Chapter 753 Anna Sprengel
Originally, Pilotti Manor could be considered a mansion even in Leipzig, where land is extremely expensive.
Perhaps it was precisely because of his status that he had a closer relationship with the Count of Leipzig and was therefore allocated more land.
Its level of luxury is no less than that of Earl Dawn's manor.
And now... it has completely turned into ruins.
The power of the explosion far exceeded the limit that a fourth-level transcendent could reach - the sound was enough to shake the heavens and the earth, and even made the entire city of Leipzig "shake" in a physical sense.
The explosion in the city center jolted residents of the outskirts of Leipzig awake instantly. Leaning out their windows, they could see the dark red mushroom cloud slowly rising over the city. Had they woken up a little earlier, they would have seen the rapidly dwindling blood-soaked rain and the gradually brightening dawn sky.
"What's wrong? What's going on? Are the Avalonians attacking?"
"Holy crap, which alchemist's workshop exploded?"
Those who were unaware of the truth had just been awakened from their sleep, and their sleepiness had already faded. Their hearts were beating wildly, half anxious, half frightened. To vent their inner fear, they cursed and speculated.
However, those who knew part of the truth frowned even more tightly.
Inside Leipzig, some Rosicrucian members speculated, "Count Dawn had just passed away, and an explosion of this magnitude occurred. Was this intended to kill the Winter Demon within him?"
Those who knew more were even more terrified: "That's the direction of the Pilotti Manor... How come Earl Dawn just died and the Red Prime Minister's son is in trouble again?!"
On this basis, those who knew more—for example, the Moon Children who knew that the Red Phase was strongly hostile to Earl Dawn, and the high-level demonologists who knew that this strange phenomenon was the arrival of the Night Demon—were now restless and sweating profusely. "What's going on? The Society and the Red Phase are finally fighting?"
——The civil war has begun?
It’s no wonder they think so.
Count Dawn, who harbors the Winter Demon within him, is a deadly time bomb for the Moon Child. Although he has always maintained a relatively peaceful attitude towards the Moon Child... that peace is not weakness.
Rather, it is an oppressive forced "equality" - maintaining a peace dominated by the Son of the Moon without giving up his own interests or changing his position.
Transcendents of the Path of Love were inherently sentimental and extreme. Earl Dawn thought he had given them enough face, but with constant pressure, such close proximity became a provocation and oppression, constantly irritating the Moon Child's sensitive nerves.
Not long ago, the Red Prime Minister finally emphasized the "non-alliance neutrality" towards Earl Dawn at an internal meeting of the Moon's Children. In simple terms, if anyone attacks, assassinates, or frames Earl Dawn, then the Moon's Children should not interfere.
Compared with the alliance relationship that had been stable for decades, this change in the relationship was enough to prove that the attitude of the upper-level Sons of the Moon towards Earl Dawn had completely deteriorated - after all, for the Sons of the Moon who valued decency, it was not convenient for them to directly turn their attitude 180 degrees.
That would be embarrassing, on the one hand... and on the other, since they'd already made overtures, there was no time to back off. If they were forced to back off, it would easily escalate the situation and leak information beyond the Moon Child's circle.
And tonight, Lord Dawn died quietly—the Winter Demon who could have slaughtered an entire city of Moonchildren hadn't made a move at all.
This means that whoever kills Earl Dawn must be able to quickly kill a fifth-level demon incarnation, and then quickly deal with the winter demon, so as not to let it leak out.
Counting the entire planet... there is actually only one person who has the motivation and the ability to do this.
——That’s Hongxiang himself!
There is no one else!
But Earl Dawn had just died, not even a night later... Hong Xiang's son suddenly exploded!
Everyone knew that Lady Pilotti was a title bestowed upon her by the Red Prime Minister. She had been his blood slave, one of his more favored. After she became pregnant, the Red Prime Minister persuaded Valentine VII to grant her a title, so that his future child would not be illegitimate.
For the Black and Red Twins, who were all-powerful and in fact the supreme guardian of the Star Antimony, such a small matter did not even require asking the king's opinion.
The Red Phase has many children at the level of the Moon Child... but not many of them are blood-related.
Because the act of childbearing itself belongs to the Path of Love, this means that childbearing draws upon a considerable amount of Path impulse, significantly weakening Hong Xiang, who has always aspired to reach the Sixth Energy Level. Therefore, he has strictly controlled the number of his offspring... Over the centuries, he has had only five children, and only one has inherited his surname.
The youngest of these, and the one most favored by the prime minister in recent times, is his youngest son, Alphonse von Pilotti.
As a characteristic of those who are superior in the path of love, their feelings are all mixed together. Therefore, Alphonse can also be considered his father's lover.
—Killing him with an explosion of this magnitude was undoubtedly a provocation. Because someone who could kill him wouldn't need to make such a big fuss...
A mere fourth-level transcendent. Considered a formidable figure elsewhere, but in Leipzig, he was nothing. Furthermore, Alphonse had been transformed less than five years earlier, and even accounting for his human lifespan, he was still only in his early twenties.
The Son of the Moon is so young, and has no combat experience... Without considering life-saving equipment, even a third-level extraordinary person can kill him by bypassing his level.
Demonologists who have more profound knowledge of demons are even more convinced of this.
Because they knew that the blood rain in the sky at this moment was the characteristic of the Night Demon.
And it just so happens that...
In the Rosicrucian Society, there is a powerful man whose demonic incarnation is the Night Demon!
"... Was it Miss Sprengel who did it? I really miss her..."
At this moment, a dignified, white-haired old man in the Leipzig police station murmured softly, "Is this... the association's revenge against Hong Xiang?"
"…Ms. Sprengel?"
Across from him, Inspector Weiner, who was yawning and sorting through documents, asked with some confusion, "I don't think I've ever heard of this person you're talking about before... Who is this person?"
Inspector Weiner, who had stayed up all night dealing with the White Dove Opera House incident, now looked exhausted.
It was for this reason that his old boss kept him by his side.
With all the other colleagues heading to the Pilotti estate, they were the only two left in the office.
The old man's name was written on the sign in front of his desk:
Frank Schumacher, First Inspector. The old man is the highest-ranking police officer in Leipzig.
He and Weiner were both inspectors… Although only two ranks higher than his third-level inspector, he was actually a veteran with forty years of experience. If he hadn't offended the nobles above him, he would have been promoted to superintendent long ago.
Inspector Weiner knew that old Frank had another identity - he was a member of a secret society, just like himself.
They all joined the Rosicrucian Order... Old Frank was his guide.
It is precisely because of this relationship that the two policemen, who are separated by more than 40 years and can almost be said to be two generations of grandparents and grandchildren, are so close.
In Xingti, there are various secret societies. Each has its own taboos and areas of influence. Relying on the internal relationships within the society, they will enthusiastically share various social resources with each other. This is a series of exclusive small circles.
They are technically illegal, but there is a saying that goes - if you are not caught, it is not illegal.
But if a secret society can be discovered, can it still be considered "secret"?
Broadly speaking, whether it was the gatherings frequently held by the Red Prime Minister at the Red Castle or the "closed-door academic conferences" of the Royal Alchemy Association, they could all be considered a kind of association. Although they were all transcendents of Star Antimony, before belonging to Star Antimony, they first belonged to their own association.
Among the many associations, the Rosicrucian Society is one of the most prestigious and highest-level associations.
"Ms. Anna Sprengel... She is considered one of the strongest in Star Antimony."
Inspector Frank, old, leaned back and spoke slowly, "But strictly speaking, she's not a Star. She's a true Imperial."
"……What?"
Inspector Weiner was surprised: "She's an elf?"
"More or less... She's three-quarters half-elf. But it's not her bloodline, but her strength that's allowed her to live this long."
The spirited, white-haired old man stood up with a nostalgic look and pushed open the window. "I had the good fortune to meet her once when I was a child. She's considered a founder of the Rosicrucian Church, in terms of her qualifications. It's said that she's a descendant of Fontanelle, and that she harbors a night demon within her—"
"As you know, one of the characteristics of the Night Demon's appearance is the sudden arrival of night, bloody rain, and the temporary transformation of water into blood. Although the sky is clear now, as if the downpour just now was just an illusion, but..."
He sniffed the air lightly and snorted softly: "The smell of blood is too obvious."
"This means that the Night Demon only appeared for a brief moment."
Inspector Weiner immediately said, "Or rather, her power was only revealed for a brief moment... Wait? During the Imperial Period..."
At this moment, Inspector Weiner suddenly recalled the key knowledge.
He looked surprised. "But...wasn't the system used by demonologists to suppress demons within their bodies developed by us Star Antimony people?"
He remembered that although Jean de Fontanelle, the world's earliest demonologist, developed this profession, he had no ability to suppress the incarnation of the devil.
His final outcome was that he became a demon.
Just like "Is there any relationship between the transformed Moon Child and his predecessor?", "Is there any relationship between the demon incarnation and the demonologist himself?" is also a philosophical question.
It's just that the former's theories are generally believed to be related by the philosophical community due to the strong sponsorship and assassination of the Son of the Moon; while demonologists believe that the devil incarnation is another soul that has nothing to do with himself, and is a real "devil".
It was under the impetus of this kind of thinking that the Xingti people developed a new era of technology that borrowed the necromancy and preservation techniques of the Twilight Path to suppress the demons in the body.
"Who knows? I don't know how Miss Sprengel survived... but she did live to this day, and she still looks as young, beautiful, and passionate as a girl."
Inspector Frank Sr. looked at the gradually dissipating mushroom cloud with a complicated expression: "I once had the honor of seeing her in action. Back then, she used some method to summon this 'dark cloud like evil fire.'"
"—from the corpses of our enemies."
And at this moment.
In the dilapidated Pilotti Manor, Aleister slowly opened his eyes.
The Night Demon was hugging her tightly, gradually retracting his shadowy black-gray wings. Then, a stone statue of a girl, like tears of blood, came over and gently kissed Aleister's cheek with her lips as cold as jade.
Then, the Night Demon changed back into the crow form again from a burst of dark red lightning.
Aleister was not panicked at all - because Aleister could sense the Night Devil's condition at all times.
But Night Devil was in very good condition at this time. In other words... this spectacular explosion did not break her shield at all.
She hugged the little crow and praised him, "You're amazing, Venus... An explosion of this magnitude couldn't hurt you at all."
"……No."
On the contrary, Vignes himself rejected Aleister's compliment with mixed feelings: "This has nothing to do with me... Or rather, it was inevitable that I blocked this attack. There could be no accidents."
"Um?"
Aleister was a little surprised: "Why?"
"——Because this is a skill of the Night Demon series."
Vinnies replied, “I could do that in theory.
"However, this move requires the power to be planted in the opponent's soul beforehand... and the opponent must be wearing the corresponding 'curse trigger' in order to trigger it. In other words..."
"This is a 'ritual spell' that only works on friendly forces, right?"
She was only halfway through her sentence when Aleister understood.
Such a complex ability is obviously not suitable for use in combat. It can basically only be used in the event of betrayal.
And because its damage is entirely cursed, it's completely incapable of breaking the Night Demon's defenses...
Hearing this, Night Demon became anxious: "I will never use such power on you——"
"—Of course, of course, I know."
Aleister interrupted quickly, quickly petting the crow to comfort it.
Luckily, the Mirror Demon seemed to have been scared away by the sudden explosion, otherwise it might have suddenly jumped out and taunted me...
That would be bad.
Aleister was very worried that it would be beaten to death by the enraged night demon.
——This is the Night Demon that once had the mark of rage!
I'm a bit busy today, so I'll take half a day off and update one chapter!
(End of this chapter)
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