Chapter 125 The Queen of the Holy Grail

  Chapter 124

  Rosen released the Nightmare Slime in the shadows, and then used Divine Split to create 23 clones.

  A total of 23 nightmare slimes scattered and used Shadow Escape, but were immediately attacked by the vampires who were ambushing nearby.

  After Rosen used the God-Hunting Eye to accurately locate these vampires, he controlled these divine clones to perform shadow escape and use teleportation to approach these vampires. The moment they touched these vampires, they were directly turned into nightmare marks.

  With these nightmare marks, it will be difficult for these vampires to see Rosen next.

  Shadow Escape has a strong concealment ability to begin with, and now it is difficult to detect unless you are a Sequence 6.

  After Rosen arrived in front of the barrier, he activated the Death Blow to compress his spirituality.

  The God-Slaying Crossbow entered the crossbow continuous shooting state. After each crossbow arrow carrying the ash armor-piercing state hit these barriers, these barriers were visibly weakened rapidly, which made Rosen breathe a sigh of relief.

  Although Ashes is powerful in breaking armor, the prerequisite for completely breaking the defense is that the target's spiritual strength is weaker than him.

  If the target's spiritual strength is higher than Rosen's, the effect of Ashes Armor Breaking will be greatly reduced.

  Therefore, if the vampire who sets up the barrier is of Sequence 6, the armor-piercing effect of Ashes will be greatly reduced to almost nothing.

  Now he can destroy the barrier quickly and effectively. Apparently the vampire who set up the barrier is at the highest level, sequence 7.

  This also means one thing, not only can Farah not get close to Xi Lei's home, but vampires above Sequence 7 probably can't get close either.

  This should be the rule left by Xi Lei himself, specifically used to restrict Farah from touching the painting.

  Dozens of layers of barriers were destroyed within a few seconds, and Rosen seized the opportunity to teleport into Xi Lei's home.

  In Xi Lei's bedroom, there is a painting of the Glory of the Blood Clan hanging on the wall.

  The painting depicts the entire Chaohu City, as well as the vampire castle shrouded in shadows in the lake.

  Finally, there is the castle terrace, with Farah with a pair of bat wings spread out behind him.

  Rosen stepped forward and injected spirituality into the painting, and was surprised to find that this spiritual painting was no longer owned by an owner.

  Therefore, it is not difficult to understand that Xi Lei himself has indeed died outside.

  However, even if this spiritual painting has no owner, Rosen is temporarily unable to refine this spiritual painting of Sequence 4.

  However, he could put the painting into the Void Gallery, but then the Simmons family's spiritual realm would be gone.

  Although Susan had a good relationship with him, it was inevitable that she would fall out with him.

  However, Rosen still planned to take the painting away. After successfully strengthening his own bloodline with the help of the blood clan's secret treasure, he would hand over this spiritual painting to Susan. After mastering this spiritual painting, the Simmons family might really disappear.

  On the terrace of the Vampire Castle, Farah sighed as she gazed at her familiar yet unfamiliar home in the distance.

  She had done everything she could, but who could have imagined that a Sequence 8 could escape from a Sequence 4, and under the protection of dozens of Sequence 7 vampires, destroy the barrier and touch the spiritual painting in such a short time.

  Even if she has the powerful strength of Sequence 4, what is the point if she cannot leave the vampire castle?

  Perhaps this is the best option. The painter has mastered the spiritual paintings. After he reaches Sequence 4, she may have a chance to escape from the spiritual paintings and gain freedom. This is why she did not try her best to stop him.

  Otherwise, even if she was confined to the vampire castle, she could still send out high-sequence extraordinary items.

  If we really try our best to stop him, that person may not be able to get close to the spiritual painting.

  Subconsciously, Farah admitted that she longed for freedom.

  But even though she longs for freedom, her pride will not let her bow to those weak beings she looks down upon.

  From the moment that human escaped from her hands, she had actually been looking forward to it.

  Rosen was still thinking about how to get the vampire secret treasure from Farah.

  However, he suddenly heard a noise and looked out of Xi Lei's house, only to see a scarlet holy grail suspended in the air.

  Rosen released the Nightmare Slime, which approached and swallowed the Holy Grail.

  In the mysterious study, the Holy Grail that had just been swallowed had turned into a scarlet card.

  [Source, Divinity, Queen of the Holy Grail: Fallen Tarot]

  [Level: Sequence 3]

  [Attributes: The Holy Grail Queen can grant divine water attributes]

  [Divine Power 1: Concentration - can greatly improve one's concentration]

  [Divine Authority 2: Charm - Possessing enough charm to seduce the gods]

  [Divine Power 3: Loyalty-Can more easily gain the loyalty of others through charm]

  [Divine Power 4: Intuition - Ability to possess divine intuition]

  [Theocracy 5: Dreams - Ability to realize dreams with strong self-confidence]

  [True God's Power 6: Fallen Holy Grail - can extract Fallen God's Blood, after taking it, one can strengthen one's own original bloodline at the cost of lowering the lower limit of spirituality]

  Rosen looked at the attributes of this card, and his heartbeat quickened to the point where he could hardly control himself.

  This is not a fake Tarot card like the Knight of the Holy Grail, but a contaminated genuine Holy Grail series Queen of Cups Tarot card.

  I'm afraid this Fallen Tarot Card is the most valuable thing in this spiritual painting.

  Rosen now completely understood that Farah had gone easy on him.

  It was likely that the memories of the spiritual realm paintings that he had dug out from Farah's little spirituality were deliberately leaked to him by Farah.

  The reason is simple. Farah wants him to have access to spiritual paintings, but she doesn't want the spiritual paintings to fall into the hands of unqualified people.

  So he only told me the location of the spiritual realm painting, but did not say how many guards were outside.

  If he had the ability to break in, he would be qualified to receive Farah's approval.

  If he fails, he will have to leave this spiritual realm with nothing.

  Now that he succeeded, Farah gave him the Fallen Tarot Card to show her sincerity.

  Although the tarot cards were in his hand, Rosen was completely unable to use them.

  Rosen thought about it, left Xilei's house with the tarot cards, and swaggered towards the vampire castle.

  As for the Void Gallery, those who stayed behind were still struggling to collect the original bodies of the spiritual realm paintings.

  In the banquet hall of the Vampire Castle, Farah stretched out her hand and took back the Holy Grail Queen from Rosen.

  At the moment of activation, a crown appeared on Farah's head and a scarlet holy grail appeared in her hand.

  The scarlet light kept flickering in the cup, and soon a full cup of Fallen God's Blood condensed into it. The Fallen God's Blood was then compressed into a gem-like crystal and sent to Rosen to show his sincerity.

  "Want to hear my story?"

  Farah put away the Holy Grail Queen and said sadly.

  "I'm very interested."

  Rosen put away the Fallen God Blood Crystal and nodded.

  Over the next few hours, Rosen gradually learned all the stories that had happened to Farah.

  The story begins with Farah being captured by the vampires and transformed into a new vampire.

  However, no one knew that when Farah was a child, she picked up the demigod extraordinary card of the Holy Grail Queen, and she was naturally compatible with it. She could control the power of the Holy Grail Queen without refining it, so after becoming a vampire, Farah retained her human self.

  Therefore, Xi Lei, who was looking for Farah, did not encounter any danger. Instead, he gradually took control of Chaohu City under Farah's protection.

  However, people's hearts will change, especially after they gain power.

  The family ties that were once as solid as a rock were eventually corroded and weathered by power and desire.

  Xi Lei joined the World Government which had just been established at that time, became a noble and obtained the extraordinary bloodline of the vampire clan.

  However, Xi Lei was not satisfied yet, he wanted to get the Queen of the Holy Grail.

  Farah was able to retain her human self thanks to the protection of the Holy Grail Queen.

  What Xi Lei did was equivalent to erasing Farah as a human being.

  He knew that Farah would never hand over the Holy Grail Queen, so he asked a Sequence 4 painter to draw a picture of the spiritual realm of Chaohu City, and then lured Farah in and imprisoned her in the Vampire Castle. The brother and sister became enemies from then on.

  In the end, Xi Lei died at the hands of alien gods before he could obtain the Holy Grail Queen.

  Farah has complicated feelings towards her brother Xi Lei.

  She is able to maintain her human self by relying on the memories of her human period anchored by the Queen of the Holy Grail.

  The Xi Lei who raised Farah since she was a child and was fearless enough to go deep into the vampire castle in search of her, and the Xi Lei who gradually deteriorated and was willing to personally deprive Farah of her humanity, these two Xi Lei are, in the end, the same person.

  Farah hated Xi Lei for imprisoning her for 20,000 years, but she could not forget Xi Lei, who was both her brother and father to her.

  So every time someone entered this inherited spiritual realm, Farah would silently watch as the foreign nobles played the role of Xi Lei.

  If you play your role well, you will be rewarded with a cup of fallen god's blood and allowed to leave alive.

  If you don't perform well, it will be difficult to leave alive.

  Of course, these two results are not absolute. Farah's mood and the background of the visitor also determine whether he lives or dies.

  Although she was trapped in the vampire castle, it was not difficult for Farah to know the situation in the Blue Whale Kingdom thanks to the vampires' control over memory. She was also worried about attracting the demigod of the Blue Whale Kingdom and then being deprived of the Holy Grail Queen.

  This time, Rosen happened to catch Farah in a bad mood because the last person who came in was Susan's deceased husband.

  Susan's late husband looks very similar to Xi Lei, but his personality is not the Xi Lei of his ordinary days. Instead, it is the Xi Lei who was later corrupted by power, greedy and cunning. Therefore, even Rosen, who played the role very well, was implicated.  

  Farah bowed her head this time because she actually had no better choice.

  Rosen is a painter. After being attacked by Farah and then successfully escaping, knowing that the true identity of the inherited spiritual realm is spiritual realm paintings, it is only a matter of time before he completely controls the spiritual realm paintings.

  Rather than having your life and death forcibly controlled in the end, it is better to surrender to Rosen earlier.

  Of course, Farah also had her own pride, so she sent out dozens of Sequence 7 vampires as a final struggle.

  Now that his struggle had failed, he decided to have a frank showdown.

  "Time will tell. I hope we can be honest with each other."

  Rosen said this and made a universal gesture for counting money.

  Farah, who had not yet gotten over the sadness of her memories, suddenly felt as if she had made a wrong choice.

  But her life and death in the future will be controlled by the man in front of her, and it is too late to regret now.

  Farah brought Rosen to the treasury of the vampire castle. There were not many types of treasures. Ninety-nine percent of them were spiritual crystals, and the rest were the blood cores of the vampires, which were equivalent to extraordinary source substances. Among them, the blood cores were the spiritual realm specialty of this spiritual realm painting.

  If Rosen is willing, he can also hunt the vampires in Chaohu City to obtain some skill crystals and extraordinary items.

  As for the tens of millions of spiritual crystals, these are the accumulation of spiritual energy from the spiritual world absorbed by spiritual realm paintings over the past 20,000 years.

  This is because most of the spiritual crystals have been used up by Farah, otherwise there would be more than this amount after 20,000 years.

  Rosen emptied the treasury without hesitation, and then discussed the matter of the spiritual paintings with Farah.

  Susan did not do anything wrong to him, and he felt embarrassed to take away the spiritual painting.

  In the end, Farah gave a suggestion. The Simmons family had few direct descendants and not many collateral descendants. Farah could cast a curse to cut off the Simmons family bloodline, so that Susan could smoothly and completely inherit the Simmons family title.

  Then, Farah can help Susan obtain the extraordinary bloodline of the vampire clan.

  If that is not enough, then promise to give Susan a sequence 4 spiritual painting in the future.

  Of course, it all depends on Susan's opinion. If Susan really disagrees, then she can wait until the Simmons family's title is inherited by the side branch in the future, and then seize the spiritual painting of the Blood Clan's Glory from the side branch.

  With the bargaining chip in hand, Farah sent Rosen's self-portrait clone out of the spirit realm.

  Susan, who was still waiting outside silently, nodded with emotion after hearing Rosen's explanation.

  Not everyone would consider her ideas and discuss with her when faced with a Sequence 4 spiritual painting.

  Susan had seen the dark side of many nobles, and she knew very well that the normal practice was to get rid of her and then steal the spiritual realm paintings.

  Rosenken compensated her double, which was an unexpected surprise to her.

  In the days that followed, Rosen's occupation of the Simmons family's castle attracted a lot of hostility.

  However, before the Simmons family's side branches could cause trouble for Rosen, they had already died one by one from the blood curse.

  Rosen and Susan were naturally the first suspects, but after investigation, the royal criminal hunters discovered that the blood curses of all the dead originated from the source of their own extraordinary bloodlines.

  This means that the murderer is the ancestor of the Simmons family and has nothing to do with Rosen and Susan.

  After being cleared of suspicion, Susan firmly secured her title of earl.

  The only regret is probably that her descendants could only be downgraded to hereditary viscounts after inheriting the title.

  Even though it is just a rank, a hereditary earl has divine territory, but a hereditary viscount does not.

  However, this is already the best result. If one wants to regain the hereditary earldom, it can only be done through the efforts of future generations.

  After Rosen took the Fallen God Blood Crystal, his spiritual strength dropped directly from 23 points to 20 points.

  But the gains were not small either, as the Nightmare Slime's extraordinary bloodline had gained the qualifications to advance further.

  As long as your spirituality returns to 23 points, you can upgrade to 24 points without any obstacles.

  Normally this would take two years, but Rosen didn't want to wait that long.

  If you want to save time, the easiest way is to spend money.

  Of course, you can't just spend money casually. Rosen's spiritual strength has reached 23 points, but now it has dropped back to 20 points because of the Fallen God's Blood. Spending money to increase it to 23 points will not affect his spiritual foundation.

  If you directly spend money to increase your spiritual strength without this premise, it will inevitably affect your spiritual foundation.

  No matter how slight the influence is, it will cost ten or a hundred times more to make up for it after reaching the level of demigod.

  Through the connections he made over the past few years, Rosen bought a few things he needed to spend money.

  The first is a special kind of painting pigment, which is only of Sequence 8 in grade, but the materials used to make it are of Sequence 6.

  Painting with this kind of paint can increase spiritual growth rate dramatically in a short period of time.

  Then came the high-quality nightmare. The one Rosen bought was a nightmare from Sequence 4.

  The more powerful the being, the better the quality of the nightmare.

  The Blue Whale royal family imprisoned the Sequence 4 aliens. The purpose of imprisonment was to collect resources continuously like raising pigs.

  Nightmares are of course also a kind of resource, and the benefits of swallowing this kind of sequence 4 nightmare can be imagined.

  Finally, it was hunting. Rosen bought some hunting qualifications at a high price under another identity.

  Powerful nobles would imprison aliens and raise extraordinary lives.

  After squeezing out all the value that can be squeezed out while alive, it is natural to maximize the value after death.

  At this time, some hunting qualifications will be sold at high prices.

  Hunters who have purchased the qualification can go and shoot those Sequence 6 prey whose strength is strictly sealed.

  Although this kind of hunting is like cheating, it is difficult to activate the hunting divine power and obtain spoils.

  However, the most basic benefit of hunting to enhance spirituality will not be greatly affected.

  Rosen used a three-pronged approach and in just two months had raised his spiritual strength back to 23 points.

  However, the price was three million spiritual crystals, which was really just exchanging gold for time.

  Not long after spending the money, Rosen's spiritual strength naturally increased to 24 points as his bloodline strengthened.

  However, it will take at least half a month to complete.

  Last time, Rosen prioritized breaking through the hunter sequence, but this time he plans to prioritize breaking through the painter sequence.

  The social status of a young Sequence 7 painter is vastly different from that of a Sequence 7 hunter.

  Becoming a painter first can provide better conditions for the promotion of the hunter sequence.

  However, the painter sequence is still lacking in skill level to be fully upgraded.

  Whether it was the Void Gallery, the Void Album, or the Self-Portrait, Rosen was fully equipped at Sequence 8.

  Moreover, Void Gallery and Self-Portrait are both innate skills, and can be upgraded to Sequence 7 of the corresponding LV3 without any effort.

  As for Blood Seal of Glory, Canvas of the Mind and Stroke of Inspiration, they are still at Level 2 so far.

  The strength of the Blood Seal of Glory depends on the noble bloodline, so it can be quickly upgraded to LV3.

  As for the stroke of genius, both are also innate skills.

  The magic pen is relatively special. If you can integrate strengthening materials into the magic pen, you can automatically evolve the sequence 7 innate skills and obtain more powerful evolutionary attributes, so you have to pay attention to this aspect.

  As for the Mind Canvas, Rosen somewhat regretted transforming it into an innate skill.

  The level LV1 mind canvas can draw on one's own spiritual level.

  Level LV2, able to project the contents of the mental canvas into reality.

  However, at LV3, the standard of the Mind Canvas is the ability to project spiritual paintings into the minds of others.

  Because it is too difficult, many sequence 7 painters can only master the LV3 mental canvas.

  The reason why Ms. Fam is considered to have a high probability of becoming Sequence 6 is mainly because she has upgraded her Mind Canvas to Level 4 at Sequence 7, and it took Ms. Fam decades to achieve this level.

  After Mind Canvas became an innate skill, Rosen no longer had to practice Mind Canvas assiduously.

  However, he also lost the opportunity to upgrade the Mind Canvas to Level 3 ahead of Sequence 8.

  Lost the chance to obtain better innate skills after the sequence level is upgraded.

  This also made Rosen realize that sometimes acquired skills may not be inferior to innate skills.

  Taking shortcuts may not always bring benefits.

  Therefore, Rosen did not hesitate to spend millions of spiritual crystals and invited a Sequence 4 psychologist to break the binding relationship between the Inspiration and the Mind Canvas, and instead transfer the opportunity for innate skills to the Sequence 8 Void Album.

  As a result, Sequence 9 will only have two innate skills: Stroke of Mastery and Spiritual Attachment.

  On the contrary, the Void Gallery, Void Album and Self-Portrait of Sequence 8 have all become innate skills that can evolve autonomously.

  In this way, he will no longer need to seek help from the architect, find someone to help him upgrade the Void Album, or repeatedly draw self-portraits. This will free him from his dependence on other sequences and also upgrade the mental canvas to LV3.

  However, according to Rosen's estimation, it would take him several years to upgrade his Mind Canvas to Level 3.

  If you want to make up for the time gap of several years in the shortest time, the only thing you can rely on is the power of time acceleration or time loop.

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