I Am Louis XIV

Mary's answer made Louis unable to understand: "I remember you said that mortals cannot enter the inner world."

"Because those can't be regarded as mortals." Valo Vesalius said naturally: "Your Highness, there is a little problem with Miss Mary's wording here, I mean, they, no, it should be said that they are all used as materials What is sent into the other world is like our luggage, of course Yin corpses and ghosts will not bite furniture and equipment, and those are the same."

Louis paused, very briefly, if Mr. Bishop was here, he would definitely have noticed, but only Marie and Valo Vesalius were here.

"So, they," Louis asked cautiously, "did they... die when they entered here?"

"It can be said," Vesalius said, "their souls have been destroyed, leaving only obedience and instinct."

Mary nodded absently.

Louis recalled the endless roads they saw when they were riding in the nightmare carriage. He stared at Valo Vesalius for a while, but he couldn't see the uneasiness and fear from this wizard whose grandfather was only a mortal.

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No one knows, but from this moment the king made his judgment, which has never been shaken or changed, though many things have happened since then.

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Louis came to the inner world for treatment, but for the people in the inner world, he is the Duke of Colonna. Interestingly, the Duke of Colonna’s name is Louis just like him, although in the inner world and the outer world, this name Only a few people can call.

The poison and curse suffered by Louis is difficult to heal in the external world - although the monks of the tribunal can pray and purify him, but their speed can never catch up with the spell and poison, but in the inner world, it can be explained slightly It's a bit tricky, after all, those who control the inner world are not stupid enough to directly break the tacit understanding between the inner world and the outer world, so the wizards and potion masters that the assassins can recruit should be some lowly foreign wizards—— Sarri and Mary both think so.

Louis also thinks so, but it also shows that the situation in the other world has become so bad that it can no longer be tightly controlled. Those high-ranking wizards and nobles are not as powerful and sophisticated as they say, and the foreign wizards they despise They are also not as docile and innocent as they thought. The current inner world is similar to those chaotic areas with destructive weapons a hundred years later. Hewu is undoubtedly a devastating blow to people who are used to a peaceful life.

Just like the two assassinations closely related to the outside world that Louis encountered, mortals facing wizards or dark creatures in the other world are like babies facing warriors, and the latter, whether they are wizards, werewolves or vampires, are obviously against it. Mortals hold a contemptuous attitude.

It can only be said that the current mortals are lucky to be in the inner world. The number of dark creatures and wizards has been compressed to a terrible level by the small living environment, so the order of this world can still barely maintain balance—maybe the so-called agreement is also the meaning of the inner world. The rulers of the watch world discovered this and were determined.

The mansion they lived in was beautiful, and the convenience and ingenuity brought by magic could have made a mortal linger, but Louis never forgot that Mary and Vesalius were indifferent when he mentioned the "tools" scattered in the wilderness. The eyes and tone of voice, maybe for wizards, mortals will always be one level lower than them.

And Mary's consistent stubbornness—Louis only regarded them as the innocence of a little girl at first, but now that he thinks about it, this kind of innocence also has a bit of cruelty, just like Mary wanted to What she did—didn't she know how much Louis put in to become a qualified ruler? Didn't she understand that France was both a duty and a power to Louis? She should understand that what Louis has to bear and inherit is much more precious than being a witch's husband.

But she still wants Louis to marry her by blood and become a wizard of low ability. Maybe in her heart, even the humblest wizard is stronger than mortals.

If it weren't for Prince Theodric of the Vanjo family, he might have been forced to become the second Varo Vesalius now, perhaps worse than Varo Vesalius, and Varo Vesalius, perhaps Out of resentment, or perhaps because he was more used to following the orders of the Mancini name, he didn't stop him.

Louis had nothing to say about this, and he was also responsible for making that decision. He made a light stroke on the pamphlet in his heart, and crossed out the name of Valo Vesalius.

The only thing that can make Louis happy is that his body is indeed improving rapidly. He can walk around the courtyard by himself for a while, ride a unicorn (Pegasus is not available for now), or play with the goblins for a while. He could read a morning or an afternoon of books, the books here were either Greek or Latin, fortunately he had learned both languages, and learned them well.

But almost all the books prepared here are from the outside world. So on a sunny morning, Louis asked Luca, the manager, if there were any merchants or shops to buy books here.

Luca is a calm person. He glanced at Louis and asked respectfully: "It's better to choose the books by yourself. Then, Your Highness, would you like to go out for a walk?"

"Can I?" Louis asked.

"Of course, Your Highness." Luca said, "Your body now allows you to look around. This is your first time coming here, so you must be very curious."

"Indeed," Louis said.

Luka did not mention Vesalius, although Vesalius should be counted as the number one attendant around Louis, but when he noticed that Louis summoned him more than Vesalius, he calmly sent another servant Tunot brought it up, so when Vesalius came out of the potion making room to have lunch, he found that Louis was not there. He paused for a moment and asked the servants around him where they went. Of course, he failed to get an answer At that time, accompanied by Luca and Tuno, Louis had already appeared in the ring castle.

The inner world here has inherited many things from ancient Rome, including public baths, arenas, and some places of love. Louis is not interested in the latter, he is not a person who is keen on courtship, and he is even more afraid of illness at this time—— Vesalius knows here that wizards' herbalism and medicine are prior to mortals at this time, but it is not worth mentioning compared to a hundred years later. At this time, there is already syphilis-the inner world is not spared, and some wizards have syphilis. Syphilis has also mutated and is more deadly.

But in addition to these, wizards also have fixed and mobile markets. The mobile market is mainly outside the ring castle—that is, the linked castles that Louis saw when he came, and the fixed market is outside the ring castle. Inside, if you just want to find books, you must find them within the ring castle. After all, books, especially wizards' books, are a very important wealth.

The market in the ring castle is located in the large square. Six passages emanating from the central point divide them into seven equal parts. There are open channels on both sides of the passage, and the water inside is turbulent. Each large market only sells the same type of food. Things can be exchanged with the currency circulated among wizards, or by barter.

Wizards generally wear monochromatic robes, with pointed hats, or pull up the hoods. Generally speaking, the family history of wizards with pointed hats is often not as good as that of families wearing hoods, although at first it is only because of their respective However, unknowingly, the hood has become a status symbol. Louis is now the Duke of Colonna, so there is a large gold-rimmed hood hanging outside his dark purple velvet cloak. Holding an ebony wood and silver-footed staff that exceeds the top of the head, it is said that it is also a necessary configuration-even if he does not know a single spell now.

Louis came to observe and satisfy his curiosity, so he chose to walk, but there are many mounts for wizards. Pegasus belongs to the direct line of nobles, but some wizards ride a big three-headed dog, and some wizards ride a giant owl , There are also wizards sitting on the flying carpet slowly, and some wizards even choose to ride a broom. "Is there a rule that you are not allowed to ride a manticore?" Louis asked, "Yes, Your Highness," Luca replied, "That's official business." Mount, non-emergency events are not allowed to appear in the market."

As for why a bazaar is only allowed to sell one type of commodity, it's probably because...

After a shrill scream, the water in the open ditch beside Tuno suddenly overflowed and flew up, forming a high glistening wall in an instant—Louis was protected by Luca, but now he It was high enough for him to see what happened behind the transparent barrier. It turned out that a wild monster from the shop ran out, scratched the face of a wizard and tore off the arm of another wizard. After that, the Sphinx was about ten feet taller. This monster from Egypt had the face of a woman, the body of a lion and the wings and claws of an eagle. It could have escaped, but out of anger, it attacked every wizard crazily—at this time, we can see the reactions and abilities of the wizards, some plainly dressed and pointed hats Wizards react quickly, but their spells can hardly restrain the sphinx. Wizards wearing hoods react slower, but they have servants around them. Max was restrained tightly, and it fell from the ground to the side of the open channel, but no matter how much it bit and struggled, it couldn't affect the wizards in the other division.

It turns out that this is the cordon and barrier, Louis thought, seeing a wild monster like the Sphinx for the first time gave him a greater impact than seeing a unicorn, because he saw the unicorn When he saw a unicorn, the first thing that came to his mind was that there was indeed a dish called unicorn soup in the palace recipes. At that time, he thought it was another name for a narwhal, but after seeing the unicorn, he wondered if there really was such a dish. The king ate a unicorn.

Things happened quickly, and it ended quickly. Two wizards riding manticores descended from the sky, although all they did at this time was to fine and confiscate the Sphinx: "What about those injured wizards? They Can the wound be healed?" Louis asked.

"It depends on whether their family is willing to give them medicine, Your Highness." Luca said.

"Can wizards regrow severed limbs?" Louis asked.

"It's difficult," Luca said, "because it requires the blood that the vampires voluntarily give."

Perhaps because of what Luka said, a wizard wearing a hood glanced at them and suddenly grinned. Tuno couldn't help trembling when he saw his two sharp teeth, and Luca's expression was also a little bad. Strigoi seldom appear in the daytime, so he answered casually, although there was no disrespect for the Strigoi in his words, but...

The kitten in Louie's pocket poked its head out and meowed.

The face of the vampire suddenly became strange, and he seemed to want to say something, but the cat meowed again, and his eyes stayed on the coat of arms pin that Louis used to fix the cloak for a short moment, then he bowed and saluted. Hastily left.

Louie heard Luca sigh softly.

"The relationship between wizards and blood clans seems to be good." Louis said.

"Better than werewolves." Luca was more careful this time, but compared to vampires, werewolves are less likely to appear in the wizard's market: "There is a clan in the vampires that was transformed by wizards, and the relationship between vampires and wizards There are often collaborations and deals.”

"Where are the werewolves?"

"Werewolves are more arrogant," Luca said, "and wizards think werewolves are more similar to animals than people." He hesitated: "In the wizarding ring castle, werewolves are generally only possible to appear in the arena."

If it is an arena, then there is no need to ask what role the werewolves play in it. It is always the referee or the audience.

The district they are in sells all things related to knowledge, books are the most, but like many bazaars, the main shops are concentrated in the central area, there are almost only wandering merchants and unknown wizards here, many of them are craftsmen. Codices and commentaries, some books will be marked up to a very high price on purpose, and the owner will talk nonsense that it came from Merlin or Vivienne or any famous wizard, but when you open it, you will find It's full of things like children's literacy textbooks; there are some that don't allow you to open them at all, and some that are weathered when you touch them - Louis didn't expect to see Pangci here, but these people don't know how to recruit Louis is wearing a coat of arms, a hood, and a servant behind him. Obviously, they also know that this kind of wizard is not a good target for their blackmail.

But Louis still took a few pieces from it with great interest, not all liars here, a book about herbal medicine in his hand, once opened, there are herbs on the corresponding pages growing out of it, although Luca said it was An illusion, but Louis thinks it will be useful, er, he means, after he has verified that the herbs in it do match the description in the book.

What Louis used to trade was the common currency among wizards. It was his first time entering the inner world. Of course, there would be nothing that wizards would be interested in. After Luca handed the books to Tuno, Louis asked him for a few gold coins. Put it in your hand and look at it. In France, the national currency does not have too much credit, but the Spanish gold coin piastre has become the main currency in circulation. This situation has not been completely reversed until now, but in 43 years, Bishop Mazarin cast He bought some silver coins of one crown, with Louis's chubby side face on the silver coins, full of childishness-Louis could do nothing about it, because this master was even confirmed by the Queen Mother, and it is said that many noble ladies regarded it as Collectibles or necklace pendants, that is to say, even if Louis intends to recycle after taking office, it will be difficult to do so.

But what he considered more was how to use the common currency of France for his own use. No one knew better than him how much profit could be obtained in coinage and currency issuance-no currency was pure gold or pure silver Yes, even the copper coin riad is mixed with a lot of non-precious metals, that is to say, the marked value of the currency is completely unequal to its real value.

Of course, if you do too much, you will be abandoned like a shoe, but Louis just estimated the weight and size of the currency in his hand, and found that the common currency of wizards has a big problem—and no matter what It was the wrong color of gold or silver: "Who is the man who mints the coins here?" he asked.

Luca's answer is not surprising at all. Although there are formal departments on the surface, they are intricately rooted behind them. Almost all of them are members of the House of Lords. The nobles manipulate and control the economy and finance of the inner world. Wizards, whether they are collateral or outsiders, firstly have no right to question, and secondly, they have no possibility to choose. In the inner world, there are only a few exchange exchanges that can be used to exchange the coins of the outer world for the coins of the inner world. , Others, whether it is exchange or direct transaction, will be convicted, and it is a crime that is serious enough to be executed directly.

"Look there, Your Highness," Luca said, "That's the exchange."

Louis looked over, and at first he mistook it for a church—of course there would be no church in the place where the wizard was, and even if there were, it would not be so prominent. It seems that no matter where it is, the bank is always the richest place. of.

Plus more achieved.