Tome of Blood

The experience in the outer hall of the library was just a small episode.

Under the leadership of the library director, Charlotte quickly entered the restricted area of ​​the library.

Of course, the restricted area is only for ordinary nobles. For those real nobles and geniuses with extraordinary talents, they can still enter here.

It is not so much a restricted area as a VIP area.

"My lord, this is the inner area of ​​the royal library. It has a total of 50,000 volumes of books. It contains all kinds of supernatural materials collected by the kingdom, including some rare meditation methods and magic books. In addition, there are many books that are not in circulation on the market. Precious illustrated books, extraordinary secrets and historical materials."

"According to the pass you have, you can freely browse the collection of books here. However, if you want to take it out or perform magic engraving, you need to take out books of the corresponding level and exchange them with the library."

The librarian said respectfully.

Charlotte nodded slightly.

She has also heard about the regulations of the Royal Family Library. In fact, the Royal Family Library, which was destroyed by wars in history, has not only not been destroyed, but has more and more books. This is also due to such regulations.

The nobles attach great importance to their own extraordinary knowledge, and they hold their own extraordinary knowledge to death. Only the Royal Library has such confidence, and the nobles are also happy to have a place where they can exchange knowledge.

Especially after each victory in a royal war, or deprivation of the title of a certain noble family, the popularity of the royal library will often rise for a while, because the nobles know that the library's collection of books will often increase at this time.

Of course, Charlotte knew that the royal family would definitely keep those truly high-end knowledge and secrets away.

However, she came here just to try her luck, and by the way, to supplement Castel's collection of books and enhance her own heritage.

The Crescent Royal Family will still use the rich treasure house of the Royal Library to unite nobles. As a "god" trying to preach, Charlotte can also use this to gather "believers".

"In addition, although I know you probably won't, but as the curator, I must also remind you that please don't use any magic here, especially spiritual, space, and elemental magic."

"The Royal Family Library has a strict monitoring circle. If it is used, it will be detected, and it will lose the qualification to enter the library forever."

"In the past, anyone who tried to cast magic in the royal library, even the Duke's heir, would eventually be severely punished."

The librarian looked serious again, said.

This is to prevent someone from stealing extraordinary knowledge or doing damage in the library.

Spiritual magic can strengthen memory for a short time, or directly engrave knowledge, and space magic may even move the collection of books directly. As for elemental magic...most of them are highly destructive magic, and naturally all of them will use is prohibited.

"Your Excellency, curator, thank you for your reminder."

Charlotte said with a smile.

The curator also smiled and said:

"Then... Lord Earl, I will retire. What kind of information are you looking for? Just ask the costumed dolls in the museum. I hope you can find the knowledge you need in the museum as you wish."

Charlotte nodded slightly:

"Thanks."

The curator gave a salute neither humble nor overbearing, and then withdrew.

Charlotte looked around, and soon saw a humanoid alchemy puppet beside him.

"Your Excellency, I am Jupiter, the restricted area administrator of the Royal Library, and I will serve you wholeheartedly."

The alchemy puppet bowed stiffly, making a mechanical sound.

Looking at the alchemy puppet, Charlotte was amazed. This should be the product of research by some archmages and even legendary mages, and it can be regarded as some kind of magical alchemy life.

"Thanks, I'd like to see the historic district."

Charlotte said.

"The historical area is on shelf No. 2 of the third column. Which category do you want to see? Jupiter can continue to locate it for you."

Charlotte shook her head:

"No, I'll just take a look."

After speaking, Charlotte came to the bookshelf pointed out by the alchemy puppet.

The Wang Family Library deserves to be known as the library with the largest collection of books and the richest materials in the New Moon Kingdom.

After arriving at the target bookshelf, Charlotte really found a lot of precious historical materials.

Especially the history of the New Moon Kingdom, even the history of the Gorefiend Cult's overthrow of the kingdom, has been recorded in detail in many books.

The Gorefiend Cult's subversion of the New Moon Kingdom began seven hundred and fifty years ago, that is, fifty years after the founding of the New Moon Kingdom, and it has been secretly ruling the New Moon Kingdom for two hundred years.

According to the book, its original source was the ancestor of the Valwa family who established the New Moon Kingdom. In his later years, he was deceived by blood descendants who sneaked into the palace and took control of the court.

That period of time was described in the classics as a dark age for the kingdom, until two hundred years later, with the help of the Holy Royal Court, the royal family overthrew the blood court of the bloodborn.

After that, the Gorefiend Cult tried again and again to subvert it, but they were all defeated one by one in the end, until today.

After browsing some relevant classics, Charlotte has a better understanding of the hostility and guard against the blood races of the New Moon nobles.

Of course, history is written by the victors, and these materials are for reference only and cannot be trusted.

Charlotte felt a little disappointed, and at the same time, what she expected was that the restricted area of ​​the library was blank for the historical materials of earlier periods, especially the Blood Moon Era.

Although it was somewhat expected, Charlotte would inevitably feel a little disappointed when it came to nothing.

However, just when Charlotte gave up browsing history and planned to read books about the extraordinary side, a book with a sense of age caught her eyes.

It was a book called Song of the Blood Moon.

The category of this book is not history, nor myth, but art poetry.

Charlotte opened it curiously, and found that it turned out to be a poem that sang blood legends.

"Singing the poems of bloodborn? Shouldn't this be classified as a myth? Why is it an artistic creation?"

Charlotte became more and more curious.

The text on the book is quite old, and with the knowledge of the ancient language that has been learned through spiritual magic for more than a year, Charlotte can read it fairly smoothly.

This poem tells the story of the rise and fall of the Bloodborn. The true ancestor of the blood with great ambitions defeated the gods and unified the continent for the first time. However, in order to become stronger, he went astray and went completely crazy in the end. , a story of self-destruction.

Of course, if it is only these, there is no problem with the classification of this poem as a myth.

But the problem is that Harald, the creator god, is also mentioned in this book.

In the poem, Harald, the God of Creation, is described as the follower and successor of the True Ancestor of Blood. Zu defeated the existence.

The poem even describes the first meeting between the True Ancestor of Blood and Harald, who taught the story of the awakening of the bloodline of Harald who was still a mortal.

When Charlotte saw this, she was stunned.

Without him, except that Lilith is not mentioned in this poem, the description of the Blood True Ancestor meeting Haral for the first time and imparting supernatural knowledge is exactly the same as her experience during the "second time travel"!

Even what she said to Harald was exactly the same!

"A follower of the True Ancestor of Blood, the source of the royal blood..."

Charlotte's eyelids twitched wildly, and waves surged in his heart.

If ordinary people see this, they will think that this book is completely nonsense, it is simply a blasphemy of the sacred royal court, it is too normal to classify it as an artistic creation, and it is even no problem to destroy it as a heretical book.

It is already a miracle that it can be preserved.

But after reading the stories of the True Ancestor and the God Lord sung in the book, Charlotte has a feeling that the descriptions in this book... are probably all true.

"Could it be... that my second time travel was real? The Harald I met was also the god-lord Harald? And I traveled back to the past and became the True Ancestor of Blood in history?"

Charlotte's heart beat wildly.

This is a bold guess she once had.

She is very sure that the "dream of time travel" is not just a bystander, but a personal experience, and her actions in the "dream" are also from her heart.

This ruled out the possibility of "memory implantation".

Looking at it now, her original conjecture is more and more likely to be a reality. Whether it is a "dream" or a "time travel", she is very likely...to have really intersected with history, and even the true ancestor of blood in history!

However, Charlotte also deepened some doubts, that is why Lilith was not mentioned, not only was it not mentioned in the poem, in fact, even Albrecht did not have Lilith in his memory.

The only ones with Lilith's information are the title page of the Holy Tome of Blood, and Charlotte's experience after the second time travel.

Not only that, but Charlotte has some worries.

That is, if she is really the True Ancestor of Blood in history, wouldn't she lose her mind and fall into madness in the future according to the various statements of the Bloodborn and the description in "Song of the Blood Moon"?

This made Charlotte uneasy.

But in any case, Charlotte can be regarded as a harvest, and perhaps when she "time travels" next time, she can explore the truth of history more deeply.

Taking a deep breath, Charlotte closed Song of the Blood Moon.

This book was an unexpected gain, just "Song of the Blood Moon", her trip today was worthwhile.

"Lord Earl, do you like this book? Do you need to perform magic engraving? If necessary, please exchange it with an art book that matches it and is not in the collection."

The alchemy puppet said.

Charlotte glanced at it and shook her head:

"It's okay, no need."

She didn't intend to exchange things with the library.

That doesn't mean she doesn't intend to "take" Blood Moon Song, though.

In fact, she wants all the books in the library!

Knowledge is power. As a newcomer who has become a monk halfway, even if the knowledge here is not the top of the world, it is enough for Charlotte to lay a solid foundation for her own power and meet the basic needs of believers.

"I'll go around by myself, don't bother me if there's nothing to do."

Charlotte said to the alchemy puppet.

The alchemy puppet nodded and took his leave respectfully.

Charlotte raised her head and looked at the entire library.

Through the blood-born's keen sense, she can vaguely perceive the monitoring magic covering the entire library. The intensity of this monitoring magic is so great that even if she uses a little spiritual power to test it, she can feel it is about to move. Reaction.

This is definitely a magic circle of the blazing sun level, or even the legendary level.

There is no doubt that even if Charlotte wants to cast spiritual blood magic under the magic circle, she will definitely be discovered.

But unfortunately, Charlotte has more than just magic.

Taking a deep breath, Charlotte closed her eyes.

And when she opened her eyes again, the pupils were already stained with a layer of red gold.

Obscure energy fluctuations centered on Charlotte and spread to the surroundings, covering the entire library.

That's not magic.

But divine power.

Thanks to the Royal Family of the New Moon, although they arranged an exquisite magic circle in order to prevent the books in the library from being stolen, but unfortunately, the magic circle only defends against magic, not divine power.

Due to the delicate relationship with the church, there are no priests staying in the library, let alone magic spells, which makes it possible for Charlotte to take advantage of loopholes.

Divine power is a more advanced energy than magic power, and it can also be used to cast magic. Although this usage is extravagant and wasteful, who makes Charlotte's current supernatural power abundant.

And magic casted with divine power is no longer magic, but... divine art!

The divine power of blood was running, and Charlotte released the blood magic [spiritual rubbing] of the spiritual way.

This is the magic specially used by the blood race to rub the classics, which can forcefully memorize and store the knowledge in the books.

Obscure fluctuations of divine power enveloped the entire library, covering every book in the collection.

"Rubbing..."

Charlotte murmured silently in her heart.

The next moment, a crimson light lit up in her spiritual world, and the library that recorded Albrecht's memory suddenly opened, and bookshelves appeared out of thin air in the empty area, and on the bookshelves, books turned by Real, slowly emerging.

After a while, the number of newly-appeared bookshelves exceeded the number of Albrecht's memories. The entire memory library expanded rapidly, and the number of books also soared...

After a long time, Charlotte let out a sigh of relief and ended the magic spell.

She looked a little tired, but her eyes were shining brightly.

And in the depths of her consciousness, all the collections of the Wang family library have been rubbed, and there are hundreds of thousands of books in the memory library.

The Crescent Royal Family has accumulated hundreds of thousands of years, and all of them are cheap for her at once.

"Your Excellency, haven't you found the book you're looking for? Tell Jupiter what you need, and Jupiter can help you find it together."

The voice of the alchemy puppet came from afar.

Charlotte suppressed the joy in her heart.

She picked up a book at random and said:

"I have already found it. Help me to print this book. What knowledge do I need in exchange?"

Come here, let's do a full set of plays.

"Your Excellency, the book you are holding is a treasure on the secret art of blood collected by the royal family. It is an essay written by the legendary mage Nicholas. The content is quite bold, curious and precious. If you want to exchange it, you must use the same secret art knowledge in exchange.”

Charlotte: ...

Why is it Nicholas again?

Moreover, what the hell is boldness and novelty?

But... bloodline secret technique?

It seems that she only knows blood-born things, but blood-born things are taboo, so she must not take them out...

"Unfortunately, my Castel family has no relevant knowledge."

Charlotte shook her head, regretfully.

She didn't really want to exchange, it was just a show.

After finishing speaking, Charlotte put down the book and left the library with a regretful face.

...

"Oh, did Earl Castel go to the library to find the secret art of blood?"

In the palace, Louis V listened to the report of the royal knights, thoughtful.

"Which one is it?"

"Returning to Your Majesty, it is "Bloodline Awakening Essay: Desire", written by Nicholas."

Louis V was surprised and muttered to himself:

"Is it that one? It seems that she is really bold, no wonder she has to take an oath of celibacy..."

After pondering for a moment, he narrowed his eyes and said:

"There is no need to exchange knowledge, give her a copy of the magic rubbings, the awakening of the bloodline... It seems that she must have been promoted too fast in the past two years, and the power of the bloodline is a little unstable; in addition, tell her tactfully, this This way of stimulating the blood with lust is not the mainstream, and it is easy to cause damage to the body, especially for women."

"If she wants to try, the royal family can provide some well-trained manservants, as well as some necessary tools and medicines..."

"Follow your will."

...

the next day.

After packing up and saluting, Charlotte, who was about to leave the royal capital, looked at the books sent by the knights of the royal family and the row of handsome and well-behaved male servants behind him, with a dazed expression on her face.