Chapter 19 Success and Change

　　Yekaterina had dinner at Pierre's house, and it was already night when she walked out of the apartment.

　　The dim yellow gas lamps on the street had already been lit, and the shadows of pedestrians were stretched long.

　　As soon as she walked out of the door, a bright black car drove over from the corner of the street.

　　Walking over, the driver wearing white gloves got out of the car and respectfully opened the door for her.

　　Before getting in the car, Yekaterina looked back at the inconspicuous house, a strange color flashed in her eyes and disappeared.

　　She originally came with full of expectations, but when she really got results that were higher than expected, she felt无比平静 (wúbǐ píngjìng, extremely calm) instead.

　　After all, her state of mind was different.

　　Before, the Lance family had always wanted to get the support of this old man. Once his approval was obtained, most of the obstacles in the Luying political situation could be swept away.

　　After the Brumaire Coup, imperial power declined. After the restoration of the Empress, although the Bonaparte royal family was still in power, the Luying political situation was now obviously at a critical juncture of turmoil. Especially after the current Divine Authority Belief Act, discerning people could see that there were major problems within the Luying royal family.

　　Not only the Martha Empire, but also various forces within Luying were eager to move, and there would inevitably be major changes in the future.

　　Not only the Lance family, but all forces in Luying were vying for the support of this old man.

　　But people at that level could no longer be moved by any interests. In his eyes, there was only his own belief.

　　Even though the Lance family had a good relationship with the old man, and had tried to visit him many times, they had not received a response.

　　But why did he suddenly change?

　　Yekaterina recalled today's conversation, but didn't quite understand.

　　But this teacher who was walking towards the end of his life did give her too much guidance.

　　All the difficulties were suddenly cleared up.

　　She didn't look any further, turned around and got into the car.

　　...

　　Two days later, in that rented house in the Franklin District.

　　The light of the alchemical array had completely dimmed, and the various materials used to draw the array had lost their original color and turned ashen.

　　In the array, Su Lun was meditating with his eyes closed.

　　Just then, he suddenly opened his eyes, his eyes full of vigor.

　　Old Crow, who was dozing off by the window, also opened his eyes and looked at Su Lun with his head tilted, seeming to have noticed something different, and croaked.

　　Su Lun smiled and responded, "Yes, I've successfully advanced."

　　He stood up, shook his hands and feet, and put on a set of clothes.

　　He had finally advanced to Rank 6.

　　This feeling was great!

　　This major threshold for other professionals, Su Lun crossed almost effortlessly, without any difficulty.

　　He had already reaped too much Rank 6 knowledge of various laws, and had enough Rank understanding.

　　The most important thing was that after comprehending Overlord Aura, that kind of control over everything made it easy for him to grasp the insights of advancement.

　　And the only uncertain factor in the advancement was the fused material.

　　The [Lilith's Vampire Ring] was of a very high grade, and its curse characteristics were very strong. Even with the suppression of the Fallen Angel bloodline, Su Lun clearly felt the crazy bloodthirsty desire during this fusion process.

　　He also understood somewhat why Augustus would desperately look for blood food before, exposing himself to such a big disaster. Because that feeling of distortion could not be suppressed by willpower at all.

　　But fortunately, everything went smoothly.

　　Looking at his attribute panel with the All-Knowing Eye, a look of joy also appeared on Su Lun's face.

　　Strength, tenacity, Qi and blood, spiritual capacity, nerve reaction speed... etc. All data had almost comprehensively increased by 30-40%. This increase would also increase greatly as he stabilized his rank later.

　　And he also gained a pseudo-talent skill attached to the material advancement - [Blood Devour].

　　The essence of this ability was that alchemy grafted part of the vampire's blood-sucking ability to the professional.

　　Although the overall blood-sucking ability was weakened compared to the vampires, when the ancient grand alchemist refined this ring, he not only used [Finger Bone of the Vampire Progenitor], but also used a mythical material [Digestive Mucosa of the Hellfire Salamander].

　　This configuration was very clever, making the ring more suitable for professionals to obtain a stronger physical growth ability after advancing.

　　This was another great late-stage ability.

　　Su Lun was very satisfied.

　　Absorption would slowly stack, and the physical body would become stronger and stronger.

　　Thinking of something, he took out a cultivated Titan Octopus from his storage space.

　　The術式 (shùshì, spell) condensed, and a red six-pointed star alchemical array lit up in his palm, and a vortex black hole immediately appeared.

　　A huge suction force struck, and the seven- or eight-meter-long octopus didn't even have time to struggle before it was directly digested by alchemy into energy fragments, and then merged into his body.

　　The whole process lasted about half a minute, and only some dried octopus tissue powder was left on the ground.

　　After devouring it, Su Lun clearly felt a sense of fullness in his body.

　　Looking at the attribute panel, absorbing an octopus increased the strength, tenacity, and other attributes by about 1 point. This was just a temporary gain effect. In the end, there might only be about 1% of the attributes that permanently amplified his physical body.

　　Although it was a little less, Su Lun was very satisfied.

　　Accumulation makes perfection.

　　In the future, he could specialize in acquiring and hunting some advanced magical beasts and deep-sea behemoths to devour, which was very promising.

　　...

　　Satisfied with the effect of the new ability after personally testing it, Su Lun looked at his hands again, and chuckled to himself, "Void術式 (shùshì, spell) and this [Blood Devour] are quite compatible."

　　Low-level vampires can only use their teeth to bite targets and suck blood.

　　That method was too inefficient.

　　But just now, Su Lun directly used the Void術式 (shùshì, spell) to form a black hole of suction, and then alchemy broke down the target energy, controlled it within a certain space, and then absorbed it...

　　A set of three-in-a-row composite術式 (shùshì, spell) cooperation became this new skill of [Void Blood Devour], which was super efficient.

　　Otherwise, he would have to insert his hand into the octopus's body to absorb it.

　　It's not that Su Lun himself was so awesome that he could master this new ability so skillfully as soon as he advanced.

　　But he took a shortcut.

　　Except that the Void術式 (shùshì, spell) was added by himself, everything else was the century of experience stripped from the soul of that old monster Augustus.

　　That guy had been absorbing with this ring for a hundred years, and his devouring ability had reached perfection.

　　Su Lun directly stripped it away, saving the skill break-in period.

　　Otherwise, if he had to rely on his own to explore absorbing this octopus, it would take him at least ten or twenty minutes for the first time, and the absorption rate would be low.

　　After all, it was a very complex process to remove impurities, screen usable energy, absorb efficiently, transfer energy, etc.

　　...

　　Su Lun tried the new ability, and then began to meditate again, carefully experiencing the feeling of advancing to Rank 6.

　　Although he had already reaped enough Rank 6 knowledge, there were still many aspects that he had thought differently before when he really advanced.

　　After all, supernatural power was very mysterious. Some levels of things could not be experienced at all unless you reached a certain realm.

　　It was like the hormonal restlessness of puberty. If you weren't old enough, you wouldn't be restless even if you saw a peerless beauty.

　　This meditation took another half a day.

　　Suddenly, when Su Lun's will was checking what materials he could use in Rank 6 in the Small Void Realm, he found a huge red crystal in the corner - the [Thousand-Man Blood Refining Crystal Core].

　　This was the spoils he had gained when he broke through the conspiracy of those Giant Hermit Society people who were bloodletting the entire cruise ship when he came to Luying before.

　　This thing was useless to Su Lun, so it had been collecting dust in the warehouse.

　　But now, his mind flashed and he suddenly opened his eyes.

　　"Since [Blood Devour] can devour all life essence, can this crystal core be absorbed?"

　　The thought popped into Su Lun's mind, and he instantly became active.

　　This thing contained powerful life essence, so it could theoretically be absorbed.

　　But this thing was originally for the evil god. In addition to life essence, it also had a lot of negative mental power, dangerous energy, and divinity.

　　If ordinary professionals dared to absorb it, the probability of going crazy and becoming distorted was extremely high.

　　A few days ago, Su Lun didn't dare to pay attention to this thing.

　　But after absorbing Augustus, he felt it was feasible.

　　That guy had been immersed in devouring ability for more than a hundred years, and he had thoroughly studied the relevant術式 (shùshì, spell) of "converting foreign energy into one's own use". There were perfect ways to deal with all kinds of negative energy and solve the sequelae.

　　The first time Su Lun saw this crystal core, he had already thought of various ways to deal with it in his mind.

　　It was like puffer fish, which would be very delicious if the toxins were properly handled.

　　After a moment, Su Lun made a judgment: it could be absorbed!

　　In the room, he took out the huge red crystal and knocked off a small piece of about 1%.

　　As soon as the術式 (shùshì, spell) condensed, the red crystal in his palm was quickly absorbed.

　　After stripping away those negative energies, it was absorbed very smoothly.

　　Su Lun looked at the data increase on the attribute panel, his eyes widened instantly, and he exclaimed in his heart, "Such a small piece of crystal, bringing an increase to the physical body, is actually a hundred times more than that octopus just now?"

　　He was really shocked.

　　If the entire blood crystal was absorbed, he could predict that his physical strength would directly increase by 10%!

　　What a terrifying concept was this?

　　He had only increased by 30-40% when he first advanced to Rank 6, and this was 10%?

　　No wonder the evil gods liked to play this game. This... was simply a super shortcut to obtain power!

　　With this method, who would honestly cultivate?

　　As long as there were enough blood crystals, Su Lun felt that he could have the physical strength of a top professional in a short time.

　　Countless thoughts flashed through his mind.

　　He suppressed some crazy thoughts in his heart, and mocked himself with a strange expression, "These methods of the Outer Gods are really extremely tempting. It's not easy to guard one's Dao heart..."

　　...

　　While Su Lun was concentrating on advancing to Rank 6.

　　Amelia in the Small Void Realm was extremely puzzled.

　　She had been in this closed medical room for three days, and the symptoms caused by excessive blood loss had long been cured.

　　This seemed to be a hospital?

　　It didn't seem like it.

　　Amelia knew that she had been rescued, so she waited patiently in the room.

　　Waiting for the person who saved her to let her out.

　　Just because she was bored, she started her daily training, fighting, strength, physical fitness...

　　Then, when she practiced, she found a big problem!

　　Amelia found that her body had "mutated".

　　Her strength had increased several times, and her skin's toughness, recovery ability, nerve reaction... All kinds of physical conditions had increased several times!

　　This scared her badly.

　　Had she become distorted?

　　Although there was no mirror in the room, Amelia still touched her whole body and didn't find any distorted organs.

　　But this was strange.

　　Her rank was still Rank 2, but why was there such a big change?

　　Could it be that she had been taken to some secret laboratory for some secret experiments? Did the person who saved her have ulterior motives?

　　Eh... that's not right.

　　Amelia remembered vaguely that the client seemed to have saved her?

　　However, just when she was planning to find a chance to forcefully break open the room and go out, a space channel suddenly appeared in the room.

　　...

　　Su Lun opened a space channel in the room. He looked at Amelia, who hadn't understood the situation in the ward, and greeted, "Come out."

　　The previous batch of rescued girls had been sent out. Because he knew that Amelia was Old Cowboy's assistant, and Old Cowboy's whereabouts were now unknown, he left her behind.

　　But in order not to let outsiders know too much about the secrets of the Small Void Realm, Su Lun had people arrange her in this independent room.

　　However, Su Lun had been advancing these two days, and he really... forgot about her.

　　Now that he had finished advancing, he remembered to get her out.

　　Amelia looked confused. Hearing the reminder, she took a step out of the space channel in the ward, and then appeared in the rented house.

　　What an advanced space術式 (shùshì, spell)!

　　She sighed in her heart, and turned to look at the person who had saved her life twice. After all, she was full of gratitude, and that little resentment was hidden in her heart.

　　As soon as she came out, Amelia's occupational disease relapsed. She eagerly wanted to know what had happened during this period, so she asked, "Sir, did you save me? What exactly happened?"

　　Su Lun didn't want to waste his breath, and took out the newspapers from the past few days, "There are detailed reports on it. Read it yourself."

　　Amelia took the stack of newspapers and read them carefully.

　　As soon as she looked at it, she was immediately shocked.

　　The newspapers these days had reported in detail what had happened on Parrot Street before.

　　Looking at the terrifying现场 (xiànchǎng, scene) photo in the "Vampire Scandal", weren't there hundreds of girls in the sarcoma, including herself?

　　Amelia also understood what had happened after she was caught by the high-ranking professional of the Black Gang when she went to investigate the missing girls case.

　　So she almost became a vampire's blood food.

　　Eh... this report title?

　　Was this guy in front of her the famous "Grim Reaper"?

　　Amelia glanced at the man opposite her, and swallowed involuntarily. She now knew why her teacher said that this guy in front of her was very powerful.

　　So it was him.

　　No wonder.

　　After reading a few reports, she had a general understanding of the whole incident in her heart.

　　However, when she saw the report of the "S-class wanted criminal 'Hell Judge' Jerome Aufast", her eyes widened instantly.

　　Even in the form of a Demon Lord, she recognized her teacher at a glance.

　　Amelia didn't care about anything else and asked quickly, "Teacher, he...?"

　　Su Lun explained, "In the previous battle on Parrot Street, your teacher went to save you and happened to meet me. Later, I encountered an interception, and he helped me stop the legendary hunter Aimo. Then there were the things about you in the newspaper. I don't know where he is now. But he shouldn't have been caught."

　　Hearing that he hadn't been caught, Amelia also breathed a sigh of relief.

　　At this time, she thought of the mutation in her body and asked, "That... Sir, I found that my body has changed a lot now. It seems to be an unknown distortion?"

　　Su Lun listened to this question, and a strange look flashed across his face.

　　This distortion was something that others couldn't even ask for.

　　He didn't answer directly, but first asked, "What is your talent?"

　　"Ah, talent?"

　　Hearing this, a strange color flashed in Amelia's eyes. She didn't understand why he would suddenly ask this.

　　But thinking that there was nothing to hide from the benefactor who had saved her twice, she said, "I don't know either. But my teacher said that I might have a very rare talent."

　　Su Lun listened expressionlessly, obviously guessing something.

　　Amelia then said in an uncertain tone, "It seems to be... [A-028-Justice Angel]. But my teacher said that I haven't fully awakened yet."

　　Hearing this, Su Lun raised his eyebrows and muttered, "No wonder."

　　...

　　Amelia was a Rank 2 professional, and she was also one of the key targets for Augustus to suck blood for healing.

　　She had lost too much精血 (jīngxuè, essence and blood), and she was on the verge of death when Su Lun rescued her.

　　Even Dr. Banks felt that her condition was a bit棘手 (jíshǒu, tricky) at the time. Even if she was rescued, she would have irreversible sequelae.

　　However, during the treatment process, an unexpected situation occurred.

　　Dr. Banks discovered that there was something abnormal in Amelia's body. After careful research, he found that her gene sequence had a very high degree of overlap with the Fallen Angel bloodline!

　　After Dr. Banks discussed it with Su Lun, he decided to inject her with a [x Serum].

　　Then there was the situation where her body had improved so drastically now.

　　This was a situation that even Su Lun envied.

　　He remembered that he had injected a serum at the beginning, and not only was there a possibility of sudden death, but his skin also turned blue for a long time. Because that was some rejection reaction of the serum改造 (gǎizào, modifying) bloodline.

　　But now Amelia's skin hadn't turned blue at all. In other words, she had a very high degree of compatibility with the x Serum!

　　So the body increase would also be very exaggerated.

　　Su Lun wasn't surprised after hearing that her talent was [Justice Angel].

　　Her bursting sense of justice was not only a problem of thought, but also related to her talent.

　　Although this was an A-level talent, it was indeed very, very rare.

　　She hadn't fully awakened before, but now that she had this potion, not only had her talent fully awakened, but her bloodline had also been perfectly改造 (gǎizào, modified).

　　Her future potential was very great.

　　And now, Su Lun also found that this master and disciple didn't just happen to get together.

　　But there was some special connection.

　　He had asked Mr. Black about the situation in the photo in the newspaper before.

　　Mr. Black speculated that Old Cowboy's talent was the disassembled [A-029-Hell Messenger]. Because of this talent, he could communicate with the hell demon god.

　　An angel and a demon, this combination was also quite outrageous.

　　...

　　"Your injuries were too serious before, so my doctor partner injected you with a bloodline改造 (gǎizào, modifying) potion. But the source of that bloodline potion is very special. Except for your teacher, it's best not to tell others, otherwise it will cause unnecessary trouble."

　　Su Lun didn't want to say more about the x Serum, and just gave a simple explanation.

　　"Oh."

　　Hearing this explanation, Amelia also breathed a sigh of relief and nodded.

　t a distortion.

　　A look of embarrassment flashed across her face again, and she asked, "Ah... then Sir, may I ask how much money I need to pay for this potion?"

　　In the eyes of alchemists, everything has value.

　　Although she didn't know what potion she had been injected with, she knew that it must be very precious to increase a Rank 2 professional so exaggeratedly.

　　Su Lun shook his head and didn't say anything about money, and said, "No need for the reward. Your teacher also saved me."

　　Saving people must be because he thought this woman was worth saving.

　　In addition, it was also a reward for Old Cowboy's help.

　　Listening to Amelia still not knowing what to call him, he said his name, "My name is Su Lun."

　　Amelia also knew that the other party had saved her because of her teacher's sake, and didn't say anything more.

　　Besides, she was very poor.

　　She felt that she couldn't afford the high price at all, so she quickly bowed deeply and sincerely said, "Thank you, Mr. Su Lun, for saving my life."

　　"..."

　　Su Lun also saw that Amelia seemed anxious to leave, probably knowing where to find Old Cowboy.

　　She didn't go into details, and Su Lun didn't mean to keep her.

　　But looking at the hospital gown on her body, Su Lun took out some clothes, necessary weapons for self-defense, and a communicator from his storage space, and said, "Your teacher used the power of the gods, so the situation may be very bad. If you need my help, just contact me. Also, don't be so reckless in the future."

　　Amelia listened very seriously and nodded, "Yeah."

　　...

　　Su Lun sent Amelia away, and he didn't stay in the rented house either.

　　A hiding place that a second person knew was already unsafe.

　　Besides, he had now advanced to Rank 6, and it was time to go out for a walk.

　　Riding his beloved little motorcycle, he strolled around the city.

　　After not going out for a few days, Su Lun first asked Shabina about the recent situation in London.

　　There was nothing particularly noteworthy.

　　The aftermath of Augustus's murder before was indeed quite fierce, but it had no impact on the bottom people. It was all the noble lords of Luying's upper class who were taking advantage of the turmoil to fight for power.

　　Several threatening enemies were now busy with their own affairs.

　　The Rodriguez family had been implicated in many old debts because of the "Vampire Scandal", and there were signs that everyone was pushing the wall that was about to fall. The family's ancestor was killed, and they were still looking for "Grim Reaper" everywhere. The bounty hunters' guild had also posted a high reward. But after the Parrot Street incident, people with a little bit of intelligence saw that this matter was very deep, so the military intelligence department and the police station didn't take any real action;

　　And that young master William hadn't been heard from. It was definitely not in the current interest of the Regadi family to plot against Su Lun, so it was probably a private action. After failing, he would naturally have to hide.

　　Duke Raphael was busy promoting new military preparedness bills in the parliament, and his momentum was very strong. He had vaguely become the "Number One Warlord". His calculation of Su Lun was purely for profit. Although he didn't involve the Lance family, the chaos in the Rodriguez family was enough for him to get a lot of benefits. After the tool man was no longer useful, he didn't continue to target him.

　　And the only news that surprised Su Lun was that the Lance family had suddenly participated in the shares of [Crimson Potion], and then spent a lot of money to hoard a large wave of potions.

　　Su Lun knew that the threat of the "Giant Hermit Society" was imminent. Yekaterina did this probably as a last resort.

　　Since she couldn't suppress it, she might as well hoard the potion herself to prevent the potion from flowing into the market.

　　The resources of the Lance family were enough to stop a large batch of potions from being launched.

　　But this was not a long-term solution.

　　Because on the other hand, the situation of the Red Death was getting worse and worse, and more and more commoners were infected.

　　At the same time, Su Lun was also a little surprised that the Red Death had made such a big fuss in London, but the royal family didn't make any move at all?

　　Even if they were not sure about the conspiracy of the Outer Gods, even if it was an ordinary infectious disease, the royal family should have intervened and controlled it for the safety of the people, right?

　　But the Empress did nothing.

　　She just allowed those great nobles to hoard medicine, let the disease ravage the bottom, and profit from it.

　　Su Lun felt that the royal family had a very big problem.

　　That member of the Giant Hermit Society hiding in the royal family was the big problem.

　　But the news from the Lance family was that they had confirmed that the Empress was not a follower of the evil god.

　　This made Su Lun a little incomprehensible.

　　Moreover, each family had its own intelligence network. After the cruise ship incident, how could they not know anything about the Giant Hermit Society?

　　But they all tacitly stood still.

　　It seemed that they were accumulating power for a turmoil that would inevitably break out in the future.

　　The whole of London was currently in a strange and delicate balance.

　　...

　　Su Lun couldn't participate in the decisions of those great nobles, and he didn't intend to think too much about what kind of depravity there was.

　　But after he stripped Augustus's memory, he found that the source of the "Red Death" directly pointed to that "Curator".

　　That person was responsible for spreading the Red Death, and the Rodriguez family was responsible for [Crimson Potion].

　　Now that Su Lun had advanced to Rank 6, he also planned to put the plan to伏杀 (fúshā, ambush) the "Curator" on the agenda.

　　And he also received good news, that Mirror was about to arrive in London.

　　Su Lun planned to wait for his senior sister to come before taking action, so that it would be foolproof.

　　As for the identity of "Shadow Earl", Shabina had also made a rough guess.

　　After all, the last incident was so big, and there were not many people in the entire Luying who had the ability to suppress it.

　　Although he was not sure which one it was, there would be a Full Moon Ball in a few days, and Su Lun planned to thank him in person.

　　Before that, Su Lun planned to go to the London Royal Bank to take out the treasures that Augustus had stored.