'Main Mission 1: After Tonnies leaves, escape from Mord Prison before dawn. Failure penalty: Bear the consequences. '
'Main Mission 2: Investigate the Santos Demon case. Failure penalty: Erasure. '
'Main Mission 3: Investigate the Santos Demon's true identity. Failure penalty: Half of your life force will be taken and never recovered. '
'Main Mission 4:????'
Tang Ling lowered his head as his expression kept changing. His heart started to curse. What kind of mission notification is this?
The failure penalty of the first main mission is to bear the consequences? What kind of vague statement is this?
Fine, it's not that serious. I'll figure it out after some analysis.
The second main mission was the most logical. The failure penalty might seem serious, but it was actually the easiest to complete.
Tang Ling had the chance to complete it now! He purposely went to the prison and showed off his amazing acting skills, not because he wanted to train himself and become an actor.
As for the third main mission, the failure penalty was also very severe. It directly affected reality and seemed to be very difficult as well.
Tonnies had been investigating for a long time, and judging from his tone, he was not even sure if the death was Santos' doing. He could only say that it was the Demon's punishment.
Of course, his words were limited by the era, but Santos was obviously the shadow that shrouded the world, so his true identity must be very difficult to confirm.
What Tang Ling complained about the most was the fourth main mission. It was not about finding the murderer or anything like that. Instead, it was about four question marks. Is the Dream Domain messing with me?
What do I have to do with four question marks? Do I have to act as I please?
However, there were only four main missions. It seemed like the main street was not that easy to complete. Now that he thought about it, Tang Ling had a feeling that the Dream Domain's existence was just to trick him.
There were many thoughts in his mind, but he did not show any flaws on his face. He went silent for a few seconds before he looked at Tonnies.
"The Santos Demon? The Demon's revenge? I'm sorry, sir, but I have to know all this. It's a must. "Tang Ling looked like he had made up his mind.
Tonnies seemed to see a glimmer of hope from Tang Ling's expression. He looked at Tang Ling and said, "Then, I need a promise from you. If you know all this, you have to tell me everything you know."
"I promise. But … but you have to protect me. "Tang Ling started to state his conditions. If he did not state his conditions now, he would look like he was full of holes.
"I'm willing to protect the innocent, I'll do my best to protect you." Tonnies was a righteous man, so his promise was unusually serious.
Tang Ling nodded hesitantly.
**
Tonnies was not a talkative person.
He wanted to get his hands on the key clues and he also understood Tang Ling's desire for a sense of security.
Therefore, his initial decision was to simply tell Tang Ling some things in order to get some clues.
After all, too many people had died recently. It was no longer possible to hide it from the public. All kinds of exaggerated rumors had spread like wildfire. Compared to them, the truth was not that bizarre. Many people knew the reason for the beginning of the incident.
However, Tang Ling was just a normal farmer boy, so it was pointless for him to know the details.
However, to Tonnies' surprise, as soon as he asked the question, everything seemed to have gone out of his control. Tang Ling seemed to be leading him to explain more and more details.
However, Tonnies did not suspect Tang Ling at all because the farmer boy's question might seem to be directed at the main point, but it sounded like he was afraid and even a little curious.
His eyes were so clear and pure that no one had the heart to brush him off.
Therefore, with Tonnies' explanation, a slightly inconceivable story that spanned a long time and seemed far-fetched, but one had to admit that it was a coincidence unfolded before Tang Ling's eyes.
The whole story began one hundred and thirty-two years ago.
Back then, the owner of the land was Grand Duke Ferdinand, who owned three big cities, 11 smaller cities, a few hundred villages, and farms.
Compared to the other ambitious members of the family who loved to get involved in power struggles, Grand Duke Ferdinand was a weirdo.
He was not interested in power, money, war, strength, or anything else that a powerful man would pursue. His only interest was in adventures and research.
He wanted to research this world and then explore it.
No one in the family understood him and he could not get along with his family. Fortunately, he did not want to get involved in any ambitious battles, so his life was free.
Based on the development of history, the hereditary dukedom and land would never fall into Grand Duke Ferdinand's hands.
However, if the world could develop according to simple logic, the world would be simpler.
In the end, the title of Duke just had to land on Ferdinand. The reason was that a war had broken out in the kingdom during one of Ferdinand's long adventuring trips.
Ferdinand's father, Duke Eugene Bolton's children, all died on the battlefield due to a freak combination of factors. Even his daughter did not escape the misfortune.
The strange thing was that Eugene was a playboy and had many illegitimate children, but all of them died as well.
Under such circumstances, the old Duke Eugene did not have a better choice other than Ferdinand.
Naturally, Ferdinand inherited the dukedom of the Bolton family and officially became the fifth Grand Duke of the land.
He seemed to be blessed with great luck.
After he inherited the throne, the war in the kingdom stopped. The whole Kingdom of Borch did not weaken because of the war. Instead, it became stronger after winning the war.
Not only did it expand its land and population, but it also plundered a large amount of resources.
The Bolton Family, who had sacrificed almost their entire clan, naturally received a greater reward for their contributions.
As for a duke, what else could be bestowed upon him? Land, of course.
Now, Ferdinand had another city under his rule. It was the City of Antoine and a large piece of land to the east of the city.
It had to be said that the king treated the Bolton family very well. The rewarded land was very fertile and had a large population. It brought the Bolton family a lot of tax revenue.
However, as mentioned before, Grand Duke Ferdinand was not an ambitious person, nor was he a politician. His hobbies did not change.
He still did not stay in his castle all year round. Instead, he went on adventures all over the world. He often brought back strange people who were said to have extraordinary abilities and kept them by his side, giving them generous treatment.
However, these people were not useless. Some of them were really talented and helped Grand Duke Ferdinand govern the place well.
What was even more fortunate was that such a duke almost didn't care about politics. The talented people he brought back were all loyal and devoted to him.
Up until that point, everything was normal. Everything was perfect, except for the strange process of Grand Duke Ferdinand inheriting the throne.
What did it have to do with him though? He was indeed traveling outside back then, but he did not do anything.
The turning point happened ten years after Grand Duke Ferdinand inherited the title of nobility.
"It was in our city, Antoine City, that a disaster happened." Tonnies' eyes were filled with fear when he mentioned the disaster. It was as if he had experienced it himself a hundred years ago and did not want to recall it.
"The disaster happened in a small village called Marco Village. It's around 20 kilometers away from Antoine City."
There was nothing special about the village. Even the disaster that happened was common in the Light Continent during the middle ages. It was the so-called Vampire Disaster.
As long as one read the history of the Light Continent, it was not hard to notice that many places in the Light Continent experienced the so-called Vampire Disaster.
Back then, due to the limitation of education, the people were mostly ignorant. They attributed the common phenomenon to the appearance of vampires in the village.
Usually, when the disaster happened, the people would dig up the grave of the person they suspected to be a vampire and stab the body's heart with a peach wood stake. Then, they would drag the body out and expose it to the sun before burning it.
The process might not be the same, but it was more or less the same.
It was a very interesting phenomenon. Tang Ling did think about it when he was a student of history. During that era, the communication between the different continents was minimal and almost non-existent.
Who was the one who unified the story? For example, digging up graves to deal with the so-called vampires and zombies? Burning them all? Why did people believe that peach wood could ward off evil?
Was this the common trait of humans? Was it written in the genes?
Of course, it was an off-topic topic. Tang Ling would not interrupt Tonnies because of his own thoughts.
He continued to listen to Tonnies.
Unsurprisingly, Marco Village, where the vampire disaster broke out, did this from the very beginning.
They dug up the corpses and exorcised the evil, but nothing could stop it. People died one after another in the village.
According to the strictest records, not all of the dead matched the so-called blood-sucking characteristics of vampires.
However, there were one or two cases that did, and it was enough to raise suspicion.
"Then, according to the strictest records, what did the dead look like? Could it be like what we saw in the stable today? "Tang Ling's eyes were overflowing with fear as if he would die in the next second.
Tonnies was stunned. He did not want to answer the question, but when he saw Tang Ling's reaction, he could not help but say, "Not exactly. It's not exactly the same, but it's all bloody.
"He definitely didn't die of illness, nor … Did he die of natural causes. But the same thing is … "Tonnies hesitated for a while before he stopped the topic.
Tang Ling did not press the question either.
Firstly, he already had a vague answer.
Secondly, pressing the question was beyond his current role. Moreover, he had just lost his mother, so he should be sad from time to time instead of being curious.
The question was ignored, and Tonnies continued with his story.
In short, the disaster had exceeded what the villagers could handle. From the first day of the disaster, it had only been five days and almost 20 people had died in the village.
It was a devastating blow to a small village.
The villagers panicked. They were forced to ask the church to exorcise the evil. They believed that it was no longer a simple problem of vampires, but a demon had invaded their village!
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