I Am Louis XIV

   Chapter 494 The King's Third Royal Expedition (4)

Prince Uriel smiled kindly at the duke. When he did this, he didn't see how vicious he was, and even seemed a little pitiful. He was thin, just like his incarnation, the angel long-tailed moth. The beauty that seemed to collapse at any moment, but in the next moment, he collided with Prince Theoderic.

The Duke of Orleans couldn't help but remember what his brother had described to him, the first time he saw Prince Theoderic fighting with Prince Amon - it was hard for him to imagine it before, but now he can experience it for himself - He didn't know how Amon and Theoderic fought, but the fighting method of the Marcawi patriarch was not only not as **** and cruel as people thought, but even very beautiful.

  Yes, wonderful and moving.

His form is not fixed, the outline of his body is almost translucent, and the bright magnetic slender light embraces him like a vine coiled around the statue - at first the Duke thought it was moonlight, but in the course of the battle, this light With Prince Uriel moving, sometimes bright, sometimes soft - like... ah, yes, like a light in a thick fog.

The Duke has a mansion on Queen's Boulevard and his own suite in the Louvre Museum. The standard second only to the king allows him to view half of Paris as he wants. The streets of Paris have been around since the king issued the "Gas Lamp" The day and night are bright, but in the morning and evening of summer and winter, the pervading fog will still turn the whole city into a chaotic world. Only the conscientious gas lamps, they appear and disappear in the flowing fog, like a rushing river. The light reflected by the splashing water droplets.

Theodoric was able to smash the descendants of Prince Uriel with one claws. Before getting the help of blood relatives, the young blood race could not even form, but this strong beast was unable to carry out his attack on Uriel. The prince's body—whether it be fangs, claws, or a strong body,

The Duke    recalled what the wizards told them about the blood race, and he also knew about the thirteen holy artifacts of the blood race. He had also seen Amon's golem and Theoderic's wand. What the Mokawi clan should have is a ghost lamp. It is said that this ghost lamp comes from the deepest part of hell. It burns the grease of virgins and the soul of saints. It can create hallucinations and control the behavior of others.

   And apart from Mokawi's parents, no one knows the specific appearance of the ghost lamp, because this ghost lamp will change its shape according to the owner's needs.

The Duke is a master duel, and he can also capture fleeting opportunities on the battlefield. Although he can't even capture the shadows of the two blood princes, he can still feel the frustration of Prince Theoderic. The side of the ship, holding the musket, listened to the surrounding movement, but he heard nothing other than the peculiar rumble of moths, and he suspected that he might have been taken to a place where mortals could not touch and intervene.

   He focused his gaze on the Marcawi member again. Strangely, this vampire wanted to attack him at first, but now he only casts a vicious gaze.

The Duke's heart sank slightly. At this time, Prince Theoderic fell back to him. Although he was in the form of a cheetah, his fur was colder than ice and snow—perhaps this was the normal state of the blood race. In such a fast-changing battle, the Prince Having no time to take care of controlling one's own temperature, it naturally becomes what it was before - after all, all blood races can be said to be unwilling deceased, and the blood of the deceased is always cold.

  Speaking of which, even if the two princes fought hundreds of times, it would only be a few seconds in human time.

   "Theoderic," said Uriel, "you can't beat me."

  Theodoric's power is only a small part in the end, and in this ghost ship, and its surroundings, in the thick fog, I don't know how many members of Marcawi are hidden.

   "Give it up," Uriel added, "I don't want to kill the head of another clan because of this."

   "Then have you thought about it," said Theoderic, "how will the ancestral land in Toledo be done with Morcawi, once Louis XIV is victorious?"

"That's why I'm here," said Uriel bluntly. "First of all, I want to congratulate you, Theoderic, for making an impeccable choice. Among men, your king is more than Victorious over his enemies once and for all, his radiance shone on most of Europa, and to put the crown of Spain on his young son's head. But you also made an irreparable mistake, you condoned a mortal Putting his tentacles of power into areas he shouldn't touch, you allowed him to keep wizards as wolves and drive out our kin."

   He smiled when he said this: "Although Nofele is hardly recognized by us, it is only almost-your king has crossed the most critical line..."

   "So even though you know very well that he is under the protection of Vanderbilt and Zmich," Theoderic said, "you still do it."

"We did it," said Uriel. "It was a decision of three or more parents, dear Theoderic, not to mention that the ambitions of Louis XIV covered not only the day but also the night. Saying he's about to be a 'Caesar', Theoderic, we can't allow it, we all know a chaotic, dark, ignorant Europa is the best fit for us."

   "Ah, I see," Theoderic said. "Indeed, the human race moves forward, but the vampires can't keep up. Louis is already a threat to you."

The Duke of Orleans listened, and his heart could not help tensing for a while. In fact, in the inner world, the diehards and old-fashioned wizards among the wizards also did not have any favors for the Sun King, except that the Sun King intended to include the inner world as his own. Outside the realm of the world, that is, the king does not allow the world to continue as it has been for the previous thousand years, lifeless and calm to continue their lives.

Those young wizards only saw the freedom, light and ideals of the outside world, but they couldn't see the imminent crisis that the old man could see - in Merlin's time, mortals only relied on a small number of black iron weapons and leather armor. With strong bodies, they are afraid of beasts, floods, fire and lightning, so stupid and ignorant that they can only count on their fingers, and they can't write their own names well. Wizards who have mastery of knowledge, nature, and gifts are to them as gods, or servants of gods (wizards were often seen as priests and servants of the gods in that era and earlier).

  Even if some of the separatists of the wizards later tended to the church, but whether it was the church or the wizards who stayed where they were, they still stood above the mortals.

  But it was these despised humans who finally drove the wizards into the small inner world, forced the blood race to escape, and destroyed the gathering places of werewolves.

now what? Since the reign of Louis XIV, the development of human beings in science and technology has changed from walking slowly to running quickly. Although most of this is the promotion of war, it is also because Louis XIV is a man who is very interested in almost all gods and extraordinary people. The fearless man - his "tolerance" is the greatest enemy of all inhumans.

There are many wizards, werewolves, and even vampires who agree and support the king's equal treatment, just like Theoderic, but this is because Theoderic is the "most human-like" of all vampire parents, He has a deep affection for France, so that he will help the royal family on this land - there are also existences who can see the future, but because of his peculiar hobby, would rather laugh and stand by, such as Amon.

   But more inhabitants of the inner world, especially the elders of the blood clan who have been tempered by the years, are full of fear of Louis XIV.

Louis XIV rebuilt human beings into a sharp weapon, but paralyzed the entire inner world with his tenderness. He seduced wizards, bought werewolves, and deceived vampires—with all kinds of sweet means and words, he would not The sword was aimed at the latter, and the gullible thought he was willing to sleep with the wolves like a saint, but did not realize that this arrogant mortal was putting a rope around their necks.

Whether wizards, werewolves, or vampires, he would keep them under his control and make them available to him - Nofele was driven out of France, not just because they had plotted against Louis XIV, but because They are of no use to Louis XIV, otherwise look at Amon, who may have offended the king more than Nofele, but Louis XIV was even willing to trade for him with the King of Sweden in return for an important military port Zmich's ancestral land.

The problem is that in a short period of time, the blood clan may be the most important card in the hands of the king, but the life of the blood clan is so long, and the development of human beings is so fast, the blood clan in the Merlin era will be avoided, and it will take decades. , a hundred years, or a thousand years from now?

  If it is a blood race, even the entire inner world can close itself, and the unavoidable dusk may come later, but will Louis XIV allow it?

  There is another voice in his domain and country? Another king? Another law?

"But Leopold I and the anti-French coalition won't have a great chance of winning." After a moment of silence, Theoderic said, "The ancestral land of Makarvi will always be Toledo, Uriel, don't you? Do you think the king will be threatened by you?"

"I know it's impossible, although this is the king's only younger brother." Uriel looked at the Duke of Orleans. The Duke was a human, with no traces of wounds, but still standing upright, looking very proud, he threw a Admiring look: "So I want Mr. Duke to be my descendant." He said lightly.

  The Duke's heart skipped a beat.

   (end of this chapter)