Carlos II lay on his bed, and even when he lay down, he was like a cat and dog dead in a ditch, with a hideous face, stiff hands and feet, and a twisted body, and even the dark wizards, who were often in the company of deformed beasts and resurrected carrions, could not help but feel a pang of disgust, and they had privately laughed at Leopold I's greed more than once, and he preferred to let his eldest daughter enter such a nightmare as soon as she came of age in order to win an ally and the throne of Spain.

But then they were naturally very deferential, and the Dark Wizard at the head raised the potion bottle, "Just in case," he said, "Please hold his hands and feet." ”

"Does this potion make him miserable?" asked the Queen Mother.

"If I say yes, will you give up?" the Dark Wizard sneered, and then said as if to redeem, "Of course, you are a mother, but no medical treatment is comfortable for the patient. Guanchang or with a soldering iron, these potions will clear his body of turbid impurities, increase the mucus in his brain, reduce his chance of seizures, and also increase his yellow bile and reduce black bile so that his body can become hot, and blood, this potion will make his blood moist, just like some seeds need to be soaked in water to germinate, so that his seeds can become strong and take root in the queen's belly. ”

This explanation, which would have sounded as absurd as a dream whisper to people hundreds of years later, reassured the Queen Mother a lot—or rather, she had to feel at ease, and she withdrew from her bedside, "I can't," she said sadly, "I can't see my children suffering, let the servants do it." ”

"I have prepared a few servants. The regent said that he and the queen mother looked at each other, and knew that the servants who had been summoned were only peasants from a deserted farm, and that they had great strength and little knowledge, and that they did not even know that the lord, the wife, and the priest in the room were the queen mother and the regent, and they even regarded the black-robed wizard as a priest, and they thought of the reward of one silver coin each, and held down the little master lying on the bed,

In the eyes of the farmer, the little old man was like a devil - when he was poured the potion, he struggled even more, the queen mother and the regent retreated in the corner of the room, looking from afar at the thin legs that came out of the gap in the drapery, because Carlos II rarely walked, these legs were not as good to the peasants as a chicken or a rabbit, they read the name of God, and when their men stopped struggling, "clergy" The old man cautiously came over and tried his breath, and they got out of the way in fear, and after they had come out, the regent nodded slightly, and the guards at the door followed, of course, all of them must die here, not a single one of them.

In any case, the Habsburgs have now replaced France as the sons of the Roman Church, and in order to prove their piety, the kings of Spain never dared to openly drive wizards, who were like a pack of wild dogs banished everywhere in Spain, but this is all in the past, and the dark wizards will not be stupid enough to cure Carlos completely at once. No, it should be said that they are not treating Carlos, they are just taking shortcuts, and it is much easier to make Carlos II a non-human than to make him a healthy person.

In the sorcerer's potion there was the blood of vampires, werewolves, and the Chimera, mixed with belladonna, mandala, and some unspeakable materials, and it must be said that it was also a method that required guts, skill, and talent, because at the slightest mistake, Carlos II would not have wailed and writhered his body and limbs as he did now, but died instantly.

Carlos II has many similarities with Alfonso VI, who died not long ago, like being equal to half a prisoner, weak body, losing the most important ability of men, etc., but Carlos II is inferior to Alfonso VI in his mind and mind is not as good as a three-year-old child, he can't understand what just happened, he only knows that he is in pain, sad, Wanting to vomit, his beard swelled, black and sharp, his bones disappeared and grew under his skin, his heart even jumped out of the gap in his ribs, squirming under the thin skin, he stuck out his sharp nails and clung to the sheets, and called out to his mother and Don Juan in confusion, but they didn't dare to step forward.

"Soon. When the dark wizard saw the Queen Mother glaring at them, he immediately said.

Carlos II's pain lasted from late night to the second night, the mutation never stopped, the bed was full of feces, urine, sweat and blood stains, the queen mother and the regent had to go to the next room to sleep first, the dark wizards were watched by the priests of Toledo, and they could only endure Carlos's cries and **** bitterly, fortunately, a few hours ago, this venerable majesty was not able to make too much noise,

A dark wizard stepped forward to check on the king: "He's getting better. Indeed, he said, Carlos's mutation was slowly decreasing, which meant that his part as a human had been devoured by the part that was a monster, and of course, the dark wizards would not tell anyone in the room the truth, they exchanged glances strangely, and Carlos II was not the first mortal to receive this potion.

Open the files of the Inquisition and you will see many terrible rumors that the former gentle and humble people seemed to have become demons overnight, sometimes by false rumors, sometimes by the work of dark wizards, most notably General Gilles de Rice, who fought valiantly against the English under Jeanne d'Arc, and Lady Elisabeth Bartoli, who was known for her wisdom and shrewdness before her marriage and widowhood.

It is not for nothing that wizards, especially dark wizards, consider mortals to be nothing more than cattle and sheep that they raise, whether they are slaughtered, sacrificed, or used for experimentation, they are mostly vicious by nature, like Bosch, who often forces mortals to make terrible choices - they disdain to force mortals to drink this potion by force or magic, and they only need to show the "facts" that they have tampered with, and these mortals will rush at them desperately.

Of course, who isn't afraid of aging and death?

There is also a case like Carlos II, his life and death are not his own affairs, but directly related to Spain and the Holy Roman Empire, especially when the dark wizards showed that not only could Carlos prolong his life, but also allow him to have sex with women and reproduce offspring, the hearts of the queen mother and the regent immediately tilted to the side of the scale.

They probably didn't care too much about what happened to Carlos II, and the dark wizards could even guess that they might have been prepared, and if Carlos II still died, they also had a ready backhand, but they didn't know whether it was Leopold I of the Holy Roman Empire or Louis XIV of France......

It was in this dark room that Carlos II awoke, his lungs fully inflated for the first time, he inhaled a breath of turbid air, and if he were a normal man, he would immediately cough violently, and he felt very pleasant—although he did not know what "comfort" was at this time, for the first time he could sleep close to the bed, without being pushed by the arched shoulder blades, he stretched his limbs, his nails ripped through the sheets, he listened with his ears sideways, and continued to tear them apart. Dumbo eBook

The dark wizards were aware of it before the curtain was torn apart, and the Dark Wizard at the head approached the bed cautiously in the "company" of the clergyman, and he saw Carlos's face in the flickering candlelight, and although the most characteristic of the Habsburg jaws was still there, a strange feeling arose - for Carlos II was smiling at him, just smiling, and then he fell back asleep.

If the Queen Mother and the Prince Regent had been here, and had seen this smile and those eyes, they would have expected something bad, but there were only priests and dark wizards who were unfamiliar with Carlos II, and they didn't know that Carlos II was just a dull idiot who was indifferent to the curiosity in those eyes—and when Carlos II woke up again, it would be another week later.

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Louis pinched the secret letter from Toledo and sighed softly.

He remembered the predictions and perhaps accusations that Madame d'Aubigne had made in the previous conversation.

The history of sorcerers is, in fact, longer than that of the Roman Church, nay, even longer than their savior, because as early as B.C., sorcerers were like water seeping into the soil, inseparable from the lives of mortals, but at that time they were not called sorcerers, they were elders, priests, shamans, attendants and messengers of the gods, that is, the earliest and earliest believers of polytheism, they had extraordinary powers, they could shock those mortals, Fear and obedience, they once held great power, and the kings had to bow to them or become one with them, as in the former Sumerian and Egyptian.

Even the first Church princes, bishops, and popes were among these extraordinary beings, who were originally separated from the wizards, so that all kinds of holy miracles continued to appear, and the terrible and painful wars recorded in the Bible can almost be seen as two forces belonging to the wizards wrestling with each other, whether it is the Egyptians, or the Romans, or any race that dares to confront God.

Louis remembers asking if it was because there was a disagreement among wizards - they obviously wanted to rule over mortals in different ways, and Madame Aubigne replied in the affirmative, but they probably didn't expect that, for hundreds of years, instead of becoming true gods, they had become slaves of mortals. At least in A.D. 300 (A.D.), the Church already had 200 bishops, which meant 200 dioceses, but since then, saints who can show miracles have been very rare, and from then on, only posthumous canonization was allowed, and it was at that time that people began to falsify miracles.

What does this mean? It only shows that from that time on, the power of the Extraordinary in the Church began to weaken.

Louis once said that Merlin was the last effort of the wizards, and he almost succeeded, and it is no wonder that the wizards still worship him as a saint, but Merlin still failed, and he was imprisoned by his own disciples in a boulder, which is reminiscent of the cornerstone of wizards - his results may not be so good.

What about the extraordinaries who founded the Church, who would not have imagined that their descendants would be reduced to being hired by mortals for a low price—Louis didn't know how the Church did it, but in Elalho's case, the clergy, even if they were born in the world, could not escape the curse-like indoctrination—and they were vaguely aware that their power might be from the same source as the wizards, but instead of being close to them, they hated them all the more...... Servants of the devil hope to be able to wash away their innate sins with their piety and life......

The reason why Eralho is Eralho is because he met Bishop Mazaran, a smart man who is more like a politician than the Prince in Red, and once he uncovers the shadows, it is not difficult to see and admit the stupidity of himself and his relatives.

But the Church of Rome is not without cards, and without Elelius, they would have Francis, Sipilan, Gornerius and Dominigo...... They were not willing to negotiate with Louis XIV because they had any fear of him (they said so)—"You know," said Madame d'aubigne, "the son of King Charles II of England was born in this world because his father had taken a sorcerer's potion." ”

"It's a little unfair," Louis replied at once, "I don't have the authority to command a king." ”

"But what a bad example you have made. Madame d'aubigne said, "You see, before you, even though the wizards were in and out of the court, the kings and the ministers were interested in keeping away from these servants of the devil, and they could only survive under the machinations of the villains and the skirts of the women, but what about you, how did you do it? You have not been afraid to bring them from behind the scenes to the forefront, and you have made the kings and the Grand Dukes see the benefits, and they will see how you use the wizards, and benefit from them, and of course they will follow suit." ”

"The main thing is that the Church of Rome has lost its deterrent power against kings. Louis whispered, and Madame d'aubigne pursed her lips at once, lest she look angry: "It was a mistake that the Church did not give me a great excommunication when I first sent wizards to Dunkirk or Flanders. ”

"Yes, this is a great mistake, and so did my grandfather," said Madame d'aubigne, "but no one would have thought that a mortal could be so greedy......" She paused abruptly, "My grandfather said something very ridiculous, Your Majesty. ”

"Speak. ”

"You have no faith, do you, Your Majesty?"