I Am Louis XIV

The king also came to Blazer Castle in secret after disguised in micro clothes. There is also a reason why Blazer Castle was chosen by the king, because its underground is soft limestone. Since it was built in the early twelfth century, the owner has been digging under it continuously-storage room, inspection of secret passages , underground workshops, kitchens and even bakeries, ice cellars and caves for other purposes, etc. Before Louis XIV decided to use this castle, it already had three floors of underground buildings, the bottom of which was connected to the moat, with a depth of fifty-four feet Left and right, both water source and drainage can be obtained.

After this place has been refurbished, apart from never seeing the sun and the air is turbid, it is no worse than the shacks or basements where the poor in the city live. Wizards and some bold human doctors and soldiers take turns here. They seldom talked, and the sign language they had learned from the wizard was circulating quickly. When Louis walked into the passage accompanied by Vesalius and Bufandi's elders, the guards first looked at them vigilantly, and after verifying their identities, they bowed deeply, and opened 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 security requirements, the facial features of the person coming from the opposite side must be able to be seen clearly within 30 feet—because a werewolf can leap at least 20 feet. Here All the guards are equipped with crossbows and muskets, the range of which is fifty feet away, and the distance of thirty feet can ensure that they shoot twice in a row-in this narrow passage, the huge body of the werewolf can guarantee that the two crossbows or It is the bullet that has no chance of missing the target.

Louis raised his head and looked at the zenith above. This height can allow humans to come and go calmly, but it is not very friendly to the transformed werewolves. He has seen werewolves with his own eyes. Their speed and strength, and their huge size are in the open The place is like a chariot covered with armor and covered with spikes—maybe considering this, the wizards who are more familiar with werewolves did not open up underground caves and passages too much, and they may have only walked a few days. Within a hundred feet, he passed through several iron gates.

"Please allow me..." When he was about to reach the destination, a wizard came forward, holding a bottle of potion in his hand. Vesalius recognized that he was a child of the Delong family, the head of Delong's family. He once participated in the conspiracy to assassinate Marie Mancini and shake his rule, but not everyone in Dron is willing to support him, not to mention that in a big family, someone who has talent but is depressed because he is a side branch There are too many people.

The talent of the Delong family is to domesticate magical creatures and monsters. Werewolves were once the allies of wizards, but they were soon reduced to the status of livestock.

This is not surprising. Among the three dark races of werewolves, wizards and vampires, werewolves can be said to have the most animal nature. In other words, the animal nature in the body is better than human nature. As we all know, humans are the most terrifying After losing their most precious traits, the hunter-werewolves became the most humble one, and it was a matter of course.

The vampires will be divided into neutral, 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 are also the same when facing the Roman Church or other enemies, such as wizards-this has laid the foundation for the vampires in the outer world and the inner world, even if it is a secret feast with the theme of "escape from the world", They are also nobles and lords in the night, possessing power and honor, and a more rigorous and continuous organizational system. From the highest prince to the lowest "children", their laws and regulations can be thoroughly and powerfully implemented.

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

As for the wizards, compared to the mutual hostility between the Blood Clan Banquet and the Sabbat, they are more like vassals who have separated their territories and closed their borders. The world, I don’t even want to look outside—just like Gayola in the past, wizards intermarry in various families, especially the direct line, which is not connected to the outside world and is not compatible with the outside world.

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

The werewolves were the worst of the three races.

Wizards and vampires contemptuously put wolves before humans. It is not aimless. Werewolves have inherited many of the habits of wolves—such as howling, grouping, and breeding of head wolves, etc., which are very beneficial and suitable for wolves. Habits, falling into the werewolves is not so suitable, especially when the magic side starts to retreat into the inner world.

When people study wolves hundreds of years later, they will find that the number of wolves in the wolf pack is basically around ten or twenty. That is because only the leader of the wolf pack can give birth to offspring. Leading the children, or in a few cases, grandparents leading the children and grandchildren, adult male wolves and female wolves may be expelled. If they do not want to leave, they will compete for the position of leader and replace them.

If the young wolves after leaving the wolf pack form their own wolf pack, they will have a hostile relationship with their parents and grandparents, and will not merge into a larger population.

This pattern of behavior works in wolves, but causes problems in werewolves - their pack can never grow enough to stand up to wizards and vampires.

Not to mention how many descendants a blood clan can have, each descendant will unconditionally obey the orders of their parents, which is far better than werewolves. Wizards do not have such special talent for check and balance, but their number is an advantage.

In addition, when a vampire meets another vampire, even if members of the Sabbat meet members of the secret banquet, they seldom die endlessly. When a wizard meets another wizard, unless one of them is a black wizard who is in need of experimental materials, they will not die. They fought for no reason, but the werewolves were different. When they encountered wizards and vampires, it was bound to be a bloody fight to the death. When they met werewolves of different ethnic groups, they would inevitably fight.

Therefore, there is almost no place for werewolves to live in the inner world, wizards and blood races are not so tolerant, and there is not such a large area for them to divide.

They could have lived in inaccessible places, but as humans have printed their footprints in every place they can reach, there are fewer and fewer such places, forests are burned, wilderness is cultivated, and there are countless The ever-changing wars and the ever-changing borders have also led to conflicts among the werewolf groups again and again-just like Crelan, the leader of the Serbian werewolves, who originally originated from a branch of King Lakeland of England, Merlin When he served King Arthur, he followed Merlin, but because Merlin and King Arthur finally failed, the wizard retired, and he and his people were exiled to Serbia. Later, the Ottoman Turks captured Serbia. Under their rule, the werewolves survived. There was no room for it, so Cleland had to take his people to accept the employment of supporting Charles II, who was wandering around at the time-at that time, Charles II did allow them to return to England.

There is no need to say more about the later things. Several times by mistake, he and his daughter became the vassals of Louis XIV, and the Serbian werewolf became the Harlebur werewolf.

This ending is indeed surprising. After all, at the beginning, some wandering werewolves in Serbia almost became regicide murderers, and Crelan and his tribe did wipe out the werewolves in the suburbs of Paris.

Paris, Gevoges and the Haute-Loire area are the habitats of the native werewolves in France. Louis XIV originally intended to observe to see if they could be used for him, but the result was disappointing—compared to the Serbian werewolf Well, these werewolves are not only weak and dull, but also have ironic cunning and despicable temperaments—they are simply the Nofelle among werewolves. Non-human creatures, let alone now.

What disgusted Louis in particular was that although these werewolves were unable to fight against foreign enemies, they were very good at harming mortals. The werewolves in Gevorges killed hundreds of adults a year, dragging away the corpses or tearing them apart. Staying in place brought great panic and uneasiness. More than one village was slowly abandoned due to the "wolf plague". To Louis, this was an unforgivable sin.

After gaining the loyalty of the Serbian werewolf, Mrs. La Vallière led the tribe to sweep across most of France, and almost all of their results were here except for the dead. Although the French werewolf is useless and hateful, the fundamental difference between a werewolf and a werewolf is still the same.

Louis closed his eyes slightly, and walked into the potion that evaporated to form a silver mist. This potion can eliminate all smells on people, so that werewolves will not remember the smell on them.

After this procedure, they can see the werewolf.

In the cave that might have been used to store wheat—without windows and with solid rock walls on all sides, the werewolf's claws might be able to grab the broken pages from the surface, but it would take a long time to dig a passage enough for him to climb out. possible. Moreover, this werewolf covered in reddish-brown hair, with long limbs and amputated phalanges was mixed with the medicine used by the Delong family to paralyze the mind of monsters.

He looked more like a hyena than a wolf.

But in appearance, he is not very bad. Even if there are some morally corrupt wizards and doctors here, who take pleasure in abusing other creatures, they can't damage the king's property. He was well-groomed. Apart from unavoidable injuries such as hair loss and skin cracking where he was experimented and trapped, there were no unnecessary scars on his body. He just saw and heard someone approaching here. , he couldn't help clamping his tail and began to whine.

You can't even see much hate 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 stuck to the ground, motionless.

"Is it because it is necessary to maintain this form?" Louis asked. He had seen Mrs. Lavallière in wolf form and human form. According to his aesthetics, the human form is not bad, and it has style and charm. Wolf The shape is also very beautiful, this... is similar to the half-wolf and half-human appearance, but it is not as thick as the Serbian werewolf - the skin with raised particles can be seen under the sparse fur, which looks really impressive Kind of disgusting.

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

The king watched the experiment that followed.

The experiments at this time were not scientific or systematic at all, and what the wizards and doctors tried were just a few ways to fight against werewolves that were circulated by people—now they are not studying werewolves, they just want to determine how to quickly Good job killing werewolves.

There are many ways to fight werewolves, and they are far inferior to vampires and wizards in this respect-there are three commonly used methods among the people, one is to call the opponent's real name, this method cannot be wrong, because werewolves remain half-human, half-wolf or wolf Both require 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 frightened that they cannot continue to change their werewolf form into a human being, so they are not threatening, but this method also has problems. Sometimes it will make the werewolf go crazy in fear. A true beast, the results speak for themselves.

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

The third method is yelling, as well as strong light and flames. Facing the siege of werewolves, Mary asked Louis' guards to burn the overturned carriage to delay time. This is similar to but not similar to vampires. Vampires hate strong light because it often represents sunlight, which is their natural enemy; No, and again, vampires can't bear these two things because of this reason.

But in terms of resistance to silverware, werewolves are far from being able to compare with vampires. Only low-level vampire children will be burned by silverware. At least Louis has seen Amon and Theoderic holding silver wine glasses more than once , and crosses, vampires of higher rank can endure for a while, but werewolves are threatened by both - silver bullets can penetrate their tough skin and thick hair, and crosses can also leave deep marks .