Chapter 100: The Demon of Original Sin
Her Majesty the Queen felt something was wrong a long time ago.
While trying to find a solution to the Flange problem, she spent a lot of time in the royal family's library and read the history of the Seven Duchies, and found a lot of very unreasonable things.
First of all, there are almost the same character flaws in the ducal families of the seven principalities.
Looking at the history of various families, almost every generation of dukes speaks and does things in a way, and if you take the evaluation of a certain duke in history, it can almost be directly applied to his descendants.
Even if two people with almost different appearances, as long as the family name is the same, the personality and style are almost exactly the same, and there have been almost no exceptions for hundreds of years, which is not at all explained by a sentence of "family inheritance".
At the time, she found this question just a little strange and didn't think too much about it, but now that she recalls it, it sends chills down her spine.
Almost every duke's family has specific character flaws, although not all of them are carved out of the same mold, but the style preferences of doing things, and even some absurd behaviors are strikingly similar.
These character flaws, as if a curse passed down with the bloodline, except for a few "lucky ones" can get rid of, the vast majority of people are troubled throughout their lives, and the purer the bloodline, the more serious this "defect" is.
Fran's royal family has a arrogance far beyond ordinary people, and that inexplicable pride is sometimes completely incomprehensible, feeling that in their eyes, except for those with royal blood, everyone is an ant-like existence, and must be driven by it, and the slightest resistance will be regarded as a provocation.
Avril Avril's face turned paler as she thought about Peter's words and deeds—arrogant......
The faces of all the dukes of the Seven Duchies flashed before her eyes one by one.
The Duke of Aden's immensely fat size and never-ending appetite, the Duke of Kane's outrageous looting and greed to bag every copper capper, the Duke of Cole's unfortunate self-inflicted temperament, and the unimaginably chaotic private life of the Duke of Mundice......
The temper and character of these dukes are almost a copy of the seven deadly sins mentioned in the canons of the Church of Eros, and not only the bloodline of these seven dukes' families, but if a family intermarries with a duke's family more frequently, then the family will also have corresponding problems.
William's Van Gus family, the ancestors and the Grand Duke of the North often intermarried, and the in-laws between each other lasted for hundreds of years. And the irascible and belligerent personality of the Van Guins family is the same as the Elon family in the northern principality, and the whole clan is almost without exception.
Her Majesty felt a chill in her body, as if all the blood in her body was flowing back into her heart. She asked in a trembling voice, "I...... Is it the same? The blood of the French royal family represents ...... Arrogance?"
Berry nodded, acknowledging the cruel truth with a gentle expression.
"Yes, and not only you, but the bloodline of you, His Majesty the King, and the entire royal family of Fran actually originates from a fallen angel named Raguil, and the bloodlines of the other major principalities of Fran also come from the other six demonic creatures in hell.
The demon creatures may not be very powerful, but they all represent an original sin that is contrary to love. ”
Avril took a deep breath, reached out and picked up the chair, lifted her legs, which could barely support her body, and reluctantly sat down. Then he gritted his teeth and asked word by word: "All this, someone is deliberately maintaining the status quo of Flange, right?"
The history of the Seven Duchyes of France is excessively long, at least nearly two thousand years as far as I know, and the pattern of the Seven Duchies has never really changed since it began two thousand years ago. ”
Her Majesty's hand tightly gripped the armrest of the chair, and the back of her white hand was bruised, and she put all her weight on the arm of the chair, as if she would slide off the chair as soon as she let go.
"I should have realized something was wrong! An empire will collapse in a few hundred years at most, and even fewer will last a few hundred years for a family.
How could it be such a coincidence that in one piece of land, seven families that had been inherited for thousands of years could appear at one time, and even some false god churches could not last so long.
The most incredible thing is that not only have these families never broken off their inheritance, but they have not even changed their status much, so there must be the handiwork of your church behind the past two thousand years, right?"
"Three thousand five hundred years, actually. ”
Berry glanced appreciatively at the pale Avril.
"Your wisdom is truly impressive, and the sustainer behind all this is indeed the Church of Eros. The three True God Churches in Fran, the Church of Eros, the Church of Knowledge, and the Church of Wealth are all involved, and there is even the Holy See of Light, which belongs to the Holy Empire. ”
Every time he spat out the name of the church, Avril's face turned three points whiter, and when she heard the Holy See of Light, it suddenly became whiter than paper, and the blood on her face almost faded.
Her Majesty leaned back in her chair and covered her face with her hands.
"Why?"
She tried her best to keep her tone calm, but her voice still trembled.
"The demons of hell are mortal enemies of your True God Church, right? Why do you want to let the blood of demons spread? If you follow the usual practice of the Holy See of Light, shouldn't it be ...... Are they all caught and burned to death?"
Berry shook his head and explained earnestly, "We wouldn't do that, you and your family are not our enemies, and the existence of these demonic bloodlines is also tacitly approved.
At that time every five hundred years, there will even be a pope who will stay here twenty years in advance to ensure that the bloodline of the seven principalities will not be cut off, and this time the person in charge is the old pope of the Knowledge Church, who has been waiting in France for more than ten years. ”
Avril's eyes flickered, catching the strange part of his words.
"Every 500 years? Why 500 years?"
"Because that's when the gates of the dead country opened. ”
Her Majesty the Queen suddenly felt that the name was somewhat familiar, as if she had heard it there before.
After thinking about it carefully, she suddenly realized that on the day she and William escaped from the royal capital, the two strong men who fought in the royal capital seemed to have mentioned this name.
The black curtain that covered the entire sky reappeared in front of her, and she remembered the sea of souls that hung upside down in the sky of the royal capital.
"Eber ......"
The queen murmured the name.
The middle-aged beauty nodded and said, "This is the name of the ninth-order undead lord, he tried to push open the gate of the dead country in advance, but was killed on the spot by the old pope guarding Fran."
Whenever the five-hundred-year limit is approaching, there are often high-ranking undead squeezing out of it, which is one of the reasons why the Pope is here to stay. ”