vs 179 Things about the Warlock2
Lu Wu already knew that the people of this world seemed to care very much about the matter of aristocracy. According to www.biquge.info perspective of earthlings, they care very much about their surnames. "I'm Ah Qi from the Evening Star Family" and "My name is Ah Qi" are two self-introductions that are not at all the same level. The former is an aristocracy, and the latter is nothing.
But there are reasons to care. Nobility can give great advantages, such as the fact that it is easy to get relatively high official positions in the regular army. Although it seems difficult to become a general, it seems easy for a nobleman to become a lieutenant colonel or something like that. If nothing else, Aqi is a typical example. Although she is only a young and inexperienced woman, she can easily become a lieutenant colonel. As long as you can have some merits, you can dominate the party.
In other words, not to mention the invisible advantages such as education, growth, consumption, and connections, the aristocracy itself has a strong priority, and the starting point is much higher than that of ordinary people. Lu Wu had never seen the army of warlocks, but he could also surmise that a warlock with a family name obviously had an advantage over a warlock who did not belong to any family and was born unexpectedly. And since this is true in the army, it should be the same outside the army.
If the family is deemed to be dead, it means that all privileges will disappear - and that alone is enough to make people find a way to maintain the family's existence.
It is easy to maintain a family. According to what Hongyi just said, as long as there are warlocks in the family, then it will be considered that Huiyue's favor is still there, and he will still retain the qualification of nobility. However, if the last warlock in the family died, then it was considered that Hui Yue was no longer favored - the nobility was canceled by default.
That's why the moment of equilibrium is so terrible - because during this time period, the birth rate of warlocks will drop considerably. In other words, there will be many families who will be removed from nobility.
No one would put up with such a thing as having their privileges revoked, and from the perspective of earthlings, they can fully understand this. Anyone facing this kind of crisis, even if they are dying, will have to jump for a moment. Almost all of the great revolutions in modern Europe were triggered by the refusal of the aristocracy and the church to give up their privileges. In the end, the privileges can only be abolished through a bloody life-and-death contest in which the entire country is repainted with blood and fire.
And the ability of the warlock is passed on through women.
Moreover, this inheritance is not 100%, under normal circumstances, only about one-third of the children of sorcerers are warlocks.
A third is a not large, even quite small proportion. And at the end of the day, it's a big statistic, and it's certainly different for each individual. It is normal for a female warlock to give birth to ten or eight children, all of whom do not have the talent of a warlock.
Judging from the way the red clothes spoke, even if the superstition of the warlock is true, finding an excellent person as a father can increase the birth probability of the next generation of warlocks, but that is only "improving the chance", and it is not certain that the next one must be a warlock. Naturally, the number of warlocks in the next generation is ...... You have to have more.
Or, in other words, to have as many children as possible.
At first, I didn't think so, but the more I thought about it, the more I thought it should be like this.
"Nope. Hongyi directly shattered Lu Wu's rhapsody with a faint word. "It's even the opposite. ”
"Why?"
"Because the first child is important...... Very, very important. Hongyi didn't notice Lu Wu's heart at all, even if he noticed that Lu Wu's expression was different, he would never be able to think of his true thoughts. "Because the vast majority of high-level warlocks are firstborn. In fact, the warlocks were very attentive to chastity. ”
Lu Wu has been here for a while, and he has more or less seen the living conditions of local men and women.
In short, it's more confusing. In fact, the relationship between the sexes is not much different from that of modern cities on earth.
There is no civil affairs bureau to issue marriage certificates to everyone, and there is no marriage law to provide legal protection for people. Always, if both parties look at each other, and no one else objects outside, it's a couple. This relationship, if maintained for a longer period of time, is blessed and recognized by others within the clan.
If you want to describe it, it is spontaneous marriage, the kind of primitive society.
If everything is safe, there is no essential difference between the white head and the old age or something, in fact, it is not fundamentally different from the earth. The absence of a card is not uncomfortable. The only problem is what happens when there is a conflict between the two sides. Often, the elders of the tribe will intervene to coordinate persuasion. If coordination and persuasion are useless, then in the end, they can only go back to their own homes to find their own mothers. Then each looks for a new partner.
Of course, the reality is not so bad. Not to mention the middle-aged and elderly, even the young are rare. Because if you break up with your partner rashly, it will be difficult to find the next one.
In a group that is not particularly large, in fact, everything can be said to be within a controllable range. But anyone can see that as long as the number of people increases, chaos is inevitable. Now it doesn't look confusing, it's just that it's small in number and easy to manage.
Moreover, from various sources, it seems that as a border area, the people of the Banshee Gate are actually very conservative. The technology here has reached a level where it seems to be able to "mass-manufacture" humans through artificial wombs using sperm and eggs directly from the female body. Therefore, there are no worries or crises such as declining fertility (although the chance of spawning Warlocks will be greatly reduced this way). Naturally, this technology has had a profound impact on society as a whole.
According to the Red Coat, the Warlocks have become a chaste minority.
Although he was a little incredulous, Hongyi's answer made Lu Wu's heart fall to the ground.
Well, even if you think about it, he doesn't have any qualifications to be unhappy. After all, it can't be said whose fault it is. But the thought that Amber might already have a child or something made him really feel panicked.
Suddenly, I felt that this world also has its cute side. Of course, this is only a momentary feeling.
This topic seems to be closed at this point. Because Lu Wu had already figured out what the red clothes meant. But maybe unconsciously, maybe just a little bit of curiosity. He casually asked one last question.
"By the way, is there any way to make the child born must be a warlock?"
Although it was asked, it was actually a question that did not go through the brain. This is a stupid question, because the answer to this question is clearly no. If the answer is yes, then there is no such thing as the death of the family. Warlocks don't have to be afraid of anything like a moment of balance.
It is important to know that when the balance is reached, the Warlocks will avoid large-scale wars, because neither the Radiant Moon nor the Stygian Moon will be able to afford much damage in this situation. If one side masters this method, it will be crooked. Even if you can't take away the enemy in one wave, at least you will have an overwhelming advantage and directly change the pattern of the whole world.
However, completely unexpectedly, Hongyi actually nodded.
"Yes. ”
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"If you do, you can make sure that the next generation is a warlock. Diemeng said with great interest.
Of course, at this moment, she was lying in bed. This time the injury was much more serious than the last one, and although it was "not a big deal", it was only in terms of the danger of the injury. If she wants to recover, even she has to recuperate for a long time in the true sense of the word.
There's nothing to do here, just chatting. Just now, the attendant made a suggestion to go back to the academy.
"The next generation is all warlocks...... Is it possible?" For this optimistic inference of Butterfly Dream, even the female entourage is a little dismissive. She also knows the legends, but legends are legends. For example, every scientist has longed for a perpetual motion machine, and every child has longed to become the pride of the sky.
The main reason why a legend is a legend is that it is in reality, at least by your side, there are no examples to prove.
For example, the legend that the next generation is all warlocks. I don't know exactly how this theory came from, but it's spreading. Legend has it that every time the moment of balance comes, the two moons will focus their favor on one or two mortal males.
This is the legend of the so-called "Radiant Moon Favorer". Although this "Radiant Moon Favorer", who never existed, was just a mortal without magical power, except for the defect of not having magical power, he was first-rate in other aspects, such as brain, physical strength, will, etc., and would inevitably make all kinds of extraordinary achievements. And the children of him and the sorceress were born to share the favor of Huiyue. In other words, born to be a warlock.
In fact, there is no need for a sorceress, even if it is a child with an ordinary woman, there is a great chance that she will be favored by Hui Yue.
However, it is not known whether this legend is based on philosophical inference or religious prayer. Anyway, as far as the female entourage knows, there has never been any evidence to prove the existence of these so-called "Radiant Moon Favorers" and "Dark Moon Favorers".
"Of course it's possible...... This is the university of the past...... What is the name of that, and the conclusion reached through philosophical discussion...... Why, you don't seem to believe it?" Even if Diemeng's eyes couldn't see, she could hear some clues from the tone of her entourage.
"Ma'am, this is just a legend without evidence, isn't it?"
"No, it's not a legend. Diemeng let out a long breath. "There is solid evidence. ”
"Can't be?!Wait, could it be the ...... Heart of Flame?" The attendant finally remembered that Butterfly Dream had cared about this before. She hadn't thought of it before, but it was common for a good man to increase the chances of a warlock in his offspring.
"I also found out about it recently...... Although the time came a little late, now they had finally determined that the 'Flame Heart' of the Stygian Moon was the Protector of the Stygian Moon. It is said that many high-ranking warlocks died before they killed him. If he were alive, the Stygian Moon would definitely have performed life extension surgeries on him again and again...... It's normal to live for a few hundred more years. For hundreds of years, even if there are tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of descendants, it may be. If this is the case, when the moment of balance is over, the power of the Stygian Moon will be far stronger than that of the Radiant Moon. ”