Chapter 703: Visiting Moonlight City
Inside the hotel, Leo freshened up a little, then picked up the materials collected by Sylvia and looked through them carefully.
Sylvia knew exactly what Leo wanted to know, and the information she collected focused on the feuds between werewolves and vampires, as well as the interior of the Vesvi Forest, and of course, the monuments in County Yasha, including the foundations of the White Swan Castle.
The information about the White Swan Castle is from the Persona Society, and this material has a very detailed study of the foundations of the White Swan Castle, and the earliest research report is still in the early days of the construction of the White Swan Castle, when the Persona Society did not exist, and it was written by an antiquist from the Kingdom of Mares.
Judging from the above content, the blood clan also discovered the unusual features of this foundation at the beginning, worried that there was something strange in it, and was originally ready to give up here to build the White Swan Castle, after all, there are countless evil methods in the world, who can be sure that this strange foundation has not been manipulated.
However, at that time, not long after the disappearance of Silver Moon Lake, the surrounding land was still semi-swampy, and there was no suitable place to build a castle here except for the location of the foundation of this ancient ruin and its surrounding area.
Therefore, the blood clan at that time specially brought in the most famous antiquarians and stonemasons from the kingdom of Mares, the kingdom of Dariath, and those large and small city-states to study this foundation.
According to the description of the author of this document, it was not studied at the time what the foundation was used for or who built it, and the only thing that is certain is that the foundation is of the same type as the stone that the Bloods are going to use to build the White Swan Castle, and it contains an unknown power.
This power is not capable of making people strong, nor does it cause harm to people, and after repeated research, it has been found that its only effect is to alleviate the blood addiction of the blood clan.
As the name suggests, the Bloodline is extremely dependent on blood, and needs to suck some fresh blood almost every once in a while, otherwise, their life characteristics will gradually weaken, and various functions will slow down, and eventually fall into a state of near-hibernation.
In this state, the Bloods are able to survive for a long time until fresh blood falls on them and is absorbed before they are able to awaken from hibernation.
Although sucking blood can solve the problem of slowing down the body's functions, if you suck blood for a long time, it will produce a psychological disorder called blood addiction, and the blood clan will become more and more bloodthirsty, and reason will quickly disappear, and eventually become a bloodthirsty monster.
So all along, the blood clan has been using various methods to suppress blood addiction, such as drugs, such as faith, etc., but the effect is not very good, and now since there is a power that can weaken blood addiction, the blood clan will naturally not give up this power, even if the details of this power have not been studied clearly.
Eventually, the Bloodline built the White Swan Castle on this foundation before they could figure out the details of the foundation.
Although the situation of the foundation was not clarified at that time, and there was no abnormal situation after the construction of the White Swan Castle, but due to the weakening of blood addiction, the development of the blood clan became smooth, but the blood clan did not forget about the study of the foundation of the land.
They have always invited some people to study this foundation, including those who have left a history of the university, and even the tower wizard has also come here to study this foundation, and it is the arrival of this tower wizard that determines that this foundation is not from the tower wizard's wizard tower at all, but the same foundation is the foundation of a wizard's tower.
Naturally, the scholars of the Persona Society were invited, and like Ylang Ylang whom Leo met in the car, their research was more inclined to the patterns on the basement walls inside the foundation.
According to the description, the patterns are disordered and chaotic, as if they were some children's graffiti, but some of them can be transformed into Mareswen after being reassembled, and the transformed Mareswen has a clear meaning, which is the First Tower.
After Leo saw the information here, he was also surprised by the name, because this name naturally reminded Leo of the ten chiefs of the Wizards Association of Silvermoon City, among which the tower of the first chief was called the First Tower, and he also remembered that the first tower was mainly to study ancient witchcraft, and ancient witchcraft seemed to be the witchcraft of the wizards of the tower.
After reading this information, Leo also became interested in the foundation of the White Swan Castle.
The next day, Robert sent an invitation to the auction, but it was not needed, as Sylvia had already prepared his invitation.
On the contrary, the invitation sent by the White Swan Castle surprised Leo, who thought that even if Ylan mentioned him to the owner of the White Swan Castle, the Blood Clan would have to investigate him repeatedly to make sure that he would not cause any damage to the White Swan Castle and that he would not have any ill will towards the Blood Clan before sending the invitation.
But I didn't expect that it was just one night, maybe even just a morning, and the blood clan had already made a decision, if it wasn't for the fact that the blood clan was already open-minded enough not to suspect people, then it meant that the blood clan might encounter a really difficult problem, so they would rush to the doctor, inviting a scholar like Yilan who only had a library identity and was not particularly famous, and inviting a stranger like Leo who came to an unknown place.
However, for Leo, whatever happened inside the White Swan Castle didn't matter much to him, he just wanted to study the foundation.
The auction was held two days later, and the time on the invitation to White Swan Castle was one day after the auction, so it can be seen that the Blood Clan is paying special attention to the auction held in Moonlight City.
After a night's time, Leo had read all the materials Sylvia had prepared, and he wandered the streets of Moonlight City alone.
I have to say that the blood clan has a very good governance of this city, spacious and clean to receive and receive plants on both sides, specially prepared sidewalks for pedestrians, neat and beautiful houses, coupled with orderly carriage driving rules, so that the civilization level of the entire city is much higher than that of other cities.
In addition, the inhabitants of the city seem to be very happy, they have no idea that the city they live in is full of all kinds of aliens, and unless those aliens can maintain their human form, they can only stay in their houses or sewers during the day, under the ban of the blood clan.
The Kingdom of Maris has a very special attachment to sewers, even if it is an ordinary small village and town, it will build a set of spacious and complete sewers, and in a big city like Moonlight City, the sewers are more like an underground city, while Leo walks on the ground, the spiritual network also penetrates the bottom, senses the situation of the sewers, and finds out the route of the sewers.
In the sewers, in addition to those who have completely mutated and are far from the appearance of humans, there are also cultists, wanted transcendents, and so on, but the most people who live here are actually those young newborn bloods, and those beastly bloods who have been imprisoned because of blood addiction.
The strength of the body of the newborn blood clan is not perfect, the mutation of the internal organs has not been completely completed, under the exposure of the sun, the body will fail extremely quickly, and eventually die, only the adult blood clan can resist the exposure of the sun, although they will still feel very uncomfortable, but it is not enough to cause harm to them, and the older the blood clan, the less negative impact the sun will have on them, and eventually they will completely lose their rent.
It's just that in order to prevent accidents in the newborn blood, and to prevent the newborn bloodline from getting out of control due to sucking blood, these newborn bloods will stay in the sewers of Moonlight City until they reach adulthood.
Although it is the same sewer, the sewer that discharges sewage is at the bottom, about twenty meters from the ground, and the sewer above is a small city, which can be used for any alien life that is not suitable for the sun, and it can be seen from some traces that there were many people living here, these people should be aliens from the Visvi Forest, but now these people seem to have been driven away by the blood clan, so the sewer seems to be empty and extremely deserted.
In addition, there are a large number of blood therapy clinics in the city, and the people here are also very convinced of phlebotomy, and it is not difficult to hear from some conversations that they think that they can make themselves more youthful by putting some blood on a regular basis every month, so these blood therapy clinics can see a lot of people waiting for bloodletting every day.
Leo saw that these blood clinics hardly needed much thought, and he knew very well that the purpose of these blood clinics was probably to provide fresh blood to the Yasha County bloods, and only those who were bloodletten said that the whole person became relaxed after bloodletting, which should be caused by some drugs, and this was just to create the illusion that regular bloodletting would be healthy every month.
Although, seeing through the intentions of the Bloods, Leo doesn't have that much sense of justice to dismantle them, in fact, even the Orthodox Church will not debunk this matter, in addition to the power that the Bloods have in Asha County, but more because it is better to let those civilians know nothing.
Although it is difficult for some civilians living here to donate some blood every month under the influence of lies, but with the blood donated, they can live in this land very safely, not only have a stable job income, but also will not be inexplicably involved in any war, you must know that there has been no war in Yasha County for hundreds of years, and it is said by some ordinary civilians in the Maris Kingdom to be a place of eternal peace, and it is also the place where people from other counties and provinces of the Mares Kingdom want to move the most.
There are a lot of interesting places in Moonlight City, but Leo is not interested in those places, and the only thing he is interested in is the Museum of Ancient Species in Moonlight City.
It is said that when Moonlight City was built, a large number of animal bones were dug up from the silt at the bottom of Silvermoon Lake at that time, and most of them were very strange and completely different from any existing species in the Velen World.
White Swan Castle asked people to collect these bones, and then invited many paleontologists from the medical school to restore these bones, and finally restored these bones to their appearance when they were alive, and these restored animals are all extremely weird, and the growth law is completely contrary to common sense, which for a long time made those paleontologists in charge of repairing the bones wonder if they were wrong.
The Bloodclan thought that these bones were the bones of some mutated clans, but after careful comparison, they found that they were not, and these bones were all naturally grown, not caused by mutation.
Because there are more and more restored monsters, it is also troublesome to maintain them and take up more space, so White Swan Castle simply built a paleontological museum in the city of Moonlight City, naming these naturally growing monsters as ancient creatures that have disappeared.
And with the passage of time, the reputation of the Paleontology Museum began to spread throughout the Velonian continent with the spread of those scholars who returned to the medical school, attracting a large number of people to visit here, and Moonlight City also gained some benefits, and even the blood clan also benefited a lot from it.
As a result, the Bloodlines decided to expand the Museum of Paleontology, acquiring fossils or bones of various creatures from the Dark World and the adjacent Visvi Forest, and the name of the museum changed from paleontology to ancient species.
Leo had known about the museum since he was in Miria, but he only thought that the so-called inhuman, twisted monster bones were just because the locals were rare and weird, and there were probably many other creatures called monsters in the Black Forest.
But now Leo didn't think so, and he was a little suspicious that the so-called ancient creatures in the silt at the bottom of Silvermoon Lake were actually fog monsters in the foggy world, and maybe even creatures of the abyss, because almost all the books that mention these skeletons invariably use the word twist, which seems to be the most appropriate word for the chaotic monsters of the abyss.
In a state of speculation, Leo walked into the museum of ancient species in the heart of Moonlight City.
The museum is very large, almost three times the size of the White Swan Castle, divided into four pavilions and a square, from which you will enter the main hall, where the skeleton models of the restored skeletons of those bones excavated from the Silver Moon Lake are stored.
Because it is not a day off, there are not many people here, and when you enter the museum, you can clearly hear the echoing footsteps, and the first thing that catches your eye is a huge spherical skeleton that is almost 20 meters high, which is also the largest of all skeletons, and the most peculiar one.
The skeleton grew in all directions like some kind of vine tree, overlapping and merging with each other, forming a near-perfect ball of bone at the outermost point.
As the treasure of the town, all the people who come here will stop under this skeleton for a long time, and many people are talking about what the skeleton looked like when he was alive, and Leo was stunned for a moment at the first sight of this skeleton, because he knew what the creature represented by this skeleton.