This is really the Blood Fiend.

Stroking the dead head, Philip lost his mind for a moment.

In fact, he didn't expect that his newly recruited subordinate would actually be able to kill the infamous Blood Demon.

These degenerates, who followed Nicholas Flamel in the name of the "Hermetic Scholars" and moved in the royal capital...... It always made Philip feel wary and uneasy.

As a prince, Philip could not have lacked occult knowledge.

He knew very well that the fallen were fundamentally different from those transcendent who walked the path of ascension.

On the transcendent path, the Silver Rank is a very important and indispensable stage.

Because if you want mortals to have supernatural powers, you must corrupt your soul with a curse. Only souls that have undergone this treatment can spontaneously absorb the power of the curse from the outside world.

Whether it's strengthening the body to a heterogeneous realm, infiltrating the soul to deepen perception, or refining one's will with curses...... The premise is that the soul needs to be able to absorb the curse.

And although these curses strengthen the body and soul, they are also mixed with many impurities.

Resentment, pain, desire, sadness...... To absorb the curse in the form of a mortal means to absorb the will floating in the curse at the same time.

- These are "impurities".

It itself reinforces certain negative traits of the transcendent, such as gluttony, lust, irritability, and jealousy...... In addition, the transcendent has just gained great power and has not yet seen the world, and usually the mind will also swell.

This is also the reason why the Bronze Transcendents are the most likely to succumb to lust.

But when you reach the Silver Level, the moment your soul condenses from the gaseous state into dew, these external impurities will also be discharged - this does not mean that you will become a saint, it just purifies those negative influences that do not belong to you in the first place.

And the fallen have to endure not only these negative traits.

They even have to increase the degree of erosion to reinforce this negative trait and make it manifest.

Extract one or more desires to transform oneself so that one or more heterogeneous abilities are permanently acquired. And the stronger this desire becomes, the more new mutations will be added to them; Each time the degree of erosion increases, the heterogeneous ability also increases.

This means that every degenerate person is a paranoid and lustful madman.

It's just that they care about something different.

Kaphne, for example, is relatively stable.

Although Philip did not know what kind of desire her abilities came from. But it must have something to do with the abilities she's revealed—

The ability to turn shadows into powerful tentacles may be due to her inferiority complex for her weak body......

But in short, the threat of "Shadow Fiend" is not very high.

She hadn't yet shown any signs of leaning toward demonic "appendages" or other parts, suggesting that her desires weren't too strong, at least as a normal person.

But this "blood demon" is different.

Of course, Philip knew the true identity of the Blood Fiend—

His apparent identity is that he is a newly recruited apprentice at the famous incantation material shop "Howl Antique Shop". But in reality, he is a serial murderer at large who has been named the "Master of Ceremonies Killer" by the authorities.

He would often lurk in various stores of spell materials, second-hand bookstores with mysterious books, and test whether the owner was a ritual master. If he hadn't, he would have stolen the money from the store and left quietly.

And if he does, he will find a way to learn rituals and occult knowledge from the shopkeeper, and quickly grasp this knowledge.

- and then use the new ritual he learned to kill his teacher.

These teachers of his were only found out after he was killed by him. But also because they were all killed by the Ritual Master Killer, which directly led to their ignorance of what rituals the Ritual Master Killer mastered.

Soon the investigation reached an impasse.

No one knows exactly what the "Ritual Master Killer" wants to do.

But what is certain is that he is a transcendent in his own right, and his general profession is hunter, and the specific profession is uncertain, and the rank is uncertain, but it is certainly either bronze or silver.

Three years ago, the Master of Ceremonies Killer was gone.

Some say that he may have been spotted and killed by an experienced ritualist, while others say that he may have been learning under an erudite old ritualist, and that he was slow to act.

When the police department found the ritual killer again, they were surprised to find out...... He has embarked on the path of depravity.

- He is one of the Hermetic scholars in the royal capital, a fallen person codenamed "Blood Fiend".

Similar to Kaphne's abilities.

His trait as a depraved is the ability to control his own blood as he pleases. Not only can it surface blood and turn it into a hard shield or dagger, it can also speed up the flow of blood to increase strength and agility, and it can also turn blood into pinprick and pierce the enemy's body at a long distance or through a trap, wandering through the blood vessels and destroying the enemy's heart or brain.

And the blood of those he kills will be drained of all the blood in his body.

This should be a special ability of his hunter class.

Unlike the previous situation, the Bloodseeker was loyal to Nicholas...... Or rather, for the time being, loyalty.

He had never killed anyone other than his target before, but under Nicholas's command, he traveled and slew many wild wizards and dark wizards. Even when Nicholas asked him to kill wizards from the towers of various countries, he did not hesitate.

He is also proficient in crossbows, poisons, daggers, melee combat, and traps. As well as mastering many rituals, and being very familiar with and understanding of the ways of warfare of wizards.

This made his hunt undefeated.

…… But in a sense, it's also thanks to the Blood Fiend.

It was precisely because of the unconcealed hunt of the Blood Demon that it was revealed that Nicholas was actually hunting wizards in secret; It was precisely Nicholas's courage to accept the following of such people that finally aroused the vigilance of the kingdom's upper echelons against Nicholas.

Later, Philip finally found out the true identity of Nicholas.

“…… The inventor of the Philosopher's Stone, right? ”

Philip narrowed his eyes slightly and muttered in a low voice.

It was completely unclear to him which side Nicholas was from.

But he may have been killed by now.

- A few months ago, with the disappearance of Nicholas, the actions of the Bloodfiend became more and more insane.

On top of his constant hunting of wizards, he returned to his previous hunting mode...... Infiltrated in the "Howl Antique Shop".

However, this is the royal capital after all.

Unlike in the field - the crows quickly found out his identity.

But none of them dared to act rashly.

While the Bloodseeker is hunting, the ritual he uses for disguise will be invalidated. It was easy to see that a visible spell appeared on his face, and horns had grown slightly on his forehead.

This means that his strength is already quite close to the golden level, and he may break through the last layer of membrane at any time.

When his horns are fully formed, the real, sane "demon" hatches.

At that point, the Bloodfiend's abilities can affect people outside of themselves.

Originally, Philip wanted to wait and see.

At least wait until your plan is completed, and then mobilize hidden troops or elite transcendent squads to encircle and suppress.

But as the frequency of the Blood Demon's hunting accelerated, his strength increased faster and faster. It looks like he is about to fall completely before His Majesty dies......

However, he had no intention of sending his men to kill.

It's not that he has good intentions.

It's just that he doesn't believe that a few of his subordinates can kill the Blood Fiend.

Bloodfiend hadn't done anything to a silver-tier wizard though...... But when he killed a Bronze Rank Transcendent, he wouldn't even get hurt. It's as simple as killing a chicken.

However, after hearing about the Bloodfiend's abilities, Delicious Wind Goose suddenly claims that his abilities are restrained by the opponent and may be able to kill him.

At the insistence of the delicious wind goose, Philip reluctantly assigned the task to him.

At that time, in Philip's heart, the delicious wind goose was already a dead man.

Who's going to do it...... It only took three hours for the delicious wind goose to successfully kill the blood fiend.

He wasn't even seriously injured!

- How the hell did he do it?

(End of chapter)