Chapter 71: Speculation (Part II)
The families of the Frozen Shores have their own secrets, and the Morte family is no exception. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info
What the goddess of winter left behind to her followers, I am afraid that no one else knows except the successive heads of the various families.
Count Cheno, the established next head of the Morte family, naturally had the right to know and use these things, but he never cared about them, and even since he grew up, he had not entered the ancestral hall at any other time except for the annual ritual worship.
The legacy of the gods can drive anyone crazy, but that certainly doesn't include Cheno, a fool who risks revealing his identity for the sake of something that has never been in the mind of the devil.
In Mephistopheles' mind, the "point" that Cheno's incarnation can attract the attention of the Lord of Dawn can only come from itself, and if the god wants to get something from him, then it is definitely easier to shoot directly than to calculate.
Without even having to do it himself, the demigod-level elector of the Temple of Dawn would be able to do this beautifully, and I am afraid that until he succeeds, it will be impossible for ordinary people to find out the clues.
Of course, Mephistopheles is not an "ordinary person", but the Lord of Dawn must not know this, so since the other party has chosen to use Huairou means instead of violence, it can only mean that what they want cannot be taken by violence.
Fortunately, otherwise, if the Temple of Dawn really acted directly with the oracle, Mephistopheles would not have a good way to deal with it.
Don't look at the nobles who are clamoring for "monarchy first" one by one, that's because it is the sacrifice of the temple that is competing with them, if the gods really bend down and are not forced to a certain extent, they will not unite to resist together. After all, the other party and them are not at the same level.
Just like there are many evil gods on the material continent, but there are not many real nobles who dare to openly kill and judge the followers of evil gods, even if the other party has caused damage to their own territory, when killing the other party, it is in the name of some law rather than religion.
Even if everyone knew that the followers of the God of Killing were a bunch of crazy people, no nobleman would dare to make a statement that all believers of the God of Killing would be hanged if they were found in their territory.
Quite simply, they are afraid of provoking the gods behind each other, and the power of the gods is difficult for mortal beings to resist.
Unlike the gods of order who need the help of the nobles to keep their society stable, evil gods will roll up their sleeves at any time, and they may not even be able to do something as tasteless as sending an avatar to assassinate an ordinary farmer.
The reason for this discrepancy is that the gods belong to the chaos faction, taking power and law fragments directly from certain rituals or creatures, and do not rely on the "approval" provided by the believers to help them interpret the rules. Therefore, the stability of society is meaningless to them, and the existence and status of the nobles are dispensable.
Compared to some high-level demons, the evil god seems to have no bottom line. Because they have to face the attacks of the abyssal demons from time to time, and they also have to guard against the encirclement and suppression of the gods of order from time to time.
In order to increase their strength faster, the evil gods never restrict their actions, and while ensuring that they do not create large-scale chaos in the social structure so as not to completely anger the gods of order, they can do whatever it takes to improve themselves.
You know, they are not in the astral realm like the gods of order, but live alone in the endless void one by one, for them who are always coveted by demons, the future is always out of reach, and long-term planning is tantamount to synonymous with stupidity.
Unlike high-level demons, they generally do not deliberately slaughter sacrificers, because this can tempt more people to offer them blood sacrifices.
After all, at this level, they are completely out of the situation of "being reduced to other people's food at any time", and they are far from being as precarious as the evil gods.
But even if the Lord of Dawn is a god of the Order faction, it will not change his essence as a god.
Gods are gods after all, and they have countless means to get all the external things they want from mortals, and mortal beings can only do nothing. (Something strange seems to have crept in...... οΌ
Therefore, Cherno, who can make the gods personally plan and calculate, must have some kind of "trait" that can help the Lord of the Dawn, and this trait cannot be seized by coercion.
Initially, Mephistopheles thought of being the next heir to the Morte family, as he didn't know what his ancestors had inherited from the goddess.
However, then he overturned this speculation, just like what he said just now, what legacy the goddess of winter left behind outsiders may not know, but the "outer god" is absolutely clear.
Not to mention that there are fragments of godhead, even if there are a few crystals of divine power, they have already attracted the action of other gods.
You must know that there are not no gods who are not as good as they should be, and even if they are not as good as they are, it is impossible for them to resist their own family.
However, since the fall of the Winter Goddess, not to mention the covetousness of the gods of order, even the evil gods have not dealt with the frozen coast, which makes Mephistopheles look down on the things inherited by her family again.
It's not that he didn't think that there are some things that even the gods are excited about that need to be inherited by their own bloodline, which is exactly what he calls "the first possibility".
However, this way of passing on items is not safe, and the possibility of losing them is too great.
Although the method of refining incarnations like Mephistopheles is unique to the devil, the evil gods who have no lower limit can definitely think of an effective means of evasion to obtain the items in the ancestral hall.
Moreover, he didn't think that his own inheritance was the best in the Frozen Coast, and other families definitely had inheritance items that could be compared.
If this speculation is true, then this will definitely not be the first time such a thing has happened. However, after looking through the family classics, he did not find any clues in them, and it was obvious that he was the only one who was special.
In the books Mephistopheles had read, whether it was the history of the Morte family or some of the hidden histories of other families, the devil, who had been long in gathering and analyzing information, had not found the slightest strangeness in it, as if the nobles of the frozen coast had received not the inheritance of the gods but some legendary ancestral relics.
"It seems that there must be a secret in this that I don't know, but the first possibility can be ruled out. β
Although the query of information brought more doubts to Mephistopheles, it also made him negate his original speculation.
Since such a thing has never happened, his identity as the next head of the family is not as special as he imagined, and the real special should be the person Cherno himself.
Is Cheno's special? Of course it's special! How can a permanent incarnation made by a devil not be special?
However, when his true identity was removed, the only special "point" was that he had awakened the silver bloodline.
"Silver bloodline, no, it shouldn't be, there are many people who have awakened the bloodline on the material continent, not to mention silver, even the divine descendants who have awakened the golden bloodline are not nothing, and it is impossible to attract the attention of the Lord of Dawn on this alone. β
Slender fingers tapped on the armrests of the chair, and Mephistopheles began to rapidly deduce the incoming body and the body, one guess after another was proposed, then denied by itself, and finally, the deferment seemed to be stuck in a dead knot.
"Now it seems that the silver blood is the only possibility. Is there anything special about my bloodline? Or is it ...... Is there something special about the Iga knights themselves?"
Mephistopheles knew the de facto ancestor of the Morte family very well, and according to his impression of Iga, this knight had nothing special except for a little problem with his head, not to mention, he had been down for many years.
As for saying that he didn't die after going deep into the abyss, Mephistopheles preferred to believe that the slime was Lord Io's true body.
"Since there is nothing special about the Iga knight, then his bloodline is special......"
Thinking of Iga's undissuaded attempt to seek death in the abyss after the fall of the goddess of winter, a certain unscrupulous devil has already imagined the goddess and the Knight of Iga in his mind......
"Ahemβ"
Coughing lightly twice, he cleared out the mess in his mind, and his thoughts, which had been a little out of track, were once again pulled back by Mephistopheles's sanity. Mephistopheles has the most say in the peculiarity of the Morte family's bloodline, which can be known by looking at the incarnation of Cheno.
It is precisely because of this that he feels that his thinking has fallen into a misunderstanding, but he can't directly rule out this possibility, because many aspects of it are uncertain and difficult to prove.
Unless he had other speculations in mind, he could only let this uncertain possibility remain in his mind, interfering with his judgment of the situation at all times.
"Alas, apart from blood, what else is special about this avatar...... Or was it too arbitrary when I ruled out other possibilities, when the Lord of Dawn had already discovered my identity......? By no means so, there must be something I didn't expect!"
"Bang-"
The slapping index finger did not fall when it was raised, but was clenched into a fist and smashed on the table with the other "companions". Mephistopheles, who frowned, said with some annoyance: "Could it be that he already knows that Count Cheno's future will be famous in the Material Continent, so he wants to take it in before the summary?"
This sentence is of course a joke, and his own incarnation has not been recorded by the River of Fate, so of course it is impossible to be deduced for anything. What's more, "insight into the future fate of others" is not something that anyone can do, and so far, in the material world, only Io has mastered the fate priesthood.
Wait, Mephistopheles's hands grabbed the armrests of the table and chair, and the whole person leaned forward, with an unbelievable look on his face: "Could it be that it was the Lord of Dawn last time?"
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