Late autumn nights are often very beautiful, the cold wind blowing from the north blows all the clouds away, leaving only a pure and intoxicating night sky, especially today, because it seems to be the beginning of the month, so there is no moon in the sky, only a charming sky full of stars.

This kind of night is best to take a bottle of good wine and friends to sit on the ground, nonsense around the campfire, or bring your girlfriend, it is also very romantic, of course, the premise is not to snap, otherwise it is likely to freeze, after all, late autumn, the temperature at night is really not high.

And at this time, Soram will not have such a good life, don't think about anything about his girlfriend, only since the cloud giant came, Loriss and Scarlett have become extremely reserved, especially Scarlett has few opportunities to get close to Solam. The cloud giant didn't like the smell of the evil god in her body very much.

It's that Maria secretly ran over to "seduct" Solam, but Soram is always a little weird when he messes around with Maria now. It used to be said that although Solam had no bad intentions for Mary, he should take advantage of it just as much. But now, even taking advantage of Solam is a little mentally obstructed.

Anyway, Maria is his mother-in-law, and if he messes around, Solam is a little embarrassed. (Mother and daughter don't have to think about what to fly)

This made Maria very unhappy, and felt that Soram was not as interesting as before. So he decisively turned around to play with his daughter, and now Loris's is even more fun, especially when Maria asks about the details of her and Solam's together, Loris's face can be boiled hot.

It can also be seen from here that Maria is bored.

Without a woman, Soram was left alone to drink alone on a platform on the top floor of the castle. As for drinking with the cloud giants? Hehe, only since the last time he was drunk by the cloud giant, Solam has sworn that he will never drink with this group of guys again, they are too good to drink.

Speaking of drinking, we have to mention another thing. That is, the liquor in the market of Bowland has been almost completely emptied by the Solam faction today. Even the royal cellar of Yetana has been emptied by Solam, and there are some very valuable wines.

After tasting the wine, the cloud giants unexpectedly liked this slightly sour wine. Coupled with their natural appetite, Solam had to bleed to make a big purchase.

For wine alone, Solam spent almost 300,000 gold coins a day.

When he saw the bill, Soram was shocked. Fortunately, he is only an empty king, otherwise just feeding these cloud giants would have bankrupted Jean.

"What? Drinking alone? Just as Soram was thinking, a voice of a small nature suddenly came from behind Solam.

Soram didn't look back, because what he heard was Philip. So Solam continued to lie on the cloud bed made of clouds, took a sip of wine, and said casually: "Listen, you seem to have brought bad news. ”

"Bad news...... yes, big bad news. Philip didn't say anything polite to Solam, he sat down on the chaise longue on the side, picked up the wine next to Solam, and took a sip directly.

Soram did it, waved his hand into the air and said, "Don't be nervous, it's my friend." ”

In an instant, a force that enveloped the entire platform vanished. In front of a group of legendary-level cloud giants, even Philip couldn't do it without knowing it, and the moment Philip sneaked into the castle, he was noticed by several legendary cloud giants.

If Soram hadn't told them not to care, it is estimated that Philip would have been attacked a long time ago. At this point, Philip was too close to Solam, so the cloud giant was a little nervous.

"I didn't expect you to have such an identity. It's hard enough. When the attention faded, Philip said bitterly.

"Who doesn't have a secret? Aren't you the same? Soram was referring to the fact that Philip had concealed his true identity.

"Yes, everyone has a secret ......" Philip is obviously not very high-natured. He thought of Degra, before that, Philip had never thought that Degra would lie to him, Degra was not Solam, and he spent time with Philip in a way that even Philip himself couldn't remember how long. In his opinion, there should be no secrets between the two of them. In fact, the blood clan has no secrets inside, there are only so many people in total, and they have been together for a long time, and they have a fart secret.

But the fact is that Degra deceived Philip, and after Philip freed Degra from Mozart's secret laboratory, Philip asked Degra what happened to him on the mainland, but Degra did not say anything about Sianna.

After that, Digra insisted that Philip give him a little time to deal with some things, and repeatedly promised that he would definitely return to the Bloodline Secret Realm with Philip within a year.

But Degra still deceived him, and Degra did not meet Philip on time. And disappear again.

Thinking of this, Philip kept blaming himself, he should have discovered Digra's inappropriateness a long time ago, after all, Digra was not very good at lying, if Philip could find out the inappropriateness earlier and bring Digra back earlier, there would be no follow-up.

After a moment of silence, Soram couldn't stand the atmosphere. The first to speak: "Say, how bad is it?" ”

Philip heard Solam's question, collected his mood, and said with a wry smile: "Oops? I am afraid that this word is no longer enough to describe the current situation. ”

Philip paused before he said again, "Degra intends to open the Scarlet Path. ”

"Scarlet Path? What is that? The word was not a good thing to hear, and Soram asked curiously, wondering why Philip said that.

"Scarlet Path...... It was a special ritual that our bloodline had become a 'last resort'. Philip shook his head with a wry smile, as if even he believed that Degra would use the ritual.

"Last resort?" Solam is a little interested in the word.

"That's right! Last resort! ”

"Under what circumstances is the last resort?"

"Extermination!" Philip pursed his lips and said with a solemn face. "I told you about the birth of vampires, and this method was invented at that time. Because from that time, we bloodlines finally realized how terrible mortal greed is, and how tempting the characteristics of our bloodline are to mortals. So from that time on, we Bloods began to come up with various ways to protect the population. ”

"For example, we completely hide ourselves, don't let our clansmen walk on the mainland casually, and handle everything in a low-key manner. Another example is that we began to develop various spells and abilities to increase our strength. And the 'Scarlet Path' was also invented in this context. ”

"This thing is powerful?" Soram asked.

"If you use it to die together, do you think it's powerful?" Philip asked rhetorically.

"Together? And the enemy? "If it's just for a few people, it's not that bad.

“every thing！ (All!) Philip spat out an old phrase of the Glorious Plains.

Soram was stunned for a moment, feeling a little ridiculous, but looking at Philip's expression, he felt that he was not talking nonsense.

"Are you serious?"

"Very seriously! If the Scarlet Path really came, then not to mention Bowland, it would not be impossible to destroy the entire Towcente! This is also because this ritual is only performed by Digra alone, and if it is performed collectively by our blood clan, it is not impossible to return the whole world to the desolation before the primeval period. ”

Philip said with a serious face, and then explained to Soram the true nature of the "Scarlet Path".

"You must have heard Digra talk about the origin of our Bloodline, right?" Philip asked.

"Yes, he once said that your blood was born from the blood of the Blood QueePiscaethces, in much the same way that the benthic devilfish were born. At the time, I laughed at the fact that you blood and benthic devilfish are relatives. ”

"Yes in a sense, this can be seen from the fact that we can all live forever, but we are a little bit higher, the benthic devilfish can be killed, and it is very difficult for us to kill." Philip didn't pay attention to Solam's teasing. Because he was right, although there were many within the Bloodline who did not admit it, they believed that the benthic motfish was just a low-level proto-creature that was born under the influence of the power of the Scarlet Queen Pais.

It is precisely because of this discrimination that the blood clan hates benthic magic fish, so the two races, who are also from the blood queen Paises, have no contact at all.

It's just that Philip is more non-mainstream, and he doesn't really care about this kind of thing.

"Closer to home, the Scarlet Path is a ritual to summon the Scarlet Queen, Paiskaises!"

"Summoning Paises? How is this possible? Soram exclaimed in shock.

Another name for Pais, the Scarlet Queen, is "The Elder Evil".

Ancient evils, evils that existed at the beginning of the universe. Their origin, purpose, and even their essence are mysterious. This unknown existence is completely incomprehensible.

They are unspeakable, unspeakable, incomprehensible, unbelievable. Even anyone who sees them goes crazy at the sight of them. Descriptions of them are only made up by mortals according to their own understanding, and their true names are unknown. Their forms were also imagined by the mortal race for better understanding.

The Scarlet Queen Paisses Heath is one of them, and is quite an old one. There are legends of its visit in many otherworldly texts, but no one knows exactly what it does.

In the legend of the benthic devilfish, the Scarlet Queen is a large, tentacleless benthic devilfish surrounded by a cloud of blood-colored slime that swims through the worlds in order to plant its own seeds.

But in the Bloodline's description, the Scarlet Queen is a large, flowing and moving mass of blood, which is cut down into a blood-colored moon when it descends. This is also the source of the legend about the Blood Moon. At the same time, the Bloodline believes that the arrival of the Scarlet Queen in Torel is only the beginning, the beginning of the world beginning to prosper.

However, the two races have one thing in common, and that is that they don't want the Scarlet Queen back. Both the benthic mobs and the Bloods believe that when the Scarlet Queen appears in this world again, it means the destruction of the world.

It's just that the bottom devilfish thinks that the Scarlet Queen is the key to reincarnation, and its arrival is just to open the next reincarnation, and the Blood Clan doesn't think so, they think that the Scarlet Queen is the beginning and end of the world's prosperity, but that's not deliberate, it doesn't have a plan or mission, it's just a simple passing. It doesn't make any other sense. （）