Chapter 181 - Chapter 181: Chapter 173: The Blood Baron (2/2)

“Hahaha! You mean Byrne Fischer, right? So you’re also from the Fischer family! Excellent, I must thank fate!”

He paused, his eyes brimming with endless resentment as he continued, “Do you know the surname ‘Hovern’?”

Vanessa’s face changed dramatically; more than a decade ago, she was well aware that the true lord of Nasir Town was in fact a baron from the Hovern family.

However, a dozen years had passed since the baron had made an appearance, and so everyone gradually forgot about this.

So it was him?

No wonder, with his disturbed mind, claiming Nasir City was his—the pieces fell into place within Vanessa’s mind.

Yet she still didn’t understand why he would want to kill the middle-aged couple.

At that moment, Baron Hovern’s throat emitted a strange noise, his body trembling slightly before he continued:

“Since this town is my domain, their lives, their flesh, and everything they have should also belong to me!”

“Blood is the magnificent substance that sustains life and soul; it is because the power of the soul permeates the blood that the power of bloodline can be passed on.”

“Their blood will become my sustenance, filling me.”

As he spoke, Baron Hovern’s voice became even stranger, heavy with a frightening rasp that exuded an even more unnatural, non-human aura.

Vanessa quickly witnessed a shocking scene—the plentiful blood on the ground began to tremble, boil, and then incredibly started to rise drop by drop, gradually merging into Baron Hovern’s body as if being ‘consumed’ in one gulp.

A look of intense pleasure spread across his face.

“Compared to my wife and brother, their blood is even sweeter…”

Mighty Bloody Demon!

Vanessa took a deep breath; as a spellcaster who had read many tomes on the arcane, she was fully aware of how wrong Baron Hovern’s condition was.

He had been gradually taken over by the body and soul by the mysterious entity known as the Mighty Bloody Demon; yet he was utterly unaware of the predicament he faced, slowly becoming a tragic and evil puppet.

Vanessa gazed at Baron Hovern, speaking slowly to stall for time:

“No wonder you were the only survivor in the campaign against the Bloody Cult all those years ago; it was that thing that slaughtered everyone else and then deliberately let you go…”

She saw that Baron Hovern paid no attention to her and was about to kill the little girl to draw her blood; she immediately stepped forward.

“Don’t kill her; if you must feed on blood, take mine instead!”

Baron Hovern was taken aback for a moment and asked, “Why?”

He couldn’t comprehend Vanessa’s motives.

“Is she also a member of the Fischer family, or perhaps a friend of yours?”

Vanessa shook her head and continued, “Neither; she’s just a stranger, an ordinary girl from Nasir Town.”

Baron Hovern, failing to understand, asked, “And yet you’re willing to take her place?”

“Yes.”

Vanessa nodded gently; although it was meant to buy time, she was truly willing to trade her own life for the little girl’s.

Baron Hovern sneered mockingly, “Do you think you are a Savior or a saint?”

“No,” she shook her head.

Over the years, she had saved many people and done many completely selfless deeds without expecting anything in return, but she never thought of herself as a good person.

Even though the Fischer family was regarded as ethical among many nobles, they had still committed their share of dark deeds, and her own husband, Chris, had killed many innocents.

Though she was not directly involved, Vanessa was clear that simply being an onlooker who turned a blind eye did not equate to justice, and she regarded all those actions as part of her own sins.

“You are a strange woman.”

Baron Hovern suddenly tossed the little girl away, then raised his hand and shot three blood arrows at Vanessa, who caught the girl without hesitation, her body gravely wounded by the blood arrows in the process.

She felt that she had thoroughly mastered the power of the 2nd Rank of the Path of World Order, but she hardly cared about such matters, only thinking of how to take the girl and escape, to buy time.

In a little while, people from the Fischer family would come to their aid!

Accustomed to the deceit and dark killings among the nobility, Baron Hovern was perplexed by the woman before him, feeling even irritated.

Just as he was about to deliver a killing blow, he suddenly found himself entangled by a vast number of butterflies, followed by a series of explosions that completely obscured his vision.

Vanessa seized the opportunity to flee with the little girl.

“Don’t run!”

Baron Hovern roared in fury, blood streaming down his body as he chased out of the house, manipulating a large volume of blood to float around him, preparing to attack Vanessa again.

However, just then, Baron Hovern felt an overwhelmingly intense and pure will to kill!

Chris, like an Angel, silently emerged from the shadows, his right hand wielding a delicate dagger, while his left held the Romann family’s “Black Blade”.

He traced two precise and sharp trajectories with his blades aimed straight at the heart and waist of Baron Hovern.

Baron Hovern was viciously stabbed by the Black Blade in the heart and waist, but showed no sign of losing any vitality; instead, he twisted his head around one hundred and eighty degrees, glaring malevolently at Chris, his throat emitting a roaring sound.

“Aargh!”

Gradually, he entirely lost his human form; some evil force that had been bound within him erupted uncontrollably from its deepest confines!