68: Secret Codex, Vampire Path

"Boasting? You know Kraven, right?"

"Of course I do. Isn't he that guy who betrayed the Vampire Clan and then collaborated with us? What does he have to do with this?" Kruto was somewhat puzzled by this.

"He's dead. He died at the hands of Locke."

"If he died at the hands of Locke, isn't that perfectly normal?" Kruto truly felt this news wasn't that unbelievable.

It was mainly because after being defeated by Locke in a single move, he already had a clear understanding of Locke's strength.

Therefore, in his view, Locke being able to defeat Kraven was a very normal matter; there was no need to be surprised at all.

Lucien looked at his indifferent expression, the corners of his mouth curling up slightly, carrying a hint of smugness:

"If it were merely killing him, how could I be so surprised?"

"Then why is that?"

"Because he only used two slashes. He killed Kraven with just two slashes."

Lucien said this, then looked at Kruto with poise, waiting to see what kind of reaction he would have.

And Kruto indeed did not fail his expectations; his reaction was extreme.

Upon hearing this news, his entire expression instantly froze, as if he had been turned to ice, and he was immediately stunned.

The expression on his face instantly shifted from his previous indifference to shock.

His pupils constricted violently, and his mouth slowly fell open unconsciously.

Although he didn't jump onto the roof as Lucien had described, the moment he heard the news, he instantly lost his focus, becoming like a walking corpse.

Lucien looked at the dazed Kruto, shook his head, and then turned to leave.

"And you said I overreacted. Looking at you, kid, you were nearly scared to death."

After this phone call ended, within a few hours, the warriors of the Werewolf Clan in the Werewolf Clan base poured out in full force, carrying their weapons.

With the subordinates of Emilia leading the way, they arrived very quickly.

Upon learning that it was Locke's order, Emilia's subordinates did not hesitate and took the initiative to lead the way.

After all, the Vampire Clan might appear to be a single tribe, but in reality, it was more of a combination of various factions.

Now that their boss's boss had spoken, they naturally dared not disobey.

On the other side, after putting away his phone, Locke did not immediately go to the underground secret room to find Victor. Instead, he climbed back up to the top floor of the castle, followed the guidance of the bats, and found Kraven's room.

After all, he was very interested in the secret codex from the Secret Cult that Kraven had been practicing.

Being able to let an ordinary Vampire cultivate to the level of a half-step transcendent was definitely a good thing.

Even if he didn't practice it later, he could throw it to his subordinates, let them practice hard to improve their strength, and hopefully, they would at least be able to possess some self-preservation power in this American Horror Story World.

Especially women like Serena, Erica, and Emilia, who truly belonged to him.

After all, he certainly wouldn't be able to stay in the castle for a long time to protect them in the future, so the best method was for them to cultivate on their own.

Locke looked up, confirmed that the room number was room 004 as previously mentioned by the bats, and then pushed the door open and walked in.

"How could he have had time to tidy up the room so cleanly?"

The room was exceptionally tidy; apart from some personal items, there was nothing else.

Let alone a secret codex, Locke didn't even see the shadow of a book after walking in.

I didn't find it on him, and he hadn't left the Vampire Clan castle before coming to find me, so normally it should still be in the room...

Locke couldn't be bothered to search for it himself; he pushed open the window and waved his hand.

A large flock of bats flapped their wings and flew in, starting to search everywhere in the room.

Indeed, the more searching power there was, the faster the answer would emerge.

A small bat discovered a hidden button in the corner of the room.

After hearing its cry, Locke walked over, but he did not press it immediately.

Instead, being very cautious, he put on his full bulletproof suit before pressing the slightly protruding brick button.

As he pressed it, a rumbling sound of gears engaging immediately came from within the room.

Locke quickly stepped back two paces, cautiously watching for any anomalies that might appear in the room.

Fortunately, although Kraven had made some arrangements, he had not left any traps.

Perhaps Kraven had never considered that he would fail and then be tracked back to his room.

The originally intact wall had now flipped over, revealing a whole bookshelf behind it, neatly filled with dense rows of black secret codexes.

Roughly estimated, there were hundreds of them.

Locke pulled out several books in succession and flipped through them; each one looked exactly the same as the one he had obtained from Emilia.

The content was also much the same, with only differences in some details.

It was impossible to distinguish the real from the fake.

"Tsk, this son of a bitch Kraven, he's still causing trouble even after death."

Without looking at the content, no one could distinguish which of the hundreds of books on the shelf was the real one and which was fake just by looking at the exterior.

In this situation, perhaps only Kraven himself knew which one was real.

Locke was dumbfounded when he saw this scene.

"Well played, Kraven, you actually dared to pull this trick on us. You really are cautious enough. Are you guarding against yourself?"

This situation made Locke couldn't help but curse a few times, but since he had already found this place, he naturally couldn't give up.

With a wave of his hand, a pair of glasses covered in scarlet eyeballs appeared on his face.

The two temples were like tentacles covered in suction cups; when Locke placed the glasses on his face, the temples seemed to come alive, tightly wrapping around his ears.

This was precisely the transcendent item 【myriad spectacles】 obtained earlier.

Locke felt that since the secret codex originally possessed such extraordinary power, it itself probably wasn't simple. He couldn't tell with his naked eye, but with these 【myriad spectacles】 that possessed mysterious power, he should be able to find some clues.

After putting on the glasses, the world in Locke's eyes suddenly lost its color and became gray and hazy.

Even the sky outside the window began to drift with white ashes, looking very eerie.

How to put it, it was very much like he had entered the legendary Otherworld the moment he put on the glasses.

"It really is somewhat eerie."

Locke didn't pay too much attention to it; after all, he was still somewhat worried about the side effects of these glasses.

So he didn't dare to delay and hurriedly started searching on the bookshelf.

Indeed, just as he had expected, there was a secret codex in the corner of the third row from the bottom that actually emitted a bit of red radiance in the gray world.

It was completely different from the other fakes; at a single glance, Locke determined that this was the thing he was looking for.

"Found you."