However, this behavior seemed to trigger some kind of stress response. Faced with impending death, the young Elquet instinctively erupted with terrible strength.
The blood moon seemed to have given her an extremely terrifying amplification. Without exception, all the True Ancestors at the scene died at the hands of this young True Ancestor.
This incident gave Elquet great shock and fear.
After all, young Elquet had no ideas at all, he just wanted to understand the world.
After realizing that she had killed her entire tribe with her own hands, Elquet stumbled in one direction. She didn't know where ahead was or whether she would reach the end.
She just went all the way south, rushed out of the chaos realm, and came to the human kingdom.
After entering the human kingdom, the girl found herself becoming very weak. The suppression of the laws made her as vulnerable to injury and pain as an ordinary person.
Due to the shadow cast by her own people, she did not dare to contact these humans who looked similar to the True Ancestors, so she chose to stay away from human towns and wander in uninhabited places.
After who knows how many years, the girl grew into a young woman.
But she still wandered among the forests and mountains, quietly enjoying the solitude, enjoying the complete silence, and continued to move towards the end she wanted.
She even walked on her own from the northernmost part of the imperial capital to the southernmost part of the human empire.
Just as she was about to cross the entire empire and reach the frontier area in the southernmost part, the girl met a farmer under the guidance of fate.
The initial meeting was just a coincidence.
A farmer was hunting in the mountains and set a trap. He thought he had caught a big prey, but he didn't expect that the person who fell into the trap was a naked blonde girl.
Surprised, he instinctively took the girl back to his house, gave her a rough piece of clothing, and made some soup for her to drink.
Elquet was very surprised by the farmer's careful care. She had never been in such close contact with humans. She found that these guys who also had two hands and two feet were not scary, but brought her warmth she had never experienced before.
So, Elquet gave up the idea of continuing to look for the end of the world, lived in the farmer's house, and learned the farmer's name - Art Constantine.
With Art's help, Elquet no longer has to live a life of hardship and shelter. He would occasionally go to towns to see the prosperity of the human world and experience the endless creativity of mankind.
Art was also happy about Elquet's existence, because he no longer had to go home alone and face an empty room. He could have someone to talk to and relieve the boredom of life.
Time passed by, and the two lived a simple, peaceful, and interesting life.
They thought they could live such a peaceful and simple life until one of them left this world naturally, ending this beautiful dream.
However, the accident finally happened.
Due to the unstable foundation of the empire and the death of the first great sage Roland, the empire ushered in a subversive national defense war.
In order to seize the opportunity to destroy the human empire that might have grown, many countries launched a blitzkrieg without mercy, attacking the empire from all directions, trying to destroy this newly established country.
The entire empire was in an uproar at this moment. Everyone put down their original work, bid farewell to their families, and devoted themselves to the cause of defending the country.
When Art heard the news, he naturally joined the army in the southern border of the empire without hesitation to fight to defend the country from foreign enemies.
Faced with all this, although Elquet, who didn't understand what was happening, wanted to stop it, he couldn't go against Art's wishes and could only watch him rush to the front line.
The fate of the two people changed from then on.
At the same time, a huge change caused by these two people that affected the entire world broke out at this decisive moment!
Chapter 643: The Man Who Betrayed Justice
Chapter 643
After Art joined the army, he joined the basic organization and guarded the southern border together with the team members.
However, the enemy was a joint army formed by various countries. They had various equipment and advanced weapons. They captured one fortress after another in an instant and almost easily conquered the last checkpoint in the southern border.
Faced with this desperate situation, the commander of the southern border at the time acted decisively and directly destroyed the only passage to delay the enemy's attack time.
But this behavior is ultimately a drop in the bucket. Given the huge gap in strength, the fall of the entire southern border is only a matter of time.
Under such circumstances, the morale of all soldiers has hit rock bottom.
Art also felt no hope. Although he longed to go back to see Elquet, when the country was in danger, he still wanted to contribute to defending the country, even at the cost of his own life.
The mood of despair enveloped the entire fortress, but at some point, a young girl suddenly appeared in the fortress.
No one knew how she got through the only destroyed passage, or how she climbed over the tall city walls, but she did appear, in the midst of the demoralized fortress.
The person who was most surprised by the girl's arrival was Art. He could not imagine how the other party could cross the entire southern border to see him.
After seeing that Art was still alive, Elquet breathed a sigh of relief and found the commander guarding the fortress.
She told the other party in calm words that she had a way to create an immortal army. The only side effect was that these alienated soldiers would not be able to see the sunlight and would instinctively thirst for blood.
When the commander heard Elquet's words, he was surprised and immediately asked her to demonstrate, and the target of the demonstration was the commander himself.
As a result, after having his blood sucked by Elquet, the commander really turned into a being completely different from humans - a vampire.
Moreover, after becoming a vampire, although he can no longer see the sunlight and occasionally has a strong urge to suck blood, his body's strength and recovery ability have increased by more than ten times. It can be said that an ordinary person is immediately transformed into a well-trained and transcendent strong man.
So the commander immediately ordered everyone in the army to voluntarily choose whether to accept Elquet's baptism and become a vampire.
Among them, more than half chose to accept this power that came with the curse.
Art also wanted to accept it at that time, but was scared away by Elquet's eyes. It can be said that he never thought that the other party would look at him with such terrifying eyes.
So, what happened later was natural. With the help of the power of vampires, the last checkpoint in the southern border was firmly defended, successfully preventing the imperial capital from being captured.
The battle lasted for several years, and finally a new great sage emerged in the empire. This powerful spellcaster gave the human empire the confidence to turn the tables.
Everything started to develop in a good direction.
Later, the imperial capital sent people to learn about what happened in the southern border. After learning about the existence of vampires, they immediately blocked the news and invited the true ancestor Elquet, who brought this power, to the imperial capital.
Outsiders don't know what happened there.
In fact, after the imperial capital realized the existence of vampires, it immediately realized the irreconcilable contradiction between it and the church.
But the empire at that time was too weak. Whether it was the loss of the church or the loss of vampires, it was a huge loss for the rulers at that time.
In desperation, the imperial capital decided to cover up the fact about vampires and prohibit the spread of anything related to vampires.
Time continued to pass, and the protracted Patriotic War finally ended, with the empire winning the final victory.
Under the arrangement of the empire, people who transformed into vampires concealed their identities and returned to the normal world. People who made contributions like Art were also praised and promoted.
Eventually, Art was noticed by a priest of the church and was recommended to join the church, where he became a paladin and fought to protect justice.
At the same time, Elquet was given the title of Duke of the South by the then King of the Empire, replacing the original Duke of the South who died in battle and becoming the new Duke of the South.
Of course, in order not to cause panic, the truth of all this was undoubtedly hidden.
Time passed gradually and everything seemed to be peaceful.
Art practiced as a Paladin and soon reached the third level, becoming a rising star that the church was looking forward to.
Even so, he still went back to the South from time to time, back to his old cottage.
And Elquet was waiting for him there silently, living a simple yet fulfilling life just like in the past.
Neither of them talked much about each other's work, both because they didn't want to and because they were afraid that talking about it might ruin something.
At the same time, although the contact time is much shorter than their initial meeting, it is still extremely happy for them.
However, fate always seems to like playing jokes on them.
Five years after the end of the Great Patriotic War, the matter between the vampires and the True Ancestors was inadvertently exposed.
The reason is that a vampire accidentally fell in love with a nun in the church and told her the fact that he was a vampire.
Upon learning all this, the nun could no longer hide her guilt, so she prayed to her superiors and let the entire church know about it.
So, overnight, the church launched a vigorous purification campaign.
The fanatical believers did not care about the contributions that the vampires had made in the Great Patriotic War and were determined to wipe out all the vampires in the country.
Faced with all this, the vampires who felt they were betrayed could no longer bear the anger and united to go to war against the church.
The war between the two sides was extremely brutal and affected an extremely large number of people.
Because the church was unable to perfectly identify the existence of vampires, it could only search on a large scale and hunt down anyone who might be a vampire.
Vampires also massacred innocent civilians in large numbers out of anger and pain.
All this caused a huge loss and made the king of the empire at that time extremely sad. He had no choice but to threaten the Pope with death.
To this end, the Pope put forward his only request, which was to destroy the True Ancestor who could continue to create vampires and purify them with holy light.
Upon learning of this, Art, who was originally unable to take action against his former comrades, fell into confusion and completely collapsed. He asked himself over and over again what to do, but he could never get an answer.
Because, in the empire at that time, the church was the greatest contributor to protecting the entire empire from foreign invasion, and it symbolized absolute justice and absolute order.
To go against the church is to betray justice and to fight against justice.
However, the person being judged by the church was the person he loved the most.
That day, Art was looking at the statue of the Goddess of Holy Light in the temple, staring at her for an unknown amount of time.
In the end, he cut the statue in half with a sword and left the church he had believed in for several years!
He betrayed his beliefs and the justice in his heart!
Chapter 644: Build sword bones to fight against the holy light!
Chapter 644
In the early days of the empire, the Church of Holy Light was the most powerful force in the entire empire.
Because people's belief in Holy Light was very demanding during the war years, the best human elites all joined in. The Church of Holy Light at that time had a Holy Knight who had reached the sixth level, nearly two-digit Great Paladins, and countless high-level Paladins and Holy Light Priests.
Neither the newly established Imperial Academy of Magic nor the Imperial Knights could compete with the then-Church of Holy Light in terms of overall scale and individual peak strength.
At the same time, the church attaches great importance to the purity of faith, denies the existence of anything that conflicts with the teachings of the Holy Light, and vows to exclude and destroy all inhuman monsters.
Therefore, after realizing the existence of vampires, the Church of Holy Light immediately began to massacre vampires and issued an order to eliminate the true ancestor who created vampires.
This incident was called the Demon Slayer Operation at the time, and a large number of paladins and holy light priests participated in it, causing turmoil and chaos throughout the empire.
For this reason, the vampires naturally would not sit idly by and watch the other side destroy them, so a war broke out between the two sides, resulting in the deaths of a large number of innocent civilians.
During this period, the True Ancestor Elquet, as the creator of vampires, was undoubtedly on the kill list of the Church of Holy Light.
At that time, the only Holy Knight led several great paladins to launch a hunting operation against her.
The hunting operation went very smoothly at the beginning. Due to the suppression of the laws, no matter how powerful the True Ancestor was, his body was very fragile and could be hurt by ordinary swords.
The Holy Knight had injured the True Ancestor several times, and once had a chance to injure him severely.
Under such circumstances, facing the aggressive pressure from the church and witnessing the massacre of a large number of vampire clansmen, Elquet could not help but get angry.
She threatened a large number of innocent civilians, trying to force the Church of Holy Light to compromise or at least give them a chance for negotiation.
Who could have imagined that the Church of Holy Light at that time had become so arrogant that it had lost its rationality, did not care about the lives of ordinary people at all, and believed that such sacrifice was acceptable.
In desperation, Elquet could only commit murder, replenish himself with the blood of innocent people, and escape at all costs.
The fighting between the two sides became more and more intense, and the scope of the fighting became wider and wider.
A large number of innocent people were involved, and the church and the True Ancestor's favorability in the hearts of the people decreased.
For this reason, the Church wanted to eliminate the True Ancestor as quickly as possible so that it could control public opinion afterwards.
By chance, after accidentally learning the whereabouts of the True Ancestor, the Church set up a dragnet and finally captured the True Ancestor Elquet.
So, the church announced that it would execute the damned vampire in front of the world.
At the same time, Art, who betrayed the Church of Holy Light, was looking for Elquet everywhere. When he learned that Elquet was captured by the church, he immediately made up his mind to rescue Elquet.
But his strength is only at the third level. The power of a mid-level paladin is definitely not enough to compete with a sixth-level Holy Knight.
In desperation, Art visited the Chaos Realm, looking for the legendary undead and asking for help from them.
This crazy behavior would only cause Art to be eaten by the wandering undead. After all, as someone who had practiced holy light, he was the best food in the eyes of the undead.
But fortunately, by chance, Art entered the castle of the Lich King, the King of the Undead.
After learning everything from Art, the Lich Queen Leticia expressed her extreme anger towards the church and directly stated that she would give Art the power to rebel against the church.
At the same time, any power has its price. Once Art uses this power, the final outcome will be complete depravity and loss of himself.
Faced with the power that could save Elquet, Art accepted it without any hesitation.
The spell that Leticia gave it was the ability to devour the power of the dead.
He also told Art that as long as he could reach the temple where the powerful men of all generations were enshrined in the human empire and absorb the power of the first generation sword saint, he would be able to fight the church.