Although she was prepared for the possibility of summoning a blood demon cultist, Charlotte couldn't help but be a little surprised when she actually pulled out a cultist.
You know, the locations of those stars she chose in reality should be the closest to the Lutetia Cathedral.
Even the blood descendants at such a close distance are members of the Blood Demon Cult. When did the Blood Demon Cult become so rampant
Looking at the unlucky guy she summoned, Charlotte had an inexplicable expression.
And at the bottom of the stairs, the blood demon priest who recognized her "identity" through the thorn rose was already frightened.
"She found me!" "My power is gone!" "The plan is exposed!" "Run... run!"...
All kinds of thoughts came from the Blood Demon Priest's mind and were all sensed by Charlotte.
The Blood Demon Priest turned around and fled, rushing towards the gate of the Dark Night Castle. He ran so fast that he wished he had eight legs.
But when he rushed to the solemn gate of the castle, he found in despair that he could not push the gate open...
Charlotte watched with interest as the Blood Demon Priest fled in the hall of the castle like a headless fly, and in her heart she became interested in the thoughts that emerged from his subconscious mind.
"plan?"
She muttered to herself.
Looking at the pale-faced Blood Demon Priest, she narrowed her eyes and slightly hooked her finger.
The Blood Demon Priest, who had fled to the corner of the castle like a mouse avoiding a cat, was horrified to find that he was imprisoned by an irresistible force, and then flew towards the terrifying existence on the throne...
The crimson mist gradually dissipated, and the Blood Demon Priest saw Charlotte's appearance clearly.
He was startled for a moment, and his frightened expression quickly turned into shock.
He knows me...
Charlotte's heart moved.
Today, she has not become an adult, but continues to maintain the appearance of a girl, but the color of her hair and childishness has changed.
It was obvious that the other party knew her as the Count of Castel.
There weren’t many surprises for Charlotte.
She had messed up so many "good things" of the Blood Demon Cult, so it was normal for her to have a number of followers there.
She also had no concerns about being identified.
Since she had dragged the other party into the castle, she had no intention of letting him go out alive.
Her red-gold eyes instantly turned crimson as she looked into the eyes of the Blood Demon Priest.
The huge mental burst quickly rushed into the soul of the Blood Demon Priest, and the Blood Demon Priest's memory was like an open book, unfolding in front of Charlotte.
At this moment, Charlotte relied on the dual suppression of blood power and spiritual world to forcibly perform memory exploration on the Blood Demon Priest!
The Blood Demon Priest's eyes quickly became dull, and waves of memories came to Charlotte's mind...
Bertrand de Chevalli.
High priest of the Blood Demon Cult, Count of Blood, fifth generation descendant of the Shedit clan.
However, he has another identity, that is, he is the patriarch of the Shevali family, the earl of the fiefdom directly under the Crescent Royal Family, and also serves as the affairs officer of the city hall of the royal capital Lutetsia.
"noble?"
Charlotte felt as if she were not surprised.
As her memories flashed back, she also saw the past of this blood demon priest...
Bertrand de Chevalier has been a blood descendant for less than three years, and he is already a transcendent who has reached the peak of Silver Moon.
Three years ago, his time was approaching. In order to prolong his life and escape death, he finally accepted the bewitching of the Blood Demon Cult, accepted the First Embrace of the Blood Cult, became a vampire, and joined the Blood Demon Cult.
"Hmm? He just received the First Embrace three years ago? And his bloodline power is directly the Blood Count?"
Charlotte soon realized something was wrong.
The blood descendants of the first embrace are often not very powerful, and will definitely be lower than the elders who gave them the first embrace.
Being able to directly promote the descendants of the First Embrace to the Blazing Sun means that the blood clan elder of the Blood Demon Priest, the First Embrace, must be the Duke of Blood, and he must regard him as a confidant!
As if to verify Charlotte's guess, as she browsed the Blood Demon Priest's memory, a dark red mark appeared on his forehead...
That is the mark of the blood servant.
This blood demon priest is also a forbidden blood servant!
The mark flickered slightly, and the Blood Demon Priest's soul began to crack, and then quickly collapsed...
This is the restriction in the opponent's soul imprint being activated.
Charlotte's eyes narrowed slightly.
She opened the Holy Book of Blood and increased her input of mental energy, trying to stabilize the opponent's soul.
But at the same time, the mark in the opponent's soul began to rapidly self-destruct and collapse.
Charlotte frowned slightly.
Feeling the opponent's rapidly disintegrating soul and blood servant mark, she used the power of blood without hesitation.
However, the Blood Demon Cult's experience was obviously gained in the battle with the Holy Royal Court.
The blood demon priest's self-destruction speed was faster than Charlotte expected. Before she finished reading his memory, the blood demon priest's soul completely collapsed.
The Blood Demon Priest's eyes suddenly lost their luster and his body began to collapse.
he died.
This is the spiritual world.
When the soul collapses and dies, it means dissipation.
Looking at the rapidly disappearing Blood Demon Priest, Charlotte once again increased the input of blood power.
She controlled the Holy Book of Blood and used her divine power to wrap the opponent's rapidly collapsing Blood Servant Mark, and finally stabilized the mark before the Blood Demon Priest's body completely collapsed.
The fluctuations of soul self-destruction gradually subsided, and the figure of the Blood Demon Priest had completely disappeared. However, an illusory mark of blood servant remained in Charlotte's hand.
The blood servant mark was surrounded by the power of blood, keeping the mark stable.
Looking at the stabilization of the Blood Servant Mark, Charlotte breathed a sigh of relief.
The other end of the Blood Servant Mark is connected to the Blood Descendant Elder behind the Blood Demon Priest. If the mark disappears, the other party will definitely sense it.
The Blood Demon Cult was clearly planning something in the royal capital of Lutetia, but Charlotte didn't want to alert them.
Of course, it is impossible not to alert the enemy.
After all, a high-ranking priest of the Blood Demon Cult has died, and the other party will know about it sooner or later.
But... at least we can't let this blood servant mark break in the Dark Night Castle.
She had already used the power of blood when controlling the soul of the Blood Demon Priest. If it were to shatter here, the legendary blood descendant behind the other party would notice something was wrong and would most likely be able to sense her power.
Charlotte wasn't ready to go head-on with the legend.
"What bad luck! This Blood Summoning was completely wasted."
Charlotte sighed secretly.
She didn't expect that her luck was so bad. Not only did the blood descendant she randomly picked turn out to be a blood demon cultist, but also a forbidden blood servant.
The connection between the forbidden blood servant and the blood elder was too close, and the slightest carelessness would trigger the forbidden self-destruction. She didn't even have time to check the other party's memory before the other party's soul completely dissipated.
Even if she used the power of blood, she only saw one more piece of memory information.
This is information about the bloodline elders behind Bertrand de Chevalier.
The descendant of Bertrand the First Embrace is a vampire named Albrecht Shedet, the Blood Duke of the Shedet clan and also a dark apostle of the Blood Demon Cult.
"Albrecht Schedit..."
Charlotte repeated the name silently.
As an "old friend" of the Blood Demon Cult, Charlotte has also conducted some investigations into the Blood Demon Cult's organizational structure.
Within the Blood Demon Cult, members are divided into five levels: believers, dark repellents, priests, high priests and dark apostles.
Believers are ordinary believers, including ordinary believers who believe in the Blood Demon Duke and extraordinary people below the entry level.
The Dark Chasers are those who have reached the level of stars in strength, and most of them are Blood Barons.
The priest is a Silver Moon-level transcendent, the blood descendant corresponds to the Viscount of Blood, and the senior priest above the priest is the Earl of Blood.
The highest level is the Dark Apostles, all of whom are descendants of legendary blood, and their status is equivalent to that of the blood elders within the Ness clan.
Information about the Blood Demon Cult is also recorded in the scriptures of the Holy Royal Court. As far as Charlotte knows, there are a total of six known dark apostles of the Blood Demon Cult.
However, for the sake of confidentiality, the book that Charlotte read did not contain detailed information about the Dark Apostles.
Now, Charlotte knew the name of one of them.
"Albrecht Shedit... In the perception of Blood Calling, there is a Shedit vampire who is suspected to be a descendant of the legendary blood hidden in the outer city of Lutetia. Could it be... that this is Albrecht Shedit?"
Charlotte stroked her chin, thoughtfully.
She glanced at the illusory blood servant mark in front of her, ready to cancel the blood summons.
The high-ranking Blood Demon priest named Bertrand has died, and it is meaningless to continue to maintain the Blood Summoning.
The Blood Servant Mark is only temporarily stable and will inevitably break after the summoning ends.
After the blood summoning ends, the legendary blood descendant behind him will also sense the death of his own blood servant.
But that has nothing to do with Charlotte.
She planned to disguise the death of the high-ranking blood demon priest as "possession".
As long as the Blood Servant Mark was not destroyed in the Dark Night Castle, the other party would not be able to track her.
Thinking of this, Charlotte secretly memorized the breath of the blood clan deep in the blood servant's mark, and carefully manipulated the divine power to send it out of her spiritual world.
On the other side of the spiritual world is Bertrand's body.
Of course, it's a corpse now.
Charlotte used the "Blood Servant Mark" to connect with the opponent's body, and used her mental power to mobilize the power of blood and throw it out.
However, at the moment she threw it, she felt her vision suddenly being pulled away, and "flew" out along with the "Mark of the Blood Servant"...
Charlotte was stunned.
And the next moment, she found that she had an extra field of vision.
It was a dimly lit vision, with a solemn yet evil altar in the center.
The surface of the altar was covered with hideous blood vessels and wriggling tumors. The holy emblem enshrined on it had long been blurred, and even the face of the ancient statue could not be seen clearly.
Above the altar, a huge eye was floating, its skin was covered with wrinkles and looked hideous.
That's a demon eye...
Looking at the evil object that symbolized the Blood Demon Duke, Charlotte suddenly realized that what she saw was probably the place where the Blood Demon Priest was before she pulled him into the Dark Night Castle.
Not only that, the way the altar was placed was so damn familiar. She had seen similar rituals twice after traveling through time.
This should be a ceremony for the descent of God.
Even if not, at least it is a ritual that can communicate with the Blood Demon Grand Duke.
After careful observation, Charlotte discovered that the altar here seemed to be somewhat different from the previous two times of God's descent.
The patterns carved this time seem to be more complex and larger in scale.
With her limited magical skills, Charlotte discerned something like "sacrifice" from the inscriptions.
After careful identification, Charlotte finally overturned her own guess.
This was not a ceremony of divine descent, but rather a large-scale sacrificial ceremony.
The object of sacrifice is the Blood Demon Duke.
Charlotte had some guesses in her mind.
After a brief thought, she tried to connect her main consciousness to this extra vision.
Soon, a sense of dislocation as if traveling through the void came over her. When Charlotte got used to it, she found that she had successfully switched her vision to this side.
Then... Charlotte found herself in a new body.
She lowered her head and saw that she was wearing a familiar black robe, which was the uniform of a high-ranking priest of the Blood Demon Cult.
She touched her chin and felt a rough beard...
She looked to her left hand, which still held the grimoire that Bertrand had taken earlier, which was stained black by blood and candle smoke.
Charlotte: …
She possessed the body of the blood demon priest Bertrand.
Charlotte quickly checked her mental state, and then discovered strangely that she was communicating with Bertrand's body through Albrecht Shedit's "Mark of the Blood Servant".
Of course, to be more precise, she established a connection with Bertrand's body through the Blood Servant Mark, and then projected her consciousness over through the power of blood.
However, Charlotte soon discovered that this possession was time-limited.
Although the divine power of blood keeps the "Mark of Blood Servant" intact, it is actually just delaying the process.
The "Mark of Blood Servant" was still self-destructing, but the speed had been greatly reduced.
When it reaches the critical point, it will still be destroyed, and Charlotte's consciousness will be squeezed out of Bertrand's body.
Charlotte sensed it briefly and found that she could only maintain this state for one to two days at most.
Of course, the premise is that Albrecht Shedit will not contact his own blood servants through the blood servant mark.
After confirming her condition, Charlotte felt something in her heart.
Although she failed to read all of Bertrand's memories, she seemed to have gained another good opportunity to investigate the secrets of the Blood Demon Cult!
Thinking of this, Charlotte looked around and found herself in a temple with a very familiar style.
This is a dilapidated temple, which must be quite old. The light is dim and the air is turbid. It is most likely located underground.
There are huge stone pillars standing in the temple, supporting the dome. The surface is covered with rough reliefs. Although the ancient characters engraved on the stone pillars have been eroded by time, they still reveal a vicissitudes and mysterious atmosphere.
The temple is surrounded by long stone corridors that extend into the distance. The walls are carved with ancient reliefs and murals depicting scenes of bloodline wars.
In the center of the temple is a huge circular hall, where Charlotte is located, the altar and the devil's eye are located here.
Looking at the familiar hall and murals, Charlotte's heart skipped a beat.
She recognized where this place was.
This is an ancient palace.