Book 9: Chapter 29: The Inquisition

After Alucard’s body completely shattered, he turned into a blood mist for the second time in this battle. However, in this icy world, the blood mist could hardly gather again. Also, because he had lost most of his soul power, the blood mist was much thinner than before.

“It’s over!” Qin Lun sighed and raised the Forbidden Scissors in his hand. Since the blood mist could not condense in a short time, with his speed, he only needed a few seconds to completely cut it apart and kill Alucard for good.

…

“Monsters, have you made your prayers before death? The Lord will forgive your sins, amen!”

Just as Qin Lun was rushing towards Alucard, a deep prayer came from the swirling wind and snow. A sharp gust of wind broke through the heavy blockade of ice and snow, heading straight for the back of his head.

Qin Lun’s heart stirred. He tilted his head slightly and blocked the back of his neck with the Forbidden Scissors. “Ding!” The scissors immediately deflected a long, thin black shadow without delay.

“A dinner knife?” Looking at the black shadow that was deflected and stuck into the ice at an angle, Qin Lun could not help but raise an eyebrow. At the same time, a tall figure slowly walked out from the dense snow.

“Who’s there?” Qin Lun asked warily, feeling a bit surprised inside. With his Perception, he only noticed the person when they had gotten this close.

“A servant of God needs no name. If you wish to offer your final prayers to me, you may call me Father Anderson!” The shadow stepped out from the snow onto the ice. It was indeed a tall man wearing a white coat and black priest robes.

This burly man had a buzz cut and held two long dinner knives. His expression was not kind like a priest’s should be, but instead looked somewhat fierce as he stared at Qin Lun, as if the young man was his sworn enemy.

“The Vatican’s Inquisition?” Qin Lun’s eyes flashed as he immediately recalled the information on superhuman organizations that Major Montana had provided.

To fight against the evil spirits that had appeared in recent years, Grimm Academy gathered the top superhumans on the European continent. However, it was not the most powerful superhuman organization in Europe.

From ancient times to the present, Europe had the most powerful superhuman organization in the Western world. Its scale was so large that even America’s Avengers Alliance could not compare. That organization was the Inquisition of the Vatican Catholic headquarters.

The Inquisition included two main chambers. One was the Papal Chamber, also known as the Judgment Hall for heretics. The other was the Chamber of Thorns, a sanctuary for ascetic monks. The original purpose of establishing this department was to share the suffering of the Holy Crown of Thorns with God and thus strengthen their faith.

The ascetic monks of the Chamber of Thorns were basically all superhumans, and most of them were very powerful. They believed they had received “God’s grace,” while outsiders saw that these ascetic monks had broken through human limits through years of ascetic practice, thereby achieving a certain evolution.

The Papal Chamber did not have as many powerful individuals as the Chamber of Thorns. However, the number of enhanced humans in the Papal Chamber was almost a hundred times that of the Chamber of Thorns. It gathered the three great Crusader orders that had survived since the Middle Ages.

However, the ordinary members of the three great orders had long been disbanded. Those who remained were basically superhuman believers of Catholicism.

The Hospitaller Order, also known as the Order of Saint John, was based in Malta and was also called the Knights of Malta. Its members were mostly Italians and Yugoslavs. They had the largest number but the lowest enhancement level.

The Knights Templar, whose members were mostly French and Burgundians, had the smallest number but the highest enhancement level. Their current base was on Corsica.

The Teutonic Order, whose members were mostly from Central and Northern Europe, primarily consisted of Germans and Swedes. It was worth mentioning that the monastic school that was later converted into Grimm Academy was a subsidiary of the Teutonic Order, so Grimm Academy had always been closely connected with the Teutonic Order.

Father Anderson, who stood before Qin Lun, originally belonged to the ascetic monks of the Chamber of Thorns. Later, he was transferred to the 13th Section of the Papal Chamber. He was a superhuman powerhouse that Major Montana had specifically noted in the information.

The above information flashed through Qin Lun’s mind, but he had no time now to discuss God’s teachings with this priest. The main purpose of using Arid Glacier was to block the blood river. But because he deliberately enlarged the spell’s range, its actual power was not very strong.

It seemed like he had changed the world, artificially creating a small icy world. In reality, apart from Alucard who was at the center of the spell, this icy world only affected ordinary people. It did not have much impact on true superhumans, at most giving them a negative status of slow movement.

This was also why it was only a pseudo-Forbidden Spell, not a true Forbidden Spell!

Qin Lun’s face darkened. A black light flashed on his left hand as he instantly put on the Glove of Sacrifice. He spread his fingers and made a grasping motion towards the burly man in front of him.

“Earth Prison Pyramid!” Four earthen walls rose from the ice around Father Anderson, forming a sealed pyramid shape that trapped him inside.

As Qin Lun’s Mental Will improved, he could now make slight adjustments to the sixth-tier magic stored in the Glove of Sacrifice using his mental power. However, after the Sixth Tier Earthen Wall spell changed into the Earth Prison Pyramid, its defensive power greatly decreased, and it would not trap the enemy for long.

But Qin Lun only needed to delay his opponent for a moment, so he could finish his next task.

“Huh?!” Seeing Father Anderson trapped, Qin Lun turned his head again to look at Alucard, who had turned into a blood mist.

However, at the spot where the vampire had been, the thin blood mist had mysteriously vanished without a trace. Only a small tail of blood mist remained on the spot, gently swaying in the cold air, as if mocking his slowness.

“No way!” Qin Lun wailed and rushed forward urgently. The Forbidden Scissors went “Snip!” and directly cut off the blood mist tail on the ice. He did not bother to check his gain. The blue-green Yin-Yang Fish Pattern in his left eye spun rapidly, quickly noticing something unusual underground in his vision.

“Earth escape? He ran away?” Qin Lun crawled around on the ground with a sorrowful face, using his fingers to pick at a blood seal that Alucard had left behind. “Hey, hey, come out! Don’t be so shameless!”

“Boom!” A loud explosion suddenly came from behind him. A burly figure stepped over the remains of the earth prison and said steadily, “Sinner, no need to despair. When you return to God’s kingdom, I will send Alucard to accompany you!”

Qin Lun’s body, lying on the ground, stiffened slightly. A gentle breeze blew past, and his figure dissipated like mist. He actually disappeared right under Father Anderson’s nose.

“Huh?” The fierce-looking priest was slightly stunned and blinked in surprise.

Just as he was about to turn his head to look around, a sharp, needle-like pain came from the right side of his body. “Wham!” A leg that suddenly appeared whipped across his right face like a lash, instantly kicking him away.

“Screw your sin! Get lost!” Qin Lun, whose figure reappeared, had a fierce expression. Veins bulged densely on his forehead as he cursed angrily, which was rare for him.

“Creak!” Watching the priest fall into a shop by the street, Qin Lun gritted his teeth in extreme hatred. The blood color in his pupils swelled and shrank like a beating heart. Finally, he sighed and waved towards Cerberus in the distance. The man and the dog slipped into a dark alley.

His body had reached its limit. His Stamina Points were nearly depleted and recovered extremely slowly. Other superhumans in London were almost arriving. If he kept fighting, he really would not be able to leave.

“Hehe, Qin Lun, you’re angry!” Following the young man’s steps, a fierce smiling face was reflected on the alley wall covered with a layer of ice crystals.

“Angry? I’m angry?” Qin Lun stared blankly at the wall. “I can get angry too?”

“Want me to help you?” A hint of teasing appeared in Joey’s blood-red eyes.

“No, it’s fine!” Qin Lun looked down at his hands and smiled faintly. “I feel like I’m really enjoying this. So this is what anger feels like!”

The fierce smile on the wall slowly faded. However, Qin Lun soon felt something strange again. “Cerberus, what are you carrying in your mouth? A battle souvenir? Huh, this guy looks a bit familiar…”

…

At that time, on the other side of London, at the headquarters of HELLSING organization, a blonde girl in military uniform looked with great surprise at Integra, who was quickly walking into the hall.

“Miss Integra, you’re finally back!”

“Seras, come with me!” Integra had no time for small talk with her subordinate. She pulled the blonde girl and ran towards the basement of the headquarters.

“This is…” The girl in military uniform, called Seras, looked curiously at the huge basement before her.

“It’s Alucard’s home, and also his… prison cell!” A complex, hard-to-describe light flashed in Integra’s eyes as she walked towards a metal coffin placed in the center of the basement.

This coffin was at the center of a complicated Magical Array, made of an unknown black metal. The coffin lid was engraved with numerous complex alchemical patterns and was tightly bound by several thick silver chains.

Integra took an ancient key from inside her collar, unlocked the large lock on the silver chains, and pushed the heavy coffin lid with effort.

“Miss Integra, do you need my help?” Seras looked strangely at Integra. Given the weight of this coffin lid, the head of HELLSING, who was an ordinary person, seemed to be struggling a bit.

“Don’t come over! Vampires cannot approach this Magical Array. This task must be done by me alone!” Integra’s face flushed red as she turned and shouted to stop her. But just as she pushed the coffin lid open a crack, she suddenly froze and stopped her actions.

“Miss?” Seras was confused.

“Alucard seems to have escaped danger!” Integra closed her eyes and felt the vague connection in her soul for a while. Hesitantly, she closed the coffin lid again, but did not rebind the silver chains.

“Miss, can you tell me what’s going on?” Seras asked cautiously. “And what is hidden inside this coffin? It gives me a very bad feeling!”

“…Alucard was in danger just now. If I didn’t fully release him, it might cause his death!” Integra said with a frown. “As for what’s inside this coffin… it’s Alucard’s… real body!”