When Archbishop Bernhard appeared in the room again, he was a little surprised to see the two people with calm expressions, but still smiled and asked:
"You two, do you still need some time?"
"No."
Olaf patted Rawls' hand again, stood up, walked to the bookshelf by the window, and slid a black book to the other side. The floor next to the sofa opened silently, revealing a box as big as a human head.
He looked at the box, and his cloudy gray-blue eyes seemed to see through the box and see what was inside.
"Take it away. There is a crystal ball with Madeleine's image inside. I had someone make a picture of Madeleine after she disappeared."
"Okay..." Rawls looked at the wooden box in silence for a while, stood up, picked it up, bowed to Orff, and looked at Archbishop Bernhard.
The archbishop, who was of medium height and whose personality was more like a follower of the Lord of Storms, sighed silently, his narrowed eyes widened a little, and Rawls' figure became languid and disappeared.
"Your Majesty, I'll take my leave now."
After giving a slight salute to Orff, Bernhard opened the study door and left the Wende Palace.
Orff, who had completely white hair and was thin, looked at the door silently, then slowly walked to the sofa and sat down.
A long sigh echoed in the study.
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Backlund, No. 45 Gatton Street, West District.
In a dark room, Rawls was half lying and half sitting on a rocking chair, holding a transparent crystal ball in his hand, eyes slightly closed, and constantly rubbing the smooth surface of the crystal ball.
After an unknown amount of time, a little bit of spirituality was poured into the crystal ball, and bright starlight burst out, projecting an almost real scene in the room.
It was a huge room. There was a heavy and gorgeous big bed placed against the wall. It could be clearly seen that it was a style that was popular more than 20 years ago. The bed board had been changed from wood to elastic, which required tedious work.
Only a luxurious bed-making ritual can be used to sleep on it, such as laying a horsehair mattress, a down mattress, three layers of sheets, three or four blankets, etc.
But in contrast to this luxurious bed are more than a dozen huge six-story bookshelves against the wall, which are filled with densely packed books of various sizes. There are brass-colored metal inscriptions on the sides of the bookshelves: History, Astronomy, Mathematics, Culture...
If you just look at the bed, this is undoubtedly the room of a woman from a noble family. But when you see the bookshelves, anyone will think that this is a study room. The two are connected together, and the owner of the room becomes an addicted woman.
An aristocratic woman with a sea of books.
This is the room of Rawls' mother, Madeleine Gonzalez.
In front of a bookshelf marked "History" on the side, a tall woman in her early twenties was flipping through a tome. She was wearing a bright yellow dress with decorations on her sleeves, collar, and skirt.
Lace knot.
Perhaps the tome was too heavy for her wrist to bear. After flipping through a few pages, she turned around and walked to the desk in front of the window with the tome in hand.
She has a fair face, a high nose bridge, and thick eyebrows on her brown eyes, which makes her look more heroic and has a neutral beauty.
She frowned and sat in front of the desk, supporting her chin with one hand and turning the pages of the book with the other, leaving a straight back.
Suddenly, the crystal ball that projected the scene seemed to be broken, the starlight was dim, and the figure sitting in front of the desk became unclear, and finally disappeared completely.
Closing his eyes again, Rawls hugged the crystal ball with both hands.
This was the last scene of his mother Madeleine before she disappeared in the Palace of Wende.
Rawls stayed in Marsi for three days and talked with his grandfather for a long time, but he never called "Grandpa" until he left. Afterwards, Edward Laitor came to bear a face similar to his, but it was
With gray-blue eyes, he meets the rest of the royal family, the prime minister, and ministers as the crown prince.
Although there were occasional interruptions during this period, after Archbishop Bernhard of the Church of Knowledge brought the order to come to the Holy Tower, the photo of the Crown Prince of Marsi, Rolls Gonzalez, spread throughout the northern continent. Especially yesterday
, King George III of Loen officially gave Delina the title of eldest princess and announced her engagement to the Crown Prince of Marsi, Rolls Gonzalez.
Today is March 5th, and the time for this year’s parliament to reconvene is getting closer and closer. The aristocratic alliance composed of Negan, Hall, Leavitt, and Wolfe still has no intention of retreating. The day before yesterday, George III summoned the Prime Minister
After Aguhid, he has revealed his intention to punish Prince Charles with the severest punishment for his treason, but he needs to suppress this matter and not disclose it to the outside world.
Immediately afterwards, yesterday George III announced the conferment of the title of Delina on the matters related to her marriage to Maxi. In the evening, Rawls was urgently called to the Negan Villa and met Philip, Prime Minister Agushed, Earl Hall and Wall.
Earl Husband received the news that Prince Charles had committed suicide out of fear of crime.
The arrival of this news also represented the complete collapse of the four noble alliances, especially Earl Levitt, who did not accept the invitation after receiving the news.
The three families discussed it for several hours, but could not come to the conclusion that George III did this.
After Earl Wolfe and Earl Hall left, Prime Minister Agushid said that this might be Wolfe or Hall betraying the alliance and wanting to further expand the family's power or suppress the Conservative Party. This is in line with the Wolfe family and Hall.
family interests.
The former is the least conspicuous among the four alliances. It is not as powerful as the Hall family and the Negan family, nor is it as direct proof of Charlie's treason as the Levitt family. Even if Charlie is forced to die, for the Wolfe family,
The losses suffered will be smaller.
The Hall family is the only one among the four that supports the new party. When the general election is about to come, they will naturally not let go of the opportunity to attack the three major conservative families. Compared with the three families whose strength has weakened or is not good enough in the first place, the Hall family
The family is least likely to be attacked by the royal family.
Even Rawls, who knew the true thoughts of George III, could not help but be frightened by the king's political methods. The nobles who could have threatened the "Black Emperor" ceremony were completely destroyed at the cost of the life of a prince.
its disintegration.
After the alliance was broken, even if George III wanted to carry out more drastic reforms in a short period of time, it would be difficult for the nobles to unite to oppose it. After the great smog, the three major churches made it clear that they would monitor high-ranking members of the royal family.
However, he still couldn't help but throw out the bait, which was constantly strengthening the influence of the military, the last force controlled by the Augustus family.
In this way, the constraints imposed by the nobility and the church on the reform completely disappeared.
Compared with George III and the Augustus family, even if Rawls knew the future development, his experience in political games was still far behind.
Sighing slowly, Rawls stood up and put the crystal ball into the wooden box.
…
The deep underground passage looked like a middle-aged gentleman, but the blood baron Qasimi Audra, who was actually over two hundred years old, suppressed his excitement, let his heart return to its original slowness, and strode toward a secret door.
Go to the door.
He lowered his head respectfully and said in a deep voice:
"Grandpa, I got Yin Wright's blood."
"Go to the Duke of Olmo."
An old voice sounded from behind the heavy secret door.
"yes."
Casimi bent down further, and the smile on his lips could no longer be hidden. Even as a vampire baron, several vampire big shots were sleeping in their villas, and the chances of seeing them were very few, let alone
He is Lord Olmo, one of the three Dukes in charge of the Vampire Clan.
He turned around and walked deeper into the passage, checking his appearance with the help of smooth stone bricks on both sides of the passage from time to time.
Soon, Qasimi passed through a series of secret doors and arrived at the deepest part of an iron-gray hall.
The heavy door opened silently. He took a deep breath, took out the glass vial containing Yin Wright's blood from his pocket, and walked in.
The ground and walls here are covered with grass, flowers and grains, and many insects crawl among the dense plants. It makes Qasimi feel as if he has left the city and came to the suburbs, feeling the vitality of life.
At first glance, there is nothing too strange about such a scene, but if you look closely, many places are extremely strange:
There is a crack-like mouth on the grass, and fibers fly out from it, catching insects; flowers use branches and leaves as hands to pick nectar on their own; wheat and other grains are heavy, and occasionally cries come from inside; insects
They are divided into many categories, all of which are different from the normal ones. Some have the heads of snakes, and some have the faces of birds...
These things become more and more lush as they move toward the center of the hall, entwining a vibrant tomb there.
Qasimi faced the tomb, held up the glass vial, and saluted respectfully:
"Your Excellency, I have brought Yin Wright's blood."
"Ah, very good."
In the tomb, a mellow voice whose age could not be heard answered.
At the same time, the rhizome of a flower expanded several times in an instant, stretched out its branches and leaves as thick as a finger, wrapped around the glass vase, and then retracted into the soil.
"Okay, please leave first."
"Yes, Your Majesty the Duke."
Although Qasimi was a little disappointed in his heart, he still bowed in response and left this iron-gray but refreshing hall.
After he left the underground passage and returned to the ground, the secret doors in the passage were closed again, and runes lit up on them. Black, blood, and cyan intertwined to create dreamlike scenes.
Ghostly figures appeared in front of the secret door one after another, and each figure revealed an atmosphere of decay that could not be concealed. It was not only the decay of life, but also the decay of spiritual bodies.
They raised their wrinkled eyelids, revealing a pair of red eyes. They were blood counts and marquises.
Normally, extraordinary people on the "Medicine Master" path can easily live to be a thousand years old after being promoted to demigods, but after that, they will inevitably experience a decline in physical condition, irreversible aging, and the decline and decay of their spiritual bodies. Therefore, once
Thousands of years old is often the natural limit for the "Witch King" and the Blood Count. If they want to continue to live, they can only rely on various methods to continue, such as sealing themselves and sleeping in a coffin deep in the castle.
.
But for the vampire counts sleeping near the "Creator", their lifespan can be extended to two thousand years.
At the deepest point, the vibrant tomb opened on its own, and a figure walked out of it. She was wearing a nearly floor-length tuxedo. She was tall and thin, and looked to be in her teens. Her two red eyes seemed to be flawless.
It is made of polished rubies, and is like the perfect crimson color at night.
It's just that her body is full of youthful vitality, but her eyes have no vitality at all.
In her left hand, she held a glass vial containing Yin En Leiter's blood, and in her right hand, she held an ancient mirror with exquisite patterns and extremely symmetrical patterns.
The vampire duke who followed Lilith, the ancestor of the vampire clan, slowly closed his eyes.
And above each decaying figure in front of the secret door, a small circle of crimson appeared, shedding countless moonlight.
The figure illuminated by crimson, the aura of decay subsided, the wrinkled skin became smooth and tight again, and the dull and slow heart beating sound came from the chest.
The young vampire counts and marquises regained their consciousness, stretched out their hands and dug out their hearts.
For the blood count, the heart is still their weak point, but they did not hesitate to take out a wisp of blood essence from their chests and press it into the secret door in front of them, changing the dreamlike scenes.
Be more real.
There are giant dragons that are gray and white, red, or sea blue flying in the sky; giants with abnormally long limbs and one-eyed blue skin are running on the ground; in the forests and oceans, there are elves with soft facial contours and pointed ears with blue or black hair;
The red-eyed vampires transform into bats from time to time and fly in the sky, then fall to the ground to cultivate plants and tame animals...
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! The secret doors became heavier, exuding an endless sense of majesty, making the vampire counts and marquis standing in front of the door tremble all over, and even found it difficult to stand still.
They discovered to their horror that they seemed to have become ordinary people.
…
In the night sky, the clouds and mist dispersed, revealing a crimson as thin as an eyebrow. Its outline quickly became plump, and in just a second or two, it turned into a full moon, a full moon as red as blood!
One after another their eyes were cast towards the sky.
…
The glass vial melted silently, and a drop of bright red floated in Olmo's palm.
Immediately afterwards, the drop of blood quickly expanded and split, turning into a blood cell as big as a human head, and then shrunk to the size of a fist, turning into a beating heart that pumped out the blood, forming a vascular circuit of the human body.
Immediately afterwards, nerves, organs, muscles, skin, hair, and eyebrows were all formed in a few seconds, turning into a naked Yin Wright.
He slowly opened his dull red eyes and saw himself in the symmetrical ancient mirror.
The facial contours of Yin En Wright in the mirror changed rapidly, becoming more feminine, and an indescribable charm exuded from her body.
"boom"
Yin Wright outside the mirror exploded into a ball of flesh and blood, and all of it poured into the mirror.
The symmetrical ancient mirror broke away from Olmo's right hand and floated into the air. The patterns on it flowed like blood, and finally returned to their original appearance.
"Olmer?"
"Welcome back, Lord Ornia."
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Above the Palace of Thordrak.
A figure appeared, with a thick beard on his square face, wearing a gorgeous dress that did not match the era, his blue eyes looked at the red moon in the sky, and he held a vibrating silver stabbing sword in his right hand.