Chapter 314: The Blood Princess
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《Three Hundred Heroes》.
As the name implied, it was a record book that catalogued more than three hundred heroes.
In the first place, Dianna was interested in heroes, especially heroines.
And thus, when Professor Claire Kate and Professor Ryan Hex successively appeared in the academy, she found this hero record book from the library.
The book had more than 600 pages. Every two pages described a different wartime hero, with half a page allocated for their portrait-painting.
After him was the Valkyrie, Alvette Saint Demon.
Further on…
With great familiarity, Dianna quickly flipped through the pages and finally found the person she was looking for!
The moment she took out this hero record book, Dark had already formed a guess.
As could be seen now, the person Dianna had found indeed turned out to be a heroine.
"Look, it's just as I said! She has the exact same blood pattern on her face!" Dianna excitedly exclaimed as she pointed at the portrait in the book.
Dark and Rose leaned over at the same time.
The breaths of the three lightly intermingled, like a fermenting wine.
Dark read out the alias of the heroine, "Blood Princess!"
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He didn't know who the author of 《Three Hundred Heroes》 was, but among other things, their painting skill was truly excellent.
The portrait of the Blood Princess was so realistic it looked as though she was alive and was about to walk out of the book.
She was undoubtedly a very attractive woman.
Her long and dark red hair was captivating yet sombre.
Her exceedingly fair skin was especially conspicuous.
With deep-set eyes, high nose bridge, and a pair of dainty yet sensual lips, her prominent facial features made her stand out from the paper.
But there was a blood pattern on her face.
However, it wasn't as numerous and complex as what Robert described.
The blood pattern lay merely on the left side of her face, starting from the corner of her left eye down to her jawline, its stroke as fine as a musical note.
There was indeed a symbol that looked like a © surrounded in the centre of this pattern.
But according to the written record, she wasn't a vampire.
Furthermore, her ears that were decorated by stud earrings weren't pointy like those of an elf's, but were normal rounded ears.
There were also no vampire-like fangs painted on her mouth.
In the written record, she certainly wasn't a vampire.
The name of the Blood Princess was Ophelia Bullard.
She acquired the title "Blood Princess" due to her background.
Bullard was the surname of a minority clan who called themselves the "Blood Race" and revered the "blood" that sustained the life of all things. The people of this clan were born with the innate gift and mastery of the powerful and rare "Blood Magic"!
Blood Magic was one of the subdivisions of the enormous system of magic.
To put it simply, it was the magic to control blood.
It could draw out energy from blood and send a person's blood into riot from afar, causing their blood to pierce through their body and turning them into a hornet's nest.
It could even create terrifying blood beasts that feasted on blood!
In terms of Blood Magic mastery, the clan didn't even lose out to another group of extremely well-known Blood Magic users—the vampires!
During the war, in order to deal with the elusive vampires, the Blood Race provided the coalition army with a large amount of information about Blood Magic so that they could effectively attack and guard against the vampires.
For a period of time, the Blood Race was very active.
They used dark red cloaks to conceal themselves, and only the occasional flash of light could illuminate the blood patterns on their faces, making for a frightening sight.
But let alone different races, even among the human race, there existed various different strange clans. The Blood Race was just one of them.
Despite the differences in culture between the clans, they all had the same human blood flowing in them.
Facing a crisis that endangered the entire human race, every clan fearlessly brought forth their glory and fervour to fight in the war.
Some clans survived and prospered all the more.
While some clans eternally perished.
But their sacrifice would forever be inscribed on the forefront of the history of human race.
The Blood Race was one of the clans that perished.
It was a case of destruction pursuing the great.
By becoming the weapon that aimed against vampires, they had simultaneously become the thorn in the flesh of those vampires.
It was written in the record that in the middle of the war, the vampires suddenly launched a large-scale attack on the Blood Race.
Unable to hold out against the fearsome attack of the vampires who were ranked among the top of the demon race, the Blood Race was annihilated!
At that time, because she had just enrolled into Saint Marian Academy, Ophelia Bullard managed to escape the calamity.
But she had since lost her entire family.
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Despite experiencing such a cruel fate, Ophelia Bullard didn't become reticent or fell astray. She was very gentle and kind, and had a very strong maternal nature.
However, as one of the heroes from the Golden Generation, she was very inconspicuous compared to the Brave One, Valkyrie, and others.
It was to the extent that most people weren't even aware of her existence.
Even Dianna, who had always been interested in the biographies of heroes, only discovered that there was actually such an unknown hero after reading 《Three Hundred Heroes》.
The reason for this anomaly wasn't because Ophelia Bullard wasn't strong enough, but that she disappeared not long after going to the battlefront!
Ophelia Bullard was recorded in 《Three Hundred Heroes》 as a "martyred hero".
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"Ophelia Bullard."
After reading the brief two-page content, Dark took in a light breath, and then heavily exhaled.
"Every single hero deserves the greatest honour."
He sighed and straightened his back.
"Tomorrow, let's ask Robert whether or not the person he saw was her."
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Dianna was very happy to have actually played a useful part.
She took out her treasured collection of sweets and drinks and served them to Dark, sharing with him her likings and experience.
Dark stayed at her dormitory for a while before returning to his own dorm.
The magical spirits were a little unhappy with his lateness. They buzzed around Eevee to ask if anything interesting had happened during the class.
Eevee finally put on the most smug smile it did tonight.
It patted its chest and gesticulated, retelling all kinds of interesting things that took place in tonight's class.
Of course, the only ones attentively listening were Sylveon, Ditto, and some others.
Gatomon, DemiDevimon and Trash Slime were blocked by the language barrier.
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Dark sat down at his desk.
He linked up everything that happened tonight.
"Assuming that the person Robert saw wasn't a vampire but the Blood Princess Ophelia Bullard, then he should've come into contact with some kind of information about this hero before. This is way more reasonable than the girl + vampire theory."
"But what if it's not the Blood Princess?"
"If the one he saw was really a vampire, then there's a big problem with this. I'm afraid Professor Silver would have to do some examinations on him."
Dark closed his notebook and silently took in a breath.
The air he inhaled was rather chilly.
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