mtl008 Chapter 2913 When Night Falls (31)
Chapter 2913 When Night Falls (31)
Chapter 2913 When Night Falls (Thirty-One)
A small glass bottle was placed on the right side of the plate, containing Zatanna's soul. It was obvious that Miss Magic was full of amazing vitality even though she was trapped in the bottle. She looked at Constantine with very worried eyes.
Apparently, Zatanna woke up earlier than Constantine and witnessed everything Schiller did.
She couldn't say that the two demons fighting on Constantine had set a bad precedent, because demons always acted like that and magicians should be used to it, but if it weren't for their ferocity and aggressiveness, the food on the plate wouldn't have exuded such a palpable evil aura, and she would have had little chance of hiding in the bottle.
Zatanna is always compassionate. Even after being turned into a vampire and unable to protect herself, she still has time to worry about Constantine's situation.
This time, this damn bastard might not be able to get away with it unscathed, but even at this point, Zatanna could hardly say that this was a completely good thing. She knew Constantine. If he had never been involved in the vampire incident, neither Zatanna's nor Zane's souls would appear here.
I always feel that he can't fool him this time, Zatanna thought, because the other party is not Batman and is much more difficult to deal with than Batman.
But Constantine seemed to be fearless. He let his hands hang naturally, not caring about the ropes tied to his body. He even tutted his lips and asked, "Do you have any cigarettes?"
“Do you have to smoke to talk?”
"What do you want me to say?" Constantine sniffed. The hooves on the plate exuded a charming smell of spices, mixed with the strange meaty aroma and the evil scent that a magician could smell. This was a challenge to Constantine's olfactory system.
He was the kind of person who would eat a sandwich for a meal and had never smelled the aroma of such complex food.
"I won't ask you to reveal all the information like Batman did, because I know you will never reveal everything. You can pick and choose what you can say. Just consider it as payment for my meal."
Schiller's attitude was incredibly kind, and Constantine didn't see any trace of the monster who had just hit him against the wall like a truck and slit his throat.
The three-piece suit he wore was worth at least tens of thousands of dollars. The marlin brooch was probably made of platinum, and the blood on it had been washed clean. The silk of his tie reflected a secret light, and the Windsor knot was buttoned well, as was the Adam's apple above it.
Constantine laughed softly and said, "I want to thank you for more than just this meal. It's not often that I get to sit at the same table with a big shot like you."
The words were serious, and if his eyes were not so direct, it would have sounded like a qualified flattery. But considering that this man was called John Constantine, it sounded more like a tease.
Schiller sighed softly and said, "I don't really like to threaten others with anything, but your companion is still in the bottle. Considering his situation, you should also fish your brain out of the pool of yellow waste."
Constantine's body stiffened slightly. He looked at Zatanna in the glass bottle. Miss Magic was sitting cross-legged in the bottle, her chin resting on her elbows, as if waiting to see how he would get into trouble.
“She doesn’t seem to need my help much,” Constantine said. “She’s used to not being able to count on me.”
"Really? I think this bottle is very suitable for being converted into a seasoning bottle, and roasted goat's trotters are the best for adding some pepper."
"No! Okay, you win." Constantine shook his head like a dog trying to shake water off its ears.
"I don't know who the Vampire King is." Constantine said, "I'm not lying to you, because it's not good for me to know who it is. If Batman finds out, he might read my mind, so I just keep it to myself."
"But I know a little bit about the vampire revival. What do you think of the bloodline theory?"
“I don’t have any particular opinion.”
"Okay, but I don't think you're such a boring person. I can give you an example. A rooster with red feathers and a hen with blue feathers gave birth to a chick with red and blue feathers."
"So the chicken group thought, if I find another hen with orange feathers and mate it with the chick with bi-colored feathers, I can give birth to a chick with red, blue and orange feathers. And so on, sooner or later they can give birth to a phoenix."
"The king of vampires is this phoenix."
Schiller was predictably silent.
"I know that this sounds very stupid to anyone with normal scientific knowledge, but vampires are a very special group, and this method has a certain possibility for them."
Constantine fell into recollection, and after a while he said, "The blood clan is mainly divided into two factions. Dracula's faction originated from Cain. Because of his blood, he is born with the ability to use shadow magic."
"Bloody Queen Mary is another kind of vampire. Rather than being a vampire, they are more like blood magic contractors. They suck blood not to fill their stomachs, but to gain powerful strength."
"These two groups of vampires have always been incompatible, which is also the reason why the legend of vampires being divided into the Secret Party and the Demon Party comes from."
"Because Dracula's sect is a bloodline vampire, they don't need to suck blood every day. They can fill their stomachs with blood about once every one or two months. Their shadow magic doesn't have a strong attack power. Transforming into a bat is their most famous ability. Because of their long heritage, they have their own social rules. They are more like the secret party in the legend."
"And the one Queen Mary contracted was Lilith. This crazy woman sucked blood crazily in order to gain more power. Her descendants also inherited her madness. They can capture dozens of humans in a whole night and start a bloody carnival."
"Because they are crazy, they have not been around for long, their members are very young, but they have great power, so they act recklessly and are crazy beyond measure. They are more like the devil party in human legends."
"The fight between the two parties consumed a lot of vampires and also fully curbed the development of the crazy Demon Party, so it did not cause too much turmoil in human society."
"But it's just like what's written in human vampire romance novels. A young man from the Secret Party fell in love with a girl from the Demon Party. Their marriage was strongly opposed by both families, but their ending was not as tragic as Romeo and Juliet. They fled to a small city in the East and settled there. They also had a child."
"Later, the two died in an accident, and the child stayed behind. When he grew up, he discovered that he could not only use shadow magic, but also mastered some blood magic."
Hearing this, Schiller frowned slightly.
"This is the principle of magic that I have to mention..." Constantine deliberately dragged out the tone, then moved his arms and said, "It's a bit uncomfortable to tie me up like this, can you untie me first?"
Schiller came over and untied the rope that tied him, but at the same time he said: "I think you don't have to worry too much. This is your home. I am just a guest."
"You'd better be really aware of this." Constantine rubbed his neck with his hands. There were two obvious pinch marks on the side. When he touched them, he gasped.
"Ordinary people always envy magicians and think that magic can do anything, but in fact it is not that simple. Without the consent of the owner of the power, you cannot use any magic."
"It's not like there haven't been ordinary scientists who have tried to use modern technology to create enough energy to achieve magical effects. But the fact is, you can use this energy to power a cleaning robot to clean, but you can never use cleaning magic because you don't have permission to use this magic."
"This permission can take many forms. For example, the elves in the Maya world have all kinds of strange bloodlines. Some are even created by God himself. Their bloodline is equivalent to their license."
"In fact, humans originally had the blood of God's creation, but because Adam and Eve were driven out of the Garden of Eden, it was equivalent to God depriving all of Adam and Eve's descendants of their magic licenses. If you want to regain the license for sacred magic, you have to hold an important position in the church or be devout enough."
"When a human contracts a demon, it is like getting a license from the demon. Although the price to pay is quite high, it is not a big loss, because it is relatively easy to give a license, but it is difficult to take it back."
"For example, I have magic licenses from almost all the demon kings in hell. So even though I am notorious in hell and almost no one is willing to provide me with power, I can still rely on my old capital to become a magician."
"Normally, this permission cannot be gifted or transferred, and it cannot be snatched. You can snatch abilities and magic items, but you can't snatch a license. Only the source of power can give it."
"From this perspective, it's amazing that the offspring of two vampire parties have two magic licenses at the same time. There are many people who have contracted devils, but I've never heard that after two people get married, their offspring can have both parents' licenses. This thing can't be inherited. Otherwise, if Xiao Zha and I get married and have children, wouldn't our children be invincible?"
Zatanna in the bottle knocked on the glass and asked Constantine to be more respectful. Constantine smiled at her nonchalantly and said, "It doesn't matter whether the child is strong or not."
"Ahem, I'm a little hungry." Constantine picked up the cutlery and cut off a little bit of meat, picked up the glass bottle, and stuffed it in through the bottle mouth.
Zatanna was a little disgusted at first, but Constantine said: "This thing is good for restoring your soul energy, you should eat some."
Zatanna reluctantly took a bite and showed a surprised expression. Her voice came from the bottle, "I know you are using me to test the poison, but thank you anyway."
"You should thank the chef." Constantine put the bottle down and began to eat with confidence, saying as he ate.
"Unfortunately, one day this child with two kinds of magic was discovered by the Bloody Queen Mary. She caught him and asked him how he got these two abilities. The child was very young and did not hide anything, so he told the truth."
"Mary immediately realized that this would be an opportunity for the rise of vampires, because if vampires could pass on their magical licenses through bonding, then no magician on earth would be their opponent."
"So, before Dracula and his group could react, Mary began her vampire breeding plan..."
"If I'm not mistaken, this plan won't go smoothly, right?" Schiller asked.
Constantine sneered and said, "On the contrary, at the beginning, the plan went too smoothly, which gave Mary an illusion and made her do something even more stupid."