Vader only said, "What's the difference?"
There is no difference between looking for him and not looking for him. Although the people of the Church are very determined in the matter of Lucian because of the humiliation they suffered in the past. They know that Lucian is now living shamelessly in the hands of Wade, so they try every means to take Lucian from Wade and execute him.
- Although they thought that Wade only treated Lucian as a plaything, they complained in their hearts about the heavy incest between Wade and his former adopted cousin, but they had to admit that with Lucian's beauty, it was indeed not impossible.
But what made them angry was that no matter what conditions they put forward, Wade only treated them with contempt and sneered, and even finally did not show up and just threw them to the butler Spencer to deal with them perfunctorily.
They really couldn't figure out how Vader was bewitched by Lucian - or whether he just wanted to torture him personally. In the end, they were even a little frustrated and secretly issued an assassination order.
—Lucian must die no matter what. This is the consensus of Bishop Shelly and others, as well as the old nobles who fled to Dusk City and other church backbones.
"Oh." Lucian said, "But why is it so peaceful these days? I remember they weren't so useless in the past."
The so-called past was when Lucian was still the Son of God. He remembered that he led the team to assassinate the high-level demons hiding in the crowd, but the mission must be accomplished within one day.
"A few useful or conscientious backbones were taken to Dusk City, and most died in that war. Of course, there are still some people who have been trying to break through here..." Wade said, "By the way, you don't know yet?"
"Do you know?"
"Your biological father, the former pope, has been interfering in the slave trade of the demons for more than 20 years. Not only him, but also several other high-ranking officials of the church. They reached an agreement with the demons in private, forming a tug-of-war, using the human cannon fodder prisoners favored by the demons in exchange for the high-profit demon slaves." Wade said, "This is the truth behind the human-demon war that has lasted for so many years - otherwise, where do you think those succubus slaves came from? They only see the immediate benefits, but they don't know that the defense line has been infiltrated by the demons for more than a decade. Even if you didn't take action at the beginning, the human race's royal city should have been conquered by the demons."
Lucian blinked. He knew the plot, so he didn't show any surprise. But Wade obviously misunderstood his attitude. He said, "You really know what's behind this."
Lucian didn't understand why Vader suddenly became a little cold. He thought that the other party felt that he was hiding something from him and was holding a grudge, so he blinked and said sincerely: "Ah, then I will confess. In fact, I knew my own life experience long before I died. I found out that I was the illegitimate child of a succubus slave of the Pope. That slave was raised by your uncle. Maybe he used it to entertain the Pope, or maybe the Pope had an affair with it... Anyway, it became pregnant with his child. Then he regarded me as his illegitimate child..."
“No need to say, Lucian.”
Lucian:
Wade lowered his eyelashes and covered his lips. Lucian blinked his eyelashes and looked at him until Wade said, "It doesn't matter. Don't mention it."
Lucian:
"Maybe he thinks he has brought up your sad story," the system interrupted him.
"You think too much." Lucian said to the system speechlessly.
Wade fed Lucian blood again, and Lucian's eyesight improved a lot - from the level of being indistinguishable from human and animal to the level of myopia where he could see Wade like a human.
"I will devour that heart tonight."
"Tonight?" Lucian was stunned. "Isn't it tomorrow night?"
"The sooner the better." Wade said, "I found something here... about my life experience. After devouring the heart, I may sleep for four or five days."
In the original novel, Rivid fell into a deep sleep for five days after devouring the heart.
After Vader made the announcement, he stopped talking about it until he finally entered the basement where the ceremony was held. Before the door closed, Lucian smiled at him with clear eyes.
"Good night, Master Wade," he said.
Wade did not reply, and walked into the darkness alone.
Night came quickly, and on this night, the system told Lucian the good news.
Lucian behaved very well on the first night, so much so that the guards who were responsible for watching him relaxed their vigilance. Lucian started to act up during the day on the second day.
His mischief started in the morning. First, the pattern of the milk cup was not pretty, and then the chair was not cushioned. He repeated it countless times, ordering the maid back and forth, and his arrogance returned, and he felt like a demon concubine who was the king of the mountains.
Taking advantage of Wade's absence to become arrogant.
The annoying thing is that the servants really didn't dare to neglect him. Lucian worked from day till night, asking for fruit and going to the yard to bask in the sun. The servants never knew that such a beautiful woman could be so hard to deal with.
He was finally sent back to his room at night. Lucian continued to do it the next day.
On the third night, the servants were already suffering from Lucian's torture, and the system just regarded it as Lucian's whim, until...
At midnight that day, it watched Lucian take out a knife from under his pillow.
System: "Fuck, when did you get it?"
That was a good knife, a family heirloom of the Cecil family. It once belonged to a warrior of the Cecil family who was eventually recorded in legend. That man used it to slit the throat of the demon city lord. There were seven city lords and one supreme lord in the demon domain, so it was clear that the warrior was truly invincible. The dagger was therefore drenched with the blood of the demon lord, and injecting magic power into it would ignite a blue flame.
The flames would burn the soul. This ancient villa, which had been renovated many times, was once the residence of the warrior.
Unfortunately, the Cecil family never knew of its function and only regarded it as a beautiful souvenir. The original author Riverd discovered its function by chance later.
"But now it's a bargain for me."
"What do you want to do..."
"Of course, I'm going to escape from here - didn't you tell me that two days ago?" Lucian said in surprise, "The control center has replied that it will open the return channel, but due to the time difference, the channel will be opened three years from now. Otherwise, I will quickly collect another 100 points of hatred or other intense emotions from Qiweide, and then I can return immediately..."
System: "Didn't you have no reaction at that time?!"
"Because I was calmly thinking about how to escape." Lucian said, "So I successfully found this knife these days..."
"Once I escape from here, I will cover up my appearance and find a craftsman to grind a pair of glasses for me. Then there will be no problem with my eyes. The spiritual imprint will lose its connection effect when the distance is enough. Then I will wait quietly for three years..."
"I thought you would be Vader..."
"Why should we stay with him?" Lucian blinked and said, "It's too dangerous and troublesome. Besides, I have found a way to pass the spiritual mark these days. You can see that he is fusing the heart now. The whole spiritual world is full of black fog and flames. I almost went blind when I saw it... and he is about to start his journey of growth. There will be more and more things happening to him in the future."
system:…
Lucian: "And he was so mean to me. He almost strangled me to death several times."
The system found that it had no reason to dissuade Lucian. But for some reason, it felt a little disappointed but also a little relieved.
Lucian had the knife tied to his thigh. At that moment, he suddenly found that the night was unusually quiet.
There are no birds singing or insects chirping.
Lucian immediately leaned back, and at that moment, he saw several white shadows on the windowsill!
Hunting Cross!
The Cross Hunters were an organization used by the Church to execute or assassinate heretics. In the past, they had been under the command of the Holy Son Lucian. But now he was holding a dagger, staring at the three people who came over in a blurry vision. The three people looked at him with only hatred, contempt and unfamiliarity in their eyes.
"Hurry up and get rid of him." One of them said, "Look at how dirty and corrupt he is..."
Oh, Lucian remembered his name. When he was in the Hunting Cross, he deliberately maimed his colleagues in the competition in order to get promoted. Although he had outstanding abilities, Lucian still disparaged him.
I didn't expect that he now seems to be the core of Hunting Cross.
It's not surprising that the Crosshunters would find this place, but Vader's guards shouldn't be so useless, and they shouldn't have found his location so quickly - as if they knew all the road structures and even the secret passages in this villa.
unless…
Blood flowed from the wound on his face. Lucian wiped the blood off his face with his fingers and looked at his white fingers indifferently. After the three people surrounded him, he suddenly raised his lips and smiled at them.
Gentle and charming, yet as proud as ever.
"Don't forget." He smiled and said, "The person who taught you these skills—"
He held a short knife in front of him, with a faint blue flame burning on the knife.
"—it's me."
At that moment, he also felt the riot coming from the spiritual world—the riot came from the spiritual mark, from Wade's spiritual world.
Something happened to Vader!
It's only the third day... This is definitely not the time for him to wake up!
…
Lucian stood under the bright moonlight, indifferently wiping the blood off his face with the back of his hand. In front of him, the last corpse slowly fell down.
“Do you think I’m too easy to bully?” Lucian squatted in front of him and tapped his face with a dagger.
The dead cannot speak - although his face still showed the shock and fear of being killed by a succubus, the object of his hatred and contempt. Lucian raised his face and looked out the window.
There was a fire outside the window, followed by fighting and screaming. The power of the entire church poured into it, and in addition, there were also the voices of the demons.
The Holy See has actually allied with the demons again.
His guess was correct, the people from the Church did come out. But their goal was not just to kill him - they also wanted to kill Vader while he was weak during the fusion. The Church would never allow anything beyond its control to exist, and even cooperated with the demons.
It's so stupid.
The house began to burn, and the battle outside became fierce. The undead summoned by Wade using the power of death fought with the people of the Church. Lucian heard the roar of the demons and the roar of the people of the Church. They were all roaring the same thing.
"Kill Vader!"
"Kill the emperor!"
If they couldn't kill him, they would chop him up while he was weak, capture him alive, and tie him to a cross to burn him to death with holy light. In the original book, Vid was captured alive when he went to the temple. His former friends in the Paladin Order told him that they would pray for his mother Vivian's funeral there. At that time, Vid didn't know the truth about his life experience, so he went there alone in mourning clothes.
Perhaps at this time in the original novel, Vader had thought about whether he could become a better person, or believed in those friendships he had made. Unfortunately, the result of this trust was that he completely lost control after dying and resurrecting countless times due to the Holy Light. The black fog engulfed the royal city, and everyone including the Cecil family died. When he walked out of the black fog, the last thing he saw was a passerby little girl who had been rescued from the monster and called him the Hero King with longing, but who had rotted into bones in the black fog and cursed and spit on him before she died. From then on, he completely embarked on the path of evil, blood and fire.
The assassination now happened at a different time. Lucian didn't know if Vader would become that monster again after this incident.
But at this moment, he heard the sound of his door bursting!
Wade stepped over the debris and walked in. Having woken up early, he was covered in wounds and blood, but his eyes were filled with indifference, not embarrassment.
He walked in with big strides, and the first thing he saw was the body on the ground. Lucian waved the dagger in his hand at him and said, "This knife..."
"I can guess it. Let's go." Weed said hoarsely.
Lucian:
Wade's words were full of the feeling that he guessed that he was taking advantage of his sleep to cause trouble again.
"They all want to kill me, but I won't give them my life - even if I die once, it's no big deal." Wade laughed softly, with blood bubbles in his throat, "You know what, Lucian? If I die, you will die..."
"Don't talk at this time." Lucian complained, "Save your energy."
"I don't want you to die, so I decided to live."
Lucian: ?
At that moment he seemed to hear a whisper that he shouldn't have heard, but Vader had his back to him, as if it was just an illusion.
Wade held his hand, which was as cold and hard as iron, and walked with big strides. He walked hurriedly, eager to take Lucian away from here. Lucian was frightened when he saw the blood flowing from his body. He said, "Let's go-"
"Don't be afraid," said Wade.
Lucian's heart suddenly moved. What he wanted to tell Wade was not the so-called fear. Wade said with an anxiety he had never heard before: "If you are afraid, cover your eyes, but quickly!"
"I-"
At this moment, Lucian suddenly heard a bell ringing!
Amid the raging fire and the howling of slaughter, such a sound should not have been heard - but it crossed over all the noise and entered the ears of the two people like a sword piercing the soul!
Lucian was stunned. At the same time, Wade suddenly grabbed his head and let out a heart-wrenching scream.
Lucian had never heard Vader make such a sound.
The bell ringer walked out from the foot of the burning wall. He was dressed in black, with black hair and green eyes, but his expression was warm and compassionate.
His name is Dalton Cessel.