Tome of Blood

Charlotte was a little surprised.

It was not that she was surprised by the friendly attitude of the great prophet of the Hortosh clan towards her, but that she was surprised by the title he addressed her.

Since time travel, Charlotte has had many titles on her head, and the title that can be crowned first must be the title with the highest status.

The Saint of the Creator God...

Obviously, among Charlotte's many identities, the one that the great prophet of the Hortosh clan values ​​most is Charlotte's status in the Holy Royal Court.

This is thought-provoking.

You know, although the world regards Charlotte as the saint of the Creator God, Charlotte’s own family knows about her family affairs. Her identity as a saint is completely false, and many miracles are caused by magical countermeasures. program effect.

She may really know "Harald", but the "miracles" she has caused so far are not the protection of "Harald".

Others may not know these things, but the Hortosh clan as a vampire must know that she is not a real saint.

As for how Charlotte knew this... when she read Sigurd's memory, she learned that the members of the Hortosh clan team had learned information about her from the Queen's Palace before leaving the Holy Land. , the intelligence clearly positioned her as a favored person of a vampire prince.

but now……

Is this a deliberate attempt to point out her false identity, or is there some other meaning behind it?

"Your Majesty the Great Prophet, you are joking. I am just a favored lucky person. I am not the saint of the Lord of Creation. The so-called saint... is just a rumor among the world."

Charlotte replied.

No matter what, the vampires and the Holy Royal Court are hostile.

Even if she deliberately indulges the rumors of the saint's identity outside, when facing the vampires, Charlotte needs to put aside her relationship with the Holy Royal Court as much as possible.

Look at the vampires standing guard around the palace.

The moment the great prophet called her "the saint of the God of Creation", their expressions all changed, as if they were facing a formidable enemy.

The Great Prophet was noncommittal about Charlotte's denial.

She gave Charlotte a meaningful look, smiled and said:

"Your Majesty Charlotte, Sofia has told me about your help to my clan along the way. To express our gratitude to you, the clan has prepared a dinner at the Queen's Palace."

A dinner party for the vampires?

Charlotte raised her eyebrows slightly.

In Miria, banquets are the main way for nobles to socialize. If you want to establish contacts with nobles of all sizes in a place as soon as possible, the best way is to attend a banquet hosted by a local lord.

The same is true for vampires.

It is even said that the origin of the Miria nobles' use of banquets as a means of socializing originated from the vampire clan.

"At the banquet held in the Queen's Palace, I'm afraid all the senior officials of the Hortosh clan will be present. This is also an opportunity for me to get to know the Hortosh clan and the Scarlet Queen."

Charlotte thought in her mind.

After thinking for a moment, she nodded and agreed to the other party's invitation.

Under the guidance of the great prophet of the Hortosh clan, Charlotte entered the auxiliary hall of the Queen's Palace.

Stepping into the palace, Charlotte clearly felt that her mental power exploration was further suppressed, and she could hardly leave the body.

At the same time, her blood throbbed more and more intensely, and the Blood Scripture deep in her consciousness shone even brighter.

If Charlotte were not the master of the Blood Scripture, Charlotte would have even doubted whether it would fly out on the spot and eagerly absorb the ubiquitous power of blood in the palace.

Especially the main hall of the Queen's Palace, Charlotte clearly felt that the attraction coming from there was the strongest.

Charlotte didn't show it on her face and secretly noted the location of the main hall in her heart.

At the same time, she quietly circulated the divine power of blood in her body, soothed the restless Holy Book of Blood, and used the power of divine power to strengthen her mental power to facilitate perception and exploration in the palace.

Like the Ness clan, the Hortosh clan also continued the luxury of the Vampire clan.

In the palace, exquisite decorations and priceless jewelry and cultural relics can be seen everywhere, and the level of luxury even exceeds that of the Crescent Palace.

When Charlotte arrived at the banquet hall, there were already thousands of vampires waiting here.

They were dressed in gorgeous clothes and wore ancient coats of arms. They stood in the brightly lit palace and saluted the Great Prophet and Charlotte in unison, with great momentum.

This scene was much more spectacular than what Charlotte had seen at the Ness clan's residence.

The Ness clan had depleted all their wealth due to the Star-Moon War, and the central castle was obviously shabbier than the Queen's Palace in Hortosh. Although there were more blood clans, the costumes were much drab and "shabby".

The Hortosh clan is completely different.

This luxurious and spectacular scene even far surpasses the state banquet of the Crescent Kingdom.

However, although Hortosh's welcome banquet was so grand, Charlotte discovered some subtleties.

The first point is the breath of the vampires in the hall.

It would be fine if Charlotte's perception is still suppressed. The forbidden power in the Queen's Palace has obviously reached the legendary level. Here, even a legend can hardly detect the status of other people.

But Charlotte is a demigod.

After quietly operating the divine power of blood, she was able to resist the forbidden suppression in the palace to a certain extent and maintain her sense of the surroundings.

According to her perception, although the thousands of vampires in the hall were dressed in gorgeous and stylish clothes, and each of them was dressed up and had a very classy temperament, their strength... was very slim.

Except for the great prophet himself, who is a legend, there are no more than ten count-level vampires in the entire palace. Viscounts only have two or three hundred at best, and even barons only have five or six hundred. The rest are even just unqualified attendants. The vampires make up the numbers.

This strength may be comparable to a major force in Falling Star Kingdom, but as one of the five major clans of the Blood Clan... it seems to be too weak.

No, not it seems.

It's just weak, even weaker than the Ness clan!

Even without the liberation of the True Ancestor, Charlotte could defeat all the vampires here except the Great Prophet with her own strength.

Is this the top leader of the Hortosh clan? Their core strength?

It’s too good!

Charlotte did not believe in evil. She separated her consciousness and summoned the Crimson Star Sea for further induction. Then she was surprised to find that the stars corresponding to these vampires... seemed to be the more powerful stars in the Crimson Star Sea that symbolized the Hortosh clan.

Obviously, the Hortosh clan... is really weak.

Not only that, Charlotte also keenly sensed a bit of chilling smell from most of the vampires. Although they deliberately covered it up, Charlotte could still vaguely sense that many vampires should have injuries on their bodies.

This made Charlotte even more curious.

She looked carefully at the vampires in the hall and soon discovered more details.

how to say.

Although these vampires were all dressed like nobles, when they actually started to act, Charlotte found that they seemed quite uncomfortable with the noble clothes they were wearing.

It seems... they just improvised and changed into these costumes.

Not only that, if you look carefully at the demeanor and movements of these vampires, they are different from the vampires of the Nes clan who indulge in banquets all year round. They look quite restrained.

These vampires... are probably not the real ancient vampires. Most of them should be relatively young vampires, pretending to be those ancient vampires at this moment.

Charlotte judged so.

The more she observed, the more surprised she became, but... she didn't open her mouth to point it out or ask probing questions.

Charlotte took her seat and the party soon began.

It was the Great Prophet who spoke first, expressing his gratitude to Charlotte.

The music was playing, and people were drinking and drinking in the hall.

Looking at the dazzling array of dishes at the banquet, Charlotte fell into deep thought again.

Otherwise, the food at Hortosh's dinner is different from that of the Nes clan.

During the period of conquering the Ness clan, in order to reassure people, Charlotte also attended several banquets of the Ness clan as the "true ancestor".

In the Ness clan, drinks and food made from various extraordinary blood can be seen everywhere during the banquet, and the main food is blood.

But the Hortosh clan...

If Charlotte hadn't known that she was attending a banquet of vampires, there would have been nothing wrong with saying that it was a banquet of human nobles.

In the huge banquet hall, except for the low-concentration blood wine brewed, there were no blood products in the dishes.

That is to say, Charlotte prepared some extraordinary blood of Warcraft in front of her, but it was obviously temporary, and it should be specially prepared for Charlotte.

Obviously, like the memory read by Charlotte, except for the blood wine brewed, the Hortosh clan... is probably really avoiding drinking blood.

This made Charlotte even more curious about the Hortosh clan.

She wanted to have further conversations with the Vampires attending the banquet and obtain some information through insinuations, but what made her even more puzzled was that no Vampire took the initiative to talk to her even though it was a social banquet.

All the vampires who met her eyes first saluted her respectfully, and then... nothing more happened.

strangeness.

How strange.

If it's just one or two people, that's it. All members of the Hortosh clan are like this. It can only be said that they probably received unanimous orders and cannot communicate with Charlotte in private.

Charlotte's eyes finally turned back to the great prophet of the Hortosh clan.

"Your Majesty the Great Prophet, Advent is coming soon. I would like to visit Her Majesty the Scarlet Queen Rowena. Can you recommend her to me?"

she probed.

The great prophet Hortosh sighed and said slightly apologetically:

"Your Majesty Charlotte, Her Majesty the Queen is in deep meditation and I am afraid she cannot accept your audience."

"I don't know which of the Kirali princes of His Majesty the God you serve is following. Please tell me, and I will inform Her Majesty the Queen of your intention."

Um?

Uh-huh? !

The Prince of Kirali who follows the Lord of God? !

What the hell!

After hearing the words of the great prophet, Charlotte was stunned, and even her CPU stopped spinning for a moment.

She never expected that the great prophet of the Hortosh clan would associate the God of Creation with the blood descendants of the royal power, and also talk about the blood princes who follow the God of Creation!

However, she reacted quickly and quickly guessed something, and she also thought of many classics she had seen.

Although there is no evidence, and although no blood clan can prove it, there are indeed records in some classics that the Holy Royal Court seems to be really entangled with the blood descendants of the royal power.

Take "Song of the Blood Moon" that Charlotte has seen before, for example, it even depicts the God of Creation as the ancestor of the royal bloodline!

When she saw it at the time, Charlotte was skeptical and asked Albrecht and Yurst about it, but they scoffed at it.

It wasn't long before even Charlotte put it all behind her.

But now that she heard the great prophet of the Hortosh clan say such words, she had to have an idea that was both outrageous and strangely reasonable -

Could it be that... Harald is really the pioneer of the Royal Bloodline?

Could it be that... there were really some princes with royal blood descendants who defected to the Holy Royal Court?

Is it also because of this that she, who is both a "holy girl" and a "blood descendant of the royal power", is called so by the great prophet of the Hortosh clan?

Charlotte feels like she may have discovered the truth.

But she still felt strange.

If this is the case, why don't Albrecht and the vampires of the Ness clan know about this?

Or...is this really a secret that only the Hortosh clan knows?

Charlotte thought for a while and planned to test further, but suddenly she sensed some energy fluctuations coming from the depths of the castle complex.

Then...she saw the body of the great prophet of the Hortosh clan suddenly froze.

The old female great prophet frowned slightly and looked in a certain direction. After thinking for a while, she saluted Charlotte:

"Your Majesty Charlotte, I'm very sorry. It seems that something unexpected happened. Please allow me to leave for a moment to deal with it."

Charlotte's heart moved slightly and she said:

"Do you need help?"

The Great Prophet smiled and shook his head:

"No, please just wait here for a while. Sofia will continue to eat with you here on my behalf."

After that, she stood up, bowed to Charlotte, and hurriedly left the banquet hall.

And Charlotte keenly noticed that after the great prophet left, many vampires in the hall also quietly left.

She felt it carefully, then raised her eyebrows.

The vampires who left turned out to be the vampires in the banquet hall who had reached the level of viscount, and all of them were at the earl level.

Charlotte quietly circulated the divine power of blood, spreading out a trace of spiritual power and clinging to a departing Viscount of Blood.

She "saw" these vampires catching up with the great prophet of the Hortosh clan, forming a neat line, and rushing towards the depths of the castle complex.

Dark red light bloomed on their bodies, and the gorgeous clothes on their bodies quickly disappeared, replaced by fully armed armors and black robes.

Charlotte paused slightly.

These vampires are indeed not those ancient high-level vampires.

They...should be the extraordinary army of the Hortosh clan.

In Charlotte's perception, she saw the Great Prophet leading these most powerful vampire warriors towards the source of the throbbing.

And as the trace of spiritual power attached to the vampire warrior in Charlotte approached the source of the throbbing, she once again felt the familiar smell——

It had the same origin as when Sigurd mutated, the smell of bloodline pollution.