Tome of Blood

Chapter 366 -21- The Summoning Circle

Charlotte picked up the roster first.

The roster is recorded in red handwriting, neat and elegant. Even if Charlotte's handwriting is horrible, she can see that the herringbone writing on the roster is quite good, even Sebastian may not be able to match it.

She opened it curiously, browsed it roughly, and found that it was a list of nobles who had contacts with the Gorefiend Cult.

Or to be more precise, it is the downline developed by the Gorefiend Cult among the nobles.

There are a lot of people on the list, a thick dozen, from court nobles walking in the palace, to noble officers in charge of patrolling the city defense, from the direct members of the big noble families, to the down-and-out nobles who are no different from the poor... Various identities , There are people from all walks of life.

Charlotte even saw that the patriarchs of several well-known noble families, who were also quite prestigious noble lords in the kingdom, were also on the list.

Most of them are nobles in the kingdom who support the third prince, but there are also some neutral nobles and some royalist nobles.

What's even more outrageous is that Charlotte also saw the names of some church priests, including the former Boulder priest Linus.

Of course, Linus' name has been crossed out.

And after his name, the time and reason of his death were recorded in another slightly worse handwriting, that is, "September 4, 1444, burned at the stake, died in the Lutetia Trial Court of the Holy King" or something.

After reading the list, Charlotte understood quite well why the Holy Royal Court has been suppressing the Blood Demon Sect, but has not been able to completely wipe it out.

Just looking at this list, the New Moon nobles are almost infiltrated into a sieve.

Although not all the nobles on the list have joined the Blood Demon Sect, but as long as they are on the list, it at least means that the other party is willing to trade with the Blood Demon Sect, or even provide asylum.

With the nobles holding back and the corrupt priests colluding with the Gorefiend Sect in the Holy Royal Court, the church will have ghosts if it can wipe out the Gorefiend Sect.

Even Charlotte felt it was a miracle to be able to fight against the Gorefiend Cult on the bright side.

After browsing the roster, Charlotte gently closed it.

This roster is of great significance. If it is handed over to the church, it will definitely inflict heavy damage on the Gorefiend Sect.

To be honest, Charlotte was a little moved.

Although the core members of the Gorefiend Cult were also blood races, she didn't have a good impression of these so-called "terrorists".

These guys have already set their eyes on her, and they come and go without indecent assault. Since these guys can report her to the church, she can also report them to the church, and use the church's hand to severely hit the Gorefiend Sect.

However, what puzzled Charlotte was that according to the memory she read, Bertrand joined the Gorefiend Cult for only three years.

In only three years, could Bertrand be able to hold this kind of roster that only the senior members of the Gorefiend Cult were qualified to hold?

Of course, Charlotte's doubts only lasted for a moment.

She quickly figured it out for herself.

Bertrand has only been a member of the Blood Demon Sect for three years, but he is the forbidden blood servant of the Dark Apostle Albrecht.

The power he holds within the Gorefiend Cult is an extension of the power of the Dark Apostle, and this may be the reason why he became the Earl of Blood.

In this way, although he has only joined the Blood Demon Sect for three years, but because of his relationship with the Dark Apostle, he is already considered a high-ranking member of the Sect.

After trying to understand the reason, Charlotte put down the roster and looked at another notepad.

She opened the title page and found that it turned out to be Bertrand's diary.

The handwriting of the diary is different from the first elegant and neat handwriting on the roster.

However, it was exactly the same as the revised second handwriting on the roster.

Obviously, the person who wrote down the roster was someone else who gave the roster to Bertrand, and Bertrand supplemented it on this basis.

The diary is a few years old, and the earliest ones are some of Bertrand's early experiences. Charlotte skipped all of them and turned to recent years to read.

The records in the diary were similar to the memories she had read.

In recent years, the elderly Bertrand has felt more and more the horror of the passage of time. The aging of the body and the regression of strength have made him more and more anxious. As the head of the Chevalier family, once he passes away, the family members The strength will also be greatly damaged. As a last resort, he can only find various ways to prolong his life.

And in the process, he got acquainted with the Blood Demon Cult.

In exchange for helping him solve the problem of life limit, the Gorefiend Cult attracted him to join the organization, and the diary also recorded Bertrand's inner struggle during that time.

But...he finally couldn't face the fear of death and accepted the deal from the Blood Demon Sect.

After that, he held a first embrace ceremony with the dark apostle of the Gorefiend Cult, and became a forbidden blood servant.

After that, the Dark Apostle gave him the roster of the Gorefiend Cult's liaison with nobles and holy priests, appointed him as the chief priest of the Gorefiend Cult in Lutetia, and ordered him to secretly win over more nobles , and presided over the sacrificial ceremony in Lutetia, the capital of the kingdom.

As for the specific content of the sacrificial ceremony, the diary did not write.

It's not that Bertrand didn't want to write, some of the relevant passages in the diary were obviously intended to write the relevant content of the sacrificial ceremony, but every time at that time, the handwriting would suddenly become scribbled, as if the person who wrote it trembling.

Charlotte can almost guess the reason. It should be that the specific content of the ceremony has been listed as a taboo by the Blood Servant Mark, even if it is a diary. When Bertrand wrote this, the Soul Mark should have responded.

Seeing this, Charlotte shook her head lightly:

"It is said to be the chief priest, but in fact it is just cannon fodder..."

Yes, cannon fodder.

After all, the Gorefiend Cult is an extraordinary organization of blood clans. How could the real high-level people be blood servants? This Bertrand is probably just a tool for the Dark Apostle to execute orders.

Earl-level blood power is not so easy to get, it is easy to get, and easy to take back. The taboo blood servant is originally a slave of higher-level blood blood. throw away.

However, apart from the sacrificial ceremony, Bertrand recorded some of his experiences within the Gorefiend Cult.

This part of the content made Charlotte interested, especially about the internal composition of the Gorefiend Cult.

To Charlotte's surprise, the internal organizational structure of the Gorefiend Sect is not that strict. Although the branches of the Gorefiend Sect in various places obey the orders of the Dark Apostle in name, in fact they work independently. war.

Summoning the Gorefiend Grand Duke to the real world is the goal of all the Gorefiend Cultists. However, the organizations of the Gorefiend Cultists in various places have their own ideas and plans, and they have not unified their forces.

This is also what Bertrand complained about in his diary.

Looking at the date, it was probably written after the two failed god drop ceremonies in Boulder and Northland.

This actually answered one of Charlotte's questions, that is, why did she feel that wherever she went, the Gorefiend cultists she met seemed to be preparing for the god drop ceremony.

In addition to these nagging complaints and complaints, the diary also recorded some Bertrand's wooing of nobles and even priests.

In the past three years, he has successfully wooed many nobles and priests, and some of them have even been transformed into blood clans. For all the wooed people, the "deals" offered by the Gorefiend Cult are almost the same.

That is "eternal life".

Charlotte is not surprised. Even though the "eternal life" of the vampire has many restrictions, it is still a kind of "eternal life" after all.

Human beings will eventually die, no matter how powerful they are, they will return to nothingness after their lifespan expires. The more powerful and powerful they are, the more they fear death and death...

The fear of death and the desire for power are the breeding grounds for the growth of the Gorefiend Cult's faith.

Bloodlines have a high identity for bloodlines. Most bloodline clans, even if they have parted ways long ago, mostly follow the ancient creeds of bloodlines.

One of them is to keep the bloodlines pure and limit the unlimited spread of bloodline power.

Among all blood-born organizations, only the Blood Demon Cult does not follow this point, and dares to exchange "first embrace" for benefits openly and aboveboard.

Of course, whether it's the first time to become a blood clan, or the first time to become a "blood servant", only God knows.

After browsing through Bertrand's diary, Charlotte let out a sigh of relief and closed it.

It is not without reason that the Gorefiend Cult has been able to continue in the New Moon area. As long as there are people who fear death, they will not lack new believers.

But Charlotte is a little curious about the ancient creeds that the Bloodborn must follow.

[Bloods are not allowed to create taboo blood slaves], Charlotte knows the reason for this rule, it is nothing more than to prevent chaos and collapse of the bloods class.

Then what is the reason for [restricting the unlimited spread of blood power]?

In order to prevent too many immortal vampires from competing for resources?

Charlotte was a little curious.

"My understanding of the blood race is still too limited. Maybe in the future, if I have a chance, I can try to find some ancient books about the blood race from Yurst."

Charlotte thought.

Putting the diary and roster back together, Charlotte thought about it and planned to hand them over to the church.

No way, she is such a good citizen with a sense of justice.

Not only that, but she has to pay it faster.

Her avatar lasted for at most one day before self-destructing.

Before, she thought that she could fake Bertrand's death by resorting to obsession, but when she saw the roster, she realized that this method would not work.

Bertrand's identity was even more special than she had imagined. Holding the roster of the Blood Demon Sect, the Dark Apostle must have paid close attention to him.

Once this avatar dies, the dark apostles of the Gorefiend Cult will definitely be vigilant.

She had to hand over the information to the church before the dark apostle noticed, and she had to get the church to act quickly.

So... how to hand it over to the church, and how to get the church to act quickly?

A figure naturally appeared in Charlotte's mind.

That was the undercover witcher knight.

But soon, she overturned this idea.

The efficiency of relying on the undercover Demon Hunter Knight to spread the news is still too low.

Moreover, who can guarantee that the church will act quickly after passing the news?

Unless... give the church a reason to act quickly.

Charlotte's heart moved, and she had a bold idea...

Of course, before implementing this idea, she had to "ship" the spoils back.

After thinking for a while, Charlotte put away the diary and roster, and then packed all the high-value extraordinary materials and equipment in the secret room and piled them together.

Then, she selected some extraordinary materials specially used for drawing magic circles, and set up a sacrificial circle on the ground.

In the center of the sacrificial circle is the symbol of the rose of thorns.

This is the sacrificial circle pointing to the "True Ancestor of Blood".

The sacrificial circle was learned by Charlotte from Nice.

She tried it before, and after the activation of the belief network, she has gained some abilities similar to gods, one of which is to receive sacrifices through the belief network.

Of course, to say it is a sacrifice, to be more precise, it is more like a fixed-point transmission with the help of a belief network.

The location of the teleportation is the Dark Night Castle in her spiritual world. After the teleportation, it can be teleported back through [Divine Blessing], as long as the effect of the blessing is positioned as [Blessing].

Charlotte drew the magic circle crookedly, put the "trophy" in it, and then communicated with the holy tome of blood in her heart to establish a connection with the magic circle.

As the master of the scriptures, she doesn't need to pray to herself, she just needs to establish a spell connection directly.

Following her thought, the sacrificial circle shimmered, and the items in the circle flickered slightly, then disappeared.

At the same time, there were many miscellaneous things in the corner of the Dark Night Castle.

After collecting the spoils, Charlotte must be sure.

She wiped off the thorns and roses in the magic circle, and then modified it into a magic circle for summoning demons.

She copied it from the magic books collected by Bertrand on the shelf, except that the spells of the summoned demons were omitted.

The specific spells needed to summon demons are varied and have no fixed number, as long as they are related to the target demon you want to summon. Of course, the more accurate the spell is, the more accurate the summoning will be.

For example, the spells that point to the summoning of demons recorded in the Holy Book of Blood are very precise.

After modifying the magic circle, Charlotte drew the well-protected "blood servant mark" on the body...

Immediately afterwards, she closed her eyes, communicated with the Holy Tome of Blood, and activated the [Devil's Contract].

The Holy Tome of Blood bloomed with brilliance, and Charlotte faintly felt as if she was connected with an endless darkness. There were countless strong or weak evil auras in the darkness, which seemed to be waiting for her to communicate.

However, she did not choose to communicate with those evil auras, but directly connected to the "Blood Servant Mark" protected by the divine power of blood...

At this moment, the "Blood Servant Mark" and the magic circle that summoned the devil were successfully connected with the help of the [Devil Contract]!

Immediately afterwards, Charlotte withdrew the divine power of blood that protected the "Blood Servant Mark", and also dissipated the [Devil's Contract], and even the consciousness quickly left the body.

Losing the protection of divine power, the "Blood Servant Mark" quickly collapsed, and a powerful and evil aura surged against the mark, carrying some kind of angry will.

Then, that breath was quickly drawn into the summoning circle on the ground.

Immediately afterwards, a new summoning spell slowly formed in the magic circle.

The dark apostle of the Gorefiend Cultist also has the blood of a demon...

In an instant, the magic circle was quickly lit up, dazzling brilliance soared into the sky, and a terrifying will slowly descended.

In addition to being angry, there was... a bit of astonishment.