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Monarch of Evernight - Chapter 757




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Chapter 757: 757

This group’s movement was fairly odd . The battlefield had been swept clean, and there was nothing of value left on the bodies . Yet, they were still moving these bodies away . Judging from the direction they were headed in, they seemed to be retreating . Could they have come all the way here just for some corpses?



Qianye thought about tailing them, but Nighteye and Zhuji were still in the city . Although they were fairly capable of protecting themselves, Qianye wasn’t willing to go very far, lest what had happened in the empire repeat itself .

The neutral lands was quite a peculiar place . Many unique resources back in the empire came from this place . This was a land filled with unknown dangers where just about anything could happen . The situation on the battlefield was gradually turning serious—in addition to the increasing number of experts, there were numerous peculiar abilities he had never seen before .

Qianye decided not to take the risk, at least not for this battle . Hence, he gave up on following them and, instead, went to find a good place to set up an ambush . Perhaps an unsuspecting prey would walk right in .

Qianye picked a lofty rock and camouflaged himself in a shallow pit nearby . This rock was rather eye-catching—everyone’s reaction upon seeing it would be to give it a quick scan before observing the surroundings . First glances were, naturally, never too detailed, and Qianye intended to make use of this psychological oversight . Very few people under the divine champion level could sense him in his fully concealed state after all .

Qianye didn’t have to wait very long before a fully cloaked figure appeared over the horizon . This person moved rhythmically and with extreme speed, displaying ample elegance despite his cautious movements . This was a classic vampire characteristic, but to Qianye who had gotten used to the grace of a true superior vampire like Nighteye, this person’s movements seemed somewhat forced .

Dealing with vampires was Qianye’s specialty . The target walked past, completely unaware of Qianye’s existence . The latter pushed a blood-energy-laced origin bullet into the Twin Flowers and fired at the vampire’s leg .

The two were less than a hundred meters away, but due to its low weapon-grade, the origin power fluctuations from the Twin Flowers was quite small . This caught the vampire entirely off guard .

To a first-rank viscount, this was nothing but a tiny flesh wound, but the sneak attack filled him with shock and fury . He quickly drew his weapon and glared fixedly at Qianye . The odd giant sword with its serrated edge looked fairly odd on him, a stark contrast to the elegance he had been trying so hard to maintain . There was a large barrel on the spine of the sword and its hilt served both as a handle and a trigger—it was actually a combination of a gun and a sword .

Disdain filled the vampire’s eyes as he stared at Qianye and his Twin Flowers . He said in a weird, aria-like voice, “You dare to ambush the brave and intelligent First Rank Viscount Robert . I must say I admire your courage, stupidity, and luck . I’m quite surprised that a continent-made gun of that quality actually injured me . ”

The Twin Flowers was clearly a continent-made product . The gun’s craftsmanship was exquisite and simple . Moreover, its firepower didn’t diminish in the neutral lands due to Andruil’s modification . Qianye fired this shot from the Bloody Datura because he knew it was enough to injure the target .

This Robert seemed quite talkative and especially liked to announce his victory in front of weak enemies . He wasn’t in a rush to deal with Qianye and instead spoke in a slow, arrogant voice, “I shall consider giving you a quick death if you prostrate before me in praise and pleading . You have one chance . If you can compose an eloquent poem to eulogize me, I might just let you live . ”

Halfway through his speech, the man’s expression shifted drastically . He clutched his chest violently and fell kneeling onto the ground .

“I… what’s wrong with me?” Robert was both alarmed and furious .

“You only noticed it just now?” Qianye’s voice contained a hint of mockery .

“You poisoned the origin bullet? But what kind of poison can torment a noble like me?”

Vampires possessed an inherent resistance to poison that was only second to the arachne . But to them, Qianye’s blood energy was a powerful toxin .

Robert finally noticed that he could no longer suppress the burning blood energy inside his body . Terrified, he crawled over to Qianye, crying, “S-Spare me! I’ll tell you a secret that can make you the king of the neutral lands!”

Qianye broke into a laugh . “If you know such a secret, why haven’t you become a king yet?”



“I don’t have the talent!”

Qianye crouched down in front of Robert . “Speak your identity, your objective here, and everything else that might interest me . You know what the outcome will be if I find you lying . ”

“I’ll speak, I’ll tell you everything! Just spare me . I-I’m from the Moonlight Demons, under the thirteenth assassination unit . Right, you can have this, you must let me go!”


Robert fished out an envelope and passed it to Qianye . There was a neatly folded paper inside of it, an exquisite hand-drawn map with two eye-catching markings on it .

“What’s this? A treasure map?” Qianye sneered .

Things like treasure maps could only fool naive kids . Not to mention whether there really were treasures here, even if there were, what was the use of merely knowing the place? Andruil’s secret treasury contained a wisp of his remnant will which had sent him thousands of kilometers away to prevent people from hunting him down . If someone else had made his way into the treasury, what awaited him might not be Spatial Flash but, instead, a Shot of Inception .

Additionally, Qianye didn’t feel like this distasteful Robert would be able to find a proper treasure .

Robert trembled . “The markings on this map show the two secret warehouses belonging to the Moonlight Demons, both of them are first-class stashes . This is a piece of intelligence I obtained while chasing down a deserter, but I don’t have the ability to take them . If you give this map to the Spider Emperor, the Wolf King, or even Su Dingqian, you’ll definitely gain a handsome reward . ”

“Now that’s more reasonable . ” Qianye nodded in secret . It was just that robbing the Moonlight Demon’s secret warehouse occurred only as a passing thought . Once compromised, he would become the target of an endless hunt .



“What are you here for?”

Robert answered at lightning speed . His mission here was to gather intelligence and hunt the experts of Port City in passing . As a core power of the Moonlight Demons, Robert’s strength was fairly impressive . With his first-rank viscount power, he had killed many experts of the same level and had even assassinated a count once .

Being a vampire count himself, Qianye knew the intrinsic difference between a viscount and a count . It was no simple matter to kill an enemy above one’s level .

Robert was even confident about escaping from the vice-commander of the city guard . He felt that he was safe as long as he didn’t run into the commander and Su Dingqian . He had never imagined that he would encounter someone like Qianye who could disable all his abilities with a single wisp of blood energy .

Qianye interrogated him thoroughly until there was nothing left to learn . Someone of Robert’s position didn’t know that much, either .

Afterward, Qianye searched him from head to toe and found that his total fortune was quite impressive . The man was much wealthier than a vampire viscount from the Evernight side . It would seem assassination was a lucrative business here .

An exquisite little lacquerware box caught Qianye’s attention . There was an ancient scent coming from it that Qianye found rather familiar .

His expression turned frosty the moment he unlocked the box and opened it .

Within the lacquerware box was the foot of a human girl . Its outlines were fairly slim and elegant, likely belonging to a beautiful owner . Yet, it had become part of a collection in this box, and Qianye could even see the tooth marks on her ankle .

“This is from a blood feast?”

Robert was shocked . “You know about blood feasts? The feast was of fairly high standards and the main dish was unprecedented in her beauty . I had to leave for this mission, so I packed a snack with me . She was so beautiful that I couldn’t bear to enjoy her yet . Sire, might you be interested in it?”

As Robert saw it, Qianye was also a vampire and one of a powerful bloodline . Few vampires in the neutral lands were interested in blood feasts but it wasn’t too rare, either . If Qianye was interested, his chances of survival would increase greatly .

“I’m interested in you,” Qianye said coldly . At the same time, his vampiric blade plunged into Robert’s blood core .

“Sire, you…” Robert wasn’t expecting this outcome . His voice became empty as his entire body slumped down . After having his blood essence sucked away by the vampiric blade, he could no longer suppress Qianye’s blood energy, and his body soon broke down into a rotten puddle .

Qianye tossed the “snack” to one side with a snort, and then went through Robert’s things once more . In addition to the belongings worth tens of thousands of gold coins, the most valuable item he had on him was that gunblade .

Afterward, Qianye left the place in due haste and went toward a different battlefield .

Along the way, Qianye found the situation to be somewhat odd . Be it the Crystal Spider’s scouting unit, the Wolf King’s hunting party, or Robert, all of them had different objectives . It didn’t look like they were here solely for war . Moreover, the treatment he was receiving from Su Dingqian was almost as good as when he was back in the empire .

At this moment, Port City’s doors were still open to all people moving in and out . The city walls made no difference whether they were there or not . It couldn’t serve as part of the city defense—only a symbol of law and order .

The roar of engines echoed across the wilderness as a motorcade drove in from the distance, kicking up clouds of sand dozens of meters tall . The guards at the city gates became delighted upon seeing the insignia on the distant vehicles . “Second Young Master has returned! Inform the captain!”





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