This was a solemn and majestic palace.
Black curtains enveloped the surroundings, making the already dark palace feel even more oppressive. Underneath the curtains, a long rectangular table was placed in the center of the palace, flanked by ancient stone seats.
Several tall and indistinct shadows sat on both sides of the table, their faces unclear, only their crimson eyes flickered with a profound light through the surreal curtains.
Suddenly, on the stone seating by the side of the long table, a dark red light slightly blossomed.
Accompanied by a distortion of space, a new tall shadow slowly materialized in front of the long table.
Upon seeing the newly appeared tall shadow, several shadows at the table slightly bowed their heads, respectfully greeting him,
Only the two shadows at the very front of the table merely glanced at the newly appeared tall shadow and gently nodded.
"Count Hall... you have joined the meeting rather late this time."
The shadow at the very front spoke softly, its voice authoritative and profound, with a hint of dissatisfaction.
"Count Hall" was silent for a moment, his voice deep as he said,
"Count Yulster, Lord, this emergency meeting was too sudden, I did not have enough time to prepare, thus I was quite delayed."
"Count Hall" was, in fact, Rahael in disguise.
However, at this moment Rahael’s heart was not as calm as he pretended to be.
As he manipulated the virtual shadow to converse with the Earl of the Nais Clan, he couldn’t help but glance towards the figure seated high upon the throne of Blood—it was Charlotte.
By his side, Agnes, who maintained the operation of the Communication Crystal, was already dumbfounded.
She couldn’t help but be dumbfounded.
Although she knew her sneaking out would fail the moment Charlotte opened her spirit world, it was only after she and Rahael activated the crystal and joined the council in disguise that she realized the other party’s power was more unbelievable than she had imagined...
For Rahael was not entering the Communication Crystal in consciousness as usual, but had actually materialized the virtual assembly from the crystal itself!
At that moment, the crimson fog above the Communication Crystal transformed the venue as if projecting it, making it appear as if they were actually there.
It was like a three-dimensional video conference—the solemn and majestic palace descended into the spirit world, the virtual shadows of the Nais Bloodline and Rahael’s disguised figure appeared simultaneously, while Agnes and others seemed like onlookers outside the projection.
Including Rahael, who operated the participation shadows.
From the crimson eyes of the Bloodline in the venue, it seemed they did not realize their online meeting had been cast into someone else’s spirit world, nor did they notice the three onlookers watching their meeting.
This secret online meeting was forcibly projected by Charlotte into a stereoscopic "movie"!
"Don’t be nervous, continue talking to them as you did before, and I want you to extract any possible intelligence."
"Don’t worry; they can’t see us nor hear our voices."
Charlotte, seated high upon the throne, watched the Nais remote meeting projected through spiritual connection with interest and commanded Rahael, disguised as Count Hall.
Rahael reluctantly shifted his gaze.
He suppressed the shock in his heart and focused mainly on the assembly; he quickly noticed a problem.
The spot that should have belonged to Lachlan Count... was empty!
"Now that everyone is here, let’s start the meeting,"
said the shadow at the forefront of the table, which was the Earl Yulster of the Nais Clan.
However, as soon as he finished speaking, the shadow on the other side of the table, who also had not greeted Rahael, asked the question Rahael was curious about:
"Count Yulster, Lord, it seems you have forgotten that Count Lachlan has yet to arrive."
The shadow representing Earl Yulster glanced at him and said,
"Count of Nottingham, Lord, Lachlan won’t be coming; he has offered himself for the Nais and returned to the dominion of our Lord."
Upon these words, the remote venue immediately plunged into turmoil.
Rahael and Agnes both stared blankly for a moment, then couldn’t help but turn their heads to look at the beautiful figure seated high on the Blood Throne.
Having attended the previous remote meeting, they of course knew what Count Lachlan had been up to recently.
However, they initially thought that Count Lachlan had merely been defeated in a confrontation with Count Castel, but never had they expected that he had actually fallen!
That was a Blood Count!
Don’t mistake; they had once cunningly ended the true Count Hall, they were very aware of how fortunate their actions had been back then.
Even when they succeeded in deceitfully killing Count Hall, they had gained his trust and attacked him while he regularly slept, which cost them nearly a half-life effort.
Count Lachlan was different; unlike Hall who had parted ways with the Blood Demon Church, he was a Nais Bloodline, with a duke-level Bloodline backing him!
Killing such a Bloodline would likely be even more difficult than killing a Blazing Sun!
Who could have done it?
Did Count Castel have a powerful protector hidden behind him?
Agnes’s and Rahael’s glances uncontrollably fell on Charlotte, their hearts pounding with an absurd thought.