Perfume makers have a prestigious status even in Oujin City.
"Why is this happening?"
When she came out of the back door and saw Luca, she went straight up to ask him the reason.
"Do you think the Europeans are naturally fragrant?" Luca sneered, "Don't be silly... You also smelled the smell when you passed those places just now. I tell you that it was the mildest. They live in such places all year round, and the smell on their bodies is almost deep in their bones."
“But they despise the stinkier above-ground people.”
"People on the ground don't stink, that's because we came up from the bottom - just came up, understand? Just like when you just came out of a cesspool, of course it smells worse, but how can you compare yourself who hasn't fallen into the cesspool yet with the lunatic who has lived next to the cesspool all year round."
Hitzfeld made a disgusted expression. What a genius metaphor.
"So you can understand why they are crazy about perfume."
Luca smiled happily.
"It's just to cover up the stink."
The corridor had reached the end. He opened the door and made an inviting gesture to the girl.
"That's about it."
"Welcome to the capital of the Kingdom of God."
"…Her Royal Highness, the princess who is determined to restore her country."
Chapter 174 Dizziness in the Light
"I'm curious."
Sitting in the carriage pulled by the slave beasts, Madeline leaned against the window and looked outside through the slightly opened gap in the curtains: "Why do they have to build another one like this?"
She has passed the inspection. She... Xia Yibing... and Hitzfeld are now in the carriage. The suitcases and the box containing the ancient things are tied to the top of the carriage. Because of their gender, it is inconvenient for Luca and others to ride with them.
They are now going to the Blood Mage Headquarters in Oujin City. According to Luca, they will be able to meet the first Bloodsworn here - Mr. Morn, who is also the leader of the Blood Mage.
"Maybe it's because there must be an Oujin City." Xia Yibing said lightly, "You know very well how exaggerated the power of this thing is."
Oujin City definitely has more than just symbolic significance. If we don't consider the various illusions, it is the largest floating city they have ever seen in reality. Its hugeness and magnificence, especially the suppression of life on the ground by the lingering black clouds, are crucial to maintaining the rule of the Kingdom of God.
The Corrupted Blood God Country contained thousands of towns of all sizes, many of which were not even human strongholds. Their cohesion was questionable, so there had to be such a majestic city, like a sword hanging in the air to suppress them.
Compared with this significance, the energy and material resources required to rebuild such a magnificent city are not worth mentioning - this is something that must be done no matter what the cost.
"Uh... Actually, I'm not asking this..." Madeline glanced back at them, "I want to ask... If the original Ou Jin City became a container to seal the evil eye and flew away... Then how did the new Ou Jin City come about?"
Xia Yibing frowned. Madeline rarely asked a good question.
She had also thought about this problem... New Oujin, analyzing this matter from the root, all she could think of was the Undead Fleet. It was Insel who led the Neons to reap the fruits of a hundred years of bloody battle and then assisted them in rebuilding Oujin.
Of course, there is another possibility, that is, the Neang people are also unaware of Yinsel's existence. They took this position on their own initiative, including unifying the southern continent and rebuilding Oujin over a long period of time... They don't know that there is actually someone secretly controlling them.
Xia Yibing herself didn't figure it out, so when Madeline asked her this, she went to see Hitzfeld first.
Hitzfeld was in a daze.
Waving his hand to wake the girl up, Xia Yibing looked at her with amusement: "What are you thinking about?"
"Nothing." Hitzfeld's expression looked a little unnatural.
Xia Yibing stopped smiling, she noticed that something was wrong with the girl.
Madeline and I were both relatively comfortable sitting in the car, even though we were always on guard against possible accidents (after all, they dared to assassinate Luca directly), but at least we were sitting comfortably, with our tailbone pressed tightly against the base of the seat cushion.
But Hitzfeld was not like that. She seemed to always sit very forward, with only a small part of her buttocks touching the cushion. Her hands were sometimes held together and sometimes crossed and buried in the gap of her long skirt. Occasionally, she would wake up as if from a nightmare, looking very uneasy.
"Aisun?" Xia Yibing thought that this matter was worth taking seriously, because she knew best how sharp the other party's spirit was. "What did you find?"
“I find this city unsettling,” Hitzfeld said.
She didn't feel it when she was down there, but when she really came up and was on the street, even though she was just sitting in the suspended carriage, she still felt a creepy feeling.
She couldn't explain the origin of this feeling. There was no evidence and no reason, but she just felt that way - as if she was walking in the mouth of a giant beast when she stepped on the ground, and she would be swallowed up if she was not careful.
The source of uneasiness is not just the city, but also the bright sunshine shining from the sky.
Yes, sunshine. Because Oujin City can fly, most of the city can penetrate the dark clouds and gray fog and rise above them, so it can naturally be bathed in sunlight. This is also one of the reasons why Oujin people look down on people on the ground.
But Hitzfeld felt that this lighting was not normal.
When searching for the mechanical secret room, she discovered that being illuminated by the so-called "sunset" was not a completely normal feeling. The "sunset" seemed to be alive. It would rotate, blink, and had an extraordinary magic power to attract the things in her eye sockets.
The locals just thought that the sun was alive, and no one made a fuss about it, but she knew that if there was a sun, it should be very far away from the ground. The blood of salvation should not be sprinkled on the sun, and she did not think that thing should be the sun.
But if it is not the sun, what is it?
Hitzfeld didn't have the ability to fly across tens of millions of miles to the sky to investigate the situation in an instant. Although this thing was suspicious, it did emit enough light and heat, and this energy also nourished the growth of all things on the continent of Elsa.
For the time being, she could only suspect that this was a strange sun, and that it was not the same sun as the one that existed above Namiia.
It seems like an absurd conjecture, but it is indeed possible. After all, it has been assumed that the Elsa continent was brought to an alien space by the gray fog. This plane may be very close to Namiia or very far away. If the distance is beyond a galaxy, then there is a possibility that there is another sun in this galaxy.
But Hitzfeld didn't really want this to be true, because once this speculation was true, it would mean that the new sun was actually a sleeping god.
The reason why we can't sense it is because the distance is too far. Once such a god awakens, it seems that all living things will face a devastating disaster.
Why is this damn place filled with deadly threats that make even daily life unsafe...
Xia Zai tried to comfort himself, and Hitzfeld said it was okay, wondering if he was being too sensitive.
After all, other people can’t feel it... Many things have been growing and developing in the sun all along, and everything has been peaceful for so many years.
Am I overthinking it?
She was unsure and was hesitating whether to tell Xia Yibing about her guess about the "new god" when the carriage shook slightly, possibly indicating that they had arrived.
They had indeed arrived. After getting off the car and grabbing their belongings, Hitzfeld stepped onto the ground. While enduring the uneasy feeling, he looked up and saw a gray stone building in front of him.
Most of the buildings in Oujin City are of this style. All the outer contours and internal structures are not so much carved and built as they are naturally formed after some stalactite-like material solidified. Most of them are gray, with many towers and spires. Strictly speaking, the outer contours of each building are integrated together. Yes... There are almost no buildings here that exist alone.
The same goes for the headquarters of the Blood Mage Guild. This tower is the tallest building she can see nearby. It has four towers, and the building in the middle of the towers is the headquarters itself.
Bislo and they were not on the same road, and they were going to stay here tonight, so Luca took them upstairs first.
Before entering the gate, Hitzfeld looked at the people on the street and found that they did look better than those on the ground.
Not only the complexion, but also the hope.
There was light in everyone's eyes, a kind of hurried busyness, an urgent desire to "do something", which was something she could hardly see in the ground city - even in Neptune City.
Only the Blood Butcher on earth would act like this.
The Blood Slayers believe in the mysterious path. In order to perfect themselves and advance, they urgently need to hunt blood beasts to improve their strength, which constitutes the driving force of their actions.
The common people and even the untouchables are much more obedient. Many of them are just seeking to have enough food to eat today. If you satisfy them, they will never want to move again.
Good.
Nodding in his heart, Hitzfeld was about to go in when he suddenly found that Xia Yibing was standing still.
"summer?"
She looked up in surprise and saw the woman covering her head with a serious expression. Her cold eyes swept across the street, not knowing what she was looking for.
"summer……"
Calling her softly, Hitzfeld quietly grabbed her wrist.
This was a hint to her that it would be best not to attract other people's attention.
Xia Yibing recovered quickly, put her arm around the girl's waist, led her into the house while she stared at him in astonishment, and followed the crowd upstairs.
"What happened to you?"
Hitzfeld didn't think about breaking free; she was more worried about the woman's abnormality.
"I feel that there are evil thoughts hidden in those people." Xia Yibing briefly described her feelings.
"It's a blood species."
"Luka is right. He does have people in Oujin City."
Chapter 175 Suspect List
After arranging a place for them to live, Luca wasted no time and quickly introduced them to his boss, the blood mage leader he had mentioned to them before, Moren Shaw.
Morlun looked very young, very young! Just looking at his appearance, one would suspect that he was only about thirty years old, and a lot of this judgment came from Hitzfeld's stereotypes - stereotypes related to the earth.
In the new century on Earth, most people can eat well, wear warm clothes and sleep well. Thirty years old on Earth looks much younger... Especially for some gifted people or mixed-bloods, thirty looks the same as twenty.
According to this formula, Moren Shaw has the appearance of a local young man in his twenties.
He had a rare dark green hair, naturally curly and messy like seaweed. He had a monocle hanging on his nose, and the robe he was wearing was so dirty that he hadn't changed it in who knows how long, and the hem and cuffs were full of stains.
This man was relatively warm and hospitable. He was doing an experiment when they knocked on the door - the kind of small experiment he did when he was reading a book and felt inspired. Normally, a blood mage would find it hard to tolerate being disturbed at such a critical moment, but he was not angry at all and even made them some scented tea.
"My real age is older than Luca's."
The teapot was bubbling on the stove, and Moran sat in the chair opposite them, with his hands and feet clasped together awkwardly.
"If you understand this path well enough, you should understand that for a high-level blood mage, the body does not represent his true self."
"He can be a man or a woman, an adult or a child. It all depends on how much knowledge we have. If all else fails, we can also do what I did and forcefully replace him with a younger body."
Can this be said?
Madeline was a little frightened and kept glancing at her companion, while her hand was silently raised and placed on her thigh - closer to the holster.
"Did Master Luca tell you about what happened to us in Sea King City?" Hitzfeld stared straight into his eyes.
His eyes were black, or they could be dark green, but they were hard to see in this lighting condition... and he seemed to be suffering from some autism and communication disorder. After she entered the room, she kept staring at him like this, and he didn't dare to look her in the eye.
"Something went wrong when Morun was changing his body." At this time, she heard Luca whispering beside her, "Even for high-level professionals like us, changing our bodies and brains is very dangerous. Without the power of the church, the mortality rate is very high. He succeeded, but he also left sequelae."
"I..." Facing the question, Morn folded his hands and stirred them vigorously, "I heard Luca say something... yes... through blood spirit magic... he said that Your Majesty might be controlled by the apostle of the evil god, and there are his servants in Oujin City..."
This understanding is fine. Hitzfeld continued to ask: "Did he tell you about the hidden dangers of the Bloodsworn?"
Luca was stunned and quickly winked at her.
Oh my god, is she crazy? She got straight to the point? How can you say such things to a suspect?
But Hitzfeld obviously had her own ideas. Morn was also stunned by the question and stammered, "Ah? This... I don't know this... but it does make sense... Yes... If there really is a traitor, then the most likely ones are us, the Bloodsworn..."
His sequelae are very serious and numerous, including but not limited to intellectual decline, lack of organizational skills, and abnormal control of emotions including joy and anger. Sometimes he would laugh out loud while talking, and sometimes he would cry bitterly.
For example, now - Morn realized that his beloved Human King might have been poisoned and fell into a deep sleep at any time. He broke down and cried, and immediately stood up tremblingly, shouting that he wanted to go to the palace to visit him.
"Bang!" Luca took action at the critical moment. He picked up a mop stick from the side and hit Morn on the back of the head, causing him to roll his eyes and faint.
“……”Everyone, including Hitzfeld, was speechless.
"Is he okay?"
"It doesn't matter. This is not the first or second time he's had a tantrum. I always comfort him this way."
"But he's not. I mean, isn't he your leader? How can it be like this..."
"It has nothing to do with whether he is the leader or not. Don't be fooled by his frequent madness, but he is very powerful... much more powerful than me."
As if he was afraid that they would look down on Morun because of their first impression, Luca decided to explain it in more detail.
"His reign has been there since I was very young."
"Yes, 'rule', I must use this word... As you can see, he has no bloodline, neither an Imar nor a Niang, nor any prominent family, but he has taken this path to a new level in just a few decades."
"One thousand spells, three thousand experiments. These are the treasures he left us... In that era, Morren Shaw ruled us like the king of blood mages. Even though he has become like this now, it's because he... maybe something has changed in his brain. He has done more in-depth research in some special fields."
That's genius indeed.
Hitzfeld slightly changed her mind about Morlun, and then she asked Luca: "Do you think he will be a traitor?"
Luca shook his head: "Even if I were him, I couldn't be."
"Then why did you glare at me when I brought it up just now?"
"Well... Morun sometimes behaves like a child... I'm afraid if he finds out, he'll run out onto the street and start yelling. That would have a very bad influence..."
Didn't he tell me about this hidden danger earlier?
Hitzfeld glared at Luca, and Luca simply spread his hands.
"How do I know you're so bold?"
