Tome of Blood

The golden red flames continued to burn, and the painful wails echoed through the palace.

In the flames, the blurry human face kept twisting, looking at Charlotte with an expression full of hatred.

It stared at Charlotte, its sinister eyes seeming to remember Charlotte deep into her soul.

I saw it wailing and saying sadly:

"Don't think this is the end, you...can't escape, you...can't escape!"

"An Ye, I already remember you, we...all remember you!"

After saying that, the gray-white mist suddenly reversed, and a vague energy wave invaded the flames, turning into an illusory trident mark and spreading rapidly towards Charlotte's arm along the cage where the divine power of blood was condensed.

"Oh, is it so?"

Charlotte glanced at the other party lightly.

She stretched out her left hand, the divine power of blood flowed again, and a thick illusory book slowly emerged.

The book was gently opened, emitting a crimson halo, and before the illusory trident mark penetrated into Charlotte's body, it was sucked into the book and instantly twisted into pieces.

"The original fragment! You...you actually possess the original fragment!?"

Looking at the illusory book in Charlotte's hand that "swallowed" the mark, jealousy, shock and fear appeared on the illusory face.

With a soft sound like glass breaking, it collapsed into cloud-like fragments in the golden-red flames, and was finally "swallowed" by the illusory book in Charlotte's hand.

"The original... fragments."

Charlotte was thoughtful and put away the manifested "Bible of Blood" in her hand.

After devouring the "blurred human face", she could feel that the blood scripture deep in her consciousness seemed to have become more perfect.

With a slight breath, Charlotte removed the empty divine power cage.

All the divine power was absorbed into the body, and calm returned to the palace.

But Charlotte’s mood was anything but calm:

"It just saw the Blood Sacred Scripture. It called the Blood Sacred Scripture a fragment of the original... So, the Blood Sacred Scripture is also part of the 'original'?"

"It wanted to leave some kind of mark in my body, but it failed because the Blood Sacred Scripture swallowed up its power."

"Its power is very similar to the gray-white mist behind the strange stone door. Are it and the power behind the stone door...both the original power?"

"And the mark it condenses... the trident, if I remember correctly, is the symbol of Oceanus, the Sea King. However... the mark it condenses is the same as the mark of Sea King I saw in the classics. It’s the other way around.”

"Its divine power has a bit of the feeling of the ocean, but... it feels very turbid, or in other words, chaotic."

"It says that it is Oceanus, the King of the Sea. Could it be that... it is really Oceanus, the King of the Sea? It's just that... it has been contaminated? Or... crazy?"

"And...it says 'we' at the end..."

"What does that mean? Does it mean that it is just one of the millions of consciousnesses of 'Sea King', or does it mean... that it means more 'contaminated' gods?"

Charlotte murmured, frowning.

Although she successfully solved the other party, her mood did not improve. On the contrary... it became even heavier.

"There's something wrong with Stargazer Kesi, there's something wrong with Scarlet Queen Rowena, the True Ancestor of Blood Lilith has been forgotten by all living beings, and Lilith's brother Harald only has the title of 'Lord of Creation'..." …”

"Now, even Sea King Oceanus, who was once as famous as the True Ancestor of Blood, is likely to have a problem."

"Is it possible...that there is something wrong with all the myths in this world?"

"The words of 'Sea King Oceanus' are not credible, but...if it is to deceive me, then the things he said cannot be all false. And if they are not all false, how far is it from the truth?"

"If something goes wrong with all the Shinhwas, how many of them are awake...?"

"Holy Advent...are it really just the gods who have awakened?"

The more Charlotte thought about it, the more she felt a little numb.

There are more than a thousand myths recorded in the Miria continent, and even today, there are countless well-known gods.

But since Charlotte became a demigod, any mythology she encountered turned out to be abnormal.

That's it once. If it happens every time, it's not her own problem.

Charlotte felt a sense of urgency.

Since becoming a demigod, she once again felt the urgency of the Sword of Damocles.

Becoming a myth doesn't mean you can rest easy.

Forgotten myths, crazy gods, twisted history...

Obviously, some secrets left over from the mythical age are the real danger behind the world of Miria.

This prosperous world seems normal, but in fact, it may have already been undercurrent.

"Whether 'it' is the 'crazy' Neptune or not, since it only sent out a ray of consciousness to explore, it means that the other party has no confidence in being able to capture me."

"But similarly, the fact that the other party dared to threaten me like this before disappearing means that the other party is definitely not weaker than me, and may even be stronger!"

"The good thing is that the Blood Sacred Scripture seems to have the power to suppress the opponent, and even the opponent's mark can be removed."

"But... it's not enough."

Thinking of this, Charlotte sank into consciousness and sensed the Blood Scripture again.

By "devouring" the consciousness of "Sea King", this vampire's supreme artifact has indeed become a step further, and even has the innate magic of the dark path for tracking and positioning.

Of course, for Charlotte now, she already knows enough magic.

One more is not too much, and one less is not too much.

But that's not the point.

The divine fire that penetrated deep into her heart, Charlotte sensed her divine power.

Different from every "swallowing" in the past, this time she eliminated the consciousness that was suspected to be Oceanus, the Sea King, and even benefited from the Blood Sacred Scripture, but her divine power did not increase but fell.

Or to be more precise, her divine power consumption is greater than her divine power absorption.

Although it didn't consume much, it also reminded Charlotte.

Her "devouring" does not always bring her positive benefits of divine power.

"It should be the price of destroying that 'consciousness'. It seems... not everything can be transformed into divine power, and it will be more difficult to erase the spiritual power at the mythical level."

"I have never been able to kill a god in the true sense. Even defeating the God of Hatred and Distortion only imprisoned him. Perhaps... killing a god is more difficult than I thought."

Charlotte thought.

"I... need to further enhance my strength as soon as possible."

"Demigod is not enough. Under Legend, as long as I am careful, it is very difficult for anyone to threaten my life. But above Legend, it is different..."

"Next, what I need to face will most likely be those secret mythical powers."

"I must be stronger. Even if I cannot become a true myth immediately, I must accumulate more divine power..."

Charlotte once again felt the desire to become stronger quickly.

Of course, she also knew that it would be more difficult to improve her strength as time goes by.

Even with a plug-in like the Blood Scripture, when Charlotte truly became a demigod, she clearly felt that her power growth began to slow down.

Charlotte also knows why. The energy intensity required by myths to increase their power far exceeds that of mortals. However, the current Miria continent is in a period of low magic power, and it is difficult to find the corresponding energy.

And the shortcut she could think of... was probably to go back in time and find the wool of the old gods of Miria that she could defeat.

"Take care of Luo Xing's many matters as soon as possible, and then...sleep early and go back to the past to find strength."

Charlotte said to herself.

…

In the following days, Charlotte accelerated her actions.

The situation in Falling Star Kingdom has basically been decided, and what remains are mainly secondary internal conflicts, the most critical of which are stabilizing the turmoil caused by the fusion of blood clans and accepting immigrants from the Free Tribe Alliance.

Regarding how to stabilize the turmoil caused by the integration of vampires, Charlotte also had very clear thoughts, which was nothing more than to appease and restrain the human nobles and vampires.

The most effective and reliable thing that can bring people together in a short period of time is naturally profit. Charlotte feels that she might be able to win over the Ness clan and the Hortosh clan to join the alchemy company she is planning.

This time, she really has to thank the Hortosh clan. The tribute of 250 million quintana is enough for her to win over all parties within the kingdom and invest in development and construction.

Of course, Charlotte left the more detailed work directly to the people below.

She is not a person who likes to do everything herself. She just needs to grasp the general direction, give people money, and leave the rest to professionals.

This is called knowing how to delegate power.

Of course, the reason why Charlotte dared to do this was because she held the core power.

As a demigod walking on the earth, no one in Falling Star Kingdom can truly disobey her.

Overall, although there are bumps and bumps, it shouldn't be difficult for the vampires to integrate into Falling Star society.

Half a month later, the first batch of immigrants from the Free Tribe Alliance officially arrived in the northern part of Falling Star Island, totaling 50,000 people.

Charlotte secretly followed the entire immigration process.

I have to say that Gale did have something. He handled the migration of tens of thousands of people in an orderly manner. Even from Charlotte's perspective, she couldn't find any big fault.

Of course, this is because Charlotte has given enough immigration funding.

Thanks again to the Hortosh clan for their contribution.

After the first resettlement, the rest is actually easy to handle. Everything is difficult at the beginning. Many things only need to be done for the first time and the subsequent repetitive tasks can be done with templates.

Charlotte didn't plan to pay attention anymore, leaving the rest to Duke Gale and the Dark Night Order.

Of course, these are all internal conflicts.

Outside Falling Star, the situation remains grim.

The Crescent Kingdom on the mainland is still eyeing the Roman Principality and the Castel Territory, and Luna Island in the North Sea has become the most dangerous place in Charlotte's mind right now.

Fortunately, the internal conflicts in the Crescent Kingdom have not been completely resolved. According to intelligence, Charlotte learned that Louis V was still suppressing and unifying the power of the nobles. At present, it seems that there is no intention to use troops against Roman and Castel. Intend.

But with Charlotte's understanding of the other party, she knew that the other party would definitely not give up, even now that she has signed a mutual defense treaty with the North.

Now the other party's calmness is just a kind of forbearance.

There is no solution to this matter, unless Charlotte really gives up her territory on the mainland.

But she did not intend to give up. The Roman Principality was an important crop producing area, and the Castel Territory was her treasury and hometown. As long as she wanted to continue to develop, she must not abandon it.

The only thing Charlotte could do was to reject the nobles' proposal to establish the "United Kingdom of Fallen Star and Castells", and not to touch Louis V's nerves for the time being, pretending that she was both a vassal of the Crescent Moon and a vassal of the new moon. The Fallen Star King can only delay this for one day.

Of course, there should still be a few months of stability, and Charlotte probably could still take the opportunity to get some sleep.

As long as she can improve her strength after waking up, plus the various arrangements she made after spending money, she should still be able to compete with the Crescent Kingdom.

In fact, what really gives Charlotte a headache is Luna Island.

But Charlotte didn't dare to investigate rashly.

She personally conducted a survey on Luna Island, but the results were not good.

Even her spiritual sense was vaguely warning her that she must not go to Luna Island now.

If she didn't go herself, let alone send someone, Charlotte simply acted as Queen of Fallen Star and temporarily closed the northern border to Luna Island.

Of course, this is not a long-term solution. Even if the border is closed, as long as the "thing" on the island wants to come over, Charlotte can't stop it.

Charlotte just wanted to delay, relying on the other party's fear of her, until she could "wake up".

By the time Charlotte had everything settled, it was almost a month later.

After explaining all the affairs after her sleep to Sebastian, Nice, Yurst, Bardock and Margot, Charlotte once again lay down in the black coffin prepared by Sebastian. .