308, the grievances of the wealthy family (II)
After the negotiation broke down, Rogge did not immediately tear up his face with the Seran family, and left the Seran family without even a cruel word, and then directly disbanded his mercenary team, leaving Gene Brava County alone and leaving the country. Although this way of dealing with it may seem cowardly and timid, it is also the most sensible thing to do. After all, compared with the powerful and powerful Selan family, Rogge's power and strength are too weak, and choosing to face the Selan family is undoubtedly self-defeating.
In the same way, the Seran family did not embarrass Rogdor who left in the 'gray' way, in their eyes, Rogge's power is as weak as an ant, as long as the family makes a slight move, it will be wiped out. Therefore, the members of the Seran family generally commented on Rogge's departure from the country as a 'guy who knows the times' (to put it nicely) or a 'coward without guts' (to put it mildly).
At this point, Rogge is missing. And just like that, another thirty years passed.
Thirty years later, it coincided with the advent of another year of darkness, and it was also the time when the demons invaded the world of Yber on a large scale for the first time. This demon invasion event is also the 'demon invasion catastrophe' in the history of human beings in Iber.
The catastrophe affected almost all of the human realms, and the kingdom of Sutrem was no exception. Although it took three years for the human race to unite many subhuman races to almost annihilate the invading demon race, all countries were also greatly damaged in this catastrophe. Before the 'Demon Invasion and Catastrophe', the human kingdom had one 'Emperor^' level country, seven 'kingdom' level countries, and nearly a hundred 'principality' level countries. And after the catastrophe, the only empire collapsed, only three of the seven kingdoms remained, and less than a third of the nearly 100 principalities survived.
After the catastrophe of the demon invasion, the remnants of the empire and the three surviving kingdoms constitute the pattern of the 'four kingdoms' of the human kingdom in the world of Iber today.
The Kingdom of Sustrem was one of the three kingdoms that survived at that time. In that catastrophe, the kingdom lost nearly a quarter of its population, most of which belonged to the noble lords who were divided among the regions.
In this catastrophe, all forces have paid heavy losses, and many famous powerhouses in the kingdom have fallen under the minions of the demons, but there are also many previously unknown powerhouses who have become famous in this catastrophe.
Among them, there is a swordsman named 'Leopold', who suddenly appeared when the demons were about to wash a major city in the northeast of the kingdom, and fought against 30,000 demons with a single sword, and after a day of bloody battle, he actually killed all 30,000 demons! Among them is also a demon king of the demon race (a saint-level powerhouse equivalent to a human race)! The lives of more than 200,000 women and children in the city were saved.
Leopold became famous. Because the city it protected was a city under the direct jurisdiction of the kingdom, word spread quickly. Being able to kill tens of thousands of demons alone, and even kill demon king-level demons, this can only be done by a saint-level powerhouse, and this saint-level powerhouse named 'Leopold' is not any saint-level powerhouse known to the royal family.
Obviously, most of this Saint-level powerhouse was a person who avoided the world and cultivated asceticism, and he did not appear until his strength reached the peak level. And judging by his behavior of protecting the residents of a city, most likely he is not a saint-level powerhouse of that lord's family, but a saint-level of free identity!
The appearance of a Saint-level powerhouse with a free identity immediately attracted the attention of the surrounding lords and even the royal family. The various forces that thought they were capable of recruiting him sent emissaries to contact Leopold, trying to bring him under their command. Taking a step back, even if you can't recruit them, it's good to have a certain friendship with them. After all, the other party's identity is free, there is no power background, and if they make a friendship, there will always be a time when they can be used in the future.
The Seran family also attached great importance to Leopold's existence after learning about it, and immediately sent an envoy to visit. Relying on the convenience of the close proximity of his family's territory, the leader of the envoys sent by the Seran family was actually the eldest son of the current (twenty-second) patriarch - the first heir of the family, which shows his sincerity and eagerness to solicit
It is no wonder that the Seran family is so eager to recruit each other, because in this catastrophe, the Seran family is one of the local noble lords who have suffered the most losses. A third of his family members were killed or injured in the catastrophe, and nearly half of his vassal families were also lost, and even the two Saint-rank powerhouses in the family, the two Saint-rank powerhouses, were killed and wounded.
After this catastrophe, the strength of the Seran family has been greatly damaged, although almost all the lord families have losses, but the losses of the Seran family are even more heavy in comparison, especially the fall of a saint-rank powerhouse makes it difficult for the Seran family to maintain all the current status. If they were able to recruit this Freedom Rank powerhouse at this time, then the Celestial Clan would inevitably return to the peak period close to before the family experienced the catastrophe. So this solicitation, the Seran family is bound to win.
The idea is quite good, but unfortunately the reality has given the Seran family a big slap in the face.
When the emissaries of the House of Selan came to the villa where Leopold was temporarily staying (provided by a nobleman in the city he saved), the number of visitors who came with the same purpose was overwhelming, and Leopold borrowed the living room of the villa where he lived to meet all the visitors. At first, everyone met and introduced each other, and the atmosphere was quite harmonious, but when the Seran family came to report their identities, Leopold immediately changed his face and unceremoniously blasted the Seran family out in front of other visitors. Leopold's reaction immediately made the Seran family confused, because this attitude clearly showed that the Seran family had a great grudge against them, but the Seran family had obviously never heard of Leopold's name before, so how could they have a grudge?
Although the Selan family was blown away by Leopold in front of everyone's eyes, the Selan family did not dare to speak hostile to Leopold because of this, so they could only return to the family territory in disgrace. Unexpectedly, it didn't take long for Leopold to take the initiative to come to the door again, and it was menacing, completely in a posture of asking the guilt.
Seeing that Leopold did not have good intentions, the Seran family did not dare to slack off, not only the current patriarch came forward, but even the retired previous patriarch also appeared to meet Leopold together.
Because the Seran family is also very strange, why the other party will turn their faces as soon as they learn their identity.
However, after the two generations of the Celan family elders saw Leopold in person, their faces changed.
Because they recognized Leopold's identity at once.
The young man in front of them, who looked to be in his thirties, was full of vigor and spirit, and called himself 'Leopold', was actually Rogge, who had disappeared from the land after coming to the Seran house thirty years ago to ask for a return to the family!
Thirty years ago, the middle-level warrior who didn't care about the Seran family reappeared in front of the Seran family again after thirty years as a saint-rank powerhouse.
It stands to reason that Rogge should be fifty-seven years old at this time, but for some reason, his appearance still remains in his thirties. This is also the reason why the patriarchs of the two generations of the Seran family recognized each other at once - the previous patriarch was Rogge's uncle, and the current patriarch was Rogge's cousin, both of them had seen Rogge's appearance back then, although thirty years had passed, but Rogge's appearance had not changed much, and the two naturally recognized it.
After recognizing that the current Leopold was the Rogge of the past, the two generations of patriarchs of the Seran family understood why the other party was hostile to their own family, and at the same time they were dumbfounded.
Not only the two generations of Seran family patriarchs, but all the members of the Seran family who knew what happened decades ago and had laughed and ridiculed Rogge were dumbfounded.
At that time, the Seran family did not recognize Rogge's family identity, firstly because Rogge's strength was still too weak at that time, and secondly, because Rogge's biological father's wife and wife were very powerful.
And now?
Rogge, who was nearly thirty years old and had the strength of the middle rank and lower rank, is now a saint-level powerhouse.
And the wife and wife of Rogge's biological father back then have been wiped out in the recent demon invasion catastrophe.
In other words, the Seran family drove a future Saint-rank powerhouse out of the house back then, in exchange for a future force that would be wiped out.
If there is really a regret medicine in the world that is sold, presumably the current Seran family will definitely buy them all and eat them all. Unfortunately not.
Now it is impossible to recall Rogge back to the Celan family.
The reason of blood relationship was used by Rogge back then, but it was vetoed by the Seran family on the pretext of 'unverifiable'.
Similarly, back then, the Seran family also thought that the gap between Rogge's age and strength was too big, and there was no future for cultivation. Thinking that a current Saint-level powerhouse had no future in the past, the Seran family was indeed 'unique'.
After meeting (showing) with the two generations of the Seran family, Rogge also saw that the other party was regretting and thinking about how to save the relationship between the two parties, so he did not hesitate to cut off the other party's thoughts, and said something that would be popular in the future:
"Back then, you drove me away, and I left. Now you want me back, sorry, far away. ”
This sentence, as well as the grievances between Rogge and the Seran family, quickly spread. Hearing this, everyone admires Rogge's strength, and they all despise the short-sightedness of the Seran family.
The Selan family, who stripped their faces and lost their faces, has since become a laughing stock in the aristocratic circle of the entire Tristram Kingdom, and has since formed a feud with Rogge.
Similarly, this incident also sounded the alarm for other aristocratic families, and each aristocratic family began to pay attention to the illegitimate children of family members, changing the previous practice of blasting out the house when the other party was an adult (or underage) and left to fend for himself, but to carry out a certain degree of cultivation to observe the degree of development before making a decision. Of course, that's another story.