Chapter 301: First Embrace
"After the 'death' of that little witch, there was a hundred years of turmoil, which is often referred to by witchers as the last years of the Dark Ages, because after that, the full-scale war between the nations became the direction of the world, and after two world-wide wars, mankind ushered in a lasting peace."
The black box speaks and behaves like a true historian.
"It is also in this hundred years that the Witch Society and the Fernando family have disappeared in the historical records, and now the people who know the relationship between Fernando and the Witch Association have basically disappeared, and in a small number of biographies, the witches of the Fernando family are regarded as allies, and there are also incomplete records that in the original crusade against the Witch of Dusk, Fernandu gave the Witchers Guild a lot of help."
A traitor to the Witches' Society, he became friends with the witchers, but even so, Fernando was not able to survive the slaughter of witches.
More than eighty percent of the members of the Fernando family were publicly executed, and the remaining small part, with the help of the Belmont family, fled the European continent and settled in the city of N on the Asian continent, where they have remained to this day.
"However, the Fernando family's greatest achievement is not to help eliminate the Witch of Dusk, after all, this history is counted in public at the head of the witcher's guild, but the death of the vampire count is inextricably linked to Belmont and the Fernando family."
"I've heard of the Belmont family."
Gu Yun thought about it, the last time Spero came to X City, Shen Yue mentioned that Winchester and Belmont families are two important branches of the witcher group, and the two families jointly composed a heroic epic about witchers in the Middle Ages, according to Gu Yun's understanding, the status of Green Winchester and Mafal Belmont should be about the same as that of Archbishop Amphiktor sung by believers.
"But it's said that both families are now in decline."
"That's natural, the Winchester family is Marianne's nemesis, that little witch took advantage of the two large-scale wars to recover a lot, and then has been endlessly hunting down the witchers of the Winchester family, especially in the hundred years after the war, most of the important people of the Winchester family have died."
At this point, Black Box admires Marianne's approach, and feels that this little witch is somewhat similar to her when she was younger, so when educating Marianne, he usually uses spanking and other methods.
"Although the Winchester family has given birth to many heroes, they are all mortals after all, and those who know the secrets of that little witch have been boiled to death by her, and the nemesis of the Belmont family is the vampire Earl who wreaked havoc on the entire European continent at the end of the Dark Ages."
In some literary works, this vampire, who is no less ferocious than the Witch of Dusk, is called Count Dracula.
"I've seen this book...... An Ling bought this book in a bunch of books before. ”
Gu Yun said.
"Vampires, werewolves, and witches directly contributed to the Dark Ages that began in the 15th century, but in fact when Marianne was 'alive', it was the Witch Society that was the dominant family, and in her heyday, vampires and werewolves were her nominal allies, but in reality they were almost the same as accessories, which is why witches were later the number one target of the Holy See witches."
Marianne's death upset the delicate balance, and the long-term crackdown between the Holy See and the Witchers' Guild left the witches to form like street rats, and in this situation, there was a long battle between vampires and werewolves for the right to speak.
"That's why vampires and werewolves are still bitter enemies."
"So, in the end, Count Dracula won?"
"At first, it was a close war, with injuries on both sides, and during that time the Witchers' Guild and the Holy See were bent on hunting down the remnants of the witches, and they were happy to see each other wear and tear, but one day, Count Dracula wiped out most of the werewolf tribes with a devastating force, and drove the remnants of the werewolves to the dark corners to survive."
The Holy See's evaluation of Count Dracula at that time was "not weaker than the monster of the Witch of Dusk".
The eradication of the werewolf tribe was also the beginning of a long war between the Belmonts and the vampires, with whom Belmont was almost always bound for centuries to come.
"And the one who secretly helped Belmont seal Count Dracula was the witches of the Fernando family, and they couldn't find a way to destroy Dracula, so they could only use the spell left by Marianne to seal Dracula in his castle forever."
During the battle with the vampires, the Belmont clan was devastated, and even those who survived were cursed by Dracula, and every member of the Belmont family could not escape the fate of dying young.
"Where did you hear all this?"
"When she spanked the little witch's ass, she told me that she seemed to have investigated the history of the next hundred years."
Gu Yun thought about the words of the black box for a while, and made up the scene of Marianne crying and confessing in his mind......
I always feel that something is weird.
"The crux of the matter is, why did Count Dracula get so much power from?"
Marianne had met the leaders of the two tribes, but Count Dracula did not impress her very much, in her opinion, werewolves and vampires were half a pound and two pounds, and no one could help anyone, so she was very puzzled by the history of the hundred years after her "death".
Count Dracula seems to have become an existence worthy of a natural disaster overnight.
And this question was answered when she dug up Green Winchester's grave.
"When she found Green's winchester skull, she discovered that Green's body had not been cremated in the manner of a witcher, and more importantly, by indications, he had been beheaded before he died—a common method used by witchers to deal with vampires."
As soon as a vampire's head is chopped off with a slasher, their powerful regenerative abilities are rendered useless, as witchers have done for centuries.
"Marianne speculates that Green Winchester had become a vampire for the sake of immortality, and that it was Count Dracula who helped him with his first embrace, and that they may have made some kind of agreement behind their backs."
Green Winchester's goal has been to "The Grimoire of Dusk" from the beginning, but as a human, his time is too limited, and he must have been frantically searching for a way to continue his life for a long time afterward.
And Count Dracula offers him a deal that is hard to refuse.
"In return for his eternal life, Green Winchester gave a portion of the Grimoire to Dracula, which is probably why he became so powerful overnight."
"And Fernando is the last human to come into contact with Count Dracula."