Tome of Blood

  Chapter 35-35-The Calamity of the Balrog and the Spread of Rumors

   "Balrog... Calamity?"

  Charlotte's heart moved.

  She recalled it seriously, but she couldn't recall why.

  After crossing, the memory Charlotte inherited is not very complete, especially when she was a child, the memory of ten years ago is like a dividing line.

   There is no way to do this. People are not machines. Memory will gradually fade over time. Only some deep impressions will be retained for experiences that are too long ago.

This was the case in my previous life. As I got older, my childhood memories faded away. When it was time for Charlotte to start a family and start a business, only the old willow tree in the grandmother’s yard and the sun-kissed tree that my mother had basked in left me. The smell of the warm quilt was off.

  It is similar after time travel.

  In Charlotte’s inherited memories, the only memories of her childhood are the fragmentary experience of visiting Aunt Catherine in the Duke’s Mansion with her mother and father.

   Besides that, it was just running and laughing in the woods with childhood playmates.

Um?

  Playmate?

  At a certain moment, new memory fragments flashed in Charlotte's mind.

   That seemed to be the deepest memory buried by the original body, and it gradually emerged before her eyes as she recalled it deeply.

  She seemed to see a familiar forest, a beautiful garden and a beautiful manor, and saw the young Charlotte running happily in the sun with two beautiful girls, playing hide-and-seek together.

  But in the next second, that beautiful manor turned into a sea of ​​flames.

  She heard someone crying, someone screaming, someone shouting...

She seemed to see the whole sky turn red, and saw her father and mother touching Charlotte's little head, gently asking her to hide and not run around, then took out her staff, joined hands, and looked at Charlotte with determination. Rushing towards the red stalwart figure in the distance...

Um?

   Are you crying?

   In a trance, Charlotte suddenly found that his eyes were blurred.

   Those were not her tears.

   That's Charlotte's.

  That was the natural instinctive reaction of this delicate body when the painful memories that I don’t want to recall came back...

   "It seems that you have remembered."

   "Think about it too. After experiencing such a painful thing, even if you deliberately forget it, how can you really forget it?"

  Looking at the tearful girl, Quasimodo sighed softly.

  Charlotte:  …

   No, I didn't think about it, it was just a natural reaction of this body!

   She wanted to say so.

   Fortunately, Quasimodo seemed to be recalled, and soon started talking to himself:

  "Ten years ago, Earl Broglie, the court archmage of the Principality of Boulder, invited nobles and nobles to attend the coming-of-age ceremony of his twin daughters, and the former master, who is a friend and colleague, was also included."

   "The former master, madam, and you, a friend of Countess Broglie, all participated."

   "However, what no one expected was that the coming-of-age ceremony was just a cover..."

   "Earl Broglie's real purpose is to communicate with the Gorefiend, using his own daughter's body as a container, to summon the most terrifying dark entourage under the Gorefiend—Balrog Valaroka!"

   "He wants to break through to legend, he wants to gain the power of demons!"

   "He succeeded... The incarnation of the legendary demon came to the world, bringing endless disasters. Almost all the nobles who participated in the coming-of-age ceremony were killed, including yours..."

   Quasimodo's voice was a little choked, he looked at the girl sadly, and didn't say any more.

  Charlotte knew that what he wanted to talk about was the original body's parents.

   Perhaps she inherited the memory of her original body, but inexplicably, a touch of sadness emerged in her heart.

  Charlotte quickly suppressed this sorrow.

  The past is the past. If the original body has any regrets, then as the successor, she is also willing to make it up for the other party.

   But what needs to be resolved at the moment is the present and the future.

  The Earl of Broglie...

  This name, why does it feel a bit familiar, where did I hear it?

  Charlotte frowned slightly.

  She quickly remembered that this was the name of the owner of the abandoned manor where she was kidnapped last night.

   Except for this, she always felt that she had seen this surname somewhere after time travel...

  But I couldn't remember it for a while.

   "But... what does this have to do with yesterday's assassin?"

  The girl suppressed the doubts in her heart and continued to ask.

   "This involves the secrets of the year. Although the Duke's Mansion has been blocking the news in order to reduce the bad influence, there are still many people who know the inside story, including me."

   Quasimodo sighed softly, and continued:

   "Earl Broglie's summoning of the Balrog was carried out through a ceremony called 'Pure Sacrifice'."

   "That is an evil sacrifice that requires the blood of an underage virgin."

   "For this reason, he secretly abducted or kidnapped a large number of underage girls in the principality. It is said that there are more than a thousand underage girls. Among them are some noble daughters... some girls are even only four or five years old."

   "Beast!"

  Charlotte said coldly.

   Quasimodo sighed:

   "Who says it's not... Besides, this also includes the assassin's daughter last night."

   "He is not an ordinary assassin. He used to be a fallen nobleman without awakening power. His three daughters... were also kidnapped and eventually died in an evil sacrifice."

   "His entire family was also exterminated by Earl Broglie in the process of tracing his daughter's whereabouts more than ten years ago. Only he, who happened to be out, survived."

  Charlotte was confused:

   "But what does it have to do with him coming to me for revenge? Even if it's revenge, he should go to Earl Broglie?"

   Quasimodo shook his head:

   "The Broglie family was already expelled on the night of the Balrog disaster."

   "It's self-inflicted. The entire family, hundreds of people, all died of the summoned Balrog incarnation, including the Earl himself and his daughter."

   "As for why the assassin came to assassinate you..."

   Quasimodo paused, smiled wryly:

   "Because you are the only survivor of that disaster, and the only survivor among all the girls who were sacrificed..."

   "After that disaster, there has been a rumor in Boulder City that the Countess of Castel and his wife, who are the chief and deputy heads of the Boulder Mages, are actually with Earl Broglie."

   "They made an evil sacrifice together, and that's why you survived."

   "Ridiculous! They are heroes fighting the Balrog avatar!"

  Recalling some of the broken images that came to mind, Charlotte frowned.

   "Yeah, but so what?"

   Quasimodo sighed:

  “Rumors are the easiest to spread and the easiest to be believed. When everyone is spreading the same rumor, then in people’s hearts, the lie becomes the truth.”

  "Human nature is inherently evil...The Castel family is rich and powerful, and for the public, what is more exciting than watching a noble family fall and accusing a noble family of being evil?"

   "In fact, if it weren't for Mrs. Catherine's repeated rumors, if it weren't for the Duke's strong support and support for the Castel family, the rumors of that year would even have been circulated until now!"

   Quasimodo was very angry.

  After hearing his words, Charlotte's heart moved:

   "So... what happened in the manor a few days ago, did this suppressed rumor come back?"

   "Exactly, and there is a growing trend..."

   Quasimodo sighed:

  "Although the nobles know that the truth is not like that, the public doesn't know, and neither did the assassin who was no longer a noble last night."

   "He still believes that the Castel family and the Broglie family are together, and the resurgence of rumors has completely ignited his anger."

  "A sad father who lost his daughter and lost his family and fell into madness."

  Charlotte determined the **** of the other party in this way.

   After finishing speaking, she rubbed her temples again and sighed:

   "So... the rumors are spreading again secretly, right?"

   Quasimodo bowed:

   "I think so."

   As he spoke, he gritted his teeth and said:

   "This is a conspiracy against you!"

"The succession of the title requires the church's blessing. If rumors continue to spread, coupled with what the old lady... that person did, the Castel family may be labeled by the trial as colluding with the Blood Demon Sect! "

   "Once this happens, your right to inherit the territory and title will be greatly weakened, or even directly deprived!"

  Charlotte was silent.

   After drinking the last sip of milk in the goblet, she hummed softly:

   "So... the nobles of the principality are also happy to see this rumor spread, and they are not less behind the scenes, right?"

   Quasimodo sighed:

   "It's true... Once your inheritance rights are weakened, in order to preserve the title and territory, the Castel family must marry other nobles, so as to strengthen the inheritance rights and find allies..."

   "And this is the greatest opportunity for those nobles who have ambitions for our family."

  Charlotte listened and sneered:

   "Hehe, I know this well, marry me, and then accidentally let me fall in the future, right? Think I'm Mary of Burgundy!"

   Quasimodo didn't quite understand:

   "Mary of Burgundy?"

   "It's nothing, just an unlucky duchess who owns a large rich territory and ends up taking advantage of others."

  Charlotte shook her head.

   Quasimodo scratched his head and thought for a long time, but he didn't think of any Duchess of Burgundy anywhere, but he understood the general meaning the master wanted to express.

   To put it bluntly, it is another sense of desperation.

   "So... if I, the sole heir, die now, who will the title and territory of the Castel family belong to?"

  Charlotte motioned to Nice to fill herself with milk, and asked suddenly.

   Quasimodo hesitated for a moment, and instead of answering directly, he swallowed a mouthful of saliva and said:

   "The Castle family is a branch of the Polder family..."

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  (end of this chapter)