Because there are no descendants of the Nine Knights in reality.
The bodies of Diat Klebatoral and Qia Rodhuis eventually fell into the hands of Imaar, who took them away from Elsa and hid and sealed them somewhere again.
So at least from this result we can infer that the Imaar family won the hundred-year bloody battle.
It’s really strange. Judging from the result, Yalian won. Then why didn’t she just become the King of Humans?
Hitzfeld suddenly felt that something was wrong.
Didn't Yalian deliberately come up with that kind of righteous declaration in order to prevent all kinds of accidents from happening after the Imaer family ascended the throne? This shows that she also had this in mind, so why did she escape with two corpses after the victory?
She instinctively thought that there was another power in Oujin City. This power stole the fruits of victory of the hundred-year bloody battle, exiled the real winner Imaar, and gained the greatest benefit for itself.
So who is the king in reality?
It is the Niang family, the default owner of Oujin City.
But isn’t this big clan very weak?
Hitzfeld was a little confused. She could make an assumption such as "the Niang family waited for Imar and the descendants of the Nine Knights to suffer heavy losses and then stole the fruits of victory", but the Niang family's performance in the Hundred Years of Bloody War was so terrible that she found it hard to believe that this fact was true.
There are too many weird things, including the fact that Xina... the incarnation of the Human King actually claimed that the flesh and blood magic was invented by himself. This is simply stealing all the credit. In reality, Ou Jincheng is even using the power of blood mages to balance the mystery?
The dark clouds parted and something came out.
Hitzfeld subconsciously looked in the direction where Yalian was looking, his pupils trembling a little bit, and he witnessed with his own eyes more than a dozen strange things with blood bubbles on them, which were almost formed by lumps of rotten flesh appearing there.
Words cannot describe how disgusting they are. Each of them is nearly twenty meters wide, forming a wriggling mountain of flesh on a metal ring. Part of the meat mud is dragged under the meat mountain, hardening and solidifying little by little, forming hundreds or thousands of organs similar to exhaust ducts, and there is a layer of translucent blood bubble flesh membrane hanging on it, constantly spilling pus and blood downwards.
Just... just this description is disgusting enough, but what makes Hitzfeld even more unacceptable is the way these things are driven.
She actually didn't have much in-depth knowledge in this area. After all, she was only 16 years old when she was reborn, and she hadn't even completed the systematic learning of high school knowledge.
Yes - she does know some messy knowledge because of her family background and personal interests, and may even have more knowledge than regular college students. However, the utilization and extraction efficiency of messy knowledge and systematic knowledge are different.
So not long ago, when she heard that the Corrupted Blood Kingdom also had a floating city, she didn't think much about it, and even fantasized that if there really was such a magical thing, she and Xia Yibing might have a chance to go up and take a look.
But if she was really proficient enough in that knowledge, she would immediately wonder about a question - energy cannot be created out of thin air. Even if flesh and blood technology exists in reality, the energy source of the flesh and blood floating city is the biggest problem.
Then she would naturally associate the energy with bioenergy, the simplest bioenergy, with the dead bodies floating on the surface of the river, and with... those dead bodies usually having swollen bellies.
Yeah...why didn't I think about it at first...
This energy source is so easy to create and utilize. The driving force of the Flesh and Blood Floating City can only come from this...
From biogas.
The huge mass of flesh has been spewing thick smoke all around since it appeared. Judging from the actions of the soldiers below, the smoke clearly contains an alarming stench.
Having confirmed this, Hitzfeld no longer worried that they could not threaten Oujin City.
This was the first time she had actually seen Oujin City with her own eyes. Although it was a bit far away and it was difficult to compare its actual length and width, this thing that seemed to be made up of two gyroscopes, one above and one below, perfectly matched all her imaginations of a floating city.
The Flesh and Blood Floating City was impressive, but it was too small compared to Oujin City. Even if more than a dozen floating cities were added together, they would not be half the size of Oujin City. This also looked like a suicidal charge, which was useless except for disgusting the enemy.
But she knew that the result would be beyond most people's imagination.
Because biogas can actually... explode.
The first wave of explosions did not attract much attention. The fierce battle on the ground was still going on, and the foul-smelling smoke had not yet drifted so far away.
But as more and more floating cities of flesh and blood crashed into Oujin City, exploded, and burst into a huge ball of fire, even this light dispelled the darkness and illuminated the black soil. More and more people finally stopped fighting and looked up at this wonderful scene.
Oujin City is falling.
Its pure white body was stained with black pus and blood, and the outer ring and jet pipes were blown to pieces. Even one-third of it collapsed and fell directly, like a cliff collapsing under the scouring of a mudslide.
In just a moment, the morale of the Nine Knights' army was gone.
The blood puppet giants cheered with their arms raised, waved their weapons and roared, all of them with red eyes, hacking forward desperately like crazy, and unexpectedly a new power was generated after their physical strength was exhausted.
Rumble…
As the ground forces collapsed and dispersed, most of the floating city crashed to the ground on the plain, sending out a series of shock waves and raising a large amount of smoke and dust.
Hitzfeld continued to trace Alain's perspective, watching her jump onto a blood-bone tree, draw her long sword and point it there, finally driving the army to charge at the fallen kingdom.
……
On the other hand, Xia Yibing's memory recall was much simpler.
She is telling a flashback... Compared to the magnificent scenes here, the story becomes simpler and simpler, but because she is from Eric Imaar's perspective, she can see more things.
It is true that Yalian is Eric's most capable assistant, but there are indeed some situations and things that Eric does not intend to let her know immediately.
Every time at this time she would discuss it with the old man, and the two would have secret talks in the study.
On this day, Xia Yibing saw Eric calling Gu Laotou over again, and asked him as soon as they met: "What did my father say to you before he died?"
"Master." She saw the old man's face stiffen for a moment, and then he started to play dumb: "I don't understand what you mean."
Eric's father was assassinated on the way home. Xia Yibing had heard Eric mention this more than once, so she was also very curious. In theory, Eric's father had no time to talk to Gu, right? Gu was in the old house at that time?
"I have been holding back from asking you this question for a long time, but that doesn't mean I'm so stupid that I can't feel anything."
Eric stared at him with a frown, tilting his head slightly, "He knew he wouldn't live long, right?"
Having said that, and facing the young master, Gu thought about it and stopped pretending, nodding his head and saying, "...Yes, the master called me over on the first night he came back. He asked me to pack up and leave with the mistress and the young master, but I didn't expect..."
"I didn't expect them to act so quickly, starting the next day during the day."
Eric helped him finish his sentence.
"So does he have any special instructions for me?"
Eric asked again.
"I was young before, and I didn't even get help from Alian. I can understand why you kept it from me, but now I feel I am qualified to bear these things, and you can tell me everything."
"What if I said this has nothing to do with what you're about to do?"
The old man pursed his lips, still looking a little hesitant.
"It's irrelevant? How can it be irrelevant?"
"Let me make it clear... You should know that I am the Blood Bone Tree King... Strictly speaking, I am very close to that level, just a little bit short. I can achieve it as long as I want."
"I know, but what does the Blood Bone Tree King have to do with this?"
"The Blood Bone Tree King can live a very long life." Gu continued, "As long as nothing unexpected happens, an ordinary Blood Bone Tree can live for hundreds or thousands of years, not to mention the Blood Bone Tree King... My life span will run through your life, and I can even tell your story to your descendants in the future... Do you understand what this means?"
Before Eric could speak, Gu said, "It means that what I can do is beyond the time you can understand."
"If you must know... what the master has told me is related to your future death."
This was a very common, even somewhat confusing conversation. But for some reason, Xia Yibing felt a chill on her back.
This damn guy, he said he was the Blood Bone Tree King...
The Blood Bone Tree King shouldn't be very common...
So, could it be that the Posuo Mansion in reality is...
She didn't dare to think about it.
She even had an urge to end the story immediately.
She wants to go out.
No matter what, move out of the mansion first.
Chapter 141: Double Hearts Back to Four
The bloody battle on earth is coming to an end. As the south wind and the north wind sweep across the land, they are also conveying the battle report to all things: Imaar's army has won.
Ya Lian defeated the last remnant army that blocked her way, and ordered the blood-bone tree to slightly open its crown to give her space to jump down.
There was no obstacle ahead. Although her army was small in number, it was like a sharp knife compared to the fallen Oujin City.
Driving the knife directly into the ruins of the holy city, she ordered a stop and looked back and forth on the street.
Oujin City was too big and too magnificent. The place where she was standing at the moment belonged to its lower streets. All the houses here were collapsed without exception. Corpses could be seen everywhere in the ruins. It was obvious that when the disaster struck, most people did not have enough time to escape.
"Clean up the corpses and find something usable, especially food." Ya Lian gave simple orders, dividing several teams into several groups to do these tasks, and she led the rest of the troops up the road, soon arriving at the middle of the holy city.
This was her first time in Oujin City, but she seemed very familiar with the place. This was because Eric had drawn a city structure map for her long ago, and she had done similar things many times in her dreams.
After learning of her husband's death, she vowed to make all this come true. The floating city of flesh and blood could only be born when all moral constraints were released. At this moment, Yalian witnessed everything created by hatred and revenge with her own eyes. She was not confused, but felt extremely refreshed.
Suddenly, something moved in the ruins ahead. Upon closer inspection, it turned out to be an armored warrior with short dark red hair. The body below the knees had been smashed to pieces by the wreckage, and he could only survive by relying on the strength of his upper limbs.
Yalian drew his knife and walked forward, stopping beside him. The moment he looked up, he pinned his right hand to the ground.
"Ah...!" The warrior let out a short scream, and then continued to stare at her with hatred in his eyes: "Monster... The magic that breaks the taboos of human ethics will surely devour you in the future..."
"You still dare to talk to me about human taboos?" He was answered by a metal boot. Yalian kicked out most of his teeth and continued to taunt him: "The mysterious path begins to distort and degenerate after reaching level 6, losing one's self, and even becoming a puppet of the mysterious source. Is this in line with human ethics? It's not a taboo?"
The soldier gasped and still glared at her, but he couldn't say anything to refute for a while.
"Blood races are not good things, but at least we can control ourselves with this." Yalian looked at him coldly, "Even if we become more like monsters, it is our own choice. We are always sober and rational. Our appearance is just the price we must pay for justice. Compared with you, who have even given up their sanity to the evil, we are thousands of times more noble!"
There was nothing to say. The next knife stabbed into the opponent's forehead, and the blade cut the face into two parts from the middle of the nose.
Leaving the task of collecting the bodies to others, she continued on her way up, obviously intending to kill them all without leaving any hope for the old nobles in Oujin City.
He is indeed the type of person like Charuni.
Hitzfeld was shuddering as she watched. If she were in Yalian's position, she would probably have done something similar, but it would not have been possible to be so decisive and ruthless.
But speaking of it, the dark red hair and the finely constructed armor that man was wearing just now, could that person be from the Ferrum family? Was his ancestor Paul Ferrum, one of the Nine Knights?
If even people like this couldn't escape, then most of the forces in Oujin City must have been trapped, including most of the surviving clans of the Nine Knights, as well as the various large clans that are currently below them in status.
Among them was the Niang family! Hitzfeld couldn't help but wonder how the Niang family managed to survive in the current situation, and eventually drove Imaar away from the land and stole all the fruits of victory.
If Yalian doesn't have many troops left and a large number of people from Oujin City flee at this time, the Niang people will have a chance to make a comeback.
But now it seems that there are at least 5,000 people left in Yalian. These 5,000 people are the elite among the elites who fought out of that huge bloody battle. With the combat effectiveness of this army, not to mention the Niang family, even a hundred of them can't make a wave.
The secret must be hidden in this history, Hitzfeld thought so... She felt that Yalian must have encountered something in the ruins of Oujin City, which prevented her from exterminating the two generations of old kings in one go, and her own strength was also severely damaged.
So that's the difference between me and her.
Watching the situation from Alian's perspective, Hitzfeld felt sorry for her.
If it were me, I would not do such a rash thing... Instead of exploring the enemy base, I would rather spend more time and make a few more swamp gas bombs to completely blow this place into pieces.
However, she soon realized that they could not make such an analogy, for a simple reason: she did not have the same level of hatred as Yalian.
Although Hitzfeld also had accounts with Madame Griet, Villefort, and even Coldis to settle with her enemies, if Xia's name was added to the list, she couldn't guarantee that she would be able to remain as sane as she was now.
She might be even crazier than what Yalian did, and she wouldn't care about the danger at all. She had to see all her enemies die with her own eyes.
Yes...Yalian, she had forgotten all the flesh pillar tree phantoms she saw at that time. Although Eric had told her about it many times later, without the memory of witnessing it with her own eyes, she would not understand how terrifying it was.
But I am different...
When it comes to hatred, it doesn’t matter if I say this shamelessly: I at least have an eye that can slightly restrain them, so our capital is different…
While Hitzfeld was daydreaming, Yalian had already led her army to sweep the middle level of the holy city, and assigned a group of people to clean up the corpses and collect supplies. Almost all the survivors were killed by her own hands.
To Yalian, there are no innocent people in Oujin City.
Branch pickers, farmers, untouchables, the lowest level blood-slaughterers... these people cannot enter Oujin City. She remembered that Eric told her in detail that the Holy City took the elite route, so there were no innocent people who could appear here, and she could kill them all.
After killing the middle-level people, her knife became blunt.
After changing the knife, Yalian continued to move upwards. During the process, she waited for a while, waiting for the troops dispatched from the lower level to gather and return.
She also knew that regarding the Lighthouse Project that Eric had mentioned, the enemy still had at least two "gods" of mysterious origin who had not yet revealed themselves, and she could not let her guard down at all.
Although... she has deduced from various intelligence that these two things have strict restrictions on appearing and fighting, and they may not even be awake.
But that is "God" after all.
Whatever god it is, for the time being, it is something beyond human understanding.
"Report... No survivors found in the southeast direction!"
"There are no survivors to the west!"
"There is nothing in the north except ruins and corpses..."
The south was the direction they had come from, and Yalian knew that place very well. Almost all the survivors were killed by her with one knife.
This is strange.
