Chapter 36: Gems
"Quick, test the bloodline!"
The sound of a hurried command rang in Fawkes's ears, bringing the sluggish old butler back to his senses. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE。 info
He looked around and saw that the others hadn't paid any attention to the voice, as if he was the only one who had heard it. Recalling the unconcealable excitement of the order just now, the old butler judged the identity of the other party—an ancestor of the Morte family, that is, the heroic spirit hidden on the high platform.
Nowadays, no one doubts the identity of the baby, and the command of the Heroic Spirit is nothing more than "obsessive-compulsive disorder" under ecstasy.
After all, including the Morte family, there are only four silver bloodlines still circulating on the entire Frozen Coast. And judging from the family history of these four families, there is not a single clansman who has inspired his own bloodline before this little guy.
The old butler, of course, would not disobey the orders of the Heroic Spirit, and he took a sample of the blood and dripped it onto a scarlet gem. Now, he also knew why he was attacked just now, it should be the stinging pain during the collection of blood that triggered the reaction of the fighting qi in the baby's body, and his old bone suffered an unwarranted disaster.
At this time, the rune on the baby's forehead has disappeared, which means that the stimulation of the baby's bloodline has not been completely stabilized, otherwise, this rune should have been on his forehead until adulthood, instead of disappearing from time to time like now.
Just as it is very difficult to open a closed stone door, but it is extremely easy to push a half-open stone door, the most difficult part of blood stimulation is the beginning step, and the rest is only a matter of time.
Countless people have been stopped from the "beginning", and the baby has obviously stepped through the "beginning" threshold, as long as he can grow healthy to adulthood, the golden rank is not a problem, and even in his lifetime, he can break through the barrier of the "rule barrier".
The nobles have a unique set of methods and standards for examining bloodlines, and even compared to the comparison of the genetic maps of Mephistopheles's previous life, they are not much worse in accuracy.
The scarlet gem is the size of a thumb's fingernail, and if you look good enough, you can even see the name "Bronc Moult" engraved in the center of the gemstone.
That's right, it's the blood of the Earl of Bronck.
In fact, any aristocratic head of a family leaves a drop of blood when he succeeds to the throne. This drop of blood will be mixed and blended with alchemy reagents to form such a scarlet gem.
Of course, in order to make it easier to distinguish, during the gem making process, the maker will use mental manipulation to leave the name of the blood source on the gem.
It looks like it was carved, but if you look closely, you can see that the name is inside the gemstone.
When the blood of the direct descendants of the person within two generations is dripped on the gemstone, the gem will release a strange brilliance, and by comparing the brightness of the brilliance, the proximity of the offspring can be determined.
This gemstone is indeed called the "kinship gem", it was originally made by the temple of the goddess of life, and at one time became a specialty of the temple of life and the pride of believers.
However, there is also a profession called mage on the material continent, and the curiosity of mages is even stronger than that of newborn gnomes.
What's even more terrifying is that they have the passion and execution to match their curiosity.
Therefore, not long after the temple introduced this gem, it was forcibly popularized, because the mages had already developed imitations that were not inferior to the original.
The requirements for divine power were perfectly replaced by alchemy by mages, and it was then that alchemical products began to spread on a large scale.
Most of the mages did not believe in gods, both in the past and in the present.
However, since Leotot, the god of knowledge, ignited the divine fire and became a god, knowledge began to spread widely, and they were no longer held by nobles, so more and more commoners became mages. Most of these mages recognized the teachings of Leotot's crown and became his followers.
The nobles were quite resistant to this deity because he was destroying the very foundations of the nobility.
In the early years, the reason why the temple chose to bow its head was not only because the nobles were the best candidates for stable order, but also because the power and knowledge of the mage were not inferior to that of the divine arts. At that time, the mages were basically nobles.
However, the nobles were not without a way to cope.
I don't know when all the local nobles began to strictly regulate the production and sale of spell casting materials and alchemy items, and raised their prices as much as possible to limit the production of high-level mages among civilian mages.
In the same way, they used the title of honorary nobility to co-opt high-ranking mages from commoner backgrounds, limiting their voice in the ruling class.
This behavior was carried out under the nose of the temple, but the temple could not stop it, on the contrary, they had to support it as much as possible. Because the aristocracy also did this to maintain the stability of the existing order, to the detriment of the interests of the god of knowledge, but to the detriment of the interests of the gods other than the god of knowledge.
What's more, as a new god of a non-combat class, the God of Knowledge has been promoted from weak to medium in less than a thousand years, and even wants to master powerful gods such as "history" and "truth", if other gods don't have any thoughts about him, I'm afraid even slimes won't believe it.
Of course, although the test results of the "related gem" are accurate, they are not without shortcomings, at least in Mephistopheles's opinion, it is much easier to deceive than the genetic test in his previous life.
They judged their kinship by brightness, so the baby was naturally identified as the illegitimate child of the Earl of Bronque.
But if you use genetic testing, you will find that the Earl of Bronck and this baby should be one person in kinship.
However, the results of the "related gems" do not lead to such conclusions, after all, a small difference in brightness does not mean anything. What's more, the baby is still an excellent clansman who has awakened the "silver blood" in their eyes......
Word of what happened at Moulte Manor soon spread across the frozen shores and spread to other areas at breakneck speed.
In the year 7121, the Mortes welcomed their next head of the family, who was named Chenno, the same name as the ancestor who was raised by the Ice Bear.
People on the material continent do not object to calling their ancestors by the same name when they come up with names, but most of them do so by commoners.
This is not only because they have a relatively poor vocabulary, but also because it is a kind of nostalgia and memory of their ancestors in the absence of a so-called genealogy.
Therefore, it is not uncommon to see the situation where the three generations of grandparents in a certain village are called Charlie or John, and people generally use old, large, and small to distinguish between them, anyway, they may not go to other areas in their lives, and naturally they will not encounter the same name.
However, most of the time the nobility chose to avoid the name of their ancestors as a sign of respect.
However, once they decided to use the ancestor as the name of their descendant, it meant that the expectation of the descendant was high: that he would achieve the same feats as the ancestors.
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A new chapter in history was turned in this year, and the Moult family welcomed their lord of revival, a hazy darkness shrouded the skies over the frozen shores, and in this land where the gods could not enter the gods, the enemy of the gods bared his fangs.