In the silent and deserted streets of St. Petersburg, a cold wind blows, and at one o'clock in the morning, there is not a single pedestrian to be seen on the empty street.

Under the full moon shrouded in night, four bats spread their black wings and flew away.

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The headmaster sat alone at the bar in the bar, quietly sipping his glass.

More than twenty members of the Russian branch, like iron towers, stood quietly behind the old man.

The headmaster who guards them.

"Hallows, borrowed, Lesenbra, Demon Party Division, Xiaobei." Sipping the whiskey in his glass, the headmaster's dark blue eyes flashed with a hint of wisdom.

He's trying to tie these unrelated things together.

"Teacher."

Minister Ivanov, who was about two meters tall, called out to his teacher softly, and his voice was as low as a bell.

"What's wrong?"

The headmaster smiled kindly.

"It's been a long time since we met at the academy last year, come on, sit down, and have a drink with me."

Minister Ivanov sat very stiffly next to the rector, his giant-like figure and restrained limbs, forming a sharp contrast.

"Teacher, how are you doing?"

"Well, it's okay, my old bones will probably live a little longer."

The headmaster smiled kindly and poured Minister Ivanov a glass of wine.

"Do you have a question for me right now?"

Minister Ivanov hesitated, then nodded.

The principal smiled and raised his eyebrows, "Then it just so happens that I will also test you to see if you have improved over the years." ”

Minister Ivanov, who was resolute, had not had a single incident related to the Demon Party in Russia since he became the head of the Russian section.

But this resolute and resolute minister, who had just taken over the Russian branch, led all the members of the department to exterminate the remnants of the demon party hidden in Russia in one fell swoop, and in front of his teacher, he actually showed a childlike shy smile.

"Teacher, you know me, I'm not Pierce, his brain spins fast, he can see many things at a glance, I, I can't do it........"

The headmaster shook his head with a smile as he held his glass.

"You are all my best students, I have never had any doubts about your abilities, you all have your best side, and you all have things that you are not good at, and you can't deny yourself because of some flaws."

"Now, tell me your answer, it's okay if you're wrong, I just want your answer, just like when I was in class with you, mistakes are not terrible, the important thing is that you say it."

In the face of the teacher who was still following him as he had done back then, Minister Ivanov nodded and said in a deep voice the doubts in his heart.

"Teacher, I don't understand, why did you agree to their request? Although these neutral clans have not had many head-on conflicts with us like the Demon Party, they have been making small moves over the years, and even the betrayal of the French branch has been directly related to them. ”

Minister Ivanov furrowed his brownish-yellow sword eyebrows.

"Even at the end of the Ten Years' War, they stood with the Demons in the open, and it wasn't until decades ago that you pledged to no longer be hostile to them, and they regained their former neutrality."

Minister Ivanov shook his head and said with some disappointment.

"Teacher, I thought that I was going to completely erase these neutral clan people from history today, but the result was ......"

Listening to Minister Ivanov's words, Principal Fanzhuo's face showed an expected smile.

"I see, I see, kid, can I ask you a question? Do you think the ten-year war was right or not? ”

Without any hesitation, Minister Ivanov replied.

"That's right! Because if it weren't for the Ten Years War, we wouldn't have these bizarre abilities like we do now, and it can be said that the Secret Party has been able to achieve what it is today thanks to the Ten Years War you led back then. ”

"But we've also lost eternal life."

The principal pointed out the most crucial point.

"Thanks to the 10-year war, we have indeed gained a lot of unimaginable abilities, but we have also lost the most important things, which has already shown that the war is wrong, am I right?"

"Teacher ......."

Principal Fanzhuo picked up the wine in his glass and looked deeply at the liquid in the glass.

"I've been reflecting on it all these years, and I'm reflecting on whether my decision back then was too extreme, and obviously, yes. The evolution of the Bloodline cannot be solved by a single war, otherwise Archduke Abraham would not have committed suicide in the end, dying alone in his room. ”

"The prophet Hebrew has already left us a revelation, but I have forgotten that a hundred years ago I took a path diametrically opposed to him, and chose a path that was the same as that of Archduke Abraham."

"Indeed, as the leader and initiator of the war back then, I am not too willing to admit my mistakes, but mistakes are mistakes, and your teacher is not so dead to save face."

The headmaster held the wine glass in his hand and said in a deep voice, "I once told you that mistakes are not terrible, but what is terrible is not to admit them, and to cover them up, which is the so-called mistake after mistake." ”

"So now, I just hope to find the right path while I'm still alive."

The headmaster drank the wine from his glass.

Minister Ivanov, as if anticipating something, asked in a trembling voice.

"Teacher, you, have you already made any discoveries?"

The headmaster turned his head to look at him, his eyes filled with endless relief.

"It seems that the decision to let you go to the Russian branch for training was the right one, otherwise you wouldn't have grown so much, remember, you were just a pure warrior like Andreev now, but now you are an excellent leader."

Listening to the teacher's evaluation, Minister Ivanov lowered his head in embarrassment, and his fingers were nervously crossed together.

"Since I am sitting in this position, of course, I can't just know how to fight and kill like before, and I should also learn to think, after all, I am carrying the lives of hundreds of subordinates, and I am responsible for their lives."

The headmaster patted Rector Ivanov on the shoulder and poured him another glass of wine.

"It's the same with the teacher, the teacher is also responsible for everyone in the secret party, by the way, you just asked me if I found anything? There is indeed one thing, Ivanov, I can tell you right now. ”

I wanted to take another sip of the glass, but for some reason, the glass didn't reach my lips and put it back again.

Looking at the crystal clear glass in his hand, the headmaster sighed softly, his eyes full of self-deprecation for himself and his ancestors.

"I'm reluctant to accept the results of my research, but that's just the way it is, you know? After so many years of research, I have discovered that there is indeed some kind of curse on the Hallows, including us. ”

"Cursed?" Minister Ivanov asked incredulously.

The headmaster nodded.

"Yes, that's true, the Artifact does have a curse on it, and it includes all of us, a curse that the second generation of ancestors imprinted on our souls forever when they died."

Speaking of this, the headmaster smiled bitterly.

"That's probably why we haven't been able to evolve, because we've been cursed since the moment the third generation of ancestors wiped out the second generation."

"This is a curse from the second generation of ancestors who never die! Before they died, they used their souls and blood to leave their descendants with a curse that will never be erased, and I call it the Heavenly Moat. ”

Unbuttoning the first bite of his shirt, the headmaster silently drank the spicy drink from his glass.

"A moat we'll never be able to cross."

Listening to the discoveries of the rector over the years, Minister Ivanov fell into a brief distraction.

Curse, the curse of all, the curse that is imprinted on every newborn of the Bloodline from the moment they are born......

As long as the Bloodlines remain, the curse will never go away......

Because they are all descendants of the third generation of ancestors, they are forever saddled with the curse of the second generation of ancestors......

After a moment, Ivanov remembered something and asked in a trembling voice.

"Teacher, do you already have a solution?"

The headmaster's hand as he reached for the bottle paused.

The expression on his face was slightly lonely, and two simple words came out of the principal's mouth.

"Peace."

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Picking up his glass and continuing to pour himself a glass of wine, the headmaster muttered about his discoveries over the years.

"The Hebrew prophet spent his whole life trying to improve relations between the thirteen tribes, but alas, because of the mistakes of Archduke Abraham and the hatred accumulated over hundreds of years of war, the prophet gained very little."

"In the ancient parchment scroll left by the Prophet, although he did not name it directly, the meaning of it was already obvious."

The headmaster closed his eyes and muttered in a low voice.

"If I'm not mistaken, only peace can bring about true evolution."

"Ivanov, this is also the reason why I agreed to the request of the four of them, in fact, if their request is a little more excessive, such as asking me to quit the secret party, I will also agree, after all, peace may really be the key to opening the door to the evolution of the blood clan."

After the words fell, the principal turned his head slightly and looked at the "Swan Princess" on the wall of the bar, with a helpless smile on the corner of his mouth.

"But peace, how can it be so easy, not to talk about neutral clans, we have been at war with the Demon Party for thousands of years, how can the hatred between the two sides be resolved with a single sentence?"

"I can only do what I can, and I hope that in my lifetime, you can all evolve into true blood and become the existence second only to God."

"Ivanov, I hope you can remember what I said tonight, if one day I accidentally die, you will continue along this path, understand?"

"It's the right way to go."

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Faced with the teacher who entrusted him with the future, and in the face of this masterpiece that seemed to be seen in the "Blood Chronicle", Minister Ivanov got up in a panic, and while getting up, he accidentally knocked over the chair next to him.

"Teacher, you, why would you say such a thing?"

The headmaster withdrew his gaze and drank the whiskey from his glass.

"It's just a hunch, not to mention that I've lived long enough, and I don't care when I go to see God, I just hope that before I go to see God, I can leave you some more precious treasures."

"Teacher ......."

"Okay, let's not talk about that, Ivanov, from now on, if it is not necessary, if the demon party does not take the initiative to attack us, and do not take the initiative to attack them, maybe the two sides should really try to sit down and talk."

"I understand." Minister Ivanov subconsciously stood up and stood up straight.

The headmaster patted him on the arm.

"Don't be so inhibited, like you used to do when you were in the academy, didn't you want to sit with me and drink before?"

Hearing the rector's ridicule, Minister Ivanov smiled a little awkwardly.

"Before, it used to be that Pierce guy who was messing around with me, but I actually, not too much, too ........ Teacher, I've actually grown a lot now. ”

"I can see it."

The teacher and student fell into a brief silence.

One sits at the bar and sipps a drink.

The other sat on the sidelines, holding a glass full of wine in his hand, bowing his head and saying nothing.

Finally, five minutes later, Minister Ivanov raised his eyes slightly and looked at his undrunk teacher.

After hesitating for a while, Minister Ivanov withdrew his gaze, bit his lip and said.

"Teacher, you mentioned Lilith just now, didn't you? And her son. ”

The headmaster took out a lighter and lit a cigar.

"I remember you didn't meet Xiaobei? And you left one behind, don't let me see this nonsense in my life. ”

Minister Ivanov's face suddenly turned a lot bluer.

"And so it is now! It's just that teacher, I want to ask you, how did Lilith disappear back then? Why has there been no news for so many years, she is so terrifying, it is absolutely impossible for someone to assassinate her, you also know that Lilith was the most ....... among us at the beginning"

"She may have been lost in Cain's right hand."

The headmaster bowed his head and drank the drink from his glass.