Broken Lake Prison, medical staff activity hall.
All 25 medical staff from the prison treatment team gathered here and sat around a large table.
They all wore crow masks and black robes, so no one could see each other's expressions. But from the heavy atmosphere that almost froze the air, it was enough to see that they were not at peace.
"Team leader." Medical technician 201 broke the silence: "Is there nothing you can do?"
Although no one knows who the team leader is, generally speaking, the leader of each Blood Moon Prison medical team is a two-wing gold magician who has exhausted his potential, and the medical technicians who come to the prison to perform the Blood Embrace ritual are basically one-wing silver magicians, so the team leader is the strongest person here.
"No way." The team leader said bitterly: "The 'Black Coffin' contains a three-winged saint, whose bloodline strength and power far exceed mine. The 'Blood Lock' he activated is simply not something I can contend with."
One medical technician couldn't help but laugh out loud: "Who would have thought that the blood chains that we, the Blood Saints, use to bind lower races would one day be used against us?"
Miracle Blood Lock was originally a binding miracle that was only applicable to the Blood Saint Clan.
At that time, the Blood Saint Clan did not have the current 'Research Institute System', but a very inefficient and crude 'family system'. In order to reproduce and expand the clan, it all depended on high-level Blood Saints to find suitable candidates, and then perform the 'First Embrace' with a uncertain success rate to convert the other party into a low-level blood descendant.
The family system has a lot of drawbacks. Not only does the blood concentration of each generation of blood descendants decrease significantly, but the "First Embrace Ceremony" requires the consumption of the "true blood" of the high-level Blood Saint. More importantly, the recipient of the First Embrace needs to love the high-level Blood Saint.
If you want to become a Blood Saint, you need to truly fall in love with a Blood Saint.
It is conceivable how rare the Blood Saints were in that era, and how... united they were.
Even if the Blood Saints have a long lifespan, their numbers will only decrease over time, and their strength will become weaker and weaker. Not to mention the "family bond" based on love, which often makes the Blood Saints crazy for the casualties of a family member - they are willing to come out in full force for a member, and fight to the death no matter what enemy they face.
Unlike the love they have for their family members, the Blood Saints are mercilessly indifferent to other races. Therefore, the way the Blood Saints get along with the world is either the Blood Saints destroy all enemies, turning the entire area into a paradise for the Blood Saints and a purgatory for other races; or the enemies destroy all the Blood Saints, completely exterminating this monster race that is bound by love.
It was not until the Blood Moon Supreme Lord took control of the Blood Saint Moon Shadow, changed the previous way of survival, and ordered the two tribes to accept the 'Research Institute System' and the 'Church System' that the two tribes were able to grow and develop to where they are today in just a thousand years.
Under the institute system, the Blood Saints no longer need to look for suitable descendants on their own, because the top talents from all tribes are eager to become a member of the institute and gain immortal life.
The "Blood Exchange Ceremony" that abolished the "First Embrace Ceremony" only turned these lucky ones into reserve blood descendants. To become a true Blood Saint, they still need to go to prison to perform the "Blood Embrace Ceremony" and draw their own nutrients from death. Therefore, the Blood Saint does not have to pay any price for reproduction - because the dead have already paid for it.
The original blood lock was because the lower-level blood descendants had the "true blood" of the higher-level blood saints flowing in their bodies. Therefore, as long as the higher-level blood saint activated the blood lock, he could sense the location of the blood descendants and even control their actions.
If a high-level blood saint dies, he can even be reborn in the body of a blood descendant!
After the shackles of love were freed, the family system collapsed, and naturally there was no "First Embrace". Therefore, the blood chain extending from the First Embrace should have been thrown into the garbage dump of history to rot.
But after being perfected by the Blood Moon Lord, the Blood Lock suddenly became the most important miracle of the Blood Saint Clan, because its binding range was not limited to the Blood Saint Clan, but extended to everyone in the Blood Moon Kingdom!
After each baby is admitted to the foster home, a miracle chip is implanted, and the miracle chip contains a drop of "real blood". As the baby grows up, the real blood will also be integrated into his blood, bone marrow, tissue fluid and even sperm and egg cells, spreading throughout the body!
It can be said that any child growing up in a foster home in the Blood Moon Kingdom is a potential blood descendant!
The modern Blood Lock miracle is a three-wing miracle, so as long as a three-winged Blood Saint activates the 'Blood Lock' miracle, he can control any Blood Moon citizen who is weaker than him, no matter whether the opponent is a human, elf, orc or Blood Saint Moon Shadow!
Although there is no evidence, many people in the Blood Saint Clan believe that if the legendary Blood Saint activates the Blood Lock, he can even control everyone in a city, even ordering them to die!
However, compared with the terrifying power they hold, the Blood Saints are very low-key.
Although the outside world knows about the existence of the Blood Saint Clan, they only know that the Blood Saint Clan is immortal. If you want to become a Blood Saint Clan member, you must take the postgraduate examination, and after passing, you can join the research institute, etc. Some people in the Blood Saint Clan will become councilors, but the Blood Saint Clan will not hold any official positions. Most people have only two impressions of the Blood Saint Clan: doctors and scholars.
As for using blood locks to do things recklessly, it has not happened for thousands of years.
The blood lock is only applicable to prisons and war zones, and only criminals and adventurers will be restricted.
Even a blood-crazed hunter like Gerard was not allowed to use blood locks to control prisoners when performing missions. Theoretically, the only people who could legally use the blood lock miracle were the "saints" lying in the "black coffin", and the living could only activate the blood lock indirectly through the "black coffin".
There are many reasons for prohibiting the Blood Saints from revealing their powers, to prevent arrogance within the Blood Saints, to prevent lower races from rebelling, and to maintain social stability... but the most fundamental reason is that the Blood Moon Lord does not allow it.
The social support system, the research institute system, the church system... These rules set by the Blood Moon Lord himself are absolutely not allowed to be violated, not even to test the bottom line.
If the 'blood locks' of death row prisoners are tangible, they can find out what they are not allowed to do through testing; then the 'blood locks' of the Blood Saints are intangible, and they won't even have the thought of testing!
That's why the medical technicians were so shocked and angry - after all, even they didn't know the exact location of the 'Black Coffin', so how could outsiders control the 'Saint' in the 'Black Coffin'
"Necromancer!" Someone gritted his teeth and said, "This is the only possibility... Those despicable bastards used necromancy to control the Saint... Can't we use necromancy to fight for the Saint's operating authority?"
"We are forbidden from outputting magic power and attacking. How can we use necromancy?"
"Wait, I remember that you need a key to enter the black coffin. How could an outsider know the key? Is there a traitor?"
"Yes, the people who know the key include the team leader, the warden, and the director of the Criminal Hunting Department. Could it be that..."
Noticing that everyone was looking at him, the team leader became anxious: "The keys are sealed with miracles, I can't leak them out by any means!"
"But the warden is never in the prison, and the director is far away in the city. How else can the death row inmate get the key?" Other medical staff questioned bluntly.
201 suddenly said, "Come to think of it, I heard that a killer called 'controller' appeared in Kaimeng City a few years ago and committed many murders. Because the killing method seemed to involve blood locks, my boss was asked by the Criminal Hunting Department to conduct an internal review. Although it ended up in vain, it can be confirmed that the key was not leaked from the keeper."
After the expulsion of 176, everyone had a vague guess that the boss of 201 might be the saint of the psychic faction. Unlike memory masters who could be deceived, the psychic saints examined the soul itself. Even if the suspect drove himself crazy, the psychic saints could still shatter his soul and find the information they wanted from the fragments, just as easy as breaking a Rubik's Cube and then reassembling it.
In the presence of the saint of the soul, forgetfulness cannot remain a secret.
"Even the senior said it wasn't leaked, so it really wasn't leaked."
Everyone looked at the medical technician Shivlin with nameplate number 222, who said calmly, "So there is only one possibility left—the death row prisoner has a way to find the real black coffin key. With such a big incident, the key system is no longer safe, but that is none of our business. Speaking of which, I have bad news and good news. Which one do you want to hear?"
"What's the bad news?"
"The bad news is that we are going to be disgraced this time. Tomorrow all thirty-six research institutes will know that we, the Bloodline, have been captured by death row inmates in several prisons."
"What's the good news?"
"The good news is that we are wearing masks, so no one knows who we are. Everyone can embarrass themselves as much as they want, and no one will know that the Blood Saints have been insulted."
Everyone was speechless. They didn't expect that this young lady would have the leisure to joke around. However, the other party was a descendant of the four major research institutes, and had the capital to be arrogant. For them, it might be a stain that could not be washed away or even affect their future, but for the young lady, it was just an episode that was not worth mentioning.
"Is there really no other way?" someone asked unwillingly.
"Bloodline resonance." The team leader said, "The saint in the black coffin should have some consciousness left. If we can contact him through bloodline resonance, we can remove our blood locks."
"How to produce blood resonance?"
"I don't know - strong emotions? Burning desire? Praying to the Blood Moon Lord? Although the success rate is extremely low, this is what we can do now."
Everyone looked at each other and felt that this was a helpless solution. So some people drew circles and cursed the death row prisoner, some people lay on the ground and tried to contact the black coffin through the vibration of the ground. What almost made Shiffrin laugh was that someone actually hooked the chandelier and stood upside down like a bat - they said it was imitating the meditation posture of the ancient blood saints to increase the possibility of blood resonance.
At this moment, the door of the lounge was pushed open and a prison guard poked his head out.
"Excuse me everyone, 222, please follow me to the treatment room."
"Ash Hiss?" Shivlin asked in surprise, "What do you want from me?"
"There's something I need you to do."
"Can't we do it here?" 201 stood up and stood in front of Shivlin. "And if you need any work, I can do it for you."
Ash shook his head firmly: "No, I only want 222. And there's not even a bed here, it's not convenient to do it here."
Medical staff: “Hmm?”
Oh no, the Blood Saint Clan is going to be insulted!