Volume 1: The Castle Under the Snowy Mountains

Chapter 1

It was late at night, and our meeting had just ended, and I looked at the figures of several old friends who were far away, and silently prayed in my heart that they were safe and sound, and that the good things would continue forever. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

My name is Alex Auguste, and it's a blessing in misfortune that I can return to this land alive. I don't know what to say and what not to say. Most people in this world want to see is believing, and what I'm saying sounds outrageous, but it happened anyway, but there were no human witnesses. Because it is a history that is imprinted in my heart, there is no need for a real written record, others may forget, but I remember it in my heart. Everything I've experienced, everyone I've come into contact with, will be reflected in my mind at every moment, and it will always ring the alarm bell for me.

As for where the outrageous things are happening? Maybe someone knows about these places or has heard of them, but hasn't really been there. When you search through an area and don't find a clue you're looking for, you'll say it's fiction or someone else is bragging, but that's okay, whatever you want. Those who can only read in fiction may pass you by as you walk, and it is true that anything can happen in this world, and anything that cannot be seen in the real world can suddenly appear. Sometimes it is necessary to believe in something incredible, and you don't have to wait for it to befall you.

From the expansion of the Roman Republic to the fall of the Roman Empire, to the Crusades, from the Hundred Years' War to the Europa Renaissance, from the Napoleonic Wars to the Franco-Prussian Wars, from the First World War to the Second World War, I have experienced countless days and nights and ups and downs, and I can say that I have experienced the entire ancient and modern history of mankind. The only people who believe me to say these things are my comrades, because they, like me, have come from that era.

But I don't know why, I always feel that I will always be the protagonist in the world, in fact, I am not the only one who thinks so, each of us thinks that we are the protagonist of the world, everyone wants to be the savior, we all want to be the most famous person, "the heart is higher than the sky" This truth everyone understands. I'm honored to be able to tell you something about me. I can't even think about those things about me, my life can be said to be adventurous all the time, and the "adventure" I mean can also be described as "playing with life". If I were to tell you alone, I am afraid that I would not be able to finish it in a few days and nights. But whether you are interested or not, I still have to say that no one has the right to stop me, I hope you can listen to me, if you don't want to listen to it, you can do it, I can finish it, and then show it to everyone.

A month ago, my girlfriend and I returned to our hometown, which is not an ordinary place, let alone a place that anyone can find casually. Far away in the northwest of Scandinavia, it is also an undiscovered place, rich in resources and fascinating scenery, once full of friendship and hope, but later full of killing and destruction, mysterious and strange, both heaven and hell, a place that you don't want to leave after you go, wild poppies are like weeds and wild flowers on the island, they are unparalleled works of art in the world, the island only sees sunlight for a few hours a year, so it is also a vampire's paradise, and its name is " Poppy Island".

A lot of people talk about vampires as a species, but I'm telling you right now, vampires aren't as scary as you think, and they have emotions.

I looked out at the place where the sea and the sky met in the distance from the cliff on the cliff by the sea, and the pores on my face were quickly tightened by the sea breeze. I began to reminisce about what had happened around me since I left here.

I still remember what happened here, and I will never forget that history. No one knows exactly how long it took to complete the old Gothic city, which was full of weird old Gothic buildings, but I did know that I was twenty-two years old when the last great project was completed. According to historical records, 70 percent of military engineers and prophets are from the Underworld Society, 70 percent of the crazy inventors and witchcraft enthusiasts are from the Evil Spirit Party, and as for the artists and elites, each side accounts for 50 percent. The highest-ranking and most powerful members of the Blood Clan are called "Ancient Blood Spirits", and those second only to Ancient Blood Spirits are called "Elders".

I was fortunate enough to be born into an upper-class family in the Underworld, and my father, Henks August, was an Elder Blood Spirit, one of the most powerful vampires in the world, an important councillor of the Underworld, and one of the Supreme Archons of Poppy Island at the time.

My mother, Emma Camille, was human, she used to be the only human on the island, because a long time ago, a Viking ship got lost at sea, the ship was overturned by a huge wave, she accidentally fell into the sea, everyone on board died, but she was lucky enough to float to the beach of Poppy Island, and happened to be rescued by my father, and the two fell in love at first sight, and soon fell in love.

I also have a twin brother named Frank, who is a year younger than me, and we are the only two half-breeds on the island, who are both humans and vampires. When I was three years old, my father had to turn my mother into a vampire in order to give her eternal life and youth.

Every 100 years, there is a major election campaign on the island, and the chosen supreme ruler is called the "oracle", which means the one who conveys the will of God.

The struggle for power intensified, and every year before the election, the contradictions between the two organizations deepened day by day, and they were hostile to each other, and the two sides were at loggerheads. The long-term trend towards greed and depravity is the real goal of those candidates.

That year, it happened to be just in time for the election campaign. Only the Ancient Blood Spirit is eligible to run for the Oracle, so my father is one of the candidates, and he behaves differently than he used to be, he behaves very calmly in such chaotic times, and he deliberately shows weakness in front of every competitor, and is not seen as a thorn in the side or a thorn in the flesh by his opponent. My father was a visionary and ambitious man who would do whatever he wanted to do, and he came up with a vicious way to strengthen his position. One morning, while all the vampires were asleep in their coffins, he and the young vampire elder Mex Leknia went to the hall where the old blood spirits of the Evil Spirits were sleeping, and opened all the coffins, and inserted silver stakes into the hearts of the sleepers, so that his plan could go smoothly.

After the news of the incident, the Underworld Society directly praised my father as a hero and lifted him high above the clouds. This selfish act of my father also ignited the fuse of war on Poppy Island, which has not been seen for thousands of years. But he still did not fulfill his wishes, he won the support of the Siegfried family, the Simeone family and the Leknia family in the Underworld Society, in order to make his position no longer threatened, he used those methods to deal with the ancient blood spirits of the Evil Spirit Party on the ancient blood spirits of the Underworld Society, and killed all the members of their family to prevent future troubles. In doing so, my father became the only ancient blood spirit on the island, he became the most powerful vampire in the whole of Poppy Island, and even in the world, and his ambition and lust made him extremely brutal, and he controlled the entire family and the Underworld like a puppet. Whether in the family or in the army, he is both a law enforcer and a magistrate, as well as the soul and brain of the collective.

In order to survive, the Wallace family and the Kavaze family of the Evil Spirit Party have joined the Underworld Society. The members of the Evil Spirits who did not betray the Evil Spirits organized in an orderly manner and set off a climax of rebellion against the Underworld Society, and a centuries-long war broke out. The beautiful Poppy Island suddenly turned into a brutal battlefield. Blood, carnage, horror, depravity...... These factors changed me. Sometimes I wake up and don't know if I'm dead or alive, if I'm in hell or in heaven, and sometimes I believe it's a nightmare and try to wake up from it, but I can't. War is everywhere, and "fight for honor" has become a mantra for many people. I wondered what the "honor" was, why was my father so greedy, and I didn't know how to stop his ambition. But that's what happened, and I had no choice but to serve him. Every time I saw him, he would always say to me, "Son, take up arms and kill the enemy!

A hellish war life has shaped me into a brave warrior eager to kill, like a dragon rushing out of hell, fighting back with death and blood.

After hundreds of years of fierce battles, the two sides have not decided the winner after all. On a stormy night, a thunderbolt struck a cross on Mount Gohaia outside Santa Freya, and the inexhaustible blood of the Holy Blood, which is said to have the power of both angels and demons. When my father found out, he went there himself, and he drank the Holy Blood with great pride, hoping to receive the power of angels and demons, but the Holy Blood did not make him seem to have any abnormal reactions or changes.

It wasn't until another stormy night a few months later that the Anoindo's temporary leader, Alpha Franco, secretly assembled an army of nearly 10,000 Evil Spirits at the foot of the island's Earl Mountain, preparing to launch a surprise attack on the city's unsuspecting Dark Realm. This incident was soon discovered by the patrol of the Dark Realm Society, who conveyed the matter to my father, who was furious when he learned of this, and vowed to eradicate the remnants of these evil spirits, and led thousands of cavalry to secretly leave the city from the small gate of the city on the spot, and went around to the rear of the evil spirit army, and launched a fierce surprise attack on the long-awaited enemy, and the two sides immediately fell into a fierce fight. That battle was also the last battle Frank and I fought on Poppy Island.

The lightning shone on the armor and sparkled with the rain, and it was a terrible scene that can only be seen in hell, as if all the love and joy in the world had disappeared, and there were only screams, death and killing, a scene that only Dante could describe, and everything in front of him suddenly turned from color to blood.

As dawn came, the rain stopped and the clouds dissipated, and the fighting between the two sides continued. But an unexpected scene happened, which was never expected by both parties. The sudden sunlight tore through the gray clouds like a sharp sword and shone on the earth. Because both sides of the war are vampires and have a strong fear of the sun, many soldiers hid in the surrounding dark jungle and the ruins of nearby buildings to avoid the threat of the sun, but the soldiers who killed the red eye were still immersed in the killing, the sun was undoubtedly a call of death for the vampires, and those soldiers who did not have time to avoid the sun were scorched alive, leaving only a pair of armor. Frank and I are half-human vampires, and the sunlight poses no threat to us, and our father screamed loudly in the face of the sunlight, he thought he would not survive, but he never expected that a miracle would happen, the sunlight did not play any role in him now, and he suddenly realized the importance of the holy blood to the vampires.

The war had to be stopped by the sunshine, and my father hurried back to the top of Gohaia, and found the bleeding cross, which he split into pieces and burned in order to prevent them from receiving the Holy Blood.

After the end of that war, there were no major battles on Poppy Island, so that war was also called "the last war on Poppy Island". After the "Last War on Poppy Island", many of the scattered and unorganized vampires who had been scattered in the war felt that the poppy island that raised them was no longer their paradise, and felt a sense of crisis that they had never felt before, and in desperation, they left Poppy Island one after another, and fled to the continent of Europa and America, trying to live separately in the world.

My father's ambition snowballed, and the more he gained, the more he was dissatisfied, and he wanted to swallow the sun in one gulp. He has always been interested in the "occult", and it can be said that he has reached the realm of obsession. In order to obtain the "cosmic supermatter" mentioned in the ancient prophecy, he entered the most mysterious and strange ghost howl mountain on the island alone, and found the prophets who had lived in the cave for thousands of years. The five planets of Earth are frequently impacted by asteroids, and the debris produced by the impact is combined into a mysterious crystal element in the universe, and has been washed by solar storms for a long time, gathering the super energy of the universe, and fell to the only unsunken land on the Atlantis continent of the earth two thousand years ago, the name of the land is "Hallelujah", where there is no day, only night, so it is also called "Night Island". The prophets called that mysterious element the "dark element", and those who receive it will have the power to destroy and rule the world. My father believed in the prophecies of the prophets, and developed a strong interest in the dark element, even if the ancient prophecies and the predictions of the prophets were false, he would still firmly believe that the dark element was real, and the dark element became the most coveted thing in his life, he wanted to use the power of the dark element to make the dark world forever decline, and to be able to build a victorious blood army, and finally realize the dream of ruling the world. But I don't want him to bring the whole world into the shadow of destruction for his own ends.

The Underworld Society grew in power, and they soon took over Santa Freya, the central city of Poppy Island. But something unfortunate happened, my mother was secretly killed by the Evil Ghost Party assassins lurking in Santa Freya, and the killer soon disappeared on Poppy Island. My father was devastated, and so was Frank and I. In this way, the Evil Soul Party has become the eternal mortal enemy of the Underworld Society, and this behavior of the Evil Spirit Party is likely to lay the groundwork for future blood wars.

A few weeks later, blood-colored clouds covered the entire Poppy Island, and the sky rained blood for several days and nights, turning the rivers and surrounding waters on the Poppy Island blood-colored, and the raging blood tide swept across the rocks and reefs along the coast. Every night, the waves occasionally appear with hideous grimaces and scream at high decibels, like opening the entrance to hell, which is shocking. No one can explain this terrible phenomenon, which lasted for about half a year before disappearing.

Since then, Poppy Island has been transformed into a "ghost island" that cannot be easily found on Earth by anyone, not even the most advanced satellites.

In order to avoid the curse, we fled from Poppy Island and went inland to Europa. My father and the other elders had been deliberating for a long time to establish a base on Europa that would be the Underworld's own. We chose the Alps to build a hidden castle in the bitter cold deep in the snowy peaks. In order to ensure the completion of the castle, my father adopted twenty prehistoric surviving Titan carvings to protect them during the construction process, and fed them daily with human flesh. When my father fed the giant bird, he would select a group of people and pretend to give them freedom, and the people who thought they were free would keep running down the hill, unaware that predators were waiting for them, and eventually they all became food for the Titans. No one has ever been able to escape from the clutches of these monsters, and even if they are lucky enough to escape the eyes of the Titan Eagle, the monsters hidden in the forest will not slip away from their eyes the fresh human flesh that comes to their door.

After leaving Poppy Island, the Underworld Society also formulated new internal regulations, which all personnel must abide by, and those who violate them will surely die.

Every day, my father would send people around the area to arrest people, and these people who caught them would not be food for the Titans, but would let them build castles, and most of them would be wanderers, villains, and poor people. The father was not satisfied with the laborers who were captured, because it required a lot of manpower and material resources to build a castle, not to mention the fact that among the captured people were old people, women and children, plus those who were weak and sick, and less than a third of them were young and strong. But my father did not give up in the slightest, he would never be merciful to those slaves, every day new slaves were involved in the construction of the castle, even if they were weak and sick, and if the slaves dared to resist, they would only become food for the Titans.

In addition, my father had one of the greatest wishes for the rest of the Bloodline to be as fearless as he was for the sun and the cross, and he regretted not sharing the taste of the Holy Blood with the rest of the Dark Realm Society. Until one day, he finally created a potion called "Earth Power", and vampires who drank this potion could safely stand in the sunlight for hours, but could not use their skills in the sunlight.

Since the Wallace and Kavazec families, who were originally members of the Evil Spirit Party, joined the Underworld Society, individual members have been inseparable by nature, and they have been influenced by the laws of the Evil Spirit Party. Fox Wallace and his wife, Mary, love to turn a small town into vampires. But every time the townspeople turn into vampires, there are always witchers who will kill all the vampires and people infected with the xenovirus, and then burn the whole town to ashes.

The witchers are real, but we haven't seen them, but I can feel their footsteps approaching us.

Fox Wallace has two children, a daughter, Margaret, and a son, Scato. Margaret has completely disowned the Evil Spirits, because Fawkes often forces her to suck living people and kill innocents. As for Scat, he has always maintained an unstable relationship with the Dark Realm Society, and no one can say whether he will betray us in the future. Fawkes's older sister, Gorma, was a bloodthirsty woman who liked to use the blood of young girls to sustain her life, and often concentrated the blood of some captured girls in the bathtub to soak her body, and then threw the corpses of young girls to feed the beasts. Gorma's actions have caused discontent among the humans, and the local people have tried to find her, and have repeatedly hired witchers to search for her whereabouts, but to no avail. I thought: sooner or later, disaster will befall Gormar.