The simple-looking little bell was in the hand of Dalton Cecil. He walked towards the two men, followed by the black-clad guards, shaking the little bell in his hand. Every time the little bell rang, Wade trembled all over.
Lucian had seen the way Wade looked when he burned his wounds with his own hands. At that moment, he only uttered a limited groan. But now Wade looked as if someone had cut open his head with a knife and his temples were churning. His face was pale, and veins on his forehead were bulging, as if he was enduring some pain that ordinary people could not bear.
He was shaking his body, as if he would collapse in pain at any moment.
Dalton Cessel smiled at this moment. He shook the bronze bell in his hand slightly, looked at Lucian, who was pinching Wade's arm and was following him, and said gently, "Long time no see, Lucian."
Lucian looked at the man in the distance, with confusion in his eyes: "Uncle."
"If you survived their strangulation, forgive me, Lucian. To solve a problem, you must make some sacrifices. Fortunately, we didn't pay much." Dalton said, his eyes slowly moving over him. That gaze didn't seem like he was looking at his beloved nephew, but like he was looking at a work of art made by himself. "But how could I bear to let you get hurt? You are the most perfect work of art I made. Your father has an angelic face, but he is shallow and dirty. With a little trick, he dared to have sex with the highest-level succubus slave he raised behind my brother's back."
As he spoke, he sighed as if he was very sad: "He wasted the talent he should have had, but fortunately, I left his bloodline through you - the best part of that succubus. Lucian, you are different from your father. You are pure and clean, and you are an angel who combines holiness and blasphemy and was raised by me..."
'What did he say?' Lucian complained to the system in his mind, 'Is there any content like this in the system?'
'No, he died very quickly in the black fog. And you, as a minor cannon fodder, died even earlier.' The system said, 'It sounds like you are explaining his mental journey as a villain and his pursuit of art...'
Lucian: "I just think he sounds like a face-chaser who fell in love with the young pope at first sight, but felt defeated by his bad personality and finally got angry and decided to keep his offspring for fun... So is he going to explain my background to me now?"
"... But unfortunately, there was a small incident during this process." Dalton Cecil glanced at Wade and said softly, "But it doesn't matter, this is just an accident that can be ignored. Lucian, don't worry, your nightmare will end soon..."
"roll!"
Vader's hoarse voice came from the other side, and he supported himself on the wall with his hands, trying to stand up.
"Dalton Cecil, it was you who brought the Vatican dog here. You did something to your heart, didn't you?" He staggered, gritted his teeth, black blood flowed from the corners of his mouth, and smiled twistedly, "It turns out that you are not just a waste..."
"Don't be so angry, my dear son. Half of the blood flowing in your body belongs to me." Dalton sighed slightly, "It's a pity that you refused to cooperate with the family, and even keenly discovered the loophole in Vivian's identity... Strange, why did it happen so quickly? Logically speaking, no matter what, a child like you who has never experienced love will always have attachment to the only person who can be called 'mother', right?"
The system glanced at Lucian secretly. For some reason, it suddenly felt that he should be blamed for the change in the plot.
In the original novel, Vivid still had attachment to his "mother", so he did not resolutely separate from the Cecil family, and therefore there was no link where Dalton made trouble.
—Of course, it may also be because Dalton died too early in the original book.
"So this is all a lie, right?" Wade sneered, "From Vivian's identity to that heart..."
"No, in fact, you are just unlucky, my son. If I had known that the sacrifice had been successful, I would have taken you back to Cecil's house faster and cultivated your feelings more before you were driven to the royal city." Dalton said, "It's a pity that we missed that time. And now you are too disobedient, so I had to find a way to tamper with the remaining half of your heart..."
As he spoke, he stretched out his arm. On his pale skin, the dark blood vessels twisted like snakes.
"It seems that it likes your blood more than mine... After all, you still have the blood of a certain tribe in your body." Dalton said in a low voice, "But..."
"You are my father, and you use the magic of blood. That's why you control me...ah!..."
The bronze bell rang again, and Wade finally couldn't hold on and began to slide down the wall. Dalton shook the bronze bell in his hand - it was the treasure he took from the Houston family's treasure house during the chaos at the banquet. With it, he was able to exert the power of his blood magic to control Wade to the maximum.
After all, he is the father who gave Vader half of his blood, and in the future he will have the power to control this monster, accomplishing what the Fallen Cross he secretly sponsored could not do, and become the true ruler of this kingdom!
Finally, Lucian made a sound.
He stood there and said, "Uncle...what are you going to do?"
"Control him. Don't worry. The Church will not kill a controllable monster as long as its value of survival is obviously greater than death. Lucian, you can rest assured that no one will threaten your life after this." Dalton smiled, "You can still go back to Cecil's house, my child."
How should I choose between escaping from everyone's pursuit and escaping from everyone's pursuit plus Wade's pursuit
And Dalton did seem to be full of sincerity. Lucian had also learned through the control center that Dalton did not hate him strongly. He had favored Lucian for more than twenty years, and had been dormant for many years, and finally controlled Wade. It might be a good choice to go under his command.
Lucian then stopped.
The system waited timidly for Lucian's choice and monitored the fluctuations in Vader's hatred value. When it saw him prying open Vader's fingers one by one and walking towards Dalton, the system felt that the outcome was already determined.
Vader's hatred value did fluctuate - but what was unexpected by the system was that in the face of such betrayal, Vader's hatred value fluctuation was not obvious.
It's not as obvious as it might seem.
Lucian finally came to Dalton's side. He hugged Dalton and talked to him softly until -
He snatched the copper bell from Dalton's hand at a speed that no one expected!
All the black guards were about to attack Lucian, and Dalton's face was distorted at that moment. Lucian rolled up and down twice, dodging the arrows, and said, "You are sorry, I am going to die here—"
Before he finished speaking, there was a burning breath.
With crazy laughter.
The scorching heat wave swept the entire corridor. The monster, which was already bleeding from all seven orifices, rose from the ground. He endured the backlash of the blood magic and killed Dalton at the fastest speed!
The blood magic also tore his body apart at the same time.
Wade never gave up the possibility of counterattack.
Lucian rolled to the foot of the wall, covered his ears with his hands, closed his eyes, and waited for all the battles to end.
Finally, the only sounds in the corridor were the burning fire and the footsteps of some light and some heavy. Lucian opened his eyes and saw a dark figure sitting beside him.
He was covered in blood, wounds, and lacerations, and his originally scarlet eyes had dimmed. There were constant sounds of the house's structure collapsing due to burning. All the enemies were dead, and the monsters that killed the enemies were also dying.
But his prisoner was still waiting for him in the corner, his silver hair spotless.
"I feel like you've made me unable to leave here." Lucian stretched out his foot and gently kicked him, "It's all your fault. Now I want to die here with you."
He said this with a touch of capriciousness and innocence, even though he had begun to cough because of the thick smoke.
"Why didn't you leave just now?"
"Not leaving?"
"You could have escaped from here just now," said the monster.
"Because you brought me here." Lucian said, "and look."
"You killed your father, and I killed mine," he said lightly. "Our lives were a mess of lies. We never had anything real."
The fire was still burning for a long time, and Vader threw the dagger in his hand to him.
Lucian held the dagger and was coughing due to the smoke. Wade looked at him with his broken eyes and suddenly grinned.
"You really want to kill me, don't you? Then do it now." He said, "I'm about to die, you just give me the last blow."
Lucian: ?
"You only have this one chance." Wade's throat was filled with blood. "I will grant you your wish."
He said such bizarre and crazy words, but he was still smiling, as if he was giving the last blow that killed him as a gift to the other party. Lucian was still coughing and complaining, "What kind of wish is this? You don't want to die. After I stab you with this knife, you will die, and you will be alive after a while, but I will be choked to death soon, and there will be fire everywhere, and I can't get rid of it. There are new people from the Church outside, listen..."
"There is a teleportation array in the secret room at the end of the corridor." Wade said, "You should be very proficient in them..."
His voice became quieter and quieter, and finally, he leaned against the wall, as if he fell asleep.
The firelight illuminated his pale and bloodstained face. He looked more like a dying young man than a demon king. Lucian could feel the waves of the spiritual world of Riverd at the other end of the spiritual connection. He had woken up early and was still fighting against the consciousness of the fallen angel, which was extremely dangerous. Now he could only fall into a deep sleep. The system said in his mind: "This is a good opportunity. Let's quickly escape from the teleportation array... Wait, why are you carrying him?"
It stared at Lucian in amazement, as if he had a change of heart and tried to carry Wade on his back.
He kept coughing in the thick smoke, but he still had the strength to drag the tall and thin body, which was very strenuous for him. He walked past the corpses of the enemies, dragging Wade, his whole body was in a very awkward state, but he still brought him to the teleportation array.
He climbed up and tried hard to activate the teleportation array.
"Wait, wait, No. 5." The system screamed in his head, "You want to take him with you?? Isn't this a perfect opportunity to escape..."
The system kept chattering, but it couldn't stop Lucian's actions. The teleportation array gradually emitted a faint blue light - although no one knew why there was a teleportation array leading to the border of the Demon Realm in one of the old houses of the Cecil family.
Before a new enemy broke through the door, Lucian placed Vader on his knees, placed his hand on Vader's forehead, closed his eyes, and waited for the teleportation and this grand exile that belonged to both of them.
"What do you want to do..." the system kept asking in his mind, "Do you have a change of heart?"
'Just thought of a new way.'
Before the two disappeared, Lucian moved his lips.
Betraying Vader can indeed earn him hatred points, but Vader is now used to his betrayal.
Even if he walked up to Dalton at that time, this behavior that Vader expected could not make the hatred value exceed one hundred.
True hatred often leads to unexpected betrayal.