Chapter 395: Blood of Heracross

Dang~

Accompanied by the crisp sound of metal collision, the handleless blood-stained sharp blade was thrown away by Lily.

Minister Griffith, who was bound in the gray spider web, lowered his head and had completely lost consciousness.

"You really like to cause trouble for others..."

Lily whispered in disgust.

Under Lily's interrogation, he had become a bloody mess.

Lily also got very detailed information.

Minister Griffith also has the power of the third level in the path of authority. Before becoming a minister, he was a lawyer who graduated from the Royal Law University. He was able to reach the third level before he was thirty years old, which is already a very outstanding talent.

At the same time, Lily could also sense that he had the adaptability of the first level of the path of love.

But it was just this strength.

After getting used to playing high-end games, Lily used sneak attacks to solve a real third-level extraordinary person, and did not even leave him any chance to resist.

During the whole process, Shadow Demon did not even have a chance to make a move. Lily defeated Griffith alone.

Relying on the web of lies and the control of [The Potion in the Shadow], Lily completely controlled Minister Griffith before he could launch an effective counterattack.

After that, Lily used the Eagle Feather Dagger for violent interrogation and then used the "Love Potion" attached to [The Potion in the Shadow] as a control, and quickly extracted the information of Minister Griffith.

Part of the reason was that Griffith had lost his vigilance for too long; another part was that Lily's equipment was too good.

But in fact, the most critical reason was his own laziness.

He had been in Xingtan for a full ten years, but the authoritarian path had always remained at the level of ten years ago. Although the path of love had more adaptability, the level was too low. The dual paths did not play a synergistic role, and the excessive "desire" dragged down the progress of the main path.

As a "witch" with a higher level in the same path, Lily used the "Love Potion" left in the previous bone carving relics, which could affect the third energy level at most, as a means of control, which happened to be able to control Griffith. The witch's potion has a very strong suppression power on Griffith, who is on the same path as the lower level, and it is almost impossible to be exempted.

In the case of different paths, there may be a chance to use strengths to defeat weaknesses; but the suppression from the upper level of the same path is almost impossible to resolve.

Just like the giant prince of the Noble Red - his [Three Sins] curse, the suppression of the demon scholar of the lower level on the same path is unsolvable. Aiwass was able to escape, entirely relying on intelligence suppression.

The reason why Lily was so cruel is that she knows Aiwass well enough.

Her master Aiwass is a very protective person. To a certain extent, he can be said to be a person who helps his relatives but not his wife. In Aiwass' current "intimacy ranking", Miss Yulia, who grew up with Aiwass and depended on each other, is undoubtedly the first.

—— Aiwass didn't even dare to let her know what he usually did.

When he did something bad or dangerous, he would mention to Lily many times not to tell Yulia about these things.

When Miss Yulia first wanted to become a superhuman, she had the talents of balance, wisdom, dedication, and transcendence.

But among several options, Aiwas directly excluded the latter two - he hoped that Yulia could become an alchemist or a wizard, because these were the two relatively safest professions. Usually, there is no need to go out, contact with other people, or face danger directly. The threat of supernatural knowledge is not so great. After forming, you can have a certain degree of self-protection ability, and you will not be too powerless during the promotion ceremony.

Although Aiwas did not force Yulia to choose these two professions, Yulia was so smart - she easily sensed Aiwas's expectations of her and became an alchemist.

... Of course, in Lily's opinion, Yulia is actually not the kind of girl who is "too weak" or "needs protection" in any way.

A girl who has been in a high fever for several years, but can usually endure the pain and stay quiet and rational to study, and never lose her temper or cry, how strong her mind is, that is simply unimaginable for ordinary people.

Although she always seems to be very weak in the eyes of Aiwass... But in fact, when Aiwass is not at home, Yulia, who is three years younger than Aiwass, is the one who is in charge of the family. All the servants in the family respect her very much, including Lily, of course.

And Yulia has a strange and completely inexplicable power. Although her body is weak and lacks physical strength, she occasionally cheers up and bursts out with more power than an adult man.

This is a secret that only exists between servants. The old master James also knows it, but Edward and Aiwass don't know it.

Although she rarely shows it in front of people, especially in front of Aiwass, she will not deliberately exert her strength... But on the night when Aiwass encountered the shadow demon and fell into a coma, Yulia directly picked him up.

Aiwass thought that it was Lily who helped him take a bath, and Oswald who carried him - but in fact, this was only half right. Because when Aiwass entered the house, Yulia took him away. Lily helped him when he was washing, and it was Yulia who took Aiwass away after the washing.

She was walking briskly at that time and looked extremely healthy... But after that, she seemed to be "bitten back" and the phantom egg in her body broke out again.

And now, Lily finally knew the reason for all this.

"... Heracross."

Lily whispered in a low voice.

According to the key information provided by Minister Griffith, Yulia has the bloodline of the Heracross family.

——That was the royal family during the Heracross Empire.

White hair, red eyes, and great strength, these are the characteristics of the Heracross family.

But this is unlikely...

Because this family had already died out before the Earth Splitting War.

If there was no extinction, the cause of the Earth Splitting War would not exist at all - because the reason why the Heracross Empire split into four countries, Star Antimony, Iris, Narcissus, and Black Eagle, was because the royal family was completely wiped out and the country had no legal heir. Therefore, each country claimed that it was the true heir of the old empire, and the other three countries were rebels.

Even if there was a Heracross still alive at that time, the Earth Splitting War should not have happened.

Unless...

"...Swamp people?"

Lily murmured, vaguely aware of something.

She also followed Aiwass through the entire Eagle Point Village.

Although she usually didn't say a word, it didn't mean that she didn't have ears and didn't hear anything.

It's the opposite.

She was always listening to other people's conversations and collecting information.

If Yulia was a swamp person created by "Heracross's blood", then it would explain why her biological parents could never be found.

It is said that when the old master James was about to take Yulia away from the orphanage, she burst out with extremely powerful strength-several adult men couldn't pull her away at all.

When Lily first heard this story, she thought that "they didn't dare to use force because they were afraid of hurting Yulia", in order to highlight Yulia's determination not to leave.

But now thinking back...

That might be a realistic, literal "can't be pulled away".

Minister Griffith himself didn't even know the purpose of his "quasi-master", but Lily, who had more information, understood the whole picture of the matter.

——Xingti got the information about Yulia from nowhere.

They asked Minister Griffith to find a way, but they had to get Yulia's blood anyway.

The way Minister Griffith thought of was to claim that Yulia was a phantom egg and asked for an examination - they didn't really know that Yulia was a phantom egg, this was a complete slander. The purpose was to get Yulia's blood.

Although Yulia was indeed a phantom egg, and it was indeed a serious crime to privately harbor a phantom egg... but Aiwas had a special secret ritual that could safely remove the phantom egg in his body. Now that Yulia's body no longer had a phantom egg, they certainly wouldn't be afraid of the examination.

So, Minister Griffith could get Yulia's blood.

But when Griffith proposed this idea, the Eye Demon made a new request. He was required to attack Aiwas - at least to clearly show his hostile position to Aiwas, and not to stand with him.

Minister Griffith didn't know why, so he was confused.

But Lily knew.

In fact, Griffith is just a bait.

He is used for fishing.

If he is hostile to Aiwass, and he expresses his hostility towards Yulia... then according to Aiwass's style, he will most likely send someone to kill him directly.

But the Star Antimony people don't know the existence of "Lily".

In their expectations, the person who takes action should be "Aleister". So the Eye Demon will most likely jump away and leave immediately after seeing the traces of the Shadow Demon's existence through "Future Vision" or "True Vision".

Because it has long been prepared to run away at any time.

If everything goes well, then "Miss Aleister" can learn about Yulia's bloodline from Griffith.

But...

... What happens next?

Lily frowned slightly.

After all, she is not as smart as Aiwass. She can only analyze it to this point, and her thoughts are like hitting a transparent wall.

If it were Aiwass or Sherlock, they would definitely be able to guess what the Star Antimony people want to do.

But there is one thing that she clearly realized.

——In that case, "Miss Aleister" cannot appear here.

Others may not know, but Lily knows. There is no "Aleister Crowley" at all. That is simply another identity of her young master.

And Aiwass is inviting reporters to dinner not far away.

His purpose is to put pressure on the knights of the Round Table Hall through this means - to tell them, "I'm watching you." And he may use violent means other than the meeting to achieve his goal at any time, and he does have such power in his hands, and you can't counter it.

Because in name, Aiwass and Miss Aleister have already broken up. At this time, even if Aleister assassinated the minister, it cannot be said that it was Aiwass's fault, and it can even be said that Aiwass deliberately caused trouble for Aiwass. Then Isabel certainly cannot "convict Aiwass for the fault of foreign spies and assassins who want to cause trouble for Aiwass."

...But now the situation is different.

This matter may involve Miss Yulia. And there seems to be a bigger conspiracy behind it.

Aiwass had taught Lily some handling methods in advance.

Lily didn't understand many things, but she clearly wrote down and understood one sentence——

"If you can know what your enemy wants you to do... then you'd better not do it. From this perspective, the essence of the game lies in discerning the other party's true intentions through heavy cover-ups and misdirections. "

Aiwass said: "You are not my tool, you also have to have your own thoughts, Lily."

Lily thought quickly.

This was the first time she encountered a situation in which "if she followed Aiwass' plan, Aiwass would fall into a trap." She had to think of the best solution independently in a short period of time.

Shadow Demon has been very silent recently, not saying a word.

If it were in the past, she could still refer to Shadow Demon's opinion. But now she had to think for herself.

——Since the fish the Star Antimony people want to catch is Aleister, then "Aleister" cannot be allowed to bite the hook.

Fortunately, Lily prepared a second method...

Fortunately, she has not used any power belonging to the shadow demon so far, so there is no shadow trace contaminated with the aura of transcending the path at all. The shadow she uses comes entirely from herself, from the gift of Aiwass, which is the breath of the path of love and the path of adaptation.

She pushed up her glasses and gently rotated the wristband of the glove she wore on her left hand.

The "love elixir" attached to the gloves and used during torture was switched to "moon mist" that can quickly melt a person's internal organs in a few seconds.

Then, Lily stretched out her left hand wearing a black silk glove, and slowly but firmly pinched Minister Griffith's neck.

Pink tree-like lines spread rapidly downward from the neck. Black blood slowly overflowed from between his mouth and nose.

This young talent, who was no more than forty years old this year, lost his breath in the blink of an eye.

Miss Chloe, I have to trouble you to take the blame again...

Lily sighed silently and slowly took off her gloves.

So far, Miss Chloe has taken a lot of blame.

And this one right now may be the biggest one.

Lily's body gradually mutated, turning into a standing gray werewolf with scarlet pupils.

She did not hesitate to tear up the body of Minister Griffith, destroying the traces of her interrogation - but in fact, she only destroyed part of it. If she investigates carefully, she can also find that Ling Chi used "Eagle Feather" while alive. Traces of flesh and blood.

But this is just right.

Things you find out by yourself will be more convincing.