"It seems you're very invested in this. Since that's the case, I'll leave it to you," Wang Xiaoming said, pinching his chin with his right hand and tilting his head to look at Black Princess.
"Altrouge, you should know who the Twenty-seven Dead Apostle Ancestors currently recognized by the Church are, right?"
"Yes, Father. I'm quite familiar with the Twenty-seven Ancestors recognized by the Church, as I am one of the top-ranked Ancestors myself, and my Knights are among them as well."
"When I first descended, I happened to encounter a forest, so I casually took care of it. Later, I found out that the opponent seemed to be one of the Twenty-seven Ancestors."
Forest? Fuhai Forest!
Black Princess immediately thought of that supernatural forest known as the Seventh Ancestor. Especially recently, the news of Fuhai Forest's death had been spreading like wildfire in the magic world. The Church even claimed that a new Seventh Ancestor had been born, codenamed 'Explosion Flame'.
Now it seems that the so-called 'Explosion Flame' is none other than her own father.
To casually kill Fuhai Forest, known as the most difficult Seventh Ancestor to deal with, immediately after descending... truly terrifying.
"After dealing with that thing, I discovered something interesting."
Wang Xiaoming took out the fruit of Fuhai Forest's offspring from his dimensional pocket.
"A plant, after becoming a Dead Apostle, can actually give birth to something like this. Then what about the other True Ancestors? After so many years, those guys should all possess their own abilities, right?"
Wang Xiaoming held the fruit of Fuhai Forest's offspring and looked at Black Princess.
"Help me find the other Ancestors. I want to see what abilities the current Dead Apostles possess."
"As you command, Father."
664. The Magic World's Bidding Competition
Black Princess and White Princess are acting together!
This news began to spread throughout the magic world, immediately causing a wave of exclamations.
The identities of Black Princess and White Princess are known to any magician who has done some research on Dead Apostles. They can be said to be complete nemeses. It would already be a stroke of good fortune if they didn't start fighting upon meeting.
Now there's news that not only did they not fight, but they're even acting together.
How was this even possible!
The magic world was filled with various questions, but no one thought of bothering Black Princess and White Princess to ask why.
White Princess might be okay; she usually ignores people and doesn't bother arguing. But Black Princess is different. If you provoke Black Princess, she will really take your life. Even more terrifying are the three guys around Black Princess. The Black and White Knights, every single one of them, are ruthless individuals. The Primate Murder is especially effective against magicians, making it impossible to play around.
Although people in the magic world were very curious about Black Princess and White Princess acting together, no one dared to take action.
But soon, a new piece of news caused another wave of exclamations in the magic world.
The fruit of Fuhai Forest's offspring is in Black Princess's hands!
Not long ago, the Seventh True Ancestor, Fuhai Forest, died a tragic death. The crime scene left behind a huge pit. Judging from the vast forest corpse of Fuhai Forest and the situation inside the huge pit, it could be determined that the one who killed Fuhai Forest was a magician with extremely strong fire abilities.
The Church judged that the other party should have taken the fruit of Fuhai Forest's offspring.
But now, the fruit of Fuhai Forest's offspring actually appeared in Black Princess's hands.
Did that magician with the Church codename 'Explosion Flame' give the fruit to Black Princess? Or did Black Princess herself kill Fuhai Forest?
It must be said that magicians are very curious about this situation. They want to know what the relationship between Black Princess and Explosion Flame is.
Of course, more magicians want to obtain the fruit of Fuhai Forest's offspring from Black Princess's hands. That can directly allow a person to become an immortal Dead Apostle. This is too tempting for magicians. For the sake of magical goals, immortality is not a problem at all! It's even a goal pursued by many people.
Look at the Kirei Kotomine next door. To achieve immortality, he turned himself into who knows what. If he were told that he could simply become a Dead Apostle to live an immortal and normal life without having to mess around with so many worms, he would definitely be ecstatic!
Therefore, the magicians who originally didn't dare to come over because Black Princess and White Princess were together began to consider coming to Black Princess, wanting to see if they could obtain the fruit of Fuhai Forest's offspring from Black Princess's hands.
After all, going to Black Princess seems to have a much higher success rate than personally going to find Fuhai Forest. Fuhai Forest is a terrifying life form that cannot be communicated with, while Black Princess, although also a troublesome True Ancestor, can at least be communicated with. What if the other party wants something?
As long as the other party wants something, they might have a chance to obtain the fruit of Fuhai Forest's offspring, and immortality would no longer be a dream.
Then, before the magicians had time to take action, another piece of news spread.
Black Princess is looking for clues about the other Twenty-seven Ancestors.
!
Isn't this exactly what they wanted!
Black Princess and White Princess are acting together, and Black Princess has the fruit of Fuhai Forest's offspring in her hands. At this time, Black Princess suddenly wants clues about the other Twenty-seven Ancestors.
What does this mean? It means that as long as you have clues about the other Twenty-seven Ancestors in your hand, you can go to Black Princess and make a request to exchange for the fruit of Fuhai Forest's offspring.
Although devouring other Ancestors can also make you a Dead Apostle Ancestor, compared to fighting with other Ancestors and then devouring them, exchanging information for the fruit of Fuhai Forest's offspring in Black Princess's hands is obviously the easiest and simplest path.
As for whether Black Princess's set of operations is too coincidental...
For magicians, even if there are traps in it, they would be willing to jump in, just like the Holy Grail War. Everyone knows that the Holy Grail War is a mutual slaughter with extremely high mortality, and only one person will be left in the end, but they are still willing to jump in. After all, if you lose, you simply die, but if you win, you get a villa by the sea!
After these news were released, the major magician families began to take action. Those families inside the Clock Tower were the fastest to act. Even the Church was considering whether to take the information they had about the Twenty-seven Ancestors to Black Princess to exchange for the fruit of Fuhai Forest's offspring.
If that kind of thing is released, another new Seventh Ancestor Fuhai Forest will be born. If they, the Church, obtain it and utilize it to create new weapons to deal with other Ancestors, wouldn't that be even better?
The Church has done this kind of thing before. Within the Burial Agency, there is an artificial object called "Stomach Realm Scripture", which is essentially among the Twenty-seven Dead Apostle Ancestors. It is sealed by the Church in a prison with mirrors, and its stomach is used to create a summoning technique. It is used by the Burial Agency as the strongest weapon against Dead Apostles because it possesses the special ability to almost certainly annihilate opponents in one-on-one situations, but it will also die along with them, requiring decades to recover.
It belongs to the kind of extreme one-for-one, and after the exchange, you can spend time to resurrect. It's very useful for dealing with Dead Apostles!
Therefore, if they can obtain the fruit of Fuhai Forest's offspring, it would be great for the Church as well.
Therefore, in the magic world of Europe, everyone is constantly collecting and integrating information about the Twenty-seven Dead Apostle Ancestors in their hands, striving to make their information the latest and most complete, so that they can go to Black Princess to exchange for the fruit of Fuhai Forest's offspring.
Under such circumstances, familiars from various magicians began to appear in front of Black Princess.
That's right, it's not the magicians themselves who came to Black Princess, but their familiars.
After all, Black Princess and White Princess are present at the same time, and there are even the Black and White Knights and the Primate Murder. With this lineup, even if all the Burial Agency members are present, it is estimated that they will not be able to win. Therefore, in order to ensure that they are not tricked in the first place, the magicians chose to send their familiars to meet with Black Princess.
Therefore, Wang Xiaoming was fortunate enough to see such a scene.
Black Princess goes out to a coffee shop for a coffee, and then a group of small animals stand outside the window, from sparrows to pigeons to eagles, from rats to rabbits to squirrels to even cats and dogs on the ground. There are all kinds of animals.
On a perfectly good street, wherever Black Princess goes, wild animals or pets will quickly gather, making it extremely lively.
Thank goodness this is 2000. If this were in 2020, it would probably instantly become a trending topic, and then there would be tens of thousands of comments, and the comments section would be divided into two factions who would start tearing each other apart, creating an explosive level of hype.
Black Princess also has a headache. She released the news in order to help Wang Xiaoming obtain information about the other Ancestors, but she didn't expect the fruit of Fuhai Forest's offspring to be so tempting.
As the Black Princess among the True Ancestors, she expressed her incomprehension, but still announced a new piece of news under the torment of these familiars.
She will hold a bidding competition in three days. At that time, she will directly publicly select a cooperation partner.
665. The Clock Tower's Nobles
Black Princess is going to choose her own partner!
Black Princess is going to bid for a collaboration partner!
Black Princess is going to auction off the Child of Fuhai Forest!
Black Princess and White Princess are jointly holding an auction to auction off the method to become a True Ancestor!
From the initial facts to the later stages, the news became more and more outrageous.
Almost the entire European magic world is circulating all kinds of news.
The magicians also understand that some of the news is false, but one thing they can be sure of is that the Black Princess is indeed looking for a partner, and the Child of Fuhai Forest is indeed in the hands of the Black Princess.
Knowing this much is enough.
With the Child of Fuhai Forest as bait, magicians began to flock to London, because the Black Princess is in London.
This made the locals in London a little headache.
Speaking of the locals in London, that is of course the headquarters of the Magic Association, the Clock Tower is in London.
This organization, founded by the Magic Marshal, also known as the Jewel Magician, Kischur Zelretch Schweinorg, was initially divided into three major departments. In addition to the Clock Tower, there was also the "Vault of Giants" in Egypt, which focused on the study of alchemy—the Atlas Institute. And the original association with its power rooted in Northern Europe—the composite association known as "Wandering Sea."
But since the Clock Tower became the headquarters, they basically stopped interacting with each other and were in a state of internal division.
Among them, the Clock Tower, due to its status as the headquarters, has the most resounding reputation in the magic world. Moreover, because it has twelve departments internally, the scope of research is also very broad. In the magic world, it can almost be said to be the highest institution of learning.
Of course, in some aspects, the Clock Tower is also inferior to the Atlas Institute and the Composite Association.
The headquarters of the Clock Tower is the London Museum. With the museum as the center, radiating to the surrounding area, the entire London can be said to be the sphere of influence of the Clock Tower.
Now that so many magicians have suddenly come, and even some Dead Apostles, the Lords within the Clock Tower are all having a headache.
Some of them also want to obtain the Child of Fuhai Forest. Of course, most of them are not aiming to become Dead Apostles, but more for research. That is equivalent to a True Ancestor lying alive in front of them to be studied! This kind of opportunity is very rare, especially since the one being studied is the Child of Fuhai Forest, the essence of the Seventh Ancestor!
Just like Zhuge Kongming... no, like the Mystic Eyes of Death Perception train in the El-Melloi II case files, Mystic Eyes can attract famous families from the magic world, even if they know they might lose their lives, those famous families will still be willing to do so. Even a small train can gather monks, priests, magicians, alchemists from all walks of life, let alone this auction for the Child of Fuhai Forest.
In short, London is very chaotic, the Magic Association has a headache, but the foreign magicians are very happy. London was not an easy place to come to in the first place. Now, because of the chaos, everyone has come, and even the Magic Association does not dare to stop them all.
So London suddenly became a good place where any magician can enter, like a cold and unapproachable young lady who can suddenly be touched by anyone.
The magicians are all very happy, entering and leaving London at will, and even playing around randomly.
Because magicians from all over have come to London, there are naturally many people who have grievances with each other. After all, where there are people, there is a world, and the magician world is no exception.
Therefore, these magicians may be particularly hostile when they meet their enemies. Some with more fiery tempers directly take action upon meeting, starting magic duels directly in less crowded places or alleys, and battles occur frequently.
London, a city with a long history, the city with the most academic atmosphere in the magic world, has become a place of rampant demons for a time.
"What a group of presumptuous fellows! They actually dare to mess around like this in London!"
A noble from the Magic Association, the current Lord of the Barthomeloi family, Lorelei Barthomeloi, who serves as the assistant to the Dean of the Clock Tower, an elite among elites, a noble among nobles. As the assistant to the Dean of the Clock Tower, in the absence of the Magic Marshal who serves as the Dean, she can almost be said to be the actual person in power.
She is very dissatisfied with the current situation in London. London is the back garden for the Clock Tower, the territory of the Clock Tower. As a result, foreign magicians are gathering in London, and it would be fine if the Clock Tower didn't cause them trouble, but now they are directly fighting in the Clock Tower's base camp without any scruples.
They are really bold!
"Hmph, I'm not surprised that those guys without noble bloodlines can do such a thing."
The El-Melloi classroom, belonging to the Archibald family, a famous family. One of the twelve Lords of the Clock Tower, Kayneth El-Melloi Archibald, as the head of the Archibald family, also gave his own evaluation.
Now, although it is still 2000, six years have passed since the Fourth Holy Grail War. In this Tsukihime world where the Twenty-seven Dead Apostle Ancestors are the main theme, Kayneth did not participate in the Holy Grail War, so he is living well, standing at the pinnacle of the Clock Tower as a Lord.
Kayneth, who has not experienced the cruelty of the Holy Grail War, is a typical member of the aristocratic faction, despising commoner magicians with shallow bloodlines. In this regard, he and Lorelei Barthomeloi can be said to be quite consistent.
The only difference between Lorelei Barthomeloi and Kayneth is that she even thinks that everyone other than the Barthomeloi family is trash.
Kayneth at least thinks that nobles are elites, and the remaining magicians are not very good, while Barthomeloi thinks that even other nobles are trash except for the people of their family.
Of course, he believes that he has the qualifications, because he is known as the "modern peak magician", and is the undisputed top in the Clock Tower.
"The activities of these trash have seriously affected our Clock Tower's activities. Even the outdoor activities of my Mineralogy Department cannot be carried out."
The Mineralogy Department controlled by the Kayneth family is considered a very wealthy department.
Various minerals are very important for the development of magic crests and various magic tools, and are the most basic raw materials.
But now, because of the actions of those magicians, the activities of the Mineralogy Department have been greatly affected.
"Lord Barthomeloi, we must take action, otherwise, before the Black Princess's bidding ends, some of our departments in the Clock Tower will not be able to operate at all."
"Indeed, although we cannot make all the trash act according to our rules, we must at least let those trash know that this is London, the headquarters of our Magic Association!"
Barthomeloi looked at Kayneth with a gloomy gaze.
"Lord Archibald, let this task be carried out by you. As a Color-ranked magician, those wild dogs should be very easy for you, right?"
"Ah, no problem, I was already prepared to teach those wild dogs a lesson. Let me show them what the behavior a magician should have is."
The aristocratic faction in the Magic Association, who originally did not want to deal with this group of magicians, decided to give this group of magicians a lesson!
666. Kayneth's boasting moment
Kayneth El-Melloi Archibald, as a proud noble, although he did not participate in the Holy Grail War in this world, he was appointed to preside over the subjugation of wild magicians.
After discussing with Barthomeloi, Kayneth directly set off with a team of magicians.
This magician team is not a low-level team, but an executor specially used for sealing designations within the Magic Association. Each of them has rich combat experience, and can be considered an elite team in the magician combat force.
Kayneth, who led this team, naturally felt that he had a sure chance of winning.
As a noble magician who has been operating in the Clock Tower for many years, and also a Color-ranked magician, his combat power is also quite powerful.
Especially his magic crest, in terms of attack and defense performance, can be said to be quite powerful.
So, after making preparations, when there was still one day left before the Black Princess's bidding, Kayneth began his path of clearing out the riff-raff.
For noble magicians, those small magicians from the countryside are wild dogs. Of course, he never thought that if those magicians from the countryside are wild dogs, then he, this kind of noble magician, is actually a domestic pet dog.
