Chapter 426: Grail Knight of the Defiled Cup

"Granting the dead rest is the teaching of the honored god Gazul! Follow me to slaughter those filthy blood-kin and return peace to Kislev!" Sinuoli let out a thunderous roar, and amidst the dropped jaws of friend and foe alike, he transformed into a stone statue and strode forward, charging straight toward where Boris was.

"Bang! Boom!"

Krag Master slammed his Rune Totem into the ground, and beneath the walls of the Winter Palace, it felt as if an earth dragon were turning over. Halevi did not let go of Boris, using him as a meat shield while turning the horse's head; just as he was about to flee, the surging earth tossed him and his Blood Knights into the air.

"You think you can block this King's Storm Hammer? You are unworthy! Why use a butcher's knife to slaughter a chicken!"

Before the Blood Dragon Vampire could adjust his position to land, he was gripped in a large hand. Sinuoli, holding the limp Boris in his other hand, crushed Halevi into a pulp of meat right in front of the humans.

"This kind of shoddy construction is quite suitable as a coffin for you lot!"

Looking at the cracks at the base of the wall, Sinuoli mocked loudly. The Rune Demigod's area-of-effect spell had not completely extinguished the tenacious vitality of the Blood Knights, but before the bone-broken creatures could rejoice at escaping death, a new round of impact from the stone statue's heavy stomp sent them to the underworld.

"Go to the back and rest, little cub; at your age, you are still completely ignorant of true Strength!"

With no vampires left standing around him, Sinuoli nodded in satisfaction and slightly raised his hand, a gentle breeze wrapping around the terrified Boris and flying him to his father's side.

The Dwarf knew that while this was not enough to cause the young man's faith to collapse, it would surely leave cracks. So-called loyalty is absolute, and if a gap is torn open, dealing with things later will be much less tense.

"This armor, could it be Lloyd, the Knight of a Hundred Flowers from Carcassonne?"

"Clatter, clatter, clatter!"

During the Great Crusade, the Knight of a Hundred Flowers perished together with a Lesser Daemon; his once handsome face was covered in blisters from Nurgle's potent poison, and because his body was highly toxic and could not be transported back to his homeland, he had to be buried on the spot. The terrifying power of the Ruinous Powers overwhelmed the Lady of the Lake's blessing, allowing the vampires to desecrate his corpse.

"Grail Knight of the Defiled Cup? The ancestors of Karak-Kadrin have killed them before; let this King have a go!" Agam-Ironfist was already eager for a fight; he led his armored Slayer guard to quickly change formation, blocking the charge path of the Undead cavalry.

"Clang! Clang!"

"Boom!"

The low-level vampires on the palace walls were intimidated by the momentum and involuntarily stepped back; the Strigoi Ghoul King, with his massive frame, squeezed several Grave Guard standing in the back off the wall.

The knowledge reserve from his time in Weifengbao allowed Boris to recognize the origin of the enemy, but the Dwarfs who followed him, having participated in the Great Crusade, revealed the identity of this Grail Knight of the Defiled Cup while he was alive.

Very few remains left outside of Bretonnia still have the divine power of the Lady of the Lake lingering to protect them; the cost of forcibly manipulating them is definitely higher than the gains, and only in the fallen Duchy of Mousillon can one find traces of Grail Knights of the Defiled Cup.

Turning his head to look, Boris saw a bizarre battle flag—a dark Grail overflowing with fresh blood on a scarlet background. The product of a corpse that had consumed Grail Water being desecrated is fearfully called a Grail Knight of the Defiled Cup by the inhabitants of the Old World.

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The winners would be granted fiefs to become Kingdom Knights, and at the same time, noble ladies from various houses would take this opportunity to scout for husbands. They would present roses embroidered with their own family crests to their beloved, and Lloyd, relying on his charm, received over a hundred roses, thus earning the elegant title of Knight of a Hundred Flowers.

One hundred years ago, the Knight of a Hundred Flowers, Lloyd, was synonymous with the chivalry of the Old World, and his story is still sung by people today. He became famous at the Knightly Tournament, which was a great opportunity for Questing Knights to settle down and start a career—

Legend has it that one thousand eight hundred and eighty-eight years after being defeated by Sigmar, the moment Nagash returned to the Mortal World, the massive death energy distorted the order of the Lady of the Lake, which awakened the Grail Reliquae.

"Really, before the expedition, the late King Orikson was still drinking and laughing with him!"

"Use up all the stuff at the bottom of the box; we can't take it with us anyway!" At this point, Katarin completely abandoned her fantasies; she issued orders while giving her handmaidens a secret look.

"What the hell? A Grail Knight of the Defiled Cup, that's much rarer than a Blood Dragon Vampire! How could it be here? I didn't even see one in Bordeleaux."

Grave Guard are high-level melee units of Vampire Counts, which can only be formed from the corpses of powerful warriors. They tirelessly wield their former weapons according to their residual memories.

"Sinuoli, that piece of trash! I shouldn't have believed his nonsense! Proceed with the original plan!" Katarin's face changed repeatedly, but knowing that cursing the dead was useless, she turned to raise the thin sword at her waist and slashed through the air.

Supporting his limp son, Vladimir panicked; his warhorse was right beside him, but where could he escape to? Manipulating so many high-level Undead consumed a terrifying amount of mana, so they had mostly been sleeping in graveyards before, evading detection from all sides. The vampires' original reliance was for the cavalry to flank and crush the single-unit Dwarf-Kislev coalition, but Sinuoli's greed led him to send himself and his Blood Knights to an early grave, leaving only a path that even the fearless Slayers could not threaten the Rune Demigod.

"It's your turn! Whatever means you have, use them all! I want to see how this differs from the water in the sea!"

"This, what should we do? Master, honored god, you have a way, right?"

After using the Iron Mountain Lean from the Kun Fist several times, a breach was forcibly smashed into the palace wall, and the formation inside made even the battle-hardened Boris look grim.

The Slayer King was worthy of absolute trust; Boris hammered and hacked, walking leisurely to the base of the Donggong wall, finding a weak spot blasted by Krag's Rune Magic, and lowered his shoulder to ram it.

This double champion of the dueling arena and the romantic field gave up all his "prizes" at the same time the Lady of the Lake knighted him, and under her witness, he took the Questing Vow and stepped onto the path of seeking the Grail.

"A new grudge against the blood-kin will be added, but we can settle it immediately!"

The vast majority of Grail Knight remains are buried in the great cathedrals or even within Bretonnia, guarded by Hermit Knights who have abandoned their long lances in favor of swords, and by fanatical Battle Pilgrims.

"Gulp! Gulp!"

"By Morr's grandmother, so many Grave Guard; I wonder if the old Von family's coffin savings at Duncanhoff Castle have all been spent!"

The pious knight traveled across the Old World, performing many miraculous deeds and achieving great fame; when the Everchosen marched south, it was he who overcame all opposition to gather a Bretonnian force to join Magnus's army.

This was clearly a signal; as the Anvil Guard charging with Boris engaged the Undead line, the Dwarfs heard a burst of hoofbeats. On the right side of the formation, a large group of cavalry charged in.