Chapter 234: Chapter 234 The Mystery of the Birth of the Blood Clan_1
"I do hope you can find a way to deal with him," Aiden said bluntly, "After all, from the perspective of opposing powers, you are the most suitable candidate to handle this agent of Death."
A Blood clan member who may have mastered three powers of the "Death" authority already approached the power level of a saint of the "Death" authority in terms of the number of powers — although the strength of each power should be inferior to the true holy words.
But even such a "false saint" was a challenging opponent for Aiden at the moment.
Although Aiden didn’t understand much about the abilities of the "Death" authority, even a brief consideration from a conceptual level was enough to realize that the powers of this authority were extremely dangerous.
And the "Life" authority opposes the "Death" authority; they restrain each other. If they could get Abigail, a true saint, involved, she would surely beat this false saint to a pulp.
Of course, even without considering this aspect, Aiden wouldn’t want to confront such a troublesome enemy himself.
"I don’t mind helping you out, as I do owe you a favor," Abigail agreed quite readily, "but I can’t leave Banquet Forest for an extended period unless you help me find out where the target is, so that I can go take care of him."
"Even if I wanted to take the initiative to root him out, I could only rely on the Heresy Inquisition’s search," Aiden said, folding his arms, "Do you have any good ideas?"
"At most, I could manipulate some bats to search a bit at night. Bats can distinguish between humans and members of the Blood clan," Abigail said slowly, "But... searching an entire city is like looking for a needle in a haystack."
"Can’t Qiqimora and her group be of some help?"
"Have you misunderstood my relationship with them?" Abigail rejected without hesitation.
Aiden understood Abigail’s point; the other Great Witches in the witches’ gathering were not her subordinates. To mobilize them, Abigail would likely have to offer them something in return. The last time the Great Witches had collectively assisted Abigail was mainly because they had the chance to obtain divinity.
Thinking of this, Aiden couldn’t help but feel troubled. Currently, in Silvertown, the people and forces most likely to catch the supervisor from the Blood Moon Cult red-handed were only himself and the Heresy Inquisition.
Although Abigail was not a fugitive, as the most powerful witch, her severe breach of The Covenant’s regulations was unquestionable.
Getting Abigail to cooperate with the Heresy Inquisition, even with him acting as a mediator who had some relationship with both sides, was hardly realistic; the last time they had used the witches locked up in prison to help was already quite a stretch.
But waiting for the false saint to show up would be too late; it was uncertain whether a single "Return" holy word could overcome three incomplete powers — unlike dealing with Vila’s assassination attempt, this wasn’t an enemy that could be resolved with passive defense.
"I haven’t studied much about the powers of the ’Death’ authority. Do you have any insight?" Aiden asked Abigail.
"I don’t understand it well either, but I do have a general idea," Abigail paused, then continued, "Black magic is a degraded version of the holy words, and necromancy is an incomplete ’Death’ power."
Aiden imagined briefly that the powers of "Death," besides being able to kill life, could probably do everything that necromancy could, but better.
Even... like a lich using a Life Box to preserve the soul, one could "resurrect" oneself by manipulating other corpses even if the body was destroyed.
For specifics, it would be best to ask Melifilia.
However, such "undying" opponents are the toughest to deal with, just thinking about it gives me a headache.
Could it only be hoped that the Heretical Inquisition would find that guy’s trail, and then have him inform Abigail to set out to solve it?
At that moment, Aiden was reminded of another card he had up his sleeve all this time—the diviner, Melissa.
Right, with that person’s help, there might be a way to ferret out the hidden "Overseer" in this city...
Perhaps tomorrow, I’ll pay her a visit and give it a try.
Even if I can’t find out the enemy’s location, I can still seek clues about the divine words.
Having tentatively made up his mind, Aiden looked at Abigail, "Well, I’ll think about a way to find the person. If I do find them, I hope you’ll keep your promise."
"Of course," Abigail replied, unperturbed, "Besides, please pay more attention to business matters, we’re quite concerned about the progress over here."
Aiden couldn’t help but smile bitterly to himself upon hearing these words, realizing that Abigail clearly didn’t take the Blood Moon Cult’s matters very seriously, and even had the leisure to worry about the sanitary product business.
It was not surprising, after all, since the Blood Moon Cult was currently active in Silvertown and not Banquet Forest. In contrast with the conflict with the Harvest Mother Cult, this time it seemed that they were targeting Aiden’s turf first.
What goes around comes around...
"Alright, alright, in that case, I..." Just as Aiden was about to take his leave, he suddenly remembered something about Kael and asked, "Ah, right, actually, I’ve recently encountered a royal vampire who claims to be here to hinder the activities of the Blood Moon Cult in the service of the Primogenitor. I wanted to ask, is the curse of the Vampire Progenitor truly bestowed by Death?"
Aiden decided to take the opportunity of conversing with Abigail to find out if the information provided by Kael was credible.
"Hmm, that can be said. But strictly speaking, the curse on the bloodline wasn’t given directly by the current Death, rather it should be said to be caused by him," Abigail responded.
"What do you mean?" Aiden asked curiously.
"I’ve also spent some time studying the bloodline in the past... As far as I know, the progenitor of the bloodline, Azrael, seemed to have almost become the ruler of the authority of ’Death’. Unfortunately, something went wrong in the last step of his ascension, leading to a backlash by the authority’s power and transforming him into the cursed being he is now," Abigail answered.
"And now the authority is in the hands of ’Death’..." Aiden blinked twice, realizing something, "Then are you saying the one who caused the failure of the bloodline progenitor’s ascension..."
"Yes, it’s very likely the current ruler of ’Death’—it’s possible that he took the sole authority from Azrael’s hands, giving rise to the birth of the bloodline," Abigail nodded.
Aiden fell into deep thought.
This means that there indeed exists a deep and bloody enmity between the bloodline progenitor and Death—the conflict between the Primogenitor Faction and the faction of Death is real.
However, the true goal of the bloodline progenitor is probably not to enjoy eternal rest, but rather to obtain the authority of Death and to take his place.
