382 Count Vlad (2/2)

Sometimes, how powerful an illusion spell was really depended on how the caster used it.

Atlant, the Eye of Curse, once put it in his paper, ”By finding one's weakness, one can easily put fake memories into a person's brain, even without using illusion.”

”I don't think so… your grace!” disputed Aquinas, the leader of the rebellion force. ”It exists in the Steam Paradise! One day, the will of God shall be done on earth!”

Harold still remembered what the dream city looked like, and he murmured, ”I… I thought the steam city was the ultimate miracle, the most exciting place in the world, but Atlantis… Atlantis is… incredible…”

Harold did not know how to put a proper comment on it.

Another dwarf cut in, ”All of the machines there are so amazing. I guess that's how Steam Civilization will be like when it peaks… No, no… Atlantis has way surpassed the power of Steam Civilization!”

The rest of the dwarves all agreed because they had seen it with their own eyes!

A dream city!

Harold looked very excited, with his hands clenching into fists, ”Atlantis… Atlantis! My dream is to build an Atlantis on the ground, even if it is only one-third of a miracle compared to the real one!”

”I can never forget the river of stars…” Myrna murmured like she was still in the beautiful dream, ”What a pity… We did not see the structure of the huge metal arrow.”

”That's right…” The dwarves were quite disappointed. After all, the destructive weapon created by their God was so powerful that it was capable of completely destroying the entire world!

”Also… we did not see the other inner structures clearly,” said Harold, feeling upset. But he soon cheered up and said, ”First, we should have a solid foundation!”

Harold raised the book in his hand and found that there was a piece of parchment in the book.

It was a compact, a compact with their God.

Finishing reading the compact, the elder excitedly announced, ”The Almighty God of Steam asks us to sign the compact with the City of Atlantis, as we have peeped into its secrets.”

Of course, the dwarves signed the compact without any hesitation. The compact represented the future hope that the dwarves had to get rid of their destiny as the vampires' slaves.

Light burst out of the parchment pact. Lucien, a distance away from the dwarves, slightly nodded and then left.

It took him a lot of work to move the dwarves to the secret underground cave that he found using magic. He reordered the dwarves' memory and then interwove some fake ones into it.

Once the dwarves had accepted the memory, it was hard for them to tell the fake from the true.

Lucien used Alferris' blood and constructed the desert and the city called Atlantis using the fifth-circle illusion spell, Fantasy. Lucien borrowed the basic design of a metropolis on the Earth and mixed it with a number of magic symbols.

After leaving the underground cave, he looked very serious. He knew that, since the vampire bride and butler had been killed by him, the count would not easily let this go. Sooner or later, the count would find the underground palace and the space joint.

Lucien had to take care of this.

Thus, he headed for the count's castle.

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On the next day, in the early morning, the dwarf slaves were already working under the threat of the thick whips. The constellations were still above them.

The supervisors were not worried about the fact that Madam Tess and the butler had not come back at all because they were informed that a group of rebellion force was identified. It was more than normal that Madam Tess and the butler had to spend a few days taking care of that.

In the dark basement of the castle, in the middle of many dark magic circles, there was a bloody coffin, from which black smoke kept coming out from time to time. This was the core of the castle, the place where Count Vlad slept and cured himself.

Every time when Vlad was about to go sleep, he would fully turn on all the magic circles and traps around him to protect himself.

According to Vlad himself, the construction and design of the castle took him more than a thousand years. It was impossible to break in without activating the magic circles, even for a vampire marquis or duke. The castle was like a masterpiece in defense.

Therefore, the castle showed a relatively lower power when it came to attacking its enemies.

Madam Tess, butler Galata, and another two vampire brides knew how to reach Count Vlad.

Therefore, the best way for Lucien to kill the count would be using the two vampire brides to get Vlad out of the core basement.

Count Vlad survived in the War of Dawn. He was not an idiot. Once Lucien made a mistake and missed the best chance to kill the vampire, that would be the end of him.

Lucien could not bear even a single mistake.