Civilization is people. If people don’t look in the mirror, they won’t know where they have made mistakes. If they encounter hardships again, they will probably make the same mistakes as they did thousands of years ago, and then suffer or even become extinct... Some traditions have been interrupted and invented again in time, and then invented and interrupted again. How far of a detour is this?
Anyway, she couldn't understand the significance of this law of the Corrupted Blood Kingdom. Even if the situation here was special and they could be infected with curses from historical records, the worst that could happen was to set up a special department to do it.
Someone has to sacrifice, and the most terrifying thing is that the sacrifice has no value.
After all, human beings are still animals with fragile minds.
They couldn't accept it... They paid a huge price but got nothing in the end, or even everything was worse than before.
"You seem to think you have the right to lecture me...?" Shana sneered.
Hitzfeld and Xia Yibing both thought that she was going to say something to prove that she was right, but they didn't expect that her next move would be to roll up her sleeves, revealing a black tattoo on her arm.
They both took off their left gloves at the same time, revealing the black marks on the backs of their hands.
That’s right…they’re all those mysterious and strange triangular patterns.
Xia Yibing frowned: "Are you...?"
"I'm lucky." Shana's eyes showed a confused look, "I haven't actually seen them... I just got their blood on me during the hunting process..."
"Yes, it's that blue blood... From then on, this mark has been attached to me. They don't target me and hunt me down endlessly, but I can feel their gazes even in my dreams... They are always watching me..."
"It's more than that." Hitzfeld closed the book. "You didn't tell the truth. It may also be related to these books."
"If I'm guessing correctly, you didn't come across this opportunity by chance. You must have gained some information... or knowledge... from these records. You didn't dare to show these things to others because you were afraid that they would attract those monsters and let you see them, causing you to be hunted down."
"But we are different. On the one hand, we have been targeted, and on the other hand, you find that we seem to have the ability to deal with those things."
"…Am I right?"
"You've surprised me too many times, Princess..." Shana's eyes flickered, and finally she admitted, "Yes, the facts are almost the same as you said."
"Also, please don't use honorifics when addressing me... After all, it's me who's asking a favor of you, and I can't stand that word."
Next, Shana explained in detail how she got into trouble.
"The secret lies in these records." She instructed the two to find the fragmentary narrative fragments scattered across several books.
"I accidentally discovered that they were connected to each other... I thought... I thought it was a secret code... I had heard of the existence of secret codes... so I couldn't wait to decipher it, and eventually I got a magic ritual."
"It's a way to set up a magic ritual!" she corrected. "Foolish mortal...yes...I was so stupid at the time...some of the words involved blood source, I thought it was a secret related to blood source and the legend of the nine knights, and I couldn't wait to start shopping for arrangements."
“And then I saw it.”
"No... that doesn't count as seeing... it's like a feeling... a memory... what floated out from the smoke seemed to be a period of annihilation. I saw that everything in the Sea King City was twisted into a spiral tower. On the top of the tower sat a huge shadow... There was rolling fog in the darkness all around, and voices kept floating out of the fog. I heard them chanting a name together..."
"Is that Diat-Klebatoral?"
Xia Yibing was curious, "He is the Blood Knight, why is he praised by those monsters?"
Aren’t Bloodborne Knight and the Outer Gods hostile to each other?
This is the fact that Alessia saw in Blood River's memory. That guy was not serious at other times, but he was extremely serious when he said those words. She felt that the credibility was still very high.
"I... don't know." Shana's face showed a struggle, as if she was hesitating whether to tell them something.
But she seemed to have made up her mind after all, and said, "But I... I guess someone found the tomb of the Nine Knights... Someone stole their corpses... Stole the magic power of the blood source, and indirectly controlled some things in the gray fog through an unknown secret method..."
“Do you understand?” She would always look at the sealed door when she spoke, as if she was very afraid that someone would eavesdrop, or that a team of inspectors would suddenly break in. “…I judge that you will fail because of this! What you have to fight is not just the Kingdom of God itself. If their goal is the Nine Knights and they want to merge all the corpses and trace the blood source, then you will not only have to face the Horned Throne... but there may be eight other things of the same level!”
"..." Hitzfeld pondered for a moment and stood up.
"Thank you for providing this valuable information, Ms. Shana."
"We need to discuss this privately for a while. We'll see you at the dinner soon."
After saying goodbye to Shana, Xia Yibing clearly felt that the other party was greatly relieved.
She was indeed taking a big risk in doing this.
On the one hand, I wanted to know who my father had his eyes on, and on the other hand, I was probably tempted to place a bet.
After all, if the root cause of nightmares could be cured by killing all those "hounds", who would want to be watched by a group of monsters all the time?
But he had to wait until they killed the first one before telling them this.
The people of the Corrupted Blood Kingdom are really snobbish...
With some emotion, he found Madeline and Hasim who had been waiting for a long time. Madeline understood what he meant and knocked Hasim unconscious.
If we want to talk about things, there are some things that Hasim must not know, so this is the only way to tell her.
"It's annoying to keep going like this." Madeline was unhappy. "Why don't we just dump her somewhere? Why should we care if she lives or dies?"
If it was of great value she would have acknowledged it, but from the hound attack it was clear that Hasim didn't know any important information either.
As the circles they came into contact with became higher and higher and the intelligence channels became more and more, the value of this person was also decreasing, and she felt that there was no need to take Hasim with her.
"No rush." Hitzfeld asked her to calm down first.
"I have an idea... I might need her when the time comes. I'll have to trouble you, Madeline. You are both very important."
Is it?
Madeline was skeptical.
After all, she knew very well how capable she was. In Sarah, she could at least do something, but in this shitty kingdom of God where she was unfamiliar with the place, she was really at a loss.
Xia Yibing can inherit the memory of the hero's bones, Hitzfeld can pretend to be - well, she is - a master of incense making, but she herself is useless, and has even fallen to the point of finding a hotel for them and moving boxes.
If one day they suddenly feel like hanging out in the wild, do I have to keep watch for them?
This girl seems to have a better figure than when she was in Sarah... Could it be that the director rubbed her into a bigger body...
The more she thought about it, the more outrageous it seemed. Madeline could only convince herself to trust Hitzfeld, or at least trust the director's vision.
The next step was naturally to tell Madeline everything - from meeting Bunoliel, obtaining the identity of princess of the Mechanical Kingdom, and what she gained in Shana's study, which made the latter marvel.
“No wonder Leon was…” Madeline smacked her lips and shook her head, “Tsk! Tsk!”
Isn't it amazing?
Doctor Mechanical, that's a super vicious evildoer, but it turns out he's Hitzfeld's father?
She actually gave—
"Don't talk about this." Xia Yibing noticed that Hitzfeld was in a low mood, so she interrupted and changed the subject.
"Where's Alessia?"
"We have something we want to ask it."
The test tube containing the little water man was dug out, and its first action after it came out was to sniff: "Hmm... I seem to smell the stench of those things..."
"It's on you, right?" Its gaze fell on Hitzfeld and Xia Yibing's left hands, "Ahaha - I knew you would be in trouble if I hadn't warned you!"
Alessia was overjoyed, as if this was all retribution for the bad treatment she had received.
Xia Yibing was so angry that her teeth were itching, and then she realized that this thing was cheating.
"If you think this will piss me off and make me smash you against the wall... and release you in this way, then you are sorely mistaken."
"Without further ado!"
Seeing that his plan had failed, the little water man rolled his eyes and shook his head in the test tube.
"You didn't come to me during lookout time. Let me guess... Are you in trouble? Do you want to ask for help from the great and wise Alessia? "
"Let's just take it as it is." Hitzfeld curled his lips and repeated the current information.
"So, Alessia, what do you think is going on... Why did that Diat-Kleba Tolar suddenly run to the evil god's side before? Wasn't he dead? And they should be enemies?"
“How many questions are these?”
"One."
"Hey that's not fair!"
"It's your fault that you didn't agree with me in detail at the time whether it was a big question or a small question."
After some sophistry, Alessia finally accepted the reality.
"Beautiful women are so abominable!"
The little water man pressed against the glass and was angry.
"Let me make it clear first... If you have any big questions, then ask them... This counts as the second one, and you are not allowed to change your words again!!"
"We can swear by faith."
"Okay!" The little water man finally calmed down a little.
It twisted its body in a thoughtful manner, then hesitated and said, "This question... How do you manage to be both smart and stupid?"
"Huh?" Hitzfeld was unable to react for a moment.
"I told you what the Latadians are best at... Can't you figure it out on your own?"
What greeted her was the merciless ridicule of the little water man.
"Is it possible... that the evil gods are the nine knights? The way the nine knights defeated the evil gods was to merge themselves with them... Then the corpses of the nine knights are actually the seals of the evil gods, the prisons and containers that hold them?"
"You've been looking all over the world for where they've gone, but in fact they've always been there."
"It's just that I was ignored by all of you, hahahaha——"
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There will be another update around dinner time.
Ahem... I'll try my best to include all the delayed posts in the word count.
Chapter 127 Intensification
Even when he attended the dinner at the mansion, Hitzfeld still hadn't recovered from Alessia's words.
She had too many thoughts and too many concerns. She was like a walking corpse throughout the entire banquet. Not to mention that she had no time to eat or drink, her left hand in a black silk glove was always held by Xia Yibing, and she had forgotten where she had been taken.
Aisuen... She really trusts me...
Xia Yibing was a little speechless about her confused state.
Of course, she was very happy in her heart. After all, this was trust, one of the most precious qualities between people... But the previous impersonation incidents and occupational diseases still made Xia Yibing feel uneasy. She felt that Hitzfeld should have been more vigilant.
I can, um, tell whether you are real or fake by looking at the movements of your toes, and there is also the fusion of spirits, which serves as a double insurance. But if someone pretends to be me, how can you tell with the naked eye whether it is me?
It's still dangerous after all.
"You know too little about the mysterious system." An hour passed like this, and Hitzfeld finally came to his senses and began to look for food to replenish energy for his hungry body.
Fortunately, although many places in the Kingdom of Corrupted Blood are disgusting and taste heavy, they at least know to roast the food before eating.
Compared to many high-end cocktail parties Sarah had attended, the banquet dishes here were not exquisite, and the cooking methods of many meats could even be said to be rough, just roasted and sprinkled with seasonings, but she still ate with relish.
While eating her, he glanced at the woman and muttered, "You have been worried about me since a while ago, right? The possibility that you are worried about me is low, but it is more likely that you are worried that I trust you too much, and if someone pretends to be you and gets close to me, I will suffer."
"Micro-expression?" Xia Yibing looked around and was relieved when she was sure no one was paying attention to her. Then she stared at her helplessly: "You always learn things quickly."
“I really can’t see any other options.”
After swallowing the roasted beast meat in his mouth, Hitzfeld picked up a plate of fruit to relieve the greasiness. He continued to eat while saying, "Actually, there is no need... The fusion of spirit and flesh is much closer and stronger than you think. Both of us have been branded by each other, so it is easy to sense it."
Xia Yibing did tell her that she was impersonated by Alessia, but in Hitzfeld's opinion, this kind of nervousness was actually unnecessary.
Xia was still too accustomed to solving problems with physical means. Her unique spiritual power allowed her to use chopping and slashing when facing evil spirits... Although the natures were different, they were essentially physical actions. As a result, she might have overlooked some special uses of spiritual power.
But if that's the case, didn't she discover the fake one through the spiritual fusion of the dancing sword technique?
Slightly startled, it was the first time that Hitzfeld paid attention to this issue.
Xia Yibing didn't notice the change in her expression. She was focusing on the other side. She took the initiative to approach the girl and reminded her, "That old guy is here."
She was talking about Luca.
Luca's expression was very serious. He had just arrived at the banquet hall and was just looking around without eating anything. When he saw them hiding here, he immediately ran up in a hurry, as if he had something important to discuss with them.
"Master Luca." Hitzfeld put aside his previous doubts and wanted to say something polite, but he heard Luca whisper in a very urgent tone: "Agor is dead!"
He said Agor——
A tall and strong man with vertical pupils and the identity of a blood orc... Madeline once guessed that the guy was a lizardman. At least these left a deep impression on them.
"What happened?" Xia Yibing frowned. "Did the Church of Inian Port and the Governor's Office go to war?"
Otherwise, how could Agor die? He was a loyal subject to the King of Man, and no one except the church could harm him.
