Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios
“Damn it!”
What did it feel like to have a long tongue coiling itself around your neck?
Nietzsche could only sense a pungent rush to his nose and mouth. He could not breathe, and his hands were desperately pulling so that he could inhale precious air.
In the face of suffocation, even the smelly air in the sewers felt extremely precious.
Whoosh!
That long tongue expanded again as it felt him struggling, and the back of it blossomed into a giant mouth with fangs.
“How can I die here?” Nietzsche roared angrily, “Great Sun!”
Whoosh!
An invisible flame burnt from his body, making the tongue retreat like a frightened fish.
“Want to run now? Too late!” Nietzsche used both hands to grab that tongue with all his might and yanked.
A vampire became unsteady as Nietzche dragged it closer, and the hair on the vampire’s face became clearly visible.
Bang!
He bit his lips and pulled the trigger calmly.
After the loud noise, the vampire’s head exploded as red and white bits splashed to the ground.
When the vampire died, Nietzsche was suddenly stunned when he felt the ball of fire in his brain expand, as if the Great Sun Meditation Technique had absorbed a large tonic.
“In the name of voodoo!!!” A roar came from Simon just when Nietzsche resolved the vampire.
A weird voodoo doll was thrown on the ground, and blood oozed out from it.
Tick! Tick!
A small black patch soon gathered on the ground as the blood oozed out.
An inexplicable strange aura spread out, cold and biting.
The vampires screamed, as though they were frightened by something. They all retracted their tongues and fled the scene.
“All right, let’s leave this place as fast as we can too!” Simon looked at the puppet on the floor, his face full of apprehension. “The power of this curse is too strong, and I can’t control it. We’ll die once it goes out of control…”
“I can see that it’s a very dangerous spell…”
Nietzsche moved his neck and followed Clayon and Simon back the same way.
“I didn’t expect these vampires to be so powerful. We have no way of tracking them after losing that servant of darkness…” Clayon sighed. “We can only increase police patrols…”
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The following period of time was so busy and intense that there were very few holidays.
Rumors about the vampires had begun to spread throughout Kimbert City. After all, they were more brutal and picky than the ghouls. They would not specifically target the homeless and preferred going after young maidens, directly taking people off the streets as more and more girls did not dare to go out at night.
Five days later.
Nietzsche looked up at the bright sun and yawned. “What beautiful sunlight!”
He had been greatly enjoying the feeling of getting stronger under the sun ever since he started practicing the Great Sun Meditation Technique. He wished he could bask in the sunlight twenty-four hours a day.
“It’s rare to have a holiday… It’s just that those vampires are obviously the blood part in the Dark Ritual Gegehu mentioned…”
With this worry, he walked into a small convenience store on Parasol Street.
“Welcome…” Fang Yuan still had that smile on his face. “Little Nietzsche, I knew you would come in time…”
“Or perhaps… you have no other customers at all?” Nietzsche rolled his eyes.
“No, no, no… I might have few customers, but sometimes I have real customers as well, very wealthy customers!” Fang Yuan smiled. “Just yesterday, an old customer came, and he was much more generous than you…”
“Yesterday? Old customer? Yesterday seems to be Simon’s day off. Did he also come here?” Nietzsche asked, becoming alert all of a sudden.
“How smart. You got it right immediately!” Fang Yuan’s expression did not change. “Then, customer, what do you need this time?”
“Do you have something that can deal with vampires? Something really useful!” Nietzsche asked hastily.
“Vampires are just servants of darkness, and it’s quite simple to kill them… However, they have the ability to create progeny. Now that requires some means…”
“Creating progeny, do you mean blood descendants?” Nietzsche exclaimed.
“Blood descendants? There’s nothing wrong if you want to call it that, but the birth of a vampire doesn’t rely on blood at all…” Fang Yuan shrugged. “If you want to talk about specific products, I recommend the vampire talisman! I must tell you that this product is very popular, and it will only cost you five silver sols…”
“I can’t think of anyone else who would buy this except for Simon…” Nietzsche grumbled. “In fact, why don’t you lower the price? For example, you can sell them for five coppers per piece to the public. I think… you would definitely make a fortune given the current panic in Kimbert City.”
“Not a bad proposal…” Fang Yuan’s eyes lit up. “Unfortunately, if I were to do this, I would be invited to the police station before long. Perhaps they might even charge me with disturbing public security, spreading panic, and so on, and I would only be able to contact my lawyer then…”
“I’ll buy it…” Nietzsche scooped out his pocket and found it was really shy. He could only start with the cheapest. “Spirit Awakening Water… Hope I’ll have good luck this time!”
He stared into the eyes of this profiteering boss and could roughly guess that the frequency of purchasing genuine goods from him was dependent on his mood!
“No problem!” Fang Yuan passed him a small bottle with a grin and collected the copper coins with a swift movement.
“… I recently encountered some difficulties when practicing the Great Sun Meditation Technique. For example, I realized it could burn everything…” Nietzsche guessed the boss should be in a good mood right now since he had made a sale and posed some questions that were on his mind. “What should I do?”
“The characteristic of the sun is to burn everything!” Fang Yuan said meaningfully. “Why fear it?”
“But this kind of speed is simply too fast… Too thrilling…” Nietzsche looked at his hands. “I never imagined that the rapid growth of power would one day be so frightening…”
“This… is the price to pay!” Fang Yuan nodded. “I have nothing more I can guide you on. However, you have to be careful. The Great Sun Meditation Technique will burn you first if it goes berserk…”
Nietzsche’s heart sank. He forced himself to stop thinking about those problems and started to talk about other aspects. “One more thing, my boss has decided to resolve the problem of Robert’s haunted villa… What’s your take on this?”
“Be careful. Don’t die!” Fang Yuan gestured for the customer to leave.
“Don’t… die? Is the problem with the villa still not yet resolved? But isn’t the Dream painting with you?” Nietzsche asked incredulously.
“Wait…” He reacted in the next moment. “Could you have created a fake painting to deceive people? You can even fake that strange feeling? You profiteer!”
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“All right, it’s a long and arduous project to capture the ghouls and vampires, so we’ll clean up Robert’s villa next…”
The next day, in the office of the Investigation Agency, Clayon got his subordinates to submit a few documents.
“Robert’s villa has become a dangerous place because of Dream. Robert and his daughter, as well as the servants and housekeepers, are all missing, and there’s not even a single thread of news. The danger might not have spread, but we can’t allow it to continue like this…”
He gazed at Nietzsche. “What do you think? Does that Dream painting still have value?”
Boss still thinks that my ability came from that painting… Nietzsche’s face turned red when he saw the glint in Simon’s eyes. He gritted his teeth and replied, “I think… it’s very unwise of us to use our manpower at this time to deal with Robert’s villa!”
Clayon paused but replied thoughtfully, “Indeed. The most dangerous issue when facing extraordinary events is the unknown! Compared to those untouchable and unresearchable souls and curses, ghouls and vampires seem cute enough… if not for the contamination after their deaths!”
Clayon coughed and mentioned the order solemnly. “However… we need to retrieve that painting. It’s an order from headquarters!”
“Why?” Nietzsche asked before Simon could.
“Perhaps… because it’s something left behind by Vincent? Mr. Vincent has been proven to be the most powerful Extraordinary in the entire Carls Federation in the last fifty years! His power has an especially incredible effect when confronting certain evil cultists!” Clayon explained.
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“The experts in headquarters have investigated everything that happened here, and they’ve come to the conclusion that something very bad is about to happen. Moreover, it’s linked to some very ancient cults, so we need to gather more power…”
Nietzsche nodded slowly, though lightning seemed to strike his brain. The people at headquarters have already guessed through the clues such as the Feast of Meat that the people who are stirring up the situation in Kimbert City are none other than the believers of the Lord of Chaos and Madness… And to resist the power of this existence, even if they’re only its followers, it is necessary to introduce another force. And the best choice is the legendary Astral Serpent!
There was not only one Gegehu alive in the world. With the tentacles of the Investigation Agency and its many years of dealing with the extraordinary, it would not be difficult to obtain such information.
“In other words, this is a mandatory task that we can’t avoid, right?” Simon smiled. “In that case, we can only go. I’m also very interested in this painting left behind by Vincent. It did make Nietzsche who he is after all…”
“I will obey orders!”
Nietzsche remained silent, thinking about what Andy had said about inheritance and contamination. Did the Investigation Agency not know that some extraordinary powers could only create one Extraordinary? Or did it have other intentions?
