Chapter 283:
Countess Sharon of Seicob needs to use the midnight blessing to extend her life. This sounds quite absurd at first, but considering that becoming a vampire to escape death is not uncommon in this continent, it’s not hard to understand why she and her followers would make such a decision.
For example, a certain Blood Vulture Grand Duchess by Murphy’s side once sold “the Embrace” to earn money for alcohol when she was down on her luck.
Of course, in Tris’s situation at that time, even the Embrace couldn’t give others true midnight power. It only transformed them into vampires so they would no longer be tormented by illness and death.
The most typical examples are the “Plague Rat King” Zweig who died at Murphy’s hands earlier, and Murphy himself who exists here.
Those were Embraces given under the guise of “accidents”, without formal vampire status or recognition by the secret blood clans. If other vampires are midnight nobility, then Murphy and Zweig in that situation were at most “midnight undocumented residents”.
However, the complex situation of Countess Sharon here clearly cannot be solved by simply replacing the blood of the Damned.
Just the lingering spirit plague in her body requires vampires to use very special methods for “purification”.
“You need to ‘cleanse’ all the blood in Countess Sharon’s body. This is not something that can be finished quickly,” Tris warned Murphy in the spirit energy chamber:
“I’ll teach you the specific method, but it will consume some of your fresh blood. And given her current weak state where she could die at any moment, to help her regain health quickly, you’ll probably need to give Sharon at least half your blood and a small portion of blood essence, just like when you Embraced Maxim.