"We are going to look for Luca later. If you still want to follow us, here is the last remaining lot. You can take a look at it."
"..." It sounds like just drawing lots to change your hairstyle, but Hasim always feels that things are not that simple.
But she had no choice.
If she didn't want to die, she had no choice but to continue following these three people, so she didn't hesitate and reached out to pick up the last note.
When I unfolded it, I saw the words "Twin Ponytails" written on it.
……
At the same time, the Governor's Mansion in Port Inian almost turned into a dead zone.
The main building where the dinner was held had collapsed into ruins, with flames and smoke burning all around and the bodies of the guards everywhere.
This was an attack, with little cover-up.
The home battle took place in the backyard, where a sturdy man in a suit, almost two meters tall, was surrounded by a group of attackers. His body was covered with wounds and blood gathered into a stream at his feet.
"Given your grace, Agor, you may speak your last words."
came a voice from the attacker.
Cold, stiff, and filled with a metallic texture.
"You are crazy..." Agor still couldn't believe what happened.
"With so many people, the Mechanical Kingdom must have spent a lot of effort to send you in, right? Why didn't you do anything earlier or later, but you just wanted to kill me... to kill a small governor..."
I don't understand.
No matter how hard I try I can't figure out why.
"I'm asking for your last words, not giving you a chance to ask questions."
A tall man walked out from the attackers, holding a long spear in his hand and pointing it at the burly man.
"You have 10 seconds left. I'll only count once."
"one."
"two……"
"I understand." Agor's eyes suddenly flashed.
"I naturally don't have this kind of value, but others do."
"Marian, Luca, Theo and others have been here before, but you didn't do anything, so it wasn't them."
"The only variables are those few people."
"You are looking for me to silence me..."
"boom--"
The huge impact force came instantly, and before Agor could react, his head was smashed to pieces.
boom!
The tall corpse fell in the yard, and the ground seemed to shake.
"Let's go."
The man who fired the gun smiled.
"Eliminate other hidden dangers."
"Let's go pick up Her Royal Highness the Princess."
Chapter 115 The Value of Outsiders 5k2
Hasim had been to Neptune City before, so at least one person in the team knew the way. After eating, the group set off directly to the Blood Mage Guild in Neptune City.
Instead of going in directly, Hasim looked for a spot across the street and observed for a while. He hesitated: "Should we really go in directly?"
Because she was knocked out at several critical junctures, she didn't know that the three were planning to make further contact with the spies of the Mechanical Kingdom. She thought that this visit to the Blood Mage Guild was the final "standing team" move - that is, these three chose to support the Human King.
Although this was not a foolish decision - the Human King was indeed very powerful and respected, and she was enough to become Hasim's new backer - but how to say it... Hasim was not from a prominent family, and when she acted only for revenge, that desire could drive her to abandon all concerns, but when she saw that the world was vast enough and not so fearless of death, she found that she might not have lived enough.
"If Luca really wants to talk to us, he should have made some arrangements." Hitzfeld didn't hesitate and walked towards the other side. "We shouldn't need to explain anything."
In fact, this was indeed the case. Luca should have arranged servants to follow them in advance. He gave Hitzfeld and others some basic information. Even though they had changed their image and appearance, "a girl with gray eyelashes and a unique temperament" was still rare after all.
"This way, please." Someone stopped them at the door. "My master has asked me to show you his emblem?"
Hitzfeld was prepared. He took the envelope out of his sleeve and quickly glanced at it.
The servant became more humble: "Then there is no problem... Please come this way... We don't need to go through the main entrance of the union."
Xia Yibing was led by this person into the small door next to her. Before entering, she looked up at the building and confirmed that it had eleven floors and was the most beautiful scenery in the neighborhood.
This is basically a tower, right?
There is a wizard tower in myths and legends...Do blood wizards also like this thing?
In fact, this is certainly not a tower. The interior space here is connected to the corner building of the commercial street. After the servant took them in, he did not go up to the area occupied by the union, but went up to the second floor and walked forward, stopping at the door of a dark hall.
"I'm sorry to waste your time." The servant bowed, "But I do need some time to inform the master... He is inside now, so you can just go in directly."
There was no door in the hall, and there was no need to push the door. Xia Yibing rushed in first, looked around, and was surprised to find that this place was probably not yet built.
The floor was covered with a layer of white bone wood flooring, the walls were painted with bone fragments, and there were several extremely exquisite bone chandeliers hanging from the ceiling. There were no candles in them, so they looked a little lonely.
Judging from the structure alone, it should be a salon after it is built, specially for the enjoyment of the upper class.
A sound of footsteps came from the front, and Xia Yibing immediately became alert.
But she was worrying too much. As the person appeared, they all confirmed that it was Luca Pilarcon, the chief blood mage who had first invited them to Neptune City.
"You guys are too quick!" Luca's eyes fell on Hitzfeld, as if he was surprised. "I didn't expect it to be today... I thought I would have to wait at least two more days!"
"We have reasons to do this." Hitzfeld pursed his lips, pretended to be helpless, took off his gloves, and showed him the black mark on the back of his hand.
"Of course... I can understand." Seeing the mark, Luca's eyes flickered a little, "Come on, come inside, I took some time off, we can have a good talk today."
Several people followed him inside, went out from another door, and saw a dark cave entrance in front of them.
"That's the corridor," Luca introduced. "This building is considered the property of the union. We plan to use this as a prototype to build the entertainment center of Neptune City. Can you hear the music up there? That's where I came down from."
There was no need for him to lie, and Hitzfeld was willing to believe this irrelevant information for the time being.
After being led around the corridor for half a circle, the view ahead finally became clear.
This was obviously the "decorated" part. The walls and floors made of bone wood were painted with beautiful patterns, making them look like real wood. White candles were already on the chandeliers, blood-red curtains were hung next to the windows, and long tables and chairs were set up on both sides of the scene. It looked much more impressive than the previous place.
"Sit wherever you want." Luca signaled them not to be restrained. "I think a spacious place can show my sincerity. At least you don't have to worry about the executioner hiding in the corner."
Is the latter sentence slang?
Hitzfeld and the others didn't understand what he said, but it didn't matter. The girl continued to lead the conversation: "We saw your first and second letters..."
"Yes." Luca stroked his beard and smiled naively. "Do you have any questions? Feel free to ask."
"...You seem to want us to give up going to sea right from the start?"
Hitzfeld originally only had this vague feeling, but with the arrival of the second letter she confirmed it: Luca simply didn't want them to get involved in the incident of the Nine Knights.
He seemed to value them very much, but why?
This guy marked at the end of the second letter that he was an admirer of this side, but this obviously could not be taken seriously - on the surface, the only thing that qualified him to be admired by Luca was his talent in making incense, but no matter how high the status of a perfume maker in the Corrupted Blood Kingdom was, it was impossible for him to be able to influence a political change.
So she felt that the truth of this matter might lie in their identity as "outsiders". They must have some value that was valued and discovered.
"I don't want to interfere with what you are going to do. You can go - but not now." Luca restrained his smile, suddenly frowned and asked Hitzfeld: "Excuse me, Hitzfeld... You don't need so many guards following you?"
"Why do you say that."
"Who the divine seal is given to... the divine envoy still has a certain degree of control over such matters." Luca said, "Clint gave it to you, which means that he sincerely believed that you were the main threat at the time."
It turned out to be the case.
Hitzfeld smiled. "Maybe he just saw that I was the boss?"
She didn't do anything and just let Xia hack the other person to death. However, because the other person found out that she was the leader and the backbone, he chose to throw the cursed will to her - is this possible?
"That's because you don't understand Clint." Luca shook his head. "He's half crazy and his actions are illogical. He doesn't care about the mastermind or the person in charge of this kind of thing. He will hate whoever defeats him."
"good."
Hitzfeld knew that some things could not be hidden anymore, so he decided to reveal a little bit of his cards, "I killed Clint."
Anyway, as long as the identity of the mysterious master is not exposed, this degree does not matter.
Luca smiled and nodded, as if he was satisfied that she finally admitted it. "Then let's continue with the previous topic... The Blood and Bone Mage will need your support. We may need your help in a secret operation."
"They have gone to great lengths to eliminate the possibility that we are pawns of the church. Is it because we are outsiders?"
"You are right."
When Hitzfeld admitted to killing Clint, Luca's name became a honorific. He was a very scheming guy, but he was very measured in what he said and did. "The church and we are in a competitive relationship... Let me put it simply. If we always stand on the side of the Human King, support her, and protect her, then the church will want to bypass us and kill her."
“Will I have the honor of knowing what is really going on inside the church?”
"This is a long story..." Luke took a breath and hesitated, as if he was weighing their worth.
But since it has come to this, there is no need to restrain himself. He nodded: "This matter is related to the blood source."
"I'm all ears."
"Blood source - actually it's the myth of the blood of salvation. This is not a legend, it's true. All the citizens of the kingdom of God, including me, have the blood of salvation in their bodies, but it's already extremely thin."
"Please note that the citizens of this Kingdom of God are not limited to humans." Luca emphasized, "Everything you see, whether it's sea monsters, blood beasts, blood bone trees, or purple auroras, they are all considered citizens of the Kingdom of God."
"So you can imagine how powerful we would be if we could unite all these forces. No one in this land would be our opponent. Just like the legend says - 'The combined blood is enough to subvert everything.'"
"...The Human King hopes to do this?"
Hitzfeld was curious and suspected that the purpose of the Human King, or Sina, doing all this was to achieve transcendence - that is, to bring this lost continent back to its original world.
"It has always been like this." Luca nodded. "It has always been like this... It was like this before she became the Human King and ruled this land. This is the mission of Ou Jincheng, and no generation dares to forget it... It's just that there is hope that it will succeed in her."
What he meant was... that guy who is the Human King, did she and her family exist before?
Hitzfeld and Xia Yibing looked at each other and confirmed that they were thinking roughly the same thing.
He had never been successful before, and couldn't even achieve the small goals of the first stage - declaring himself the King of Men, ruling the earth, and establishing the Kingdom of God. It didn't make sense for him to suddenly have this ability.
It's Sheena.
Perhaps it was because Xina ate the original human king and once again used the power of immortality of the divine blood to usurp that man's identity and status. Coupled with her wisdom and means, she created such a magnificent kingdom of corrupted blood.
"The Human King's goal is noble." Luca said this with a firm tone, "We hope to gather strength to overthrow the Gray Mist's rule over this place, but as you can see, there is something that doesn't want this to happen."
Hitzfeld's mind was moved: "The things above the gray fog? They chose to start from the church?"
Luca nodded: "This is actually not a secret you should be exposed to now... But since you have been locked by the Divine Seal, I would seem to be shirking my responsibility if I don't explain it clearly."
"Yes—now you know there is something above the gray fog."
"That is another time and space. There are some 'great ones'... even His Majesty calls them that. Those things are sleeping in the gray fog and cannot wake up completely due to some restrictions."
"But this does not mean that we can ignore them. As His Majesty said, 'A collision of their thoughts can dominate the birth and death of the universe. They don't need to do anything themselves. As long as the thoughts of that moment permeate, there will be few people on this land who can resist being contaminated.'"
"They... oh, it's them - so they chose the Church of Our Lady of Savior?"
"There is no better carrier than the church." The old man curled his lips. "The legend of the blood of salvation has been passed down to this day with countless versions. Those people can just edit it and apply it to the evil god, directly guiding people's faith to it and leading them to depravity on a large scale."
"What is the purpose?"
"Purpose? Excluding those guys who take mysterious paths and eventually become half-human and half-ghost, the biggest purpose is to prevent them from turning to us and prevent the true unification of the Kingdom of God... You have heard from Agor about this, but I still want to add something: If we can really reproduce the blood of salvation, we have the ability to fight against the things above."
Hitzfeld couldn't help but glance at him. "At first I thought there was not much difference between a blood butcher and a blood mage..."
Oh, the blood butcher who takes the mysterious route will eventually become a monster, but the blood mage who can distort the structure of his flesh and blood at will is not a monster?
She couldn't see what there was to be proud of.
“This is different!” Luca almost exploded. “How can they be compared? The Blood Slayers gave away everything and believed in those vicious knowledge in exchange for power, while we tap into our own potential. No matter how advanced we are, blood mages will never forget that they are human! We are human first! And then there are those flesh and blood incarnations!”
So that’s it. This is a battle of ideas.
Hitzfeld hastened to comfort him, and at the same time he understood why Luca and Theo were the most unfriendly among the distinguished guests.
On the surface, the captain's group had the biggest conflict, but it was not a big conflict. As the nautical chart was stolen, the conflict was resolved and there was no need for both sides to target each other.
But Luca and Theo are different. This ideological dispute is not based on individuals. It even transcends the span of time. As long as the two groups of blood mages and blood butchers exist, the dispute will continue.
