Chapter 1 The Landlord's New Ability

Hao Ren was dragged by Vivian in a daze to the open space behind the house. He saw that the ashes left by yesterday's summoning ritual had been cleaned up, leaving only some scorched marks in place. Next to it, in a shed built with tarpaulins, was his old motorcycle. Izhaks and his son had been working hard for two or three days, and the result was right there. Hao Ren stared at it for a long time before he recognized that those parts were used to assemble a motorcycle...

He looked at the raging arcane engine, thinking that he shouldn't expect to ride this motorcycle on the road in the future. The traffic police would definitely not allow it...

"What do you want me to see?" Hao Ren withdrew his gaze from his broken motorcycle and looked curiously at Vivian.

Vivian didn't say anything, but raised her hand and pointed at a stone next to her. Completely silently, the stone weathered directly into a pile of sand under Hao Ren's eyes, and even a small piece of grass next to the stone withered and died instantly.

Vivian frowned: "It doesn't seem to be very controllable. I originally just wanted to use a stone to demonstrate."

Hao Ren was stunned. He turned his head and looked around. The traces of last night's chaos could still be seen nearby: large areas of vegetation withered, and gravel weathered. These traces were exactly the same as Vivian's handwriting just now... This is exactly the power of that evil spirit last night!

"What's going on with you?!" Hao Ren looked at Vivian in shock, "Isn't this the ability of that female ghost last night?"

"I don't know what's going on," Vivian spread her hands, "It seems that I suddenly learned this trick. Probably after returning from Mars yesterday, I felt a little heavy in my head at the time, but I thought I was just tired... Now it seems that this was the change that occurred at that time."

Hao Ren opened his mouth and didn't know what to say, but things were already very obvious: Vivian had obtained the power of the evil spirit after killing it last night!

They both felt that the matter was strange, so they immediately began to study it carefully. Vivian demonstrated this brand-new power several times. She could destroy things with an invisible "finger" like the evil spirit last night, and she could also release visible red light to increase the power of this attack, but obviously the invisible first attack method was more threatening. Hao Ren frowned and looked at Vivian: "How does it feel to use this ability?"

"It doesn't feel like anything, it's like an instinct," Vivian confessed, "I was just startled when I used it for the first time - I wanted to tell you just now that I broke 'Gundam's' food bowl..."

Hao Ren covered his forehead: "I'll deal with that stupid cat later. So it seems you don't know how you got this ability... Did you absorb the other party's ability after killing the enemy? Or did something stick to you?"

Vivian was a little nervous when she heard this: "I've checked, and everything is normal with my body, but it's best to lie in the medical bay later."

"Well, it's always good to be careful," Hao Ren nodded, but couldn't help but recall the melee last night. Scenes emerged from his memory, and finally the red moon and the ubiquitous red moonlight were fixed in his mind, "By the way, let me ask you something."

"Go ahead."

"About the 'Red Moon'," Hao Ren looked into Vivian's eyes, "The biggest threat when we fought that evil spirit yesterday was a red moon. I know your name is 'The Countess Who Summons the Red Moon', so I wanted to ask you about this ability. Of course, don't say it if it's a secret."

"There's nothing that can't be said," Vivian waved her hand casually when she heard this, "It's not a secret in the first place, and I've never kept it secret, but it's just that the people who have seen the Red Moon happened to have all died, so it's been spread a bit mysteriously..."

Hao Ren felt cold sweat spreading from the top of his head to the back of his feet when he heard this: "Isn't this mysterious enough?!"

Vivian smiled: "The Red Moon is my innate ability. I don't know why other blood clans don't have it – maybe their bloodline is not pure enough? Anyway, I can use the power of moonlight, and I can even create a moon on a moonless night to generate moonlight. I feel that the moonlight ability of the 'evil spirit' you mentioned last night is a bit close to mine. I can also use moonlight to move, hide, or transfer my power to the moon, shining the entire battlefield with the moonlight. But other than that, my moonlight does not have the property of corrupting everything and causing life to wither... Well, it's more like a medium. I can use moonlight to do some things or amplify my power, but the red moonlight itself does not have special properties."

Vivian had a rather proud look on her face when she talked about her famous stunt. At this time, she finally revealed the pride and self-esteem of being the oldest vampire. Hao Ren believed that the real Red Moon should be more powerful than Vivian described – because she was not the type to boast about herself, and her description of the Red Moon must be relatively conservative. But in any case, according to Vivian's description, her Red Moon only had some of the same characteristics as the evil spirit last night.

"Do you still think that evil spirit is a clone of me?" Vivian couldn't help but ask when she saw Hao Ren was lost in thought.

"A little bit," Hao Ren nodded frankly, "Your moonlight abilities have many similarities, and some of her abilities are not available to you, and after you killed her, you inexplicably 'absorbed' new skills... Could it be like this, the evil spirit last night was actually a part of your lost power. Someone took advantage of your slumber or weakness to extract your power and seal it up, so she is close to you, but her abilities are different, and she is completely suppressed by you. In the end, you can still absorb her... Well, it's a very complete reasoning, totally."

Vivian curled her lips: "You're not ashamed at all when you praise yourself. But what you said makes sense. These phenomena are indeed very similar to what you guessed. Now I have a feeling of powerlessness: so many things have happened, but I have become the most ignorant one. I don't even know who made that magic book or when... But its author has obviously seen me with his own eyes."

The expression on Vivian's face was a little lonely, and she would be like this every time she mentioned her lost memories. A feeling of being unable to control herself made this ancient vampire very frustrated. She looked down at her hands: "How much have I lost?"

When Hao Ren saw Vivian getting depressed, he quickly changed the subject: "Ahem, let's not discuss the past, let's talk about your moon. You said you can create a moon on a moonless night? Is it really created out of thin air?"

"Yes," Vivian nodded, "Otherwise, why is it called 'Summoning the Red Moon'? And if a big move must be restricted to a specific time and place to be used, I would have been killed many times – but summoning the Red Moon consumes a lot of energy and is not easy to control, so I rarely use this trick."

Hao Ren believed this. After all, the only time he saw Vivian preparing to unleash her ultimate move was when she first met Izhaks. Since then, Vivian had never summoned her moon, presumably because it was very laborious. But he could also boldly speculate: when Vivian was at the peak of her power, she definitely let the red moonlight shine on the earth more than once.

It's a pity that this vampire countess has forgotten all about it.

"If you were thrown on Mars, could you summon the Red Moon?" Hao Ren confirmed again with some concern.

Vivian nodded very definitely: "Of course – my Red Moon is not a real moon, it's made by magic, although I haven't been up to see it myself... but it should be something like a projection."

"The 'red-haired you' last night could only use the moon on Earth to release moonlight," Hao Ren mentioned this detail, "She was helpless after being teleported to Mars. This shows that at least in the 'Red Moon' ability, her power is incomplete."

Red-haired Vivian's Red Moon possessed some powerful special abilities, but from the point of view that "it must rely on real moonlight to take effect", this ability was obviously like a defective product. After confirming this clue, Hao Ren became more and more convinced that the evil spirit he encountered last night was a fragment of Vivian's power.

Vivian rubbed her eyebrows, these things made her a little anxious: "Then do you think more of my power will be sealed in other places?"

Hao Ren breathed a sigh of relief, another thing weighed on his mind: "It's possible."