Chapter 212: Peak Feast Alliance Leader Extra Update (6k)

Vampires love to hold parties, just like human nobles.

But no one can tell whether it is the vampires of anthropology or the humans of vampire studies.

Anyway, both sides said that the other side stole their skills.

However, some dwarves believe that they learned this from the elves, but the elves don't seem to like holding parties.

But this is not important. What is important is that this is a gathering for the great nobles.

Therefore, this gathering within the vampire clan, called the Peak Feast, has a very strict review mechanism.

By then, all eight dukes will be present.

This is a distinguished figure equivalent to the Twelve Golden Flower Lords.

Although few people think that the frequently replaced blood dukes are really comparable to the Golden Flower Lords who follow the Eternal King.

But at least in name the two are equivalent.

The only people who can serve as a foil for such a character are at least earl-level nobles.

In order to sneak into this grand feast.

Moon also started preparing early.

I didn’t bring too many people, just two.

Although Balin said he could follow on stilts to protect himself.

But after thinking about it, Moon felt that this was not only too ridiculous but also more dangerous.

So Moon refused outright.

But before leaving, Moon left a letter for Balin.

The two people that Moon brought were carefully selected by Moon from the only two candidates.

To be honest, if this thing didn't have a certain number of followers, Moon would have wanted to come by himself, as that would be the safest thing to do!
But there is no way. I don’t know which idiot added a number requirement to the peak feast.

Moon thought about it carefully, ah, it’s still himself!

Honestly, that's stupid.
With the help of the dwarves, Moon and the other two successfully arrived at the mobile fortress of the Bathory family.

Moon raised his head and looked up at the huge castle in front of him.

So many years have passed, but nothing has changed. It's still the same as I remember.

It fits perfectly with Morn's vision of a vampire castle.

The castle's spire reached the sky, casting long shadows in the moonlight, and the walls were covered with moss and vines, adding a sense of desolation.

Moon, who was revisiting his old place, didn't react much.

The two people behind Moon felt their calves feel weak.

Especially Lester. If he hadn't been taking drugs, he would have collapsed to the ground just like he did when he heard the news just now.

But even though he had taken several bottles of super tranquilizers, Moon could still feel the slight tremors in his body.

In comparison, the current head of their Heather family is much better.

Ms. Lily just looked at the group of vampires in front and behind her with a despaired look.

For the first time, Ms. Lily couldn't help but grab Moon's arm.

It was also at this moment that she felt like she had lost all her strength now that she had someone to lean on. Only by leaning on him could she barely support herself.

But to others, this scene was very ambiguous and intimate.

Many vampires also looked at Moon and Ms. Lily in disbelief.

Of course, they were more focused on Ms. Lily's extremely obvious long and pointed ears.

Such long ears not only prove that this is an elf, but also prove that this is a high elf!
Born with power and lifespan beyond the comprehension of mortals.

It is also the lifelong pursuit of almost all vampires!

Under normal circumstances, vampires cannot keep an elf with them.

Elves are not only xenophobic but also overly powerful.

In the history of the blood clan, there have been several cases where great nobles attacked the elves, trying to capture a permanent blood bag for themselves and their families.

But the result every time was that the opponent's castle and family were permanently removed from the list.

As time went by, no vampire would think of this anymore.

Food is never as important as life.

Therefore, Moon with the elf is really conspicuous.

And from the looks of it, this elf didn't even sign any contract with the other party.

This elf is most likely the opponent's courtier or follower!
This discovery made many vampires speculate where this noble man came from.

But after guessing all the famous families, they still couldn't find anyone who matched.

Lily leaned on Moon and asked in a low voice:

"You didn't say you wanted me to come here with you! God, they're looking at me like I'm a piece of moving meat!"

Mo En held her hand lightly and said:

"Don't worry, you are my courtier now. As long as you follow my arrangements, nothing will go wrong."

"That's not it. I'm asking why you brought me to such a dangerous place. Wow, was that a demigod just passing by?"

"He just gives me chills!"

"Yes, he is a marquis, probably sequence three. Judging from the emblem on his body, he should be from the Olson family, which is very high among the marquises."

Ms. Lily's teeth started to chatter as she listened.

"So why did you bring me here?!"

This is not just being surrounded, this is simply a whole roasted lamb jumping into the wolf's den!

Every vampire here wants to eat her alive!
"The Peak Feast requires at least two followers, and you two are the only ones I can choose."

"You didn't refuse, did you?"

"That's because you told me that you could help me solve my identity problem forever!"

"I did solve it. After you drank the holy water of rest, no one noticed anything wrong with you. The fact that you were able to come all this way safely is the greatest proof of that."

Ms. Lily was suddenly speechless.

Although she had never expected this trip to be so dangerous, she did agree to the deal with Moon.

Ms. Lily gritted her teeth and said:

"I knew there would be no such thing as a free lunch!"

Moen patted her hands and said:
"But elves may fall from trees."

"Didn't you say you would forget about it?"

"We just pretended we didn't see it and forgot about it."

"You guy!"

After teasing Ms. Lily for a while, Moon felt his mood getting better.

All the headaches that this haunting woman had given him were returned to him!
Moon thought it through and realized that since his wealth was inevitable, his life would probably be the same.

It's a good opportunity to give Ms. Lily a try.

With the corners of his mouth slightly raised, Moon said to Lester behind him:

"Lester, we're going in, so are you ready?"

Lester said with a sad face:

"Sir, I'm not ready, I want to go back!"

Moen also said seriously:
"Lester, if you turn around now, you will really die."

"Put on your full spirit and follow me to complete this journey. This is your only way out."

Lester, whose calves were almost cramping, asked with a look of death:
“Is this really the only way?”

"Yes, you must want to see for yourself what they want to do to you, right?"

"Don't worry, you don't have to worry about being recognized. The vampires wear masks at the ball. Besides, the dwarves and I have already done some secret work for you!"

After opening his mouth, Lester, who seemed to have accepted his fate, finally gritted his teeth and cheered himself up.

He raised his head, straightened his chest, and took firm steps towards the gate in front of him with a determined look.

As I walked, my sight involuntarily became lower.

Looking at Lester who almost fell to his knees after only taking one or two steps.

Mo En sighed and pulled him up before he really knelt down and said:

"Mr. Lester, if you go in and you're still so timid that you kneel down after taking two steps, I won't be able to save you."

Lester nodded hastily, then took out a bottle of tranquilizer that he had disguised as blood and drank it down his stomach.

At this point, he nodded and said:

"Okay, no problem!"

"That's good, let's go!"

Lester, whose brain was almost gone due to drug use, finally moved forward without knowing what fear was.

Looking at the heroic and confident Lester.

Ms. Lily couldn't help but say:
"Lester Heather, I know him. On my twelfth birthday, his grandfather brought him to see me. But I really didn't expect that he would be here."

"How well do you know him?"

"Not many. Although they are from the same family, he is only a distant relative and I am not familiar with him. However."

"but?"

Ms. Lily recalled:

"But I remember that there was a problem in the area under his charge. When my secretary was about to take the accounting team to investigate, his father came to me in person to confess his crime."

"He said that he had encountered something very devastating, so he became depressed, but he won't be depressed again in the future. His father will handle everything personally."

"How long will it take?"

"one Year."

In response, Moen smiled and said:
"Ah, at that time, he was still being tortured in the blood clan's dungeon. It was already pretty good that he resisted for four years before breaking down."

Ms. Lily, who herself served five years in prison, strongly agrees.

I was about to collapse even though I hadn't suffered, so it was natural for him to feel this way as he was the one being tortured directly.

"But did he drink the holy water, too?"

Looking at Lester's back, Moon smiled as a matter of course:
"of course."

Ms. Lily asked in a somewhat strange tone:

"When did it happen? Why didn't I see it?"

To show her trust, she drank the holy water of rest after watching Moon do it with her own eyes.

But she didn't see Lester at the time.

Shouldn't things like this that hurt yourself be dealt with at once?

"It's not something you have to see, ma'am."

That is indeed the truth, so Ms. Lily nodded and asked:
"How are you going to get in?"

She knew very well whether Moon was a vampire or not, so how did this man plan to sneak into the gathering of vampires where the lowest rank was count?
Not to mention that he is not a vampire, his identity issue is a big problem.

The blood clan had a strict hierarchy, and every family and its corresponding members were clearly registered. Even most of the blood clan would memorize these lists directly.

Moon just smiled and took her forward.

As for her question, Moon did not answer.

As they walked, Moen asked:

"Have you recovered? Do you need me to continue lending you my shoulder?"

"Of course I have no problem. I'm not as useless as that fellow Lester."

"Then why don't you let me go?"

Ms. Lily rolled her eyes at him and said:

"Are you pretending not to know, or do you really not know? I'm your female companion, how could I not hold your hand?"

"No, you are my courtier. If a courtier is so close to me, the other vampires will think that you are still my dependent or even my first embrace partner!"

Ms. Lily fell silent. Even as an elf from a foreign land, Ms. Lily knew clearly what it meant to embrace someone for the first time.

After a moment, she gave up and said:

"I've come this far, do you think I can let go now?"

"No."

"Then you still ask?!"

Ms. Lily was stunned.

Moon smiled and said:

“Because it’s fun.”

"You?!!!"

Ms. Lily suddenly wanted to bite Moon's neck.

So that he can know how powerful we are.

After walking behind the etiquette officer, the singing officer and the etiquette officer looked at Moon in a daze.

In the blood clan, there is basically no need for guests to announce their names.

Because the etiquette officer who records the guests and the ceremonial officer who sings the guests' names can recognize them at a glance.

As mentioned earlier, in the blood clan system, all nobles will be registered, and only those blood clans who have no family recognition and no bloodline will be in obscurity.

It was impossible for them to have seen all the nobles in person, but they had seen and memorized the family crests of all the nobles as well as the names and general descriptions of the family members.

In order to show their ancient civilization, the blood clan refused to use the convenient method of identifying people such as rubbing shadows.

And now, they didn’t even recognize a vampire who brought an elf to attend the peak feast?

After a brief moment of astonishment, the etiquette officer immediately stood up and asked:

"Dear sir, have you encountered any accident?"

They didn't think anyone would cause trouble, especially since the adult in front of them was indeed very elegant in his behavior.

The head and neck maintain a very suitable angle, ensuring one's grace without making others feel arrogant.

The pace and posture were also in a very tricky range. At first, they didn't see the problem and just felt that it seemed a bit awkward. After a while, they realized that the adult had deliberately adjusted his pace and posture to better set off the female companion beside him.

It is a mark of good breeding to sacrifice one's own movements and grace to complement the lady in whose company one is.

And it is even more rare to be able to perfectly set off the other person.

Many nobles would make themselves and their female companions look like adults by imitating others.

Because the object of their practice can be one person, but the occasions where they walk cannot always be the same.

Indoors, outdoors, in the moonlight, in the sun, whether there are people around, even a slight change in these environmental factors can make a big difference in the results of the initial training.

If you want everything to be perfect, it requires extremely high self-cultivation!

In addition, when the adult approached, they also smelled the scent of red grass with a hint of lily.

This adult must have personally mixed lilies and red grass in a perfect proportion and then embellished her body with them.

This is a skill that many nobles from duke's families find difficult to master.

Completely different from the guy before who was obviously just a follower but received the gift of red leaf grass because of the banquet.

The red leaf grass is really wasted on that guy. It’s better to feed it to pigs than to give it to him!
"What kind of trouble did you encounter? No, there was no trouble at all. As for why the two of you didn't recognize me."

Moon took off his hat and said with a smile:

"Maybe it's because my family hasn't been active for a long time."

"So you are?"

"Tagoule Tagulla."

Moon said the name calmly.

"The Tagula family? Sir, I, I, wait a minute!"

The etiquette officer suddenly remembered something and hurriedly brought out an extremely heavy book from behind him.

Because the vampires take good care of it, there is no dust on it.

But one can tell at a glance that it is ancient.

This is one of the prides of the Bathory family - a list of nobles that has been passed down for two whole eras!
Of course, the one the etiquette officer has here is just a copy, but even if it is a copy, it was copied thousands of years ago.

As the etiquette officer flipped through the pages of the roster, he finally found the name he had vaguely seen.

"Count Taguerra from Monte Cristo? By the way, your family hasn't appeared in an era!"

"My family has unfortunately encountered many things, but fortunately I am still alive, and the respected Bathory family still remembers me and my family!"

Because the vampires are a group that operates as family units.

So it is common for a family lineage to suddenly hide somewhere for thousands of years without appearing.

This is a normal thing for vampires, but it is indeed very rare to see one that lasts for an era.

"Can I go in?"

"Of course, my lord!"

Following Moen's nod.

The ceremonial officer also shouted out Moon's name:

"Monsieur Count Taguerre Taguerra from Monte Cristo is visiting!"

A count could not cause any trouble here, but the two almost unfamiliar names of Monte Cristo and Tagula attracted the attention of many nobles.

And when they saw Ms. Lily who had been leaning against Moon, all the vampires who were watching exclaimed in surprise.

How can someone bring an elf with him?!

After a while, even some vampires, who were great nobles, couldn't help swallowing their saliva.

As the saying goes, what you can't get is the best.

And elves, this is the eternal dream of all vampires.

As for dragons of the same level as elves, well, how should I put it, as long as you give enough gold coins and gems, the dragons are willing to accidentally scratch their scales and bleed a little.

This brought Lily closer to Moon.

Moon wanted to continue joking, but then he realized that the other party was really scared.

He placed his hand on the back of Ms. Lily's hand.

Then he stood in front of her and smiled at the many vampires:
"Please don't look at my courtier like that, my Lords. She has never seen so many nobles before. Please don't scare her!"

After realizing that they were being rude, the vampires still forced themselves to turn their heads away, no matter how much they envied the elf.

Seeing that their gazes had all been reluctantly averted, Ms. Lily finally breathed a sigh of relief.

Sensing that she had relaxed, Moon turned his attention to the hall.

It's strange that all the marquises are still there, but none of the eight dukes are.

After understanding the situation, Moon immediately asked the nobles next to him:
"May I ask where is Grand Duke Bathory? My family has not been active for a long time, so I need to thank the owner of this place!"

The other party first looked at Ms. Lily, then swallowed his saliva, and then reluctantly smiled at Mo En:

"Tagula of Monte Cristo? It's been a while, I almost forgot the name. Anyway, you're a little late. The eight grand dukes have already gone up."

"Leaving so many guests here, it seems like it's a very important matter that needs to be discussed by the eight grand dukes!"

Moen asked this question with a smile.

The other party unconsciously looked at the elf who was still hiding behind Moon and said:

"Ah, that's not the case. I don't know what it is specifically. I just heard that it seems like a distinguished guest has arrived?"

A distinguished guest who needs to be visited by all eight dukes?

Moon probably had an idea in his mind.

"Can I ask where they left from?"

"That is not a matter for a guest to ask, Monsieur Taguerra of Monte Cristo."

Hearing the voice, Moon immediately turned around.

What was seen was a young man with a very refined temperament, and behind him were not just two shabby people like Moon, but more than a dozen court officials and blood nobles.

Although he was wearing a mask, Moon knew who he was at a glance from the other party's obvious broken fingers.

The eldest son of Grand Duke Bathory!

"Ah, you must be Grand Duke Bathory's eldest son, Lord Tuos Bathory?"

"It's me, Lord Tagula, I have a question for you."

Coming for me?
Is it strange because there has been no activity for an entire era?

Or Leicester?
"Of course, Master Toth."

The vampire named Toss glanced at Lester before asking Moon:

"Your family has not appeared for a whole era, so how can I be sure that you are Count Tagra of Monte Cristo?"

Moon smiled and took out his family emblem and handed it over:

"This is my family crest, witnessed by the respected Duke of Barbatos. It also has his certificate. Does this prove my identity?"

Toss just shook his head and smiled at the family emblem that Moen handed over:
"I mean no disrespect to Grand Duke Barbatos, but in the history of the blood clan, there are still many cases of family crests being counterfeited."

Moen just asked helplessly:

"So what do you want?"

Toss looked at Moon with amusement and said:
"Nothing, I just want you to verify it in person in front of the icon."

"Please rest assured, I just want to make sure that no outsiders who shouldn't come to our party sneak into it. After all, you always make me feel that you are not a vampire!"

As the highest-level gathering of the vampires, there are inspections before entering the city and secret checks after entering the city.

The final checkpoint is not the ceremonial officer just now, but the statue placed in the hall!

Whether one is a vampire or a liar will be revealed clearly in front of the holy image.

Moon was not at all flustered about this.

Although the holy image was not seen placed in the hall.

But I think there are only three types: Blood Moon, Dark Moon, and the original eight dukes.

No matter which one, he has a way to deal with it, and he can also directly judge the current status of the vampires from the statues they moved out.

(End of this chapter)