"They...are all volunteers?"
Doctrines are prevalent in Western society. Even the upper class have been baptized to some extent and have listened to church preaching when they were young.
So, the Duke who saw this scene felt incredible at first, but then he shuddered violently and suddenly realized something.
If even my close friends have accepted the transformation, then doesn't that mean...
He raised his head and looked out the window.
It was as if I saw a city that was shrouded in darkness and completely occupied by Dead Apostles and vampires.
"Do not."
"Do not……"
"This is impossible..." The Duke of Cornwall muttered to himself. He actually knew more than others.
The reason why he reported to the Magic Association was that he never believed in the so-called immortality.
He understood that the so-called transformation, the first embrace, was essentially the same as that of a magician.
Only those with magical talent can more easily survive the transformation of the Dead Apostles, and there is a high probability that they will directly become living corpses instead of ghouls. As for ordinary people...
Most of them died directly and became irrational monsters!
"of course."
Victor naturally knew why the other party reacted this way, so he simply explained: "But this is the human nature that I love the most. Apart from the beautiful side, everyone has their own unwillingness, repression, and greed in their hearts."
He smiled. Good human nature is something people yearn for, but bad human nature gives people like them who are good at controlling... the ability to manipulate others.
"Just like the common people are hostile to the nobles but try every means to become nobles, the common people who hate the powerful can never refuse the possibility of stepping into the mystery."
Hearing this, the Duke swallowed his saliva, secretly glanced at the young man, and suddenly, cold sweat soaked his entire back.
lure.
He is tempting.
He is using the temptation after the secret is leaked, the crazy temptation, to lure others to join, and use the support of ordinary people to achieve his own goals - but this is a secret leak!
"Aren't you afraid of... the liquidation of the Magician Association?"
"Ah."
Hearing this, Victor laughed even more wantonly.
A few days ago, Artluchi asked him the same question.
Then, he just asked a question in return.
Chapter 49, I am looking forward to it
The leak of the mystery is the main reason why the Magician Association is suppressing and encircling the Dead Apostles.
A few days ago, when Altluci tried to stop him and told Victor, "You are violating the biggest taboo of the Magicians Association," Victor just asked back a question and fried Altluci's brain CPU.
"They magicians are planning to kill all of us Dead Apostles. Are we still going to abide by their biggest taboo?"
What a joke!
For hundreds of years, even the largest force of Dead Apostles of Lord White Wing had to walk with their heads down. Yes, the Magician Association was powerful and inferior to others, so they had to be tolerant. However, blindly being tolerant would not win respect.
A rabbit will bite when it is cornered, and then people will realize that, oh, you can't push a rabbit into a corner.
"Do you know?" In the distant night, on top of a water tower, Victor stood there, looking at Altluchi who was sitting on the edge in front of him, swinging her legs, closing her eyes, and said tiredly: "Along the way, I actually thought for a long time about how to live better."
"As a Dead Apostle, I must ensure that you can hold on until the moment I rise."
If you think about it carefully, if this is a weak Death Apostle line, then the world line should be that attack, and Altluchi was successfully killed or captured by the Church.
Then, the Magician Association's action against the White Winged Prince took effect, at this point in 1989.
The Dead Apostles were completely ruined, with no possibility of a comeback, and entered a state of chronic extinction.
But his arrival disrupted the original process.
But not enough.
The Dead Apostles simply changed from being certain to die to struggling to die.
In order to protect himself, Victor must rack his brains to find another way out for the dead apostles.
"I thought about it for a long time, and there is only one way, which is to reduce the number of enemies."
Victor paused, and before he could wait for Altluchi to turn around and speak, he said, "The church is our mortal enemy. This is the church's belief. There is no room for reconciliation between us."
"But if you do this, won't you push the Magician Association towards the church?"
"Hmm? That's why I said that you Dead Apostles have fallen for a reason."
Victor shook his head helplessly: "The Dead Apostles and the Magician Association will never have common interests. Whether we live or die has nothing to do with them."
"If an enemy cannot be turned into a friend, then the best way to make them stop is... to be cautious in dealing with the consequences."
Why is it necessary to demonstrate strength and bargaining chips before negotiating?
If you don't show your chips, no one will pay attention to you.
In Victor's opinion, the Dead Apostles also have the biggest bargaining chip - like a nuclear bomb.
"We must make the Magicians' Association realize that if they kill us all, we will not hesitate to plunge the entire world into turmoil."
"But this requires the joint efforts of all the Dead Apostles, so I look forward to the attitude of Lord White Wing. Fortunately, he is at least willing to temporarily lower his proud head for the future of the Dead Apostles."
"Of course, we can't wipe out humans." Victor gently covered his heart when he said this: "Even the most horrific plague can't wipe out humans' hope for survival."
"We may not even be able to threaten one-tenth of the human population, but it's not a big problem."
"It's like the two atomic bombs in the war. Yes, it's what you call the big fireworks."
"We may only be able to destroy two cities out of 'all humanity', but... it will be enough."
"Everyone in the world will remember the power of the atomic bomb."
"The terrifying infectiousness of the Dead Apostles will also set off a trend of mysterious leaks among ordinary people."
“Mystery will no longer exist, and understanding mystery will become a common concept among mankind.”
"..."Altluci turned her head at some point and looked at Victor with a blank look.
Crazy idea.
"You are such a lunatic..."
"You have to make them realize this, Your Highness. This is necessary. It is also the only way for you Dead Apostles to survive." Victor ignored the look in his eyes and said firmly, "If you want to survive, you have to let them know the price of killing you."
“I’ve always come this way.”
"Your Highness."
"This is also called... human nature."
……
"..."
This is a madman! He is on the verge of suicide!
The Duke of Cornwall was completely unable to understand Victor's behavior. After all, in his concept, he did not understand the classification and strength of the Dead Apostles. In his eyes, all the Dead Apostles were the same and none of them could withstand the liquidation of the Magic Association.
However, he seems to have no choice now...
Victor just smiled and didn't explain to him.
He just needs to make Arteluchi understand the relevant principles.
Victor closed his eyes, feeling the increasing magical power and crazy atmosphere in Cornwall, and reached out his hand to the increasingly pale Duke of Cornwall: "Then tell me your answer, Your Excellency."
"Are you willing to return to... the arms of mystery and fight for me?"
……
"You are such a strange fellow." Altluki swung her two snow-white legs and looked at Victor who was dozing quietly beside her and said, "You have always been firm in your identity as a magician."
The thing that Altluci was most certain of was that Victor attached great importance to his two identities.
One is a human being who no longer exists but he still pursues humanity, and the other is a magician.
But it just happens that he is such a guy who values his identity as a magician, a guy whose essence and bones are engraved with the thinking of a traditional magician.
How could he make such a crazy decision?
Even... "A secret leak, isn't that the most outrageous thing for you magi?"
"How do you throw this thought so naturally?"
“Tradition is not necessarily good, it may also be bad.”
Hearing this, Victor opened his eyes calmly and said, "Besides, you are a little wrong."
“The thing I value most is my own life.”
For the sake of life, let alone threatening the Magician Association with a secret leak, even if the secret was really leaked!
Victor had no complaints.
Yes, mystery leaks will cause mystery to decline further and make the already small stock of mystery even more scattered.
But what does this have to do with him?
"Other traditional magicians like to look for the root cause and commit suicide, but I just ignore the root cause and that's it."
"But if you do this, it can only be said that you are taking a gamble." Artluqi hesitated for a moment, and finally said: "If you fail to do it well, it is equivalent to overturning the table."
"It's like you telling the church that God doesn't exist..." Altluchi turned her head and looked at him with her beautiful eyes. "The ideas established by countless magicians over thousands of years are not so easy to break. It's easy to cause the other party to go to the same extreme."
For example, destroying the Dead Apostles at all costs.
"Maybe, but...the guys who lead the Magician's Association now are all old guys." Facing Altluqi's doubts, Victor seemed very patient. Altluqi was not stupid. On the contrary, she was very smart. However, her pursuit of power for hundreds of years neglected scheming, which made her show a touch of innocence.
"As people get older, they tend to become more stubborn, rigid, and conservative, unwilling to step out of their comfort zone and unwilling to change."
This is an iron law that has been forged by generations of human beings through facts time and time again.
"In fact, you and I both know that mysterious leaks are the biggest lies."
The essence of mystery is idealism, and the more people believe in idealism, the greater its influence.
Of course, Type-Moon’s mysterious decline isn’t caused by everyone no longer believing in it, but rather by problems with the world itself.
But even if the world itself chooses another path, such as the rise of technology, there may be a glimmer of hope if the entire nation is mobilized and everyone starts pursuing the mystery again.
In fact, monarchs have proposed this theory before, but the only crazy person who is willing to realize it is a madman, a madman who wants to make the whole world return to the Age of Gods. Apart from him, there is no one else.
After all, traditional magicians are selfish. They don’t know whether this plan can succeed, but once the secret is leaked, their secret will be affected first. Anyway, it must be true.
By the way, Euripides is a staunch opponent of the "magician expansion" theory.
Of course, the decline of mystery is not entirely without benefits... If mystery had not declined, primates would never have been able to take over the world.
In an age when magicians are rampant, if the mysteries are allowed to develop, the chances of human extinction will be dozens of times greater than the decline of the mysteries.
Who knows where this probability comes from? Victor doesn’t know either, he only knows that it was said by the astronomy department.
As we all know, what astronomy says must be right.
"So, those old guys will definitely choose the most conservative approach."
At that moment, Victor got rid of his laziness and stretched. The affirmative look in his eyes made Arteluqi stunned for a moment, and she swallowed the words "What if" that were about to come out of her mouth.
She suddenly laughed and stopped asking questions, but suddenly she became interested. For the first time, she was looking forward to this kind of game between people's hearts. She wanted to watch it quietly, just like chasing a TV series, which made people want to...
See the ending.
"Well, it looks like life won't be too boring."
Artluqi smiled faintly, lowered her eyelids gently, and looked down at the city...
a long time……
Suddenly.
"Are you loyal to me now?"
"What?" Victor didn't respond.
