"Hey……"
After seeing Donna off, she stood in front of the window, watching Donna's back gradually disappear into the woods. She looked up at the treetops that were seeping with sunlight, and sighed slightly distressedly:
"I slept all night..."
Vampires are a species that likes to hide during the day and come out at night. It is now early morning and it should be the time for Bernice to sleep soundly, but because she just slept last night, she is now very energetic and not tired at all.
"Day and night are reversed..."
"Your physique, or identity, seems to be somewhat special?"
A familiar voice came from behind.
She turned around immediately and saw Qi Ji wearing a cloak, sitting leisurely in a rocking chair, rocking comfortably.
"what?"
Bernice didn't quite understand what the other party meant.
"I mean……"
Qi Ji raised one eyebrow and showed a bright smile, as if she had grasped something crucial at this moment:
"You and your mother, apart from your status and bloodline, are you also very special among vampires?"
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One of my roommates had a birthday, so I went to the party with my friends and ate a piece of cake. It took us quite a while, and it was already past midnight when we came back, so this chapter was uploaded quite late... It can also be counted as an update on the 7th.
Chapter 285 "The Favored One"
"special……?"
Hearing this question, Bernice looked at the treetops and thought for a few seconds, then asked uncertainly:
"Are you saying that there is...something different between us and other vampires?"
"Ah."
Qi Ji nodded.
"That's true," Bernice said, "My mother and I are both 'favored' by the 'Ancient Moon'. In many ways... we have a lot of advantages over ordinary vampires."
"The favored one?"
Qi Ji was not unfamiliar with this term. Among the hundreds of millions of books in the core library of the Imperial National University, there were many documents that mentioned this concept.
But she decided to ask Bernice, the person involved, directly.
After all, the books in the library are basically written by anthropologists, and the concepts and descriptions between them are not completely consistent.
When it comes to matters involving foreign races, it is not necessarily 100% detailed.
It is always better to seek confirmation from people who have experienced it firsthand than to just read books and imagine things in an ivory tower.
"Well, this is a... um, special bloodline within my clan."
Bernice nodded slightly, tapped the side of her chin with her index finger, pretending to think, and explained slowly while choosing her words:
"The only belief of our people is the great and noble 'Ancient Moon'. We are all His people and His descendants.
“And the ‘Ancient Moon’ is kind and merciful. Every once in a while, He will select some newborns in the tribe and bestow a little of His favor upon them.
"Generally speaking, every ten to twenty years, a group of 'favored ones' will be born. The number won't be large, probably dozens to hundreds.
"My mother and I are among them!"
As she spoke, she puffed out her chest with a smug look on her face, looking very proud, and she couldn't help but raise her voice a lot.
Simply put, the god called the "Ancient Moon" would occasionally select a few lucky ones among the vampires and grant them some "blessings" or "favors" to make them stand out.
"Is that so?" Qi Ji nodded his chin as expected, and then asked, "Then what is so special about this so-called 'favored one' compared to other vampires?"
“There are a lot!”
Bernice suddenly became radiant and said confidently:
"The most obvious thing is that you need to be more talented in cultivating spiritual power. Look at me. I have reached the 'budding' stage before I even reach adulthood. This is a realm that many of my kind have to spend more than 30 years to reach!"
Hearing this self-praising tone, Qi Ji couldn't help but roll his eyes at her:
"go on."
Bernice also noticed the uncontrollable contempt in Qi Ji's words, and suddenly felt a sense of loss that the area she was most proud of was being mercilessly mocked, but she did not show any dissatisfaction.
Because this Yao Lingwu is a "Metallurgist", a legendary existence who is half a step away from mythology, she is fully qualified to express contempt for her so-called cultivation talent!
"And more and more!"
But Bernice was not without temper. After being despised, her competitive spirit was slightly aroused. She couldn't help but add in a louder and more proud voice:
"We, the 'favored ones', not only have much better cultivation talents, but can also call upon a portion of the divine power that belongs only to the 'Ancient Moon'!"
As she spoke, she stretched out a hand, pointed her palm at a rattan chair not far away, and said with a smile:
"look."
After she finished speaking, her face became a little more calm and solemn, her eyes narrowed slightly, and she put on a serious expression.
Using some mysterious language that carries an ancient atmosphere, he read out a passage slowly, in a low voice, solemnly, and as if a judge was announcing the final verdict:
"'Life' is prohibited here!"
"Om!—"
In an instant, a distant flute sound with a very broad range, as if sweeping in from an infinitely distant place, came from an unknown direction.
And the palm of Bernice's outstretched hand also flashed a barely perceptible crimson glow.
next second...
"Snap! Snap! Snap! ..."
The rattan chair, which was made of tree roots and vines, suddenly made a series of sharp sounds of brittle objects breaking.
The plant tissue that made it up seemed to be baked by flames, and mottled traces of charred black and gray quickly spread across the surface.
Their shapes also shrank and burst rapidly, and soon they were completely deformed, from delicate rattan chairs, into a ball of gray-black flocs that looked like burnt ash.
In a few seconds, where the rattan chair had been placed, there was only a lifeless mass of ashes left. It was extremely fragile and light, and would probably fall apart on the spot even if a slight breeze blew past it.
"Is this the power held by the Ancient Moon?"
Everything in this tree house was created by Qi Ji using the power of the "Twelfth Authority: Utopia". Of course, she can sense the detailed conditions of every inch of the tree house.
When Bernice recited the "spell" composed of mysterious language, she realized the root cause of the changes that had occurred inside and outside the rattan chair.
From the outside, what Bernice did just now seemed very similar to the "Third Authority: Wandering Mist" that symbolizes the realm of "decline", but the essence is completely different.
The power of "decline" is essentially a kind of negative energy that is completely opposite and corresponding to the energy in the fields of "life", "vitality" and "vitality".
It is equivalent to pouring water on the flames, thus extinguishing the fire.
But the power Bernice unleashed was something completely different.
Its essence is not to use some opposite force to "offset" the life energy in the rattan chair, but to directly "deny" its existence.
To force an analogy, it is like draining away the oxygen or other combustion aids around the flame, or removing the burning substrate, thereby fundamentally making it impossible to sustain the flame.
It even goes a step further and directly "denies" the concept of "combustion", making it impossible for flames to exist at all.
In short, this is a kind of "command" that can "command" the object not to or must perform a certain activity.
"Wait, this kind of power...have I seen it somewhere else?"
Qi Ji suddenly remembered something.
"When we were in Loen City before, Gary and his companions were attacked by the Life Church's deacon Buck with a black puppet. When Nancy came to the rescue... it seemed that she used a similar power?"
At that time, the tentacles transformed by the black puppet were crushing the carriage they were in. In just one second, Gary's family would be crushed into powder.
At the last moment, Nancy, the captain of the Sunset Harbor Executioner Team, who arrived just in time, also read out two sentences solemnly and seriously:
"There must be a balance here; illegal operations should be revoked."
"Balance must not be destroyed, and those who violate it must be punished."
The first sentence makes the tentacles stop all movements instantly; the second sentence makes the tentacles break and disintegrate on the spot.
These two paragraphs of speech were clearly spoken in the common language of mankind, but they were very awkward and unfluent.
It seems... not to be the user's native language.
"So that's how it is. Is Nancy's 'grandfather' a 'favored one' of the blood clan, or some other powerful being related to the 'ancient moon'?
"Moreover, he is a magician and psychic warrior, a magic fighter who is suspected to be the one from Moon Valley..."
"...How is it? Pretty impressive, isn't it?"
Bernice's triumphant words interrupted Qi Ji's thoughts and brought her scattered thoughts back to the present.
Qi Ji looked at Bernice, and saw that this vampire wandering in the human world had her hands on her hips, one eyebrow raised high, and looked very arrogant.
"good."
Qi Ji nodded, waved his hand to control the tree house to clean up the dirty ashes, injected life energy into it, and rebuilt a rattan chair.
"Forehead……"
Seeing that the other party was not only indifferent but also a little perfunctory, Bernice couldn't help but feel a little disappointed. She frowned and asked sullenly:
"You, why are you asking me this? Have you found any clues about my mother and those who want to arrest me?"
After cleaning up the scene, Qi Ji looked at the vampire again and smiled with understanding:
"It's not a clue, but at least I can roughly guess some possible motives."
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As the final exams are approaching, the updates may be unstable during this period, but I will try my best to update twice a day.
Chapter 286 New character appears!
"Well, you mean, those people... took a fancy to my and my mother's physique as 'favored ones' and that's why they paid attention to us?"
Bernice quickly reacted and said so, but immediately pointed out the flaw in this view:
"That's impossible. Let's not talk about the point of these people catching the 'favored ones'. The biggest problem is that they can't possibly know that my mother and I are the favored ones!"
"Oh?" Qi Ji tilted his head and asked curiously, "What do you mean?"
"From the time we left the Moonlight Empire to the time we entered the human world, until our mother disappeared, during these ten days, we never revealed our identities as the 'favored ones' to any third party."
Bernice said confidently:
"Whether it's the registration information of various governments in the human world or the conversations with other humans, we didn't leave any information related to the 'Favored One'."
"unless……"
She looked upwards and thought for a moment, then continued:
"Unless those people eavesdropped on the conversation between Mother and me and learned about our specialness from the gossip, it is impossible for other humans to know that we are the 'favored ones'."
"What if someone really is eavesdropping?"
Qi Ji asked in a argumentative manner.
"impossible."
Boni shook her head and denied without hesitation:
"Mother is from the blood race. Any human transcendent whose realm is below that of a Hades, Saint, or Lightsmith cannot eavesdrop on our conversation without alerting her."
At this point, she showed a lucky look on her face:
"So, maybe the reason why my mother disappeared has nothing to do with her personal safety being in danger, but some other reason...
"If those people could kill or imprison my mother, they would surely be able to capture me easily and would not let me wander around and flee for so long."
"understood."
Qi Ji nodded thoughtfully, as if he had thought of some other key point:
"Generally speaking, among humans, it is impossible for someone to try to harm you and your daughter because they covet your 'favored' physique?"
