Chapter 33: Bloodline (Part II)
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After waiting for a while, he found that Mrs. Ailu was still looking at the sleeping child, and in desperation, the old housekeeper had to continue to remind him.
Fawkes had been more cautious since the Earl's affairs, but no matter how much he wanted to protect himself, his loyalty to the Moult family had not changed in the slightest.
Therefore, on this kind of issue related to family inheritance, he had no choice but to "overpass".
"Uh-huh, well, I'll take care of the rest, Fawkes. ”
Madame Eru did not care about the slightest rudeness of the old butler, and she had always had respect for this loyal retainer.
Not to mention that he is really not good at this kind of internal affairs of the Morte family, so it is better to leave it to the "professionals", don't you see that the "Ice Bear" next to him is already dissatisfied with himself?
"Yes"
Fawkes respectfully took the baby from Mrs. Ellu's hand, wiped the sweat stains from the baby's sideburns with his sleeve like a pilgrimage, and sighed softly.
The baby's small face is full of folds, the hair is thinning and yellow, and the weight of the body is about one-third lighter than that of the average baby.
Fawkes glanced at the baby distressedly, of course he knew that it was not that the ice bear was not taking care of him badly, but that the child was not born at term.
In other words, the baby is born seven months after the mother's pregnancy.
At this time, the old butler didn't know what to think, he gently lifted a trace of the baby's quilt and looked in.
Sure enough, in the baby's heart, there is a small texture, which is not only a birthmark, but also a blessing from the biological mother to him.
The early birth of a baby is generally accompanied by two ways, one is premature and the other is caesarean section.
Of course, the latter is Mephistopheles' name in his previous life, and here, it is called "sheer production".
This means that because of external conditions or other reasons, the mother of the child has to choose to give up her life to ensure the birth of the child.
In the material continent where there is no surgical medicine and surgical conditions, most mothers who choose to have a caesarean section may have no hope of survival, and magic and alchemy drugs are not affordable for ordinary people.
God has mercy on the world, and long ago, the goddess of protection and nurturing sent down an oracle: every baby born from "birth" will feel the blessing from the birth mother.
This peculiar birthmark is the manifestation of the goddess's divine power, the external embodiment of the blessing of the biological mother, and also the due respect for the goddess's mother's love.
Although the goddess has long since fallen in the war with the demons, and the kingdom of the gods has also turned into star fragments and disappeared into the endless void, I don't know why, this kind of thing is still passed down.
The world thought that this was a harbinger of the goddess's eventual return to the astral plane, but Mephistopheles understood the truth inside.
The wishes of countless mothers for the healthy growth of their children and their worries about the future life before their deaths have formed a unique belief.
The oracle of the goddess of protection and nurturing also coincided with the meeting, providing a cohesive target for this fragmented faith.
So, even though the goddess has long since fallen, this kind of thing still happens.
In fact, Mephistopheles even suspected that the Grim Reaper of the underworld was behind it.
Such wishes do not have much effect, but only give the living a sustenance to mourn the dead. But for the child himself, the maternal love and dedication represented by this birthmark will be the most powerful inner support for him in his future life.
The birthmark on the baby's body was naturally disguised by Mephistopheles, in order to prevent others from probing the child's background as much as possible, because he had no background at all.
Yes, the current baby is Mephistopheles.
The body of the devil is between matter and soul, and it is not difficult to change, but if you want to hide from everyone's eyes, I am afraid that it is not enough to rely on your own transformation.
What's more, breaking into the Morte family is just to help him grow better, and Mephistopheles doesn't have much time to delay playing the "Lord of Morte".
However, after he extracted some of the essence of life from the Earl of Bronck, the birth of a descendant of the Morte family became extremely easy.
The baby was like Mephistopheles incarnate, he was no different from other children, except that the soul in his body was not a natural occurrence, but a trace of consciousness separated from Mephistopheles.
After all, he was not a naturally born being, and certainly no soul would have been created.
The avatar and Mephistopheles' own consciousness are shared, as it is their consciousness that is manipulating.
Of course, abilities can also be shared, but until Mephistopheles has embodied the rules of manifestation (the level of gods), this avatar cannot reach the legendary rank, unless Mephistopheles' body is attached to this avatar.
This is very similar to the avatar of the gods, and of course, this was originally the inspiration that Mephistopheles got from the avatars of the gods and the projection of demons. The refining method is neither as cumbersome and harsh as the incarnation of the gods, nor as simple and random as the demon projection.
Again, compared to the two, Mephistopheles's avatar is not comparable to them in terms of advantages and disadvantages, and only receives a mediocre evaluation.
However, this method is the one that best suits the actual situation of the devil, after all, mediocrity is sometimes a powerful advantage.
Mephistopheles felt that he had to thank the Iga Knights, and that his time on the battlefield at dusk was the time when his knowledge grew the fastest.
It is precisely because of his broad knowledge that Mephistopheles is now here.
Since it is an incarnation, it will not get rid of the basic characteristics of the incarnation.
Like the incarnation of the gods, the incarnation refined by Mephistopheles will also turn into white light and disappear after death, and the consciousness that flies away will return to Mephistopheles' main consciousness.
This process is controllable, which means that Mephistopheles can choose to self-destruct this detached consciousness at the cost of minor injuries, and will not be used by others to find the location of the original body like the incarnation of the gods.
In fact, Mephistopheles could have been more hidden, but he didn't.
Because this method of death is so similar to the way the gods incarnate themselves die, anyone will guess this phenomenon on a certain god until the devil race is known to everyone.
This not only facilitates the concealment of Mephistopheles' true identity, but also provides him with convenient conditions to fight against the gods.
If there is speculation, there will be doubt, and if there is doubt, there will be oppression and betrayal, this is the human heart, and playing with the human heart is not exactly what the devil is good at?
"Adult ......"
The old butler showed the baby's birthmark to Mrs. Ellou, which made her eyes redden.
At the same time, she also felt a certain happiness in her heart, since the child's biological mother has passed away, then this child will naturally belong to her alone in the future. It will certainly not be like the children brought by the Moult branch, who are always thinking about their biological parents.
At this time, although the blood test has not yet been conducted, Mrs. Eru has already identified the identity of the baby in her heart.
Ever since Dillo's death, every time he got drunk, the Earl of Bronque had to take a pride on the cooks. And the good-hearted Lady Eru always gave them some money to send them home, and did not kill these poor people for the sake of so-called honor, as other nobles do.
After all, being grumpy isn't a big deal for a male lord.
Perhaps because of the good of Lady Ellu, the cooks who returned home did not go around preaching the "quirks" of Count Bronque, so outsiders only knew that Count Bronk was strict with his cooking skills and often replaced the cooks, but they did not know the inside story.
Madame Aru did not know the cause of Dillo's death, and naturally she did not understand what the Earl of Bronck did.
In her opinion, it was normal for the Earl of Bronque, who was not good at drinking, to have some other relationship with the cook when he was drunk, after all, he had a criminal record - Monroe was born from a drunken time.
Therefore, in Madame Ellu's mind, if any of the cooks concealed this matter, then there would be no impossibility for the blood of the Morte family to spread outside.
Originally, Mrs. Eru did not think about this aspect, but when she recalled the records in the "Family Codex", she subconsciously found a reasonable explanation for the origin of this baby.
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