Chapter 395: The King's Conversation with the Two Blood Princes (Part I)

In just twenty years, the face of the Prince of Blood will not change a little, Theoderic is still familiar to Louis, a dignified young man who is more handsome than handsome, with a tired and old look in his eyes that does not match his appearance, he died in the prime of life, perhaps because of this regret, he has an extraordinary desire and expectation for France.

Louis was not surprised to see the prince standing outside the window, "What a beautiful night tonight," he said, "Your Highness, let's go out for a walk." ”

Theoderick glanced behind the king, and although there was nothing anywhere, he knew that the wizards and priests around the king must be on guard: "You will be worried. He said, "Your Majesty, you are still a mortal after all." ”

"Theoderic," said Louis XIV, with a bit of weariness, "there is a man in the world called Jules Mazarin, and in the world you are the only one my guide and protector, and I don't think you will be one of them, Your Highness." ”

"Although I do not think that I can take on such a heavy responsibility," said Theoderick, "I only hope that you will allow me to give you some advice." ”

Louis nodded: "I'd love to hear from you, even just the two of us, sir, we can go to Stonehenge." ”

Theoderic, who no longer persuaded the king to stay in the room, was honest, as a blood clan, he was not so willing to remain surrounded by priests and wizards, he landed lightly in front of the king, lifted a huge cloak, and covered him, with smoke and a soft crackling, a flock of fluffy, round-headed and round-headed little bats flew up with Louis in their arms, and they passed through the window and rose high into the air, the mist flowing around them, above which was the silvery moon and the dark blue sky.

It took three hours on foot, and two quarters of an hour on horseback, which was not worth mentioning in the speed of the Blood Prince, as if in an instant, they had reached the place where Stonehenge was, and Stonehenge was not as one might think, with huge stones standing in one place, like a huge army, neatly arrayed towards the north.

"We're at Lemonny now, north to Carmaray and then Kellskan. Theoderick, who was transformed from a bat into a human form, said.

Louis reached out and touched his shoulder, being able to fly in the air is something that many people dream of, but unless the blood has just drunk blood, the body has no temperature, and the same is true of the bats they incarnate, plus the chill in the sky, the king is even colder, but Theoderick immediately put a black cloak over him.

"The work of a wizard. Theodric said.

"I have one too," said Louis, "and Mary gave it to me." ”

Theoderick did not speak, and the two of them walked silently along the stone pillars that stood in the darkness, no wonder people thought of them as soldiers in armor, silent, majestic, tall, each characteristic similar to the strong warrior one would have imagined, except for the parts that were dragged away by the people nearby and damaged by the wind and rain, it was clear that the stone pillars were arranged in a regular manner.

"Two symmetrical pillars form a corridor that guides and restricts direction, and three pillars form a door, which sometimes extends to three hundred to five hundred feet—to the end of the circular altar, behind which is the burial chamber. Louis said that there was a lot of speculation about Stonehenge, holy sites, observatories, sacrificial places, and so on—yes, these are the traces left by the wizards, who were still revered priests or shamans, who drove slaves and sorcery to build this great city of wonders, leaving traces that date back to the third millennium B.C.," and that is what Mary told me," and Louis said, "Look at these, Theoderic, I wonder how the wizards came to be here." ”

"Not even a god can shake fate. Theodric said, "Since the Common Era, magic has been fading, first the gods, then the demons - I mean Argos or Xudra, then the dragons, the wizards, the bloods and the werewolves can become the masters of the darkness, it is only a few hundred years, but if you predict the future, maybe humans will eventually take over or conquer everything." ”

Louis looked at the prince with a very gentle expression, he and Theoderic were very close from the beginning, because although Theoderick was a vampire, his mind was still very close to humans, and he was also a king, and he knew what it cost to be a king, and what kind of power and glory he could get.

"But I will say ......," said Theoderic, who was walking under an extraordinarily tall stone pillar, probably more than fifteen feet high, so that the moonlight could not shine on him at all, except for a pair of crimson eyes that glistened like embers in the fireplace, and Louis paused. ”

"First of all, I want to tell you, Louie, that this assassination is indeed related to the Bloodline. Theodric said.

"I've already guessed that I only have a lot of enemies in the inner world and the outer world, but I also have the power of the inner world around me to resist and shelter, if the power of the inner world is really big enough to dispose of a king at will at any time, the inner world would have become the master of the surface world long ago. Louis put his hand on the cold stone, the wind and rain could not destroy the stone pillar, at most it would be mottled or smooth, but if the seeds of plants fell into the cracks, the force of their growth could cut through the stone, and this was the case with the stone that Louis was pressing, and it had a large piece of crumbling skin because an unknown vine had grown in it. "They must have paid a lot of price," he said, "and there may be a lot of force, I guess so, it seems that I have caused a lot of uneasiness." ”

"It was I who broke the rules in the first place," Theoderick said, "so as a parent of Van Tru, I can't file a complaint in Parliament." ”

"The Bloodlines also have a council?"

"It hasn't been around for long," said Theoderic, "and we've been hesitant to ask our people to follow the rules and laws of humanity." ”

"There are no rules, there are no rules. Louis said, "Even if you are a blood, you are not numerous, and you are found in every great city, no, it should be said, wherever there are human beings, there are traces of you, and many of you live with human beings." ”

"Then you may know that only seven of the thirteen clans in the council belong to the Hidden Feast faction, the other four clans belong to the neutral faction, and two belong to the Demon Feast faction. But even the first two, they treat humans ......" Theoderick froze for a moment, and he looked at Louis with a serious expression, obviously not prepared to say the truth that was too unpleasant.

"Treat humans as livestock. Louis said, "You are even superior to the wizards, Theoderic, because even if the wizards can hunt mortals for resurrection corpses, they know that they are controlling the humans, but the bloods, the humans who cannot get your favor are the food on the plate, and the humans will not talk to the cattle and sheep, and treat them as their own kind, and you will not either." ”

"You have expelled Nophil in Paris," said Theodryk, "and it is a cross of the line, and in the Diet the Bloodline members argue – Nophil, though they are like animals to us, they are also Blood, especially since they have no seat in Parliament but they have asked some of the members to speak for them – and they demand reprisals." Prince Fanzo took a step forward, out of the darkness, exposed to the moonlight: "But there are also some councillors who believe that you are not targeting Nophil, but that the clearing of the slums and abandoned pipes has left the Nophile people with nowhere to hide, and you did not let the priests surround them, and in the first place, they were the ones who acted against you first - so in all this, the council's decision is not to get involved in the affairs between you and Nophil, of course, because you have a wizard and an inquisition, and the only thing Nophile can do is to hide again." ”

"So what makes you think I'm going to step on your bottom line this time?"

"I see how you subdued Gayola," said Theoderick, "Please don't lie to me, Your Majesty, you have the power to encroach on the Inner World—more of the Inner World and the Inner World, including the Bloods, don't you......?"

"This is my answer to His Highness Amun. Louie said.

"Yes, you promised him, but Your Majesty, Amon and I both know that you are giving you an exorbitant price, that you are negotiating a deal with a crazy devil, and that Amon is still a blood clan and the head of Tsmich, how do you think he will be of the same use to you as Elarius does? You have nothing to give him, earthly rights are worthless to him, and if you let other parents know what you think, whether they are members of the Secret Feast or the Feast, or neutral members, they will definitely find a way to make you disappear forever. ”

Theoderic's figure took a step forward, his figure almost completely enveloping the king, and a cold aura greeted him, and he stared at Louis, who found himself completely unable to move his body.

"I saw it, I felt it, Your Majesty, you are supreme among mortals, but in front of the blood clan, you are just a good meal, we do not intervene in the surface world, and stealth does not mean that we are helpless against you. This assassination may be a warning, you are lucky to have a loyal and tenacious lover, or maybe you have another way, but we have thirteen clans. You won't be so lucky every time. ”

Louis sighed softly: "If you insist, I will consider it." ”

Theoderick stared at him for a moment, "You stay," he said, "given the danger you've had in the past." As soon as he stretched out his hand, a blue-gray kitten was placed in Louis's arms, and it barked uneasily, without the slightest composure of Theodry, "In fact, there is something I have always wanted to ask you," Louis muttered, "What is your incarnation of a cat?"

Prince Theoderick is the head of Van Zhuo, and it's no surprise that his incarnation is either a viper or some other beast, but why is he a kitten?

"The incarnation of the Bloodline has mist, bats, and cats," Theodrik was also a little helpless, "except for cats, I can't let you have fog or a bat lying on your stomach, as for why it's so small, Your Majesty, if it's bigger, it's going to be in conflict with the priests around you." ”

"I'm just curious," Louis said with a smile as he put the kitten in his pocket, "and that's good, it's portable, Your Highness." ”

Theoderick obviously wanted to say something, but Louis was no longer the boy king of twenty years ago, he shook his head and took two steps back, "I'll send you back." He re-transformed into a swarm of bats in the shadows, and sent Louis back to his room, or with Louis's mortal legs, he might have walked for a long time before he could return to his station, and if nothing else, it was Brittany, hostile to the King of France, and it was hard to say whether there would be any coincidence.

As Louis watched Theoderick turn into smoke, blown by the sea breeze, and fly into the sky, disappearing from view, he lowered the curtain, walked to the small round table beside the bed, and pulled out the kitten and then a doll in the flickering candlelight.

The cat slept like a mass of melted grease, hot and soft—of course this was not true, the initiator was a doll in Louis's other pocket—and he stood up and laughed twice, in a small and thin voice, but as soon as those who had seen the Monsieur Amon heard it—not that his voice was not beautiful, but it was very reminiscent of a nightingale pierced through thorns, as if every sound was carried with blood and death.

"Good fellow," said the doll, or Amon attached to it, "I guessed that Theoderick would surely come to you." ”

"Van Zhuo and Tsmich don't seem to be from the same faction. Louie unfastened his cloak and placed it on his chair, "But it's not surprising, enemies always know you better than your friends. ”

"The Hidden Feast and the Demon Feast can't be said to be complete enemies, we are just, according to your human words, we are different in philosophy. Amon said—of course, no one believed us," said Amon, "as Theoderick said, we are also a Blood, and the idea of the Feast is more radical than that of the Feast, and if you really want to take everything as Theoderick said, Your Majesty, it will be difficult, difficult, even if you dig Cain out of the ground." ”

"Because the Bloodline and the Wizard are different. Louie said.

"Yes, it is possible for a wizard to live in harmony with mortals, but it is not so possible for a bloodline, and you should know best, because you are the kind of person who will fight to the end if you encounter the slightest threat. Amon said crooked on the candlestick, the doll's glass eyes were gray in the candlelight, just like Theoderick said, he should have separated a part of the mist and contracted in the doll's body: "Theoderick is worried about this, he knows that you can always know what you want to know, and then ......" He opened his hands: "The cat is going to knock over the cutler." ”