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They believed that since Menek Cassel was dead and the main branch had completely collapsed, the family's remaining wealth and property should be handed over to the side branch, so they always believed that Cassel College and the Board of Directors were a group of unreasonable robbers.

The academy is named after the surname of Menech, but there are few students from the Cassel family in the academy. Angé once lamented in front of Lu Mingfei that if Charlotte could join them, then the academy might be able to have a third leader-level figure in addition to Caesar and Chu Zihang in recent years.

Unfortunately, the Cassel family was like the ancient inheritors of knowledge before the popularization of education. They stubbornly refused the invitation of the academy and used their own way to educate their descendants with dragon blood flowing in their bodies.

The Charlotte Cassel before us is such an elite dragon slayer cultivated and trained by her family.

She had an aura just standing there, as sharp as a sword that would rather break than bend.

"It's a pleasure to meet you again, Miss Charlotte." Lu Mingfei nodded to Charlotte.

"Mr. Lu, you have a high reputation. Although the academy has issued a worldwide wanted order for you, there are still a large number of forces in the mixed-blood society that are not prepared to follow the orders of the secret party." Charlotte said lightly, "You are still an honored guest to the Cassel family and the Holy Palace Society."

Lu Mingfei scratched his eyebrows: "It's a pity that there is no way to visit."

They walked out of the flower garden along the cobblestone path, passed through the courtyard gate, and strolled along the bank of Yangcheng Lake.

The ones who really wanted to hold a big meeting to discuss the details of the cooperation were actually Orthodoxy and Shenggong Jishihui. The Frog Group was not interested in that kind of thing, and Charlotte was only the person in charge on the German side. In fact, both sides had a large team negotiating and reaching a consensus.

As for Lu Mingfei's desire to obtain another piece of Black King's bone blood from the Cassel family, there was absolutely no need to discuss this matter with others in a big way.

"In fact, the elders in Europe also questioned the actions of Kassel Academy, but the Blood Covenant still holds absolute authority in the world of mixed-bloods." Charlotte shrugged. "As the defender of the existing order, their family had no choice but to send out hunting teams to work with the Academy's executive department to hunt you down in various countries."

They walked into the Qiaotou Restaurant and sat down at the table by the window. Lu Mingfei ordered pan-fried buns and spicy soup for himself, Wa ordered sweet tofu pudding and fried dough sticks, and Charlotte asked for a serving of red oil wontons. Lu Mingfei looked at her strangely.

Qiaotou Restaurant is an old local restaurant with good food and wine, but the owner is very casual in doing business, the service is always inadequate, and business is not very good.

The steamed white silk fish and Taidiao wine here are the best. Eating fish, drinking wine and watching the lake view are also a unique experience. However, it is morning now and the boss is not doing the midday business, so Lu Mingfei will not have this good fortune.

"After I killed the second generation in Kuimen, Sanxia, ​​every mixed-race family in the Western world got the bones and blood of the two dragons. No matter what they did with those things, they should be grateful to me." Lu Mingfei said softly, "But until now, I haven't seen many Western families willing to lend a helping hand to me."

He deliberately did not mention Pierre Cadmus when he said this.

Everyone in the power field is deceiving each other. Just because they can sit together and drink a bowl of spicy soup now doesn’t mean they won’t fight with knives in the near future.

If one day Lu Mingfei and the Cassel family really become enemies, he doesn't want his current words and actions to cause trouble to those who are willing to help him.

Lord Wa was sitting next to Lu Mingfei. When she heard what he said, she agreed with him deeply. She nodded while scooping tofu pudding into her mouth with a small spoon.

So far, only the Sheqi Eight Families and the Orthodox Family are willing to lend a helping hand to Lu Mingfei. Although the Cadmus Family and other elders do not agree with Pompey's point of view, they ultimately do not choose to openly defy the existing order.

"Because the power of the Blood Pact has already penetrated into every family, you have no roots, and there is no long-term and close connection between you and these families... In other words, whether you are dead or alive, it has no effect on them, so no one will fight against the academy for you." Charlotte smiled and took a sip of her morning tea.

Lu Mingfei was confused for a moment, but then he reacted and smiled at himself.

The academy's most glorious period was from the 1950s to the beginning of this century, when its influence spread around the world with the rise of the United States. They used their military connections to send missionary-like senior executives to almost every country through U.S. military bases around the world, and established new executive branches in those countries. They also used their huge and almost unlimited cash flow to frantically impact the original order of those emerging markets or old capital markets.

Even during the Cold War, the college was still able to engage in arms trade with the Soviets. During the Afghan War, oil traders supported by the board of directors were still able to easily obtain large quantities of oil from the Middle East and ship them to all parts of the world. North African diamonds were also once in the hands of Kassel College.

Under the dual pressure of military and economic suppression, the civilized world in the West, from the British Isles in the west to the Ural Mountains in the east, once trembled under the majesty of the Kassel Academy.

To this day, almost all financial industries controlled by half-bloods, including the wine trade, fishery trade and arms trade, are still inextricably linked to Kassel College. The half-blood families in Europe may have the strength to challenge the secret party if they unite, but they have no way of abandoning such a huge market.

In comparison, Lu Mingfei, who had once generously shared the blood and bones of the next generation with them, now had very few bargaining chips in his hands.

The king never minds giving honor to warriors, but if it is his own country and wealth that are to be shared, any emperor in the world will kill the hero out of anger.

This is the fact. Those European noble families that have prospered for thousands of years do not mind praising Lu Mingfei's achievements in history books, but it is absolutely impossible for them to stand on the opposite side of the secret party because of Lu Mingfei.

After breakfast was served, the three of them ate in silence. When Lu Mingfei asked for a second bowl of spicy soup, Charlotte suddenly spoke up and interrupted Lu Mingfei's attempt to fill his stomach.

"What did the college do with the embryo later?" she asked.

Lu Mingfei knew she was talking about Yu.

"About last year, the principal and the school board were planning to use the cocoon to implement a plan codenamed Golden Holy Serum, which was to extract non-toxic dragon blood from the embryo to refine serum, and then inject the serum into the body of the experimenter to artificially create a hybrid that is closer to a pure-blooded dragon." He said, "But shortly before the Tokyo incident, the plan ultimately failed... The embryo that the principal brought back to the academy from Chicago was placed in an ice cellar, but it lost its activity for unknown reasons. An inactive embryo cannot hatch a dragon, so extracting fetal blood becomes nonsense."

"What a pity..." Charlotte showed a regretful expression on her face.

"I know that the embryo at the Sotheby's auction was actually commissioned by the Cassel family." He hesitated and said, "But judging from your current behavior, it seems that you are not aware of this matter."

"On the contrary, I know that my family entrusted Henkel to auction that thing." Charlotte shook her head, "At the same time, I also know that they hope that the secret party will get it."

Lu Mingfei perked up.

The wide-mouthed porcelain bowl was put back on the table. Charlotte wiped the corners of her mouth with a tissue and slowly turned her head to look at Lu Mingfei. "After the Summer Mourning incident, my great-grandfather found Hilbert Jean Angers, who was on the verge of death, from the ruins of Cassel Manor. Along with him, there were some other things found... That embryo was one of them."

At this moment, Lu Mingfei suddenly understood why Ange said that Charlotte Cassel was the leader of the German mixed-race people in this era. Her sitting posture did not change much, but her originally bright eyes seemed to suddenly light up with a dazzling light. A strong self-confidence burst out from Charlotte's body naturally from the inside out, like an emperor telling the history of his rise to power.

For a moment, Lu Mingfei felt like he was facing Caesar, a female version of Caesar.

"That attack was planned by the Qing government. We had just ended the war against dragons on the battlefield of Xirang and returned to this land to weave power again like a spider web." Wazhu took a steamed bun from Lu Mingfei and said with a bulging mouth, "The rulers at that time were barbarians from the north. They were unwilling to wait for the revolution led by the orthodoxy to be launched... The Aisin-Gioro family had no way to compete with us, but the Qing Dynasty had the army in their hands. In order to prevent the orthodoxy from getting help from the outside when launching a war, they decided to first defeat the secret party, which provided the greatest help to the oriental hybrids at that time. As far as I know, the Lionheart Society is the core brotherhood of the secret party. They are related to the Qing government because of a man named Lu Shanyan."

Lu Mingfei felt his heart skip a beat.

He knew Lu Shanyan, who was his grandfather's grandfather and was said to be from the same era as Angers and Cassel.

"But the Qing government's intelligence system has always been weak. They didn't know what kind of organization the Secret Party's Lionheart Society was, so they even sent naturalized pure-blooded dragons on overseas expeditions. That embryo might be what was left after these dragons were killed by Word Spirit Rhine." said Lord Wa.

It seems that she knows nothing about Yu's affairs, Lu Mingfei thought.

"But since that thing came from the Cassel family, why did you still bid against us at the auction?" Lu Mingfei looked at Charlotte in confusion.

"Because the elders in the family decided to follow Menech Cassel's last wish and give this thing to Angers, but the Holy Palace Society believes that it would be more valuable if we could get a pure-blooded dragon embryo." Charlotte said softly.

Lu Mingfei then remembered that Ange had once told him that although Charlotte was a member of the Cassel family, the two had long since parted ways due to many differences in their ideas.

He sighed quietly. If Charlotte had left the Cassel family, how would she know whether this family held the Black King's bones and blood?

Chapter 552: The Gate of the Kingdom of God is the Bones of the World

While eating the fried buns, Wazhu said, "You got the dragon-controlling method from the Solomon Temple, right?"

The originally peaceful atmosphere in the Qiaotou Restaurant seemed to be covered with a layer of frost, and the warm sunlight shining on the body turned cold.

Charlotte, who had been able to remain calm in response to Lu Mingfei's question just now, now looked as if he had seen a ferocious beast. His pupils shrank slightly, and a dangerous and cold aura emanated from him.

Lu Mingfei was now a veteran of many battles, and he immediately noticed that there was something wrong with the expressions on the faces of the two girls beside him, as if they were about to pull out deadly weapons from their sleeves or skirts and fight at any time.

He originally thought that the purpose of facilitating his meeting with Miss Charlotte was to obtain the Black King's Bone Blood, which might not exist, from the Cassel family. But what was the Dragon Controlling Technique? Why did the temperature drop as if a cold wind blew into the Qiaotou Tavern when it was mentioned?

A well-proportioned small hand pressed on the back of Lu Mingfei's hand, and the meaning of the Lord Wa was that you should not speak.

Lu Mingfei understood, and he himself had no intention of causing trouble, so he continued to eat his spicy soup obediently.

"Five years ago, Von Schneider asked me the same question, but I didn't give him an answer. Today you are trying to get the answer to the same question from me again. I want to know whether this is the orthodox wish or your personal wish?" Charlotte leaned forward with her hands on the table, her iron-gray pupils reflecting the fragmented sunlight.

In Lu Mingfei's eyes, the image of Sherlock Cassel immediately became three-dimensional. She was the flower of the dark side of German society, beautiful and lofty, strong and talented, assertive, and self-righteous, thinking that everything was under control and always feeling that she had the bargaining chips.

Except that she is not so childish, she is simply another Caesar Gattuso.

"During the reign of Shun, Dongfu of the Huanlong clan raised pure-blooded dragons in Shanxi, and this continued until the Xia Dynasty. Among the descendants of Emperor Yao, there was a heir named Liu Lei who learned the method of taming dragons from the Dong family and was given the surname Yulong by the then monarch Kongjia... Later, when the Shang and Zhou dynasties replaced each other, the pure-blooded dragons on the land of China gradually died out, and the Huanlong clan and the Yulong clan also declined. The method of taming dragons was lost overseas and eventually obtained by Jerusalem. During the reign of Baldwin II, the Knights Templar found the secret buried under the Al-Aqsa Mosque, and the Order of Solomon's Temple was able to prosper." Under Charlotte's gaze, Lord Wa remained unmoved. They had just been sitting together harmoniously eating steamed buns and drinking tofu pudding, and enjoying the red oil wontons made by the boss using southwestern methods. However, in just a short moment, they lost trust in each other and returned to the business model.

"I have no comment on that," said Charlotte.

Lu Mingfei thought to himself, little girl, you are still too naive. Saying "I have no comment" is tantamount to admitting that you do have a dragon-controlling method similar to that of the Solomon's Temple, right?

"Xirang is not interested in your methods, I just mentioned it casually." Wazhu smiled and shrugged. "The Holy Palace Society has always had a close relationship with the Westminster Bank. You are the challenger to the existing secret party order in Europe, and the financial backer behind the Solomon Temple is the board of directors of Kassel College, so you are like water and fire... But the Temple controls the so-called Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. Now we know that their knight class has maintained four fixed quotas for a long time. This is because they control four evil dragon kings in their hands. One of them is trapped in Xiangyang City. Now the remaining three Knights of the Apocalypse are still difficult for you to contend with."

Charlotte pursed her lips tightly, her eyes somewhat evasive.

"As far as I know, your father is the second person in the Cassel family in the past two hundred years whose spirit was confirmed to be Rhine. When you were ten years old, he was killed in Rome together with your mother. The fatal thing was the penetrating wound. There was black carbide on the edge of the wound. It can be confirmed that it was the charged spikes or high-temperature spikes that pierced their hearts at the same time." Lord Wa lightly said the secret that Charlotte had buried in her heart for many years. Lu Mingfei lowered his head, his pupils shrank timidly.

He thought of Kungunir.

When the Holy Lance of Destiny is thrust out, it is always accompanied by lightning debris that falls like raindrops. It is not difficult to imagine that if it pierces a person's body, the wound will definitely be carbonized.

Charlotte's narrow eyebrows raised, she was already getting angry.

"You believed that it was a dragon that killed your parents because scales and violent elemental turbulence were found at the scene, but your family believed that Kassel Academy was responsible for the incident, so you eventually parted ways." Lord Wa reviewed what happened to Charlotte.

Lu Mingfei knew that there were two kinds of people in the world of mixed-bloods. One was pure racists like the Secret Party, and the other was merchants like the North American mixed-bloods headed by Han Gao who treated the pure-blooded dragon race from a dialectical perspective.

The existing Kassel family is the same kind of people as Henkel. They even do business with dragons, and allow those third and fourth generation species who can control their bloodthirsty desires to operate within Germany.

The Holy Palace Society is similar to the Camarilla in ideology, believing that dragons are inherently evil and cannot be influenced by the good qualities of humans.

Charlotte was silent for a long time: "If Menek can use Rhine to die with the Dragon King, then my father can do it too."

If it is destined that the Four Lords and the Black King are returning one after another, then the armies and descendants who are still loyal to them will wipe out everything in this world that can pose a threat to them before the emperors are reborn.

In fact, Rhine is the word spirit with the highest sequence number that a hybrid can master, and there are quite a few people who can master it.

In just a few decades, the Gattuso family was even able to find a lucky person who might have awakened the Rhine among the wild hybrids around the world. Through special alchemical methods, they left the echoes of the Word Spirit Rhine in the last moments of these hybrids' lives and transferred them to the main body of the Sword of Condemnation.

The difference is bloodline.

Those whose dragon bloodline is not stable or excellent enough, even if they awaken Rhine as their own word spirit, their bodies are not strong enough to support reciting the complete holy words.

The only time these people display their power is often at the last moment of their lives. Even until their death, it is difficult to gather a complete elemental turbulence and recreate the splendor of the Rhine because the holy words cannot be recited completely.

The father of Menech Cassell and Charlotte may be a special case whose bloodline is excellent enough and stable enough.

Obviously, in Charlotte's opinion, the dragons had a much greater motive for killing her father than the Kassel Academy did.

Since the Holy Palace Society and the Temple of Solomon are diametrically opposed and there is no possibility of peaceful coexistence, it is not difficult to understand why Charlotte, on behalf of her organization, wants to obtain the embryo of the second generation from the Sotheby's auction and then use the dragon-controlling method to control the dragon hatched from the embryo.

"Capturing a first-generation embryo is an unprecedented event even in the history of hybrids. This thing is an extremely valuable treasure even for the Cassel family. However, the power of the Holy Palace Society in Germany is even greater than that of the family. They are unwilling to break off with the Holy Palace Society, and they have promised to transfer Menech's legacy to the academy. So it is only natural that they entrust it to Sotheby's auction to obtain the last value of the thing in their hands." Charlotte said.

"I guess the Jishihui already knew that the family had a pure-blooded dragon embryo in their hands long before the Sotheby's auction, right?" Wazhu stared into Charlotte's eyes. "This matter should have started when you left the Cassel family and joined the Shenggong Jishihui."

"Boss, bring us a pot of Taidiao." Charlotte did not answer Wazhu's question. She waved and called the boss's wife who was taking a nap not far away. When the Taidiao wine with plums was served, the girl looked out the window at the sparkling lake and drank it in small sips from a porcelain cup. There was a silence that lasted for several minutes. After she finished the glass of wine, she finally started to tell the story.

"Eight years ago, I enrolled at the University of Munich as the heir to the Kassel family, and received a series of professional dragon-slaying and alchemy lessons there." After drinking Tai Diao wine, Charlotte's voice was no longer as cold as before, but rather a little hoarse. "Before that, I had already completed almost all of the studies required for the undergraduate program at Kassel College. I entered the University of Munich only to expand my network in Berlin... It was there that I received an invitation from the Saint Palace Society for the Savior of the World."

It is not difficult to imagine that Charlotte Cassell, who showed amazing talent at that time, had been regarded by her family as a future leader to be trained.

But she finally chose to join the Holy Palace Society for the Savior of the World.

"After joining the Holy Palace Society, I was able to come into contact with the unique method of controlling dragons, and proposed to the elders to buy the cocoon from the family." Charlotte said, "This is a win-win situation. We can quickly gain an overwhelming advantage in the war against dragons. Even if another prince awakens, we don't have to pay a heavy price to encircle and suppress them. We only need to cultivate and strengthen our own dragons. The family can get rid of the burden that has been studied for decades without any follow-up, and gain the friendship of the Society and a large amount of funds... But the family rejected us, saying that they are only the caretakers of the embryos, not the owners."

Lu Mingfei was keenly aware that the embryo of the next generation was such a serious matter that no family would leak its information to any insignificant person.

He looked at Lord Wa, but Lord Wa didn't look at him.

"It seems that before you left the Cassel family, you were also a core figure in that tribe." Lord Wa smiled and said, "You even have access to such secrets."

"If I am being trained as a crown prince, then of course I want to know the current situation of my country." Charlotte did not comment.

"Apart from the embryos of the next generation, what else did you see in the heritage left by Menek Cassel?" Wa's voice was extremely soft.

Lu Mingfei was stunned for a moment. It was clear that their topic just now was still far away from him, but suddenly, Lord Wa seemed to have brought all the threads to him.

"Before you came here, you told me that you hoped to get some useful information from me." Charlotte's eyes flashed with cunning light, "I think you, or Mr. Lu, hope to get something from Menek's inheritance?"

Lord Wa did not speak, but the answer was already obvious.