"Who is your vampire elder? When and how did you become a vampire?"
"..."
In the interrogation room of the Earl's Mansion, Charlotte sat elegantly behind the interrogation table, sipping the black tea that Sebastian had brewed while interrogating the vampire girl who was tied up.
As for why it wasn't milk... it was simply because she felt that drinking it when judging someone didn't feel too serious.
But it was obvious that the girl in front of her was not cooperating. Except for the first name that was reported, Agnes just responded silently to any of Charlotte's questions and looked at her unconvinced.
Charlotte wasn't angry either.
She gently stroked the Book of the Dead on the table, and behind her, the vague book spirit that had appeared was standing cautiously behind her, squeezing her shoulders in a flattering manner.
Charlotte took a sip of black tea and said with a smile:
"Miss Agnes, I have many ways to make you talk, but... I am a reasonable and reasonable person. Unless necessary, I don't really want to use extreme means."
"I also hope that you can be more cooperative. After all... my patience is not that good."
Looking at Charlotte's slender hand gently stroking the Book of the Dead, Agnes looked a little unhappy.
She pursed her lips and said stubbornly:
"I'm in trouble this time! I have nothing to say. You can kill or chop him as you please! But... I will never bow to Castel!"
"Castle...Castle again, it seems that you have considerable hostility, or in other words, hatred towards Castel?"
Charlotte smiled slightly.
Agnes turned her head away and remained silent.
Charlotte put the teacup down, thoughtfully:
"Let me guess? You were once a nobleman. Could it be that... you were an enemy of the Castel family in the past?"
Agnes remained silent.
Charlotte looked at her quietly and suddenly chuckled:
"It seems that you are really unwilling to cooperate."
After saying that, her expression suddenly became indifferent, and her deep blue pupils suddenly turned into blood color, emitting a crimson halo.
A faint sense of majesty emanated from Charlotte. She looked into Agnes's eyes and her cold voice was unquestionable:
"answer my question!"
As Charlotte drank softly, Agnes felt a thunderous sound resounding in her consciousness, making her mentally dazed.
At the same time, everything around her seemed to dim, and it seemed that only a pair of crimson eyes with golden eyes remaining in her world.
At this moment, Agnes felt as if her soul was being sucked in by those strange eyes.
Her thoughts quickly stagnated, and then...as if being opened from the outside, she suddenly lost all will to resist, and her eyes gradually lost focus:
"De Willet, my name is Agnès de Willet..."
de Willet?
Charlotte frowned slightly, she could not find this last name in her memory.
However, the next second, she felt a strong will to resist coming from Agnes's spiritual world.
A faint radiance suddenly bloomed from the vampire girl's body, and a vague silhouette of a sickle appeared faintly behind her.
At the same time, Charlotte was surprised to feel that her control over Agnes was cut off by something.
Agnes's empty eyes instantly regained focus.
Her eyes suddenly widened and she looked at Charlotte in disbelief, with even a hint of fear in her expression:
"Spiritual control! It's spiritual control!"
"How do you have the spiritual control of a vampire?! You, you, you... you are a vampire?!"
Charlotte frowned, not expecting the other party to break free from her control so quickly.
The vampire girl in front of her seemed to have something that could protect her sanity, and her level seemed to be quite high. Her innate magic was actually broken without using the divine power of blood.
However, when Charlotte looked at Agnes again, she was suddenly surprised to find that the other party seemed to become even more depressed.
Charlotte was thoughtful.
It seemed that although the other party was able to break free from her control, it was not without cost.
As long as she uses mental control a few more times, the girl's mind will be completely controlled sooner or later.
However, looking at Agnes's depressed look, Charlotte gave up the idea of continuing to exert mental control.
Mental control can control the target's spirit, but it also has side effects. It is okay to use it once, but if it is used repeatedly, it is likely to completely destroy the target's mind.
Charlotte has not yet planned to take that step, which goes against her original intention of interrogating the other party. Considering her next plan, she must let the vampire girl in front of her remain true to herself.
After taking a look at Agnes' frightened expression, Charlotte curled her lips slightly and chuckled:
"It seems that you recognize this power."
"If you don't want me to continue to use this power, just answer my questions honestly."
Agnes looked a little surprised.
She pursed her lips and remained stubbornly silent, even though she knew that she was likely to collapse completely under the continued mental control.
However, Charlotte noticed that the girl's peripheral vision was scanning the surroundings uneasily, as if she was looking for something.
Charlotte's heart moved and she glanced at her lightly:
"Miss Agnes, please don't forget that you are not the only subject of my interrogation."
"Perhaps you would rather have your spiritual world destroyed than answer my question, but... you have a way to resist the power of spiritual control, but your knight may not."
After listening to Charlotte's words, Agnes's expression finally changed:
"You want to dominate Rahel?!"
She almost immediately became anxious and angry:
"Where is Rahel?! What did you do to him?!"
Seeing the girl who suddenly became nervous, Charlotte knew that she had caught her opponent's weakness.
She chuckled lightly and said:
"Your knight is still safe now. He is seriously injured. Even with the vampire's blood healing ability, it is difficult to completely recover in a short period of time. He is currently undergoing treatment, so I will interrogate you first."
As she said that, Charlotte's expression suddenly turned cold:
"But...if you don't cooperate, then I will have to go find your knight. Maybe he doesn't know as much as you do, but he must be enough to answer my basic questions."
This time, Agnes was silent.
Charlotte changed the subject again and returned to smiling:
"I think you should have felt it. I have no intention of killing you, at least... not yet."
"You don't have many choices in front of you. You can refuse to answer my questions. Of course, I will still continue to try. Maybe I can't get anything from you, but you will definitely collapse under my mental control."
"And I can still get the answer I want from your knight. After you collapse, maybe he will continue to be controlled by me. Not only will he completely forget about you, but he will also be loyal to me as a 'knight'
, until you sacrifice for me.”
After hearing Charlotte's words, Agnes opened her eyes wide and looked at Charlotte angrily:
"you dare!"
"Of course I dare."
Charlotte took a sip of black tea and said calmly.
As she spoke, she changed the topic again and said with a smile:
"Of course, you have another way."
"You can take the initiative to tell me everything I want to know, and I can guarantee that I won't take action against your knight. Maybe everything will turn around for you."
"Beyond this, you have no other choice."
Agnes looked at Charlotte blankly, her teeth clenched and her expression angry:
"Devil! You are such a devil!"
"Thank you for your compliment."
Charlotte smiled slightly, revealing a pair of small tiger teeth. Her innocent appearance resembled a little devil with two horns.
"So...what's your reply to this devil's proposal from me?"
She said with a smile.
Agnes still glared at Charlotte.
But soon, she was defeated in those red-gold eyes and suddenly became extremely depressed.
When caught in a fatal weakness, no matter how strong a person is, he will fall down. The girl seemed to have all her strength drained away in an instant. She lowered her head slightly and pursed her lips and said:
"The person who turned me into a vampire was Count Hall, a fourth-generation vampire from Shedite. I was captured by him eighteen years ago and turned into a vampire."
Good guy, eighteen years ago!
Her real age must be at least thirty or forty years old, right?!
Charlotte's eyes twitched.
The Necronomicon's concept of time is intermittent and has limited reference value. This is the first time she knows exactly when Agnes became a vampire.
But... what a shame.
It seems that not all the Dark Vampires are madmen who are despised by other Vampires like the Blood Demon Order.
"Then what? You killed Lord Hall? And disguised his identity with your knights?"
Charlotte asked.
Agnes glanced at the book spirit behind Charlotte:
"It told you, right? Don't you know everything? Why do you still ask me if you know it?"
"Just check with me."
Charlotte took a sip of black tea and continued to ask:
"Where did the mithril collected by Count Hall go?"
"Mithril? What mithril?"
Agnes looked confused.
Charlotte frowned.
This guy...they have been pretending to be Earl Hall for so long, but they don't know about the mithril mine?
"Don't you know what Earl Hall is doing?"
she asked.
"How do I know? I only know that he and his friendly vampires seem to be doing something big, but I don't know the details. It's only been two and a half years since I killed him and gained my freedom!"
Agnes shook her head.
Two and a half years?
So, is it still the real Earl Hall who managed the Guixing United Chamber of Commerce?
Charlotte frowned.
"Wait... Mithril? Mithril mine? Castel Mining Workshop?! So this is what the workshop refers to!"
As if she realized something, Agnes suddenly widened her eyes.
Charlotte:……
She suddenly felt that the girl in front of her might not know as much as she, the sufferer...
This is really outrageous. I have been pretending to be Earl Hall for two and a half years, but I haven’t penetrated the enemy yet?!
The real Earl Hall has been dead for two and a half years, which means that there has been no one to manage the Guixing United Chamber of Commerce for two years.
However, judging from the investigation of the mining workshop, the plans of the vampires behind the scenes have not been interrupted in the past two and a half years, and the business bank continues to operate normally.
Off the charts!
Two and a half years have passed since this situation, and the Ness clan still hasn’t noticed that something is wrong with Earl Hall?
"Two and a half years... you haven't even figured out what Earl Hall is doing?"
She couldn't help but complain.
"We have to be brave! Every time we hold a meeting, the vampires present are stronger than the last. We have already worked hard to disguise our identities. How dare we ask what they are doing?"
Agnes complained.
Meeting?
Is one breath stronger than the other?
Charlotte's heart skipped a beat.
"Meeting?"
Charlotte raised her voice.
Agnes pursed her lips, as if she didn't want to say anything, but looking at Charlotte's deep eyes, she finally said honestly:
"It's a remote meeting with the help of crystal ball projection. There are many vampires participating in the meeting. I only know that their accents have a distinct accent from the Fallen Star Kingdom, and they are vampires from the Fallen Star Kingdom."
"Do you know their specific identities?"
Charlotte asked.
Agnes thought for a while and said:
"They rarely mention each other's identities, and they seem to be quite familiar with each other, but... I remember the names of three people, who should be the highest among them, namely the Earl of Ulster, the Earl of Nottingham and the Earl of Lachlan.
"
Good guys! Three Earls?!
Charlotte's heart skipped a beat.
These three names were not unfamiliar to her, because she had seen them in the information provided by Anna, the Witch of Prediction.
Yurst, Nottingham, and Lachlan are the three place names of Fallen Star Kingdom, and they also represent the three Blood Earls of the Ness clan!
The vampires who were eyeing the Castel Territory actually had three Blazing Suns!
This is not counting Count Hall who was tricked to death by Agnes!
To be honest, Charlotte was still very curious as to how this vampire girl who didn't even have a silver moon managed to kill a blazing sun.
As Agnes recalled, she continued:
"Among the three earls, the one with the highest status should be Earl Yurst. He is the one who calls the meeting almost every time..."
"Oh, by the way, they often mention the 'Duke', who should be the real manipulator behind the scenes, but... the 'Duke' has never participated in the projection meeting, and it is Earl Yurst who delivers the message every time."
Duke...Duke?!
Charlotte's eyes twitched.
In the society of blood clan, the only one who can be called a duke is the blood duke.
The Duke of Blood corresponds to the fourth level of the extraordinary level - Legend!
This is already a real high-level person in the blood clan, at least an elder-level existence, and may even be the clan leader!
Thinking of this, Charlotte's heart sank slightly.
Behind the Ness clan's infiltration against Castel, a Duke-level vampire is actually behind the scenes!
"Now...you know why it's so hard for us to hide our identities, right? In this case, we want to be a little transparent, so how can we possibly investigate what they are doing!"