Prince Amun, the father of Zmisi, had always been an uninhibited being, and it was not surprising that he would do anything—when the doll uttered it in a tone that was close to a sigh, Louis knew he had made up his mind—Theodric had lied and threatened, but Amon would never hesitate to do it.

"It's a pity," Louis said before it could act, "it's too late. ”

"What's too late?" Amon asked.

"You should have done this thirty years ago, on the first night you saw me," Louis smiled fearlessly, "forcibly convert, or kill me." ”

"It's not too late, Your Majesty, thirty years is nothing to me. ”

"You know I'm not referring to this," said Louis, "but as you say, the lifespan of the Bloods is far greater than that of humans, and this is your advantage and your disadvantage, for example, now. ”

"Now?"

"If you had killed me that night, or had forced me to become your descendant, then the Bloods, nay, it should be said, might have survived for a hundred, if not centuries, until humanity was too strong to allow them to ignore a single corner—but then...... The Bloodline, and all intelligent beings that are different from humans, will usher in a catastrophe that will eventually end with the victory of humanity, and your descendants, Your Highness, will either die or become like the lion and tiger in the circus, and become a tool of human amusement......"

"Are you humiliating me, humiliating the Bloodline?" Unexpectedly, Amon didn't get angry, he was unusually calm, but people were generally quite tolerant of those who were about to die.

"I'm talking about the facts," Louis was calmer, his tone didn't even fluctuate a little: "The bloodline has a long lifespan, Theoderick mentioned that you may have been around much longer than him, and there are also blood speculations that you may be three or four generations, Amon is also not a Christian name, Your Highness, you mentioned King Solomon, and intended to make him your descendant, can I say that you were already the head of Tsmich at that time, or their ancestor?" You've seen so many things over the years, how can you not understand what I mean?"

The candle shook slightly, and was about to burn to the end: "In the history of mankind," said Louis, "let us go forward, forward, and further, beyond the Common Era, Your Highness, we can see that, in fact, the first worship of man is nature and animals, those powerful beings that they cannot explain, and which they cannot resist, hurricanes, thunder and lightning, The floods, all kinds of ferocious beasts and birds of prey, like the gods of the Egyptians, almost all of them have distinct animal characteristics, as do the primitive gods of other places, but from the ancient Greek and Roman times, the image of the gods changed from animals to people...... Why, quite simply, because humanity is advancing, they are becoming wiser and stronger, they may still be unable to fight floods and droughts, but they can use them, and the beasts that they once revered are no longer worthy of their altar because they have changed from the role of hunters to prey. ”

"From the altar to the altar, it is only a few hundred years," continued Louis, "there is a saying in the far East, which Bishop Mazaran thought so much, that he gave it to me, and I found that it could be used in many places—that those who are not of my race must have different hearts. He exclaimed: "What a philosophical sentence, Your Highness, in fact, we can find that for human beings, this non-self has always been constantly changing, and human beings, such selfish creatures, are just divided into camps according to their own likes and dislikes. ”

"If you had converted me, or killed me, there would not have been a king in France who would have dared to drive wizards and bloods," Louis sighed, "The most important difference between me and Philippe and everyone else is that I can be said to be faithless. ”

Amon's body moved slightly, although the matter was already an open secret - to those close to the king, but Louis himself said it, which still shocked the blood prince.

"I don't have faith, I don't believe in purgatory and heaven, I don't care if I sit next to a saint or a devil in the future, I think that human beings only have consciousness and no soul, so I can treat people of different faiths equally. Louis said in one breath: "Without me, Philippe would have become the king of France, he might have been a good king, but he would not have been a destroyer, the separation between the outer world and the inner world would still exist, and human beings would reproduce, grow and expand step by step...... But one day, everything will be hidden in front of their eyes. ”

"How long do you think this process will take?" Amon asked.

"Five hundred, no, three hundred years. "And I don't mean doubt, but sure," said Louis, "and you know that scholars and captains have given me charts of calculations, because they suspect that there is something that they cannot discern but exists, and my mathematicians say that there is nothing they cannot calculate—I have tried the area where the island of Gayola is located, and the results show that they have deduced from the tides, the undercurrents, and the multiplication of sea creatures that there should be an island somewhere, even if they cannot see or touch anything." ”

"If I don't ...... you"

"It may be a hundred years later, but the result will be the same, no king will be indifferent to his country, and the lost territory will be his territory, as long as it is still within the borders. Louis said: "At that time, what will be the extent of the development of mankind, Your Highness, when the ancient Romans changed from bronze to black iron, the priests, shamans, and monsters had to retreat, and the temple was full of human gods, I don't know how long the blood clan has existed, whether it is God's punishment as the priests say, but I know that a strong man will not be willing to give in." What he didn't say was that if the Bloods were truly completely above the humans, then it wouldn't be the humans who were the rulers now.

"You see, you can kill me, but time will not turn back, I have done what Leopold I, Carlos II, Charles II are also doing, after removing the initial fears, the blood has become the gods it once was - like wild beasts, you have fed on humans, you have been stronger than humans," Louis smiled tiredly: " Perhaps the same is true now, faster, more powerful, able to turn into bats and smoke, non-fatal injuries can heal quickly, and when a few individuals are opposed, your advantage is unquestionable. But we all know that the most terrible thing about human beings is not their individuals, the tide is coming, and no matter how sharp the spear is, it won't help – and we have more than just a spear now.

The Bloodline lives a long life, Your Highness, what I can't see, you can see, my body and consciousness have turned to dust, and you may see the downfall of the Bloodline—if you insist on continuing - 'not my race'. Humanity in a few hundred years will exclude you from the same self, and they will hunt and domesticate you like domesticated beasts until the last Bloodline is gone. ”

“...... Indeed, I should have converted you into my descendants twenty years ago. After a suffocating silence, Amon said, "But are you planning to bring humanity to the present moment when it threatens and uses us hundreds of years later?"

"I just wanted to give it a try," said Louis, "the Bloods are not beasts without wisdom and mind, and like wizards, if they could keep up with the times with the humans......"

Amon looked surprised, it wasn't easy to get on a ceramic face the size of a thumb, but he just did it: "That's what you think?"

"What's so strange about that," Louis asked rhetorically, "my eldest son is a wizard, and I want to see my descendants become part of the circus for the amusement of others?"

"Humans and the Bloods have an irresolvable conflict, and humans are our food. Amon said.

Again, human beings are developing. Louis said, "Even now, if you wish, you can take in enough but not lethal blood." Louis said mildly: "The princes of the blood clan of Mokavi and Sinmor are willing to be hired by the human kings for the sake of their direct descendants to obtain territories and titles—but can a title make the victims and their relatives and friends blind and deaf, fools and idiots, and what do they ask for only some tax incentives, and what does it matter if they pay for one or two children or even themselves?" Human life is sometimes precious, sometimes cheap, and the soul-revenating corpses driven by the wizards were also looted by themselves one by one? ”

He met the gaze of the monster: "I must say, I am just an ordinary person with a bit of obsessive-compulsive disorder. ”

"I was going to kill you a few minutes ago," Amon said, "but now I don't know what to do." ”

"I know that you and Theoderick are worried about all the bloods," said Louis, "I am not such a fool, I will avenge my lover and the mother of my children, and I will eliminate hidden dangers, but I will not start a war between the outer world and the inner world, unless someone wants me to do the same - you can watch me and see what I do, I said that mankind always seeks good fortune and avoids evil, and I am no exception, Your Highness." ”

"I still think you're going to be a huge variable. Amon said.

"Then you can try," said Louis, "but I don't think anything will change in the future that I have predicted." ”

The doll stood up and walked around the table, Amon rarely hesitated like this, especially in the face of a human, a human is nothing, he can always see through them at a glance, whether noble, or despicable, or pure, or greedy...... The long years have made him feel uninteresting to any human being, like a profound scholar facing a simple picture book.

Then this "picture book" gave him a glimpse of the not-too-distant future.

Louis was right, as Amun, who came from the time of King Solomon, it can be said that he watched how magic weakened and faded rapidly, and the legends and myths that humans were all believed to be, he had seen and heard with his own ears, how humans became strong and continued to be strong - this is also what he can prove, compared to the strength of the blood clan is only a short one or two hundred years......

The Blood's tough skin, swift speed, and strength like a bull or a bear could indeed make people tremble when humans only had bronze or black iron spears, but now human artillery can destroy boulder-filled walls.

Should he believe or accept Louis XIV's nonsense? This human being, who was greedy and tolerant compared to Charles II or Leopold I, had the audacity to ask the Bloodlines to become one of the French people, but at the same time he gave France, not one, two fiefdoms, to the Bloods.

I don't discriminate, he said.

"I have given you thirty years," Amon heard himself say, "I will give you another thirty years, Louis." ”

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As soon as Varo Vesalius stepped out of the mirror, his legs were so weak that he almost fell.

Even Barras couldn't help but say, "We may not have time to save you." "That's Prince Zmich.

"Then you really have to go back to Rome. Louis said lightly.

Barras bowed his head, he had nothing to shirk in the matter of Marie Mancini, "Elarius is doing very well in the Church of Rome, so I don't want to call him back, but I don't think he would mind recommending a few people to me if I really need to." Louis looked at Barras: "I'm not a man of unkindness, but I want my men to do their duty, and you should know what I mean." ”

"You really want to ......"

"I've done the same thing once," said Louis, "but I left it to the werewolves and wizards, who combed it only to the superficial branches, and now it seems that the roots buried deep in the darkness still need to be dug up and burned." ”

"It's going to be a big wave. ”

"So I'm going to start a war on the world. "I'm tired of going back and forth with some fools—and I'm going to issue an edict when my cruise in Brittany is over." ”

"I can...... Do you know?" asked Vesalius with difficulty.

"I intend to divide France into provinces. Louie said.

Barras pale: "You don't want to, you don't want to ......" like Henry VIII of England did in the beginning, and set up a new Protestantism......

"What are you thinking? Of course not," said Louis, who had little restraint on the King of France, and who had two orthodox heirs: "I intend to divide Brittany into five provinces," he said, turning his glass, "there will be no Brittany." Ladies and gentlemen. ”