Tome of Blood

After leaving the Moonguard Principality, Charlotte accelerated her pace.

Castel's convoy did not stop at the two counties, but went all the way north. After traveling for about ten days, it finally entered the north of the New Moon Kingdom and arrived at the border with the Earl of Castel. The neighboring Violet Principality.

After entering the Principality of Violet, the surrounding landforms have obviously changed. Large tracts of plains have disappeared, replaced by rolling hills and endless forests.

Under the blue sky, the river like a silver ribbon passes through the hills and low mountains, flowing quietly, shining sparkling brilliance in the sun, reflecting the white clouds.

From time to time, free deer and hares can be seen jumping out of the forest, drinking and playing by the stream, and large clusters of wild flowers are dotted among the bushes, attracting colorful butterflies to fly.

It's hard for Charlotte not to be attracted by this oil painting-like beauty, and similar beautiful scenery can be seen everywhere in the Violet Principality.

However, in contrast to such a paradise-like beauty, the number of villages and towns here has become significantly scarcer, even enough to be called sparsely populated.

Sometimes, while walking, you can still see some traces of the battlefield that have been around for many years.

Dilapidated and damaged chariots covered with mushrooms and moss, vaguely discernible bones, and fragments of rusty armor or weapons...

"The Violet Principality used to be one of the main battlefields of the Star-Moon War. These battle traces are all left by the second Star-Moon War more than ten years ago."

Seeing Charlotte's curious eyes, Sebastian introduced.

Charlotte nodded slightly.

When she was in Boulder, she also read the records about the Star-Moon War. The decades-long war almost halved the population of the entire northern part of the New Moon Kingdom, especially the Violet Principality, the main battlefield.

Only the Earl of Castel escaped under the protection of the kingdom's heavy soldiers.

At this time, the importance of Mithril Mine becomes apparent. In order to prevent the extremely important battle of Mithril Mine

The supplies fell into the hands of the Fallen Star Kingdom. The New Moon Royal Family spent all their money and stationed a legion directly on the border between the Roman Principality and Castel, the enclave of the Fallen Star Kingdom on the mainland.

Decades of war have passed, and the entire north has been almost destroyed, but the Earl of Castel, which is a little further north, has become more and more prosperous, more or less because of this reason.

There is no war, and it accepts a large number of refugees from the north of the kingdom. At the same time, it is located in the traffic arteries and main commercial routes of various forces, and has its own mines. In this mode of natural selection, Castel will have ghosts if it cannot develop.

In contrast, the Principality of Violet, which is the main battlefield, is much more bleak and unlucky.

The rare and beautiful scenery is fascinating, but this beautiful scenery also represents poverty and backwardness.

Wars are never grand and bloody, but cruel and full of tragedy.

Along the way, Charlotte can even see the ruins of some villages, many of which are dead bones, obviously disappeared in the war.

To Charlotte's surprise, although the wilderness of the Violet Principality is enough to be called dead bones everywhere, she hardly felt the breath of the undead.

You must know that the remains of the battlefield are often the birthplace of the undead.

It is difficult for the priests to pray for so many dead in time and help their wandering souls return to the kingdom of God, so there will always be remnant souls wandering on the battlefield.

But along the way, Charlotte has never seen even one undead.

Not even at night, at most you can only hear the roar of monsters.

"Undead? Maybe they were all attacked by mercenaries? The Violet Principality has a vast forest area, which can be called a paradise for monsters. There are many mercenaries active here, and of course, there are also many robbers."

Sebas guessed.

Warcraft are feared by ordinary people, but in the eyes of extraordinary people, they are walking wealth.

The vast violet forest is not only a paradise for monsters, but also a paradise for mercenaries.

Violet Principality, East Unet Blackland, Snake Ridge Mountains...

These three places are the most active places for free mercenaries in Myria.

However, Charlotte was not too satisfied with Sebastian's answer.

As a vampire who has mastered the magic of the undead, Charlotte has a fairly good understanding of the undead.

The undead are special spirit bodies, good at hiding, and more or less retain the wisdom of life, this kind of existence is not something everyone can conquer, even mercenaries can't deal with it so cleanly.

Not only that, after entering the Violet Principality, Charlotte obviously felt that the concentration of magic power in the air here was higher than other places.

Violet possesses many magical beasts, which may be closely related to this high magical environment.

In this environment, undead are indeed easier to be born.

In particular, the magic power of Violet is obviously a bit chaotic, and this environment is more conducive to the undead.

Charlotte didn't think the mercenaries could easily hunt down the wandering undead so cleanly.

Unless... it is a church force like the Holy King's Court who will regularly "purify" the entire Violet from beginning to end.

But Charlotte didn't think that the Holy Royal Court would be so idle.

However, although she was puzzled in her heart, Charlotte just buried it in her heart.

She's just passing through the violets.

Although it was strange, although she was a little curious, she still didn't want to stay for research and exploration.

Because of the low mountains and hills in the terrain, the roads of the Violet Principality are not particularly easy to walk. However, the speed of Castel's convoy is not slow.

It's not that the speed has been increased, but that there are too few gathering points of violets, and there are not even noble castles and cities.

There were few places to stay, and Charlotte gave the order to hurry as soon as possible, so the speed of the convoy naturally increased.

Obviously different from the Principality of Moon Guard and the Principality of Boulder, Violet's settlements, even those small villages, often have tall wooden walls.

As for the towns built around the castle, they have solid stone walls, which look like fortresses.

Charlotte knew that this was another result of the decades-long Star-Moon War.

For the citizens of Violet, only a tall city wall can give them enough sense of security.

Charlotte could clearly feel the scars left by the Star-Moon War on the Principality.

Many villages and towns she passed along the way will be deeply vigilant to Castel's convoy, closing the gates or city gates tightly, and only when the convoy has confirmed their identity and gained enough trust, will they be carefully let in. rest.

Of course, after knowing the identity of the convoy, the villagers will become extremely enthusiastic again. For the desolate Violet, Castel in the north is a fertile land that people yearn for.

The Violet Principality is indeed much poorer.

This point can be felt from the banquet that the nobles who attended here invited her. The overall feeling is not even as good as the nobles of the same level in Boulder. Whether it is the decoration of the castle or the food of the banquet, it seems a bit poor.

But in contrast, Charlotte noticed that the force of the Violet people was much stronger than that of Boulder or even the Moonguard Principality.

In noble castles, the proportion of extraordinary people is very high, even a baron has followers of advanced people.

The same is true in the village, the militiamen guarding the village are almost all Transcendents.

Charlotte guessed that this was inseparable from the fact that the Violet Principality's magic power was significantly higher than other places.

However, unlike the enthusiastic villagers, although the Violet nobleman was extremely enthusiastic when he invited Charlotte, the keen Charlotte could perceive the alienation under the politeness of the other party when attending the banquet.

Although she was very decent on the surface, Charlotte could feel that the nobles of Violet did not welcome her.

However, she doesn't care, it's just a way, if you don't welcome her, it just saves the cumbersome communication.

After bidding farewell to another lord, Castel's convoy moved on and entered the northern part of the Violet Principality.

The population here is sparser, and the trees are more lush.

The northern part of the Violet is the Violet Forest that traverses the northern part of the New Moon Kingdom. After passing through the forest, you will arrive at the Castel Territory.

As for Violet's capital, Lint City... it is located a little further west of the Principality, and Charlotte, who is going northeast, will not pass by, and naturally he will not visit Duke Violet there.

The Violet Forest is vast and it takes days to travel through the entire jungle.

Fortunately, the caravans traveling with Castel arrived at their destination one after another and parted ways.

Up to now, there are only a few caravans whose destination is Castel, and the number of the entire caravan is less than 700 people.

There are fewer people, fewer caravans, and the speed of the team can be faster.

But even so, it will take at least three days to cross the Violet Forest. During these three days, the entire convoy needs to spend the night in the forest.

It is night, and the moonlight like water shines through the dense forest and under the forest.

The convoy that had been marching for a day also settled down, and set up tents and bonfires around the carriage.

A circle of spice called Avila was sprinkled around the camp. This spice has the effect of repelling monsters and mosquitoes and can ensure the safety of the camp.

Of course, just having spices is not safe. There are many monsters in the forest, and there are always some immune ones, so extraordinary knights are stationed on the edge of the camp, keeping vigilance at all times.

Ordinary people naturally stayed in the camp, as did the accompanying merchants. It was very cold in the forest at night. They gathered around the crackling bonfire, rubbing their hands to keep warm, and listening to the troubadours playing and singing ancient songs .

From time to time, the howling of unknown monsters can be heard coming from the depths of the forest, startling bats and birds, making the jungle under the night appear more mysterious and dangerous, and making ordinary people in the camp shiver uncontrollably. After getting closer to each other, I felt at ease.

Charlotte likes the environment here very much.

The night is the home of the vampires, and as a born magical creature, Charlotte also likes the high-magic environment of the Violet Forest.

She stayed alone in the tent, closed her eyes and meditated, while reviewing the various blood magics she had learned.

I saw her body turning into a cloud of black mist with a bang, and then turning into countless black bats...

The atomized shadow of the shadow art department under the dark resonance and the night bat of the transformation art department under the wild resonance are really understood by her.

And the next moment, the bat turned into a girl in human form again, but behind the girl was a pair of huge bat wings.

Blood color flashed across Charlotte's pupils, and a shadow appeared on her body, quickly covering her in the night.

Charlotte jumped up and flew out of the tent.

No one noticed her actions.

Only Sebastian couldn't help but glanced at the sky. After sensing the familiar aura, he quickly retracted his gaze, continued to lazily hold the goblet, and drank the fine wine.

Charlotte flapped her bat wings and flew into the sky. She was a little unskilled at first, but soon she flew steadily, releasing the power of the blood race to her heart's content.

On weekdays, she had to hide her identity, and she had to be careful wherever she went, not to reveal her own strength, and only in a forest as deep as Violet could she feel the extraordinary power without any scruples.

Charlotte, who has mastered more than ten kinds of blood magic, even if she doesn't use the power liberated by the ancestors, she is no longer what she used to be!

However, just when Charlotte was about to fly to the nearby woods for a walk, a shrill scream suddenly pierced the night sky.

Charlotte's heart skipped a beat, and she immediately put away her thoughts of playing and lowered back to the ground.

Returning to normal, Charlotte came to the edge of the camp.

Here, several extraordinary knights are picking up their weapons and preparing to walk towards the forest.

"What happened?"

Charlotte asked.

Seeing the girl, several knights saluted respectfully, and then said:

"My lord, it's Darren. He just went to the woods... It's convenient, I'm afraid he encountered a monster..."

"Warcraft? Didn't he bring Avila spice?"

Charlotte asked, frowning.

The knights looked at each other, but no one could answer this question.

The thick bloody smell gradually drifted from the forest, and Charlotte's heart skipped a beat.

"Let's go and see together."

She looked solemn and authentic.

As she spoke, she took the lead in walking towards the forest, and the knights quickly followed.

And when Charlotte entered the dense forest, she soon saw the extraordinary knight Darren lying on the ground.

However, at this moment, this extraordinary knight is dead.

His death was extremely tragic and terrifying. All his armor was torn off, his body was full of marks of beast-like sharp claws, and his chest and abdomen were cut open...

And a shadow shrouded in darkness was lying on his body, greedily biting his flesh and blood.

"Blood... Gorefiend?!"

The two extraordinary knights guarding Charlotte's eyes widened and couldn't help but exclaim.

Charlotte stared slightly.

"No...not a blood demon..."

Looking at the shadow in the darkness, she narrowed her eyes:

"It's the undead."

The clouds covering the moonlight dispersed, and the silver moonlight penetrated the branches, illuminating the figure in the darkness.

The knights also saw clearly what the attacker looked like.

It was indeed not a monster-like Gorefiend, but a rotting corpse in tattered armor.

Its eye sockets were lit with a faint green fire.

And at this moment, roars came from the depths of the woods.

Green "lanterns" are lit up in the dense jungle, densely packed, innumerable...

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