"Vampire invasion! Vampire invasion! Stay home and don't come out!"

In the early morning, several knights galloped through the streets of Constantine on horseback, shouting the above words.

Because they had been invaded by vampires before, the civilians were very panicked.

Some people saved their lives last time by hiding in the "Stigmata Skin" guild, so naturally they want to escape there this time.

But this time it seems that the situation is different from last time.

As soon as they left the house, they were blocked by knights.

"Don't worry! The Knights of the Guards still control this block. If there is a possibility that the block will be lost, we will organize everyone to escape together."

In the last attack, the Knights, who retreated to the lord's castle without caring about the lives of the civilians, actually guarded the streets this time, with a posture of vowing to live and die with Constantine.

Although the civilians still had doubts, they had no choice but to return home, lock the door, and leave their lives to the protection of the knights.

In some neighborhoods close to the "Skin of Stigmata" guild, people also heard shouts, the sound of weapons, the sound of fighting, and fires appeared over the town from time to time.

The most shocking thing was the thunderous sound of cannons.

At dawn, the chaotic sounds gradually disappeared, and the Knights began to allow civilians to take to the streets.

However, the neighborhoods near the Stigma Skin Guild are still under lockdown, and the civilians nearby have been relocated to other neighborhoods.

The civilians didn't know what happened, they only knew that the Knights won the battle and drove the vampires out of Constantine.

A few days later, when everything was back on track and the knights had withdrawn their defenses on the streets, various news came out.

However, the credibility of these news is very low. The most outrageous theory is that the second ancestor of vampires, Kain, was resurrected again, led the vampires to attack Constantine, and was defeated by the powerful knights.

Of course, this rumor is as ridiculous as the Saint of Romulus being a vampire. Although the performance of the Knights of the Guards on the night of the attack was indeed remarkable, it would be a bit too much to say that they could defeat the Second Ancestor.

It wasn't until some semi-official news came out from the Knights that people roughly knew the truth of that day.

The vampire hunters of the "Stigmata Skin" guild rebelled. They were bewitched by a half-vampire with the same name as the Second Ancestor, and wanted to usurp Duke Baldwin's power.

Speaking of which, the half-vampire named Kain was the hero of the last vampire attack and saved many civilians. It was only because of his special status that he did not advocate the complete elimination of vampires, so he broke with Duke Baldwin, who was very tough on vampires.

On the night of the rebellion, vampires and vampire hunters actually joined forces to attack the upper city of Constantine, resulting in nearly a hundred noble casualties. However, the Knights arrived in time and expelled the rebels from the city. Now the rebels are established in the former vampire assembly.

The knights also set up camp nearby to confront the rebels and defend Constantine.

Thanks to the proper command of Lord Baldwin, the casualties in this attack were controlled to a very low number. Most of the casualties were the nobles who suffered the first wave of impact. Many people thought that the deaths and injuries of these nobles would cause the upper echelons of Constantine to suffer.

There was massive chaos, but fortunately, the responsibilities of these nobles were quickly handed over, and some rookies who stood out in the day's battles promptly filled the vacancies of those who died.

Soon, the residents of Constantine returned to their peaceful lives and began to forget what happened that night.

Only when people occasionally pass by the city gate and see a section of the city wall that was blown down during the battle being repaired, will they remember that a war broke out here.

Jiang Xiaotan, the initiator of all this, is quite satisfied with this.

In fact, the real truth that day was that the guild's hunters held a joint exercise with some of Baldwin's trusted cronies in the Knights.

The vampires and some hunters in the concentration camp acted as intruders who infiltrated into the city and attacked Constantine under the leadership of Jiang Xiaotan.

Both sides used unedged training swords, and the section of city wall that was blown up was already severely eroded by rain and rats and needed to be repaired.

The knights stationed in the remaining blocks did not know that this attack was just an exercise. The order they received was to stick to the block to protect civilians, and not to move without an order. Therefore, only a small number of trustworthy knights knew the truth about this exercise.

, the knights guarding the outer neighborhoods thought they were actually being attacked.

After the exercise was completed, Jiang Xiaotan led the hunters to exit the city of Constantine and transferred to the concentration camp outside the city. The knights stationed pretending to be stationed outside the concentration camp were the main force of the exercise that day, and they would continue to fight with them here in the future.

The hunters' joint drills are also a guarantee to prevent vampires from rioting.

The guild's compound in the city of Constantine is now sealed, but it has long been emptied and the supplies have been transferred to the concentration camp.

In this way, the Guild has completed its separation from Constantine. Even if it is accused of being an "enemy of God", that is the Guild's own business and has nothing to do with Constantine.

Not only that, this exercise has an additional bonus.

Before the exercise, Jiang Xiaotan considered that the hunters from the "Silver Hand of God" guild who had infiltrated Constantine would most likely run out to do something after hearing about the vampire attack, so he made a series of arrangements for this.

He and the hunters analyzed the residences of the five slain vampires, and then used these five points as a basis to speculate on several possible lurking locations.

On the night of the exercise, the guild sent a few alert hunters to keep an eye on these locations, and sure enough, they captured the whereabouts of several people carrying weapons.

The location where they appeared was in the area where Jiang Xiaotan was heavily fortified—the block where the church's heresy trial is located.

In fact, he was suspicious of these gangsters from the beginning.

Because firstly, the "Silver Hand of God" has a church background, and secondly, during the lord canonization incident, due to the betrayal of the little noble at that time, the Inquisition probably had some information on vampires, so the hunters of the Silver Hand of God can

Precisely assassinated five vampires and delivered their heads to the guild door overnight.

Facts have proved that his guess was correct. On the night of the exercise, the hunters did indeed go out.

There were about a dozen of them, and they were all stopped by Baldwin's cronies. These guys with Romulus accents revealed their identities as soon as they opened their mouths.

On the grounds that the situation was chaotic and non-local residents were not allowed to run around to prevent spies from sneaking in, the knights allowed these people to return to their place of residence and seized their weapons.

What is intriguing is that subsequent appraisal found that only a small part of the weapons they carried at the time were silver weapons, and most of them were ordinary steel weapons.
Chapter completed!