Tome of Blood

"Name?"

"Ah... Agnes."

"Surname?"

"..."

"Who is your blood clan elder? When and how did you become a blood clan?"

"..."

In the interrogation room of the Earl's Mansion, Charlotte sat elegantly behind the interrogation table, sipping the black tea made by Sebastian while interrogating the blood girl who was tied up by the five flowers.

As for why it's not milk... It's simply because she thinks it's not too serious to drink it when interrogating people.

However, it was obvious that the girl in front of her was not cooperating. Except for the first name that was reported, Agnès just kept silent and looked at her with disbelief for any questions Charlotte had.

Charlotte wasn't angry either.

She lightly stroked the book of the dead on the table, and behind her, a blurred book spirit was carefully standing behind her, pinching her shoulders in a fawning manner.

Charlotte took a sip of black tea, smiled and said:

"Miss Agnès, I have many ways to get you to speak, but... I am a reasonable person and a reasonable person. Unless necessary, I don't really want to use some extreme methods."

"I also hope that you can cooperate a little bit, after all...my patience is not that good."

Looking at Charlotte's slender hands gently stroking the Book of the Dead, Agnès's expression turned a little ugly.

She pursed her lips and said stubbornly:

"This time I fell! I have nothing to say, you can kill or cut as you like! But... I will never bow to Castel!"

"Castel...it's Castel again, it seems that you have quite a lot of hostility towards Castel, or in other words, hatred?"

Charlotte smiled slightly.

Agnes turned her head away and remained silent.

Charlotte put down the teacup, thoughtfully:

"Let me guess? You used to be an aristocrat, could it be... an enemy of the Castel family in the past?"

Agnes remained silent.

Charlotte looked at her quietly, and suddenly chuckled:

"It seems that you really don't want to cooperate."

After all, her expression suddenly became indifferent, and her deep blue pupils suddenly turned blood-colored, exuding a crimson halo.

A faint sense of majesty emanated from Charlotte. She looked into Agnes' eyes, and her cold voice was beyond doubt:

"answer my question!"

Following Charlotte's soft drink, Agnès only felt a thunderous sound resounding in her consciousness, causing her to be in a trance for a while.

At the same time, everything around her seemed to be dimmed, and it seemed that only the pair of crimson golden eyes were left in her world.

At this moment, Agnes felt that her soul was about to be sucked in by those strange eyes.

Her thoughts froze quickly, and then... as if she had been opened from the outside, she suddenly lost all will to resist, and her eyes gradually lost focus:

"De Villette, my name is Agnès de Villette..."

De Willett?

Charlotte frowned slightly, she didn't find the last name in her memory.

However, in the next second, she felt a strong will to resist coming from Agnes's spiritual world.

A faint radiance suddenly burst out from the blood girl's body, and a vague phantom of a sickle appeared behind her.

At the same time, Charlotte was surprised to perceive that her control over Agnes had been cut off by something.

Agnès's empty eyes instantly regained focus.

Her eyes suddenly widened, and she looked at Charlotte in disbelief, with a hint of fear in her expression:

"Spiritual domination! It's spiritual domination!"

"How can you be dominated by the spirit of the blood race?! You, you, you... are you a blood race?!"

Charlotte frowned, not expecting the other party to break free from her control so quickly.

There seems to be something on the blood girl in front of her that can protect her mind, and her level seems to be not low. Without using the divine power of blood, her innate magic was actually cracked.

However, when Charlotte looked at Agnes again, she was surprised to find that the other party seemed to have become even more sluggish.

Charlotte thought about it.

It seemed that although the other party was able to break free from her control, it was not without cost.

As long as she exerts mental control a few more times, the girl's mind will be completely controlled sooner or later.

However, seeing Agnès' sluggish look, Charlotte gave up the idea of ​​continuing to exert spiritual control.

Mind domination can control the target's mind, but it also has side effects. It is good to use it once, but if it is used repeatedly, it is very likely to completely destroy the target's mind.

Charlotte hadn't planned to do that yet, and that was contrary to her original intention of interrogating the other party. Considering her next plan, she had to let the blood girl in front of her stay true to herself.

Glancing at Agnès' frightened expression, Charlotte twitched her lips slightly, and said with a light smile:

"It seems that you recognize this power."

"If you don't want me to continue using this power, then answer my question honestly."

Agnes looked a little puzzled.

She pursed her lips and remained stubbornly silent, even though she knew that she was likely to completely collapse under the continuous mental dominance.

However, Charlotte noticed that the girl's peripheral vision was scanning around uneasy, as if she was looking for something.

Charlotte's heart moved, and she glanced at her lightly:

"Miss Agnès, please don't forget that you are not the only one I'm interrogating."

"Perhaps you would rather have your spiritual world destroyed than answer my question, but... you have a way to resist the power of spiritual domination, not necessarily your knight."

After hearing Charlotte's words, Agnes' expression finally changed:

"You want to dominate Lahail?!"

She became anxious and angry almost immediately:

"Where's Rachel?! What did you do to him?!"

Seeing the girl who suddenly became tense, Charlotte knew that she had caught the opponent's weakness.

She chuckled and said:

"Your knight is still safe now. He was seriously injured. Even with the blood healing ability of the vampire, it is difficult to recover completely in a short period of time. He is currently receiving treatment, so I will interrogate you first."

Saying that, Charlotte's expression suddenly turned cold:

"However... if you don't cooperate, then I will have to go to your knight. Maybe he doesn't know as much as you, but it must be enough to answer my basic questions."

This time, Agnes was silent.

And Charlotte changed the subject again and restored her smile:

"I think you should have already felt it. I have no intention of killing you, at least...not yet."

"You don't have many choices in front of you. You can refuse to answer my question. Of course, I will continue to try. Maybe I can't get anything from you, but you will definitely collapse under my spiritual domination."

"But I can still get the answer I want from your knight. After you collapse, maybe he will continue to be controlled by me. Not only will he completely forget you, but he will also serve me as a 'knight' until sacrificed for me."

After hearing what Charlotte said, Agnès widened her eyes and looked at Charlotte angrily:

"you dare!"

"Of course I would."

Charlotte took a sip of the black tea and said lightly.

As she spoke, she changed the topic again, and said with a smile:

"Of course, you have another way."

"You can take the initiative to tell me everything I want to know, and I can guarantee that you will not shoot your knight. Maybe everything will turn around for you."

"Besides that, you have no other choice."

Agnes stared blankly at Charlotte, her silver teeth clenched tightly, her expression angry:

"The devil! What a devil you are!"

"Thank you for your compliment."

Charlotte smiled slightly, revealing a pair of small canine teeth. Her innocent appearance resembled a little devil with two horns on its head.

"So...what's your answer to my devil's proposal?"

She said with a smile.

Agnès still glared at Charlotte.

But soon, she was defeated by those red-gold eyes, and suddenly became extremely depressed.

When the fatal weakness is caught, no matter how strong a person is, they will fall down. The girl seemed to be drained of all her strength in an instant, she lowered her head slightly, pursed her lips and said:

"It was Earl Hall who turned me into a vampire, a four-generation vampire from Shedete. I was caught by him eighteen years ago and turned into a vampire."

Boy, eighteen years ago!

Her real age must be at least thirty or forty years old, right? !

Charlotte's eyes twitched.

The concept of time in the Necronomicon is intermittent, and its reference value is limited. This is the first time she knows exactly when Agnes became a vampire.

But...shedet.

It seems that not all of the dark vampires are lunatics who are despised by other vampires like the Gorefiend Cult.

"And then? You killed Earl Hall? And disguised his identity with your knight?"

Charlotte asked.

Agnes glanced at the book spirit behind Charlotte:

"It told you, right? Don't you know everything? Why do you still ask me if you know?"

"Just check with me."

Charlotte took a sip of black tea and continued to ask:

"Where did the mithril collected by Earl Hall go?"

"Mithril? What Mithril?"

Agnes looked bewildered.

Charlotte frowned.

This guy... They pretended to be Earl Hall for so long, but they didn't know about the Mithril Mine?

"Don't you know what Lord Hall is doing?"

she asked.

"How do I know? I only know that he and those blood clans he has befriended seem to be doing something big, but I don't know the specifics. It's only been two and a half years since I killed him and won his freedom!"

Agnes shook her head.

two and a half years?

So, is it still the real Earl Hall who managed the Guixing United Chamber of Commerce back then?

Charlotte frowned.

"Wait... Mithril? Mithril Mine? Castel Mining Workshop?! So the workshop refers to this!"

As if realizing something, Agnes suddenly widened her eyes.

Charlotte: ...

She suddenly felt that the girl in front of her might not know as much as the sufferer like her...

This is really outrageous, pretending to be Earl Hall for two and a half years, hasn't he penetrated into the enemy's interior? !

The real Earl Hall has been dead for two and a half years, that is to say, there has been no one to manage the Guixing United Chamber of Commerce for two years.

However, judging from the investigation of the mining workshop, the plan of the blood clan behind the scenes has not been interrupted in the past two and a half years, and the commercial bank has continued to operate normally.

Off the charts!

It has been two and a half years in this situation, and the Ness clan has not noticed that something is wrong with Earl Hall?

"Two and a half years...you didn't even figure out what Earl Hall was doing?"

She couldn't help complaining.

"We have to dare too! The blood races that come to the meeting every time are stronger than each other. We have worked hard to disguise our identities. How dare we ask what they are doing?"

Agnes complained.

meeting?

One breath is stronger than the other?

Charlotte's heart skipped a beat.

"Meeting?"

Charlotte raised her voice.

Agnes pursed her lips, as if she didn't want to say anything, but looking at Charlotte's deep eyes, she finally said honestly:

"It was a teleconference with the help of a crystal ball projection. There were quite a few blood races in attendance. I only know that their accents have a distinct accent of the Falling Star Kingdom, and they are blood races from the Falling Star Kingdom."

"Do you know their specific identities?"

Charlotte asked.

Agnes thought for a while and said:

"They seldom mention each other's identities, and they seem to be quite familiar with each other, but... I remember the names of the three people, which should be the highest among them, namely the Earl of Ulster, the Earl of Nottingham and the Earl of Lachlan. "

Good guy! Three Earls? !

Charlotte's heart skipped a beat.

She is not unfamiliar with these three names, because she has seen them in the information provided by the witch Anna.

Urst, Nottingham, and Lachlan are the three place names of the Fallen Star Kingdom, and they also represent the three Blood Earls of the Ness clan!

There are three Chi Yangs who are eyeing the blood clan of Castel!

This is not Count Hall who was murdered by Agnès!

To be honest, Charlotte is still very curious about how this blood girl who didn't even have a silver moon killed a Chi Yang.

While Agnes recalled, she went on to say:

"Among the three earls, the highest-status should be Earl Ulster, who almost always calls a meeting..."

"Oh, by the way, they often mention 'Lord Duke', who should be the real man behind the scenes, but...'Duke' has never participated in the projection meeting, and it is Earl Urst who sends the message every time."

Duke... Duke? !

Charlotte's eyes twitched.

In the society of the blood clan, the only one who can be called a duke is the duke of blood.

And the Duke of Blood corresponds to the fourth level of the Extraordinary Rank—Legendary!

This is already a real high-level in the blood clan, at least an elder-level existence, and maybe even the patriarch of the clan!

Thinking of this, Charlotte's heart sank slightly.

The Ness clan's infiltration against Castel turned out to be managed by a duke-level blood clan behind the scenes!

"Now...you know why it's so hard for us to hide our identities? In this case, we can't wait to be a little transparent. How can we investigate what they are doing!"

Agnes said weakly.