My Players Are So Fierce

On the topic of “Dusk”, Murphy has always been very “restrained”, and so far, only he and Tris have been involved in this matter.

The Vampire Lord doesn’t want too many people to know about these things at this stage.

After all, from the current intelligence, this mysterious Dusk force is so massive that it has infiltrated various major powers, and they have more than two backup plans in Transia alone.

If you count the Gnoll Sorcerers searching for lost treasures in the Foul Swamp, that makes three.

Murphy still doesn’t know why Dusk must cause such a commotion in Transia, but what’s certain is that these folks definitely aren’t harboring good intentions.

This is something he must treat seriously and solemnly, its importance can even be ranked before dealing with the Black Plague.

Murphy doesn’t want to drag everyone around him into danger because of Dusk, this isn’t just protecting them, it’s actually protecting himself too.

Therefore, before Corpse Mage Bella began his narrative, he used his eyes to signal Adele to leave the office first. E-Sister obediently complied, which naturally triggered Bella’s very dissatisfied complaints:

“You’ve turned the Pearl of Serenity Valley into your loyal dog! You damned vampire!”

“If Chumen were still here!

If he saw this scene, that fierce King of Gladiators, that mighty Hydra whose name spread throughout the Eternal Rift would definitely remove your head in the most cruel way!”

“However, the ‘King of Gladiators’ you speak of precisely chose death so that you could survive, if I were to be cruel, I could even say you were the ones who killed him!”

Murphy said coldly:

“He could have survived, as a half-elf he could have lived for 1,000 years! But it was because of you all that he died unclearly when his life had just begun and was heading towards brilliance.

I can understand Adele’s resentment towards her mother, I don’t intend to intervene, and I advise you’d better not do so either!

The child in your eyes has grown up.

She has enough wisdom to handle every disappointing thing in her life well, and from my observation, Adele isn’t averse to life as a vampire.

After the merciful night opened its arms to embrace her, she has been enjoying it.

So, let’s just stick to the matter at hand, tell me!

How much do you know about Dusk?”

“Probably not as much as you think.”

A flash of green light passed through the Corpse Mage’s gray-white eyes, allowing him to quickly regain calm and rationality. Given that he needed help and due to Adele’s relationship, he really couldn’t put on a tough act before Murphy and could only reply in a gloomy tone:

“The only Dusk servant I knew was that waste Zweig, I can’t even be sure if the Gnoll Sorcerers who enslaved us were connected to Dusk.

But one thing is certain.

Those Gnoll Sorcerers learned necromancy from Dusk followers!

I personally witnessed them studying the mysteries of the netherworld with several mysterious Dusk followers in a secret chamber, and the command scepter you took earlier was made by the Gnoll Sorcerers under the guidance of those Dusk followers.

They have many similar things in their possession, those Gnoll Sorcerers rely on these command scepters to control their vast army of undead under their command.

I don’t need to tell you how many awakened dead there are in the Foul Swamp.

I’ll just say, it’s an astronomical number enough to submerge the Crimson Citadel.

Fate has been so cold to those dead.

Those disturbed peaceful dead were all heroes and warriors who fought against the Gnoll armies in the four Black Plagues, yet they cannot rest in peace after death.

Of course, that includes a nobody like me.”

The Corpse Mage made some remarks, then said to Murphy again:

“But actually I have a feeling, this is my guess without any evidence.

But I feel those Gnoll Sorcerers don’t have that much confidence in finding King Gnawbone’s lost treasure either, they’re just fulfilling their assigned work.

The reason they need to establish such a massive military force in the Foul Swamp is just to prepare for the fifth Black Plague invasion.

Can you understand?

This Black Plague won’t just have Gnoll legions, there will also be the power of the dead joining in, this is terrible news for you all.”

“I think there must be some things you haven’t noticed.”

Murphy narrowed his eyes and asked:

“According to what you say, such large-scale movement of the dead couldn’t possibly not attract attention from other forces, especially the Blood Pact Knights who constantly patrol around the Dark Mountains.

Although they don’t enter the Foul Swamp but…”

“Foolish! Arrogant!”

Corpse Mage Bella interrupted Murphy’s words, it shouted:

“The Gnolls learned many techniques from Dusk followers, including methods of concealment.

The aura from the Nether Realm surrounds their great beast den established in the swamp depths, that’s enough to block any external investigation, I even know that a month ago, the First Lord of the Blood Pact Knights passed through the swamp and stayed overnight at Fort Crimea

All external activities near the swamp are under their attention!

You underestimate the Gnolls, you also underestimate Dusk.

Oh, right, I have one more thing to share with you, I hope you won’t be too surprised after hearing it.”

The Corpse Mage let out a strange laugh.

He said in an eerie tone:

“The destruction of Seicob City on Transian soil was just a test, it was a ‘Death Offering’ launched by Dusk followers who are members of the Circle Tower.

I once secretly looked at the Gnoll Sorcerers’ notes, which recorded those Dusk followers’ plans in Transia, I only saw a small part, but I can tell you clearly, beneath the ruins of Seicob City lies an army of undead no less than the undead beings in the Foul Swamp.

They are free now, but as soon as Dusk followers give the order.

Ah!

I can’t say more, that damned restriction almost tears apart my soul, but I guess you already know enough. Transia has long fallen into their hands, Lord Governor.

You just don’t know it.

Your governance isn’t some garbage dump, don’t think your situation is too good.

This is a volcano about to erupt! We will all be buried here, what truly angers me is that you’ve dragged our Adele into this dangerous situation too.

I should continue to curse you, but things have come to this point, I advise you to quickly prepare a necessary escape plan, I don’t care about other people in this city, anyway people who live will die.

But Adele must survive!

She is the continuation of Mona and Chumen’s life.

She deserves a happy and fulfilling life! And once the Black Plague erupts, whether your Transia can last even a week is unknown.”

“This news comes very timely, I should say thank you to you, although I don’t want to do so.”

Murphy suddenly stood up, grasped the core bead to connect communications with Knight Valand and Little Countess Sharon.

These two folks just led the new recruits of the winged cavalry to Seicob territory for subject training this morning, according to their speed they should have already left Count Kadman’s territory by now, the Lord felt he should tell this news to his subordinates.

Murphy’s skull was aching at this moment.

He knew Transia had many problems, but such life-threatening situations coming one after another really made it hard to hold on.

He felt he should find a way to share some pressure for himself, especially the threats in Seicob City and Foul Swamp, those weren’t troubles that Murphy could easily solve with the players.

No!

He must call for help now.

——

Adele left the office. She didn’t know what kind of bombshell her Uncle Bella brought to her master, but this didn’t prevent E-Sister from starting to select personnel for her upcoming secret mission right now.

Murphy said Adele wasn’t keen on establishing her own faction, this actually wasn’t correct.

Although Adele indeed didn’t have as massive military forces as Maxim under her command, but as an intelligence officer, she also didn’t need a powerful army to assist in battle, she followed principles similar to Lord Murphy’s style.

That’s called “better none than wrong ones.”

She quickly came to the city sewers, entered Blood Rat Gang’s secret base, upon seeing Lady Adele appear, Dorothy who had just flown back from Smuggler’s Woods immediately pouted,

This rat gang boss was planning to slack off happily, but seeing the “superior” serious face she knew she definitely had work to do again.

And besides Dorothy, Adele had another descendant called Dana.

She was also on her way, this one was one of the few survivors from Jed’s group before, there were originally three, but unfortunate Doreen and Ross died in Greyclaw faction’s raid, finally Dorothy took over.

As an “NPC”, Adele had no quota limit when developing descendants, but she didn’t plan to abuse her blood contract.

Still that saying, she believed quality over quantity.

A few minutes later, Dana and Dorothy had both arrived at Blood Rat Gang’s base, only then did Adele tell her descendants what needed to be done next.

Upon hearing they needed to enter Foul Swamp next, Dorothy’s face changed first, as a former Adventurer’s Guild member, she had enough knowledge reserve to understand exactly what kind of hellish place Foul Swamp was.

“You really found us a deadly job!”

She complained:

“Even the most excellent adventurers would write their wills before entering Foul Swamp, what exists there is still an unsolved mystery for the Adventurer’s Guild to this day, and now there’s also a group of Gnoll Sorcerers from the Dark Mountains there.

This is really crazy!”

The other vampire Dana didn’t speak, but from her expression, she didn’t like this new work either, but Adele didn’t give them choice, she said in a calm tone:

“I can allow you to complain, but after venting you should make an executable plan, I’ve already asked Lord Murphy for permission.

He allows us to start recruiting our own personal warriors from now on.

12 spots each!

If you’re interested you can also seek a champion warrior for yourself, this means even without counting Blood Rat Gang and Blood Claw tribe, the manpower we can mobilize will reach 50 people.

50 Black Iron rank warriors is enough to venture into Foul Swamp, of course, I’m not asking you to start acting now, we need to prepare many things.

Before Hog’s Gnolls explore out safe routes, I won’t rashly send you to die, but from now on, Shadow Intelligence Bureau’s work focus should shift to southern Transia.

Establish a permanent base in Smuggler’s Woods, and recruit outer members in my barony!

This isn’t just an adventure, nor just us hiding in darkness to eliminate a threat for our homeland, this is also an ‘assessment’ we need to conduct as the shadows of Crimson Citadel.”

She looked at her two kindred before her, through the connection between elder and descendant, she could feel the unease in these two’s hearts, so she said again:

“Additionally, I will also request the Count of White Mountain and his Thorn Nightwalkers’ assistance, perhaps we can learn some techniques of surviving in shadows from vampire civilization’s sharpest night blade.

I mean, this matter actually isn’t as dangerous as you think”

“But our manpower really isn’t enough, my lady.”

Dorothy wailed:

“Even if we start recruiting outer informants and our own warriors now, we still need time to cultivate them, the time left for us really isn’t sufficient.

But perhaps we can think from a different perspective.”

This cunning rat gang leader rolled her eyes and said:

“Perhaps we can directly recruit those capable folks, I mean, my former colleagues, of course not in Transia, those guys’ dog noses are too keen, they all ran away before disaster erupted, perhaps we can go tour around East Prussia or Kafhoka region.

Although the loyalty of these old foxes is quite problematic, but they at least have skills and abilities, can quickly help us build the framework.”

“This is indeed a good method.”

Dana also nodded and agreed saying:

“During the previous Salrokdar ruled period, Blood Vulture Clan also had many similar outer members, they maintained quite close cooperation with us, those rats each had their ways and were indeed a force that could be utilized.”

“No, we don’t want those mixed bunch.”

Adele shook her head and said:

“We can utilize their intelligence network, but can’t incorporate them into our organization! Lord Murphy is very picky about this, he doesn’t hope the new Blood Vulture to be tainted with that unsettling gray-black from birth.

Regarding the core force building of our organization I already have thoughts and ideas, I will be responsible for recruiting new people, you just need to do the early preparation.

Regarding the selection of respective warriors, this is of utmost importance!”

“This isn’t a problem for you at all.”

Dorothy said in a strange tone:

“Your popularity among Lord Murphy’s warriors is quite high, they always like to gather around you, although I think they harbor ill intentions, but if you really need 12 warriors then you just need to call out, there will be enough warriors for you to choose from.”

“Uh”

Lady Adele’s face fell, she pouted and said:

“I don’t like your description, I also don’t like that damn ‘popularity’, what I value is ability and potential, you should do the same.”

After speaking, she nodded goodbye to her descendants with elegance befitting a vampire, disappeared into darkness beating her wings.

Dorothy pouted and leaned back in her chair, took out her computation bead to send a message to her disciple Frostfang Claw, notifying him to come prepare to become her warrior.

And on Lady Adele’s side, she used her authority to send out a mission to all little players, she had been following Murphy learning how to deal with players, so the mission text she sent out almost didn’t need Murphy to make more modifications.

“Ding”

Border Town Wanderer who was fighting skeleton soldiers in Smuggler’s Woods heard the sound and looked down, a random event reminder popped up on the player interface:

【100-Day Grand Construction Campaign – Special Battle Preparation Event – ‘Baroness Adele’s Warrior Selection’ has triggered!

Event Description: As Lord Murphy’s Shadow Intelligence Officer, Lady Adele likes to hide in shadows and use the blade in her hand to protect her ideals and career.

She is quite a picky superior, but now her organization has finally opened its arms to you all.

Any warrior aspiring to try spy and special agent career in Transia can go to Crimson Citadel, fill out application at Lady Adele’s place and pass the test to become her subordinate warrior!

Of course, this will be quite a difficult challenge.

Event Final Rewards: Special title ‘Adele’s Warrior’, Special force ‘Shadow Intelligence Bureau’ officially unlocked, Special supplies issued.

Development Team Note!

This special title only has 12 spots in game, cannot be changed except special circumstances, please players choose carefully.】

“Yo”

Brother Wanderer raised his eyebrows, said to Master Ziwei beside him who was holding a gun looking around:

“This matches our profession perfectly, come on brothers, let’s give it a try too.”