However, Priscilla's mania lasted for a full year.
The suffering she endured lasted for a full year.
She needs to constantly drink fresh blood to slightly alleviate her manic state.
but--
Good fortune never comes in pairs, but misfortunes never come singly.
Everyone believed that Laureen's crazed wife had killed their daughter, but that was just a cover-up.
In reality, it was Priscilla, who became a bloodline, who killed Laureen's wife.
That nightmarish night, Laureen nearly broke down.
He sought help from everyone he could, including Grand Duke Barlow, who had taken good care of him since he arrived in the kingdom.
So he made a request to the Duke of Barlow.
Grand Duke Barlow switched the souls of his wife and Priscilla.
However, Laureen still vividly remembered what Grand Duke Barlow had said.
"Your wife could have lived a good life, but she mistakenly had emotions she shouldn't have had."
"But this misplaced feeling is only natural, and it is something that countless women who have become mothers will definitely have."
The Grand Duke said to him.
In fact, his wife had already approached the Grand Duke.
She had known all along that Laureen was a vampire, and she had known all along what was the cause of Priscilla's serious illness.
Finally, she obtained a solution from the Grand Duke.
The answer is...
"I have no other choice but to have you take Priscilla's place and bear her pain."
"However, even if we do this, it will only turn her into a wandering ghost, but she will not disappear."
"She will keep the memory of when she was seventeen and keep waiting."
"Until the future, when a real solution is found, she will return to her body."
"And you will take her place."
"His soul was scattered and his spirit was destroyed."
So Laureen's wife did just that.
Laurie wouldn't allow her into her daughter's room.
So, on the day Laureen had to leave, she secretly entered her daughter's room.
Coincidentally, Priscilla suffered a manic episode that very night.
Her mania led her to kill her mother, which was exactly what her mother had hoped for.
The Grand Duke swapped their souls, and from then on, Priscilla's mother took her place, suffering from the torment of madness.
They might even lose their minds.
On the day Viktor made the deal with Laureen, Laureen told Viktor the heartbreaking truth.
“My wife has sacrificed her life, and I cannot ignore her last wishes.”
Victor's deep, night-sky-like gaze was fixed on Laureen.
"So, what are your plans?"
With a worried look in her eyes, Laureen lowered her head and spoke frankly to Victor:
"The Grand Duke told me that His Majesty Augustus is unable to control his ambition."
"He wanted to revive the magic and use necromancers again to consolidate his position."
Because the kingdom possesses the Anti-Magic Stone, once August monopolizes it, every high-ranking mage will be controlled by him.
To become August's puppet.
"Therefore, the Grand Duke intends for me to test him."
“If His Majesty August does something truly outrageous, then…”
Earl Laureen will reveal his vampire identity and promise to marry his daughter to August to consolidate his rule as king.
Laureen convinced August with just one reason.
That is, to resurrect his daughter.
"If August really uses this opportunity to resurrect my daughter, he is destined to fail."
The stage will now be taken over by Earl Laureen.
He will use all his power as a prince to turn the entire city of Shulbourne into his blood bank.
In this way, he would bear all the blame and minimize August's influence on the kingdom.
He did this solely to ensure his daughter's safety.
The Grand Duke also allowed him to extract the blood essence of humans within his territory.
The entire territory of Shulburn has millions of humans.
Each person only needs to expend a year or two of their blood essence to allow Priscilla to evolve into a true vampire.
Even so, this was still a painful experience for Laureen.
The hope for her daughter's survival, and the lifespan of a million residents of the territory for a year.
This was a difficult choice.
But Laureen was absolutely certain that the residents would be willing to lend him their life force for the year.
That's right, it's a loan.
This time, he didn't intend to live anymore.
In my entire life, I have only loved two people—
His wife and his daughter.
His wife's sacrifice led Laureen to make her final decision.
"Finally, please kill me."
"Only you, I believe, can completely kill me, who is immortal."
"I will give back my life to everyone with my death."
As others have said.
He was a beloved count.
The holy light transformed into a gentle breeze, passing through Count Laureen's mangled and mangled body.
Countless pieces of flesh and blood were slowly torn apart under the golden light.
Finally, tiny cracks spread across his already shattered body, and thick blood energy poured out into the sky.
In the blink of an eye, countless deep cracks appeared on the pale head on the body, and it vanished like fragments.
The only remaining scarlet eye still gazes at Priscilla.
His gaze met hers, which was both surprised and bewildered, seemingly understanding yet not quite.
Only a faint, gentle voice, audible only to Priscilla herself, rang out:
“Priscilla—”
"My sun, the light in my heart."
"I am willing to give everything, even if I lose everything."
"I only wish that you could escape this endless darkness of suffering."
Finally, Laureen looked up at the sky and gazed at the scorching sun.
Sensing the rapid passing of life, his soul was detached from his flesh and blood.
His soul gradually closed its eyes in mid-air, bidding farewell to this world where the light of day had just broken.
He allowed the holy light and the blazing sun to slowly engulf him.
And he only murmured his last words:
"Praise the sun."
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