Originally, the Pilotti Manor could be considered a luxury home even in Leipzig, where land is at a premium.
Perhaps because of his status, he had a closer relationship with the Count of Leipzig, so he was allocated more land.
Its level of luxury is only higher than that of Earl Daun's manor.
But now...it has been completely reduced to ruins.
The power of the explosion far exceeded the limit that a fourth-level transcendent could reach - its sound was enough to shake the heavens and the earth, and even caused the entire city of Leipzig to "shake" in a physical sense.
The explosion that occurred in the center of the city instantly woke up the residents on the edge of Leipzig. When they poked their heads out of the windows, they could see the black-red mushroom cloud rising in the center of the city. And if they had woken up earlier,
, you can also see the rapidly decreasing pouring blood rain, and the gradually brightening dawn sky.
"What's wrong? What's wrong? The Avalonians are coming?"
"Damn it, which alchemist's workshop exploded?"
People who didn't know the truth had just woken up from their sleep and had already dispersed their sleepiness. Their hearts were beating half uneasily and half in fear. In order to vent their inner fears, they cursed and speculated.
But those who knew part of the truth frowned even more.
In the city of Leipzig, some Rosicrucians members speculated: "Earl Daun had just passed away, and an explosion of this magnitude occurred. Was this to kill the winter demon in his body?"
People who knew more were even more frightened: "That's the direction of Pilotti Manor... Why did Earl Daun just die and something happened to the son of the Prime Minister again?!"
On this basis, those who know more - for example, the Children of the Moon who know that Red has strong hostility towards Earl Daun, and the high-level demonologists who know that this vision is the coming of the night demon, at this moment
They were all restless and sweating profusely: "What's going on? The Society and Hong Xiang finally started fighting?"
——The civil war has begun?
It's no wonder they think so.
Count Daun, who has the Winter Demon hidden in his body, is an extremely deadly time bomb for the Moon Children. Although he has always maintained a relatively peaceful attitude with the Moon Children... However, that kind of peace is not weakness.
Rather, it is a rather oppressive forced "equality" - maintaining a peace led by him with the Moon Son without giving up his own interests or changing his position.
Extraordinaries on the path of love are inherently emotional and extreme. Earl Dawn thought he had saved enough face for them, but when pressure was always present, such a close distance became a kind of provocation and oppression, constantly provoking
The sensitive nerves of the Moon Child.
Not long ago, the Red Prime Minister finally emphasized the "non-ally neutral attitude" towards Earl Daun at the Moon Son's internal meeting. To put it simply, if someone attacks, assassinates, or frames Earl Daun, then the Moon Son should not intervene.
in.
Compared with the previous stable alliance for decades, the change in this relationship is enough to prove that the attitude of the upper-level Moon Children towards Count Daun has completely deteriorated - after all, it is not convenient for the Moon Children who pay attention to respectability.
A direct 180-degree change of attitude.
In that case, one is not very decent...the other is some overtures that have already been made, and there is no time to stop. If you force them to stop, it will easily make the matter bigger and leak the information outside the circle of the Moon Child.
.
But tonight, Earl Daun passed away quietly - the Winter Demon who could have killed an entire city of Moon Children did not move at all.
This means that the person who kills Count Daun must be able to quickly kill a fifth-level demon incarnation, and then must be able to quickly deal with the Winter Demon so that it does not leak to the outside.
Go through the entire Star Antimony several times... There is actually only one person who has this motive and happens to have the ability to do this.
——That’s Hong Xiang himself!
There is no one else!
But just after Earl Daun died, not even one night... Hong Xiang's son suddenly exploded!
Everyone knows that Countess Piloti was the title awarded by the Red Prime Minister. She was once the Red Prime Minister's blood slave, and she was one of the more favored among them. After she became pregnant, the Red Prime Minister let Valentine Seven
Shi gave her a title so that his future children would not become illegitimate.
For the black and red duo who covers the sky with one hand and is actually the supreme guardian of Star Antimony, there is no need to even ask the king about such a trivial matter.
There are many children of the Red Aspect at the Moonchild level...but not many children who are connected by blood.
Because the act of "birth" itself belongs to the path of love, which means that childbirth takes away more impulses from the path, which is a considerable weakening of the power of the red phase, which has always been determined to hit the sixth energy level.
Therefore, he has actually been strictly controlling the number of his children... For hundreds of years, he has only five children, and only one has inherited his surname.
The youngest among them, and the one most favored by the red face in recent times, is his youngest son Alphonse von Pilotti.
As the characteristics of those on the path of love, their feelings are mixed together. Therefore, Alphonse can also be regarded as his father's lover.
——Killing him with an explosion of this magnitude is undoubtedly some kind of provocation. Because someone who can kill him has no need to make things such a big deal...
He is just a fourth-level transcendent. He is considered a strong person in other places, but it is nothing in Leipzig. Not to mention, it took less than five years for Alphonse to be transformed, even if his status as a human being is included.
Life expectancy is just over 20 years old.
The Son of the Moon was so young and had no combat experience... without considering life-saving equipment, even a third-level transcendent could kill him beyond his level.
Demonologists with more profound knowledge of demons are even more convinced of this.
Because they know that the rain of blood in the sky at this moment is the characteristic of the Night Demon.
And it just so happens...
In the Rosicrucian Society, there is a strong man whose demon incarnation is the Night Demon!
"...Did Miss Sprengel take action? I really miss you..."
At this moment, a majestic, white-haired old man in the Leipzig police station murmured in a low voice: "Is this... the association's revenge on the red prime minister?"
"...Miss Sprengel?"
Opposite him, Inspector Weiner, who was yawning and packing up documents, asked with some confusion: "I have never heard you mention this person you are talking about... Who is this person?"
Inspector Wiener, who had stayed up all night to deal with the incident at the White Dove Opera House, looked tired at the moment.
It was precisely because of this that his old boss kept him by his side.
When other colleagues went to Pilotti Manor, they were the only two people left in the office.
On the sign in front of the old man's desk, his name is written:
Frank Schumacher, police inspector first class. The old man is the highest-ranking policeman here in Leipzig.
He and Weiner are both police inspectors... Although he is only two levels higher than his third-level police inspector, he is actually an old policeman with 40 years of experience. If he hadn't offended the nobles above,
, based on his qualifications, he would have been promoted to police superintendent long ago.
And Inspector Weiner knew that Old Frank had another identity - he was a secret cabal, just like himself.
They all joined the Rosicrucian Order...Old Frank was his guide.
It is precisely because of this relationship that the two policemen, who are more than 40 years apart and can almost be said to be two generations apart, are so close.
In Star Antimony, there are various secret societies. Each society has its own taboos and its own scope of coverage. Relying on the internal relationships of the society, they will share various social resources with each other very enthusiastically. This is
One exclusive clique after another.
They are theoretically illegal, but as the saying goes - it is not illegal if it is not discovered.
And if a secret society can be discovered, can it still be considered a "secret"?
In a broad sense, whether it is the gatherings often held by the Red Prime Minister in the "Red Castle" or the "closed academic meetings" of the Wang Li Alchemy Association, it can be regarded as a kind of association. Although they are all extraordinary people of Star Antimony,
But before they belong to Star Antimony, they first belong to their own association.
Among many associations, the Rosicrucian Order is also one of the most powerful and highest-level associations.
"Miss Anna Sprengel...she is considered one of the strongest people in Star Antimony."
Old Inspector Frank leaned back and said slowly: "But strictly speaking, she is not a Star Antimony person. She is a genuine Imperial person."
"……What?"
Inspector Weiner was surprised: "She is an elf?"
"Absolutely... She is a half-elf with three-quarters of the blood. But what allows her to live for such a long time is not her blood, but her strength."
The energetic white-haired old man stood up with some nostalgia and opened the window: "I had the honor to meet her once when I was a child. In terms of qualifications, she is the founder of the Rosicrucian. It is said that she is the descendant of Fontanelle.
Man, there is a night devil hidden in her body——
"As you know, one of the characteristics of the night demon is the sudden arrival of night, the rain of blood in the sky, and the fact that the water source will temporarily turn into blood. Although it is sunny outside now, it seems that the downpour just now was just an illusion.
,but……"
He sniffed the air gently and hummed: "The smell of blood is too obvious."
"This means that the Night Demon only appeared for a brief moment."
Inspector Weiner immediately said: "In other words, her power was only revealed for a brief moment... Hey, wait? During the empire..."
At this moment, Inspector Weiner suddenly recalled the key knowledge.
He looked surprised: "But... isn't the system used by demonologists to suppress the demons in the body developed by us Star Antimony people?"
He remembered that although the world's earliest demonologist, Jean de Fontanelle, developed this profession, he did not have the ability to suppress the incarnation of demons at all.
His final result was that he became a demon.
Just like "Does the transformed Moon Child have a relationship with its predecessor?", "Does the demon incarnation have a relationship with the demonologist himself?" is also a philosophical question.
It's just that the various theories of the former are generally considered to be related by the philosophical community due to the strong sponsorship and assassination of the Son of the Moon; while demonologists believe that the incarnation of the devil is another soul that has nothing to do with them, and is a real "
demon".
It was under the impetus of this kind of thinking that Star Antimony developed a new era technology that borrowed the necromancy and preservation techniques of the Dusk Path to suppress the demons in the body.
"Who knows? I don't know how Miss Sprengel survived...but she did survive to this era, and she still looks as young as a girl, beautiful and passionate."
Old Inspector Frank looked at the mushroom cloud that was gradually dissipating with some confusion: "I was lucky enough to see her take action. At that time, she summoned this 'dark cloud like evil fire' through a certain technique."
"—from the enemy's corpse."
And at this moment.
In the dilapidated Pilotti Manor, Aleister slowly opened his eyes.
The Night Demon was hugging her tightly, gradually folding his shadow-like black and gray wings. Then, the stone statue of a girl, who was like a girl with blood and tears flowing, came over and gently kissed Aleister's with her lips as cold as jade.
cheek.
Then, the Night Demon once again transformed into a crow state from a burst of dark red lightning.
Aleister did not panic at all - because Aleister could sense the state of Night Demon at all times.
But Night Demon was in very good condition at this time. In other words... this spectacular explosion did not break her shield at all.
She hugged the little crow and praised: "It's so amazing, Vines... An explosion of this magnitude can't hurt you at all."
"……No."
On the contrary, Vignes himself rejected Aleister's compliment with a complicated mood: "This has nothing to do with me... In other words, it is inevitable that I blocked this blow, and there can be no accidents."
"Um?"
Aleister was a little surprised: "Why?"
"——Because this is a skill of the Night Demon series."
Vignes replied: "I can theoretically do this.
"It's just that this move must plant power in the opponent's soul in advance...and make the opponent wear the corresponding 'curse attractor' before it can be triggered. In other words..."
"This is a 'ritual spell' that only works on friendly forces, right."
She was only halfway through when Aleister understood.
Such a complex ability is obviously not suitable for use in battle. Basically it can only be used when betraying.
And because its damage composition is completely cursed, it cannot break the Night Demon's defense at all...
Hearing this, Night Demon became a little anxious: "I will never use such power on you -"
"——Of course, of course, I know."
Aleister interrupted quickly and quickly touched the crow to comfort him.
Fortunately, the Mirror Demon seemed to be scared away by this sudden explosion, otherwise he might suddenly jump out and taunt him at this time...
That would be bad.
Aleister was very worried that it would be beaten to death by the angry Night Stalker.
——This is the Night Demon who once had the mark of rage!