The First Vampire

“She is employing a tactic of mutual destruction.”

On a high ground on the edge of the battlefield, Prince Lexie was watching the fierce combat between Duke St. Gregorian and the Orc Emperor, his face filled with confusion.

Standing beside him was Mr. Ji.

Prince Lexie seemed to not understand Duke St. Gregorian’s tactics and couldn’t help asking, “How can she dare to fight in this manner with the Skull-shatterer from the Holy Field? Doesn’t she know that a Holy Knight is no match for face-to-face combat and physical stamina?”

Mr. Ji seemed equally confused, and also, he noticed another key point:

“What’s even more strange is that she was so severely wounded before, how has she recovered so quickly? Even if Pope Gregory would be willing to personally heal her, it wouldn’t be possible to recover in such a short time.”

The two fell silent for a moment, before Prince Lexie spoke again:

“Perhaps… she has mastered some kind of method of rapid healing, thus daring to use this tactic of mutual destruction to fight the Orc Emperor.

The Skull-shatterer from the Holy Field indeed has a superior physique, but like the Holy Knight, he finds it difficult to recover from wounds in a short period. If this continues, there may truly be a chance of victory!”

“I fear it’s not that Duke St. Gregorian has mastered the method of rapid healing…”

Prince Lexie looked at him in surprise, saying: “What are you trying to say?”

“One year ago in White Dew City, when you chased me into Colin Angler’s room, what did you see?” Mr. Ji suddenly asked an seemingly unrelated question.

Prince Lexie was taken aback, then recollected and said, “I saw Colin lying on the ground, with a bloody hole in his chest…”

“Exactly!” Mr. Ji extended his right hand, clenched it tightly and spoke with intensity, “I clearly remember ripping out his heart and crushing it with my bare hand!

But…”

Prince Lexie frowned, but did not speak.

As for Colin, the Northern Earl who had risen rapidly in recent years, he had not paid too much attention.

Of course, this was also because most of Colin’s rise happened when he was obsessively pursuing the real culprit, Mr. Ji who set him up.

Moreover, as a Holy Knight, Prince Lexie’s pride prevented him from taking anyone below the Holy Field seriously.

But it was different with Mr. Ji.

Starting from the initial Troll invasion, to the Coup in the Half-Elf Kingdom, and then to the Northern Uprising, Colin had played a crucial role in each of these events.

And he repeatedly gave Mr. Ji an enormous “surprise”.

Perhaps at the beginning Mr. Ji did not attach importance to this young northerner who had climbed onto a high branch of the St. Hilde family, but as his plans were continuously thwarted by this person, Mr. Ji naturally could no longer underestimate him.

Hence, at White Dew City, Mr. Ji decided to kill him, to eliminate this unpredictable young man.

But unfortunately, he failed.

Moreover, he failed in an incomprehensible way.

Can anyone survive after his heart has been crushed?

At Storm Fortress, Mr. Ji had assumed the situation was under control, but unexpectedly, the Northerner showed up again. And once more, in a way he couldn’t comprehend, reversed the situation.

All along, Mr. Ji had always regarded himself as a chess player, and arrogantly assumed everyone else was a piece on his chessboard.

But then suddenly, Colin appeared, a figure not on the chessboard, beyond his control.

No matter how much he didn’t want to admit it, Mr. Ji now held a faint sense of fear towards Colin.

What scared him the most was that he couldn’t fathom Colin’s trump card, couldn’t understand Colin’s methods, he didn’t know how Colin reversed the situation.

This left him unsure of how to deal with Colin, fearing another bizarre counterattack from him.

“Do you believe that it was Colin Angler who healed Duke St. Gregorian’s injuries?” Prince Lexie couldn’t help but ask Mr. Ji, who had remained silent for a while.

“Yes.” Mr. Ji affirmed with a nod, “This Northern Knight is too unusual, I… can’t see through him. Moreover, not only Duke St. Gregorian but also Emperor Reinhardt, is probably under his control.”

On hearing this, Prince Lexie couldn’t help but look at Emperor Reinhardt, who was fearlessly fighting on the frontline.

The sight of his reckless and even insane conduct was unlike the Emperor he knew.

However, Prince Lexie remained skeptical that all these anomalies could be attributed to Colin Angler.

Because Mr. Ji had been stirring up and instigating him to regard Colin Angler as his biggest enemy, Prince Lexie naturally thought that this was just another of Mr. Ji’s tactics to exaggerate Colin’s threat.

In the midst of their conversation, the battlefield conditions took another turn.

Duke St. Gregorian, with her strategy of fighting damage with damage, had indeed inflicted many more injuries on the Orc Emperor at the cost of her own severe injury.

The axe scar on her chest, almost splitting her in two, made Prince Lexie’s heart skip a beat.

How could she still be alive?

Yet Duke St. Gregorian, who looked like she was unaffected by her injuries, was still entangled in a struggle with the Orc Emperor.

However, she inevitably began to lose ground.

The condition of Emperor Reinhardt was even more critical.

Ever since the Orc Emperor sent in his elite troops – the War Song Legion, Emperor Reinhardt’s assault had been abruptly halted, and he gradually became surrounded by the elite Orc army.

Despite the death-defying resistance of the royal guard, they still couldn’t match the Orc’s overpowering strength.

Similarly, across the entire battlefield of the Riverside Plains, human forces had begun to face tough battles.

The battle lines were in chaos, clearly sinking on the human side.

Prince Lexie’s brows were furrowed, as he subconsciously gripped the sword on his waist.

Mr. Ji, seemingly seeing through Prince Lexie’s thoughts, immediately advised against intervening.

“You’re not thinking about going to help him, are you?”

Prince Lexie looked sideways at Mr. Ji, speaking in an undeniably assertive tone:

“I’m a St. Lorenzo, defending the Empire is my mission!”

After saying this, he dashed off towards the battlefield without looking back.

Mr. Ji opened his mouth to say something but in the end, he sighed and held his peace.

Immediately, his gaze shifted to the rear of the human military formation, focusing on the figure that unnerved him and left him helpless.

Unaware that he was being watched by Mr. Ji, Colin was deeply focused on observing the changes on the battlefield.

Seeing that the human forces were gradually falling behind, he didn’t become overly nervous, as this had been part of his expectation.

Orders swiftly issued from his mouth were passed to the different regiments.

Then, the formation of the Imperial Allied Army began to shift again.

The Central Army led by Emperor Reinhardt decisively started their retreat, while the Allies on either side began to advance, seemingly providing cover.

The War Song Legion clearly wasn’t willing to let the Human Emperor get away easily and immediately pursued them.

It was at this moment when the ground began to tremble.

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