Tome of Blood

What's happening here?

The Ness clan...is this a collective surrender and allegiance?

Charlotte looked surprised and surprised.

With Yurst as a "double agent" here, she knows a lot of information about the Ness clan.

Based on her understanding of the Ness clan, she knew that even considering the best-case scenario, it would probably take less than a year and a half to completely subdue the Ness clan into a force loyal to her.

Charlotte couldn't help but look at Bardock, wanting to see if the current real leader of the Ness clan knew what was going on, and then... what she saw was someone even more confused than herself. Open your face.

Of course, I was surprised. Since the Ness clan so "knowingly" chose to surrender and be loyal, Charlotte, as the blood ancestor, should also express her gratitude.

Her gaze swept across the entire place, and her entire demeanor became majestic in an instant.

In the spiritual world, the Holy Book of Blood blooms brilliantly.

In the real world, the divine power of blood explodes and crimson mist fills the air.

A pressure as deep as the ocean descended.

Dark, vast, profound...

Charlotte... unfolded her own mental force field.

This is the first time Charlotte has shown her mental force field since her breakthrough.

There are no bottlenecks, no difficulties.

Because...since the beginning of time travel, her "mental force field" has actually been deployed countless times.

That is the spiritual world woven by the Dark Night Castle.

A deep crimson color rendered the entire world, and everything around seemed to be changing.

In a daze, the Ness blood descendants felt that they had arrived at a familiar castle.

They seemed to see a simple and majestic Blood Throne, and saw Charlotte sitting on the throne, gradually overlapping with the majestic True Ancestor of Blood in the vague memories of high-level blood descendants.

In the sky, dark clouds covered the moon, and it gradually became crimson.

When the clouds dispersed and the moonlight shone on the earth again, the silver moon in the sky had turned into a crimson blood moon.

Charlotte sat condescendingly on the moonlit throne, holding a simple and thick crimson book in her hands.

Her clothes had turned into a black divine skirt woven with thorns and roses, and her golden-red eyes were majestic and deep.

She sat there like an emperor dominating the world.

She gently raised her hand, and her ethereal and majestic voice soon resounded through the sky:

"Descendants of the Nes clan, in the name of the blood ancestor, I accept your surrender and allegiance."

As soon as she finished speaking, Charlotte felt that the divine power of blood in her body was being released like a dam, and at the same time, all the Ness vampires in the square were blooming with crimson light.

Charlotte couldn't help but scream in her heart, "Fuck", she didn't know why just accepting allegiance would consume such a huge amount of divine power.

However, she soon found out why.

The crimson light continued to spread, spreading from reality to consciousness.

Deep in Charlotte's consciousness, in the sea of ​​crimson stars representing the blood descendants, suddenly about one-tenth of the stars bloomed with dazzling red light.

The number of those stars is at least 30,000, and the brightest among them is more than 7,000, which is exactly the same as the number of blood descendants gathered in the square.

That...are all the existing Nes vampires.

The light spread and enveloped all the stars, and at the same time, Charlotte felt that her connection with these stars was rapidly strengthening...

If before, she could only locate the corresponding blood clan through these stars, know the coordinates of the other party, and be able to summon the other party over through blood summoning...

So now, as long as she is willing, she can cast her gaze through the star represented by the other party at any time, or directly summon the other party to her side.

What's more, she can even deprive the opponent of the power of blood through the "stars", or... give the opponent the power of blood.

It feels like... like the other person has become his believer.

No……

This is the power of "believers".

As the connection strengthens, Charlotte soon realizes the nature of this change.

The moment the blood descendants of Neth formally surrendered, they were included in her own belief network.

It's just... not purely as a "believer".

Instead, he uses his identity as a blood descendant, or to be more precise, he replaces the connection of faith with the connection of blood.

Charlotte understood instantly.

It's not that the True Ancestor of the Blood Clan doesn't spread the faith, it's that the True Ancestor of the Blood Clan has no motivation to spread the faith at all.

Because for the true ancestor of blood, all blood descendants are "believers".

However, what connects "believers" is not "faith", but "bloodline".

Not only that, this connection originating from blood is even stronger than the connection of faith, representing absolute rule.

It is the same as gods accumulating divine power through the feedback of believers' extraordinary strength improvement.

From today on, all the strength improvements of the Nes blood descendants will be drawn by Charlotte, and part of the blood power will be given back to Charlotte.

In an instant, thousands of new workers were added to Charlotte's faith network, and they were workers who were more difficult to betray than believers.

Just like verifying Charlotte's judgment, after the "contract" was reached, the feedback came immediately.

Charlotte only felt that the divine power that had just consumed her blood quickly came back. The scale was so huge that it was even faintly stronger than what she had consumed.

Feeling her soaring divine power and the increasingly clear connection with the blood descendants of Ness, Charlotte quickly realized that she had taken over the faith network of the Ness clan.

The Stargazer Kexi, the blood prince believed by the Ness clan, is "missing". For hundreds of years, the Ness blood clan's belief network has been left unmanaged for a long time.

Although the overall belief of the vampires is not very pious, the accumulation over hundreds of years is also a considerable amount of wealth, and now...all of it is accepted by Charlotte with a smile.

Of course, this does not mean that the faith of the Ness clan was taken away by Charlotte.

The faith of the Ness clan is still there, and they still believe in Kexi the Stargazer.

However, at the highest point of their belief network, above the belief node representing Stargazer Kesi, there is a new node.

It was a higher-status node that connected Charlotte's faith with the original faith of the Ness clan. At the same time, it had a higher level of control over the Ness clan's original belief network.

In other words, it is as if a company representing Charlotte's faith acquired the company of the Ness clan. Without changing the composition of the Ness clan company, it airborne a board of directors who can determine the operation and future of the entire company.

This is somewhat similar to the divine system within the Holy Royal Court.

Charlotte's own faith is the main belief system, and the Ness clan... has become a branch of her family.

In other words, from this moment on, Stargazer Cosi...is forced to become Charlotte's follower.

etc……

Forced to become a slave to God?

Charlotte was stunned for a moment, and quickly realized an important issue that she had ignored before.

The god's belief network is controlled by the god.

Even if a god falls into a deep sleep, if other beings want to seize the god's faith, they must directly transform it through believers, or they must replace the sleeping god's godhead like a dead god.

But now, Charlotte has not taken the initiative to seize Stargazer Kesi's belief network, nor has she preached among the Ness blood descendants. In fact... none of the Ness blood descendants have become her believers.

Under such circumstances, why did Stargazer Kexi not resist at all, but directly "acquiesced" to the changes in the Ness clan's belief network?

Even if there is blood suppression, even if there is the effect of the Blood Sacred Scripture, there should not be no resistance at all.

You know, in the sea of ​​crimson stars, the stars belonging to stargazer Kexi are still lighting up. The dazzling brilliance is still unforgettable to Charlotte, and she even blocked it directly, just for fear that the other party would sense her existence. .

But now...what's going on?

Charlotte couldn't help but focus her "eyes" on the sea of ​​crimson stars that represented the blood descendants.

After a moment of hesitation, she released her radiant shield on the princes.

However, when the shield was released, Charlotte's expression suddenly turned into surprise.

The stars that represent the princes behind the other four blood clans have not changed much. They are still blinding people, but... the intensity of this light is no longer as scary to Charlotte today. .

But the star that represents Stargazer Cosi...is different.

In Charlotte's doubtful eyes, the star representing the stargazer Kesi was shattered, and the illusory light was extinguished.

Then, its true appearance was revealed.

It was no longer a star.

But a simple stone door.

The stone gate is a typical elven style, and you can also see some astrological symbols representing Kesi the Stargazer.

Above the stone gate, there are countless complicated inscriptions and chain seals entwined, exuding an unsettling aura.

"Is this... a seal? The blood prince of the Ness clan, Stargazer Kesi... is actually sealed?"

Charlotte was slightly startled.

She heard from Yurst that the Ness clan had not received another oracle from the gods for hundreds of years.

Some radicals within Clan Ness believe that the prince of Clan Ness, Kesi the Stargazer, may have fallen into eternal sleep.

Yurst once had such suspicions, and even told Charlotte his suspicions, but... Charlotte, who had seen five stars in the sea of ​​crimson stars, had always had strong feelings about this. doubtful.

The stars in the crimson star sea can reflect the status of the corresponding vampire.

Stargazer Kexi's star is still there, which means that the other party has not fallen at all.

But now... everything is different.

Stargazer Cosi may indeed have not fallen, but it is by no means as simple as falling into a deep sleep like other gods.

He...is sealed.

Not only that, the door that sealed Him even directly connected to Charlotte's ocean of consciousness.

Charlotte's eyes narrowed slightly, looking at the seal on the stone door.

With the help of two years of extraordinary knowledge, she quickly recognized that the words on it were in ancient Elvish language, and they were the highest-level seals used, specifically used to seal gods.

Charlotte has seen these seals when she traveled through history. There are many corresponding descriptions in the books left by the elves in the central tower. They were once the sealing magic used by the elves to fight against the old god of Miria. It is said that the elves were The most powerful sealing spell that the tribe had already developed before fleeing to the Miria continent.

Not only that, as far as Charlotte knows, this type of sealing magic is still used today. In history, it is said that these secret techniques were used in the legends of sealing gods with mortal bodies.

Apparently, Stargazer Kesi was really sealed.

In addition, above the stone gate, there are three lines of bloody warnings written in the common language of the mainland——

"Don't open it, don't open it, don't open it!"

"Don't... open it?"

Charlotte's eyes narrowed slightly.

She looked at the words carefully. The words were rough and confusing. They seemed to have been written in a hurry. At the end of the writing, they even became more and more messy. It seemed that the writer's consciousness was no longer clear and he just barely finished writing.

Charlotte pondered for a moment, condensed the incarnation of consciousness, and walked towards the stone door.

As she got closer, Shimen's appearance appeared more clearly in front of her.

Charlotte noticed that there were cracks all over the edge of the stone door, and faint white smoke could be seen faintly coming out of it.

The white smoke has a faint smell of holiness, is warm and comfortable, and seems to have a fatal attraction.

Just by being close, Charlotte felt the joy and kindness that seemed to come from her soul and blood, which made her want to get closer, and even directly fall into the embrace of the white mist and become one with it.

Looking at the dissipating white mist, Charlotte's eyes were a little confused.

Almost subconsciously, she took a step towards the stone door.

However, before Charlotte could continue to act, the Holy Book of Blood in the depths of her consciousness burst into crimson light, covering Charlotte's conscious incarnation.

Under the illumination of blood-colored light, Charlotte's consciousness suddenly became clear.

And when she came back to her senses, her conscious incarnation was only one step away from the stone door. Even her arms were stretched out unknowingly, just a moment away from touching the strange stone door. of seal.

Charlotte was shocked and quickly took a step back.

When she looked at Shimen again, her expression was filled with fear and fear:

"It actually interferes with my mental strength and judgment without even realizing it... What is this white mist under the stone gate?"

"Behind this...is it really Stargazer Kesi who is sealed?"

Charlotte frowned slightly and looked at Shimen with vigilance.

At this moment, she seemed to hear a faint call coming from inside the stone door.

The voice seemed quite weak, vague, like a ghost.

Charlotte's eyes narrowed slightly, and her alertness increased.

She focused her attention and listened carefully, and then... she finally vaguely heard the intermittent voice behind the stone door:

"Help...save me..."

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