Chapter 41: Ten Blood, Testing
Lear, Hans Sr., and the Hidden Knight all bowed down to greet the general, and Ness curtsy.
The general looked at Ness and said kindly, "You're Humphrey's little Ness, are you well?"
Little Niss was flattered and nodded repeatedly: "Mm-hmm, it's almost good, thanks to Brother Lear." ”
"Oh?" the general said with a smile as he turned to look at Lear, "You're the third?"
Old Hans hurriedly said: "General, he is the real Lear, unlike those two impostors, otherwise Humphrey would not have let Ness send him to me, you know how treacherous Humphrey is." ”
The general said nonchalantly: "Whether it is true or false will be known soon." ”
Lear and the others stood silently, and the general threw the stool in front of Ness, and the stool fell to the ground silently.
"You're not well, sit down when you're tired. The general said.
"Thank you, General. Ness hurriedly thanked her.
The people present stopped talking, and Lear had no idea what the general was intent on. After about an hour, seven or eight people walked in, led by the chief magician of the Lear family, High Mage Cohen.
Cohen was dressed in a black robe, his eyes were sharp, and the hooked nose on his face gave it a sinister look.
He walked up to the general, took out a magic book, and recited a spell, and the magic book immediately projected a magic light curtain, which showed the information of the other two "Lear".
The first fake Lear is named Ribo, a child of an ordinary family in Port Lear, because of his somewhat similar appearance to Lear, he was used by the local forces in Port Lear led by Lord Heine, and even used magic to slightly change his appearance, making him look more like Lear in the portrait.
The second fake Lear is called Borg, the son of a down-and-out nobleman in the capital of Notting, and this person is really related to the Lear family, but the blood relationship is already very weak.
Eventually, Cohen turned his head and looked at Lear with a smile, "Tell me where you came from. ”
So Lear recounted his previous experience verbatim.
Cohen was slightly surprised, and then he pulled out a new investigative report, and many of the details in the investigation report were the same as Lear had said. The report also mentions that Lear was killed by the descendants of the Sword Saint of Fire, but there was no body left at the scene, but they found the people of the Mountain Rock Mercenary Group and learned that a child named Lear had joined the mercenary group.
The general was noncommittal and said, "Cohen, test it with magic." ”
A mid-level magician beside Cohen stepped forward and cast a "lie detection technique" on Lear, sending a faint white light from Lear's body. As soon as he tells a lie, the white light will immediately turn red.
Another magician walked over with a magic guide in his hand and said to Lear, "Please take out all the magic items on you." ”
Lear handed over the magic bag in his hand, and the mages around him were slightly stunned, and couldn't help but look at him a few more times. They were all mages of Earl Lear's family, and only half of them owned magic bags, so they never thought that a child could have such a precious thing.
The magician activates the magic guide and probes it up and down around Lear's body, eventually determining that he does not have any magic guide on him. However, they were not at ease, so they took out a bracelet-shaped forbidden magic ring and brought it to him, which can prevent people below the ** division from using magic.
Cohen began to ask, "What's your name?"
"Charlie Lear. "The light has not changed.
"You just told the truth?"
"Yes. ”
"Didn't hide it?"
"Yes, but that's my **, it's inconvenient to disclose. ”
......
Cohen asked nearly a hundred questions, in every way. Later, in order to verify this, Lear is also asked to lie, and the lie detection technique works immediately, and he emits a red light, proving that all his previous words are true.
Even the power of the plane acquiesced to Lear's identity, and the Lie Detection Technique didn't work at all.
Cohen turned to look at the general.
"Give me ten magic bottles, and I'll take his blood myself. The general walked towards Lear.
Another magician took out ten vials from his pouch to hold blood, and let the guards behind him hold them behind him.
The general said kindly: "Don't be afraid, you take off your coat, I will use my fighting spirit to draw blood, and you will only feel a slight pain." ”
Lear didn't expect things to be so complicated, so he had to obediently take off his coat, leaving only his shirt and boxers. Niss snorted, turned around and covered her face, her face flushed, and everyone let out a good-natured laugh.
As soon as he took off his clothes, Lear saw the general's hands turn into a shadow, and then he felt insect bites in ten places on his scalp, ears, neck, shoulders, chest, lower abdomen, arms, thighs, calves, and instep.
But in the blink of an eye, ten drops of blood appeared in those ten magic bottles.
The general nodded and said, "Very good, there are no tricks." "The reason why he wants to take blood from different places is to prevent Lear from using magic to falsify, and now that he has the double insurance of the forbidden ring and his experience, it is certain that the blood taken is from Lear.
The magicians took out ten bottles of blood with different labels, including the old earl's, the old countess's, Uncle Lear's, Lear's father's mother, and so on, and the tenth one had "Charlie Lear" written on it, which was his own blood.
The magician drips Lear's blood into ten bottles and adds various magic potions, and then the ten labeled bottles take on a variety of colors.
The liquid in Lear's father's bottle was blue, but his father's and mother's were darker and Uncle Lear's was lighter.
Lear's grandparents' bottles were orange in liquid, and their siblings' bottles were green, but the closer they were, the darker they were.
The bottle with the "Charlie Lear" label is a bright red patch.
If the two parties are not related by blood within five generations, then the blood will turn gray after fusion.
This method of detection is called "Ten Blood", and each "Ten Blood" consumes nearly 100,000 gold carats of magical materials.
The biggest use of the "Ten Blood" is actually to detect the blood relationship within the clan, after all, the private life of the nobles is very erosive, and it doesn't matter if the blood of a child and his father is gray after fusion, but if the blood of this child and his grandfather is blue after fusion, then in fact the family ...... I can't imagine it.
Cohen took out the standard bloodline test color map for comparison, and finally nodded to the general, saying: "All the conditions are met, even if he is Lear's twin brother, he can't hide it, there will definitely be no problem." ”
Lear and the others breathed a sigh of relief.
Old Hans, who had seen this scene for the first time, was sweating profusely.
"I really didn't expect the Lear family to be so terrifying, less than a hundred years after being knighted, but they have mastered the most rigorous "ten blood" bloodline test. No wonder the general knew that the other two Lears were fake, but he didn't make a move. If Lear is really dead, the general will definitely have a successor! The Lear family will definitely have a way to ensure the inheritance! Fortunately, I didn't help any fake Lear, and if I had made a choice at that time, I would have been the first target to be purged. And, if this Lear is also fake, we're all going to die here. ”
Old Hans felt his heart a little overwhelmed.