【Western Fantasy】City of Light

The girls went back to Hampton anyway.

When night falls, even the moon hides behind thick dark clouds.The strong wind in the mountains whizzed past, countless leaves and branches trembled, and wailed mournfully in the open wilderness.

Earl Harriet issued an irresistible order, and the vampire girls had no choice but to embark on the journey home in despair.

The Earl said that if they were smart enough, they could learn to disguise themselves in a crowd.If they unfortunately exposed their identities, then even if they were burned to death by their former clansmen, there was no other way, because vampires didn't need stupid companions.

However, Ansel knew that Earl Harriet didn't care what happened to the girls at all, he didn't even care about the precious gift given to him by the leader of the wolf clan.

After Cynthia enforced the devil's contract, Alai, who lost his right eye, fell into a coma for a long time.In the middle of the night, the poor little wolf had a high fever. He was burning like a fire pit, his pale lips were trembling, and he kept talking nonsense.

He spoke the language of werewolves, which Ansel could not understand, and could only capture his name in a few words.

He wanted to help the little wolf treat the wound, but was stopped by the count.

The silver-haired vampire covered the tip of his nose with a delicately embroidered handkerchief, grabbed Alai's short black hair, and dragged him all the way outside the dormitory.Then he just left the pup at the door as if he were a watchdog.Perhaps because the slender Alai took up too much space in the corridor, the count also used black magic to transform him back into a beast shape.

A disfigured, bony, mutilated pup lying weakly on the cold marble floor waiting to die.

He tightly closed the only remaining eye, and because of the repeated torture of high fever and pain, he unconsciously stuck out his tongue and panted violently.The thin abdominal cavity of the wolf cub continued to shrink and swell, like a black balloon that was leaking, and was brutally sentenced to death by his master.

After getting rid of the shackles of the devil's contract, the vampire count finally revealed his true purpose.

He mobilized all his enthusiasm and energy to help Ansel regain his divine power wholeheartedly.He collected healing light magic from various ancient books, sent people to buy precious medicinal materials from all over the mainland, and experimented on Ansel one by one.

He seemed to hope that the priest would recover his strength as soon as possible more than Ansel himself.

This behavior is very abnormal.

Therefore, Ansel resisted any potion the Earl offered him.

Just after he knocked over the steaming healing soup again, the elegant count finally broke out.

"Ansel Sadner." The silver-haired vampire grabbed Ansel's neck with one hand, his scarlet pupils were ferocious and terrifying, "Smart priest, let me remind you that hunger strike is not the best way to take revenge on the enemy. good way."

The kind-hearted and soft-hearted Ansel had never hated a person so much. He stared at the count without showing any weakness, and said in a blunt tone: "My lord count, it is not wise to spend all your time treating your enemy."

"Hmph." Harriet ruthlessly threw the priest on the carpet.

Ansel fell heavily to the ground, rubbed his fingers on his throat and coughed a few times in discomfort.He saw the count clenched his fists with a gloomy face, pacing and wandering in the dark and gorgeous bedroom.

Even if he just made the Vampire Earl a little bit unhappy, Ansel felt a happy feeling of revenge.

After a while, Harriet seemed to calm down.

He walked up to Ansel, looked down at the blond priest and said, "Don't you want to restore your divine power?"

Ansel looked at him coldly with green eyes: "I don't want to be a tool of the enemy."

Regarding the count's abnormal behavior, Ansel had some vague guesses in his mind.He guessed that the vampires had mastered some kind of magic to control people's hearts. On the surface, the earl wanted to help him in the name of helping him, but in fact he wanted to manipulate him and turn him into a powerful puppet.Or, the blood of a person with strong divine power also contains the power of light, and the earl wants to make him into some kind of high-grade food rich in divine power to enhance his own strength.

In either case, Ansel had no intention of helping him.He would rather be bullied without power than to become the enemy's running dog and hurt his companions.

All the right and wrong and emotional ups and downs experienced these days are painful experiences that the priest has never experienced.The peaceful days in Hampton were suddenly gone.The once pure and kind heart has been overwhelmed by disappointment, pain, regret and many negative emotions.

These dark thoughts turned into strong hatred, eagerly waiting for an outlet to vent.

The priest once read the biographies of some ancient heroes.Because of the hatred of the country and the family, these heroes are willing to put in countless efforts and even their entire lives.Ansel didn't understand this kind of life mentality of self-harm and revenge before, but he understood it now.

Hatred is a barrier that can blind your eyes.It makes people willing to give up everything, willing to fall into the endless cycle of the abyss.

Ansel's once pure and kind heart has been completely burned by the flames of hatred.

The medicinal soup that was knocked to the ground gradually dried up, and it was full of hard-earned medicinal materials.Earl Harriet knelt down and twirled a bit of carefully cooked herbal root with his fingers, his handsome face was full of resentment.

Ansel enjoyed his unhappiness.The blond youth patted the dust off his clothes and stood up calmly.

Earl Harriet looked at him coldly, wondering what the hell he was thinking.

Ansel took a step back warily, suddenly, the earl stretched out his fingers and tapped lightly in the void, and quickly said a spell.

A cloud of black mist suddenly appeared in the air, wrapping Ansel in it unexpectedly.

Before he had time to react, the black mist quickly dissipated. This was a transformation spell.

Ansel touched the top of his head in shock, looked at himself again, raised his head and said angrily, "What are you doing?!"

It turned out that the earl used magic to turn him into long hair, the golden hair almost hanging to the ground, and the clothes on his body turned into a pure white long skirt.This attire looks like an image of an ancient noblewoman in a history book. Is it some kind of interest of the earl?

Seeing the unbelievable look on the priest's face, the count pointed to the gold-rimmed floor-to-ceiling mirror by the wall, and said maliciously: "My lord priest, don't you want to know why I help you? Look in the mirror, and you can understand my feelings." intention."

Ansel gave him a suspicious look and walked cautiously to the mirror.

In the dim light, Ansel saw a slender figure reflected in the mirror.

In the mirror, the young man with blond hair like a waterfall and beautiful appearance makes it difficult to distinguish his true gender.His facial features were perfect and his temperament was pure, his pair of green eyes were misty with doubts, and his pale lips were tightly pursed, looking very displeased.This little emotion made him look less like a cold statue.

The young man was wearing a plain white linen dress, revealing his collarbone and fair arms.He stood barefoot, with smooth and slender beautiful blond hair pouring down from the top of his head, refracting a faint light of light color, covering his whole body with a holy halo.

What does this mean?

Ansel looked suspiciously at the image in the mirror, while the Earl stood aside, squinting his bright red pupils, quietly admiring the beauty in the mirror.

Suddenly, a name came to Ansel's mind like lightning:

"Aurora?"

As soon as the words fell, Ansel immediately covered his mouth.

To actually compare the appearance of the goddess with myself... What a treason!

However, Ansel had difficulty taking his eyes off the mirror.

The self in the picture is indeed very similar to the goddess statue in the church...

Ansel knew that when he and his sister were born, some people regarded them as the reincarnation of the goddess.To be honest, when he was young, he didn't doubt it. After all, the divine power of the siblings is really extraordinary.However, as he grew older, the mature Ansel gradually put this absurd statement behind him.

Because, no matter how powerful a mortal is, he cannot transcend the limitations of race. There is an insurmountable gap between humans and gods. This is the reason why humans worship and fear gods.Gods may be willing to be reincarnated and reduced to humans, but it is simply a fantasy for humans to transform into gods.

Ansel knew very well that he was by no means a savior.He is just an ordinary person who just happens to have more power than others.

Now, he lost all his power because he used a teleportation circle. Which god in the universe would be reduced to such a miserable state?

Taking a step back, even if the Goddess of Light really chooses to be reincarnated as a human for some reason, then she must be Tiana who is stronger and more determined.

Ansella lowered the velvet curtain at the top of the floor-to-ceiling mirror, obscuring the unsettling image.

Earl Harriet raised the corners of his mouth and smiled slightly.He walked to the red cloth sofa and sat down easily, and made an inviting gesture of "please sit down" to Ansel.

Ansel thought for a while, but still walked over.He is now full of questions, and urgently needs the earl's answer.

The priest smoothed his long hair to one side of his shoulders and sat down on the sofa cautiously.Earl Harriet leaned forward and reached out to touch his blond hair, but Ansel slapped him away unceremoniously.

The Vampire Earl's eyes dimmed, and he sat back down.

"Now tell me, please, what is the matter?"

The count propped his chin and sighed helplessly, "Master Priest, do you think I really want to help you? I have no choice. I believe you have also discovered that Cynthia, the goddess of the night, has returned to the world The coyotes' devil contract is the best proof. Many fortune tellers and prophets on the mainland have discovered this matter. However, what I want to tell you now is only known to a few noble vampire nobles.

That is, Cynthia's divine body has not awakened.In other words, her body is still in deep sleep. "

Ansel froze.

In other words, Cynthia's soul has awakened, but her body is sleeping?Like the out-of-body folklore?Ansel knew that there were indeed some temples with peculiar styles on the mainland, and some young priestesses possessed the ability to go out of their bodies and divination of good and bad fortune.

Ansel frowned and questioned: "Why doesn't Cynthia wake up her body?"

Earl Harriet got up from the sofa and poured himself a glass of bright red liquid.While tasting the sweet blood, he talked about another topic: "How do you explain the Goddess War thousands of years ago in the classics of the God of Light?"

As a priest, Ansel is extremely proficient in the scriptures of the church.Although this question was very sudden, Ansel slightly recalled it and said concisely: "Thousands of years ago, there were two goddesses on the continent, Aurora and Cynthia. Aurora brought light and life to the world, and Cynthia created countless evil creatures And the chaotic night. Therefore, Aurora led the righteous people to declare war on Cynthia, and finally won a big victory. Since then, the light has become the master of the world, and Cynthia has fallen into a long sleep, unable to do harm to the world anymore. "

This story is familiar to all major races in the mainland. Even children aged seven or eight will use two dolls, one black and one white, to play house.

After Earl Harriet heard this, a disdainful sneer appeared on his handsome face.

He tossed the glass goblet aside, letting the blood in it splatter on the carpet.After brushing his meticulous short silver hair casually, the Earl said indifferently: "The general plot is like this, but the specific details are different from the real situation."

Ansel, who has a rigorous personality, couldn't help but retort: ​​"This happened many, many years ago. Who would know the details? The parties involved are no longer alive."

The earl raised the corners of his mouth and smiled meaningfully.

A bold idea came to mind, Ansel widened his green eyes: "Could it be...?!"

For the vampire count, the priest has always maintained a cold and hostile expression, which is rare to show such a vivid expression.Harriet couldn't help stretching out her hand and caressing his sharp chin vaguely.

Before being beaten by the beauty, he quickly withdrew his hand, coughed lightly and said: "At that time, I was not very old. My father, His Royal Highness must have been more impressed. However, I can use the family's I swear on honor, considering Cynthia's strength at that time, it is impossible for all the gods in the whole continent to defeat her."

Ansel wiped the tip of his chin vigorously, and smiled coldly when he heard this: "The earl's oath does not seem to have any credibility."

"Okay, okay." Harriet sat down on the sofa, raised his hands in a gesture of surrender, with a sinister and presumptuous demeanor, "I know you're still angry about that blind little wolf— —I admit that I really didn’t pay enough attention to him. But, haven’t you been taking care of him secretly? You know, he is my slave now, and you have been meddling in my family affairs, but I pretended not to notice it magnanimously. "

The Vampire Earl was right, Ansel was indeed secretly taking care of Alai.

During the few days of testing the medicine, the count went out early and returned late every day, searching for various healing magic potions, while Ansel was left alone in the bedroom.In the earl's presence, the priest unceremoniously refused to take all the potions.But after the count left, Ansel secretly collected the potion with wine display utensils.

Although the door of the dormitory was locked by a black magic circle, there was a small hole in the door for pets to walk through.At that time, the earl threw the little wolf outside the door, and he didn't know whether it was intentional or not, so he just left him under the small door and changed him back to the shape of a beast.

Therefore, Ansel observed the daylight every day to calculate the time, guessing that the Earl would go out after dark, so he fished Alai in through the small hole, and then poured all the healing potions that he secretly hid into the little wolf.

Although what the count found were all high-quality medicinal materials, they were all used to restore Ansel's divine power.When the medicine is not suitable for the symptoms, Ansel is not sure whether such a crude treatment will work.

Judging from the appearance of observation, Alai's high fever did show signs of easing, but he has been in an unconscious coma, and the situation is really not optimistic.

Unexpectedly, the count came and went in a hurry every day, and he was keenly aware of all this.

Ansel didn't hide anymore, he looked straight into the eyes of the silver-haired vampire and said, "If there are any problems with Alai, I will never let you go."

The personal grievances between the two of them were one thing, but the Earl was using Alai from beginning to end.Thinking about it now, Alai tricked him into the black magic circle and gave him medicine, it was probably a good idea of ​​this vampire.

"Hmph—" Harriet raised his legs in disdain, "Alai is my slave, and now he is not even eligible to inherit the family name, and all matters of life and death are decided by me."

No matter how complicated his feelings for Alai were, Ansel didn't want others to discuss Alai's life in such a light tone, as if the little wolf was some kind of dispensable garbage.

Therefore, Ansel suppressed his anger and urged the earl, "Let's go back to our topic—if Aurora is not strong enough, how did she defeat Cynthia? Let me remind you, Cynthia is the one who fell into a deep sleep." loser."

Ansel accused the Vampire Earl of being whimsical, but Harriet looked unreasonably embarrassed and said calmly: "The weak always have the methods of the weak, nothing more than some despicable tricks. .”

Ansel had been a devout believer since he was a child, and he really couldn't bear Harriet's slander of the noble goddess again and again.He could only tell himself over and over again in his heart that this guy is a heretic who is full of lies, so there is no need to entangle him too much.

The priest maintained his demeanor and remained silent, but Earl Harriet became more energetic.

He squinted his bright red pupils, slapped the armrest of the sofa hard, and humiliated Aurora even more: "Let me tell you, the goddess you humans admire most is a despicable villain who is greedy for power! In order to become the only master of the mainland, she I attacked Cynthia when she was most defenseless. Because Cynthia is very powerful, Aurora has no way to kill her completely, but can only put her into a long sleep."

Ansel caught the loophole in his words, and counterattacked forcefully: "What is the 'most defenseless moment'? If it is really what you said, why doesn't the all-knowing and omnipotent Lord Cynthia be on guard against Aurora at all times, instead defenseless against her?"

"That's because she treated Aurora—"

The words were on the verge of being spoken, but Harriet suddenly stopped talking at a critical point, as if he had suddenly realized something.

"What did she do to Aurora?"

The vampire earl, who spoke so freely, seemed to really know something hidden, and Ansel couldn't help being a little curious.

"Hmph, it's just some boring emotional reasons." The Vampire Earl folded his arms resentfully.

He continued: "In short, after the war between the two goddesses ended, Cynthia fell into a long sleep, and her divine body was jointly guarded by several noble vampire nobles. Aurora also became the only god on the mainland as she wished. However, Just over twenty years ago, there was an extremely powerful wave of magic in the east. Several princes found out through divination that Aurora seemed to have left the domain of God and reincarnated as a human."

Hearing this, Ansel's heart tightened, and he finally got to the crucial point.

"Just after Aurora's reincarnation, Cynthia's divine body also appeared abnormal. She had been sleeping peacefully, but more than ten years ago, her soul suddenly left her body and came to this world."

Ansel was very surprised, and guessed: "Is it because Aurora was reincarnated as a human, and Cynthia followed her to the world?"

"That's right." The count nodded his chin, showing a puzzled look, "We don't know how the sleeping Cynthia noticed these things...Anyway, because Aurora left God's Domain, Cynthia In the case that the strength has not been restored, the soul is forcibly forced out of the divine body.

Immediately after her incarnation, her soul was put into the embryo of a mortal, but her sleeping divine body soon showed signs of atrophy due to the lack of nourishment from the soul.No matter how hard my father and other nobles tried, Cynthia's divine body was inevitably diminished rapidly.Now, the soul of the goddess can no longer return to its original carrier.She can only store her soul in a mortal body, and cannot exert all her power. "

It turns out that goddesses also have souls, and Cynthia's soul state sounds very bad, which is good news.

Hearing this, Ansel couldn't help asking curiously: "Then what about Aurora's divine body?"

The Goddess of Light chose to be reincarnated as a human being, but who is keeping her divine body?

Earl Harriet shook his head, his handsome and mature face looked extremely serious: "This is the crux of the problem. Unlike Cynthia who was in a bad state, Aurora came to the world intact. But, there is one thing we can do I can’t figure it out. Aurora actually took the initiative to separate part of her soul and put it into the body of another mortal embryo.”

Ansel was stunned, his green eyes widened in disbelief.

Earl Harriet looked at him and said word by word: "In other words, you and your sister, both of you are Aurora."

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