Warlord: King of All Clans

The dialogue between the saints is equivalent to a meeting between national leaders. As the representative of the Elf Queen, Leo came directly to the White Tower of the Mage to find Francis, which seemed like a forced meeting.

This is highly undesirable, as Saint-level Legends also have tempers. If they feel unhappy, they will teach you a lesson at best, or kill you at worst.

If Francis really beat Leo to death or crippled him in a rage, it is impossible for the Elf Queen to really kill everyone to the death.

So after arriving in the imperial capital for half a month, Leo has been patiently waiting for the other party's reply and has not acted rashly.

But this time, in the name of the princess being assassinated, Leo did not come to negotiate with the Holy Mage, but to seek help.

The magic marks on Noreen and several other Rose Knights were previously erased by the Holy Master.

Even the palace's detection array could not detect this hidden mark, and the court wizard was helpless. Only Francis had the ability to solve it.

This time the princess' assassination was closely related to the previous airship crash. Leo guessed that it was done by the same group of people.

Archmage Francis was able to erase the magic marks of Noreen and the others, so he must have known more about the blood magic that Rose Knight Jane had endured than they knew.

Although the Elf Queen was not very reasonable, she did not live for 500 years in vain. She easily found the best person to solve the problem.

Of course, all of this stems from Leo’s dream. There is no evidence at all, and metaphysics can only be solved through metaphysics.

After waiting in the reception room on the second floor of the White Tower for half an hour, a White Tower mage came over and said to Leo and Noreen, "Master Francis wants to see you."

The two followed the White Tower Wizard to a small door, opened the wooden door with intricate carvings, and inside was a small wooden room that could only accommodate ten people standing.

Norin was familiar with this place, and she whispered to the country bumpkin, "This is a suspended elevator, which can take us directly to the various floors of the White Tower, so we don't have to climb the stairs."

"The entire White Mage Tower has forty-nine floors. Only the lower seven floors belong to the Magic Association and are open to the public. The upper floors belong to the Grand Mage privately. His disciples live here, and non-White Tower members cannot enter."

The country bumpkin Leo took the otherworldly elevator, stroked the railing in the room, and praised: "This is good, this is good."

"I just don't know what the maintenance cost is. I really want to buy one for Hewan."

Norin said faintly: "I don't know the details, but the imperial palace is not willing to use it. Hmm..., is there a building with more than three floors in Hewan now?"

As the two chatted, the floating elevator started slowly. After a few minutes, it stopped steadily and reached the top of the tower.

The top floor of the Mage's White Tower is a building with hollowed-out sides, and the Holy Order Grand Mage Francis is sitting behind a table.

There are several bookshelves behind him, which are filled with books.

As a saint of the human race, Francis' appearance fits the image in Leo's mind very well. He is tall, with white hair and beard, just like Saruman, the white-robed wizard in The Lord of the Rings.

“You’re here.”

Leo quickly saluted, "Hello, Grand Master."

"sit."

As they sat down, Freya peeked in furtively.

Master Francis took out a handful of dried fruits from somewhere and scattered them on the table.

Freya immediately broke free from Leo's restraint, jumped onto the table, and started eating the dried fruits.

Archmage Francis stroked Freya's back skillfully and said with emotion: "When I was young, I also raised an elf."

Leo was immediately shocked, "The great wizard has also raised elves?"

"After raising her for a few years, she thought I was old-fashioned and boring, so she ran off with someone else."

"Uh..." Leo immediately became alert. Could it be that his Freya had also run away with someone?

Be nicer to her in the future!

After chatting for a while, Leo got down to business. He took out a small glass bottle containing the Rose Knight's blood and said, "Master, this is the blood that the Elf Queen took from the assassin who killed the princess. I suspect that this assassination is related to blood magic, so I came to ask for your advice."

"Blood magic?" Archmage Francis was clearly prepared. He smiled slightly when he heard this. "You know this."

Leo shirked responsibility, "The Elf Queen told me."

Francis nodded and said, "The elves have a long history, so it's normal for them to know blood magic. Blood magic is the magic system of the ancient vampires. It's just that the human race has only been around for a short time, so the theory of magic is shallow and the magic system is crude. No one has studied this kind of magic yet."

Leo held out hope, "What about you, Master?"

Archmage Francis replied, "I only have a rough understanding of it. Fifty years ago, Earl Brutus discovered a 10,000-year-old vampire ruin at the mouth of the Dome River. I also went there to explore it."

"In the current Imperial Museum, there are some ancient stone tablets and murals, all of which are relics of the vampire civilization."

"As for the little bit of vampire magic knowledge, it was hidden away and humans were forbidden to learn."

"In both the Elf and Lizardman ancient scrolls, there are records of the fall of the Blood Clan Empire. At the peak of the Blood Clan Empire, they abused blood magic to seek immortality, which eventually led to the outbreak of a blood plague. No one in the entire clan was spared."

"How can we allow this tragic historical scene to happen again among the human race?"

"The inheritance of blood clan magic has been cut off. The current human magic is derived from elven magic and has almost nothing to do with blood clan magic."

Francis said as he picked up the glass bottle, controlled the blood drops to float into the air, and then dispersed them.

He spread out his other hand, and a faint magic circle appeared in the palm of his hand. Under the influence of this magic circle, the blood drops began to turn into countless thin blood lines, and finally formed a complex rune.

"This drop of blood contains the blood mark of the vampires."

"Blood mark?"

"This is a simple tracking spell that hides in the blood. It cannot be detected by human detection spells. The blood mark that Knight Norin carried before was this kind of blood mark."

"It can sense the host's location through the host's blood. High-level spellcasters can even obtain the host's memory and vision through the blood."

Leo suddenly understood, "So that's why, right after Noreen left, the people who wanted to assassinate the princess came right after, and there were a lot of them."

Norin was very ashamed, with tears in her eyes, "It's all my fault..."

Seeing that she was about to cry, Leo could only hold her hand to comfort her.

Archmage Francis added: "The vampires also have a kind of blood magic called blood domination, which can control living beings by manipulating blood."

“Although the controlled person is still alive, his body no longer belongs to him, and he cannot resist his master.

"Ten thousand years ago, humans were called blood slaves by the vampires. Their bodies were controlled by blood-dominant spells, and they could not resist their masters until their death."

Leo and Noreen looked at each other and felt a chill.

When the Rose Knight Jane was under the control of blood magic, she was still alive and conscious, but her body belonged to someone else and was controlled by that person to assassinate the princess.

The existing detection array in the palace can detect most of the human spells, but it has no reaction to the blood magic of the ancient vampires.

Leo was more concerned about how to deal with this kind of magic, so he asked Archmage Francis, "Does the subject controlled by blood show any abnormal behavior? Or is there any way to identify it?"

Archmage Francis shook his head and said, "Not yet."

Seeing the two people's solemn faces, he comforted them: "I have seen all the high-level extraordinary people in the imperial capital. Whoever makes any unusual movements will not escape my sight. Therefore, the blood mage who controlled the Rose Knight to assassinate the princess can only be a low-level extraordinary person. Such a rank cannot control blood slaves from a long distance and must hide in the dark of the imperial capital."

"Although blood magic is strange, it also follows the basic rules of magic. Low- and mid-level blood mages only have strange methods, and they are not powerful themselves. We just need to find a way to target them."