MTL - I Am Louis XIV-Chapter 108 the veil of the world
The Veil of the World in Chapter 108
Since knowing the existence of the inner world, Louis has imagined the inner world more than once. After all, for him, werewolves, vampires and wizards were all things in fantasy. They did not exist in this world, but Who is not captured by their unique charm, let alone another world that belongs only to these inhumans.
The accident happened in Dunkirk, a port city, but it provided a convenient way for the future. When "Louis XIV" was lying on the sickbed to receive the envoy from the British, the Duke Protector, Louis - of course , now he is the Duke of Colonna, this title can't help but make him stunned, but Marie Mancini told him that this is only the title of the world, there is no king in the world, but there is an upper house and a lower house, the upper house Almost all of them were occupied by the first few wizard families. They had the power to make someone a noble. Although the gentleman of the Colonna family was an outsider, he had the Colonna family behind him. The door has always maintained a close relationship with the inner world, especially the Inquisition, so he has even been to the inner world in the future, and has the title of a duke.
Speaking of which, if it wasn't for the fact that Andrea Vesalius had angered the church and had nowhere to stay and ruined his family and business, his descendants would not have to succumb to the Mancini family to be a potions teacher. Luo. Vesalius will not have such a tragic fate.
As Louis guessed, the class solidification caused by the closed environment of the inner world and the disparity in the treatment of the upper and lower classes are probably more terrifying than the outer world. At least there are many officers from craftsmen or farm families in his legion. Woolen cloth.
So on a foggy morning, a group of people came to the pier of Dunkirk, where the British warships were moored. There were early sailors clearing decks, checking ropes and sails, dumping latrines—the vessel that came to greet them was a lithe brig with white sails like swallows, only after being allowed to dock, it accepted. Quite a draconian examination, and public blackmail, the British officer, in a red coat and brown shoulder straps, was not much different from the officers of the New Model Army, except for his exposed face and hands. — Rough and dark, showing that his time at sea was no shorter than that of the latter on land, he let those who were to leave Dunkirk at this critical moment lift their hoods and watch them vigilantly one by one .
If they hadn't had the permit of Cardinal Mazarin and a small box of heavy gold Louis, maybe they wouldn't have been able to leave. After all, this moment was too sensitive. Not long after the king was assassinated, although the assassin was on the spot, the king's army was Martial law was imposed throughout Dunkirk, and there were even some unpleasant clashes with the British.
The first thing the British officer saw was a beautiful lady who was in bloom. She smiled at the officer, which made him involuntarily return a smile, "May I ask your name? Madam." His tone was not as good as people thought. as severe.
"Milady Kidd."
"It's an English surname."
"My husband is English." Milady showed a gentle smile: "Sir."
"Are you going back to England?"
"No, I'm going to take my brothers and sisters to Italy," Milady said. "My sister is married to a count of Naples, and we're going there to visit and see..." She looked sideways a little sadly. A look behind her: "She found a good doctor for my brother, hoping to cure his fever."
"Is it an epidemic?" the officer asked cautiously.
"Of course not," Milady said. "It's just a persistent low-grade fever. The doctors said he had too much bile, but there was no effective medical treatment for the time being."
The officer approached Milady reluctantly, and looked at Louis, Marie, and Vesalius with sharp eyes. In his eyes, Louis was a weak young man, and Mary was just a lovely The young girl, although her face is also beautiful, is completely incomparable to her sister in terms of charm. There is also Mr. Vesalius, who is obviously their doctor. The box he was carrying was also opened for inspection, and there was a medicine bottle in it. and bloodletting knives, hooks and needles.
The officer guessed that the family might be near Dunkirk, an ordinary but fortunate family with several beautiful daughters, which is very common. They have been promoted through marriage, and maybe they also have a daughter who got it. The favor of the nobles in the French court, so they can get a handwritten letter from Mr. Bishop. In any case, they do not look like spies, and they are not going to England, but to Italy, so the suspicion is a little less. .
After thinking for a moment, he finally let these people go. The brig, which was extraordinarily petite and cute compared to the warship, put down the gangway, let Louis and his party get on the boat, and then quickly backed away, through the gap between the big ships, towards the Atlantic Ocean. .
It was not until the white shadow of the ship disappeared between the sky and the earth that the officer remembered a question that puzzled him, that is, if going to Italy, wouldn't the shortest way go through France, but thinking of Milady's surname , maybe she was worried that her husband's identity would add twists and turns to her journey, so after muttering a few words, he put this matter in the corner of his memory, if there was no accident, he would not think of it again this matter.
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"You are also a witch?" Mary couldn't help but ask as soon as the ship left the port.
"That's right, Miss Mancini." Milady fiddled with her curly hair frivolously. Her moonlight-colored curly hair gave her a convincing charm from birth. He had long expected that when Mr. Bishop tried to persuade him with her previous "deeds" in order to let him keep Milady, he speculated that when Mr. Bishop met Milady, she was eleven. At the age of two, she spent a few more years in prison, and she became Bishop Richelieu's spy. When she did her first job for the bishop, it was 34 years, and now it is 58 years, which is 25 years ago. In other words, she is at least forty years old, but she still looks like a beautiful woman in her twenties. In this era, there are not so many means and methods that can make people stay young forever, but There is magic.
And Bishop Mazarin would not really give Louis completely to Marie Mancini.
"Don't take me too seriously," said Milady, smiling, "I'm just an outsider, worse than Mr. Vesalius, and I haven't even been able to enter the inner world—I know if I'm a witch or what the bishop told me ."
"Then why did he let you come?"
"The duke needs someone to serve, Mademoiselle Mancini," said Milady, and she went to Louis and took his arm, and Louis realized that Milady's strength was really great, not inferior to A man, "Like now," Milady said, "don't you realize that His Highness needs rest?"
Louis did need to rest. He was exhausted for a short distance. The poison and curse of the wizard was like an invisible hand that was constantly digging out his energy. He did it under the service of Milady. After a simple wash, he fell asleep. Mary watched on, reluctantly admitting that when it comes to serving people, Milady is careful and strong, even if she is just a woman, she can take care of everything around Louis properly. of. As for Mary, although she stayed by the Queen Mother's side as a maid, the maid also has classes and divisions of labor. Although she has no title, she has an uncle who is an important minister. Beside the Queen Mother, she has won the most important The only thing that could have been the Queen Mother's rimmed Bible and rosary.
Let her take care of Louis...it's too hard.
In the end Milady gently asked Marie to leave Louis' cabin, because as an unmarried woman, it was absolutely inappropriate for her to stay here, but Vesalius could stay as a doctor, and Marie had nothing to say about it. , it was worth leaving sadly. Vesalius stood aside and watched the whole process, and couldn't help but sigh. Obviously, Milady was sent to the king, not only as a maid, but also as a saboteur. .
After all, after the king came to the inner world, he was faced with a sinister and unfamiliar environment. He was cursed and highly poisonous. If it was Marie Mancini who took care of him meticulously, the king would definitely repay him subconsciously. Equal affection and trust, so that if the king can return to the world, then his marriage will become a thorny issue.
Louis was drowsy and awake on the boat, and suddenly one day he woke up, because those slight swings that he was almost used to suddenly disappeared, even if the boat was at the dock, it would not happen, they are now like It was in the Louvre in Paris, on solid land.
"Are we there yet?" he asked in a low voice.
"It should be," Milady said, and a few minutes later, Mary came in and gave Louis a bottle of potion. Louis' body was visibly lighter, but then she had to leave because Louis needed to change. , underwear and trousers are no different from the watch world, but the coat that Vesalius brought was a heavy velvet robe, and then a sleeveless fur cloak, the cloak was finely black and shiny, I don't know what it was Fur—not like a squirrel, nor a fox, nor a sea otter, anyway.
The cloak is hooded—and magical, because as soon as the king put it on, he felt warm, as comfortable as the sun was shining, and the jewelry he wore didn't quite look like his, Visa. Li and Milady also changed into robes.
Louis has been wondering where the inner world is, or rather, where is the inner world where the Mancini family is, but as soon as he leaves the cabin, he knows immediately - it is an island.
A huge island.
There is no doubt that with the progress of science, there are more and more places that human footprints and eyes can reach, and the increasingly sophisticated detection methods will always make those hidden places invisible. , Compared with the land, the islands scattered in the ocean are obviously safer. It is understandable why the world is so embarrassed. Even the land, there are times when it cannot carry too many people, let alone islands.
And it is very common for the world to maintain a long-term solidification state, not to mention magic, even if there is no magic, many islands are primitive and closed.
A medium-sized island can accommodate about 50,000 people. If you count from the era of Merlin (that is, the era of King Arthur, 500 AD), wizards have entered the inner world for a thousand years. Even if there were only a few hundred people at the beginning, they have already It has become a considerable number, and there are constantly wizards from the world joining in. It is no wonder that the big families of wizards do not care about wizards such as Varo Vesalius, and even regard them as tool livestock. The cardinal number is large enough, even if you only choose among the original population of the big family, then the outstanding people must be quite considerable. In this case, the collateral line of the Mancini family will definitely hate Vesalius even more, because he stealthily steals it. An important post is gone.
As for the cornerstone of the wizards... From the descriptions of Mr. Bishop and Mary, Louis already knows that it is similar to the city wall of the inner world, used to separate the outer world from the inner world, and wizards need credentials to enter the inner world, or leave. , but mortals cannot enter the inner world anyway.
"Then," said Milady, "it is not the church that wizards fear."
"You can think of wizards as armies with muskets and cannons, and mortals as barbarians with sticks and stones," Louis said. In proportion, the barbarians have only a chance to flee, but when the barbarians overwhelmingly overwhelm the army, even the artillery and muskets are powerless, because after all they have a limit."
"Oh," said Milady: I see. "
She stared at Mary with her always shimmering eyes, watching her every move, and they were standing in front of a tall city wall that seemed to connect heaven and earth, which was the cornerstone of what the wizards called the cornerstone. — Huge white square bricks with dull cyan or black scars, as soon as Mary approached, faces of different looks, gender and age appeared on these square bricks , their eyes were closed tightly at first, and then suddenly opened and rolled.
"Wizard!" a woman's face called out first.
"Wizard!" cried a child's face, his voice sharp like a dagger.
"Wizard!" cried an old man, his voice hoarse and chaotic.
"Wizard! Wizard! Wizard!" they shouted together, and the city walls were shaking.
Mary stretched out a hand and sank directly into the city wall, and then she turned to look at Louis with worry in her eyes, "Then you will see a corridor," she said, "and then go forward, but in the corridor, There will be guards of corpses and ghosts, although as a wizard, they won't hurt you," she emphatically recited the word wizard, "you have to walk seventy-seven steps before you can walk out of the tunnel, at the end of the tunnel, there are The two manticores and their owners monitor people coming and going."
"Can't you come with us?" Milady asked.
"No," Vesalius said. "Even if they hold each other's hands, they can't see, hear and feel each other." He knew this, and he held the coat of arms from the Colonna family firmly in his hands , as a wizard who escaped from the Mancini family, Varo Vesalius' original pass has been invalidated by the Mancini family, and he does not want to attract the attention of the Mancini family again. Fortunately, the Colonna family in Rome is very generous - Perhaps because of the extremely generous return given by Mr. Bishop - the position of an archbishop and two monasteries, they lent not only the identity of the youngest son, but also everything related to it, including the Colonna family in the world The real estate and deeds are more important than anything else.
And it's amazing that the youngest son of Colonna had a similar appearance to the king, and although he was confirmed to be a wizard, given the power of the Colonna family, he did not even leave Rome, but in a remote but comfortable A place to spend time with your wizard mentor.
"I'll wait for you." Mary walked back and kissed Louis' face: "Seventy-seven steps, don't forget."
Varo Vesalius hesitated for a while before coming to the king and gave him a few bottles of potions and a silver dagger: "These are used to expel the corpse, Your Highness, if there is an accident, don't worry, Mary and I will turn back immediately - the key is not to be afraid, those things are like hyenas, and the fear of humans will inspire their tyrannical heart."
The next person who entered the city wall was Milady. She was also entering the inner world for the first time. The king could see that she was extremely excited, and her violent emotions overcame her fear. There is no doubt that anyone who has not experienced it personally, Will be afraid of those terrible heads, and have to walk alone through the dark corridor full of monsters...
After comes Louis, Vesalius will wait outside until three seventy-seven steps later, when he is sure the king has arrived safely, he will not enter the corridor.
Do you want to say fear?
Louis will not succumb to those distorted faces, the black corridors scorched by red flames, and the blue-gray corpses and translucent souls. He has seen peace in another world a long time ago. There are countless scenes that people who have experienced this era have never heard, seen or even understood. This kind of scene may make an ordinary mortal think that he is living in hell, but to him, it is more like a realistic fantasy, a game.
In other words, he may also have fear, but like Milady, he is more angry.
Maybe you remember that before entering the corridor, Louis saw faces of different expressions and ages on the white stone bricks. If these are the cornerstones that Mary said, then that is to say, these The people who were made into cornerstones even included children of a few years old. If it was only one or two, he could explain that maybe some children were born evil, but he saw more than a dozen of these tender and hideous faces at a glance.
In the corridors, among the swaying corpses and ghosts, the proportion of women and children is not low.
This shows what?
The laws of the inner world, or the power of power, are far more threatening and cruel than the outer world. At least the harshest sentence that Louis can make on the Duchess of Longueville is to drive her out of the court. In the future, she can also be pardoned like the Duchess of Montpensier, and her son can inherit the title of the Duke of Longueville, and will not be deprived of territory or thrown into prison, let alone executed.
More achieved.
(end of this chapter)
