"You can recognize me even with one eye covered and a veil on?"
“Blood mages don’t recognize people by their faces! Your skeleton and body shape have long been engraved in my mind!” Luca showed a smug expression, “The real Hasim’s hips are much smaller than yours. I’d be a failure if I didn’t recognize him!”
Hitzfeld's face darkened: "Even if you recognize him, don't tell anyone!"
"What do you want to do?" Luca glanced outside, then looked back at the girl. "These days, there have been rumors that Sister Tamer was killed by a newcomer... I was wondering how Hasim could have such ability, and it turned out to be you? You don't want to kill the governor, do you?"
Luca obviously didn't know the inside story, he just vaguely heard some rumors.
Hitzfeld coughed, "Aren't you going to deal with the church? I thought that Hasim and I have similar body shapes and hair colors, so we can sneak in and gather intelligence."
She had read many records of flesh and blood magic and knew that there was a spell that could detect whether the other party was lying by sensing the heartbeat at close range.
But she didn't lie, this play is called Infernal Affairs.
Luca really didn't doubt it, he was just surprised: "The Blood Temple is extremely difficult to enter. Even I can't sneak into it. How did you trick it?"
"I drew Hashem's blood."
"not enough!"
"This is my secret... Don't you allow your companions to have secrets?"
"That's not the case...Anyway, you're just here for the banquet normally?"
"Of course, what good would it do me if I killed the Governor?"
She just said it casually, but Luca actually pondered it: "Killing Bislo... triggering a conflict between the Church and the army in Sea King City... Well, it's not impossible."
Is he serious?
Hitzfeld stared with his right eye, and the next moment a warning suddenly arose in his heart.
Luca, as a high-ranking member of the Blood Mage, actually has such an attitude towards this matter... Doesn't that mean that Sina has been wanting to destroy the church for a long time?
Does the fact that she has such courage mean that she has found a way to prove that Yin Seer is not here? That is why she wants to recruit forces and carry out major reforms?
It is easiest to just ask.
"You're still talking about me. I think the Human King is much crazier than me."
"You have also seen the environment of the Corrupted Blood Kingdom. Do you think a non-crazy person can be king?"
Makes sense.
After chatting for a while, Hitzfeld asked casually, "So what's her name?"
"Who? Your Majesty?"
"of course."
"So you have made up your mind."
Luca was very happy. In his opinion, the girl's question was an important signal.
"Your Majesty's name is Weiss."
He turned around, with the bustling wedding scene behind him, and leaned close to the girl's ear to whisper something to her.
"Weiss-Nyan."
Chapter 155: The Night of the Substitution
Ves-Nyan?
How could it be Ves-Nyan?
Reflexively, Hitzfeld immediately remembered the case that Teni had commissioned him to investigate before he set sail, which was to find his lover, a prostitute named "Vess-Bakinsa".
Both of them were named "Vis". She didn't think it was a coincidence, especially since "Vis-Bakinsa" left a letter that was very provocative. All the evidence pointed to the fact that they were the same person.
But how is that possible?
Hitzfeld was really shocked, because in her impression, Sina was an extremely cruel and bad woman.
In order to return to the top and even take back the kingdom from Baiyangmu, she did not hesitate to awaken the Death Tree and create a super disaster. Even if such a person wants to obtain the royal blood from Tenize...is it really necessary for her to come in person?
What's more, the target is Tenize, that guy is easier to fool than other princes. Sending a servant who is both handsome and sensible should be enough. How could he come in person? He even cured the physical problems of the people he met during the mission.
Strictly speaking, the last point was what made Hitzfeld feel the most incredible. Coming in person could be explained as Sheena taking the matter too seriously, but curing someone was totally unlike something this guy could do.
She didn't take advantage of the situation, and she killed those who had seen her other side. It was a change of heart. Damn it... I can actually see the day when Xina saves people...
This news was so explosive that Hitzfeld's head was in a mess and he couldn't hear what Luca said afterwards.
"Are you really listening?" Luca gradually realized that something was wrong and waved his hand in front of her eyes. "What are you thinking about? I asked you if you have considered joining us?"
"I'll think about it." Hitzfeld was still a little absent-minded.
What is there to consider?
Luca stared.
You have killed a bishop and a nun, and you have also infiltrated the high-level positions of the church in the war zone and secretly collected countless intelligence. Isn't this your preparation to join this side?
To be honest, he envied the girl very much, because the Blood Temple was one of the biggest secrets of the church, and it was almost impossible for outsiders and non-believers to sneak in. After this merit was converted, the other party's future status might even be higher than his own.
Hitzfeld didn't lie to him. This time she was not being perfunctory. She was really seriously considering whether or not to help Xina.
This was not the first time Luca had invited them. He had already told them the reason for inviting them, which was their core value as outsiders.
In the Kingdom of Corrupted Blood, and even in the entire Elsa continent, all living things, even the land and sea water have been infused with blood.
Some creatures condense blood and begin to transform and evolve towards another life path. Even those who have not condensed blood can awaken their spiritual intelligence and consciousness. This is why the wind and raindrops can speak. These things are collectively called spiritual objects.
It might even seem like "evolution," but Hitzfeld would never forget where his blood power came from.
It was dug out from the past under some kind of compulsion.
So think about it from another perspective. If this thing is really powerful and this kind of evolution is really strong, why did the civilization in Namibia that originally invented this thing eventually abandon it?
Of course, it was just the annihilation of a period of history. The disappearance of the flesh and blood magic could be explained as the interruption of the inheritance. However, the problem was that strictly speaking, the inheritance was not interrupted - the power of the top level of Namiia, headed by the goddess, could restart the glory of the blood source at any time.
But they never did so and only dug it out when they had no choice.
From this perspective, it must have some flaws that are difficult to detect for the time being. And this flaw may be very huge, so huge that it should not exist under normal circumstances and must be completely exterminated.
Only from this perspective, the Corrupted Blood Kingdom's desire for outsiders is reasonable.
From a broad perspective, everything here has been polluted by blood. Although this kind of pollution is slightly better than being polluted by evil spirits, it is still pollution. Their bodies and blood are no longer pure and need to be neutralized through physical research by outsiders.
Of course, Xina and others may not see so far. For them, the reason for capturing or inviting outsiders may be that "the road ahead is blocked."
This involves a system issue - although the mysterious road is a road of no return, at least the road from level 1 to level 5 can be said to be unobstructed. As long as you are not extremely poorly gifted or lazy like a pig, you can achieve it through normal practice.
After all, this is also a void world, and the concentration of mysterious factors is much higher than that on Earth.
The path of the blood mage is not acceptable, because there is no mature system for this path yet. How to advance from a low level to a high level, what are the signs of a high level, and how to advance above a high level, these have not yet been truly clarified.
So that's probably what's going on: they can't make any progress on their solidified native bloodline, so they can't effectively fight against the mysterious path, so they urgently need help from outsiders who haven't been contaminated by their bloodline.
This help can take many forms. One is to use them for experiments to deduce more possibilities of flesh and blood magic. The other is to completely abandon flesh and blood magic and see if they can master the ancient secrets in the hands of the Neon people.
No matter what, the Niang family is the oldest family in this land. According to legend, the Silver-Eyed Seagull followed the goddess to fight all over the world, so they certainly may have such secrets - secrets that involve the last era and may require myth particles to drive.
Judging from Luca’s previous remarks, he personally prefers the second option.
This may also be to allow these people to relax their vigilance. After all, the second type does not seem to have anything to do with words such as "experiment, dissection", and the first type is very dangerous in comparison.
Hitzfeld didn't care - really didn't care. Just like the blood power was abandoned by Namiya, the myth particles were abandoned by the goddess. She felt that there was a reason for that.
She didn't care whether she could learn these things or not. The thorn in her heart that had been causing her hesitation was actually that Xi Na was not a good person from the root.
Luca said she was great and noble?
Hoping to gather strength to overthrow the Gray Mist's rule over Elsa?
Maybe she really thought so, but Hitzfeld didn't think it was noble at all.
It is not enough to explain it with the desire for power. You cannot help her argue that she is a royal family and she is just taking back the status she deserves, because to this day Hitzfeld has never forgotten the memory inheritance - the young Sina sacrificed others to achieve herself in order to escape the basilisk on the deserted island.
Her nature is selfish, she is not the kind of person who would sacrifice herself to fight against something, this is the real reason why Hitzfeld is so hostile to her.
Because Hitzfeld herself was one, she hated such a selfish guy.
But the problem is - when the game is magnified to the point where the entire continent is used as a chessboard, when the general trend requires a human king who is selfish but at least smart and capable, her personal likes and dislikes...are they important?
If Sina is still as selfish as she was in the past, Hitzfeld will definitely sentence Luca to death without hesitation. She will never help such a person. In the end, she will most likely pretend to agree and let Bunoliel contact the people of the Mechanical Kingdom to assassinate him.
But what the hell...has she changed her gender now?
She actually went to be with Tenize... Is this a legitimate way to seize power? Using her body to pass on the royal bloodline... and she actually saved someone on the way.
His thoughts were a little confused, so Hitzfeld decided not to think about it for the time being and go back to discuss it with Xia Yibing.
Her bottom line is that Xina must die.
Whether he helps her this time or not, this person is untrustworthy.
Her stain cannot be washed away by doing a few good deeds. If she really has changed her ways, let her prove it with a noble death.
"Sister Hashem!"
A voice came from the side.
Luca moved aside to make way for the other person, and Hitzfeld was able to see clearly that he was a middle-aged man with silver hair and beard.
This man was tall, not as tall as Agor, but nearly 190 cm tall, with a bulging chest and broad shoulders. He was wearing a well-tailored silver-gray military uniform with medals hanging all over his left chest.
With his refined short hair and a not-too-long, finely trimmed beard, his straight nose bridge and deep eye sockets, he can be described as a "handsome middle-aged man".
He must be the Governor of Neptune City, Bislo.
Hitzfeld was not judging a person by his appearance, but she clearly noticed that as this guy approached this side, almost everyone in the audience looked over here.
In Neptune City, besides Bislo-Chel, who else has such influence?
There won’t be any more, so it is undoubtedly him.
"I heard about Sister Tamo's story. The dead cannot be resurrected. Please accept my condolences. We the living still have to look forward."
The man's first words seemed a bit nonsensical. Hitzfeld's mouth twitched, and he could tell that the other party was trying to be friendly.
There are rumors out there that Sister Tamo was killed.
Even a semi-home wizard like Luca has heard of it, which shows how widely the news has spread.
It's not that lower-level rebellion is not allowed, but it is ultimately a stain on one's character. Bislo's words were equivalent to endorsing her, telling everyone who was paying attention here at the moment - Sister Tamo died in an accident.
As for what the accident was, you can guess it yourself, but it was not this Sister Hashem who killed her.
Strange guy.
Hitzfeld socialized with him on the surface, but in his heart he was trying to figure out his motives.
The Blood and Bone Mage Society represented by Luca is now Xina's dog, and don't ask, Bislo should be the same.
But there is still a difference. Luca should have met Sheena and was impressed by her... um... personal charm and skills. As for Bislo, whether he is simply fanatical about Sheena or loyal to the general concept of the Niang family, it is hard to say.
If it was the latter, if I told him later that there was someone else occupying the body of the Human King—
Thinking of this, the smile under the veil became more natural and brighter. The girl simply half-removed her veil and clinked glasses with the Governor in front of some people nearby.
In the eyes of the officers, this was probably a signal of closeness, so many of them clapped loudly. They then encouraged some idiots who didn't understand the root of the problem to clap together, and a brief encounter and greeting eventually affected the entire audience and attracted all the "newlyweds".
"Dad!" Nellie Bislow, wearing a bright red dress, held her poor newlywed wife in her hands. As she came over, her eyes kept looking at "Sister Hashem".
This kind of look is too offensive.
Not only Hitzfeld was unhappy, but Luca next to him was even more unhappy. You have to know that part of his affection for the girl came from her ability as a master perfume maker, and it would be unbearable for the object of his admiration to be coveted by others.
Taking a step to block Nellie's wanton gaze, Luca said to Bislo calmly, "You should take care of your daughter."
Nellie's expression changed and she glared at Luca fiercely.
Luca looked at her quietly without saying a word.
Others were afraid of this little princess, but he was not. The current leader of the Blood and Bone Mage Society had a strong sense of autonomy, and Bislo could not order him to do anything. In theory, the two of them were equal under that seat.
"You really should be more respectful to your elders." Bislo glanced at his daughter calmly, "Why did I agree to do this to you over and over again... Do you remember what you promised me?"
"Of course... of course I remember... hehe..."
Seeing that her biggest backer did not support her, Nellie rolled her eyes slightly, let go of the bride, held her father, leaned on him and acted coquettishly.
"So since she's an important person... Dad, you won't be so stingy as not to introduce her to me, right?"
