In the towering royal palace of the royal capital, Grand Duke Manle was extremely anxious and paced back and forth in the throne room with an anxious look on his face.
Suddenly, he seemed to have thought of something, and hurriedly reached out to take out the communication crystal and quickly dialed a number.
However, at first the other party did not answer.
Grand Duke Manle did not give up and continued to dial. Finally, the call was connected.
As soon as the call was connected, Grand Duke Manle quickly adjusted his tone, adopting a slightly more respectful tone, and said, "Elder, I'm in urgent need of support right now. Could you please send some men from your Dragon Island?"
"The situation is really critical now. I really don't know what bad things will happen next."
An angry roar instantly came from the other end of the communication: "Are you threatening me?"
Grand Duke Manle's face turned pale with fear, and he quickly waved his hands in denial, "No, absolutely not, Elder! I'm really desperate."
"You know, we have very few people capable of dealing with the dark creatures right now. I'm really at my wit's end, so I've shamelessly come to you for help."
The elder asked directly, "Where is your prince?"
Grand Duke Manle naturally wouldn't tell the truth, but simply replied vaguely, "His Highness is currently preoccupied with his own affairs, and has specifically given me full authority to handle this matter. Elder, please help me this last time. After this, we will have no further disputes. What do you think?"
There was silence on the other end of the line, as if he was weighing something.
After a while, another voice came from the other side: "Okay, but I want your blood clan's SSS-level sacred artifact 'Blood Key'."
Upon hearing this, Grand Duke Manle was filled with surprise and doubt. He hurriedly asked, "What do you want it for? Since you asked for it, you must know its purpose. It is one of the keys to the Hell Plane! No, I can't make the decision on this matter."
The elder responded, "I just want to collect it. You don't have to worry. If you give me the item, I will immediately send a team of the Dragon King's personal guards to support you. How about that?"
After hearing this, Grand Duke Manle couldn't help but feel a little shaken and was really tempted.
Unfortunately, he couldn't obtain this SSS-level holy weapon at the moment.
But after thinking for a moment, he agreed temporarily.
When the elders on Dragon Island heard that Grand Duke Manle had agreed, they were immediately delighted and quickly stated that as soon as the "Blood Key" arrived, support would arrive immediately.
Subsequently, the two sides ended the communication.
After hanging up the phone, Grand Duke Manle paced back and forth more and more rapidly.
Suddenly, he stopped abruptly, stretched out his hand and waved it, creating a crack in space. He stepped directly into it and instantly appeared in the palace treasury.
Inside the treasury, the legendary vampire guard hidden there did not stop the visitor when he saw that it was Grand Duke Manle.
Grand Duke Manle hurried to a stone platform, where a piece of seemingly ordinary "mud" was placed.
He reached out and took it off, then began to use his own energy and blood to rub the "mud" vigorously.
As his hands kept moving, the "mud" gradually took shape, and soon it turned into the shape of a key.
Grand Duke Manle looked at the formed "key" and nodded with satisfaction.
Then, he continuously injected more energy and blood into it.
When the light effect emitted by this "mud key" reached a standard almost identical to that of a real "blood key", Grand Duke Manle came to the guard and casually threw the key made of "mud" over.
At first, the guard didn't care what Grand Duke Manle threw over. When he saw that it was an object similar to a "blood key", he was suddenly shocked and hurriedly stretched out his hands to catch it.
Upon seeing this, Grand Duke Manle nodded again and thought to himself: Not bad, it seems I can get away with it this way.
Then, under the angry gaze of the guards, Grand Duke Manle calmly took back the "mud key" and turned to leave the palace treasury.
Grand Duke Manle hurried back to the throne hall. Time was pressing and he had no intention of waiting any longer. He immediately took out the communication crystal and called the Elder of Dragon Island.
The elder of Dragon Island quickly answered the call and asked anxiously, "How is it? Did you get the stuff?"
Grand Duke Manle quickly responded, "Oh, it was really not easy. Prince Klotis scolded me severely when he learned that I wanted to take it."
In order to make his words appear more credible, Grand Duke Manle began to talk incessantly, describing in vivid detail how much trouble he had gone through and how hard he had fought for it despite the prince's anger.
Elder Longdao listened to Grand Duke Manle's lengthy narration and gradually became impatient, his brows furrowed tighter and tighter.
Just when Grand Duke Manle sensed the elder's impatience and felt that if he continued to exaggerate, he would be exposed, he stopped at the right time and said, "Please send someone over quickly. You can take the things away."
Upon hearing this, the elder nodded in agreement and then quickly hung up the phone, his movements very decisively.
Just a few minutes later, space cracks appeared out of thin air in the palace square, and light flickered in the cracks.
Immediately afterwards, a team of fifteen giant dragons leaped out one after another and landed on the square.
They all let out a deafening dragon roar in unison, and the sound waves rolled as if to shake the entire palace.
After the dragon roar, light circulated around the dragons and they transformed into human forms.
At this moment, Grand Duke Manle also hurried to the square. His figure flashed like lightning and he came in front of the Dragon Squad.
The leading young man looked at Grand Duke Manle with an arrogant gaze, his tone full of superiority: "Vampire, did you bring the things?"
When Grand Duke Manle heard this tone, he suddenly felt a surge of anger in his heart and almost had a fit.
But when he thought of the key made of mud, he weighed the pros and cons and decided that less trouble was better than more, so he forced himself to suppress his anger.
Then, Grand Duke Manle reached out and threw the mud key toward the young man in the lead.
The young man reached out and caught it steadily, took a casual look at it, and confident that the other party would not dare to cheat, he put it into the space ring.
Then, the young man turned around and said a few words to the dragons behind him. He then raised his hand to create a crack in space, stepped into it without looking back, and returned to Dragon Island to report.
At this moment, Grand Duke Manle's heart suddenly rose to his throat. He felt that every second was extremely long, as if time had stopped.
He stared at the space crack nervously, not daring to breathe.
After a while, the young man really appeared from the space crack again.
He looked normal and didn't show any abnormality.
Seeing this scene, Grand Duke Manle's heart finally settled down, and he secretly rejoiced that his plan to conceal the truth had been temporarily successful.