Shadow of the Beautiful World

All the existing heterogeneous histories can find their roots in the historical records of human civilization.

Although, most of the aliens have existed on the earth for a longer time than the first history books of mankind.

Wizards do not believe that the appearance of human beings is due to the laws of natural evolution. They believe that in the ancient times of the earth, a mysterious force intervened in the evolution of species, thus giving birth to the oldest human ancestors, and then through a long period of time The evolution of human beings, coupled with various unexpected factors, led to the emergence of human, wizard, and alien distinctions in this rapidly developing population.

It's like the continuous branching and spreading of human civilization. Those rare and gifted with magical powers have gradually embarked on a different evolutionary path from ordinary people.

But as the price of being scarce, their number is very small compared to ordinary people. After the human population exploded, the population of these special creatures is almost negligible.

For example, the dwarves living in the dungeons of the Sahara desert, the goblins who mostly gather in the depths of the Pyrenees, and the elves who can only live in the big forest.

They may also have amazing inheritance and history, but compared to the humans who have truly dominated the earth, their inheritance is not worth mentioning.

Of course, there are also rumors that there are civilization planets dominated by aliens outside the earth.

But even for a wizard with great powers, this is just a rumor that cannot be confirmed. After all, no one has ever seen the real existence of those alien planets, so how can we discuss things that cannot be proven?

Merlin was not very interested in the history of civilization development in the eyes of wizards. He was just trying to find the wisdom he needed in ancient history.

In the early hours of the morning, when Merlin left the Magic Congress with the message he copied, he had obviously got what he needed.

The most valuable thing Merlin learned from the book was a recipe for the holy water of flames.

There are also several potion formulas often used by demon hunters left in the biography of the white wolf.

Having said that, I have to mention the profession of the demon hunter again.

Demon hunters, this is a special force that was active throughout the Middle Ages. As late as the Victorian period, there were still many demon hunters active around the world. In essence, they are a group of mercenaries who specialize in helping ordinary people deal with supernatural and spiritual accidents.

Most of them are a group of people with magical talents, but not enough to support them to become wizards, also known as squibs.

In medieval times, becoming a witcher was also a common career path chosen by Squibs. But it is said that some less talented wizards will choose to become witchers, but such examples are too few.

In that black age when human beings were ignorant and weak, demon hunters were employed by officials or private individuals to maintain the terrible order in the gray area of ​​human civilization and contact with aliens. They sacrificed their lives for money, and occasionally for justice or other reasons. Go fight to the death with those dangerous aliens.

It can be said that for quite a long period of time, demon hunters have existed as human protectors, although most ordinary people do not know their existence.

They are not powerful either, at least compared to formal wizards with their own forces, the upper limit of most demon hunters' survival is just small characters like ghouls, ghosts, or low-level vampires and half-wolves.

There are too few powerful demon hunters like White Wolf who can face demons or high-level blood clans directly.

But their existence is necessary, even though they are like fireflies burning in the night, those fireflies will still illuminate the night.

Speaking of which, Master Ulysses Bloodstone, who has been missing for several years, is actually a demon hunter. However, he is a hunter who specializes in hunting vampires, and the secret combat skills of the Bloodstone family are also born to fight against vampires.

After the first industrial revolution, more and more mature firearms gave weak human beings the power to protect themselves in the face of aliens, which also led to the slow decline of the group of demon hunters.

Today, except for a few secret demon hunter families like Bloodstone in Europe, the number of demon hunters in the world is very small, and people like the legendary white wolf Legendary figures have already withered in the past time.

This profession arose at the beginning of the Dark Ages, and ended with the end of the Dark Ages.

But now, Merlin has dug out their inheritance from the pile of old papers.

He felt that perhaps the mature form of sl.d. in the future would be a demon hunter reborn in the 21st century.

And compared to their predecessors, sl.d.'s witcher agents who are armed with high technology and ancient inheritance will become more deadly and more deterrent.

Of course, this takes time.

Merlin couldn't find a group of squibs to be his agents, so he could only try to improve the information left by the white wolf, so that ordinary people like Coulson could use those ancient techniques to fight against the increasingly The more restless heterogeneous people.

There's more to collect.

Merlin was sitting in Dupont's taxi, he looked at the few pieces of paper in his hand, and said softly:

These seals are incomplete, and those potions are definitely more than that. Perhaps, the European Ministry of Magic should still have a complete record of the witcher's combat skills, as well as this repeatedly mentioned 'Green Grass Test' Lian', what exactly does this mean? What side effects does it have? There are still too few materials to make a legendary figure like White Wolf feel intimidated.

Merlin rubbed his forehead, he took out his phone, looked at the two numbers on it, and said:

Well, Harry and Hermione seem to work in the Ministry of Magic?

Then trouble them again.

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While Merlin was starting to design the future form of sl.d., a special meeting was going on in another place in New York.

It was in a hall similar to a church.

Under the slightly dim light, on the polished marble floor, around the heavy mahogany conference table, on 13 chairs carved with different emblems, 13 elders of the American Bloodline Presbyterian Church are discussing important issues. matter.

A group of heavily armed soldiers stood guard around the hall. Looking carefully, these mighty soldiers in black combat uniforms, with swords on their waists, and guns in hand, all had a pair of red eyes, and each of them was extremely handsome.

This means that they are all natural born pure blood vampires, and they are all trained elite fighters.

Everyone, I take the liberty to invite you to come to New York at this time for an important matter.

Sitting at the head of the conference table was a middle-aged man in a blue suit and black tie.

Its gray hair is neatly combed, the exquisite brooch on its chest, and the simple and low-key obsidian bracelet on its wrist all represent its identity.

This is the rotating speaker of the American Blood Clan Presbyterian Church in the past 30 years, and he is also the head of the 13 most prominent pure-blood vampire families in America.

It's called Gaetaro, the leader with the purest blood and the highest status among the American blood race. Theoretically speaking, during the 30 years it served as the chairman of the Council of Elders, it has the power to command all the vampires in America.

Of course, the other 12 elders are also wise and cunning people. They will contain Gaetaro's power and prevent it from replacing the elders as the real king of the blood clan.

And its disguised identity in the human world is also very interesting.

It is the chairman of the well-known Getaro Group in New York. It is a well-known venture capital company, just like the Black Light Investment Company established by Half-Demon Damon on Wall Street. It often invests large sums of money in potential entrepreneurs. Money, with the expectation of great rewards from risk.

In other words, Mr. Getaro is not only a high-ranking vampire, but also a real celebrity in the upper class of New York. It maintains good personal friendships with several political senators, and it raised a large sum of money for its political friends during the last presidential election.

Unfortunately, its friend was unlucky and failed to become president, which was a failed investment.

In recent months, the situation in New York has become more and more chaotic.

Gaetaro sat on the main seat, with his left hand on the table, he said softly in a hoarse voice:

It's like a storm that is about to take shape. If we don't intervene, this storm will blow from the east coast and then sweep across the entire America. The rule of the elders of the blood clan that has lasted for more than 200 years on this land will be impacted , I see our authority faltering, and if we don’t act, the system will crack and eventually collapse.”

I heard what happened in New York.

After Gaetaro's voice fell, another old man in a blood-red robe nodded slightly, and said in a shriveled voice:

I also have business in New York. Guys, Guetaro is not exaggerating. That disgusting 'civilian ruffian' is recruiting followers with dangerous ideas. We ignore some of his 'little tricks', and By the time we realized it, it had become the elected representative of the 'common people', representing the rebellious will that never disappeared in our ethnic group.

You mean Dickon Forrester?

A female vampire elder with South American features said slightly mockingly:

Isn't that the puppet you made 50 years ago? You tried to let that ambitious little bastard control the civilians to fight against the supreme family that has been isolated from the Presbyterian system. At that time, I said you were Playing with fire, look at it now, you guys are really playing off.

The female elder's taunt caused a burst of muffled laughter in the hall.

13 The Presbyterian Church is not united and fights among themselves, which is almost a tradition of the vampire population. None of these creatures born in the darkness are law-abiding, and the blood called conspiracy flows in their blood vessels.

And the civilians that the elder said were not ordinary people, but those humans who had been bitten by vampires, also called half-vampires.

Half-vampires are not the natural reproduction of vampires, and they are far inferior to pure-bloods in terms of bloodline and strength. But like other dark creatures, purebloods are hard to reproduce, and a family often needs to wait decades before a newborn is born.

Under such circumstances, the comparison between the increasing number of half-vampires and pure-bloods has reached an extremely exaggerated level. In the current population of American vampires, which has reached 4 million, there are less than 10,000 purebloods.

Most of these 10,000 pure-bloods are in 13 ancient families.

There is also a small part that exists in a vampire family called the Supreme Family that migrated from Europe to North America more than 50 years ago.

The existence of that family is a taboo within the 13th Presbyterian Church.

They can't bring the supreme family into their own power, because the family head of the supreme family is too senior

That old guy who is said to have lived for more than 1,000 years is a friend of the famous Piercing Lord Dracula, and even served as the consul of the blood race in the monster dynasty established by the Xia Kela family more than 1,000 years ago. One of the ancestors of several blood races.

In other words, in the eyes of the Patriarch of the Supreme Family, the American Blood Clan Presbyterian Church, which is trying to maintain its own orthodoxy, is nothing more than a group of green-skinned punks playing house games.

Stop talking about the past.

Facing the ridicule of the female elders, Mr. Gaetaro, the speaker, waved his hand without changing his face, and said:

Dickon's incident may have been a mistake, but it and its dangerous followers are now our troubles. Because of their commotion, it directly attracted the attention of the Magic Congress and a human organization called sl.d. Hit hard.

You may not know that 10 days ago, a clean-up operation broke out in Queens, New York. More than 800 civilians and 22 pure-blood compatriots were wiped out overnight. That was an official warning from humans and wizards. It's also a reminder for us.

Chairman Getaro knocked on the table, and it said with a serious face:

If we don't stop Dickon's rampant behavior, then the wizards and humans united will target us. In their eyes, there is no difference between pure blood and civilians.

When did you start to fear humans?

Someone said:

Guetaro, have all your guts been eaten by dogs?

hehe.

Faced with this provocation, Getaro sneered:

Yes, I was terrified. After all, our compatriots in Europe have witnessed how the mighty Death Eaters were wiped out. What if we add up? It's nothing more than a few more missiles Question, do you think humans can't take out those weapons?

Under the rule of the Soviets, even the old guy from the Supreme family was driven out of Romania with bullets and tanks, and migrated to North America to live carefully, let alone us young people?

Guetaro's words silenced the rest of the council. Although unwilling to accept the cruel reality, in today's society, heterogeneous people can only stand aside.

Everyone.

The speaker knocked on the table, it said calmly:

I didn't invite you here to quarrel, I want to solve this matter. I have a rough plan, and I also talked with the human supervisor, and he also appreciates my plan.

I need your support now. I mean, let's join hands and use official means to solve this storm that is brewing.