Chapter 1542: Verifying the Guess
Just like vampires, powerful werewolves naturally exert a pressure on weaker werewolves, directly commanding them and attracting them. If they could obtain a drop of blood from a high-ranking werewolf, it would offer the possibility of ascending to greater strength.
“So, have you seen that werewolf yet? Do you know her?” I asked excitedly. It seemed I had come to the right place; I had finally found someone who knew.
“So you’re here for the werewolf in the palace, but I’m very regrettable to say I haven’t seen her. I’ve only spoken to her from afar outside the palace.” The Werewolf Girl wasn’t truly foolish and immediately understood our real purpose.
Moreover, the Werewolf Girl used the feminine pronoun “she” when referring to the werewolf in the palace, which matched the style of the room I discovered in the basement. That werewolf was also a girl.
“What? You haven’t seen her? How long have you been in Darmstadt?” I was only surprised that the Werewolf Girl hadn’t seen the White Wolf. I had originally thought that all the werewolves in this city were organized, with the White Wolf as their leader.
“I’ve been here for about three to four years. Not only have I not seen her, but none of the werewolves in this city have either, because she’s suppressed in the lower levels of the palace,” the Werewolf Girl said.
“Ah? How do you know that? Can you elaborate?” I finally got to the point, but the Werewolf Girl’s words conflicted somewhat with my previous deductions. My earlier judgment was that the White Wolf wasn’t imprisoned at all and could move freely in and out.
“She told us herself, through her wolf howls on the night of the full moon. She said she was suppressed by a treasure underground and couldn’t get out. She wanted to instigate us to go in and take the divine artifact placed at the highest point of the palace, but none of us could enter the palace. Recently, she’s been ordering us to find others to try.” the Werewolf Girl said.
“It’s that strange oppressive feeling! The moment we left the palace, we felt relieved. It was actually caused by a treasure!” Lorna immediately realized.
So, the eerie tales of wolf howls rising one after another in the middle of the night, and the werewolf’s calls from the depths of the palace, were all the werewolves communicating. Outsiders couldn’t understand the wolf language, and the White Wolf beneath the palace was sending instructions to the werewolves outside in this way.
I had completely misunderstood. What restricted the White Wolf’s freedom wasn’t the seal in the basement, but a treasure suppressing her, preventing her from coming out. She had been constantly inciting the werewolves to help her escape.
“But, if other beings cannot enter, why could we? Or perhaps we can’t go back after we leave?” Via raised a point of doubt.
“We’ll only know if we go back and verify. I have one last question: can you still sense the werewolf’s presence? Is she still in the palace?” I asked the Werewolf Girl.
“She’s still here. I can always feel the bloodline’s call. She’s still inside the palace,” the Werewolf Girl gave a positive reply.
“Thank you for answering my doubts. For barging in, we apologize. Please accept these wolfbane potions as compensation. Drink them before the full moon to maintain your sanity.” I took out a box of potions.
Before coming here, I had considered the possibility of negotiating with the werewolves, not necessarily fighting. Therefore, I had also prepared some materials that were possibly useful to werewolves, as a form of exchange.
“Wolfbane potions? So many? This is too precious. Can I really accept it?” the Werewolf Girl looked surprised at the neatly arranged small bottles in the box.
The Werewolf Girl knew that wolfbane potions were precious, but she truly wanted them. Wolfbane potions were highly sought after in werewolf communities; having them could prevent them from acting irrationally during the full moon. Many werewolves had fallen victim to the frenzy of the full moon.
Wolfbane potions were alchemical concoctions that allowed werewolves to maintain their sanity. These were ones I had brewed while practicing with professional alchemy equipment; their effects were mediocre.
Only a few drops of wolfbane potion were needed to keep a werewolf sane. This amount would last about three years. I still felt it wasn’t enough. If I had used the magic potion crafting method, perhaps I could have added some beneficial effects like increased strength during shapeshifting or awakening of talents.
“Please accept them. Your answers were very valuable to me, and this is also compensation for breaking into your home and injuring you,” I said to the Werewolf Girl.
Then we hastily took our leave. The Werewolf Girl waved goodbye reluctantly, saying that if there was a chance in the future, she would welcome us to visit her home again.
Via couldn’t help but laugh. As a vampire, she had been invited to visit again by a werewolf. However, in reality, although vampires and werewolves were racial enemies, many had good relationships privately, and some even married.
We rushed back to the palace. To verify a few of my ideas, we took advantage of a gap in the guards’ patrols and stealthily returned to the palace’s outer wall, reaching a corner window where no one could see us.
“How is it? Can you feel the repel from the barrier?” I asked Lorna and Via.
“Yes, but we should be able to enter. It’s not repelling us this strongly.” Via said, reaching her hand through the window. This time, even I could slightly feel the barrier.
“I have no problem either.” Lorna passed directly through the outer wall. To me, it felt like they were leaping into water and had a sensation of being immersed in water afterward. Some of their strength was suppressed, but entering and exiting was unrestricted.
This proved one of my guesses: this seal was targeting the werewolf race. Only werewolves couldn’t enter or exit. To be more specific, it should have been specifically prepared to suppress the White Wolf in the basement.
The next guess: I walked into the palace and used the Devour spell again. This time, what came out of the large mouth was a bottle containing a test tube of blood. This was blood from my main body, just delivered from Cando City. I brought the blood bottle in front of me to observe it.
My spiritual sense could feel the flow of magic power. The talent brought by the Gluttony Witch allowed me to directly see the activity of germs with my own eyes, and my blood was full of various kinds of germs.
I opened the test tube and dripped the blood onto the ground. The germs instantly died, and the Gluttony Witch’s magic power was confined within the blood, unable to spread out at all. The second guess was also verified.
“It’s as expected. This treasure is actually the National Stabilizing Artifact used to suppress corrosion. The Duke used some method to bias this suppression towards werewolves, so the suppression effect on me is almost non-existent,” I said.
If my main body had come here, it should have discovered this fact quickly. Because the Guardian Deity came, it wasn’t greatly affected.
The reason the Princess couldn’t spread the corrosion was also this. She lived in the place where the National Stabilizing Artifact’s power was strongest, so of course, she couldn’t spread corrosion.
Then it was the last guess. “Let’s go to the basement.”
