I Am Louis XIV

  Chapter 256 The Rebellion of Gayola Island

   Cayola Island.

  In these two decades, not only has France changed like a world upside down, but the island of Gayola has also changed.

The largest inner world in the Italian wizarding world was originally a loose alliance similar to Switzerland or the Netherlands. A parliament composed of several large families controlled the economy and politics - now the Mancini family controls the entire island. , other families can only hold their breath. The Duchess of Colonna's reputation on the island is not very good, after all, she and the wizards of the Mancini family were like a pack of greedy hyenas when the inner world was integrated.

It’s just that the Mancini family had already served the king at that time. Although the wizards were proud of their talents, they also needed food, clothing, housing, and transportation. It is no exaggeration to say that before Louis entered the inner world, only the direct-line wizards of the big family could live on Gayola Island. To be happy, the wizards other than them can only compete with each other. Dark creatures such as werewolves and vampires have almost no place to stand, and the source family of the Inquisition cultivator is on the same level as them.

Everyone must admit that the Mancinis were indeed cruel when it came to excluding their dissidents, but their king gave new hope to the wizards of Gayola, and cotton, wheat and steel from the outside world were sent in endlessly. Gayola, Gayola's looming crisis is finally showing signs of passing.

The young wizards were elated, scrambled to become part of the "special company of the royal guard" or hired by the king, and they didn't even return to Cayola, but settled in Calais, and now perhaps Orleans, Yes, it is too cruel for these vigorous young people to always be imprisoned on an island of frozen class.

But this is not a good thing for the original big family of Gayola Island. The authority they originally established on ordinary wizards is like gold and silver in their pockets, and they are gone forever - you may still I remember what Louis saw with his own eyes, in the wizard's house, the exchange system in the World Bank is close to a monopoly, with meager salaries and scarce positions. Although they can guarantee survival, they are just like a small residence like a hive. Bloody but single entertainment, no , to be more precise, it's more like a paralysis of yourself.

All of this, before Louis quietly launched the strangulation of Gayola, was commonplace, and was thought by these large families to continue for hundreds or thousands of years, but it was like a closed In a dark room, as long as someone opens a gap so that the people inside can see the light and breathe fresh air, they will not hesitate to abandon the "gift" of the big family.

Compared with the island that Louis saw, the current Gayola Island has become much quieter, or it can be dead silent, because a large number of ordinary wizards have left Gayola Island, only the palace of the Colonna family It was still brightly lit, because Mancini's army of wizards was stationed there, guarding the little Duke and Duchess of Colonna.

Large families who have lost their people - they once owned banks, and now there are no longer people to exchange and deposit in banks - wizards used to be unable to gain a foothold in the outside world, even if they were hired by mortals or made money, they had to return Cayola, but now these sorcerers have Calais, where wizards live with mortals who pretend to know nothing, exchanging heavy gold and silver for spacious, clean dwellings and plentiful food; they once Owns a newspaper office and bookstore, but now unless the big family is willing to take out their collection, there will be no customers, because the hateful king, even if he doesn't want to be a wizard, buys all the books he can buy The taverns, restaurants and even the market they once owned were very few... Although the wizards would brew strange and hallucinatory wines and raise strange Birds and lambs, or weaving fabrics with magical powers, but these things are not what people need every day, only occasionally wizards try one or two nostalgically - they finally understand why wizards thousands of years ago would stand firm. The lower cornerstone wall strictly excludes mortals.

  Wizards have talents that surpass mortals, but they still have the weakness of human nature. The king did not even drive the army, only put the power of interests and choices in front of them, and they were defeated without a fight.

   Or it should be said that some families are willing to admit defeat, some are not.

  Agnelli, Rocca, Gagne, Dante, Delon and Bufandi, these six families, they were once equal to Mancini, even higher than Mancini.

After Merlin's failure, the church searched for wizards everywhere. It was Agnelli and Rocca who found Gayola, Dante, Gagne and Delon to prepare a large number of ships, while Bufandi and Mancini were only hired by them. Wizards - After they moved to Gayola, the first grand president was Agnelli, and Mancini almost didn't make it to the council.

If the Mancini family had not accidentally reproduced the cursed or blessed bloodline, not only did they gain a seat in the parliament with their special ability that neither men nor women could resist, but they also recruited many powerful members to be able to It has been developing smoothly so far.

But if they can really occupy an unquestionably important position on the island of Gayola, the Mancini family will not need to seek a way out - when the influx is serious, not only ordinary wizards will be affected, but even wizards' The upper levels were also turbulent. Delon and Gagne once had a fierce conflict with the Mancini family.

When the Mancini family became relatives with a cardinal, the other families just laughed it off. They are not the Mancini family. They still have sidelines in Tuscany and Naples, and it is not that there is no way out - After the Mancini family's daughter became the Duchess of Colonna, they were still laughing at the Mancini family being fooled by an alien wizard, even if the man was a king, but who among them had never seen a king? Kings are also mortals and can never be compared to a wizard.

No one could have imagined that there was a mortal king who indulged his ambitions and surpassed the reverence that an ordinary person should have for wizards and the world - he actually regarded Gayola as his own possession. , just like Caesar saw a strange land, and didn't care what beasts inhabited there, what people lived there, and what gods he believed in, he would conquer it when he saw it.

  The Mancini family has fallen into his sword and hound.

   They became prey.

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In the darkest night, in the arena of wizards - perhaps this is the only place where the atmosphere (in the daytime) can still be maintained, neither in Calais nor anywhere else in France Such a place to take pleasure in blood and life. But at night, it is not only cold and dark, but there are always souls who are unwilling to leave. Although there are few wizards in the arena, there are always magical creatures with wisdom thrown in, such as werewolves, low Rank vampires, unicorns or spirits, when there are enough people, wizards will cast spells every night in the arena to drive away ghosts, but since the wizards all go to work for the king, the frequency of this work has been reduced to once a week .

  No one knew that this was done on purpose, in order to disperse the wizards who might appear here rashly.

Ghosts were crying, even the purest unicorns made creepy chirps, werewolves dragged their stomachs, hordes of spirits were crawling on the ground like toads... Ordinary wizards just need to go You will be entangled in here. But just at the bottom of the auditorium, in the corridor where the beasts and werewolves who participated in the gladiatorial battle were pushed out, a torch that kept going day and night suddenly jumped, the flame burst, and the light illuminated the entire dark stone passage. After disappearing, a square-faced wizard strode out of the flames.

As soon as he stood still, he took out the wand he carried with him and waved it a few times. After confirming that there was no other wizard except him, his face relaxed a little. He put away the wand, took out a bottle, and slowly poured water on the ground. - The water flow suddenly expanded from being as thin as a finger to a width of three feet, and then contracted out her legs, waist and neck. A female wizard emerged from the water. She walked out of the water curtain, looked around, and nodded to the male wizard. : "Thank you, Senator Agnelli."

   "Hands up," Agnelli said, "but call me monsieur, Madame Gagne. Does Gayola still have a parliament? That's just a laughing stock."

"It really doesn't look like Agnelli said that." Another voice joined them, and the two wizards immediately clenched their wands, but their shoulders relaxed, "Mr. Delon." Agnelli said, "I recommend that you still don't - approach people without warning, especially at this moment."

   "I'm not afraid of Mancini." Delong said, he also came here by water, but he took the sewer channel of the arena - it is said that this channel is only known to Delong, the owner of the arena.

   "But we must fear the king," said Madame Gagne.

   "He's just a mortal." Delon snorted softly.

"He already knows where the island of Gayola is, and even if he can't see or hear, he can still keep his fleet swirling across the sea, blocking all our trade, you don't think we have The work of the souls will satisfy the appetites of the people of Gayola," Agnelli said.

   "How many people are there in Gayola now? One-third, one-fifth, or one-tenth?" Madame Gagne asked.

They fell into a brief silence, and after a few minutes Agnelli looked to the sky, to the ground, then to his magic pocket watch, which made it never go wrong, but no one came: "It seems we are the only ones. ."He says.

   "Roca's owner is only fifteen years old, Dante is extinct, and Bufandi seems to be willing to become Mancini's tool."

"If it's just for Mancini, we won't mind, but Mancini is just a puppet of mortals." Agnelli said solemnly, "Our ancestors gave up everything in the mortal world and entered the inner world, just not willing to Being manipulated by people below them, the Mancini family broke our promise."

   "They can only see interest," Delon said jokingly: "Maybe there is love."

   "Mancini has the Duke of Colonna, and the king said that this duke will not only have Gayola in the future."

   "Yes, compared to Gayola, the outside world is so big," Madame Gagne sighed: "But we only have Gayola."

   "Then are you ready," Agnelli's eyes shifted from Madame Gagne to Delon: "We will face the king's wrath."

"As long as he quits Gayola, there will be nothing to lose." Madame Gagne said: "The Duke of Colonna and the Duke of Colonna are not on the island, and my friend is sure that the Duke of Colonna is seriously injured. , it takes at least three months to move freely, and it is his mother, the Duchess of Colonna, who is hurting him - she is crazy, the king will not let her out, and the Mancinians are now leaderless."

   "This is good news, but you are still reluctant to tell us, who is that friend of yours?" Delon asked tentatively.

"I can only say that he is the enemy of Mancini," Madame Gagne said. "We made a soul oath. I cannot tell you who he is. I can only guarantee that he must be the enemy of the Mancini family. ."

   "He's a wizard?" Delon asked.

   "I can't tell," said Madame Gagne. ,

   "Don't ask," Agnelli said, and since Madame Gagne could only see with "he", the oath must be very strict and heavy: "Can you trust him?"

   "The Duchess of Colonna and the little duke are indeed not in Gayola," Madame Gagne said.

  Agnelli stopped speaking, the matter had come to this point, he couldn't hold back any longer, "Then, Delon."

"I'm..." Delon turned around, raised his wand, and the torches on the corridor lit up one by one. In the depths of the darkness, waves of commotion followed by a strong **** smell, irritable A whimper and an angry roar reached the ears of Madame Gagne and Mister Agnelli. Behind the corridor, there was a row of huge iron cages, which contained sphinxes, werewolves, manticores, chimeras, nightmares... You can see all the ferocious beasts and magical creatures in the world here. They all wear collars around their necks. Every time Deron swings his wand, the runes on the collars light up, and every flicker takes away part of his sanity. —Cages like this exist in the seven corridors of the arena.

"What a great loss," said Delon, "why would that mortal refuse to become a wizard, I 'heard' from Morfa that he was no less gifted than any man in the Mancini family. At that time, the Mancini family was also willing to accept such a foreign wizard and let him be Mary's husband."

   "Morfa with you?" Madame Gagne asked in surprise: "Is he still alive?"

"Alive, but he would definitely prefer to die." Delon said, "By the way, I asked him this question too. Do you know what he said? He told me that the mortal didn't bother to be a wizard. ," he laughed. "How is that possible? Yes," he said as if to himself: "How could anyone not want to be a wizard?"

His eyes flashed in the light of the torches: "Magic..." he whispered, then retreated into the darkness, Agnelli threw a flame and disappeared with Madame Gagne, the cage opened, and the beasts and magical creatures rushed inside. When they came out, they galloped, jumped, or flew. Driven by the magic of Delong, their master, they rushed towards the palace of the Mancini family!

   (end of this chapter)