The midnight bell fell quietly, and the black fog around Randburg slowly gathered, as if a late-night hunt had just begun.
"Buzz..."
A strange resonance echoed in the air, and the blood seal on Su Yue's chest heated up slightly, maintaining a secret rhythm with the silver blood seal on Ethan's palm, like two hearts resonating and merging at different frequencies, and finally converging.
"Do you feel it?" Ethan asked in a low voice. He stood beside Su Yue, with a hint of imperceptible tension in his eyes.
Su Yue nodded: "What is that? I... heard a sound, as if whispering."
"It's the echo of the Bloodstone Gate." Ethan frowned and looked to the northwest - there, it was the altar under Randburg, and it was also the place where the ancient royal bloodline had held secret ceremonies.
He said in a deep voice: "Once the Moon Blood Oath is reached, the door of the altar will automatically sense awakening, but... the awakening time is too fast."
"You mean, this reaction is abnormal?" Su Yue asked.
"The normal Moon Blood Oath awakening cycle takes at least seven days." Ethan's eyes were deep, "But now, in less than a quarter of an hour, the blood stone door has been opened. This shows that there is external interference."
He looked over the window lattice and looked at the distant night sky.
There, the blood moon became clearer and clearer, and the outline seemed to be slowly swallowed by some invisible force, and a hint of ominous darkness appeared on the edge.
"Night Breath Society..." he murmured.
"Are they really here?"
Su Yue was not surprised. Ever since she activated the blood seal and signed the oath with Ethan, she had a strong premonition: she had been swept up by the torrent of fate and became the core of some prophecy. And prophecy has always been a harbinger of disaster.
"We have to go to the altar." She said calmly.
Ethan looked at her, and a strange look flashed across his eyes that was difficult to conceal.
"You have changed." He said.
"From the girl who was lost in the ancient book library and could not accept the existence of vampires, to now... an ally who can face fate."
Su Yue lowered her eyes, but a faint smile appeared at the corner of her mouth: "Maybe you made me change."
The two left the library one after the other, and went down the hidden spiral staircase of the castle all the way to the altar deep underground.
There is the real origin of the blood clan.
**
At the same time, dozens of kilometers away from Randburg, in the cellar of an abandoned monastery, a woman in a black robe sat on the ground, with a bone staff quietly across her knees.
She closed her eyes, but the corner of her mouth curved into an unsettling arc.
"They have already opened it." She said softly, "Then we should start."
As the voice fell, figures slowly emerged from the dark shadows around.
Some wore broken hats, with scarlet eyes; some wore clerical robes stained with dried blood, but their faces were like skeletons; and there was a young man wearing a black feather cloak, with empty eyes and a smile on his lips.
"The thirteen seats of the Night Rest Society - meet again tonight."
The black-robed woman raised her bone staff, and a scarlet magic seal appeared in her palm, which seemed to resonate with the blood seal on Su Yue's chest.
"The blood gate has appeared, and the old oath will be broken - go, my descendants."
"Let the blood of the royal family flow back to the altar."
**
Underground altar, Randburg.
Ethan took Su Yue through a sacrificial path built of black gold and ancient silver. The reliefs on both sides were the story of the vampire ancestors and the moon's contract. For the first time, Su Yue faced all this, no longer escaping, but from the perspective of an heir.
"Here lies the mark of the first royal family of the blood race," Ethan whispered, "and it is also the source of our destiny."
They stopped in front of the bloodstone door, which was an indescribably ancient stone door, about three feet high, with two royals standing with swords in relief on the door, their eyes inlaid with dim blood crystals.
"Are you ready?" Ethan turned around and asked.
Su Yue nodded.
"Come on."
The two of them pressed their palms against the bloodstone door at the same time, and the bright red blood mark bloomed in an instant. A faint whisper came from the air, like a sad song from ancient times.
"Click..."
The stone door cracked open, and a thick blood mist like ink flowed out of a gap. In the center of the blood mist was a black round altar, and in the middle stood a long sword that was silver-white and inlaid with red crystals-
The King's Blood Blade.
"Is this... the legendary Blood King's Sword?" Su Yue murmured.
"Yes." Ethan's face was extremely solemn. "It is only open to the heirs with the purest bloodline. And now, it is responding to you."
Su Yue walked forward slowly, the blood mark was in great pain, and strands of blood-colored silk threads emerged from her chest and extended towards the long sword, as if they were naturally connected.
Just as she was about to touch the hilt of the sword-
"Bang!"
The sky above the altar suddenly exploded, and a red and black intertwined energy wave suddenly fell. Ethan instantly blocked in front of Su Yue, and his right arm was hit by the aftermath and instantly burned black.
"The Night Breath will come!" he shouted.
Countless black shadows emerged from the cracks in the altar, half-human and half-ghost figures, hoarse and low whispers, sounded in the darkness.
"Sacrifice her... open the abyss..."
"Kill--"
Ethan's eyes flashed with blood, and his right hand summoned a silver-patterned short blade. His figure instantly swept out and cut the two Night Breathers in front into blood mist with one blow.
Su Yue was dragged into the center of the battle, the blood seal was trembling constantly, and she suddenly realized: she must hold the sword to balance the Night Breath Society!
She rushed forward and grabbed the King Blood Blade in the chaos.
Buzz! ! !
The entire altar was instantly illuminated by red light, and a huge blood moon formation appeared under Su Yue's feet, and her eyes also completely turned into a dark red like gemstones at this moment-
The sign of the awakening of the Blood King has arrived.
**
Far away in the Night Breath Society's base, the black-robed woman's body shook violently, and she whispered in a low voice:
"She... awakened the true power."
"The King Blood has returned, and the omen has arrived."
And deep underground in the tomb of the old king of the blood clan, a sealed ancient coffin trembled gently, and a crack quietly appeared on the edge of the coffin lid-
A forgotten voice whispered:
"Finally... I can come back..."