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Chapter 2902

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A small glass bottle was placed on the right side of the dinner plate, containing Zatanna's soul. It was obvious that even though the magician lady was locked in the bottle, she was full of amazing vitality. She looked at Constantine with very worried eyes.

Obviously, Zatanna woke up earlier than Constantine. She witnessed everything Schiller did.

She couldn't say that the two demons fighting on Constantine's body had a bad start, because demons were always like this, and mages should have been used to it. But if it weren't for their ferocity and love of fighting, the food on the plate wouldn't have overflowed with such obvious evil aura, and she had almost nowhere to hide in the bottle.

Zatanna was always compassionate. Even though she was turned into a vampire, in a situation where she couldn't even protect herself, she still had time to worry about Constantine's situation.

This time, this damn rotten man was afraid it would be difficult to get out unscathed. But even to this point, Zatanna could hardly say this was a completely good thing. She knew Constantine. If he had never participated in the vampire incident, neither Zatanna's nor Zan's souls would have appeared here.

I always feel he can't fool his way through it this time, Zatanna thought, because the other party wasn't Batman, and was much harder to deal with than Batman.

But Constantine seemed to be fearless. He let his hands hang down naturally, not caring at all about the rope tied to his body, and even smacked his lips and asked, "Do you have a cigarette?"

"Do you have to smoke to speak?"

"What do you want me to say?" Constantine sniffed. The hoof on the plate emitted a charming spice aroma, mixed with that kind of strange meat fragrance and the evil aura that a mage could smell. This was a challenge to Constantine's olfactory system.

He was the kind of person who solved a meal with a sandwich and had never smelled such a complex food fragrance.

"I won't require you to confess all the intelligence like Batman, because I know you will never confess everything. You can choose what you can say. Consider it the reward for the meal I'm treating you to."

Schiller's attitude was incredibly gentle. Constantine couldn't see half the shadow of the monster who had just slammed him against the wall like a truck and cut his throat on him.

The three-piece suit he wore was worth at least ten thousand dollars. The marlin brooch was perhaps platinum. The blood on it had been washed clean. The silk of the tie reflected hidden light. The Windsor knot was tied well, and so was the Adam's apple above.

Constantine laughed in a low voice and said, "It's not just thanking you for treating me to this meal. I can't often sit at a table with a big shot like you."

The words were serious words. If the eyes weren't so straight, it could be considered a qualified flattery. But combined with the fact that this person was named John Constantine, it was more like teasing.

Schiller sighed lightly and said, "I don't really like using anything to threaten others, but your companion is still in the bottle. Considering her situation, you should also fish your brain out of the pool of yellow waste."

Constantine's body stiffened slightly. He looked at Zatanna in the glass bottle. The magician lady sat cross-legged in the bottle, supporting her chin with her elbows, seemingly waiting to see how he would have bad luck.

"It seems she doesn't really need my help." Constantine said, "She has long been used to not being able to count on me."

"Is that so? I think this bottle is very suitable to be changed into a seasoning bottle, and roasted goat hoof is best with some pepper."

"Don't! Alright, you win." Constantine's posture of shaking his head was very much like a dog shaking water off its ears.

"I don't know who the Vampire King is." Constantine said, "This isn't lying to you, because knowing specifically who it is has no benefit to me. In case Batman finds out, he might read my mind, so I just let myself not know."

"But I know some things about how this vampire revival came about. What is your view on bloodline theory?"

"No special view."

"Alright, but I don't think you are such a boring person. I can give an example: a rooster with red feathers and a hen with blue feathers gave birth to a chick with red and blue feathers."

"So the chicken group thought, if I find another hen with orange feathers and combine it with the chick with two-colored feathers, can I give birth to a chick with red, blue, and orange feathers? And so on, sooner or later they can give birth to a phoenix."

"The Vampire King is this phoenix."

Schiller was silent as expected.

"I know for anyone with normal scientific common sense, this sounds very stupid, but the vampire group is very special. This method has a certain possibility of operation for them."

Constantine fell into memories and spoke after a while: "The blood race is mainly divided into two factions. Dracula's faction originates from Cain. Because of the bloodline on his body, he can naturally use shadow magic."

"The Blood Queen Mary is another kind of vampire. Rather than saying they are vampires, it's better to say they are contractors of blood magic. They don't suck blood to fill their stomachs, but to obtain powerful strength."

"These two factions of vampires have always been incompatible. This is also the origin of the legend that humans divide vampires into the Camarilla and the Sabbat."

"Because the Dracula faction is bloodline vampires, they don't need to suck blood every day. They can fill their stomachs by sucking once every month or two. Shadow magic also doesn't have very strong attack power. Turning into a bat is considered one of their most famous abilities. Because they have been passed down for a long time, they have their own social rules, more like the legendary Camarilla."

"And the one Mary Queen contracted is Lilith. This crazy woman sucked blood crazily to obtain stronger strength, and her descendants also inherited this madness of hers. They can spend a whole night catching dozens of humans to open a blood carnival."

"Because their brains are crazy, they haven't appeared for long, and the members are very young, but they have mastered powerful strength, so they act unscrupulously, crazy without limits, more like the Sabbat in human legends."

"The fighting between the two parties consumed quite a few vampires and also fully curbed the development of the crazy Sabbat, so they didn't cause too much turmoil in human society."

"But just like what is written in human vampire romance novels, a young man of the Camarilla fell in love with a girl of the Sabbat. The marriage of the two was strongly opposed by both families, but their ending wasn't as tragic as Romeo and Juliet. The two fled to a small city in the East to settle down and even had a child."

"Later, both died because of an accident. The child was left behind. And after growing up, he discovered that not only could he use shadow magic, but he was also proficient in some of the powers of blood magic."

Hearing this, Schiller frowned slightly.

"This has to mention the principle of magic..." Constantine deliberately dragged out a long tone, then moved his arms and said, "This is a bit uncomfortable tied up. Can you untie me first?"

Schiller walked over and untied the rope tied to him, but at the same time, he said, "I think you don't need to worry too much. This is your home. I'm just a guest."

"You'd better really have this self-awareness." Constantine rubbed his neck with his hand. There were two very obvious pinch marks on the side. When he touched them, he gasped.

"Ordinary people always envy mages, feeling that magic is omnipotent, but in reality, it's not that simple. Without the consent of the owner of the power, you can't use any magic."

"Previously, it wasn't that there were no ordinary scientists who wanted to use modern technological means to produce enough energy to achieve the same effect as magic, but the fact is, you can use this energy to power a cleaning robot to let it clean, but you will never be able to use cleaning magic, because you don't have the usage license for this magic."

"This kind of license can be in many forms. For example, the elves of the Maia world have all kinds of strange bloodlines, and some are even created by God himself. The bloodline is equivalent to their license."

"In fact, humans originally had the bloodline of God's creation, but because Adam and Eve were driven out of the Garden of Eden, it was equivalent to God depriving Adam and Eve's descendants of all magic licenses. If you want to regain the license for divine magic, you must hold an important position in the church or be pious enough."

"Humans contracting demons is equivalent to getting a license from the hands of demons. Although the price to pay is quite large, it's not considered very losing, because giving a license is still simple, but taking it back is difficult."

"For example, me. I have the magic licenses of almost all the demon kings in hell, so although I am notorious in hell and almost no one is willing to provide me with power, I can also rely on eating old capital to be a mage."

"Usually, this license cannot be gifted or transferred, and grabbing it by force won't work either. You can grab abilities and magic items, but you can't grab a license. This thing can only be given by the source of power."

"From this perspective, it is very amazing that the descendants of the two vampire parties possess both magic licenses at the same time. Many people contract demons, and I haven't heard that after two people marry, the offspring can possess the parents' licenses at the same time. This thing is impossible to inherit. Otherwise, if I and Zat marry and have children, wouldn't our children be invincible?"

Zatanna in the bottle knocked on the glass, letting Constantine show some respect. Constantine smiled at her very indifferently and said, "It doesn't matter if the child is strong or not."

"Cough cough, I'm a bit hungry." Constantine picked up the tableware, cut off a tiny bit of meat, picked up the glass bottle, and stuffed it into the bottle mouth.

Zatanna was a bit disgusted at first, but Constantine said, "This thing is good for your soul energy recovery. You should eat some."

Zatanna took a bite reluctantly and revealed a look of surprise. Her voice came from the bottle, "I know you are using me to test for poison, but thanks anyway."

"You should thank the chef." Constantine put down the bottle and began to eat heartily with peace of mind. While eating, he said.

"Very unfortunately, one day this child who possessed two kinds of magic was discovered by Blood Queen Mary. She caught him and forced him to ask how he possessed these two abilities. This child was very young and didn't hide anything, telling the truth."

"Mary immediately realized that this would be an opportunity for vampires to rise, because if vampires could pass on their magic licenses through combination, then there would be no mages on Earth who would be their opponents."

"Thus, before the Dracula faction reacted, Mary started her blood race reproduction plan..."

"If I'm not mistaken, this plan wouldn't be very smooth, right?" Schiller asked.

Constantine sneered and said, "On the contrary, at the beginning, this plan was too smooth, which gave Mary an illusion, making her make even more stupid things."

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