I Am Louis XIV

This behavior, which was almost equivalent to threatening the enemy with his own life, made Louis XIV somewhat helpless.

His wizards reported that in the cathedral, nay, in the several impressive cathedrals in Toledo, the Spanish priests seemed to be ready for martyrdom, which was surprising, but true, no But they themselves, some devout believers, and those ancient and sacred buildings.

In addition, the Archbishop of Toledo is not a licentious person. Among the people who guard the gunpowder are actually Spanish wizards and monks. Although they have been fighting to the death for nearly a thousand years, in the face of such enemies, they finally stopped fighting - although They haven't reached the point of fighting side by side, but with them here, Louis XIV's wizards can't guarantee that there will be no omissions. And once there were omissions, the reign of Carlos III would inevitably have a bad start... Louis XIV was considering whether to negotiate with the Archbishop of Toledo. He did not want tourists to walk into the ruins hundreds of years later. Before the tour, a tour guide would point to the blackened stone and say: This was when Carlos III ascended the throne. In order to disrupt his coronation ceremony, his opponents destroyed this stone with thousands of years of memory and immeasurable religious and historical value. architecture……

Although this is not the fault of Carlos III or Louis XIV, it is still unpleasant, right?

However, Louis XIV would not agree to either of the two conditions proposed by the Archbishop of Toledo.

First, the so-called Spanish Church is still the Spanish Church, that is, it does not recognize the French King, or Carlos III’s right to appoint and remove priests. However, if the right to appoint and remove priests in Spain is still in the hands of the Roman Church and the Spanish nobles, it is equivalent to a separation. Spain's two major secular and religious forces, Louis XIV did not want his son to have a headache for the country within the country and the king among kings in the future.

Second, Spain is still Spain. There is nothing difficult to understand. According to the ideas of those die-hards, Spain will be inherited as a complete country, rather than through inheritance law or inheritance in the future as some French people hope. Marriage and France become one, but if so, even if little Louis still cares about the family relationship with Charles, a hundred years from now, Spain will still be Spain, France will still be France, and the two countries will still be enemies. By then, if someone - -Don't look, it's you, Leopold I and his descendants, who are blocking the relationship between the two Bourbons by sowing discord. At least the two countries will be at odds, and at worst, Spain will eventually return to the hands of the Habsburgs. , it is more likely that the two countries have become weakened by the war - what will happen after that is even more difficult to guess.

Louis XIV didn't want to agree to either of the two conditions, but it was really a tricky thing to deal with those "inhumans" hidden deep in the soil like termites. The Bourbon wizards tried to raid several times. The wizards and monks of Toledo responded to the king's temptation with a crazy revenge-they burned a monastery with kerosene, which was a light fuel that became popular in France. A civil structure built in the sixth century was turned into a pile of charcoal with a faint smoke floating around. Several monks did not leave and were burned together with the flames. The surrounding people went to the ruins to pray, and some people held up portraits and portraits. The names of the deceased are written on them. Maybe in a few days, the Roman Church will consecrate these people as saints.

But was Louis XIV the kind of man to compromise with the mob? Regardless of whether they were wearing cassocks or not, just when he was discussing with the generals and wizards how to minimize losses, Bontang walked into the room and whispered a few words in the king's ear. Louis was surprised He raised his eyebrows and said, "Okay," he said to the courtiers surrounding him: "There is an important guest coming. It seems that I must say goodbye to you - our meeting will be postponed until ten o'clock tomorrow morning."

Everyone immediately stood up and said goodbye. As they left the room one after another, everyone had doubts. Is there anyone who can change the king's attitude at this time?

Count Soissons, who was walking at the end, glanced subconsciously when he was about to turn the corner and saw Bontang leading two men in hooded cloaks into the king's room. They were taller and taller than many of Bontang. , it doesn’t look like a lady. When a person walked into the room, he may have noticed the sight of Count Soissons and turned his head. Although his face was still hidden in the shadow of the hat, there was a ray of light color. Her hair was slipping out of her cloak, like a curved moonlight.

This was all Count Soissons saw. The visitor walked into the room under the guidance of Bontang. The first person couldn't help but laugh out loud when he saw the situation in the room: "What a grand welcome ceremony!"

Hood was expressionless. As the first wizard to follow Louis XIV, he had always been trusted by the king and had great combat experience. He fought with wizards and mortals. After the Battle of Kamnik, he often served as With Louis, it can be said that it is really unexpected that a wizard who once was so humble has climbed to this position. Because of this, he treated Louis like a fanatical believer who admired his master. The cautiousness and meticulousness extended from this made Mrs. Milady, who has now replaced Mary Mancini in charge of Bourbon, The team of spies in the other world believe that they are most suitable to be placed next to the king.

The temperament that may seem a bit picky to ordinary people has indeed allowed Hood to accomplish many feats. Especially after the Spanish Succession War began, assassinations against the Sun King began to increase again. However, when facing these two guests, Hood still felt that the manpower around him was too thin, because the visitors were the two blood princes and family heads, Amon and Uriel.

Prince Uriel had just killed Louis' younger brother, the Duke of Orleans, although he did not want to kill the Duke, but intended to assimilate the Duke into his descendant. In this way, even for his brother, Louis XIV Unable to expel them as he had done with Nophile, he wanted to continue to maintain the position of Malkavi in ​​Spain, but his plan was ruined by Amon and Theodric.

After the Duke of Orleans escaped from danger, he also told his brother about the incident. But compared to wizards, monsters, and warcraft, vampires with human intelligence—or even superiority, and having the same social system as humans—are not as easy to destroy or conquer as wizards—wizards are more like having special abilities. Human beings still need shelter, clothing, food and clean drinking water. Just look at the wizards on Gajola Island to know that they still inevitably maintain contact and contact with the outside world.

But vampires, although they live in the human world, humans are food to them, and they do not necessarily need a fixed residence, clothing, and human interaction. If they are forced too much, they can still develop descendants and turn a person into a descendant. The good world turned into a bloody slaughterhouse - it is said that they did this in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries under the pursuit of the church. At that time, the "Black Death" destroyed one city after another, but that city It was destroyed by the plague. That city was destroyed by the half-dead people and monsters created by the vampires. No one knows.

Louis XIV said that he expelled Nophile from France because firstly he lost his ancestral land, secondly he lost his sacred objects, and thirdly, the Vendro family protected the Bourbon family, and they were unable to break through. Orderric's barrier forced him to temporarily give up his hatred. To be more precise, Nofele could almost be said to be a semi-destroyed vampire clan.

But Mokavi is different. They have a very similar point to the black wizards in Spain. That is, since they can avoid the slaughter of the harsh Spanish Inquisition, they must be outstanding. The black wizards who can survive in Spain are all With two brushes, the vampires who can still maintain their ancestral land in Toledo are even more frightening - they must have more than one brush with Prince Uriel.

The two uninvited guests only stayed in the king's room for a short period of time before leaving. Louis XIV pondered for a while under the light of the candle, and looked at Hood beside him: "Go and give it to me. Check something."

"Please give your orders, Your Majesty."

"Go and find out, Mokavi, why did Prince Uriel decide to cooperate with me and the French?"

Hood showed a confused look. He was a wizard and lacked political sensitivity. In his opinion, Prince Uriel was still able to obtain His Majesty's forgiveness and serve His Majesty the King after offending his brother. , it is already an honor of 120,000, is there any hidden secret?

Louis smiled when he looked at him, but the lack of political sensitivity of wizards is a good thing. After all, they have special abilities. "Go check it out and tell me the results." After all, Hood is not someone like Mancini's parents who have a relationship with the vampires. The wizards who have close contacts and know enough about vampires - vampires may be more arrogant than wizards. After all, humans are not humble to cattle and sheep, or treat each other as equals. Theodric was initially out of pity and knot (this is also His country), Amon did it out of curiosity and interest, but what about Uriel? He didn't plan to negotiate with Louis at the beginning, but tried to blackmail him with the Duke of Orleans. Now he actually shows up and trades with Louis...

Although he asked His Majesty the King to forgive his previous sins, and to allow the Malkawi to retain their original ancestral land, and the Malkawi family to continue to live in Spain - Louis always felt that these were not the things that moved the prince.

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The history of the Makavi family in Toledo is much longer than that of humans. Humans have lived here in the Bronze Age, and vampires often haunt the megalithic tombs. Romans, Visigoths, and Moors... came and went. Human life is short, but vampires exist for a long time. The secrets of human beings will turn into dust with death, but the secrets of vampires can be remembered forever because of their immortality.

The Romans liked to build amazing underground projects in every city, and Toledo was no exception. However, after the barbarians occupied this place, countless underground channels and secret passages were abandoned for more than a thousand years, but sometimes the vampires would also He can travel freely in other forms, especially Mokavi, who has the incarnation of a moth. A moth is a very small insect that can travel freely as long as there is a small gap, and Mokavi's talent is hallucination.

The wizards here probably did not expect that Malkavi would turn to the French. They were led out of the monastery and church one after another, the gunpowder was removed, the kerosene was emptied, and French monks and priests replaced them. People only realized that Toledo had become the possession of the Sun King when they saw an unfamiliar face during mass.

However, the French army officially entered Toledo on a bright morning. Among the musketeers with bright flags and gorgeous clothes, in a golden carriage sat Louis XIV and his second son Charles, the King of Spain. Carlos III.

On the fourth day after Carlos III was officially crowned in Toledo Cathedral, the Pope's decree came belatedly. Louis XIV didn't even bother to take a look. The Roman Church relied on nothing more than Princess Teresa's wedding. But since Philip IV could ignore the embarrassment and pain of his eldest daughter and refuse to pay the dowry of half a million livres, he should stop complaining in hell about France taking advantage of the fire.

The Archbishop of Toledo, no, he is no longer an archbishop but a monk and a brother. He was dressed in simple linen clothes and a belt. He looked at the mighty procession heading towards the cathedral, with mixed feelings in his heart. Peroni was there to support him - he was now very weak, but he still wanted to make a pilgrimage to the tomb of St. Peter in Rome. If he was lucky, he would be buried in the same city as the saint's disciples.

"let's go."

Alberoni is also going to Rome. Although his teacher hopes that he can accompany him to Paris, he feels that he should go to Rome for a period of further study first, but it is more likely that he will accompany his teacher through the end of his life. For a period of time, this is a gift from the Sun King and also his reward. Some people may think it is not worth it, but he feels very happy.

They walked against the flow of people towards the city gate. When they were about to pass through the city gate, they were motioned by the guard to go aside because a group of nobles was coming from outside.

The visitors were none other than Duke Don Juan and his entourage.

Duke Don Juan rode past them in a hurry, like a whirlwind. The former Archbishop of Toledo looked gray. Although he had learned from Alberoni that Madrid had surrendered earlier than Toledo, he still held on to a glimmer of hope.

Perhaps Don Juan simply fled Madrid? He is the illegitimate son of Philip IV, but he is also the regent king of Spain. If he can raise the flag, there may still be a glimmer of hope, at least the French will put down a little bit of their arrogance.

But now, he only saw a gorgeously dressed, beaming Duke Don Juan who was eager to kneel before the French.