I Am Louis XIV

  Chapter 408 The Research Institute of Blazer Castle (Part 1)

  The king also came to Blazer Castle in secret after disguising himself in micro clothes. Blazer Castle was chosen by the king for a reason, because beneath it, is soft limestone, and since it was built in the early twelfth century, the owner has been digging beneath it—storage rooms, patrolling dark passages, Underground workshops, kitchens and even bakeries, ice cellars and other useful caves, etc. Before Louis XIV decided to open the castle, it already had three floors of underground buildings, and the bottom floor was connected to the moat, with a depth of about 54 feet. , can get both water and drainage.

After this place has been renovated, in addition to never seeing the light of day and the air is turbid, it is no worse than the shacks or basements of ordinary urban poor people. Wizards and some daring human doctors and soldiers work here in shifts. They spoke very little, and the sign language they had learned from the sorcerer circulated quickly. When Louis entered the passage accompanied by Vesalius and Bufandi's big parents, the guards first looked at them vigilantly, and after verifying their identities, bowed deeply, and pulled up the iron gate to allow them to go further.

The limestone cave passage has only been roughly polished, and the wizard's fluorescent plants and torches complement each other. According to the requirements of the police, the facial features of the person on the opposite side must be clearly visible within 30 feet-because the werewolf jumped at least 20 feet. The guards are equipped with crossbows and muskets, and the range is 50 feet away. The distance of 30 feet can ensure that they can shoot twice in a row. In such a narrow passage, the huge body of the werewolf can guarantee these two arrows or bullets. There is no chance of misses.

Louis raised his head and looked at the zenith above. This height allows humans to come and go calmly, but he is not very friendly to the werewolves after the change. He has seen werewolves with his own eyes. The place is like an armored, spiked chariot—perhaps with this in mind, the wizards who are more familiar with werewolves haven't developed underground caves and passages too much, and they probably only walked a few hundred feet, and passed through several iron gates.

"Please allow me..." When he was about to arrive at his destination, a wizard came forward with a bottle of potion in his hand. Vesalius recognized that he was a child of the Delong family. Delong's parent once Participated in the conspiracy to assassinate Marie Mancini and shake his rule, but not everyone in Delong is willing to support him, not to mention in the big family, those who have talent but are unhappy because of being a sidekick Too many people.

  The talent of the Delong family is to tame magical creatures and beasts. Werewolves were once allies of wizards, but they were soon reduced to the position of livestock.

This is not surprising. Among the three dark races of werewolves, wizards and vampires, werewolves can be said to be the race with the most animal nature. Hunter-Werewolves, after losing their most precious qualities, are the most humble of all.

The vampires will be divided into neutrality, Sabbat, and secret banquet, but this is a position, not a barrier. In the conflict between Louis XIV and the vampires, no matter the Sabbat, the secret banquet, or the neutral, they will stand without hesitation. On the side of the same kind, and they did the same when facing the Roman Church or other enemies, such as wizards-this laid the foundation for the blood race in the outer world and the inner world, even if it was a secret banquet with the theme of "escaping the world", they It is also the nobles and lords in the dark night, with power and honor, and a more rigorous and well-connected organizational system. From the highest prince to the lowest "children", their laws and regulations can be thoroughly and powerfully implemented. of.

   Of course, those who have lost their "parents" or were deliberately created "untouchables", who have no self-control, and who act indiscriminately, are not recognized as members of the blood clan.

As for the wizards, compared to the mutual hostility between the blood clan secret banquet and the magic banquet, they are more like the princes who are separated from one place and closed in the realm. They are committed to creating a small circle that can achieve an inner cycle and ensure that they will always have an absolute advantage. The world doesn't even want to take a look outside - just like Gayola once, the wizards intermarry each other in various families, especially the direct line, which is not connected to the outside world and is not backward compatible.

   But such a small world can at least have a long period of peace, or a lifeless peace.

The    werewolves are the worst of the three races.

Wizards and vampires contemptuously put wolves before people, and it is not for nothing. Werewolves have inherited many habits of wolves - such as howling, flocking, breeding of alpha wolves, etc. Some of the habits are very beneficial and suitable for wolves. , it doesn't seem so appropriate to fall into the werewolf, especially when the magic side begins to retreat into the inner world.

When people study wolves hundreds of years later, they will find that the number of wolves in the wolves is basically in the tens or twenties. That is because only the leader of the wolves can breed offspring, so in the wolves, the parents are often the parents. Leading their children, or in rare cases, grandparents leading their children and grandchildren, adult male and female wolves may be driven out, and if they do not want to leave, they will fight for the position of leader and take their place.

   After leaving the wolf pack, if the young wolves form their own wolf pack, they will have an antagonistic relationship with their parents and grandparents, and will not merge into a larger population.

   This behavior pattern works well with wolves, but causes problems among werewolves - their pack can never expand to the point where they can resist wizards and vampires.

   Let alone how many descendants a blood clan can have, each descendant will unconditionally obey the orders of their parents, which is far better than a werewolf. Wizards do not have such a special talent for checks and balances, but their number is an advantage.

In addition, a vampire meets another vampire, even if the members of the Sabbat meet the members of the secret banquet, they rarely die forever, and a wizard meets another wizard, unless one is a dark wizard who is in need of experimental materials, they will not They fought inexplicably, but the werewolves were different. When they encountered wizards and blood clans, it was bound to be a **** death battle, and werewolves of different ethnic groups were bound to fight.

   So there is almost no place for werewolves in the inner world, wizards and vampires are not so forgiving, and there is no such a large area for them to divide.

They could have lived off the beaten track, but as humans have put their footprints in every place they can reach, such places are becoming less and less, forests are burned, wilderness is cleared, and the list goes on and on. The war and the ever-changing frontiers have also led to the clashes between the werewolf clans again and again - just like Cleland, the leader of the Serbian werewolves, who originally descended from King Lakeland of England, and Merlin followed. When serving King Arthur, he followed Merlin, but because of the final defeat of Merlin and King Arthur, the wizard retired, and he and his clan were exiled to Serbia. Later, the Ottoman Turks captured Serbia. Under their rule, the werewolves survived. None, Clayland had to take the clan to accept the employment of the guardian of Charles II, who was wandering around at the time - at that time, Charles II did promise that they could return to England.

   There is no need to say more about what happened later. He and his daughter became the vassals of Louis XIV, and the Serbian werewolves became the Halebur werewolves.

  This ending is really surprising. After all, at the beginning, some stray werewolves in Serbia almost became the murderers of the king, and Kleilan and his clan did kill the werewolves in the suburbs of Paris.

Paris, Gervages, and the Haute-Loire region are the habitats of the aboriginal werewolves in France. Louis XIV had originally intended to observe them to see if they could be used for them, but the results were disappointing - compared to the Serbian werewolves, These werewolves are not only weak and stupid, but also have ridiculously cunning and despicable temperaments - they are simply Nopheles among werewolves. Even when Louis XIV was not yet in power and desperately needed power, he might not decide to use these inhumans. creatures, let alone now.

What particularly disgusted Louis was that although these werewolves were unable to fight foreign enemies, they were very good at harming mortals. Staying in place brought great panic and anxiety. More than one village was slowly abandoned due to the "wolf disaster". To Louis, this was an unforgivable sin.

  After gaining the loyalty of the Serbian werewolves, Madame Lavalier led her clan to sweep across most of France, and their victories were almost all here except those who died. Although the French werewolves are useless and hateful, the fundamentals between werewolves and werewolves are still the same.

  Louis closed his eyes slightly and walked into the potion that evaporated and formed a silver mist. This potion could remove all smells from people, so that the werewolf would not remember the smell of them.

   After this procedure, they can see the werewolf.

In the cavern that might have been used to store wheat—windowless and solid rock walls on all sides, the werewolf’s claws might be able to grab the scraps of the lower layers, but it’s impossible to dig a passage big enough for him to crawl out. . Moreover, this werewolf, covered in reddish-brown hair, with long limbs and amputated phalanges, was mixed with the drugs used by the Delong family to numb the minds of monsters.

   He looked more like a hyena than a wolf.

   But from the outside, he is not very bad. Even if the wizards and doctors here are morally corrupt and take pleasure in abusing other creatures, they cannot damage the king's property. He was taken care of very cleanly. Apart from the unavoidable injuries such as hair loss and cracked flesh in the places where he was experimented and trapped, there were no extra scars on his body. , he couldn't help pinching his tail and began to whimper.

  You can't even see much hatred and anger in his yellow eyes.

  The wizard of the Delong family walked over, holding a short wand, the iron gate between them slowly rose, and the werewolf was almost attached to the ground, motionless.

"Is it because I have to maintain this form?" Louis asked. He had seen Madame Lavalier's wolf and human figures. According to his aesthetics, the human figures were not bad, with style and charm. The shape is also very beautiful, this kind of... similar to half wolf and half human, but not as thick as Serbian werewolf - the skin with raised particles can be seen under the sparse fur, which looks really disgusting .

"Only the strongest, determined werewolf can transform into a giant wolf," the wizard said. "He can transform into a thin human, but in that case, the results of the experiment are invalid." After all, the weapons they were experimenting with were only Will be used when dealing with werewolves.

  The king watched the experiment that followed.

At this time, there was nothing scientific or systematic about the experiments. The wizards and doctors were only trying to fight against werewolves. Now they are not studying werewolves. They are just trying to determine how to get better soon. kill werewolves.

There are many ways to fight against werewolves, and they are far inferior to vampires and wizards in this regard. There are three commonly used methods among the people. One is to call the other party's real name. , all need concentration and attention, once the real name is called (meaning that the identity in the mortal world is revealed)

Some weak-willed werewolves will be so afraid that they can no longer maintain their werewolf form and change into human beings, so they are not threatening, but this method is also problematic, and sometimes it will make the werewolf go mad in fear. A real beast, and the results speak for themselves.

   The second method is to draw a cross on his forehead, or knock it three times. This method will undoubtedly only work for captured werewolves...

  The third method is yelling, as well as strong light, flames - when faced with the werewolf siege, Mary let Louis's guards burn the dumped carriage to delay the time. This is similar but not similar to vampires. Vampires hate strong light because it often represents sunlight, which is their natural enemy; werewolves hate strong light, just like they hate onions and garlic, because their overly sensitive sense of smell will be affected by No, and again, it's also for this reason that vampires can't stand these two things.

But in terms of resistance to silverware, werewolves are far from being comparable to vampires. Only low-level vampire infants will be burned by silverware. At least Louis has seen Amon and Theoderic holding silver wine glasses more than once. , and the cross, the same level of vampires can endure for a while, but the werewolves are threatened by both - silver bullets can penetrate their tough skin and thick hair, and the cross will leave a deep imprint.

   (end of this chapter)