novelonline Chapter 3491 Tracing the Origins of Internal Organs and Wild Vampires
Chapter 3491 Tracing the Origins of Internal Organs and Wild Vampires
Chapter 3491 Tracing the Origins of Internal Organs and Wild Vampires
"Since it's sleepwalking, if I wake her up, won't the demon, without the dream world as its environment, manifest directly in the real world?"
Shad then asked, and the doctor immediately shook his head:
“Waking her up won’t be that simple. As I said before, what she sees in a sleepwalking state may be different from what actually happens. Once the demon discovers your intentions, I even think there’s a high probability that the huntress will fight you.”
Shad had absolutely no desire to fight Miss Cohens, but he would never allow the huntress to actually become a guest at the inn:
"Is there any way to drive that demon away from Miss Coens while she is asleep?"
The doctor frowned and thought for a moment:
"Actually, it would be safest for me to do this myself, but that happens to be something from the past."
Exorcising a demon from a dream is more troublesome than treating other types of demonic possession. The worst way is to enter the dream and fight the demon there, but that's in the demon's territory, and you're not particularly adept at the power of dreams, so I don't recommend it.
The doctor considered it again:
"Since you're not leaving until next week, give me a week to think of a solution."
"Then I'll have to trouble you, Doctor. Besides exorcising the demon, it would be best to have a way to control it. Although I don't expect us to be able to find its trace in this day and age after so long, at least we can't let it cause trouble for me in the past."
The mission was to "select suitable guests for the inn." Shad was almost certain that the "guests" involved in the mission were his three companions and their respective secrets. Therefore, even if the doctor brought out potions and alchemical items, Shad could bring them to the past as "mission items."
"No problem. I'll plan everything for you, from exorcism and control to sealing. But the early Fifth Era is such a distant time. The era of chaos and darkness had just ended, and the loss of spellcasting ability by men had brought about a radical change in the world order. A new era was beginning, and civilization was returning to its former glory."
The people who lived at that time could be considered to be living in the dawn of a new era.
The doctor, holding his teacup, remarked that although the extravagance and debauchery of the witch emperors at the end of the Fifth Age caused significant problems, the Fifth Age as a whole was still a very prosperous era.
Shad nodded as well:
"If I had more time, I would have liked to explore the inn more and talk to those girls about what their era was like. Chaos and darkness were gradually dispelled in the early Fifth Era, but the struggles between female spellcasters made city-state wars a regular occurrence—that's what the books say, but they're just words after all."
The doctor was busy seeing patients, so Xia De didn't want to disturb him any longer. After returning home with Mia, their second stop was Moon Bay.
The world's turmoil seemed to have little impact on the City of Wealth; the disaster of last summer was now almost undetectable in this city where a light snow was falling. After leaving the Dragon's Nest outside the city, Shad took a carriage directly to the morgue at the end of Spider Lane. As expected, at ten o'clock in the morning, the vampire coroner, with his perfect attendance record, was indeed there.
However, he didn't seem busy today. Although he was still working here, Mr. Ptolemy Albert wasn't dissecting a corpse, but filling out an autopsy report in his office.
When he met Shad, he also said to Shad:
“Recently, a group of corpse thieves has appeared in the city. They don’t go to cemeteries, but instead target hospitals and morgues. So our superiors have ordered us to make detailed records of every corpse we handle recently. This way, even if a corpse is lost, we can trace its whereabouts based on these records that contain the corpse’s characteristics.”
But with this coroner around, no thief could steal a corpse from Spider Alley. Indeed, every city has its own story, and everyone has their own troubles.
Shade's visit was about what Miss Novare, a vampire, had mentioned: the secret techniques of the vampires could be used to track down fake people.
After Shad mentioned this to Mr. Albert, he actually knew it, but when Shad asked him about the secret technique, he shook his head:
"When I was young, I saw some records about it in the clan's old documents. It is said that the blood of the fake man tastes like red wax compared to the blood of a real living creature. Although it is indeed blood, it is a very disgusting thing."
Mr. Hamilton, I'm not actually very skilled in the secret arts of vampires, at least not as skilled as Armand. The secret art of tracing pseudo-humans through blood isn't simply about drinking blood and sensing the source of the bloodline; because it involves relics, it requires relatively complex steps.
While this method hasn't been completely lost, I haven't learned it, and I even doubt Armand learned it either. We could certainly search for relevant materials, learn the method, and then help you, but that would be extremely time-consuming.
Xia De sensed something amiss:
"So besides your racial secret techniques, there are actually other methods, right?"
Mr. Albert smiled; this vampire coroner, who always wore a brown burqa, didn't smile often.
"When I went to the New World with the army, I thought about using the vampire's talents and my own medical skills to develop some new magical spells. After so many years of performing autopsies in Moon Bay, some of my ideas have almost come to fruition. Mr. Hamilton, have you heard of visceral divination?"
Xia De nodded immediately:
"Of course, predicting the future by examining the internal organs of animals. However, this method of divination is very bloody every time and requires fresh animal carcasses, so although it is a basic divination method, it is not very mainstream compared to divination cards, pendulums, numerology, and spirit boards."
For example, Luvia wouldn't even want to learn the technique if visceral divination wasn't part of the "Registered Diviner Exam".
"Yes, my new technique was developed by combining the characteristics of 'visceral divination' and 'blood tracing' after years of experience in autopsies. I call this technique 'visceral tracing,' and if you have a talent for divination, you don't even need to be a vampire to learn it."
It was then that Shad recalled that Mr. Albert was also a fortune teller.
"Simply put, by obtaining the internal organs of a corpse and then observing and casting spells on them, one can find individuals related to the corpse by blood. The fresher the internal organs, the more accurate the divination results will be. I have conducted many experiments after developing this technique, and it works on any race. I think it will also work on pseudo-humans. Although pseudo-humans do not have specific differentiated internal organs, the flesh within their bodies is equally effective."
He pulled a scroll from a drawer and handed it to Shad. It detailed the learning method for this unique magical technique he had developed. Because it was his original creation, the steps were extremely detailed:
“I know you have many diviners around you who are far more skilled than me. You can have them learn this esoteric art. However, if it’s convenient, please give me feedback afterward on how effective this art is on the fake man.”
Shad suspected that Mr. Albert's interest in this matter stemmed purely from finding an opportunity to concretely test his own secret techniques:
"Okay, thank you. I'll bring you the results later."
However, seeing that Mr. Albert was quite free today, Shad wasn't in a hurry to leave and talked with him about what was happening on Fatummst Island. When Shad recounted his observations inside the "House of the False Man" and the "door," Mr. Albert hesitated for a moment:
"The flesh and blood of the eldest son? Now I understand why the Blood Spirit School is cooperating with the false people. Although the Blood Spirit School is an illegal ring sorcerer organization, once it is known that they are cooperating with humanoid relics, even the most despicable cultists will despise them."
Therefore, people in this world really distinguish between "relics" and "people".
“Mr. Albert, you know about the flesh and blood of the firstborn, right? I’ve heard that this involves the creation myths of the ancient gods.”
The vampire coroner poured Shad another cup of tea and patiently explained:
"In this era of flourishing human civilization, the vampire clans are far from their former glory. The few remaining ancient branches are all staying quietly in Willendale City without making any moves."
But beyond the clans to which Armand and I belong, and those related by blood, there are other clans lurking in every corner of the world. Armand and I belong to clans that worship the Lord of Vampires and the Crimson Moon, which is also the most prevalent belief among vampires. However, there are also clans among vampires that worship the ancient god, the Twilight Creator, who crave the power of flesh-and-blood evolution; they are generally referred to as 'wild vampires'.
They are few in number and far more savage and bloodthirsty. Modern vampires like us, who live in cities, basically no longer drink human blood. We are civilized modern people, and modern vampires prefer to hold a glass of red wine and discuss business at parties rather than drink blood.
But those 'wild vampire' clans still retain their rather cruel and disgusting habits; they seem to be stuck in the past and haven't yet emerged from it. However, they are indeed more skilled at killing and raising vampire beasts than we are—I'm not saying that urban vampires are innocent, but in fact, most of the modern horror stories about vampires can be applied to wild vampires.
It's clear that Mr. Albert looks down on his "kin." Although moon elves and tree elves have different beliefs, they are generally quite united; otherwise, the ancient elven empire wouldn't have existed. However, the conflicts between vampires of different faiths are truly significant.