Chapter 2921 - 974: Waiting Within the Shattered Immortality

Chapter 2921: Chapter 974: Waiting Within the Shattered Immortality

Murphy awoke from the resonance of ancient memories.

His first instinct upon opening his eyes was to take out the Blood Crystal Stone, intending to inform Lord Paryen of what he had seen.

He didn’t know if the awakening of the ancient memories would reveal to the lord the inglorious role Duke Constantin played in the affair, but he was certain that the main issue with the vampire’s perfect life experiment was due to the "main gene module" provided by Constantin at the end. That item turned the seven subjects directly into carriers of subspace shadows in the material world.

And from the parting words Constantin had with Edward in this memory sequence, it could be inferred that the "original sin" she mentioned referred to the current object of dusk worship—the chaotic villain desiring to unleash a world-ending event in the physical realm.

However, there were many details in the final segment of memory.

Murphy currently couldn’t figure out what the "Department of Mystery" that Constantin belonged to researched a millennium ago. From her words, it seemed they ventured into a forbidden domain strictly prohibited by the creator, and prior to that, the department’s research focus was on the Divine Spirit.

Tsk tsk, it sounds like the flavor of a mad scientist.

In the first trembling memory, Constantin also confessed to Edward that their research on divine powers had failed, and the experiment had the involvement of Senator Vidia. Considering Vidia was now a captive ancient god, what happened thereafter sounded terrifying upon reflection.

At this moment, Murphy looked at the Blood Crystal Stone in his hand, uncharacteristically hesitating on the matter concerning dusk and the subspace threat.

He knew if he informed Paryen, the lord’s first reaction would definitely be to fetch the current duke of the Clan of Secret Blood, forcefully bind the candidate, so Murphy could clarify what exactly Constantin did through ancient memories, and in the process, cripple Old Edward’s legs for betrayal, dragging him before Murphy for in-depth fact verification.

Yet, merely from these ancient memories, Old Edward, aside from flirting with seductive old women and engaging in promiscuous behavior, didn’t do much harm a thousand years ago.

His impression of "Duke Wolfsbane being a big bad guy" was evidently biased.

He was indeed a scoundrel and one of the greatest enemies of the Blood Vulture Clan.

At least a millennium ago he wasn’t a dangerous individual; compared to the death-defying deeds of Constantin and Charlemagne, Edward had been as normal as could be. Therefore, the real issue with Duke Wolfsbane was regarding what he had done in the past thousand years.

With the mysterious capsule Constantin left for Edward at the end of the memory, which helped him resist the memory formatting of the Beta program, combined with the Grand Duke of the Secret Blood’s advice, knowing Old Edward’s operating style, he might have been secretly hunting down remnants of the Department of Mystery for the past millennium.

Murphy was full of doubts.

He urgently needed to discuss the various ins and outs of this affair with others. After pondering for a while, he activated the Blood Crystal Stone.

The image of the lord soon appeared before Murphy, frowning as he glanced at Murphy’s sewer environment, clearly very dissatisfied with the setting of this conversation.

"Don’t rush to be angry yet; if you’re busy with something important, we can reschedule."

Murphy rubbed his temples and said:

"I assure you, after hearing the news I have, you probably won’t feel like doing anything else."

"Hmm?"

The lord raised an eyebrow.

Due to the various ridiculous actions Murphy had been involved in before, he hesitated for a moment, asking:

"So, is it good news or bad news?"

"Uh, that depends on how you define good or bad. For me, it’s a mix."

Murphy tapped his somewhat chaotic brain and sighed, saying:

"I just remotely saw Old Edward on the city wall; this is my first meeting with him... when I saw him, it triggered the resonance of ancient memories, which is the main reason I’m hiding here now. I think you know what this means."

The lord’s face immediately changed.

Having previously experienced the special state of memory resonance when binding the Blood Covenant candidate, the fact that Old Edward could trigger it without binding meant Duke Wolfsbane hadn’t actually lost his memory.

Throughout the thousand years of confusion, while all the ancients were desperately searching for ancient memories, during the betrayal between siblings burdened with past traumas amidst amnesia, throughout the vampire civilization’s persistent spiral into the sins and corruptions of bloodsucking, Old Edward had hidden himself.

That guy deceived them for the entire thousand years!

This is a crime!

No matter what his reasons for deception were, merely the concealment itself was enough for Lord Paryen to take the Holy Spear to confront that guy. However, through Murphy’s complicated expression, the lord could tell there was more to be conveyed.

The lord took a deep breath, calming his fiery temper, and asked:

"And what else?"

"And, Lady Constantin single-handedly sparked the Eden District explosion. She used special medicine to help Old Edward preserve his memory. Her Department of Mystery stepped into the creator’s taboos and seemingly discovered incredible truths.