and squinting his eyes comfortably.

"There shouldn't be any special explanation. King Despair is a cocky guy. Maybe he just wants to maintain his so-called style." Fimto also lay on the railing and looked at the scenery.

"Oh my, I'll be angry if you say that to me."

A teasing voice came from behind, and the two looked back tacitly.

I saw a handsome young man walking out from the shadows. His bright red eyes seemed to be able to burn through people at any time, and his golden hair fluttered in the wind.

The temperament of the visitor could not be described as friendly, and was even a little intimidating, but he had a kind of swaggering charm that made people unable to extricate themselves.

Zheng Shu recognized the identity of the young man in front of him at a glance. He was the person he and Feimto were going to meet today: the King of Despair!

His origins are unknown. Unlike some of the other thirteen kings whose names are completely unknown due to such long time, the King of Despair himself has many names circulating in the human world, such as fallen, blue (sadness), devil, watcher, etc.

However, for the King of Despair himself, what he recognizes most is the title of the King of Despair.

He should be considered the most special one among the Thirteen Kings, because the King of Despair spends most of his time in the human world rather than in the other world.

"How are you doing lately? You're still doing those boring things, Fimto."

The King of Despair put his hands in his pockets, letting the strong wind from the sky blow his windbreaker.

Seeing the way Feimuto and Zheng Shu were looking at him, he showed a "cheerful" smile on his face:

"What's wrong? Don't you recognize your old friend? It's me, your friend, the King of Despair!"

Fimto looked the King of Despair up and down, and the corners of his mouth curled up slightly: "Although I knew you had come to this city, I didn't expect you to change your 'body' again."

"Nothing special, just making a deal with this little guy as usual."

King Despair raised his hand to smooth his hair, then turned around and looked Zheng Shu up and down with scrutiny: "Is he the new Thirteenth King? No, he should be the Fourteenth King now."

"What are you thinking about? Of course it's the Thirteenth King. Unfortunately, you have been excluded by us a long time ago! It's your fault for not coming to the banquet every time." Feimto's tone was quite bad.

King Despair was already used to Fimto's personality, and didn't care about his teasing. He even laughed after hearing his words:

"It would be even better if that were the case."

"Tsk! Forget it. I can't get along with a guy like you. Tell me, why did you call me here this time?" Feimto curled the corners of his mouth and looked quite unhappy.

"It's no big deal." The King of Despair seemed to have recalled his purpose this time. "I heard that you guys organized a prank show?"

"Of course, that's what I suggested! Do you want to participate? That's a pity, you'll probably have to wait until the last minute."

Feimto said "viciously", looking as childish as a little kid.

"Of course I will participate! However, I hope that I will be the next person to arrange the plot!" King Despair opened his arms, as if he was imagining something.

"No way, forget it! There's no way those guys would allow you to cut in line!"

Fimto stretched out his hands, crossed his arms, and made an "X" in front of himself to emphasize the truth of his words.

"That's why I came to you this time." King Despair looked at Fimto and laughed, "I believe you must have a way, right?"

"Even if I really have a way, why should I help you?" Feimto said with some disdain.

"It's simple. My reward is to show you a super prank that absolutely no one else can do! How about it?"

From Zheng Shu's perspective, the negotiation skills of the King of Despair were "rubbish", but Femto was inexplicably persuaded by such negotiation skills.

Looking at the hesitant Fimto, Zheng Shu couldn't help but narrow his eyes. He felt that there must be something wrong with these two guys.

Zheng Shu, who had read the original novel, certainly knew what the purpose of the King of Despair was. But now it seemed that Fimto also had some big problems on his side. This guy inexplicably agreed to such a thing.

After Fimto agreed, King Despair left immediately without saying anything else.

The whole process was decisive and quick, as if he came here for just this one thing.

During this process, King Despair's attitude towards Zheng Shu was neither hostile nor contemptuous, and apart from looking at him twice, there was not much communication between them.

"Don't worry about it, that guy is just like that."

Feimto even came to Zheng Shu and patted him on the shoulder, as if he was worried that Zheng Shu would be angered by King Despair's attitude.

Glancing at him, Zheng Shu expressionlessly moved Feimto's hand away from his shoulder.

He didn't feel much about the King of Despair's attitude. After all, he had come across many more guys with weird personalities, so this kind of person was not a big deal.

"I don't have anything to say about the King of Despair, but I'm just curious, why did you bring me along this time?"

Zheng Shu looked at Feimto again, as if trying to find some clues from him:

"From that guy's reaction, he was also surprised that you brought me to see him. In other words, meeting me was not a request mentioned by the King of Despair when he contacted you. So... why did you bring me here?"

"Well, we are all Thirteen Kings, so we can be considered acquaintances anyway. The reason I brought you along this time is, of course, so that you can get to know each other."

"Only in this way?"

"of course!"

Feimuto's attitude when speaking was uninhibited, and considering his previous erratic behavior, this reason made sense.

But Zheng Shu just felt that something was wrong. This came from his intuition.

At Zheng Shu's level, trusting his intuition takes precedence over trusting his brain, so he is very sure that Feimto is definitely hiding something.

"But...looking at him now, he probably doesn't want to tell me directly. It's useless even if I ask. Forget it, no matter what the purpose is, it will be revealed sooner or later anyway."

Seeing that Fimto looked no different than usual, Zheng Shu gave up the idea of ​​asking again.

Anyway, no matter what kind of plan it is, as long as it involves me, it will be related to me sooner or later. Let's see the specific situation at that time!

However, if things were too difficult, Zheng Shu decided to make that bastard Feimto pay the corresponding price afterwards.

"So, it's none of my business now?"

"Of course it's none of your business. Just go wherever you like to play!" Feimto waved his hand like a scumbag.

Zheng Shu's face turned dark, and he slapped the guy to the ground, then he created a space crack and left here, and came to his room in Hersharemz.

As soon as he came back, Zheng Shu heard the ringing of his cell phone which was placed on the table.

"Ok?"

Zheng Shu raised his eyebrows and saw multiple missed calls on his phone. He suddenly realized that he seemed to have forgotten something.

Zheng Shu pressed the answer button on his phone, but before he could even say anything, Leo's screams came from the other end of the phone:
"Help, Mr. Zheng Shu!!"

"You're disturbing me. Speak slowly. Don't be anxious."

Zheng Shu couldn't help but hold the phone a little further away and scratched his ears.

As if infected by Zheng Shu's calmness, Leo finally calmed down and quickly recounted the whole story.

It was very similar to the original plot that Zheng Shu knew.

After Zheng Shu left, Abrams immediately asked Leo to use the God's Eye to observe the note held in the severed hand of an elder-level blood realm follower in the suitcase he brought.

Then, due to the backlash of power, Leo's divine eye briefly fell into a state of slight out-of-control.

Although no damage was caused, the original restrictions on visual range were invalidated, allowing Leo to inexplicably see things far away.

After learning about Leo's situation, Abrams came up with another clever idea. He believed that Leo's vision should now be able to reach deep into the other world, which was a great opportunity to capture the elders hiding there.

So, Abrams, Leo, Zapp and Klaus formed a team and headed to the center of Hersharemz - the aerial station just above the Endless Void: Yugudolashiado (World Tree) Central Station.

This should have been a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, but a little "accident" happened.

After Klaus and his crew arrived at the Central Station, a battle suddenly broke out near the Sturmclede Avenue Station. It was speculated that the enemy should be an elder-level blood realm follower.

In order to prevent the losses from increasing too much, with the headquarters empty, only Stephen and K.K. were left on Libra's side able to rush to the scene as combat forces.

However, after losing the most powerful Klaus, all the two could do in the face of the elder-level blood realm followers was to "delay time."

Because the enemy had created a clever time difference, even if Klaus and his team had forced the train to move at top speed, it would still take at least another five minutes to reach the scene.

But judging from the live video footage provided by Jane, the two of them might not be able to hold on for that long.

Although optical instruments such as cameras cannot capture the appearance of blood circle followers, it can be seen that K.K. and Stephen have been engaged in a tough battle, with new wounds constantly appearing all over their bodies.

The two people in the eyeliner video were pierced through the body by a large amount of blood that appeared out of nowhere and could no longer continue fighting, and it would take another minute or two for them to arrive.

In desperation, Leo thought of Zheng Shu's mysterious spatial ability, so he called him hoping that he could rescue the two.

Zheng Shu’s attitude towards this is…

"Oh my god, I'm glad you reminded me. That bastard wasted my time!"

Leo wasn't quite sure who the "bastard" Zheng Shu was talking about was, but he could tell that he seemed to agree to take action.

"Please be careful, Mr. Zheng Shu. Mr. Klaus, judging from the fighting postures of Stephen and the others in the video, there should be more than one person, probably two! We still have fifty seconds..."

"understood."

Zheng Shu didn't have time to listen to Leo's subsequent words. Instead, he simply hung up the phone, reached out, opened a crack in space, and walked in.

……

……

Inside the subway station, looking at the two enemies lying on the ground, Valkel felt happy for the first time in a long time.

Behind her, Tonio, who had completely transformed into a blood realm dependent, stretched out an arm and hugged Valkel, leaning him against his broad body, posing as if to watch the show.

"Miss, are they them? They seem to be average in strength."

"I think so too. It's really disappointing, both of you."

Looking at Stephen and K.K. who had lost their ability to fight, Valkel's beautiful face showed a little disappointment, and she felt that she had been too cautious before.

Although myths and legends state that humans will become vampires if bitten by a vampire, the actual situation is naturally not that simple.

Although the blood realm followers are indeed transformed from humans, as it is a sophisticated transformation that goes deep into the genetic base sequence level, even if they have the support of innate abilities, it will take a lot of time and energy for the blood realm followers to transform humans.

Generally speaking, in order to completely transform a human into a blood bound dependent, the ritual must be performed on the same target at least thirteen times.

Before the thirteen rituals were fully completed, although the transformed humans began to gradually possess powerful powers, they were still not considered "Blood Realm Dependents" and could only be called "Dependents" at most.

Moreover, in this process, due to the differences in the talents of the recipients, most humans are simply unable to support so many rituals, and many can only be "dependents" for their entire lives.

When the two worlds had not yet completely collided, the "Tooth Hunters" of the human world mainly dealt with these followers, and there were very few blood realm followers that really needed to be dealt with.

In reality, the number of humans with the "talent" that can be transformed is already very small.

Even those who can pass the first transformation are very few, and most of them will only become willless puppets like ghouls after their blood is sucked by the blood circle followers.

In addition, the blood realm followers themselves are unable to reproduce. Under such circumstances, the best way for the blood realm followers to expand their population is to cooperate with some shady forces in the human world.

For example, some mafia or underground gangs.

The blood realm followers provide them with power, wealth, and even help them kill certain hostile forces in exchange for these forces helping them find humans with sufficient talent among the crowd.

A few days ago, Valkel came to Hersharemz with the purpose of doing a deal with an Italian mafia.

However, just as she was searching for a suitable place to meet and trade, she was suddenly surprised to find that one of her arms that had been cut off by humans decades ago showed signs of movement.

In 1943, Valkel, as one of the Thirteen Elders, had a head-on conflict with humans.

Even though the blood realm dependents were beaten like grandsons in the other world and lived a miserable life.

However, when faced with the human world whose combat power is equal to or even surpasses that of the other world, the blood realm's followers have the advantage due to their racial characteristics.

The most important reason is a seemingly insignificant ability of the blood realm followers: except for the eyes of living beings, no optical instrument or detector can observe the "imaging" of the blood realm followers.

In ancient times, this ability would have no benefit, and vampire hunters would even use mirrors to identify blood-bound followers hiding among the human population.

But in modern society, for humans whose main combat power is concentrated on "technology", a high-speed moving target that cannot be locked by anything except the human eye is a nightmare in itself.

It is no exaggeration to say that with this ability, the blood realm followers can be called the natural enemies of modern technology.

It was also relying on his innate ability that allowed Valkel to seize a battleship during the conflict with the human world, and arranged the bodies of the 343 crew members on board into a cross to mock the incompetence of mankind.

…and then was nearly beaten to death.

In modern times, due to the rapid development of science and technology and the powerful combat capability it brings, mankind's focus has shifted to science and technology.

But this does not mean that human beings’ extraordinary powers are weak.

Thousands of years before the rapid development of modern technology, the reason why humans were able to drive the blood circle relatives to another world was not because of love and peace, but because of a big enough fist!

Therefore, after such a vicious incident occurred, the supernatural forces in the human world were furious.

The Vatican even sent out hundreds of elite "Tooth Hunter" teams to hunt down Valkle, and also sent out a large number of warlocks to find a way to truly "kill" him, which is Valkle's "real name".

Unfortunately, humans did find it.

After a fierce battle, Valkel escaped at the cost of his arm, while the human side also lost the lives of 47 elite hunters.

Before escaping, Valkel's arm had already torn off the page of paper with his name on it from the ancient book, but unfortunately the arm was forcibly left behind.

Under normal circumstances, for a blood realm follower of Valkel's level, let alone a broken arm, even if he lost half of his body, he could recover in an instant.

But the situation was different this time. Her name was still engraved on the arm she left behind. In order to prevent her real name from being discovered by humans, Valkel could only forcibly stop the healing of her physical injuries and continuously transmit power to her arm remotely.

Fortunately, the humans did not dare to use any drastic methods for fear of damaging the piece of paper held in their arms.

So the two sides were in a stalemate.

Valkel lost an arm semi-permanently and still had to constantly supply it with power.

The humans suffered heavy losses, but because they had no better solution, they could only keep the arm and the piece of paper in the Vatican and seal them up.

Even in his victorious period, Valkel was unable to escape unscathed from the Vatican's hunting squad, let alone invade the Vatican in his current dilapidated state.

If she were to meet the Paladin Legion, she would definitely not have an easy time even if she didn't die.

So for a long time, Valkel basically gave up the idea of ​​taking back his arm.

But now she felt her arm leave the Vatican and fly rapidly towards Hersharemz, and the hope of desire that had been extinguished was rekindled.

However, due to the convenience of modern transportation, the other party can arrive here in just one or two days.

With his current strength, it would be very dangerous if he faced too many Fang Hunters. It was too late to ask for support now, and Valkel didn't trust those guys.

Fortunately, there are other options, and Valkel set his sights on the "trading object" this time.

That's why she transformed herself and contacted Tonio, who had just arrived in Hersharemz, in advance, in order to test Tonio's "talent" level.

After confirming that Tonio's talent was high enough to become a bloodbound follower, Valkel warned Tonio in advance through hints, and in the transaction the next day, she simply killed the other Mafia high-ranking officials who had come to trade with her in order to win their hearts.

After quickly performing 13 rituals in the shortest possible time to transform Tonio into a bloodbound follower, Valkel could not wait to cause a riot and attract the "Tooth Hunters".

"I thought you guys would be stronger, and even made so many preparations, but I didn't expect you to be defeated so easily."

"That's true, I'm sorry..."

After just saying a few words, Stephen's mouth gushed out a lot of blood. His injuries were quite serious. An ordinary person might have gone into shock due to excessive blood loss.

In the previous battle, Valkel sensed Stephen's intention to delay time.

Valkel didn't care about this and even went along with it.

She knew the situation of those hunters. If there was a sudden sacrifice, they would retreat without hesitation and come back again after gathering the intelligence. Then things would become very difficult.

But if the teammates are only seriously injured, then the hunters will fall into the trap like fish seeing the bait.

Judging from the appearance of the person in front of me, "support" should be on the way.

This was exactly what Valkel wanted, so he didn't mind spending a little more time with the Yashou in front of him.

"I heard that you are a human weapon specialized for the blood realm's followers, but unfortunately, you are still a little short. The terrible blood that can corrode cells and cause damage is indeed a natural enemy for us who feed on blood. However, from ancient times to the present, you have used various methods to try to destroy our immortal bodies, but do you really think such tricks will work?"

Valkel looked at Stephen's blood on his hand. Even if it only touched the epidermis, the blood would quickly corrode the skin like sulfuric acid.

Valkel licked his fingers clean without any concern and showed Stephen his quickly healing tongue.

"From the moment we were 'killed', we began to revive again. Although it does take a long time because our bodies and cells were shattered, those low-level guys might take thousands of years to recover. But look at me... I fully recovered in an instant."

"That'll be fine……"

After hearing what Valkel said, Stephen's tone was not only free of despair, but even full of pride.

"That's enough, Miss Monster. Whether it takes a thousand years or two thousand years, humans will catch up with you. The day will come when we can solve the paradox of making the immortal dead."

Looking at the two blood realm followers in front of him, Stephen smiled mockingly:
"Yes, our previous actions were just to buy as much time as possible!"

"Old Shi, I don't think you are right." Another abrupt voice suddenly came from the side.

"?!!!"

Everyone present was shocked. As the subway lights had long been broken, they could only vaguely see a tall figure in the darkness in the distance.

"Who is..."

boom!
Before he could even finish his words, accompanied by a loud bang, the figures of the two blood realm followers disappeared from the spot, leaving only blood plasma covering the entire subway.

Zheng Shu walked out of the darkness while flexing his hands. He looked at Stephen, who had a shocked expression on his face, and shrugged.

"He's just a blood realm follower. It doesn't matter if we can't find his weakness. At most, we can use him as a test subject."

(Two in one, this is a real extra chapter, an extra chapter after paying off the debt)

(End of this chapter)