This Text Adventure Game is definitely poisonous-Chapter 1186 - 535: Coffin of Cain_2

"Ryan Liston, clanless." You also shook hands with the other party and introduced yourself.

"Very good!" Mansour seemed very satisfied with your introduction of being clanless, "I’m glad that you haven’t joined the Regent King’s faction... As for the current situation, I hope you don’t mind. In fact, I received a tip this morning that you were sent by the Regent King to steal the Stone Coffin, and all this setup was just to meet you and talk, with no ill intentions."

"Oh?"

Mu You raised an eyebrow. Did this mean there was a mole for the Regent King in Mansour’s camp?

"What do you want to talk about?" you asked, while your gaze inadvertently drifted towards where the red cloth had been before.

"It seems you are quite interested in the Stone Coffin," Mansour captured your glance and smiled, "Coincidentally, the matter I want to discuss with you also involves this very coffin."

"Until last night, the Stone Coffin was on this ship, but when I woke up the next day, it had left," Mansour said. freёwebnoѵel.com

"Left? Did you move the Stone Coffin?" you asked.

"No, I didn’t move it, and neither did my people; it left on its own."

You gave the young man a puzzled look.

"I know it’s hard to understand, but in fact, everyone who has come into contact with Tutankara is convinced that it’s an entity with its own consciousness, like initially, it was found and brought back of its own volition. If it wants to leave, none of us could stop it," Mansour explained.

"I guess, the reason the Regent King sent you, is to retrieve something sealed within the coffin – an ancient plague virus capable of destroying humanity. And I intend to use it to intimidate other clans, right?" Mansour suddenly looked at you and asked.

You nodded, confirming his guess was right, and asked, isn’t that the case?

"So, that baby-faced prince is a liar, the kind who will stop at nothing to achieve his goals," Mansour sneered and explained, "The real name of Tutankara is the ’Coffin of Cain’, and it’s not some Egyptian Pharaoh that’s buried inside, but the remains of the first Vampire – Cain!"

Mu You frowned.

Wasn’t Cain possessing Lilith’s body? And after Lilith was judged, all that remained was a head. Could this Stone Coffin be the container meant to hold Lilith’s head?

"The reason the Regent King wants the Stone Coffin is not because he wants to destroy it, but because he wants to obtain Cain’s power. With the coffin, he could use Cain’s remains to purify his bloodline and ascend to the second, first, or even higher tier, thus completely solidifying his position as king!"

"Unfortunately, I, who have personally come into contact with the Stone Coffin, am very aware that what is sealed inside might still be alive and desperately desires to come out. During the days the coffin was on board the ship, it has often tempted my people to open it, which I have always prevented in time. I have a premonition that if the Stone Coffin is opened, the city will face a true apocalypse, but it won’t be an epidemic. Instead, everything will be Devoured by what’s inside," Mansour said gravely.

"So, my original idea was to sink this Stone Coffin to the bottom of the sea and seal it forever underwater. Unfortunately, before I could act, the entity inside may have sensed my intention and escaped first," Mansour said.

Mu You raised an eyebrow. Now this was interesting; the Regent King and the leader of the Reformers were each telling a different story—one said there was a virus inside the coffin, the other said it was Cain.

From what both sides said, Mu You found the latter more credible.

Of course, regardless of whether the source of the plague or the remains of Cain were inside, it had nothing to do with Mu You. Mansour mentioned that the entity would actively deceive people, which was likely the very thing Katerina warned him not to touch. He planned to stay far away from it from now on.

You asked Mansour, since the Stone Coffin was already lost, what else did he want to discuss with you?

"That’s the main point of our conversation today—I hope you can join the Reformer Clan. To be more precise, to become the leader of the Reformer Clan!" Mansour said.

"???" Mu You looked confused. He could understand being persuaded to switch sides, but being offered leadership? Were the terms for defection really so generous these days?

"The leader of the Reformers, isn’t that you?" you asked.

"No, the Reformers have no leader; we are just a group of idealists gathered together for freedom," Mansour explained.

"The vampire society today is sick. The hierarchy within the Blood Clan is too stark. Since vampires can live forever, those who wield power will always be the ancient relics at the top who have lived for hundreds or thousands of years. They create a vast number of human kin for the sake of having underlings, and the next generation of kin creates their own offspring for their interests, and so it goes on in a vicious cycle..."

"We are tired of this power struggle, so we broke away. The founding principle of the Reformer Clan is that there are no rulers and no subjects; everyone in the clan is equal."

"Sadly, such a system also means that we lack unity and can never come together to overthrow the current aristocracy. I’m well aware that to overthrow the Royal Family, we first need a true leader, one whose status and authority are not inferior to the Regent King," he said.