I Am Louis XIV

  Chapter 298 The relationship between Madame Aubigne and the world and the Roman Church (2)

Carlos II was lying on the bed. Even when he was lying, he was like a cat and a dog who died in a ditch. His face was hideous, his hands and feet were stiff, and his body was twisted. Even if he often shared with deformed beasts and resurrected carrion. The dark wizards in one place couldn't help but feel a wave of disgust. They had mocked Leopold I's greed more than once in private. In order to win an ally and the throne of Spain, he would rather let his eldest daughter stay as an adult. into such a nightmare.

   But at this time, they naturally behaved very respectfully, and the dark wizard headed up raised the potion bottle, "Just in case," he said, "please hold his hands and feet down."

   "Will this potion make him suffer?" asked the Queen Mother.

"If I say yes, will you give up?" the dark wizard sneered, and then said like a saving grace: "Of course, you are a mother, but no medical method will make the patient feel comfortable, bleeding , guanchang or using a soldering iron, these potions will remove the turbid impurities in his body, increase the mucus in his brain, reduce the chance of his seizures, and increase his yellow bile and black bile, so that his The body can get hot, and there is blood, this potion will make his blood moist, like some seeds need to be soaked in water to germinate, so that his seeds can become strong, in the queen's belly Rooted and sprouted.”

This kind of explanation, which would sound like a babble in a dream to people hundreds of years later, reassured the Queen Mother—or she had to feel reassured, and she stepped back from the bed. "I can't," she mourned. Said, "I can't see my child suffer, let the servants do it."

"I have prepared a few servants," said the regent. He and the Queen Mother looked at each other and knew each other well that the servants who should be summoned were just peasants from a remote farm. Big, little knowledgeable, they don't even know that the master, wife and priest in the room are the queen mother and the regent. They even regard the wizard in black robe as a priest. They think about the reward of one silver coin for each person, and press There lived the little master lying on the bed,

In the eyes of the farmer, this little master is also like a devil - when he is poured into the potion, he becomes more like when he struggles. The skinny legs stretched out from the gap, because Carlos II rarely walked, these legs were not as good as a chicken or a rabbit to the farmers, they read the name of God and waited for the people under them. No longer struggling, the "priest" master came over cautiously and tried his breath. They were afraid to step away. After they filed out, the regent nodded lightly, and the guards at the door went after him. Of course, These people must all die here, not one left.

In any case, the Habsburgs have now replaced France and become the sons of the Roman church. In order to prove their piety, the kings of Spain never dared to openly drive wizards. The wizards in Spain are like a group of people who are driven out everywhere. The wild dog, but it's all over, the dark wizards won't be stupid enough to cure Carlos completely once. No, it should be said that they are not treating Carlos, they are just taking shortcuts. It is much easier to make Carlos II an inhuman than to make him a healthy person.

In the wizard's potion there is the blood of vampires, werewolves and chimeras mixed with belladonna, mandala and some unspeakable materials, it must be said that this is also a method that requires courage, skill and talent , Because of a slight error, Carlos II did not wail and twist his body and limbs as he is now, but died immediately.

Carlos II has many similarities with Alfonso VI who died not long ago, like the equivalent of half a prisoner, a weak body, lost the most important ability of men, etc., but Carlos II is more What was inferior to Alfonso VI was that his mind and thoughts were inferior to that of a three-year-old child. He couldn't understand what had just happened. All he knew was that he was in pain, sadness, and wanted to vomit. Black, hard and sharp, his bones disappeared or grew under the skin, his heart even jumped out of the gap in his ribs, squirming under the thin skin, he stretched out his sharp nails and grabbed the sheets, Chaos shouted for mother and Don Juan, but none of them dared to step forward.

   "Soon." The dark wizard said immediately when he saw the Queen Mother staring at them.

The pain of Carlos II continued from late at night to the second night. The mutation did not stop. The bed was full of feces, urine, sweat and blood stains. The Queen Mother and the Regent had to go to the next room to sleep first. The dark wizards were watched by the priests of Toledo, and could only endure Carlos' cries and ****. Fortunately, a few hours ago, this venerable majesty could not make too much noise. sound up,

A dark wizard stepped forward to check the king's condition: "He is getting better." He said, indeed, the mutation in Carlos is slowly decreasing, which means that the part of him who is human has been used as the part of the monster. Partially swallowed, of course, the dark wizards wouldn't tell anyone in the room truthfully, they exchanged glances eerily, and Carlos II wasn't the first mortal to receive this potion.

Open the file of the Inquisition, and you will see that many people who used to be gentle and humble seem to have become terrible rumors of the devil overnight. Sometimes they are just rumors, and sometimes they are masterpieces of dark wizards. It was General Gilles de Rice, who fought bravely against the British under Joan of Arc, and Madame Elizabeth Bartoli, who was known for her wit and wit before her marriage and before her husband died.

It is not groundless to call wizards the servants of the devil, wizards, especially dark wizards, think that mortals are nothing more than their cattle and sheep, whether they are slaughtered, sacrificed, or used for Experiments are their honor. Most of them are evil by nature, like Bosch, who often force mortals to make all kinds of terrible choices-they disdain using force or magic to force mortals to drink this potion, just make it clear that they are being The "facts" they tamper with, these mortals will be desperate to pounce.

   Of course, who is not afraid of old age and death?

There is also a situation such as Carlos II. His life and death are not his own business, but directly related to Spain and the Holy Roman Empire. Especially the dark wizards have shown that not only can Carlos prolong his life, but also make When he was in the same room with a woman and had offspring, the hearts of the Queen Mother and the Regent immediately tilted to the side of the balance.

They probably don't care too much about the suffering of Carlos II. The dark wizards can even guess that they may have been prepared. If Carlos II is still unable to escape death, they are also prepared. I just don't know if it's Leopold I of the Holy Roman Empire or Louis XIV of France...

In this dark room, Carlos II woke up. For the first time, his lungs were fully inflated. He inhaled a mouthful of turbid air. If he were an ordinary person, he would immediately cough violently. He felt very uncomfortable. Cozy - Although he didn't know what "cozy" was at this time, for the first time he could sleep against the bed without being pushed by the arched shoulder blades, he stretched his limbs, his fingernails ripped through the sheets, he turned his ears sideways After listening, go ahead and tear them apart.

The dark wizards noticed it before the curtain was torn. The leading dark wizard cautiously approached the bed under the "accompaniment" of the priest. He saw Carlos' face under the shaking candle, although the Habsburgs were the most distinctive. The huge jaw is still there, but a strange feeling arises—because Carlos II is smiling at him, just smile, and he falls asleep again.

If the Queen Mother and the Regent were here and saw this smile and those eyes, they would have expected something bad, but there are only priests and dark wizards who are not familiar with Carlos II. Los II was originally just a dull idiot, indifferent to the curiosity in those eyes - when Carlos II woke up again, it would be another week later.

  ——

  Louis squeezed the secret letter from Toledo and sighed softly.

   He remembered the predictions, and perhaps the accusations, made by Madame Aubigne in the previous conversation.

The history of wizards, in fact, is longer than that of the Roman Church, no, even longer than their Saviour, because as early as BC, wizards were like water infiltrating the soil, inseparable from the lives of mortals, but then they Not even wizards, they are elders, priests, shamans, attendants and messengers of the gods, the earliest believers of polytheism, they have extraordinary power to shock, panic and obey those mortals, they once mastered With great power, kings must bow to them, or become one with them, just like Sumer and Egypt.

Even the earliest princes, bishops, and popes of the church were once these Beyonders. They were originally separated from wizards, so various holy miracles continued to appear, and the ones recorded in the Bible , all kinds of terrible or painful wars, can almost be seen as two forces belonging to the wizard fighting each other - whether it is the Egyptians, the Romans, or any race that dares to confront God.

Louis remembered asking if it was because there were differences among wizards too - they obviously wanted to rule mortals differently, and Madame Aubigne gave a positive answer, but they probably didn't expect it, but for a few hundred years, Not only did they fail to become true gods, they became slaves to mortals. At least in AD 300 (AD 300), the church has had 200 bishops, which means 200 dioceses, but since then, there have been very few saints who can show holy signs. In the future, only posthumous canonizations were allowed, and from that time, some people began to forge holy miracles.

What does this show? It can only be said that since then, the power of Beyonders in the church has become weak.

Louis once said that Merlin was the last fight of the wizards, and he almost succeeded. It's no wonder that the wizards still regard him as a saint, but Merlin failed in the end. He was imprisoned by his disciples in the boulder. Reminiscent of the cornerstone of wizards—his results may not be so great.

Then, what about the Extraordinary who founded the church, they would not have thought that their descendants would be reduced to become soldiers hired by mortals, and the price is low-Louis does not know how the church did it, but from Elah From a brief perspective, even if those priests were born in the inner world, they could not get rid of the curse-like idea instillation—they also vaguely realized that their power might come from the same source as the sorcerer, but not only did they not get close to the sorcerer because of this, but they became more and more I hate these... the servants of the devil, I hope to use my piety and life to wash away the sins I was born with...

The reason why Elarius was Elalius was because he met Bishop Mazarin, a smart man who was more like a politician than the prince in red. Once he opened the dark curtain, he wanted to see and admit the relationship between himself and his relatives. Stupidity is not difficult.

But the Church of Rome is not without trump cards. Without Elaius, they would still have Francis, Sibelian, Cornelius and Dominican... The reason why they are willing to negotiate with Louis XIV is not because they have anything to do with him. Fear (so they say) - "You know," said Madame Aubigny, "that the son of King Charles II of England was born into this world because his father took the wizard's potion."

   "It's a little unfair," Louis replied at once: "I have no right to order a king."

"But what a bad example you have set." Madame Aubigne said: "Look, before you, even if the wizards came and went in and out of the court, the kings and powerful ministers deliberately kept away from these servants of the devil. Man's intrigue and women's skirts, but what about you, how did you do it? You let them go from behind the scenes to the front without fear, you let those kings and archdukes see the good, they saw that you were How to use wizards and profit from them, of course, will follow suit."

"The more important thing is that the Roman Church has lost its deterrent power to the kings." Louis said softly, and Madame Aubigne immediately pursed her lips so as not to show her anger: "When I first sent the wizards to Dunque It was a mistake that the church didn't give me a great excommunication when I was in Erke or Flanders."

"Yes, it was a big mistake, and my grandfather thought so too," said Madame Aubigne, "but no one would have thought that a mortal man could be so greedy..." She paused abruptly: " My grandfather said something quite absurd, Your Majesty."

"Please say."

   "You have no faith, do you, Your Majesty?"

   (end of this chapter)