The vampire heiress is two-faced

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Her expression hardened, and she activated her blood energy, spreading it around her.

In the blink of an eye, Ruo Keke sensed the "thing" hanging from Yin Shang.

"My blood energy [All Things in the Universe] can affect the gravity around me. If there is something around me that is resisting my control... then it will become clearly visible to me."

A strange energy formed an invisible "rope" that passed through Yin Shang's arm and suspended him in the air.

The surrounding area was also filled with many similar "ropes," and in front of the two, there were several "ropes" that turned back.

"I understand what it is now."

With her keen intuition, Ruo Keke quickly drew a conclusion.

"The bullets this guy fires leave these invisible trails, and he seems to be able to 'materialize' them at any time... If your body passes through these trails, it's like stepping into his trap and you can't move."

Swish!

If Coco cut off the "tail" with her sickle, Yin Shang finally felt his body relax and fell back to the ground.

"This guy is really troublesome."

Yin Shang coughed.

"His movements were clean and efficient, without a single wasted effort. After creating distance, he could skillfully launch feints and sneak attacks... Could he be a soldier?"

Ruo Keke said, "Based on my limited knowledge as a vampire maid, he seems to be a professional sniper, but he is not afraid of close combat. Maintaining distance is just his fighting habit."

Yin Shang said helplessly, "Then we two, who are good at close combat, are basically out of luck. We won't be able to catch up for long before we lose him again and fall into his line of fire."

Reinhardt jumped onto Yin Shang's shoulder: "She's right, Master. Facing someone like that, I can only keep setting up shields for you, and I'm completely on the defensive."

Yin Shang said, "It's like he has a million ways to stop us from getting closer. We can't chase him, and we can't not chase him either. So what should we do?"

...

"There's no need to discuss this anymore."

The mysterious man walked straight out of the snowstorm.

"My mission is time-sensitive, and I've weighed the pros and cons briefly..."

"If we are held up by you and your remaining team members successfully reunite with the Vampire Queen, the mission will still fail."

"My mission is to 'delay'. Delay all of you."

Yin Shang stood up and sneered.

"What a boastful 'procrastination'? You coward who only knows how to run away, do you even have the ability?"

He raised his sword and pointed it at the man.

"If we weren't worried that you were sneaking around following us, why would we bother chasing after you?"

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"I would say the same thing."

The man slung the heavy sniper rifle behind his back and drew his dagger.

"If I hadn't witnessed this woman counter my blood energy, I wouldn't have bothered to give up my advantage and come out to fight three of you."

"Of course, my goal is to delay all of you. But I can't delay the remaining three without eliminating you all..."

A flicker of ruthlessness and fearlessness crossed the man's pale blue eyes.

"I wouldn't mind dealing with you first."

...

"Ha, you're really confident. State your name."

Yin Shangdao.

The man removed his hood, revealing his Caucasian features.

He had shaved his beard, so his age was not immediately apparent; from his thin face, one could guess that he was around 50 years old.

"Alexei Petrenko, a soldier in the secret Soviet Union's demon-hunting unit."

A crimson glint flashed in the man's eyes.

"Now...the cannons of the chess players."

He shattered the snow beneath his feet, and suddenly lunged forward, dagger in reverse.

“Be careful!!”

If Coco stepped forward to try and stop Yin Shang's attack—

Suddenly, the man changed his attack stance. Instead of using his dagger to stab, he raised his fist and slammed it into Ruo Keke's scythe.

"Experience it for yourself..."

The veteran named Alexei sneered.

"This is the power that manipulates the laws of physics."

...

If possible

She exclaimed in surprise, "Whoa?!"

After being hit by this ordinary straight punch, she couldn't stop her steps—

She miraculously slid straight out, as if the snow beneath her feet didn't exist!

"Ahhhhhhh!"

call out--

She tried to plant the sickle in the ground to cushion the impact, but it was no use. The soil seemed to be nonexistent; she felt no sensation of touching the soil through the sickle.

She slid out in this bizarre way until she crashed into a small, soft mound of earth along the snow.

boom--

Alexei sneered and snapped his fingers.

ka ka ka-

The dust that seemed about to rise gathered and settled, and in the blink of an eye, the seemingly soft mound of earth became as solid as a rock.

Ruo Keke was sealed inside tightly.

...

Yin Shang exclaimed in surprise, "Holy crap—"

Alexei immediately turned and attacked Yin Shang.

"it's your turn."

Chapter 122 Plot

After a while.

"Ugh! It's so crowded!"

...

Yin Shang and Solid were squeezed into a narrow, spherical space supported by a barrier of holy light, completely sealed off by immovable mudstone.

Solid's soft body was "forced" to press tightly against Yin Shang, and the warmth and touch from it made him blush.

"Solid, can't you change back?"

The nun looked up, her face full of grievance:

"In cat form, I can't maintain the Holy Light Barrier. That form can't use the Holy Spells of my human form; it's only suitable for offense, like when I fought alongside Brother Yin before..."

There was nothing Yin Shang could do but endure it, since if Solid removed the barrier, the two of them would undoubtedly be crushed.

But staying in this state of having a dry mouth and throat isn't going to work either!

As for how he and Solid ended up in such a place, Yin Shang felt there was no point in recalling it:

Just like the maid who was hit first, she was punched by that guy [Cannon] and slid straight into the rock formation a hundred meters away, as if she couldn't touch anything. Then, like a monkey that made a ruckus in the Heavenly Palace, she was suddenly sealed by solidified stone.

"This is terrible... the oxygen here won't last much longer!"

Even worse... according to "Cannon" Alexei, after he dealt with the three of them, he was going to find Ludwig and the others!

However, there was one stroke of good luck amidst the misfortune: Yin Shang seemed to have come to understand the essence of this guy's blood energy.

"He himself said he 'manipulated the laws of physics'... and combined with the fact that this ability could be detected by the maid's blood energy, which manipulates gravity..."

"I understand now, his ability must be related to 'friction'!"

Solid nodded thoughtfully:

“Brother Yin, you’re right. I think so too.”

"He seems to imbue any object he touches with a force that eliminates friction; the friction on any object he touches vanishes. He can also freely increase or decrease friction, which explains why when we crash into a rock, it feels like we're hitting air—we feel nothing but a scraping sensation..."

Yin Shang patted her head approvingly: "That's right, Solid. So, do you have a way to get us out?"

...

Solid's expression instantly froze.

"Oh, so even Brother Yin couldn't do it?"

Yin Shang rubbed his forehead.

Why did he have to ask her that extra question? Didn't he already know that Solid had absolutely no opinions of her own in front of him?

"No, no, no, I have it, I have it."

Yin Shang sighed.

"Could your barrier be made a little smaller?"

Solid blushed slightly: "But...but that would make it even more crowded with Brother Yin—"

Yin Shang raised his hand and clenched it, taking the holy sword out of her body.

"There's nothing we can do about it, Solid. Hold me tight."

"I'm going to... use my strength to create miracles."

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Clearly, Alexei's plan was quite straightforward.

If he hadn't been delayed by the pursuing knights, nuns, and maids, he could have used his blood energy to create a trap and capture everyone after firing the signal flare, attracting the princess's other accomplices, and removing the barrier the princess had created before her death.

Even if he cannot defeat everyone, as long as he can delay them long enough, Alexei can still successfully complete the mission.

Even if we can't delay them all, as long as we take the fragments of the Grail of Greed and return to report, that lord will not complain.

"I'm the one who profits, no matter what."

When carrying out missions, Alexei always anticipated a host of possible scenarios to ensure that he would never come away empty-handed.

The enemy may gain, or even win—but he can never lose.

He climbed onto a nearby treetop and retrieved the sniper rifle from his back.

Release the safety and inspect the magazine.

Load the spring and pull the bolt.

The movements were clean and efficient, without a single unnecessary action.

As a rear sniper who had been hunting monsters for many years, he had repeated this process countless times.

This time was no exception.

...

Alexei glanced at the sniper scope and secretly breathed a sigh of relief.