My Players Are So Fierce

2223: Chapter 742: Shocking!

The Saint of the Crimson Castle Is Actually a Ruthless Butcher?

2223 -742: Shocking!

The Saint of the Crimson Castle Is Actually a Ruthless Butcher?

Regarding Lena’s account of the previous generation Master of Purification sacrificing himself to become the King of Bone Biting, calling for a sunship attack, it’s not just idle boasting by the members of the Circle Tower.

In fact, this event is also recorded in the history of the Blood Vulture Clan.

Even though Triss had long been “dead” by then, Salockdale, a faction leader who participated in the fourth Black Disaster, according to Murphy’s description found in Salockdale’s diary in the Crimson Corridor, indicates that on the fateful day that decided the defeat of the King of Bone Biting, indeed a great being sacrificed himself to pave the way for victory.

It can be basically concluded that the “great being” he referred to was Master Mireding.

Moreover, for a Vampire Duke to write such praise for a human feat in his diary shows what a glorious figure Mireding was in the era a hundred years ago.

It also highlights the terrible pressure the King of Bone Biting brought to everyone in that era.

Even someone like Salockdale would breathe a sigh of relief at Felix’s defeat, solemnly recording the day’s events with a trembling hand and a feeling of relief.

However, Murphy was quite skeptical whether the Circle Tower, currently seen as doing all sorts of bad things, could produce such a righteous and selfless hero until Triss introduced him and Phemys to the Circle Tower from her point of view, after Lena had to sleep in a coffin to adapt to the vampire power.

“In fact, I think Lena’s description is somewhat reasonable because, in my time, the image of the Circle Tower was very positive, at least the tone people used when discussing it was much softer than when discussing vampires.”

Triss began, which led to a retort from Phemys:

“Isn’t that obvious?

There are few creatures on this continent that receive the same ‘super treatment’ as us vampires, even in the forests of the Antani District, where there are no vampires at all, people speak of us with disgust.

It’s indeed bizarre.

I don’t know which vampire ran off to steal their rice or jumped into wells holding the forest people’s children?

It’s one thing for others to curse us, but why do those who have nothing to do with us also curse us?”

“Uh, that might also be one of the original sins of being a vampire.”

Murphy consoled the discontented Phemys and sighed, saying:

“Considering the bad deeds those ancient beings of our civilization committed, the fact that others on the continent allow us to live here at all means we owe them our gratitude for not slaughtering us.

Continue, Triss.

I recall the Circle Tower was also established during your time?”

“What do you mean ‘my time’?

You’re making me sound old!”

Triss also glared at Murphy before sighing and saying:

“But indeed, that’s true.

The Circle Tower was founded in the 610th year of the era, 500 years ago.

That year, my young father had just led the family away from Sax to settle in Transylvania, claiming it was migration, but in truth, it was to evade enemies.

At that time, humans were still in the late tribal slave society of city-states.

My father was the youngest son of a city-state lord, and my mother hailed from a rival city-state.

Tsk, tsk, it really sounds like Romeo and Juliet when you put it that way.

Anyway, according to what I remember my father said, the Circle Tower’s precursor was a group of mountain tribe shamans who decided to establish their own mage organization after learning basic Psychic Spells from the Silver Dwarfs in the Anjou Region.

At that time, a Sanghai Envoy traveling the world discovered a peculiar semi-plane at White Cliff.

So, by leveraging the Sanghai people’s discovery, the Circle Tower was founded in that secluded semi-plane.

Reportedly, the name comes from five tall towers that already existed in the semi-plane, arranged in a circular region.

Looking back now, those should have been creations from the Golden Era, but I don’t quite understand why the Sanghai people didn’t take the creator’s remnants from that semi-plane?

Perhaps because there was something strange?

Anyway, after its founding, the Circle Tower developed rapidly.

It’s said that the pure spiritual energy within the White Cliff’s semi-plane allowed the spellcasters within to grow quickly.

Naturally, vampires who had been living with humans since the dawn of the era played a significant role in this process.

I heard there was a time when the Clan of Secret Blood was invited to reside permanently at White Cliff, teaching those mages the mysteries of spiritual energy…

Heh, thinking about it now, the disappearance of the Clan of Secret Blood aligns precisely with the time they were expelled from White Cliff following a conflict with the Circle Tower.

That was shortly after the second Black Disaster in the 725th year of the era.

I remember it clearly because that year, the war hero of the northerners, also their Hero King Boris, built the city called Borisogleb on the edge of the Great Wilderness and launched a conquest war against the Great Wilderness that summer.

It was a year of significant memory.

By then, the Circle Tower had grown into the largest spiritual energy organization among humans, but it still couldn’t compete with the thriving Avalon Church, which always overshadowed them.

The Circle Tower’s real heyday came during the second Night War, when they and the old church together formed the core human force against vampires.

However, unlike the old church that burned Vampire Worshipers at the drop of a hat, the Circle Tower’s approach was more rational and proper.