The Chess Game

Su Ran had personally seen the scene described in the report happen twice.

The first time was outside Laita City, when the Shadow Witch had summoned the Sequence Five Blood Knight.

At that time, she had used a magic formation constructed from the blood of magical beasts for the summoning.

Using the bones and blood of the blood beast as a foundation, a large skeleton was formed, and then countless flesh and blood clung to the skeleton, forming the appearance of the Blood Knight.

A similar description could be obtained: a new body was reorganized on top of the original body.

The second time was in Hermel, when the Church knight Korn had used two magic formations to gain power and advance.

However, after a surge of flesh and blood, Korn’s final appearance still maintained a human form.

In general, according to the description in the report, the changes in the vampire Earls were more inclined to the type that had occurred in Laita City.

“The killer of both mutated Earls was the Vampire Princess, Evelise. The Federation has obtained half of the monster’s body.”

The report also included a photo of half of the monster’s body.

The entire vampire corpse was neatly divided.

The half that the Federation had obtained was the right side.

Apart from the wound cut open by the giant scythe, the rest of the body had no obvious external injuries.

“The heart of the vampire monster was taken away. We can only analyze the corpse through other organs.”

A small complaint from a researcher was also left on the half-body photo.

Su Ran carefully observed the monster transformed from the vampire.

It was different from the Blood Knight she had seen before, seeming to be rougher, but in the fine details, she could find many similar details between the two.

Su Ran now roughly knew where the Holy Stone energy that had appeared in the Northern Border City might have come from.

‘The Federation should have detected the mysterious energy from this corpse. Indeed, I did not find the clues I thought I would on the corpse.’

Where exactly it was on the corpse, Su Ran would need to see it with her own eyes to be clear.

There was another point.

This Vampire Princess named Evelise, she hadn’t expected to see her name in the report.

She had almost single-handedly killed one mutated Earl, and then teamed up with Nie Ping to kill another.

From the combat power she displayed, it seemed that when she fought with Teacher Bai Yun, she had not used her full strength.

Although her name contained the word “Eve,” this was just a transliteration of the vampire language.

Su Ran was not someone who could be so easily confused.

She flipped through the remaining pages of the report, preparing to browse the description of the battle with the mutated Earls.

“According to the report submitted by Nie Ping, when fighting the mutated Earls, he was occasionally disturbed by whispers in his ear. When he tried to recall the specific content of the whispers after the battle, he couldn’t remember it clearly.”

Seeing this, Su Ran could already confirm that the mutated Earls that appeared in the Northern Border City had some common connection with the Blood Knight that appeared in Laita City.

At that time, she had blocked the whispers’ influence on her by blocking out the volume.

However, this was the real world.

Nie Ping certainly couldn’t replicate her method.

It was inevitable that he would be disturbed.

The appearance of the Holy Stone energy in the Northern Border City and its connection to the homicide case linked the events in Laita City and Hermel with the Northern Border City.

The key that threaded through them and connected the events was the Holy Stone and the monster called the Blood Knight.

The homicide case and the monster that appeared in the Northern Border City, two seemingly unrelated events on the surface, actually had a hidden connection.

If she hadn’t seen it, others might not have been able to connect them.

Thinking of this, Su Ran broke out in a cold sweat.

The two things she had encountered in reality made her feel as if she were in a big chess game.

If it weren’t for the appearance of the Witch Game, her immobile self, unable to become a superhuman, would have long since died in Li Ming’s attack, becoming a dead chess piece that had been taken off the board.

At the same time, she wouldn’t have been able to glimpse the hidden conspiracy behind the events in the other world.

With the variable of the Witch Game, to transform from a chess piece to a chess player, Su Ran still needed some time to grow.

In the end, she, who was in the chess game, was still too weak.

The only thing that this variable in the chess game could do now was to turn passivity into initiative and find the person behind the control of the chess game!

But it was easier said than done.

When it really came to catching them, it was very difficult to find the chess player behind the scenes.

Currently, based on the clues, Su Ran had only found Teacher Pan of Beizhou Academy.

It would be very difficult to find the vampire hiding behind the scenes through him.

This report about the Northern Border City that Winnie had given her had provided her with many useful clues.

Whether it was the mutated Earls or the events happening in the two worlds, all of these had benefited Su Ran greatly, and at the same time, her sense of urgency had increased.

“Manager, where should I put the report?”

Seeing that the living room was empty, Su Ran could only ask out loud.

“You can take it back to your room to keep for now. I’ll come find you later.”

Winnie’s voice came from her room.

Seeing this, Su Ran could only put on her slippers and slowly move back to her room.

Hearing the click of the closing door, Winnie looked at the mirror floating in the air, radiating light.

“Alright, Winnie, let’s continue our previous topic.”

Although Eve’s desire to ask Winnie about Su Ran’s recent situation was constantly growing, her rationality made her suppress the longing in her heart.

This communication magic that Winnie was using was not as stable and continuous as a fixed communication point, so it was generally used to report emergencies.

“According to Su Ran’s speculation, the mysterious energy that appeared connects the Northern Border City with the homicide cases. If I’m not mistaken, the vampire traitor behind Hyde who stole the puppet art and the one who incited the nobles to raid are the same group of people.”

Combining the intelligence provided by Su Ran with the actual problems encountered by the vampires, Winnie gave her own speculation.

“Isn’t that a good thing? We only need to clean up one group of traitors.”

Shrugging her shoulders, Eve put on a relaxed expression.

Just as Winnie was about to say something, to emphasize that Eve needed to take a serious attitude…

Eve said with a serious face, “I also got a lot of clues from Headmaster Milady.”

Then, Eve told Winnie everything she had heard in the underground of Planden.

“So, this mysterious energy is actually a kind of corruption?”

Hearing this sentence, Winnie’s pupils shrank.

“No, it’s still not certain that the mysterious energy is related to the corruption. We’ve only found the existence of this energy in both the living and the dead. But the corruption mentioned by the headmaster only exists in the living.”

Eve did not say it definitively.

Currently, Headmaster Milady’s research on this energy was also only at a preliminary stage.

“But Xiao Ran is really amazing. The energy that Headmaster Milady needs to set up multiple magic formations to sense, she can detect it with her own power.”

Winnie saw a smile appear at the corner of Eve’s lips as she said this, as if she were an ordinary girl who had fallen in love.