I Am Louis XIV

This is not ruby, nor red fluff or scales, but hot human blood congealing in the belly of the insect.

When the Duke realized this, the moths had already risen into the sky, leaving behind a pale human body and rushing towards the Duke. What they did not expect was that the Duke did not run away in a hurry like ordinary humans, leaving behind A defenseless back to the enemy. He did not retreat but advanced, held his breath, and rushed towards the moths. Countless spark-like scales fell on his exposed skin, causing a sharp pain like needle pricks.

It only took a second. The Duke rushed towards the dead guard and snatched away the musket he held tightly in his hand. As soon as he got it, he fired it into the sky. There was only a "touch" sound, and the thick fog of chaos seemed to be here. He was torn apart in an instant, and moths gathered behind him, gradually turning from a gray-white shadow into a thin and beautiful young man. He screamed - like the high-frequency buzzing of a moth, his body swayed slightly, like a movie with the middle section cut off, and he came to the Duke like lightning.

His eyes were malicious, his lips turned up, and his fangs were exposed. No matter what status the Duke of Orleans held among mortals, what knowledge and courage he had, or how respected he was, to the vampires, he was still just a delicacy. dinner.

The Duke stood motionless, as if he had lost the strength and thoughts of resistance due to fear. This situation is very common among ordinary people. Sometimes they can't even make a sound, but when this young-looking vampire wants to catch When he was the Duke, he faced an angry black shadow.

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When the accident happened, Theodric was sitting on the balcony of the stern building admiring the boundless silver sea.

At first, the thick fog did not attract his attention. On the sea, there will be fog in the morning and at night, sometimes big, sometimes small, but then he heard someone on the observation deck shouting, "Ghost ship! Ghost ship!" !!”

Ghost ships are said to be those sailors who unfortunately died in shipwrecks. Ship owners and passengers were unwilling to accept such a tragic fate. At some point - hurricane, heavy rain or fog, they drove the mast Collapsed ships with tattered sails, tattered hulls and decks slowly moved toward the world of the living, as if storms and reefs had taken away their souls. They also take away the souls of those who see them, making them a member of the ghost ship.

But to people in the other world, most of these ghost ships are the work of wizards, just like Gajola Island in the past. Gajola Island can be self-sufficient to a certain extent, but there are some things they cannot produce. Therefore, they still often have to contact and trade with the outside world. In order to ensure that the curtain that isolates the inner and outer world is not broken, they use inferi or puppets to control ships. Occasionally, these ships are discovered by mortals, and they think they are the work of ghosts.

In fact, mortal ghosts are not as strong and stable as they think. Some ghosts will forget their past, and some ghosts will gradually dissipate over time and can touch mortal things, make sounds, or interact with living things. Human-influenced ghosts are very rare, and must have been extraordinary in life - to put it simply, when you hear about a ghost haunting a place, it is rarely a farmer or a maid. On the other hand, the king's concubines, important ministers and dignitaries must at least be lords or generals to be qualified to stay in the human world for a long time.

If it was just a ghost ship, Theodric's cat boy wouldn't care too much, but he immediately jumped off the balcony. Just as he was about to jump into the porthole of the captain's cabin on the stern, the cat's round pupils suddenly Shrinking into a thin line - that ghost ship...

About to hit!

There were experienced sailors on the boat. They shouted for God's blessing while holding on to anything around them. Their eyes reflected the bow image of the ghost ship, a beautiful and plump goddess statue. The gilding and color had peeled off, although The expression was solemn, but the lips with red paint remaining were strangely widened, and the slender tongue poked out from the fangs - what a terrifying and twisted smile!

Everyone was waiting for that earth-shattering impact, but it didn't happen. After a few seconds, someone looked up in confusion. What made him shiver was that he saw the raised stern of the ghost ship sinking into their sails. The ghost ship disappeared from the sky. Their boat passed through it like a dark mist.

Catboy suddenly landed on the floor of the captain's cabin. As soon as he glanced at it, he knew that many things were missing in this suddenly larger room...the bathtub, the bed, the door, and the Duke of Orleans. At this time, he heard outside There were shouts of panic, and he jumped out of the room, and saw that there were missing parts of the mast, sails, and cables. It was a strange way of missing, because nothing seemed to be cut or broken. The damage caused by burning seems to be what it was originally. If I have to describe it, it is like a complete oil painting that has been partially wiped off with dry bread.

Catboy immediately turned towards the direction where the ghost ship disappeared, but all he could see was thick fog. His heart was occupied by a rare restlessness, and he couldn't help scratching several deep marks on the deck - a group of sailors ran past him. , although they encountered such a thing, there were more urgent problems waiting for them to deal with - part of the oar and hull plate also disappeared, and they faced the danger of sinking after losing power.

At this moment, gunfire rang out, Mao Zai's eyes lit up, he jumped onto the side of the ship, and then jumped towards the sea covered by thick fog.

Only one crew member saw it, but he did not know the identity of Theodric. He even thought it was a devil. After hastily shouting the name of the saint, he was driven to raise the sail again.

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The blue-gray cat began to elongate its figure in the thick fog and landed - when it landed on the ghost ship, it had turned into a blue-black cheetah, vigorous and ferocious.

If the captain of the Escudo were here, he would definitely be shocked to find that this ghost ship is like the twin brother of the Escudo. No, it should be said that it is like a skeleton with the help of the Escudo. Hao's flesh and blood came back to life.

When this rotten ship passed through the Escudo, in addition to their prey, it also took away some of the planks, masts and canvas belonging to the Escudo, as well as barrels, Cables and other debris, generally speaking, they are unfortunately around those humans.

The meager smell of blood was quickly dissipating in the humid sea breeze, but Theodric knew as soon as he smelled it that it was the smell left by the vampires after eating. Unlike werewolves, even the humblest Novel, they There is very little blood and flesh left when eating, and only a small amount of blood will be scattered in the air. There are many wrong things in people's understanding of vampires, but one thing is right. They will kiss their prey gently after eating. Let the bite area heal quickly without leaving any traces.

However, this also depends on the situation and race. For example, vampires such as Vanzo and Toledo who live in cities and have frequent interactions with humans not only eat moderately and are secretive, but also rarely cause death, because humans If they are still alive, the poor people will become weak because of malnutrition, and the rich people will think that they have excessive bloodletting and will not suspect that they have encountered a vampire. But if the person dies, those who are not affected by anyone will It's okay for the poor who care, but it's hard to say for those who have status, surnames and assets.

Races such as Gangro and Nophele, although they are also secret members and swear to hide from the world, their prey usually has only one chance of death, so they rarely hide the cone holes left after sucking blood. After all, when the flesh and blood rotted away, leaving only white bones, even the wise Solomon crawled out of hell, he might not be able to see the truth.

Not to mention the members of the Sabbat who never cover up their whereabouts.

There is another situation, that is, when the vampires determine that the prey cannot escape and cannot leave a complete body, they will do whatever they want - for example, at sea.

The vampires don't like the sea very much, but sometimes, they will hold banquets on islands and ships. It is a bloody and gluttonous banquet, and there is no possibility of escape for the humans at the banquet. Apart from the Giovanni clan (neutral clan), the only one who often holds such banquets is the Mokavi.

The reason why the Giovanni family holds a sea banquet is because Giovanni's ancestral home is Italy. Although the Italian peninsula is divided into pieces, no one can deny that their merchants have amassed a large amount of wealth relying on maritime trade. Elderly vampires rarely leave their territory to develop descendants elsewhere - let's not mention the crazy Prince Amon, the head of the Zmich family, so members of the Giovanni family sometimes relive their experiences as humans. Hobby - sailing.

Makavi's ancestral home is Toledo. In the early days, their members rarely set foot in the ocean, but as Spain became the lord of the sea, the vampires gradually extended their tentacles of power to the blue outer sea - this is just as Amon complained. The boundaries of the world will also change with the changes in the surface world. Unless the king of the surface world has no vampires in his original territory and country, only the vampires in the newly occupied territory can reach an agreement with the new mortal king.

"Makavi," said Theodric.

It is a fact that people are already familiar with that vampires can transform into black mist and bats, but the elders and heads of each clan also have the ability to change in the third way, just like what Theodric and Amon did In that way, they can either transform into the common black bats and black mist, or they can decompose part of their body and power - becoming a third type of creature. Theodric is a cat and Amon is another kind of little bat.

Makavi is a moth.

As soon as he saw the moths, Theodric knew that this was the work of the Makavi clan. He tore the young vampire apart with his claws, and the latter split into countless small moths with a hissing scream. , they sometimes condensed in the air, sometimes dispersed, as if they were trying hard to get back together but failed.

The Duke of Orleans stared at them, and Theodric glanced at him. The skin on the Duke's arms, shoulders and back had changed from pearly white to a terrible red. This was caused by the poisonous scale powder of Malkavi, but the Duke's His breathing was relatively smooth, and it seemed that he had cleverly avoided inhaling the powder dropped from the moth's wings during his escape - if that was the case, things were about to get tricky.

Theodric stretched out his tail and wrapped it around the Duke's ankle, pulling him to his side. The Duke was holding the cat-no, the cheetah's back. He was in great pain and exhausted. He wanted to sit down or fall down to rest immediately. , but he couldn't even put his body weight on the prince - the cheetah's back was tense, and their enemy might not have appeared yet.

The group of moths were still rolling and "screaming". The Duke was not sure whether these sounds were produced by the moths' mouthparts or by the vibration of their wings, but he seemed to hear something similar to the Spanish The pronunciation of "Father" caused the body under his palm to move slightly. The Duke raised his head and saw a large thick fog pouring towards the deck. Then he realized that it was not fog, but a large group of moths.

This may be the largest and most beautiful moth the Duke of Orleans has ever seen. They even look like butterflies, with a thin body, wide wings, and a long tail that is almost twice the length of the wings. Their down and wings are both It is an extremely holy milky white, with a moving blue light exuding from the end, just like the starlight twinkling in the mist, with an indescribable charm.

"Prince Uriel," Theodric said, nodding slightly.

"Prince Theodric." A human voice came from the moth swarm, and then the new moth swarm suddenly gathered into an elongated form. A vampire in a white coat came out, and he raised his cloak of the same color. , caged the group of gray-black moths that were still stumbling around, "Look," he said slightly reproachfully: "As a prince, you should not treat a descendant of the same class so harshly."

"I did not know that he was your descendant," said Theodric, "and that he was seeking to harm my ward."

Uriel put down his cloak, and the young vampire finally regained his complete form, but he still looked very bad - just like those vampires controlled by the king who were unable to eat for a long time or were seriously injured. , the vampire would look like a skeleton - he knelt at Uriel's feet, not daring to move or make a sound.

The Duke of Orleans stared at the other party boldly and curiously. Because he has such an elder brother, as the royal brother, he also has a lot of knowledge about the other world. Prince Theodric and Prince Amon are the two vampires he sees most. The vampires His appearance is definitely not commensurate with his age. Prince Theodric's age is equivalent to the age of his "death", which is between twenty-five and thirty years old. His face is cold and noble; as for Amon, From the appearance point of view, he is just a young man between a boy and a young man. His hidden madness is often mistaken for innocence or naughty.

The parent of Mokavi has the same name as the archangel. From the appearance, he is enough to be solidified on the wooden board by the painter in the name of an angel. His half-length silver hair covers his shoulders, and he has a pair of cobalt blue eyes, which are shining. The light is still extremely bright even in dim light.

Sorry, I originally took a day off to change the furniture - the stupid author overestimated himself - it turns out that the wardrobe is so...heavy!

The author who thought he was very strong - just stretched out his little hand and tried, and then, the muscle strain...

Bow and apologize!

I won’t give any warning here, I always feel that flags will be planted...