Chapter 101: St. Marian Enters the Great Treasure Hunt Era
Of course, what a ghost would ultimately drop depended on what the professors had put inside.
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Dark Demon, like a cat that had smelled dried fish, put the ten-thousand-candy bag in a certain classroom and quietly crept over.
He wasn't trying to snatch any BOSS; he merely wanted to see what that Vampire Count could drop.
If it really was Vampire Fangs, he might try to negotiate or trade for them.
The so-called "Vampire Fangs" were an alchemical product obtained by sealing a vampire's power within its fangs.
When a vampire sucked a prey's blood, it would pierce its fangs into the prey's blood vessels.
To make blood-sucking more convenient, they would inject a hormone that calmed the prey.
If it was a noble pureblood, the hormone would also contain magical factors, causing the prey to enter a state of ecstasy and, in that ecstasy, become the vampire's most loyal captive.
This was the so-called "Embrace."
The closer a vampire's bloodline was to the progenitor, the better the effect of its fangs.
In the previous era, Vampire Fangs were not rare; after all, vampires had to change their teeth every hundred years.
But with the extinction of their kin, Vampire Fangs became a rare limited item.
Especially since pureblood vampires themselves were few in number, even fewer fangs could be passed down.
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According to Dark Demon's understanding, Vampire Fangs were a type of item that could transform [Wrath] into [Lust], provided its original owner possessed a sufficiently pure vampire bloodline.
So, it wasn't a necessity, but a suppressant and a converter for critical moments.
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Continuing forward with a sliver of hope.
Dark Demon discovered that more and more senior students were gathering.
The aura emanating from the Vampire Count upon its birth was simply too powerful.
Those with sufficiently keen magic perception would immediately be drawn over.
In the blink of an eye.
Around the blood altar in the center of the eighth floor, more than a dozen senior students had gathered.
But everyone followed the unwritten rule, only observing from the surroundings without taking action.
Only if those few senior students who had successfully summoned the Vampire Count encountered danger or failed during the process of subjugating the BOSS would they intervene.
At that time, the BOSS would essentially become ownerless, and whoever snatched it would own it!
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Dark Demon, who arrived later, finally witnessed the prowess of the senior students. The magic spirits accompanying them were all of a second tier or higher, and one could tell from their appearance alone that they possessed extremely powerful auras.
Many of the magic spirits were even unheard-of exclusive spirits.
Dark Demon recalled DemiDevimon into its House Card and cautiously followed behind the senior students.
Through the gaps between people, he clearly saw the Vampire Count on the blood altar.
"No wonder DemiDevimon said it was a Vampire Digimon; it really looks quite similar. But it seems all vampire nobles have this image."
Blood was still continuously gushing out from that altar.
"Blood is power!"
Above the rolling spring of blood, the pale-faced Vampire Count, draped in a deep red blood cloak, roared with its arms outstretched.
Above its head, a sea of blood churned, and bats swarmed.
One blood beast after another was born from the blood, fearlessly pouncing on the few senior students who had "summoned" it.
There were a total of five senior students, their grades indistinguishable as they were not wearing school uniforms.
But their strength was exceptionally formidable.
The five senior students each stood at a corner.
Each person controlled at least three magic spirits.
The blood beasts born from the sea of blood were each at least six-star ferocious behemoths.
But those five senior students still eliminated the blood beasts steadily and quickly.
They were unhurried, aiming to reduce the Vampire Count's power through this method—blood was the source of its power!
When the sea of blood that generated the blood beasts completely dried up, that would be when the Vampire Count met its demise.
Otherwise, it would likely regenerate endlessly!
Every bat that flew out was its clone.
It would reappear in any corner of the castle after regenerating.
So, it could not be killed before the sea of blood was completely purified.
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This was a principle that even Dark Demon could understand, so naturally, the senior students should understand it too.
Thus, after two or three minutes, more and more students realized that subjugating this Vampire Count would be an extremely tedious and lengthy affair.
So, while people kept arriving, people also kept leaving.
Only Dark Demon remained, watching with great interest.
Whether it was the blood beasts born from the sea of blood, the strength displayed by the five as they eliminated the blood beasts, or even the Vampire Count's gradually bloodless pale face and its consistently indifferent eyes, he watched it all with relish.
Sure enough.
When the blood spring no longer gushed, and the sea of blood above the Vampire Count's head was nearing depletion.
A change occurred!
The dignified Vampire Count actually self-destructed without any dignity!
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The blood wave generated by the explosion engulfed the magic spirits.
The five senior students each used their own methods, and after paying a certain price, they all perfectly avoided the damage from the self-destruction.
However, the BOSS subjugation they had planned all night was also a complete failure!
At the beginning of the summoning, they didn't know that tonight's eight-star hidden BOSS would be the Vampire Count, so they had let a large number of bats escape at the start.
And those bats became a hidden danger, which had now indeed erupted.
No one would stop attacking just because the Vampire Count was summoned by them.
This time, it was truly, truly, whoever snatched it, owned it!
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Regardless of how angry and helpless the five senior students were, in short, they had successfully ushered in a great treasure hunt era.
Whoever could find the bat from which the Vampire Count regenerated would obtain the vampire's treasure!
The masquerade ball, which had been gradually winding down, once again became interesting.
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Dark Demon re-released DemiDevimon and began to jog in the direction the bats had flown.
Although he didn't think he would be the lucky one, who didn't have a treasure-hunting soul?
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News spread like wildfire.
The lower-year students who had stopped hunting due to insufficient magic power also started moving again.
The entire castle was revitalized because of this.
Students talked about the contributions of those five senior students, excitedly searching every corner of the castle.
Virt Gold opened the leaderboard, looked at "Dark Demon," who had suddenly soared to the top of the first-year list more than half an hour ago, gritted his teeth, and joined the treasure hunt army!
Diana Greatbear and Rose Flotly, the little tiger and the little bear...
Even the Cult members became excited.
The more dispersed the students were, the more opportunities they had.
Cuttlefish and Pufferfish continued to strive towards their goal!
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