XVIII. The Land of Mages
As a result, I was eating at Haiersin's house again, and Mrs. Yaochi's craftsmanship made her image more and more brilliant in my eyes, and her smile made my heart pound....
Stop! Stop, fishbones, beware of the Master slashing you.
I suspect I've been spelled. I heard that in ancient times there was an evil magician named Sigmund Freud, who created a kind of ill-intentioned spell that made the spell more attractive to older and mature women.
Mrs. Yaochi picked me up with vegetables, and my chopsticks accidentally touched hers, and I seemed to have suffered an electric shock, ah, this weird, untimely electric current.....
Bella laughed on the side: "Did he hurt his nerves?" ”
Helsing said, "The high-level telekinetic blade has made him emotionally unstable, and no matter how he behaves, it is not surprising. ”
Lady Yaochi said gently, "He is a smart child. ”
I muttered back, "You're a beautiful lady." ”
Mrs. Yaochi smiled and said, "Thank you for the compliment, and thank you for your special medicine, I feel much better." ”
I said, "It's my job to make up for you." ”
If Helsing knew about it, I was afraid that he would not be able to escape it, but fortunately he didn't seem to know.
Helsing and I drank the wines from the collection, and I was in high spirits as I told them about the glorious future of the village. "If I were thirty years younger," said Halsin, "I would have gone out into the wilderness." ”
I immediately said, "When I have built the city, you can move to the village of Wai Wei, where the embers can withstand the bad weather, and there is a big lake with clean water." ”
Bella said, "Really? Can I invest in shares? ”
I rejoiced: "I can't ask for it! How much do you take? ”
Bella said, "I have to go back and talk to Lord Tiphon, she has always had a good eye. ”
Should I tell them about the LAST machine workers? Sooner or later, they will have to know about this, but with such an important resource, the Blood Clan will not let me alone be a mortal. It's just a pity that Lamia is not there, and I can't find anyone to talk to. Mask? He's more confused than I am now.
Suddenly, I shouted, "Oh no! ”
Bella asked, "What's wrong?" ”
I said, "I met the priest of the Anno Empire on the way, and that man knows the location of the village of Weeping and the reactor in Charon Heavy Industries!" Will they try to take over my village? ”
Helsin's eyes changed, and so did Yaochi, the former's eyes were vigilant, while the latter looked desolate and weak, Helsin said: "The Era Empire will not do this, they are too far away from there, if the long journey is worth the loss." ”
I said, "Master, ma'am, you have a holiday with the Anno Empire?" ”
Yao Chi said, "I also used to be a priest of the Era Empire. ”
This took me by surprise and asked, "Such a coincidence?" Not anymore? ”
Yao Chi said, "No, they may still be chasing me, and if it weren't for me, Helsin wouldn't have broken with the Sword and Shield Society." ”
I asked, "What is the reason for this?" Can you tell me? ”
Yao Chi looked at Helsin, who took a sip of wine and said, "Let's start at the beginning, have you ever heard of an alien like Neferem?" ”
I replied, "I've heard it several times!" ”
Helsing nodded, "Very well, then it will be much easier to explain." This type of Inhuman has easy access to strange abilities, such as those powerful Bloods, such as your two living corpse men, who are more or less of Neferem's blood.
Thousands of years ago, some Nefarems awakened one after another, they did not become bloodborn, nor did they rise from the dead, let alone possessed by demons, they only gained an ability called "magic", they thought they saw the truth of this world, their lifespan did not increase because of this, they did not crave blood or raw flesh, they did not grow black hair and fangs, from any external habits, they are still human, but in essence, they are completely different.
They evolved on a spiritual level, they mastered magic, they formed organizations that called themselves mages. ”
He pointed to Yao Chi and said, "Yao Chi is such a person, and so is the ruling class of the Era Empire. ”
Bella and I nodded and said, "Understood, please continue." ”
Helsing continued, "The mages realized that this world was very different from what they had previously seen, that bloods, werewolves, ghosts, and living corpses were all real, and that humanity had always faced the threat of these aliens, and was oblivious to the fact that they had been manipulated.
However, the mages themselves no longer consider themselves human, and they see themselves as equal or even higher than the Bloodline, players at the top of the food chain. The Bloodlines have set up vast institutions behind the scenes of the world to exploit human ignorance for their own benefit. The mages also banded together to form an organization to fight openly and secretly with the Bloodline.
This organization is called the Anpoch Society. ”
I said, "Is that the predecessor of the Anno Empire?" ”
"Not necessarily, the facts are more complicated," Helsin said. Although the Anno Society was powerful, there were internal struggles, and eventually it split into four new groups: the Sword and Shield Society, the Charon Company, the Demon Daughter, and the Labyrinth Guardians. ”
Bella said, "Two of them sound familiar. ”
Helsing replied: "The Sword and Shield Society is now the Sword and Shield Society, they originated from the devout disciples of the Western Vatican Holy See, and the sword they use is actually a kind of magic, and they prefer to fight at close range. We use magic to exercise our flesh, and we are the thugs and soldiers of the Epoch Society.
Charon is a vast multinational conglomerate of biological, pharmaceutical, heavy industry, and munitions, disguising magic as technology, the richest and most openly of the Big Four, rigging elections, controlling voters, and funding the Anno Society.
The Labyrinth Guardians are diehards, convinced that the identity of the mage must never be known to mortals, and are busy putting a stop to leaks. They are judges, policemen, and killers among mages, and they will not spare any leakers, and even if a mage does a conspicuous and suspicious magic trick in public, they will go all the way to arrest people and put them on trial.
The Demon Daughters are the elite of the mages, skilled at identifying the most talented mages through their genealogy and bloodline, and are believed to inherit the power of powerful demons, and the Demon Daughters will rigorously train them to their full potential to deal with monsters and phenomena that transcend common sense. ”
I said, "Isn't this organization all women?" ”
"The original tradition was that they would only seek out underage women of extraordinary blood, Nefarem, and let them awaken to become mages. ”
I said angrily, "It's sexist at all!" Who says men are inferior to women? ”
Yao Chi replied with a smile: "According to probability, female mages have a higher success rate, according to legend, in the dark ages of the European human Middle Ages, the hunting of witches in various countries is precisely because women's magical talents are more likely to manifest, and the consequences are more serious.
But then, a powerful Demon Son appeared, whose mana was unprecedented, created new brilliance for the Demon Daughter, and that Demon Son made an exception to become the leader of the Demon Daughter, and from him, the Demon Daughter began to recruit a small number of men into the organization. ”
I sighed: "This may have something to do with the trend of male sissy in the last century, and it is said that before the end of the world, the proportion and cost of makeup for men was no less than that of women. ”
Yaochi said, "I don't know, maybe." ”
In this case, shouldn't I also buy some cosmetics for maintenance? Because the higher the appearance, the stronger the mana. I think I have the potential to become a little fresh meat.
Yao Chi said, "However, the Bloods are more cunning and skilled at mind control than the mages, and unknowingly, they infiltrated the Sword and Shield Society and the Charon Corporation, turning the heads of these two organizations into puppets. Things have become very complicated, the blood clan and the mage were originally secretly opposed, but later, you have me, I have you, and it is difficult to distinguish friend from foe. ”
"After the Holocaust, the Daughter of the Devil recruited some remnants of the Labyrinth Guardians, who began to pioneer fifty or sixty years before the Black Coffin, occupying Oregon and a small part of Washington State, which was the Epoch Empire," Helsing said. ”
I asked, "Okay, the Demon Daughter became the Era Empire, then, how did Yaochi escape from the Era Empire, and are there some legendary stories of heroes saving beauty in it?" ”
Yao Chi got up and cleaned up the dishes and chopsticks, and said, "It's not too early, I heard that you have to attend a dinner party tonight?" ”
I said, "I don't want to go to that dinner, I just want to finish the story." ”
Yao Chi stroked my hair and said, "Child, the end of the story is that Helsing and I live happily in the black coffin, talking freely with you, drinking and chatting. As for what happened before, there is nothing to say. ”
I sighed, knowing that they had no intention of revealing it, that the matter had come to an end, and that there was no need to force people to make it difficult, maybe one day when Yaochi was alone, I could get her drunk, and then ..... Pull out the whole thing from her mouth.
Bella took me by the arm and said, "Let's go, let's go, big red, let's go to the most important dinner party of our bloodline." ”
If I don't go, Tiphon threatens to castrate me, and of course I'm not afraid of any intimidation..... However, everyone is a neighbor, and harmony is precious, so why should I give her a face? Could it be that they can still suck my blood dry on the spot?
Bella said, "Huh? How do you sweat coldly and swallow saliva? ”
If things don't go right, I'll find the weakest of the Blood, take him hostage, and slip away.
Bella and I made an appointment to meet in front of her house, and alas, that's the trouble of being a celebrity, there are too many socials. Would Lamia be jealous if she knew that Bella and I were in a pair? It's just a joke.
When Bella saw my dress, she laughed and said, "What are you doing with a gun and a sword?" ”
I said, "Isn't it a masquerade?" ”
Bella said, "Who are you putting on makeup?" ”
I said, "Vampire Hunter." ”
Bella laughed: "Dear fishbones, if you don't want to die a miserable death, you'd better dress up normally." ”
I had to throw my gun and sword in the trash, but hiding Mjonir in my pants made me look a little too big, but I couldn't help it. The sword was terrible heavy, but my pants were strong enough.
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