Urban Seduction: Housewives Club

Marshall, with both hands severed, looked incredulous. After a long while, he said, "You... you actually crippled me? Aren't you afraid of the Thirteen Clans Council holding you accountable?"

The vampire clan is divided into three main types of people.

The lowest are blood slaves. These people are mostly ordinary people whose bodies have been transformed by the blood energy of vampires. Although they can maintain their youth, their lifespan is only one or two times that of ordinary humans, and their strength is not much greater, only a few times stronger than ordinary people, equivalent to an elite soldier.

The middle class consists of ordinary people who have undergone the "First Embrace". Although these people have also been transformed, the transformation is not by blood energy, but by the essence blood of pure-blooded vampires.

After being transformed by the essence blood, these ordinary people can obtain titles, and in terms of lifespan and strength, they are no different from pure-blooded vampires.

If there is any difference, it is that those who become vampires through the "First Embrace" have a difficulty in advancing in titles that is more than ten times that of pure-blooded vampires, and they also do not have the ability to reproduce or create offspring.

The last and highest class of vampires are naturally those with pure bloodlines. This group of vampires is extremely rare, numbering only a few thousand.

Given the rarity of pure-blooded vampires, the Thirteen Clans Council issued a joint order as early as the Middle Ages, prohibiting the killing of pure-blooded vampires under any circumstances.

However, there are disputes and conflicts among vampires. Although killing is not allowed, many are crippled, or even severely disabled to the point of no recovery. This is also a serious loss for the vampire clan.

Therefore, the Thirteen Clans Council later added a supplementary rule, prohibiting causing irreparable harm to pure-blooded vampires...

Listening to Marshall's accusation, Skidmore laughed, feeling very proud. "Of course I'm afraid of the Thirteen Clans Council's punishment! But the question is, will they hold me accountable?"

Marshall angrily and fearfully exclaimed, "You want to kill me to keep me quiet..."

Skidmore shook his head with a smile, saying, "There's no need for that! Don't forget. After that rule, there was a supplementary explanation — except for those who violate the rule against causing irreparable harm to pure-blooded vampires!"

As Marshall was inexplicably astonished, Skidmore released his suppressed power, revealing his force field as a Grand Duke.

Under the absolute law of "superiority and inferiority", Marshall involuntarily trembled. A strong impulse to bow and worship rose in his heart.

Under the pressure of the upper echelons' force fields, the blood energy in Marshall's body deprived him of control over his body. His face twisted, showing his inner struggle and resistance, but his body involuntarily knelt down. Facing Skidmore's triumphant smile, Marshall yelled in indignation, "How is this possible, how is this possible..."

"Accept reality, my dear godfather!" Skidmore's mood was exceptionally relaxed.

Marshall, unable to see Skidmore, muttered absentmindedly, "America has not been blessed by the blood ancestor Cain. There is nothing that can help increase the blood energy! Even if you secretly stayed in Europe, it is impossible to leap two levels from Count to Duke in just three hundred years, and achieve the strength of a Grand Duke..."

Marshall couldn't understand. Although the vampire clan had powerful abilities and a long life, they did not have any "cultivation methods". The methods of cultivation in the vampire clan were only for the application of skills, and there was no shortcut to increasing blood energy.

In the nearly ten thousand years of vampire history, many outstanding talents had emerged. However, no matter how brilliant and determined they were, they could not create a method to rapidly accumulate blood energy. The only way was to accumulate it over time!

In the history of the vampire clan, the fastest recorded promotion from Count to Duke took eight hundred years.

Marshall deeply understood that the qualifications of the disciple he had watched grow up were definitely not comparable to those of the famous vampire genius. Therefore, he had a very strong doubt about Skidmore's current strength.

Suddenly, he thought of a possibility and widened his eyes, saying, "Who... who are you exactly?"

Skidmore was slightly stunned and puzzled. "What are you talking about?"

Marshall stared at Skidmore intently and said, "Who exactly are you, the Duke? Why are you pretending to be my disciple and plotting to seize my estate? Aren't you afraid of our lord in France, Duke de Gaulle?"

Marshall thought that the disciple who had appeared out of nowhere was a crude impostor. It was a disguise deliberately made by some big shots who wanted to "usurp power" in order to have a legitimate reason...

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Seeing Marshall's gaze filled with suspicion, Skidmore finally understood his meaning and couldn't help but burst into laughter.

Perhaps misunderstanding Skidmore's laughter, Marshall asked with a dejected expression, "Could it be, my lord, that you are sent by Duke de Gaulle?"

It's no wonder Marshall would think so, because Duke de Gaulle did have such intentions.

The social system of the vampire clan is somewhat similar to the Warring States period in Japan. Under the major families, besides direct vassals, there are also many minor families.

And the Marshall family is a vassal of the de Gaulle family.

More than once, Duke de Gaulle hinted that Marshall should become his direct vassal, but Marshall was unwilling and always pretended to be confused.

Although Duke de Gaulle had great strength and vast influence, due to the internal rules of the vampire clan, the leader of the clan naturally could not directly intervene in this matter.

He could only control the Marshall family through means such as "puppets," and then announce its merger into the de Gaulle family, so as not to arouse suspicion.

The only one qualified to obtain the rights of the Marshall family, besides Marshall and his direct descendants, was the "former lord" Skidmore.

Therefore, Marshall's conjecture was not groundless.

"My godfather, my godfather," Skidmore shook his head, "you are still the same as before, always complicating things..."

Marshall stared at Skidmore for a while, then asked nervously, "Are you really my disciple? And the Duke?"

Skidmore nodded, "I am naturally Skidmore, the true master of Château Champagne!"

Marshall didn't pay attention to Skidmore's positioning of himself. He breathed a sigh of relief in his heart and then asked with a puzzled expression, "Skidmore, my disciple, how did you achieve the level of a Duke in just three hundred years?"

Skidmore looked at Eric gratefully and admirably, without speaking, just touching the storage bracelet given by his master.

Marshall didn't notice Skidmore's gaze towards Eric. He thought Skidmore was reluctant to tell the truth because of Eric!

From Skidmore's touch and expression, Marshall had a guess. Plus, Skidmore had now restrained his force field, so he acted without hesitation, even not waiting for the action of "standing up."

After probing with blood energy, Marshall could be sure that the bracelet on his disciple's hand was definitely a magical item full of dark aura, and its concentration of dark aura far exceeded any dark artifact he had ever seen.

I believe that even the legendary Dark Holy Artifact is no match for it.

These storage bracelets were not made from Eric's chaotic magic power.

Firstly, because Skidmore and the others were dark creatures, they could only use dark magic equipment.

Secondly, because of the high demand, if Eric relied solely on his own magic power, it would take who knows how long to refine thousands of storage bracelets!

Therefore, Eric used the Deathly Yin Qi of the Malignant Monastery as his workshop, using the endless Deathly Yin Qi to refine the storage bracelets, which enabled him to refine all the necessary equipment in less than a month.

The storage bracelets made from the Deathly Yin Qi naturally carried a dark aura, and it was this aura that made Marshall misunderstand.

With Eric's strength and alchemical skills, Marshall naturally could not understand the characteristics of the bracelet. However, the strong dark aura made him stunned, his mind empty, leaving only two words — Holy Artifact.

His eyes uncontrollably showed a greedy look. Marshall stared at the "legendary Dark Holy Artifact" without blinking!

Unsatisfied with Marshall's greedy look at the treasure bestowed by his master, Skidmore released his force field again slightly.

Just as Marshall was finally completely sober and understood his current situation, he sighed softly. Just as he was about to resign himself to his fate, he suddenly smelled a strong smell of blood.

Looking back in the direction of the smell, his face turned pale instantly.

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Previously, he was so focused on confronting Skidmore that he didn't care about anything else. Later, he was shocked by his own speculation and had no mind to care about other things.

And now, he finally admitted his failure, remembered his subordinates and descendants, and prepared to leave with them.

But who would have thought that he didn't even see a complete person, only a mess of blood and flesh.

He had never thought that.

The enemy he faced was so ruthless that he wiped out more than a hundred people.

Marshall felt very heartbroken.

Although only three out of the one hundred and twenty-six people were pure-blooded vampires, one of them was his direct descendant, and the others were mostly barons who had been "embraced" for the first time.

Such a loss was absolutely unbearable for the Marshall family.

Marshall was very scared because he knew that with the strength of his subordinates and descendants, they were already enough to deal with the Golden Knights.

However, now they had been "silently" dismembered, and in a very short time.

Looking at Eric, who was smiling faintly, Marshall's heart turned cold.

Although he couldn't sense any dark power from the opponent, the opponent was obviously more reckless than dark creatures.

And more ruthless and brutal than dark creatures.

This person could not even be described as cruel anymore, looking at how he tore people into pieces alive,

It could be seen that this person was bloodthirsty. And now he had to face this bloodthirsty enemy, he didn't know what fate awaited him?

Marshall tried hard to dispel the feeling of fear in his heart. He didn't know how Skidmore would treat him.

If there was only Skidmore on the scene, then he was sure he could save his life.

But now there was another ferocious and bloodthirsty outsider here, and Marshall dared not be sure!

Because according to the rules of the vampire clan, as long as it wasn't Skidmore personally, even if Marshall died in front of him, he wouldn't be blamed by the Thirteen Clans Council!

Fortunately, Skidmore had no intention of killing his godfather, and let him and his remaining few descendants go.

With the remaining clan members, Marshall stood on a hill, looking at the picturesque Château Champagne from afar, and thought bitterly, "Wait, I will come back, I will come back with Duke de Gaulle and his army. Skidmore, what you owe me, I will get back twice as much..."

Having said that, Marshall knew that he no longer had the qualifications to request anything from Duke de Gaulle.

Duke de Gaulle would not go against a new lord with the strength of a duke for a fallen man!

However, Marshall was confident that he could persuade Duke de Gaulle, not for anything else, but for the "Holy Artifact" that was enough to make even a prince tempted...

Skidmore, who had regained Château Champagne and all his family property, originally wanted to seek revenge on the Broumell family with Eric, but Eric stopped him.

"Now that you have just regained your family property, stay and make arrangements first. Don't let your assets be lost because of the change of the lord!"

"Yes, master!"

Skidmore said solemnly, "I will make sure to take care of the property for the master and prevent anyone from taking advantage of it..."

Eric nodded and said, "Summon some more people from the country and start our plan."

"Yes, master!" Skidmore looked a little excited, "We will definitely not disappoint the master's trust and will make France the cornerstone of the master's control over Europe..."