Blood Contract: 血色契
约: Xue Se Qi Yue
Blood Contract Chapter 15: The Guardians and Saints
Giffen is the capital of Pondra, an island floating in the air. There is a large pool in the central square of the island. This is not an ordinary pool. There is a whirlpool in the center of the pool. The water in the pool spirals into the whirlpool and then leaks into the ground territory of Pondra longitudinally, it looks like a huge water column that raised the whole the island in the air.
Around the pool, the water leaking into the whirlpool sprayed and interacted with the formation. A projection appeared in the suspension. It was a figure with long flying hair and delicate facial features. The figure smiled at the people in the square. The beautiful face was as serene as an angel, and the eyes of the figure were too mild as if they were too intoxicated. People's hearts are softened. The portrait is so dignified that all the people who see him are filled with a sense of respect. It seems that a sacred and inviolable monarch warmly looks at his people.
The most ingenious part of the pool projection is that you can see the most beautiful front of the portrait from any angle of the square to the central pool.
The portrait is not of the prince of the district. It is said that a legendary monarch has become a more legendary that the legendary monarch. The stories about him are just legends without proof. Even Giffen's all-embracing national library does not have the historical facts of the monarch. Legend says that he was the Dark Emperor, the great Master that allowed vampire bloodline clans to survive in the crusade, but again, it is said that the vampire bloodline he swore to defend was the one which went on to betray him.
The great Dark Emperor was betrayed by the secret coalition he founded and eventually died in the Pope's conspiracy. It's ironic. No wonder the vampire bloodline clans have never been recorded this part in history.
It is said that Camarilla has so far been divided into seven regions, the result of the disapproval of the seven princes on who will rule after the death of The Dark Emperor.
In the dark of night, the square is Giffen's busiest place. All the entertainment of the upper class is in the buildings around the square.
A coffin-shaped black carriage came silently from the dark night. In front of the carriage were two oil lamps burning red flames. The coffin-like black carriage and two red flames, which were the characteristics of Duke Alos, black and red.
People who know the characteristics of the Duke stopped here one after another, some want to see the Duke new style, some want to find a chance to have a conversation with the Duke, and some noble women want to dally with the Duke, but today there is a group of people who come to see the new favorite of the Duke.
The carriage stopped in front of the Byzantine Opera House. The servant jumped out and laid a red carpet between the theatre and the carriage. A stool was placed in front of the carriage. When it was ready, someone went up and opened the door of the carriage.
From the carriage came the Duke, the Duke's dark red hair shawl in a well-tailed black tuxedo, with a very attractive smile from a gentleman.
Most of the young women present were fascinated by the smile.
The Duke did not immediately enter the theatre, but turned around and held out his hand very gently to help the person inside down.
The Duke's carriage used to be full of hot and beautiful women, but today it seems different, which is the curiosity of all people, but disappointingly, the person who came down from the carriage was wearing a black cape, which wrapped the whole person. However, from this small figure, it should be a teenager of eighteen or nineteen years old.
Many people speculated that the teenager was probably a slave of Oriental origin who had recently been rumored to be the favorite of the Duke.
The Duke walked into the theatre with his new favorite waist in an ambiguous and smiling manner.
Zero: "Master, your hand seems to be in the wrong place. I won't mind breaking it for you."
Alos turned pale and hurried back to tighten his hand. Then he showed a very nice smile and explained, "I'm just worried about falling when you get off the carriage."
Zero: "thank you, Master, I think I'm fine, but it's Master forgetfulness that worries me. Did you break your hand last night?" "
Alos shrank his neck and his face turned pale. He said, "Don't worry, vampires are very resilient, but even so, I still think... It hurts! Can Baobei be gentler next time?”
Zero smiled: "Yes, next time I'll wring your neck gently."
"... "
"Let's go in, the opera is about to begin." The Duke was right and interrupted Zero's bloody imagination.
Entering the theatre door, Alos felt an extra force on his hand. It was Zero who took his hand and was ready to laugh at him, but he heard Zero say, "Master, I don't want to attract too much attention, or you want me to break your neck in front of everyone."
Alos's face collapsed, so it turned out that the dishonest little thing had to continue to pretend to be obedient. Since Master Duke could only "reluctantly" cooperate. Along the way, he "pretended" to introduce the theatre layout and murals for little thing, waited for the box on the second floor, and "pretended" to be very considerate and killed to prepare a small Zero mouth for little thing. When little thing sticks his mouth to his food, he wipes his mouth automatically and spontaneously. While touching little thing's head, whispering kindly, he takes the opportunity to wipe oil around little thing's waist, touches little thing's buttocks, and provokes little thing to stare at his dissatisfaction with "shyness" and thump his small fist lightly.
The Duke, who has been spat quickly and spit blood, has to continue to put on a very happy expression. It's really self-inflicted. Congratulations... < <
Alos whispered with a "smile" on his face, "Hi - Baobei, lighter!
Zero was "shy" and stared: "you find your own death."
"... "Alos is really curious. He just looked at it lightly. How can he use such a great force? Sin, the protagonists on stage may not have such good acting skills!
The opera house is a luxurious place for the nobles of the upper class. The building is rectangular, but the central part of the roof is composed of a huge circular dome and a semi-circular dome at the front and back. The walls are covered with colorful marble and painted by famous artists. Arch vouchers and domes are inconvenient to be marbled. Mosaic is made of translucent small pieces of stained glass. In order to maintain the unity of large areas of tone, a layer of background is laid behind the glass mosaic, initially blue, and then gold foil is used as the base. Glass blocks moved to tilt slightly in different directions, resulting in a flickering effect. The moonlight can be used instead of the sunlight and shooting to the glass from the dome made the atmosphere of the theatre both strange and solemn.
The auditorium inside the theatre is semi-circular, the second floor is an aristocratic box, and the first floor is also accessible to famous vampires. The semi-circular design is now making it possible for Zero to see in other's box without the curtain on the second floor. That's why Zero continues to perform.
The play on the stage is about a human god-believing woman who has fallen into the vampire's territory by mistake. After being frightened, she finally loses her faith and becomes a vampire's slave. After being humiliated and oppressed, she finally donates her blood.
The plot is very cliché. But too vivid performance still attracted the audience's attention. Zero in the audience even smelled the bloody smell in the air, and the woman on the stage was so real, whether in fear or despair, that they even pulled a whip on her body, causing bloodstains and bloodstains. The whip sound is very real.
"That woman is human?” Zero asked.
Alos didn't even look in the stands and said, "You just found it."
"Are you going to torture this human being on stage?” Zero said, his expression is peaceful, just asking a question. It's like asking what the weather is like today.
Alos thought Zero would at least have a slight aversion and was a little surprised to see him so calm, but calmed when thought that Zero said he was a killer, since the killer naturally had no excessive feelings.
"Don't test me," said Zero, looking back at The Duke and smiled, "the life and death of a stranger... It has nothing to do with me. “
"You're cold-blooded." The Duke laughed.
"Thank you for your compliment. Then tell me the purpose of bringing me here today."
The Duke looked at Zero's eyes for a long time and could not see any sign of lying. "I am really testing you, because Camarilla has gotten mixed up with a group of bad guards."
The Duke has put aside his usual playful expression and looked at Zero seriously.
Zero raised his eyebrows and asked him to continue.
"It's not just Pondra, its Camarilla too, where the guardians poured into our vampires clans’ territory on a large scale. It's reported that the guardians had the secret weapon to kill our vampires clans, and now they're mixed in with the dispersal of the crowd." He had been looking into the matter for the first half of the month.
"So you suspect I'm one of them, and my blood is their weapon? Zero frowned and looked down at Alos.
"I'm so suspicious." Alos tangled. "Who made you suspicious?"
"Doubt it now?”
"No." Alos answered positively.
"Why?”
"You turn a blind eye to the women on the stage."
"Is she one of the guardians?” Zero has understood, and he looks up at the woman, naked and trapped in a circle of vampires, attacked by one of them. Wounds on the woman are crisscrossed, her eyes are scattered, and her expression is so painful.
As long as Zero showed a little sympathy for this woman just now, he's probably gonna end up dead in the Duke's hands.
Zero laughed, thinking that Alos Duke Reiter is not as useless as he seems.
"Now tell me why?”
"I don't want to deceive you." Alos blinked his eyes and covered his chest to show that he was sincere.
Zero was amused by his expression and giggled twice, thinking that the Duke had said something interesting to amuse him.
Zero's smile suddenly stopped, replaced by sarcasm and sternness, "Tell the truth!”
Alos blinked innocently: "I'm telling the truth."
After receiving a stab by a knife thrown by zero, Alos said: "didn't you become a slave on the slave ship Roma? Do you remember a little slave named Ligier? About fourteen years old, blond white, with a red spot in the left corner of his eye, he was about the same day as you in the slave boat. “
Zero searched his mind for the memory of the day. There was a blonde slave with red spot in the left corner of his eye. It should be White Sheep slave. I remember that there were only two young blonde slaves in White Sheep that day. One was Angel and the other was Ligier. By the way, the new man got on board the ship that night and he looked for the captain to rescue Angel. It must have been very sad afterwards.
"I remember, what happened to him?”
Alos crossed his lips on the stage and said, "Hey, it's coming on right now."
In the dark corner of the stage, with a dozen spotlights, a thin boy was pushed onto the stage with his hands tied. The boy's mouth was stuffed with cloth and his eyes scanned the audience beneath the stage in horror. He might have wanted help, but he could only see cruelty in the eyes of the audience.
He looked back desperately, so that he could see the woman who was being badly humiliated in the other corner of the stage. Ligier looked at the murder in horror, shouted several times in fear, and trembled all over.
The child had become a frightening bird, with cruel scars everywhere on his clean body, but one thing he was better than the woman was that he was still conscious.
Therefore, when he saw the woman's appearance, he was stiff and his desperate eyes were filled with a little more grief.
After observing the teenager's reaction, Zero immediately understood what was going on. Ligier was also a guardian.
"Wait a minute, then you come out and save him." Alos whispered in Zero's ear.
Zero knows everything, and smiles back to him: "I know, I will help you set his words as a thank you for living in your castle. “
"Good boy." Alos reached out and touched Zero's head, which frowned wearily.
Alos laughed. "He didn't know we had identified him yet. It shouldn't be hard for you to get close to him."
Zero nodded and suddenly thought of something: "By the way, aren't there boundaries all around Sangyang Island? How did they get outside? I remember that the only exit seemed to be a forbidden forest, but it was a place of death if one ever ventured there. “
"Yes, a month ago, all the seven princes felt that the boundary of Sangyang Island was suddenly thin, but because they didn't care about it, didn't verify it to others, and the scope was small, and the strength was weak, so they were not sure. After all, it was the boundary laid down by His Majesty the Dark Emperor, and no one could break it. It was half a month ago that we got the news that there was an incident of holy force being broken in Xin mo. It was confirmed that the deluge was not illusory until the month ago. "Alos explained.
Zero knows a little about the Dark Emperor, who is said to be a great vampire of five generations, and the prince of all vampires generations is only the six generation now. That knot should be reliable.
Zero asked, adding, "How do you conclude that the woman and Ligier are guardians?”
Alos laughed: "Although the guardians are human beings, as saints, they have a holy power more or less, and even a weak holy power can be detected if it is conscientiously perceived. It's the nature of our vampires’ instincts, of course you don't know."
Alos raised his eyebrows and turned pale.
Zero mouth corner, hate!
"Were there no other saints on the Rom slave ship?”
"No, he's the only one."
Zero nodded and said Angel was not one of the guardians, but he did say that he was from Sangyang Island. As for this, Zero heard Angel say that he fell into the sea and was swept out of Sangyang Island by the sea. One in ten thousand such cases, all of them died in the sea, and Angel was lucky enough to survive or unfortunate to end up as a slave.
A wave of humiliation on the stage ended, followed by a halftime break.
Zero stood up from his seat and smiled brightly at Alos. "Let's go back and see what happens?”
Alos nodded and said, "It's time for this little thing show."
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Note 1: Material shows that Antediluvian (third generation vampires) are the oldest vampires. They are the 13 third generation vampires born to Cain and Lillis after they became vampires.
In this paper, the earliest vampire is set as the third generation vampire, which disappeared in the early Crusade with the religion.
The power of a vampire is determined by the power given to the first vampire when he first embraces it. For example, a newly embraced Childe, whose initially embraced donor is fourth generation vampire, that Childe will be a fifth-generation vampire. After the first embrace of Childe, he will have no blood relationship with his biological parents. Normally, neither his parents nor Childe would admit it at this time. The parent-child relationship of the other party. That is to say, Childe who accepts the first donor only identifies the first vampire who embraced him as his parents.
Note 2:
First embrace: The vampire dries up Childe's blood, then let Childe suck his own blood, after the ceremony, Childe became a new baby, called Neonate.
Note 3:
Childe: A human being chosen to become a vampire, or a child born to a vampire who has not received a first embrace, will grow like a human being and stop growing after receiving a first embrace.
The above annotations will appear later in the relevant plot, which is posted here to let you guys understand.
The author has something to say: Zero is a very good acting bad boy.
In other words, kinsmen are not allowed to read this novel overlord words.
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