Chapter 47: Decisions made more than 300 years ago
More than three hundred years ago, the joint forces of the believers of the immortals and the exorcists achieved the final victory. Most of the wizards of the immortals were eliminated, and only a few female wizards left the battlefield under the cover of men.
These witches were forced to escape, and some of them fled into the Forest of Maia. At that time, the leader of the exorcist who was responsible for pursuing the witch of Maia was Lorenzo Albert, the first Baron Albert.
The Maiya Forest is huge, just like an independent kingdom, and the terrain in the forest is complex and there are many beasts. Lorenzo knew that if he continued to pursue it, even if he ruined all the exorcists and troops, he would not be able to completely wipe out the Maiya Witch.
So he decided to stop pursuing. Under the coordination of the Exorcist headquarters, the Principality and Kingdom of Humanity that bordered the Maiya Forest contributed money and efforts to build several post fortresses around the forest and surrounded the Maiya witches.
With the construction of Albert Castle, the Exorcist and the Maiya Witch also signed a thousand-year contract. The Maiya Witch was no longer allowed to move out of the Maiya Forest at will, and the Exorcist no longer entered the deep forest to encircle the Maiya Witch. Although this thousand-year contract has magical effect, many terms are unclear. Both sides have their own thoughts and treat it as a delaying strategy.
Baron Lorenzo Albert is an extremely smart exorcist leader. He understands both the weaknesses of witches and the flaws of human beings. The Baron firmly believes that with a thousand years of buffering, even if humans lag behind witches in the supernatural realm, they can definitely put aside witches in other realms. By then, witches will have to die naturally.
However, the Baron was also worried that humans with extremely short lifespan would forget the threat of the Maiya witch to the human world due to renewal. Only those old exorcists who have experienced the war years can firmly believe and never compromise with any evil forces.
In this case, the Baron had a wonderful idea, hoping that the exorcist camp would be able to retain an immortal or an immortal, and the immortal or an immortal kept teaching his descendants to adhere to the exorcist beliefs until they lasted for a long thousand years.
There is no hope for becoming an immortal. The believer of the immortal is about to seal the immortality and immortal power with his life, and it is impossible to agree with him, so the baron can only hope to retain an undead person in the exorcist camp.
The Baron knew that his ideas were a bit distorted and would never be approved by his exorcist companions, so he could only implement them within the Albert family. At that time, the members of the Albert family were basically all exorcists, and they had protective powers in their bodies, so they could not become immortals.
After thinking about it, the Baron finally turned his attention to his young daughter, Elizabeth Albert, who had just turned eight. Due to his age, Elizabeth had not yet become an exorcist. He also had a bottle of immortal potion preserved from the Exorcist headquarters. With the help of the magic power he had mastered, he was able to complete the conversion ceremony of the undead alone.
Elizabeth's age is not a problem. The Baron himself is in full swing and can slowly cultivate Elizabeth's faith and ability. In this way, an undead with the faith of exorcists was born...
Of course, during the implementation of this plan of the Baron, there was a small flaw. He only knew how to use the Immortal Potion, but he didn't know that once this Immortal Potion was used, the user's body would always retain the body shape and appearance when using the Potion. So Elizabeth became an eight-year-old princess who would never grow up!
"For my father's ideal, I don't mind this little girl's body that will never grow up!" Elizabeth smiled sweetly and pulled the princess's skirt around the banquet hall, but a hint of sadness appeared in her eyes. "When my father realized that I would never grow up again, he destroyed all the records about me in the family, and let Baron Albert of each generation be responsible for protecting me, the immortal princess!"
"Thomas, is that true?" Nova's eyes flashed with surprise as she listened to Elizabeth and the band revealed the secret of the Albert family, and she couldn't help but look at Baron Thomas Albert.
Seeing Thomas, Baron Albert, who was also this generation, nodded slightly. The exorcists were mixed with all the exorcists' hearts. Although they were still surrounded, their alertness was much eased.
Just as they could see the accuracy of Qin Lun's conjecture, they could now also determine the authenticity of Elizabeth. If you make up such a story temporarily, these smart exorcists could see through it at a glance.
If what the Albert family did was related to the first Baron Albert, as long as they did not resist, then right or wrong would probably be handed over to the Exorcist headquarters for evaluation.
At this moment, a discordant voice came from the banquet hall.
"Since Baron Lorenzo Albert asked you to teach the descendants of the Albert family, what are the two newly born creatures now?" Qin Lun had retreated from the center of the banquet hall to the nearest door at some point.
"Although the undead is his daughter, my father is still worried that the immortal potion will change my mind, so he signed a servant contract with me." Elizabeth ignored Qin Lun's questioning and just stared at the doll in his hand.
"The contract with the servants of the Undead counteracted the guardian power in his body and damaged his health. In just twenty years, he reached the end of his life." Elizabeth spread out her snow-white little arms and gestured.
"Do you know? The man who was once called the Odia lion, weighed only forty kilograms when he died, his limbs were dry and his belly was bulging, like a stray dog dying on the street!"
A strange chill rose from the tailbone of everyone, and Elizabeth's words were like a soft murmur from the underworld.
"In the fifty years after my father's death, I woke up from nightmare countless times, repeating the words my father taught me over and over again. 'Thousands of years of duty, thousand years of protection, thousand years of glory'. At that time, I felt that I had died with my father long ago. This sentence is our tomb!"
Elizabeth raised her head and smiled sweetly, "Luckily, the nightmare about her father only lasted for more than fifty years. From then on, I will never dream of my father again. Even if I have seen his father's portrait during the day, I can't remember it in the dream."
Qin Lun sighed softly, he knew that Elizabeth had not finished speaking.
"Although my father left my dream, the nightmare was not over yet! In the hundred years after that, other people began to appear in my dreams. They not only had Albert members, but also servants responsible for taking care of me." Elizabeth shook his little hands slightly and hugged the doll tightly, as if only in this way could he feel a little warmth.
"Doctor Stan, you should understand, right? The feeling of watching familiar people die in front of you but I can't do anything. I played on the lawn with them and watched them grow up. Those innocent and cute smiles slowly became mature and steady, and then became old and withered.
I am their playmate, sister, their mother, teacher, or their daughter and granddaughter. They accompany me, guard me, and take care of me. And I teach them, rely on them, and finally... bury them!"
"In those hundred years, every funeral, I would recall the life of the old man in the coffin. Joy, sadness, helplessness, pain, they had everything in life." A hint of envy appeared on Elizabeth's face, "Sometimes, I often wonder if I could have it all if the person lying there was me!"
"My father gave me a long life, but he also took away my life. I am like a bystander, and all I see is the life of others." At this point, Elizabeth showed a hint of joy and shook his little fist.
"However, in an accident, I had an argument with an Albert's friend. We fought like two fighters. He pulled my hair and knocked my head. I bit his hand and kicked his ass hard. During the battle, his wound was stained with my blood, and a week later, he became the first... Albert werewolf!"
"Princess Elizabeth is telling the truth. This incident shocked Baron Albert at the time. They initially imprisoned the werewolf in the prison deputy castle, but later they found that the werewolf turned into by Albert members still had wisdom and could become the helper of the exorcist. Therefore, after obtaining Princess Elizabeth's consent, some of Albert members began to train to become werewolf..."
Thomas sighed and said seriously, "Later, this plan gradually expanded to some servants who have been serving the Albert family. This cannot be blamed on Princess Elizabeth, and everyone cannot bear to see it... In fact, the Albert family rarely marrys the outside world because of this reason. In addition to having to sacrifice one person to become a baron, other Albert exorcists will be sent out of the castle when they grow up."
"So, you originally planned to make Stephen the next Baron Albert and let Boni go out and continue the human bloodline of the Albert family?" Miel said with a frown, "So what's going on with Little Miller?"
"Bang!" A huge floor-to-ceiling window in the banquet hall suddenly burst out, and a strong figure rushed into the banquet hall from outside the window. At the same time, a hoarse and low male voice rang out.
"Let me answer this question for you exorcists!"
"What is this... what?" After seeing the figure who rushed into the banquet hall outside the window, a hint of shock appeared on the faces of the exorcists.
The man was wearing a small town sheriff's outfit, with long wet blonde hair, pale and handsome face, with a strange purple pupil, and two sharp canine teeth exposed outside his lips. The strangest thing was that behind him was a pair of huge bat wings, some of which looked like gargoyles, floating in the air half a foot from the ground.
Qin Lun's pupils shrank slightly, and exorcists did not recognize this creature, but he had seen it in some books. This is a mythical creature that often appears with werewolf - vampire, also known as the Vampire.
Chapter completed!