"A one-and-a-half-year-old child...should not be able to speak yet."
"Bayard" tapped his fingers on the amber wine glass and said with some surprise.
"Absolutely. One or two words are fine, but a complete sentence is really hard to say."
Franz Pomponazzi nodded: " Before I could speak, I was killing people. That was the first time I sucked blood from a living person instead of drinking a blood bottle.
"When I got older, I found... it seemed. Everyone knows this. Everyone seems to know... I killed my biological sister with my own hands when I just learned to walk. Hahaha..."
He laughed, but there was no joy in his laughter.
He put his wine glass back on the table.
Even though the wine in the glass was the best in this world, he couldn't bring himself to drink it.
"Do you remember what people called me back then? "
Pomponacci did not wait for "Bayard" to reply, because he was asking and answering himself: "That "little monster of the Pomponazzi family". ”
“So, you became a real monster? "
"Bayard" said softly: "Kill your whole family? "
"Why not. "
Peng Bonaqi said calmly: "My brother killed my sister, and my sister killed my brother. My father killed my brother, and I myself killed my sister. Since this is the education I received since I was a child, and this is what people expect of me, then why can’t I become such a person when I grow up?
"Besides, I didn't kill them completely..."
As he spoke, Peng Bonaqi reached out and touched his chest and abdomen.
Aleister realized something: "You can't be..."
"Oh, it's not as simple as eating."
Peng Bona Qi smiled: "At that time, all the servants in the family were killed by us as "blood packs", and they all fought against each other until they were gray... and I was the one who won in the end.
"But I myself was seriously injured and dying in that "civil war", and was cursed by my mother. So I prepared the resurrection ritual - I drained the remaining blood from my own body. Mix the little remaining blood that I collected and use it to resurrect me... In this way, the curse will be removed.
"At that time, I had a sudden thought - because I was worried, what if I failed to resurrect due to lack of blood, and they were resurrected by others by chance.
“So I smashed all the statues of my family members and gathered some of the ashes around me. I took away a part of them so that none of them could be fully resurrected.
“And when I died and was reborn, I merged with them intogether. At that time, I had a sister, two brothers, plus my father and mother, a total of five copies, and I was the sixth… It was the "adaptive number." The original blood was not even enough to resurrect one person, let alone six copies of ashes. I think... I was able to survive from that state, perhaps because of the favor of the Lord of Scales and Feathers. ”
——That’s why he calls himself “Pomponacci”.
Aleister understands.
It’s not because he and others The estranged relationship is not because he still remembers his surname as a down-and-out noble, because to him, it is not just a surname... but also "family".
He is not pure. Franz", but the ultimate fusion of all "Pomponacci".
That's why he likes men and women, gentle and violent, conservative and radical... because it constitutes " "Peng Bonazi" is not the same consciousness.
"Because I am the only one left in the whole "Peng Bonazi", so of course the family's assets also belong to me. . Although my family is considered a noble, we have long since lost our fief... We are just a down-and-out noble. So I simply sold off all the family's assets for my own enjoyment.
"People hate me and reject me. Although they respect me on the surface, I know... they just want my money."
Peng Bonacci sneered: "If they want it, I'll give it to them. Watching them fight to the death for that kind of thing, criticizing and framing each other, makes me happy - who is the monster? Is it me? They? Or is it me? Those shiny little round cakes?
“After all, I don’t care about that kind of thing. It’s better to say that I was prepared to die. I am not a ritualist, and the resurrection ritual is just a mechanical device. If something went wrong, I might not be able to be resurrected; even before I did this, I didn't know whether it was me or some chimera that was resurrected.
"Until I met Bashir. He is a very interesting human being... I can feel that he is one of the few people who is not afraid of me or laughs at me - the first time we met , just dare to come to me directly and ask for money."
"...Oh?"
Aleister couldn't help laughing.
Is it the development of "this man is so special that he caught my attention"?
But Pomponazzi’s words denied Aleister’s speculation:
“In order to use money to support his research, he was even willing to die. Not as a blood Slave, it’s not empty talk like “I’m willing to die for you”... He came to me directly with a contract certified by the Silver Crown Dragon, and gave me his life in exchange for a sum of money. < /p>
"Until he later became a monarch and established a kingdom...this contractIt's still here with me. He never asked me to get it back or ask me to destroy it. ”
“You must have agreed. "
"Of course I gave it to him! It's just a small amount of money, how can such a thing be fun! "
Peng Bonaqi laughed wildly. It was difficult to tell how much of his laughter was sincere and how much was an exaggerated performance.
Like a child He told a joke, and then he started to laugh hard.
In a sense...Peng Bonazi, who was born as a child of the moon and has permanent bright red eyes, has never experienced true meaning.
The transformation of Moon Children into adulthood is when they realize that they are no longer their past selves. At that moment, the emotions and desires suppressed by morality burst out... [Beast] defeated [Love], and the Moon Child completely transformed into a bloodthirsty beast
——The so-called adulthood is to abandon the innocent self in the past.
For Pomponazzi, he "mature" too early and "adult" too late - from the beginning of his memory, he has been doing things that adults would do; in his teens At a young age, he got part of his family's personality and memories out of thin air.
Maybe until now, he has not truly matured.
Because he has no innocence to give up.
Seeing that "Lady Bayard" did not laugh, Peng Bonazi's laughter gradually stopped.
He was silent for a while and calmed down. , then continued: "I was very curious at the time, what on earth was he studying... that made him so desperate. Do you know what he's talking about?
“——He said, I am researching the Moon Child. But I can’t find a Moon Child that can be used for research, so I can only find someone to buy the Moon Child’s ashes at a high price.”
Even Aleister couldn't hold himself tight this time.
...Is Bashir so awesome? The person in front of you is the son of the moon!
Speaking of this, Peng Bonazi laughed again: "Because at that time, the Sons of the Moon had not yet fully occupied the upper echelons of the empire.
"At that time, there were some "vampire hunters" "There is hatred for us. In order to deceive other nobles and target us, they created a rumor about the United Medical Association - claiming that the ashes of the Moon Child can aphrodisiac.
"...I have to say that this widely circulated rumor has caused great obstacles to our infiltration. Many nobles hire "vampire hunters" at high prices to hunt the Children of the Moon. Although the black market There are many fakes, but occasionally there are real ones. At the same time, some nobles will try to raise the children of the moon.
“In most cases, the children of the moon are young, beautiful and immortal. Ageless and extremely lusty. Because the Moon Child could not cross the flowing water, the Moon Child was imprisoned underground and surrounded by underground rivers.At that time, a one-way existence and an inescapable prison were formed.
"So there will be some nobles who buy the "complete ashes of the Moon Child girl" at a high price, and then sprinkle their blood and resurrect; there are still some people who long for immortality... Although some people warn that the resurrection of the Moon Child will not be possible. It's not what they want, but it doesn't stop someone from wanting to imprison the Son of the Moon to find out how to transform, or use a contract to bind the other person to become his thug - this is why I specifically wanted to crush the ashes of my family in the first place. .
"It is for this reason that those with higher "birth" are fine, while those with lower birth are often hunted mercilessly by hunters. Even so, the price of Moonchild's ashes on the black market was very high...so high that Bashir would never be able to afford it in his lifetime, relying only on his own income. "
"So you gave him money? "
Aleister asked.
"No," Pomponazzi shrugged, "Although I don't care about money, this level of waste is still unnecessary. . "
"...Waste? "
"Well, I gave him all the ashes of my family. "
Peng Bonaqi smiled happily: "His "disenchantment" will completely destroy the possibility of their resurrection - if I had known this, I would not have had to use that method to fuse. .
"Maybe it's because I often sigh and say "Why didn't I meet you earlier", so the child probably regards me as a confidant or a close friend."
But it was obvious that until then... Pomponazzi did not regard Bashir as a person who could communicate with him on an equal footing. It's just that Bashir, who has low emotional intelligence, thinks that "the two are already friends."
"——Until he gave me his research."
Peng Bonaqi said softly: "I was amazed by his talent——he passed the ashes of the Son of the Moon The disenchantment actually analyzed the method of perfecting the human being."
"..."The Triumphal Car of Antimony"?"
Aleister knew what he meant by "research". What exactly.
The Triumphal Carriage of Antimony, written by Valentine I, tells the story of the transcendent alchemy that sublimates animal nature into God.
If this alchemy can be completely completed... it will mean that he has created an ability that "can stably become Tiansi". In Xianxia, it is a technique that can be used from Qi training to ascension.
But obviously...perhaps because the material Bashir consumed during his research was Children of the Moon, Pomponazzi believed that this book was about how to reach the "perfect man".
“Let a ferocious gray wolf devour the body of the king, and then put it in the fire and burn it to ashes. Repeat this three times, and the lion will overcome the wolf, and there will no longer be anything in him that can be saved. Things that are swallowed.
"Then the lion purified himself with the blood of the wolf, and the color of its blood most wonderfully matched that of the lion; and after the lion's hunger was appeased, his spirit became stronger than ever, and he His eyes shone like the sun..."
Peng Bonazi recited the words in "The Triumphal Car of Antimony" without hesitation: "The lion is the "soul of gold", and the moon's The color is gold. On the surface, this sentence is about a method of purifying gold, but in fact it is about the predation and sublimation of the Moon Child.
"They are both transcendent beasts. The powerful lion is the son of the moon. The gray wolf is a mortal and also symbolizes the alchemist - a mortal draws sacred power from the dream world and burns himself to ashes in the promotion ceremony. After three repetitions, it has been promoted to the fourth energy level... and the human body has been purified.
“Tasting the blood of gold, the lion’s hunger will be quelled. The blood-sucking of the Moon Child can often only quench the thirst. Only blood with the fourth energy level and above has the sacred effect that can completely calm the Moon Child. …”
…That’s it.
Aleister finally understood why the blood of Isabel and Aiwass could make him calm. But Selene's blood would only make her more excited and restless...
For a moment, even Aleister himself had some doubts - could it be that he had misunderstood?
Does "Antimony's Triumphal Car" really covertly tell the story of the art of perfection?
"And at the same time...he also prepared for himself the road to promotion." The king traveled through the six regions of the sky and settled on his residence in the seventh region. There, the golden The tapestry adorns the palace, if you know what I mean, this key will open the first lock and push the first bolt... This is one of the twelve keys proposed by Bashir in the book. The first one, when you become an alchemist after reading this, you will become a star antimony alchemist.
The "Knight of Gold and Stone" will change his soul seven times. The first six energy levels have reached the limit of the world, and the seventh energy level has undoubtedly reached the divine realm.
"This book records both his promotion technique and my promotion technique. When he was in the mortal world, he was the king and I was the wise prime minister...and when we ascended into the dream In this world, I will be the immortal king, and he will be my knight of gold and stone."
Peng Bonaqi said softly: "From then on, I regard him as my true friend. /p>
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