Vampires were creatures that were between human beings and demons. They were like humans, but not humans, and demons, but not demons.
It was impossible to find out how the first vampire was born, but all the vampires after that were transformed from human beings. On one hand, they maintained the language, worldview, and habits of human beings, and on the other hand, the blood of demons flowed in their bodies, which made them behave differently from ordinary people.
Looking at the bat that was flying in the night sky, Beta knew that it was definitely a vampire. Because it was winter, even bat beasts were hibernating. What else could a bat that could fly in such weather be other than a vampire?
The black bat was getting further and further away in the heavy snow, when a streak of golden light lunged at it from behind. After a scream, the bat instantly turned into a hundred bats and scattered.
The streak of golden light was Joan Of Arc. She flew back and forth in the sky at a high speed. After pecking a few bats to death, she could only watch the other bats scatter.
Beta shook his head. This was the best thing about vampires. They could transform into countless bats, and as long as one survived, they would be able to return to their original appearance. Their memories, consciousness, and soul would be completely preserved.
Of course, there was a price to pay. Even if they could be reunited after turning into so many bat clones, they would still lose a lot of mental power and magic power. In other words, they would be greatly weakened. Generally speaking, vampires wouldn't use this trump card unless they were in danger.
"I've pissed off a vampire." Shirley came to Beta and said, "This creature is very vindictive. Do you have any good ways to deal with it?"
Vampires were born with invisibility and charm abilities. Ordinary professionals would always find it troublesome to fight against vampires because they were very good at sneak attacks in the dark and had strong survivability. Even if they could beat them back, as long as they couldn't kill them, they would keep coming back, and it was impossible to guard against them.
But Beta smiled and said, "I've killed a lot of vampires. They're truly powerful, but they have obvious weaknesses. "
In the game, Beta had accepted several quests to kill vampires, so he had a good understanding of these creatures. Now that he had the talent ability of the Cloud Dragon Blue Pupil, he could see through invisibility and illusions. It could be said that he was the natural enemy of vampires. If the other party came to find trouble with him, he would most likely not be able to return.
However, there were few vampires in Hollevin in the first place. Now that one had appeared, Beta believed that there were many more vampires hiding among humans.
However, it was still too early to consider this matter. Beta glanced at the pile of corpses before him and tossed a Magic Scroll into the air. Stone to Mud.
The land where the corpses were immediately turned into a swamp. After all the corpses were submerged in the swamp, Beta threw a Magic Scroll into the swamp, Mud to Stone.
The corpses had sunk into the depths of the soil, and there were no signs of them on the surface. Lloyd watched this scene from the side, and his heart grew colder. He immediately urged his clansmen to work hard and collect the meat of the dead horses. It was winter now, so the food wouldn't go bad easily. As long as he found an opportunity to get some salt, he could turn the horse meat into bacon.
How long had it been since they had meat?
Lloyd looked at his clansmen who were greedy but didn't dare to eat raw horse meat, and his heart was burning. Just now, the master said that the horse meat was for them. As long as there was meat to eat, their bodies would be better, and the Yorks would be less likely to be destroyed.
Seeing that the Yorks were quite obedient, Beta returned to the carriage and went to sleep in Mystra's Mansion.
Shirley wanted to squeeze in next to him, but Beta drove her to Alice's original room on the first floor, which made her very unhappy.
At dawn the next day, Beta came out of Mystra's Mansion and saw the slaves huddled together eating rations. The horse meat had been divided and processed, and was placed in the truck behind the donkey cart.
Seeing Beta come out, Lloyd hurriedly saluted and greeted him.
Beta nodded and took out rations from his space for Shirley and Jessica. By the time the three of them finished breakfast, the slaves were already waiting to set off.
They walked for another day, and in the evening, they reached their destination, Beta's territory, the wetlands.
This was originally a swamp. There were no tall trees or undulating hills, and when it snowed in winter, it would turn into a boundless ice field.
Because there was no shelter, the winter wind here was particularly strong and cold.
The Yorks wore thick linen clothes, so they didn't feel too cold. Beta used earth magic to build a high ring-shaped wall to block the cold wind and put the Yorks inside. Of course, such measures could only ensure that the Yorks could survive for a short time. If they wanted to live here, they had to have the minimum guarantee of survival, namely food and shelter.
Beta found Lloyd and gave him a blueprint, asking, "Can you understand it?"
Lloyd glanced at it and nodded.
Beta continued, "These houses are built for you. Three or four people will live in one room. It's up to you whether or not it's built well. "
Lloyd couldn't believe his ears. After hesitating for a while, he carefully asked, "Master, you're saying that these houses are built for us, and we can have our own property?"
Beta said indifferently, "Yes."
Lloyd took a deep breath. "But we're just slaves. According to the rules, slaves can't have any private property. "
"You're my slaves." Beta said indifferently, "I'm letting you have some private property. What does that have to do with other people? If anyone dares to object, tell them to find me. "
If Beta had said such domineering words two days ago, Lloyd naturally wouldn't have believed them. After all, while Beta looked like a spellcaster, he looked gentle and refined. Before activating his noble aura, people would think that he was easy to talk to. To be more serious, they would think that he was weak and easy to bully.
But in the past two days, Lloyd had personally witnessed Betta burn the members of the slave hunters to death, directly wipe out the entire cavalry after being threatened, and even bury the corpses to erase the evidence. He did these things that ordinary people thought were lawless, but he didn't even blink.
No matter how inconceivable the words of such a fierce person were, they were powerful and resonant.
Lloyd returned to his people with the blueprint and announced Beta's decision. As expected, after a short silence, the Yorks cheered wildly. While they were still slaves, they had clothes to wear, food to eat, and soon, they would have houses to live in.
All the slaves truly felt that their happy times were coming.
Their excitement made them exceptionally motivated to work. As soon as Lloyd announced his decision, they surrounded him and asked when he would start work. They couldn't wait to start work and build their houses as soon as possible.
Lloyd thought for a moment and said, "Master has already given me the blueprint, and there are tools on the donkey cart. If you really can't wait, you can start now. I think Master won't blame you."
Hearing this, the slaves rushed to the donkey cart, grabbed the tools, and ran out. Lloyd shouted, "Come back, all of you! Do you know where to dig the foundation? What's the rush? Come back! "
The group of slaves who ran the fastest returned to Lloyd's side and listened to his orders.
Shirley saw this scene from the carriage and smiled. "Master, you're really amazing. It's so easy to make those slaves go crazy. They won't have to be careless when they work in the future."
"Actually, as long as you understand what they want, it's easy to do this." Beta jumped down from the carriage and continued, "This is a swamp. Although we've already built a road to Charonte, we need a lot of construction stone if we want to build a city. Mud to Stone can turn the swamp into land, but it can't produce qualified stone. For this reason, we have to build a road to Harvey."
"Harvey, is there a lot of stone there?"
"Yes, that city is at the foot of the mountain." Beta thought for a moment and said, "But that city is more resistant to outsiders. I don't know if it's still the same after three hundred years."
Shirley's eyes widened. "Master seems to have been to many places."
"Sort of."
There was a hint of longing in Beta's words. Shirley was very understanding. Hearing this, she didn't ask any more questions and just snuggled up to the man.
Four days later, Beta and Shirley used Mud to Stone to open a road to Harvey. He had spent 8,000 magic scrolls in the past few days, which meant that he had less than half of the gold bars in his personal space.
And the money needed to build a big city was definitely more than that.
In the game, Beta had the help of his cousin and other players who contributed a lot of magic and construction materials for free. He also abducted many game NPCs to become citizens. With the huge group of players, he had finally built the city. But now, he had to rely on himself. Fortunately, he still had a lot of money. He planned to do some business and slowly build the city. Anyway, building a city couldn't be done in a short time, so he wasn't in a hurry.
At this time, the York slaves had already built a third of the foundations of their many houses. Beta estimated that he had to go to Harvey now to buy the construction stones. Otherwise, he wouldn't be able to keep up with the Yorks' progress.
In addition, the Yorks had to have some logistics.
So Beta felt that he had to go to Harvey and build a large caravan of his own.