【Western Fantasy】City of Light

To Ansel's surprise, the girls didn't seem to be abused by the vampires.They were imprisoned in the most luxurious bedroom of the summer palace, which used to be the queen's private bedroom.

In front of the closed door of the dormitory, Ansel vigilantly observed the surrounding situation.Alai knocked lightly on the door, and the door squeaked open, revealing a narrow gap.

The gorgeous palace interior was dim, it was early morning but it was as dark as midnight, and the situation inside could not be seen clearly through the narrow crack of the door.

Ansel bent down cautiously, and whispered into the door, "It's me."

Seeing that the visitor was a trustworthy priest, the door opened immediately.

As soon as Ansel stepped into the house, a group of petite figures jumped on him like birds returning to the forest.After so many days of fear and fear, the girls finally met their acquaintances, and immediately formed a weak net to surround the youth group.

Their health looks good, and they don't seem to be a vampire's food reserve.However, now is not an occasion for reminiscing about the past, Ansel must hurry up and send the girls away.After a short conversation, he eagerly urged the girls: "Are you ready? Now go out with Alai quickly, and don't be discovered by anyone."

Alai closed the door obediently, and stood silently aside.

Right now everything is going smoothly, but Ansel feels vaguely uneasy in his heart.If the earl returned suddenly, or his vampire was awakened by them, it would be difficult to escape.Although Ansel believed that Yarlin would come to rescue him, but when that time came, the situation would be very dangerous, so it was better to send the girls away as soon as possible.

But the girls did not realize the good intentions of the priest.They surrounded the priest with nostalgia, reluctant to leave for a long time.

Ansel had no choice but to persuade everyone: "What's the matter? You don't need to worry about me, just leave quickly."

A delicate female voice replied weakly: "Lord Ansel..." The one who spoke was a brown-haired girl with beautiful eyes and tears, with lovely freckles on her cheeks.She sobbed, "My lord, we can't go back..."

Hearing this, the girls all covered their faces and sobbed softly, these crisp voices like nightingales sounded particularly sad.

Ansel was as anxious as an ant on a hot pan, wishing he could take the children away one by one.

But the other party is a weak child, too anxious will scare them.

So, Ansel patiently held the brown-haired girl's hand, and persuaded softly: "Marian, what's the matter with you? Don't you want to go home?"

A red-haired girl wiped her tears with her slender wrist. She raised her head and said in despair and fear, "My lord, we want to go home, but we don't want to be burned to death..."

"Burn to death?" Ansel frowned, and Marianne took the opportunity to break away from his hands and hide aside, "Lily, what do you mean by that?"

A breeze blew from nowhere in the dimly lit room, and the heavy curtains began to flutter slowly.

A terrifying thought came to Ansel's mind.

No way……

Suddenly, the almost melting candle stub on the metal candlestick lighted up, and the candle made a crackling sound as it burned.

The faint light penetrated the thick darkness, and under Ansel's shocked gaze, the weeping girls slowly raised their heads.

More than a dozen pairs of clear eyes stared straight at the blond young man, the pupils of which were scarlet like blood, as if they had experienced the baptism of hell.

They... they all turned into vampires!

how so? !Ansel turned pale with fright, couldn't help but took a step back, but accidentally bumped into a wide and cool embrace.The shoulders were firmly imprisoned by a pair of big hands, and a deep and magnetic voice sounded from behind: "It seems that our priest is very disobedient."

Alai kept silent until the uninvited guest suddenly appeared, and he said in surprise: "Lord Earl? Why are you here?"

"It's you……"

Ansel turned around, her beautiful facial features were distorted by anger: "You turned them into vampires!"

"Hehe—" the silver-haired earl chuckled, without denying it.

He bypassed Ansel and walked into the room unhurriedly.He frivolously lifted the red-haired girl's chin, his voice was as magnetic as the most famous bass: "As you can see. Eternal youth, eternal life... Isn't this everything human beings desire? Lily, what do you think? "

Lily cried and patted the earl's fingers, but because of the huge difference in body size, she couldn't break free from the earl's strong confinement.

"Hahaha——" Earl Harriet laughed wildly, and with a big wave of his hand, Lily was thrown to the side.

There was a muffled sound when the body collided with the white stone wall, and Lily clutched her chest in agony, moaning in pain.

Ansel rushed up to help her into his arms, Lily's pale cheeks pierced his heart like a needle.He held Lily in his arms and raised his head, staring coldly at the silver-haired count, his green eyes filled with hatred.

If, if his divine power is still there, he will definitely tear this bastard to pieces!

"Ansel, I wanted to tell you, but I was afraid you would be sad..." Alai timidly grabbed the corner of the priest's clothes, "Also, even if Lily and the others become vampires, they can still go home. The plan has no effect."

This silly boy... Ansel sighed, and gave Alai a complicated look.

Perhaps in the eyes of this werewolf boy, there is no fundamental difference between vampires, humans, and werewolves.He is too simple and straightforward to understand the complex history and entanglements between various races.He does what he wants, does what he wants to do, and walks in this world in his own way.

"That's right, even if you become a vampire, you can still go home."

The count repeated Alai's boyish speech with a tone of great approval.Then, he tapped his chin with his index finger, his movements were extremely elegant and mature: "However, there is a long distance to go from the Summer Palace to Ampton, and if you don't eat something before you leave, your body will not be able to bear it. Isn't it, Lily? "

Ansel frowned, not understanding what he meant.

Alai on the side reacted.The Fried Hairy Wolf yelled at the Earl in disbelief: "How could this be? You swore you would never hurt Ansel!"

There was a surprised expression on the earl's handsome face: "'I' really didn't hurt your bride."

When the two were entangled in writing skills, a cold little hand suddenly stroked Ansel's cheek.

Ansel lowered his head, and found that the girl in his arms had loose eyes, and her flower-like lips were slowly parted, revealing her white fangs.

These days, Alai has been immersed in the joy of newlyweds, ignoring everything around him.He only listened to Ansel, and Ansel said he would take the girls away, so Alai obediently brought him here.

At this moment, after Alai calmed down, he finally realized that Ansel's current state was very bad.

The thirteen girls in the room had never drank blood since they were transformed into vampires.They have been hungry for many days, and they didn't attack the priest just because of reason.

But isn't human reason an extremely fragile thing?

Sure enough, Lily, who was closest to Ansel, showed her fangs first, and bit Ansel's fair neck fiercely.

"Um-"

Ansel didn't notice for a while, and was successfully attacked by the girl in his arms.There was a pain in his neck, and he stretched out his hand to push Lily, but his hands were firmly held down by the other two girls.

He turned his head, just in time to meet more than a dozen pairs of bright red pupils.

Under the intensive attacks of the vampire girls, tiny wounds appeared on Ansel's fair skin.The blood oozing from the wound exuded a sweet and greasy smell, this smell was so good that all the girls lost their minds!Like sharks smelling blood, they huddled together, trying to satisfy their empty desires on the priest.

Soon, the priest's neck, collarbone, wrist...all the exposed places were licked hungrily by the girls.

The vampire's saliva has the effect of confusing prey. The priest tried hard to resist the dizziness of numbness and the coldness of blood loss, but he was outnumbered, and was finally firmly suppressed by the girls greedily.

Thirteen hungry vampires are enough to drain the blood of an adult youth.

"Stop! Tell them to stop!" Alai hurriedly circled around. He tried his best to pull the girls to save the priest, but he was easily hugged by the earl, and he could only powerlessly punch in the air. Hit and kick.

The figure of the priest has been overwhelmed by a dozen petite figures, and the sound of breathing can hardly be heard.Alai turned his head and desperately asked the earl for help: "Hurry up and tell them to stop, you swore, you can't break the contract!"

Earl Harriet's blood was so pure that the girls subconsciously had to obey his orders.As long as the earl stopped them a little, the girls couldn't resist the suppression of their blood, and they would definitely let the priest go.

Unexpectedly, facing the wolf teenager asking for help, the silver-haired demon showed an evil smile: "Alai, I just swear, 'I' will not hurt Ansel. Now the girls are hurting him, what do I have? What is the solution?"

Unexpectedly, Count Vampire would give such a cunning answer. Alai was stunned and could hardly believe his ears. He repeated unwillingly: "You said you would protect him, you said..."

The earl shook his head regretfully: "Alai, please don't over-interpret the content of our contract, you are making me very troubled."

Alai finally realized that he had been tricked, he pushed the count away suddenly, and his slender body fell to the floor nimbly!

The little wolf turned around, bared his fangs menacingly, and stared viciously at the silver-haired vampire.

With a perfect smile on Harriet's handsome face, he straightened his jeweled cuffs, then put his hands behind his back, and stared at the little wolf unceremoniously, as if deliberately irritating him.

The young and energetic little beast couldn't stand the provocation of the older male, Alai clenched his teeth and nails suddenly swelled, his hands turned into extremely sharp knives in an instant!Then, he jumped in the air and grabbed the earl's cheek fiercely!

Through the narrow gap between the girls' figures, Ansel vaguely noticed the situation here.

Seeing that Alai's blood was going to do something stupid, Ansel turned pale with fright, struggling and shouting: "Alai, don't!"

But it was too late, the red-eyed Alai didn't listen to the persuasion at all, but the count stood there motionless!

Ansel only saw a flash of silver light, and Alai's sharp wolf claws left five shocking bloodstains on the count's handsome cheeks, and the sharp airflow brought by the sharp claws even cut off a strand of the count's noble silver hair.

Seeing the earl's perfect smile with malicious intentions, Ansel suddenly realized that he deliberately provoked Alai, and he deliberately lured the little wolf to tear up the devil's contract!

The count's silver hair fell silently on the thick carpet, like a feather, light and graceful.

The moment the hair fell to the ground, everyone felt an evil and huge magic power rushing towards them!The powerful magic power swirled rapidly in the air, forming an overwhelming dark vortex, and the center of the vortex was Alai!

Under the strong pressure, the vampire girls who had lost their minds howled and fell into a coma.Ansel broke free from their restraints, and rushed to the bewildered young man in a panic.

"Alai, Alai, how are you feeling now..." Ansel grabbed the boy's shoulders and eagerly asked him about his condition.

The count wiped away the blood on his face, and the five rolling wounds healed almost instantly.

The priest's anxious and beautiful face was in sight, and Alai, who was full of blood, finally calmed down. He suddenly realized that he seemed to have attacked the earl just now, as if... violating the devil's contract.

"Those who violate the contract will be deprived of something precious by the devil."

Horrible curses echoed in his mind like a shadow, like a ghost seeking his life in the middle of the night.Alai's heart sank, and his young soul fell into the ice abyss.

Cynthia was coming, and Cynthia was going to take something precious from him...

What will she take with her?Is it the heart?Is it limbs?

Alai raised his hand tremblingly, and he touched his left chest.The place where the contract spell was cast was faintly hot, burning like a raging fire.

Boom, boom, boom—

His heart was beating violently and there was no sign of stopping.

Alai lowered his head slowly, his legs were still intact, and he stood in place.

He raised his hands, fingers, wrists, arms all still there.

Cynthia... didn't come to punish him?

Time passed by every minute and every second, and the terrifying magic pressure in the bedroom slowly dissipated.

The terrified little wolf breathed a sigh of relief, and when he heard his violent panting, he realized that he seemed to be so scared that he forgot to breathe just now.

What a fool, to lose face in front of Ansel again...

Alai raised his head shyly, and smiled shyly at Ansel who cared about him.

However, Ansel covered his trembling lips with a pale face, and big tears leaked from his beautiful green eyes.

what happened?

Alai lowered his head and looked at his whole body carefully.

Arms, chest, legs... Indeed, all of them are still there.

Suddenly, Alai found a scarlet mist rising in his field of vision.

Gradually, everything was wrapped in red mist.Alai looked up in confusion, Ansel's face, the malicious earl, the dark room, the unconscious girls...everything in his sight turned red, as if caught by a gun stained with red paint. Paintbrush smudges heavily.

Alai's eyes widened in confusion, and he felt a warm liquid trickle down his cheeks.

Lowering his head, he saw a puddle of scarlet liquid in the palm of his right hand.

One drop, two drops... The bright red blood slowly flowed from the slender fingers.

Alai realized that the place where the blood dripped... seemed to be his right eye.

When Alai realized this, great pain came belatedly.The pain of being gouged out of his eyes crushed this frail wolf boy like a storm!

With a scream, he covered his eyes and rolled over to the ground.

"Alai! Alai!"

Ansel hurriedly hugged the struggling boy into his arms. He tried his best to break away the boy's fingers covering his right eye. An empty blood hole appeared in front of him unexpectedly. Blood gushed out continuously like a spring, and Ansel His fair fingers were stained red.

"It hurts... Ansel... it hurts..." Alai was so painful that he almost lost consciousness. He writhed and struggled in the young man's arms, and the blood in his right eye couldn't be stopped no matter what.

Trembling, Ansel wiped away the bloodstains on the boy's face with his fingers, but the warm liquid kept coming out continuously.Ansel couldn't bear to look directly at this shocking scene.He felt like his heart was being torn apart...

The tearful priest tore apart Alai's clothes with one hand, and gently pressed the cloth on the boy's right eye.

Alai opened his mouth and breathed weakly and violently like drowning. He was completely soaked from head to toe, as if he had just been fished out of hot water.

Ansel suppressed the pain in his heart, and gently patted the boy's shoulder, trying to ease his pain.However, his own vision has long been blurred by tears.

Earl Harriet, who had achieved his goal, no longer needed to disguise himself. He stood beside him with folded arms and gloated: "My lord priest, for a person like you, it is better for others to lose an eye because of you than for yourself. Is it even more painful to lose your eyes? Tsk tsk, you look like a newlywed wife whose husband died, how can you look like a priest."

Ansel stroked Alai's cheek without answering.

It turned out that the feeling of heartache was so unbearable, and it appeared in front of him bloody!The devil contract between Alai and the earl turned out to be real, and Cynthia really took Alai's right eye!

The fact that the faith that has been firm for a long time has been broken piece by piece is too shocking, and it has already exceeded the range that the simple and honest mind of the priest can accept...

No matter how Ansel comforted him, the situation was getting worse and worse.Under the severe pain, Alai fell into a dangerous coma, and a faint devilish energy emerged from the torn clothes on his body.

After Ansel noticed it, he quickly opened the clothes on his chest, and it turned out that the brand on Alai's heart was constantly emitting black air.

The brand of the devil's contract is changing, and all the lines are twisting ferociously.Under Ansel's panicked gaze, the shape of the poisonous bat with its teeth and claws slowly changed into a strange family crest.

Earl Harriet quietly stood behind the two of them. Seeing Ansel standing there at a loss, he smiled and explained maliciously: "This is Cynthia's enforcement of the contract between Alai and me—— You see, the contract brand has become my family crest."

Ansel's cold lips were trembling slightly, he raised his head and stared at the earl: "...family emblem?"

The silver-haired earl showed him a cruel smile: "My realization is that the Harriet family owns a one-eyed wolf slave."

At the same time, the royal palace.

The Imperial King is one of the most prosperous cities on the continent, and she is as beautiful and prosperous as Hampton.In the center of the royal capital stands a majestic and huge palace. This historic palace symbolizes the supreme power and wealth of the empire.

Here, it should be the direction that everyone looks up to, but now it has changed. Travelers who have been here before may not recognize it.

Even though it was daytime, there was a layer of black shadow over the entire palace city, making one feel dreadfully cold.

The captain of the royal army, wearing a golden armor and slanting a sword, walked through complicated corridors and came to the dark hall.At the queen's request, all the room curtains were replaced with thick dark velvet, which blocked the sunlight from outside day and night.

In the empty hall, there was no attendant from the palace, and the little queen, who was known for being spoiled and willful, was sitting alone on the throne.

This throne that belongs to the king is as old as the palace. It is carved in gold and inlaid with precious stones.Countless kings have sat on this chair, and countless human beings have surrendered in front of it. It has witnessed the history of the rise and fall of the empire, honor, disgrace, joy and sorrow.

It has never seen such a willful ruler as the little queen, though.

When the personal captain came to see her, the little queen was lying sideways on the throne.Her noble head rests on the right armrest of the throne, and the knee-holes of her legs rest on the left.

She was disheveled and rude, only wearing a thin white gauze nightgown.However, she wore a crooked crown on her head, which was the heaviest and most expensive diamond and gold crown in the royal property.

The transparent light of diamonds and the luxurious color of gold set off the wonderful hair color of the little queen. Her long silver curly hair poured down like moonlight, and the seaweed-like hair ends were spread casually on the red floor, which was too beautiful to behold.

The captain of the bodyguard walked slowly under the throne, and the little queen seemed to be in a state of boredom.She played with a round, silver-gray pearl, trying out a street performer's ball juggling.

It's just that the pearl in her hand is not very elastic and cannot make interesting bouncing movements.

The tall and burly soldier captain knelt on one knee under the throne. He tried his best to overcome the fear of the queen in his heart, and reported in a deep voice: "The paladin Arlyn Barnett just went to church."

The little queen was lying on the throne, turning the beautiful pearl around in her petite palm.

In the frightening silence, the captain's muscular body seemed to shake a little.

He didn't dare to look up to see the queen's expression, he kept his head down and waited.After a while, the queen finally heard a fluttering response from the throne:

"Oh, yes."

The queen's tone sounded unpleasant.

Cold sweat fell on the forehead of the personal captain, and he quickly explained: "Your Majesty, you ordered that if anyone goes to the church to find Bishop Tiana, they must report to you immediately in the palace. Earlier today, the soldiers guarding the church They found that Paladin Barnett had been wandering around the door of the church, so they sent someone to stop him, and I hurried into the palace to find you—please give me instructions, what should we do next?"

Hearing this, the queen finally showed a little interest: "Barnett? What is he doing with Tiana?"

"I heard that something happened to Priest Ansel."

The little queen sat up straight.

Because of her petite stature, those statue-like white feet couldn't step on the ground, but swayed excitedly in the air.

On the golden throne, the pampered Queen issued an order: "Bring Barnett into the palace quickly, and then send someone to the church to invite Tiana, and tell me that I have news about her brother. Ha, she cares about her brother the most, Now you can’t hide in the church and miss me!”

"This..." The captain of the personal guard seemed a little embarrassed: "But didn't the bishop blockade the church? Didn't anyone be allowed to enter or leave?"

The little queen's beautiful face instantly turned ferocious and terrifying: "Trash! You won't shout at the door? Will Tiana refuse to see me when she hears about Ansel?!"

Seeing that the nervous little queen was irritated, the tall and strong soldier captain immediately knelt down on the ground, and said in a trembling tone: "I'll do it now!"

"Ah—you idiot, I'm so mad!" The moody little queen jumped off the throne, and threw the pearl in her hand on the head of the personal captain!

The loyal soldiers gritted their teeth and took the blow vigorously, and the hall fell into silence for a while.

After a while, in order to confirm His Majesty's mental state, the sweaty captain of the personal guard quietly raised his head, but accidentally saw something shocking.

Just now, the toy that the little queen used to embarrass her was not an expensive pearl, but an eyeball!

After the eyeball hit the hard helmet of the personal captain, it just landed on the red carpet in front of him.Because of the violent impact, this beautiful silver-gray eyeball was shattered to pieces, looking very terrifying.

This cruel scene frightened the tall captain of the guards, and he knelt on the spot in horror, not knowing whether to leave or stay.

The little queen roared violently from the throne: "Get out of here!!!"

"Yes Yes!"

Not daring to look at that eyeball any more, the captain of the personal soldier stood up holding his sword, and stumbled out of the hall.

Behind him, the silver-gray eyeball gradually melted, turning into a puddle of sticky liquid, exuding a faint fishy smell.

That is the rotten taste of death...

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