Blood Holy Scripture: True Ancestor Charlotte de Castel
Chapter 484: -18- "Divine Possession"_2

Chapter 484: -18- "Divine Possession"_2

The fluctuations of soul self-destruction gradually subsided, and the figure of the Blood Demon Priest had completely vanished, yet in Charlotte’s hand remained an ephemeral Blood Servant Mark.

The Blood Divine Power swirled around the Blood Servant Mark, maintaining the stability of the mark.

Looking at the stabilized Blood Servant Mark, Charlotte heaved a slight sigh of relief.

The other end of the Blood Servant Mark was connected to the Bloodline Venerate behind the Blood Demon Priest. If the mark were to dissipate, the other party would surely sense it.

The Blood Demon Church clearly had schemes afoot in the Royal Capital, Lutecia, and Charlotte did not yet wish to startle the snake by hitting the grass.

Of course, not startling the snake was now impossible.

After all, a high-ranking priest of the Blood Demon Church had died; the other side would know about it sooner or later.

But... at the very least, she could not allow this Blood Servant Mark to shatter within the Dark Night Ancient Castle.

She had already employed the Blood Divine Power while controlling the soul of the Blood Demon Priest. If it shattered here, the Legendary Bloodline behind the other party could sense something was amiss and might detect her own power.

Charlotte was not yet prepared to face off against a legend head-on.

"What bad luck; this Blood Summon was completely wasted," she muttered to herself.

Charlotte had not expected her luck to be this bad; not only did she randomly select a member of the Bloodline who was a Blood Demon Cultist, but also a Taboo Blood Servant.

The connection between a Taboo Blood Servant and a Bloodline Venerate was too intimate; the slightest misstep could trigger a self-destructive prohibition, and she could not complete reviewing the other party’s memories before their soul completely dissipated.

Even having used the Blood Divine Power, she had only managed to see an additional piece of memory information.

This was related to Bertrand de Chevalier’s benefactor among the Bloodline Venerates.

The Bloodline that gave Bertrand his First Embrace was a member of the Shedite Clan named Albrecht Schedit, who was a Blood Duke of the Shedite Clan, and also a Dark Apostle of the Blood Demon Church.

"Albrecht Schedit..." Charlotte murmured the name softly.

As an "old friend" of the Blood Demon Church, Charlotte had conducted some investigation into the Church’s organizational structure.

Within the Blood Demon Church, members were divided into five tiers: Believers, Dark Followers, Priests, High Priests, and Dark Apostles.

Believers were ordinary faithful, including mundane believers of the Blood Demon Duke and Transcendents below tier-entering man.

Dark Followers were tier-entering men who had reached the Starry rank, mostly Blood Barons.

Priests were Transcendents of the Silver Moon level, which in terms of the Bloodlines corresponded to Blood Viscounts. Above the Priests, the High Priests were Blood Counts.

The highest rank was that of Dark Apostle, all Legendary Bloodlines, holding a status equivalent to elders within the Nais Clan.

Information about the Blood Demon Church was also recorded in the archives of the Holy Royal Court. As far as Charlotte knew, there were six known Dark Apostles in the Blood Demon Church.

However, for confidentiality, the archives Charlotte read initially did not contain detailed information about the Dark Apostles.

Now, Charlotte had at least learned the name of one of them.

"Albrecht Schedit... In the perception of the Blood Summon, there was a suspected Legendary Bloodline from the Shedite Clan hidden within the Outer City District of Lutecia. Could that be... this Albrecht Schedit?"

Charlotte stroked her chin thoughtfully.

She glanced at the ephemeral Blood Servant Mark before her, preparing to dissolve this Blood Summon.

The high-ranking Blood Demon Priest named Bertrand was already dead; continuing with the Blood Summon was utterly pointless.

The Blood Servant Mark was only temporarily stable and was bound to shatter once the summoning ended.

After ending the Blood Summon, the Legendary Bloodline behind it would also sense the death of their Blood Servant.

However, that was no longer Charlotte’s concern.

She intended to disguise the high-ranking Blood Demon priest’s death as "Demon Possession."

As long as the Blood Servant Mark did not break within the Dark Night Ancient Castle, the other party would not be able to trace it back to her.

With that in mind, Charlotte carefully remembered the Bloodline energy deep within the Blood Servant Mark and cautiously manipulated her Divine Power to send it out from her psychic world.

On the other end of the psychic world was Bertrand’s body.

Of course, it was now a corpse.

Charlotte, using the connection of the "Blood Servant Mark" to the other’s body with spiritual power, transmitted the Blood Divine Power to send it forth.

However, just as she did, she felt her vision suddenly being pulled along, flying out together with the "Blood Servant Mark."

Charlotte blinked in surprise.

At that moment, she realized she had gained an additional field of vision.

It was a dimly lit view, and in the center of it stood a solemn yet sinister altar.

The surface of the altar was covered with ferocious blood vessels and writhing tumors, the Holy Emblem it bore was no longer clear, and even the ancient Divine Statues placed on it had indiscernible faces.

Above the altar floated a massive eye, its surface wrinkled and grotesquely terrifying.

It was a Demon’s Eye...

Looking at the object that symbolized the Bloodline Duke, Charlotte immediately understood that the view she was seeing might well be where the Blood Demon Priest had been just before being pulled into the Dark Night Ancient Castle.

Not only that, but the way this altar was arranged was too damn familiar; she had seen similar ceremonies twice after Crossing.

This must be a ceremony for Divine Descent.

Even if it wasn’t, it was at least a ceremony that could communicate with the Blood Demon Duke.

Upon closer inspection, Charlotte noticed that this altar was somewhat different from the previous Divine Descents.

The inscriptions carved this time seemed even more complex, and the scale was larger.

Relying on her mediocre magic skills, Charlotte discerned contents such as "sacrifice" from those inscriptions.

After careful identification, Charlotte ultimately overturned her own guess.

This was not a Divine Descent ceremony, but appeared to be a large-scale sacrifice ceremony.

The object of the sacrifice was the Blood Demon Duke.

Charlotte had some guesses in her mind.

After some thought, she tried to connect her main consciousness to this additional field of vision.

Soon, a sensation similar to crossing through the void came over her, and as Charlotte acclimatized, she found she had successfully switched her view to this side.

Then... Charlotte discovered she had a new body.

She looked down to see herself wearing a familiar black robe, the high priest attire of the Blood Demon Church.

She touched her chin and felt a rough beard...

She looked at her left hand, still holding the magic book that Bertrand had, now blackened with blood and candle smoke.

Charlotte: ...

She had possessed the body of the Blood Demon Priest, Bertrand.

Charlotte quickly checked her spiritual state, then bizarrely found that she was connected to Bertrand’s corpse through the "Blood Servant Mark" of Albrecht Shedite.

To be more precise, she had established a connection with Bertrand’s corpse through the Blood Servant Mark and had her consciousness projected over by the Blood Divine Power.

However, Charlotte soon realized that this possession was time-limited.

Although the Blood Divine Power was maintaining the "Blood Servant Mark" from destruction, it was actually just delaying the process.

The "Blood Servant Mark" was still self-destructing, just at a greatly reduced rate.

When it reached the critical point, it would still be destroyed, and Charlotte’s consciousness would be expelled from Bertrand’s body.

Charlotte gauged and found that she could maintain this state for at most one to two days.

Of course, that was assuming Albrecht Shedite would not contact his Blood Servant through the Blood Servant Mark.

After confirming her condition, Charlotte had an idea.

Although she hadn’t been able to read all of Bertrand’s memories, she seemed to have gained another great opportunity to investigate the secrets of the Blood Demon Church!

With that thought, Charlotte looked around and found herself in a temple with a very familiar style.

It was a dilapidated temple, probably very ancient, with dim lighting and murky air, likely located underground.

The temple had massive pillars that supported the dome, with rough reliefs covering their surface; the ancient text inscribed on the pillars, despite being eroded by time, still emanated an aura of time-worn mystery.

Around the temple were long stone corridors, extending into the distance, the walls adorned with simple reliefs and frescoes depicting scenes of Bloodline wars.

And in the center of the temple was a large circular hall, where Charlotte was currently situated; the altar and the Demon’s Eye were both here.

Seeing the familiar hall and the frescoes, Charlotte’s heart skipped a beat.

She recognized where she was.

This was an Ancient Hall.

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