120: Chapter 120 Child? Who are you talking to?
Immediately after.
Under the gaze of Anna and Velkan, whose eyes were nearly popping out of their sockets.
Behind Qin Ming's head, a solid, pure golden ring slowly emerged.
As the halo rotated, it emitted a faint hum that struck directly at the soul.
But that wasn't the end.
Qin Ming's back straightened slightly.
“Swoosh—!”
With a crisp sound like tearing silk, two pairs of massive wings condensed from pure light elements suddenly unfurled from his back!
The wings of light were slender and holy.
Every feather of light flowed with a liquid-like golden radiance.
The moment these Angel Wings fully unfurled, Qin Ming slowly lifted off the ground, suspended in mid-air.
The dazzling golden light illuminated his calm face, making him look as inviolable as a god.
“Thud.”
The silver crossbow in Velkan's hand fell heavily into the muddy water.
His legs gave way, and he fell directly to his knees.
Not just him, Anna beside him also lost control of her body and fell to her knees as well.
This wasn't a surrender to violence.
This was the Valerious Family blood flowing through their veins, trembling and submitting instinctively before a true sovereign.
As a family of demon hunters who for centuries had styled themselves as the “Spear of God” and sworn to eliminate all dark creatures.
They had spent their entire lives praying to wooden crucifixes in churches.
But now.
A true miracle had descended right before their eyes.
“O Lord...”
Velkan's lips trembled violently, and tears streamed uncontrollably from his eyes.
His hands clawed at the dirt as he pressed his forehead tightly against the ground, his voice turning hoarse from extreme excitement.
“Praise the Lord... Praise the Almighty Father...”
Anna also buried her head deep, her body shaking uncontrollably with excitement and fear.
She finally understood why that Vampire girl could walk freely in the sunlight.
Before the true Holy Light, what were the sun's mere ultraviolet rays?
From the back seat, Mavis looked at the kneeling siblings and then at the floating Qin Ming, rubbing her hands together in excitement.
“Qin Ming, you look absolutely awesome right now!” she praised him unreservedly.
With a slight thought from Qin Ming.
The Angel Wings behind him dissipated into golden specks of light in the air, and the halo behind his head vanished once more.
He landed steadily back on the ground and straddled the rugged heavy motorcycle once again.
The pillar of light vanished, and Transylvania returned to its gloomy and oppressive state.
But the kneeling siblings didn't dare look up for a long time.
“Stop wasting time.”
“Lead the way to your home.”
Velkan snapped out of it and scrambled up from the mud.
He didn't even bother wiping the mud from his face. “Yes... Yes! My Lord!”
Velkan's voice was filled with awe. “Valerious Manor is ten kilometers ahead in the center of Transylvania Town. I'll lead the way!”
Anna followed closely behind.
The two finest demon hunters in Transylvania were now like two loyal and fanatical pilgrims, riding their horses as fast as they could to lead the way.
The roar of the motorcycle idling sounded again.
Qin Ming twisted the throttle and followed the siblings.
...
Transylvania Town.
The sky here was eternally shrouded in gray clouds, and the streets were lined with dilapidated Gothic wooden houses.
The townspeople wore heavy, filthy homespun clothes; their faces were gaunt, and their eyes were numb.
When Velkan and Anna led a steel monster emitting a loud roar into the town, all the residents fled into their houses like startled rats, peering out through the cracks in their doors in terror.
In this desperate land ruled by Vampires and werewolves, any outsider represented death and disaster.
The motorcycle finally stopped in front of an ancient manor built of massive bluestones, situated at the highest point of the town.
The rusted iron gates stood open.
Velkan stopped at the gate, panting, and bowed respectfully, making a gesture for them to enter.
“My Lord, this is Valerious Manor.”
Qin Ming took off his helmet, his gaze sweeping over this ancient castle that exuded an air of decay.
“Straight to the main hall.”
Anna pushed open the heavy oak doors.
The interior of the hall was dim and vast. Various cold weapons and old oil paintings hung on the walls.
But at the deepest part of the hall, there was an extremely conspicuous and massive wall.
A highly complex panoramic map of Transylvania was carved into the wall.
The lines were intricate, with rivers and mountains even marked with ores of different colors.
“This is it,” Anna said, pointing to the wall. “This is a map passed down through our family for over four hundred years.”
Qin Ming walked up to the massive stone wall.
He raised his hand, his slender fingertips sliding slowly along the intricate lines on the wall.
The rough rock surface carried the damp cold of a place that never saw the sun.
The hall was so quiet that the crackling of burning torches could be heard.
Velkan and Anna exchanged a look and cautiously approached.
“My Lord...” Anna looked at Qin Ming's focused back and couldn't help but speak. “This is just a load-bearing wall with a map carved on it; it's over two meters thick.”
She shook her head, her tone tinged with the helplessness accumulated over centuries.
“How could this possibly be the door to the demon's lair?”
Qin Ming didn't look back.
His fingertip finally stopped at the bottom right corner of the map, his finger pad lightly tapping a slightly jarring smooth area.
“Because a corner is missing.”
Anna and Velkan were both stunned.
They looked where Qin Ming was pointing.
That area had no lines; compared to the dense carvings around it, it looked as if a piece had been forcibly erased.
“This... this is just wear and tear from the carving process, right?” Velkan said hesitantly.
“This is a gap in an Alchemy Array formed by Latin characters,” Qin Ming said, pulling his hand back, his tone flat. “Without that missing fragment to complete the array, this wall will always just be ordinary stone.”
Even with a hundred tons of explosives, you couldn't blast open a magic door within a spatial closed loop.
“A missing corner...” Anna's brow furrowed, her grayish-blue eyes full of frustration. “It's been four hundred years, and we don't even know what that fragment looks like! How are we supposed to get in?”
Qin Ming turned around and looked at the anxious siblings.
“Let me correct you.”
He stood with one hand in his trouser pocket, his voice devoid of any inflection.
“It's not ‘we’.”
“It's ‘I’.”
Anna looked up sharply. “You're going alone?!”
Velkan hurriedly stepped forward, his tone urgent. “My Lord! Vlad III is a complete monster! His brides can easily tear through steel, and the castle is crawling with demonic kin! No matter how powerful you are, entering such a place alone is too dangerous!”
“Do I need to bring two deadweights along for an adventure?” Qin Ming countered.
Velkan's words caught in his throat instantly, his face flushing crimson.