Father Mavie

Chapter 613 Underground Prison Cage (Two in One, please subscribe!!!)
The huge cage and the tunnel are integrated into a whole, covered by the black curtain, like the howling of wild beasts one after another, which makes people shudder.

Archbishop Brandon walked to the cage and waved his arms: "Open the door!"

The demon hunter who was in charge of guarding the cage saw that the visitor was Archbishop Brandon. He quickly uncovered the shady scene, took out the key and opened the huge door lock. According to Mavi's observation, there should be only one exit from this cage. It is underground in London, and there is only one way to leave.

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The heavy iron door was slowly opened, and a stench like the smell of a wild beast rushed in. Ma Wei frowned, took out a handkerchief to cover his mouth and nose, and walked in behind Archbishop Brandon.

The ground is wet, the Houses of Parliament is located on the banks of the Thames, and the Church of Eden is not far from the Thames, causing the tunnel to be wet all year round and emit an unpleasant smell of mud.

Archbishop Brandon changed the ring again and put on a gold ring. When the magic power poured in, he clapped his hands together and heard two 'pops'. It was embedded on the top of the cage, and the moonstone used for lighting suddenly shot out dazzlingly. With a cold white light, the entire cage was illuminated in an instant.

This is a giant cage with five floors above and below. The Church of the Three Goddesses of Destiny dug out the ground and opened up the height enough to build a five-story house. The iron cages are stacked together, like stacked towers, or like Rectangular building blocks are built one after the other, spreading forward. I don't know how deep it is, and I don't know how many extraordinary creatures are imprisoned.

There is a nameplate on each iron gate, on which is written the information of the imprisoned supernatural creatures, such as the sun wolf tribe, the phosphorus fire horse, and the night dire. Countless violent and hard-to-catch supernatural creatures appeared in front of Mavi. The box kept vibrating, as if sensing a majestic gathering of magic power.

Many iron prisons are still empty. The iron prisons with supernatural creatures are only a hundred or so. Compared with the underground cages with thousands of cells, the vacancy rate has reached 90%.

"At the beginning, we underestimated how tricky these extraordinary creatures are." Archbishop Brandon walked to an iron prison, and lifted the black cloth covering it. Inside was an illusory, footless monster floating in the air, wearing a Wearing a tattered black cloak, he wandered back and forth in the iron prison, looking anxious, and the jaw that was occasionally exposed was as haggard as dry bark.

"Nicholas of the Nightmare, have you heard of it?"

"Extraordinary creatures that enter dreams and eat their souls." Mavi nodded, saying that he had heard of it before: "During the day, when there is sunlight, the night-gaunts will parasitize the creatures, and they will not go out until night falls. It can penetrate into the body of other creatures, induce them to fall asleep, and secretly absorb the soul power of the other party. It belongs to the undead family of the subordinate sequence of the undead, and it is the condensate of the resentful spirits after the death of creatures."

Archbishop Brandon said in surprise: "You really know it. It seems that you should have come into contact with similar classics. That's right. The Nightmare tribe is a branch of the Undead tribe. This extraordinary creature is extremely difficult to catch. They will lurk in the human body , the concealment is extremely high, it is difficult to be discovered, and even if it is discovered, common physical methods will not be effective against it.”

While talking, Archbishop Brandon suddenly grinned: "As I said just now, the church underestimated the difficulty of these extraordinary creatures. The construction of this cage started more than a year ago, and it was only a month ago It's almost finished, but until a month ago, the Church captured no more than 20 live Transcendent creatures."

"Extraordinary creatures with independent thoughts are not ordinary beasts." Ma Wei said: "They are more cunning and stronger than beasts, but they also have strong self-esteem and arrogance. Killing them is much easier than capturing them alive .”

"Yes." Archbishop Brandon nodded and said, "Many times, these extraordinary creatures, such as those in desperate situations, will fight the demon hunters to the death. They would rather die than be captured alive. We often only get their corpses, but This was all rewritten a month ago!"

Archbishop Brandon looked at the night-gaunt in the cage with fiery eyes, and said excitedly: "The blood of mercury! We have discovered the potion to restrain these extraordinary creatures! It is the blood of mercury brought by you, Nicholas!"

"The blood of mercury has a natural restraint on these extraordinary creatures! Relying on the blood of mercury, the church captured hundreds of extraordinary creatures within a month!"

Junia asked curiously at this time: "Father said that the blood of quicksilver has no effect on extraordinary creatures with pure soul bodies. This night-gaunt is an undead and belongs to the pure soul body. Can the blood of quicksilver work?"

"This is about the characteristics of the night-dire tribe!" Archbishop Brandon patiently explained: "The night-dire tribe is an extraordinary creature with special characteristics. They cannot survive independently and must be parasitic on creatures. Blood injected into the body of the possessed creature can affect it!"

In the iron prison where Night Dire was held, there was still a small cage. Inside the cage was a fat mouse the size of a palm. However, this mouse had a pale beard and was curled up motionless in a corner. It was obviously at the end of its life.

"Under this underground cage, the church has set up a giant forbidden magic circle. As long as you come here, you can't leave by magic, you can only use physical means." Archbishop Brandon smiled: "But we will regularly give these extraordinary Creatures are injected with quicksilver blood to make sure they don't have enough strength to escape!"

The location of the giant cage is London, only a few hundred meters away from St. Paul's Cathedral, and next to it is the headquarters of the demon hunter. If extraordinary creatures escape from prison, the demon hunter will respond immediately and recapture them.

"They are all the property of the church!" Archbishop Brandon said loudly: "There are always some collectors who like to hunt for novelties, and they are willing to spend huge sums of money to buy live extraordinary creatures to watch at home. This is one of the ways for the church to make money. In the future We plan to incubate and domesticate these extraordinary creatures, try to make them less irritable, and cultivate them as pets for the upper class!"

Facing Mavi, who has become the official potion distributor of the church, Archbishop Brandon did not hide the secrets of the church's business. These things were supposed to be discussed with Mavi, but if he didn't make it clear, how would he cooperate with other kingdoms in the future?

It was Archbishop Camberley who doubted Mavie's identity, and Archbishop Brandon believed in his own judgment. He was sure that Mavie was not a spy sent by other churches!
Incubation and domestication of extraordinary creatures is a method that humans have always used well. In the long river of time, humans have domesticated and incubated too many species, and now they are eyeing extraordinary creatures.

Extraordinary creatures are inherently powerful. Under the same circumstances, human beings are definitely no match for extraordinary creatures. Mavi doesn’t think it’s a good idea to domesticate extraordinary creatures. First of all, extraordinary creatures have independent thoughts, and it’s hard to figure out the existence of independent thoughts. The second is that extraordinary creatures are like a time bomb, which might explode one day and hurt innocent people.

It's like domesticating a black bear, even if it is raised from a young age, it is difficult to guarantee that the other party will not become violent one day.

Genes engraved in the bones are difficult to change.

It's better to be sparse than to be blocked. Ma Wei led the Church of Truth to adopt a policy of naturalization, not forced slavery.

But then again.
Slavery was originally invented by these upper-class people, and the United States of America next door has not yet gotten rid of slavery and plantation economy!
"For the disobedient wolves, we will kill the grass and root them out, leaving only obedient dogs!" Archbishop Brandon and Marvey walked around the huge cage, observing the imprisoned extraordinary creatures: "The violent ones, we will Kill it and turn it into a potion material. If it is weak, we will keep it and breed it, and then cultivate the newly born extraordinary creatures separately, instilling them with the idea of ​​obeying humans. Over time, we will definitely get An obedient, supernatural creature that obeys orders!"

"But isn't this a slave?" Junia frowned, "Slavery has been abolished long ago!"

"Human slaves, of course we abolished them." Archbishop Brandon looked at her a little strangely: "Supernatural creatures are not human, they are no different from animals! Humans can use horses as mounts, and they can also domesticate them! I don't Think of them as slaves, they can only be regarded as pets and domestic animals at best! They cannot be compared with humans!"

People who are not of my race must have different hearts, and even the idea of ​​human supremacy is the policy implemented by the Church of the Three Goddesses of Destiny. In fact, there is nothing wrong with it. After all, the Church of the Three Goddesses of Fate is composed of human beings, and it is normal for humans to be the core. Even the Church of Truth, which pursues seeking common ground while reserving differences, and unites the world, inevitably favors human beings in terms of policies.

However, this does not mean that Ma Wei regards extraordinary creatures with independent thinking as domestic animals and pets. In Ma Wei's eyes, any existence with feelings, independent thinking, and the concept of right and wrong can be called a "human being".

Junia, who had been influenced by Mavey for a long time, did not agree with Archbishop Brandon's remarks, but she didn't say much. It was meaningless to continue arguing, and it would be easy to expose.

"Nicholas, how much do you think a Sun Wolf Clan can sell for?"

Archbishop Brandon stopped in front of an iron prison, and lifted the black cloth covering the cage, where a dirty female werewolf was imprisoned.

"This"

Ma Wei couldn't give an answer for a while, he didn't understand the market and cost at all, wouldn't it be nonsense to just open his mouth?

"The price given by the church is 500 gold pounds!" Archbishop Brandon said: "In order to capture it, the church paid the price of two bottles of mercury blood, plus manpower, material resources and other miscellaneous items, the cost is about 120 gold Although werewolves are ugly and hairy, there are always some customers who like it. Don’t get me wrong Nicholas, Goddess, I definitely don’t have this habit.”

"I can understand the psychology of seeking novelty, but if you sleep with a female werewolf, aren't you afraid of being backlashed?" Ma Wei was shocked by the buyer's thoughts. Although he had seen similar things before, every time he saw them, he still couldn't help but feel jealous. surprise.

"I do not know either."

Archbishop Brandon shrugged his shoulders: "When we buy living supernatural creatures in the church, we usually give a bottle of quicksilver blood and teach the buyer how to use quicksilver blood. The sun wolf clan will become human during the day, maybe Buyers want to experience it?"

"But if it's during the day when the sun wolf tribe is weakest, what's the difference from ordinary humans?"

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Archbishop Brandon couldn't answer that question, he really didn't know.

"Nicholas, I brought you here today because I want the Manstein Potion Company to start the same business." Archbishop Brandon put the question behind him.

"Buying and selling extraordinary creatures?"

"Yes." Archbishop Brandon nodded heavily: "This business can be called huge profits. Of course, it is certainly not as profitable as selling potions, but who would think that there is too much money? Are you right?"

"Well"

After thinking for a moment, Ma Wei said, "I think it's better not to start this business in the Manstein Potion Company."

"Why?" Archbishop Brandon looked puzzled: "Don't you want to make money, Nicholas?"

"Because I want to make money, I don't want to get involved in this business."

Ma Wei said with a serious look: "Many of the channels of the Manstein Potion Company conduct transactions through fixed connectors, and some of these connectors have contact with extraordinary creatures. Simply put, the reason why I can engage in I got so many rare potion materials because of the help of extraordinary creatures! I provide them with the materials they need, and they give me the materials, it's as simple as that!"

"If these extraordinary creatures learn about the news that the Manstein Potion Company has started trading extraordinary creatures, what will they think? Will they still cooperate with our company? How can they make money if the channel is cut off?"

"Archbishop, you also said just now that the profits from buying and selling extraordinary creatures are far less than those from selling potions! Demand determines the market!"

If extraordinary creatures are compared to pets, then potions are medicines. Although the pet market is huge, it is nothing compared to the medicine market.

Taking a step back, comparing sleepy toast to cigarettes, isn’t the annual market net profit of cigarettes far exceeding that of the pet market?

Mavi would definitely not do such a stupid thing as picking up sesame seeds and throwing watermelons. Besides, he did not approve of the move of the Church of the Three Fates to buy and sell extraordinary creatures, and he did not want to participate at all.

This is not only to protect one's own bottom line, but also to protect the image of the Church of Truth in the minds of superhuman races such as snake people, tree people, and blood races.

Ma Wei cannot let the trust that has been built up with great difficulty collapse overnight.

"Well, since you are determined to do so, I can't force you."

The proposal was rejected. Archbishop Brandon felt a little disappointed, but he soon cheered up: "Let the church operate independently for the sale and purchase of extraordinary creatures. The Manstein Potion Company will still operate exclusively according to the previous policy. Potion."

"At the regular Congress in two days, the church and the kingdom will discuss the first phase of the potion bill. The Pope told me to let you participate together."

"I?"

"That's right, you are now the potion distributor of the church. We don't know if many policies will affect you. In order to avoid misunderstandings, you should also participate in the drafting of the bill and strive for favorable terms for the company, so that nothing will go wrong. !"

(End of this chapter)