Chapter 384 Surprising (Asking for a Monthly Pass)
In the eerie castle, silver hand-shaped candlesticks were inserted on both sides of the corridor, and the bright red candles on them exuded a strange beauty under the light of their own dim yellow light.
Lucian, wearing a black hooded robe, stood quietly outside the basement, carefully studying the defensive circle arranged by Count Vlad.
Due to the need to transport ores, smelt metals, and allow slave dwarves to come in and out, Vlad's castle in the "daytime" was not closed, only a few magic circles for surveillance were inspired, and in addition to Count Vlad, only Mrs. Tess, the vampire bride, was in the middle level, so the "high-level magician" Lucian easily mixed in.
"The defense is really strong." Lucian nodded slightly, Count Vlad, as a vampire powerhouse who has lived for thousands of years, has indeed obtained a lot of good magic circles, these twenty-seven dark magic circles are connected to form a powerful defense similar to a maze, even the eighth-level divine technique Yang Flame Explosion can withstand it, "The good news is that Count Vlad is a talent spellcaster, not an orthodox mage, and the castle is not an alchemy life, otherwise I want to sneak in, it's not that easy."
In the corridor outside the basement, female blood servants turned into humans, elves, dwarves and other races came and went like in normal aristocratic families, but they all turned a blind eye to Lucian, who was standing at the edge of the corridor, and regarded him as air.
Since he had not yet started learning the six-ring magic "Group Suggestion Technique", Lucian worked hard to hint at all the living creatures in the castle one by one.
"It takes at least two months to crack this defensive magic circle system that is almost like a maze, and the most troublesome thing is that once you start cracking it, it is easy to alarm Count Vlad who is sleeping inside, and a high-level vampire plus his own castle, I have almost no chance of defeating, and I am even in danger of falling." Lucian stood at the door of the basement, rubbing his chin with his right hand, analyzing all kinds of difficulties.
Although Count Vlad was asleep, he was not the kind of ancient inheritance magician in the Dark Mountains who refused to contact arcane, anyway, he relied on the power of his bloodline to cast spells, and he was not afraid of the cognitive world being shaken, so he could easily catch up with the trend and keep pace with the times, giving Lucian, an orthodox arcanist of the Magic Council, a headache.
"What excuse do you use to let the vampire bride deceive Vlad out?"
"Tess and Galata eloped? It's so bloody!"
"With their deaths? No, it will make Vlad alert!"
"It's really troublesome......"
"Perhaps, you can think about it from a different angle......"
After a while, Lucian nodded thoughtfully and began to focus on analyzing the magic circle structure of the defense core, the direction of energy flow, and other things that could be directly observed.
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After more than ten days, the castle was running normally, and the vampire brides, housekeepers, blood servants, and slaves each performed their duties, just like before.
But in the castle, there was always a strange figure wearing a black robe walking around, sometimes stopping to take out various precious materials and arrange something, looking busy and uninhabited.
But whether it was a vampire bride, a housekeeper, a blood servant, or a slave, they all completely ignored that there was such a person, even if he made bursts of noise near the energy well behind him.
"Huh, it's finally arranged." Lucian squatted at the door of the basement, clapped his hands, and slowly stood up straight.
The strange spell sounded, the spiritual power spread out, the magic circle at the door of the basement was activated, the starlight lines were bright one after another, and the light of energy flowing surged in all directions.
The restraint room, the summoning room, the magic garden, the energy well, except for the energy room and control center in the basement, all the important places in the castle lit up with the brilliant brilliance flowing quickly, and the mysterious different magic circles lit up.
Soon, they were connected together, making the entire castle shrouded in a hazy and dreamy bright starlight, blurry and vast!
It seemed that the magic circle light shield reflected in the starry sky in the night suddenly contracted, clinging tightly around the basement, as if it had merged into the original dark defense magic circle.
After that, there was no change in the magic circle arranged by Lucian, and everything returned to quiet.
In such a grand and magnificent scene, the vampires and dwarves continued their original actions, as if this was a normal change in the castle.
And Count Vlad in the basement was still asleep, and he didn't notice it at all!
The reason for this was because Lucian didn't try to crack his dark defense magic circle at all, so naturally it wouldn't alarm him.
The powerful magic circle that Lucian spent more than ten days arranging has a very simple function, that is, to add another layer of defense outside Count Vlad's basement, and add a "lock" to him to make him sleep more "at ease" and "at ease".
Of course, this layer of defense is indistinguishable from each other inside and outside, almost deadlocked, even if Lucian himself tries to unlock it, it will take nearly ten months, and the flow of energy wells and magic gardens to the energy room will pass through this magic circle, if Count Vlad wakes up and wants to come out, the energy room will be limited to a small half of his ability. Therefore, even with the assistance of the control center, he didn't have five or six years to do it, let alone leave the basement, and couldn't even deliver the message.
As for five or six years later, Lucian believed that he didn't have to worry about the exposure of space nodes at all, and other extremely unlikely accidents were not considered.
Since you have strong defenses, high security, and extremely high vigilance, making it difficult for me to crack or assassinate, then I will make your defense more "strong", more "guarded", and more "guaranteed" security!
Lucian laughed wickedly, so he wouldn't say that he was inspired by jokes on Earth, and if he couldn't open your lock, he would give you another one!
"It's just a bit painful." Lucian rubbed his chin, shook his head and sighed.
Although the main source of magic circle materials is the warehouse of the "kind-hearted" Count Vlad, Lucian also lost a large amount of materials to plan to arrange the defense of the magic circle in critical moments in the future, and Count Vlad's real treasure house is located in the basement, so Lucian could not recover the loss, so he could only "barely comfort himself" with a lot of mithril and special metals.
After carefully checking the "Strong Defense Circle" and confirming that there was no problem, Lucian set up a hidden magic circle at the door of the basement to store the simulated voice of Count Vlad.
If someone invites or tries to wake him up, "he" will apologetically reply that he is in a critical period of recovery from his injuries.
After doing all this, Lucian left the castle leisurely, and just a few steps out of the gate, he turned around in bad taste, pressed his right hand on his chest, and bent down to perform a gentlemanly salute:
"Good dreams, Count Vlad."
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In the underground cave, the dwarves who signed a magic contract found their own steam sledgehammers, iron stoves, food, paper, and other items elsewhere in the cave according to their "memories".
"Next, we need to do three things." Compared with the other dwarves, he got three books, one was "Fundamentals of Electromagnetic Transformation and Application", one was "On the Pope", and the other was "On Protracted Resistance".
"First, we must improve the doctrine as soon as possible and quietly develop more of our own people; second, we look for food suitable for growing in the desolate places underground and on the plateau, and solve the problem of hunger as soon as possible; Third, we need to avoid head-on collisions with vampires, even in a short period of time, without any collisions, we need enough time to master the knowledge given by the Lord, forge more and better machines, and rearm ourselves."
"Yes, Great Elder! Steam is supreme!" Harold led the dwarves to raise their arms and shout, and the knowledge in the books deeply shook them, making them hungry and thirsty to absorb "nourishment".
They used to think that they and others had inherited part of the steam civilization, but now they know that they haven't even touched their fur, let alone the miraculous civilization of Atlantis!
And I hope that the appearance of dawn will fill them with motivation.
The Great Elder watched with satisfaction as the dwarves were busy, turned around and knelt down in front of the altar.
After reciting the holy name, he took out a pen and paper and wrote:
"Apocalypse on the Machine."
"He came here to tell people that if you have gained, you will lose, and if you lose, you will gain, and the hardships and pains of life are tempered, so that you may gain wisdom and a strong soul that surpasses others...... We must follow the equivalent exchange, lest we let our whole body fall into hell......"
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After leaving Count Vlad's castle, Lucian went back to observe what the dwarves were doing for a while, and then headed north with confidence.
There, there are several terrifying vampire princes, and legend has it that when the most powerful of them is asleep, his dreams can directly turn into a "real" city, appearing on the dark plateau of night, where countless realistic humans, dwarves, elves, and werewolves keep interpreting joys and sorrows.
However, their strength had nothing to do with Lucian for the time being, and after infiltrating the north, Lucian quickly changed direction and walked towards a castle that seemed to be forever shrouded in darkness.
This castle was gloomy and vague, it seemed to be just a projection of a powerful castle in the main material world on the night plateau, not a real existence.
It is the "Observer Castle" belonging to Silvereye Count Rhine.
As a de facto vampire prince, Rhine naturally guards a space node leading to the dark mountains.
Through the teleportation array located at this node, you can directly reach the periphery of the "Observer Castle" in the Dark Mountains.
In the black mist, Lucian walked through the shadowy walls and in the eerie corridors, following the spells given by Rhine to disarm terrifying and dangerous traps from time to time.
Soon, Lucian saw the node teleportation array, stepped on it, chanted the spell, stimulated the light, and disappeared in place.
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On the night plateau, inside a flashy castle in the style of the ancient kingdom of Syracuse.
A strange man in a black tuxedo held a wine glass, shook the bright red liquid, and said to the housekeeper next to him: "Rhein has been missing for a long time, and the old guy seems to be a little ready to move."
His crystal red eyes narrowed slightly, and he couldn't see what his attitude was towards this matter.
(End of this chapter)