Chapter 174 Blood Baron

Following a caravan, the gray-haired old man secretly came to the town of Nasir.

He is Baron Hoven, who once led an army to exterminate the jungle natives. In the end, he witnessed a bloody demon and survived alone. After escaping, he became insane.

Baron Hoven was a very handsome man twenty-two years ago, but now he has become a destitute old man.

“We’re finally here…”

Baron Hoven got off the caravan's carriage and came to the town of Nasir, which was much more prosperous than it was more than 20 years ago, with an expression of disbelief on his face.

"I'm finally back. Is this really Nasir?"

This town, which originally belonged to me, has become what it is now. Back then, I despised its backwardness and poverty, and lived in Finn City and refused to come here often.

"How could this happen? Why did I lose it? What on earth happened in the past ten years..."

He muttered to himself, but deep down he knew the answer to the question.

Baron Hoven knew that everything was caused by his wife and brother. Those two despicable people colluded with the Fischer family and sold out the interests that originally belonged to them.

The Fisher family, those lowly creatures, were originally just commoners, but now they pretend to be true nobles.

"It's really ridiculous. In just over a decade, people are actually starting to admire the rise of the Fisher family?"

Baron Hoven's face was full of despair and sorrow.

On the way from Fein City to Nasir Town, he had heard from others several times that Count Hoven had died and that the two major churches were jointly investigating the Hoven family.

He wandered in the familiar yet unfamiliar streets, the uneasiness, fear and despair in his heart becoming more and more obvious.

"I am the owner of this town and everything should belong to me. Why did everything turn out like this?"

"Ah, ahhhhh! More than ten years of my life! Ahhhhhh!"

Since more than ten years ago, he felt as if he had been dreaming.

It was an extremely terrifying dream, as if countless blood was rising all around him, constantly surrounding and entangled him, making it impossible for him to return to the real world.

It took Baron Hoven more than ten years to wake up completely from that horrible dream, but he did not expect that the world had changed so drastically.

His property had long been completely seized by his wife and brother, and the territory of Nasir Town was also occupied by the Fisher family. The Hoven family, which served as his backer, was about to collapse...

He just had a nightmare, and when he wakes up, he will be nothing!

"Did I never really wake up?"

Baron Hoven suddenly couldn't help laughing wildly on the street. His body was shaking wildly, and a very strong blood red color gradually appeared in his eyes. Blood even flowed out of the cracks in his skin.

“Hahahaha! Hahahahahahaha!”

The sudden wild laughter stunned the residents of Nasir. They looked at Baron Hoven in disbelief. No one recognized him as the lord of this town.

"Which mental patient?"

"What's going on with that guy? Is anyone from the patrol nearby?"

Just as people were about to step forward to inquire about the situation, Baron Hoven looked around at everyone with cold eyes, revealing some inhuman aura that made no one dare to move.

He then fled at an astonishing speed and disappeared from people's sight.

The people who had been staring at him just now stopped in shock. The townspeople realized that he was an extraordinary person, and the look in his eyes just now made their blood seem to freeze.

That's not a human look!

Not long after, Vanessa, who had taken over the town's patrol team, came here with her subordinates.

"No one knows the extraordinary person just now. His identity is very suspicious. We must find out who the old man is and where he went."

After she gave the order, the patrol team immediately searched the whole town for a while, and Vanessa was the first to find traces of the old man through her "patrol" ability.

"What's going on?"

She came to where the old man was and quickly realized that something was wrong.

It was a very remote house, and there was a strong smell of blood inside, which almost made people want to vomit.

Vanessa frowned slightly and approached the door cautiously.

She soon saw a very shocking scene. Two middle-aged men fell in a pool of bright red blood, and the old man who sneaked in grabbed an unconscious little girl. Her whole body was covered with scarlet, wriggling blood. She looked more like a bleeding monster than a human being.

Vanessa quickly concluded that the old man who grabbed the little girl looked mentally ill.

Although his clothes were luxurious, they were actually old and tattered. He had no intention of escaping and only stared at her coldly with his bloodshot eyes.

Baron Hoven asked with almost no emotion:

"Who are you?"

Vanessa noticed the other party's mental abnormality and did not want to anger him at all, so she said calmly: "I am the leader of the patrol team, what about you?"

Baron Hoven subconsciously raised his head, his originally cold emotions suddenly boiling, and he answered very loudly: "I am the master of this town!"

Vanessa shook her head slightly and continued, "The owner of Nasir Town is my husband's cousin, or my husband, but it can't be you."

Baron Hoven's mouth suddenly stretched to his ears, and he shouted almost madly:

"Hahahaha! The person you are talking about is Byrne Fischer, right? So you are also from the Fischer family! That's great, I have to thank fate!"

He paused, his eyes filled with endless resentment, and continued, "Do you know the last name 'Huowen'?"

Vanessa's face changed drastically. More than ten years ago, she knew one thing clearly: the real lord of Nasir Town was actually a baron of the Hoven family.

However, more than ten years passed and the baron never appeared again, so everyone gradually forgot about the incident.

It turned out to be him?

No wonder he was mentally abnormal and said that the town of Nasir belonged to him. Many things were answered in Vanessa's mind.

But she still didn't understand why the other party wanted to kill the middle-aged couple.

At this moment, Baron Hoven made a strange sound in his throat, his body trembled slightly, and then he continued:

"Since this town is my territory, then their lives, their flesh and blood, and everything they have should belong to me!"

"Blood is the great thing that sustains life and soul. It is because the power of the soul permeates the blood that the power of blood can be passed on."

"Their blood will become food, filling me."

As he spoke, Baron Hoven's voice became stranger and stranger, heavy and with a frightening friction, revealing an even more strange and inhuman aura.

Vanessa soon saw an astonishing scene. A large amount of blood on the ground was constantly trembling and boiling. Then drops of blood actually flew up and gradually merged into Baron Hoven's body, as if it was being "sucked".

An extremely happy expression also appeared on his face.

"Compared to my wife and brother, their blood is sweeter..."

Bloody demon!

Vanessa took a deep breath. As a spellcaster, she had read many books on the occult and was fully aware of how wrong Baron Hoven's situation was.

His body and soul have been gradually taken away by the mysterious existence "Bloody Demon", but he has no idea what he is facing and is gradually reduced to an evil and pathetic puppet.

Vanessa stared at Baron Hoven and said slowly to buy time:

"No wonder you were the only one who survived the crusade against the Bloody Cult. It turns out that thing deliberately let you go after slaughtering everyone else..."

Seeing that Baron Hoven was ignoring her and was about to kill the little girl for her blood, she immediately stepped forward.

"Don't kill her. If you must suck her blood, let me do it instead!"

Baron Hoven was stunned for a moment and asked, "Why?"

He didn't understand Vanessa at all.

"Is she also from the Fisher family, or a friend you know?"

Vanessa shook her head and continued, "No, she's just a stranger, an ordinary girl in Nasir town."

Baron Hoven asked incomprehensibly: "Then you are willing to replace her?"

"Um."

Vanessa nodded slightly. Although it was to delay time, she was really willing to exchange her life for the life of the little girl.

Baron Hoven smiled mockingly and said, "Do you think you are a savior or a saint?"

"No." She shook her head.

Over the years, she has actually saved many people and done many things that are completely altruistic and selfless, but she has never felt that she is still a good person.

Because even though the Fisher family was very moral among many nobles, they still did a lot of dark things, and even her husband Chris had killed many innocent people.

Although she did not do those things herself, Vanessa knew very well that bystanders who turned a blind eye could not be called righteous at all, and still regarded them as their own sins.

"You are a strange woman."

Baron Hoven suddenly threw the little girl out, then raised his hand and shot three blood arrows at her. Vanessa caught the little girl without hesitation, and her body was also seriously injured by the blood arrows.

She felt that the power of the second step of the "Road of Order" had been completely mastered, but she didn't care about such things at all. She was just thinking about how to take the little girl away and delay time.

In a while, the Fisher family will come to support us!

Baron Hoven was accustomed to the intrigues and dark fights among the nobles. The woman in front of him made him puzzled and even angry.

Just when he was about to kill, he suddenly found a large number of butterflies entwined around him, followed by a series of explosions, completely blocking his view.

Vanessa took the opportunity to escape with the little girl.

“Don’t run away!”

Baron Hoven roared madly, his body covered in blood. He rushed out of the house roaring, controlling a large amount of blood to float around, and was about to attack Vanessa again.

However, at this moment, Baron Hoven suddenly felt an extremely strong and pure murderous intent!

Chris, like an angel, walked silently from a hidden place, holding an exquisite dagger in his right hand and the "Black Blade" of the Roman family in his left hand.

The blade in his hand drew two tracks, two precise and sharp cuts, directly hitting Baron Hoven's back and waist.

Baron Hoven was stabbed hard in the heart and waist by the black blade, but he showed no signs of losing any life. Instead, he suddenly turned his head 180 degrees, stared at Chris fiercely, and let out a roar from his throat.

“Ouch!”

Gradually, he completely lost his human form, and some kind of evil power bound in his body uncontrollably surged out from the deepest part!

(End of this chapter)