2. Demon Bearers, Nobility and Bloodline

When Rand got up and prepared to personally help the two important ministers, he had a feeling that he had never felt in his previous life.

That's why he is so tall, after standing up straight, he feels that most of the people around him are only below his chest, only Albert, Rohr and the other 3 men are about the same height as themselves.

After they all stood up, Raul was a head taller than Lant, Albert was a little taller than Lant, and the other three were all a head shorter than Lant.

For the first time, Rand experienced seeing the world from a height of more than two meters, and he felt that basketball players in his previous life should have seen this perspective, but he was a little dizzy.

"Rand, don't stand for too long, you just broke through, now is the stage of rapid growth of the body, since you activated the demon bloodline, you shouldn't have grown like this" Albert helped Rand to sit down slowly, but at this time Rand had a lot of confusion in his heart.

What's going on? Can you still grow after leveling up? Can our level and body still be linked?

"Uncle Albert, tell me what's going on, when did I break through? What should I do in the future? Rand wanted Albert to say more about the world.

But he was messing up the language, because he didn't find in his memory the concept of a demon holder, transcendence, or promotion.

"By the way, after you activated the bloodline, I have been busy with territorial affairs, and I forgot to tell you this" Albert was a little ashamed. Then he began to introduce the transcendent inheritance and promotion of the entire human world.

The source of it all comes from the twin suns in the sky, and yes, the planet sees two suns during the day, a huge, slightly dim one called Raya, which provides little sunlight, heat, and most of the magic to their Alivian world.

The other, smaller, brighter star is the source of most of the heat and sunlight, as well as a small amount of magic. Macroscopic magic falls from the sky in the form of many different magical elements, a gift from the sky and the gods to every race on Avilia.

When individuals in a race are able to use magic, magic circulates in the individual's body, which can strengthen physical fitness, increase the individual's size, function, and lifespan, and these strong people will become the leaders of the race.

Through a long period of exploration and experimentation within the race, each race has found its own way to improve the strength of the strong and preserve the bloodline of the strong.

For humans, such a path is the path of the three transcendent professions of knight, magician, and clergyman.

Each path starts with the most ordinary, demon supporters who have just stimulated the bloodline, and the final point is the righteous god, a total of 13 levels, and each level of improvement in the body's perception and interaction with magic will produce a qualitative leap.

In the entire Terran community, those who can successfully activate the magical bloodline before the age of 14 are called demon supporters.

It is difficult for the demon bearers to feel the magic elements in the air, but the magic that strengthens them can already be manifested in their appearance. All Terran demons are over 2 meters tall, regardless of gender, occupation, or age, while other Terran demons who have not been able to activate their bloodlines will not be more than 2 meters tall.

The population calculation of the empire is based on "households", "people" and "ding", where "ding" refers to the strong people above the demon supporter, and "people" refers to the demon without the demon, and according to the imperial law, only the family with more than one demon supporter can be counted separately, that is to say, the "household" is the family around a demon supporter.

The human empire from the highest emperor, the king of each kingdom, the grand duke of the principality, to the lowest baron, lord, knight, all have the requirements of the demon supporter level, and the demon supporter level and the title of division or inheritance, and the size of the territory that the nobles can manage, and the number of people have a relatively strict correspondence.

Demon bearers can become lords and receive offerings from the people in their territory, and they also have very strict obligations to their subjects and territories, which are simplified from the imperial aristocratic regulations: defending the territory and protecting the people.

To defend the territory is to protect the entire territory and the territory of the feudal lord from being invaded. The requirement for the protector is that the lord has a duty to protect the lord, including the demonless, and can ask the lord to take refuge in other Terran cities or territories as a last resort, and return to the original territory to rebuild after the disaster.

Generally speaking, if the lord's territory is occupied, but the people are transferred, the title will not be removed for 3 years, as long as you can return to your hometown within 3 years and can resume ruling in the territory, the title will not be reduced. However, if the people in the territory suffer more than 50% of the loss, the title will not be kept

Under the above regulations, every nobleman with a fief attaches great importance to the inheritance of his own bloodline.

Taking the Rand family as an example, according to the definition of Rand's hometown, in fact, his father Huck Galloping Horse has more than 10 children, and there are a total of 4 or 50 children of the same generation between Huck and his brothers of the same generation, and many of them died after birth.

There are more than 30 people who can really grow to 14 or 15 years old, and 4 demon supporters were born among them, namely the eldest brother Ryan Galloping Horse, the second brother Obot Galloping Horse, the third brother Pelly Galloping Horse and his own Rand Galloping Horse, among which his second brother and third brother can only be regarded as his cousins in the strict sense, but in the Galloping Horse territory, they have all become the sons of Huck Galloping Horse.

Huck raised the four like a parent, and the four of them would also be filial to Huck like their biological father, and the four of them would also be sorted separately by age and given the surname of the galloping horse. The other demons only have their own first names, not surnames.

According to the tradition of the frontier nobility, the eldest son of the nobleman will be groomed to become the next noble;

The second son will be trained to be a knight or scholar in the realm;

The third son will be sent to the royal capital or the holy city to serve the gods and become priests, and the heirs who serve the gods will not have the right to inherit, but can return to the territory to serve as the priest of the territory;

If the children after the third son have a future, they will go to the knights of the high-ranking nobles to try whether they can become court nobles, or they will serve as knights or family knights among other middle and low-ranking nobles.

In short, if you become a junior knight or above, you can always have a way out.

The above is about the knight with the largest proportion of the population, and if he is a mage, he will go to the mage tower in the big city and follow the magister to study magic.

The proportion of female demon supporters in the entire human race is very stable, between 25% and 33%, and the offspring of female demon supporters are more likely to give birth to demon supporters than non-demon lovers, so for the demon supporter family, the status of female demon supporters is very high.

However, on the northwest border of the dragon kingdom where Rand is located, the magical environment is not good, so it is difficult to give birth to female demon supporters here all year round.

"You used to be just a trainee knight, and I don't even know if you can become a junior knight, so I haven't told you that," Albert said as he watched Rand digest the rules of this world

"It's different now, you're the baron of this realm now, and if your father and your brother can't come back, you have to survive with your people, so I have to tell you the most basic knowledge first."

"Albert, are we too late now, Rand you need to decide as soon as possible, whether we leave the territory or not" Rohr said anxiously.

。。。。。 Albert's introduction to the knowledge of transcendent professions and noble hierarchies...

Children are generally between 12 and 14 years old, which means that at the beginning of childhood, one percent of the human population will be different and become almost another race of creatures. In addition to height, once you become a demon supporter, your senses will be sharper and your life will be longer, and it is difficult for ordinary non-demon people to be more than 60 years old, but 60-year-old demon charmers can also engage in military, blacksmithing and other power-type jobs.

Less than half of the demon bearers become professionals. The most common professions among the Terrans are knights, magicians, and priests, also known as clerics.

The lowest level of these professions is the apprentice knight, magic apprentice and priest apprentice, the title of the three is not fixed, especially the priest apprentice, according to the different gods served, sometimes called assistant priest, assistant priest, etc., but the lowest professions have exactly the same criterion, that is, they can feel the magic, but can not use the magic.

Starting from the 3rd level of the Demon Possessor, the names tend to be unified, junior knights, junior mages, junior priests/priests/priests/clergy, the standard for beginners is that they can perform simple magic releases, up to 1-5 moves, spells, or low-level divine spells.

The 4th level of the demon bearer is an intermediate class, they can skillfully release their magical power, they can use tricks, spells and low-level magic in a row, and they can even use magic to form some kind of perception around them.

Level 5 is a high-level professional, who can release the magic power in their body outward to form some kind of aura and magic field for a short time, and in this range, they can feel and influence the people and things around them.

Level 6 is the level of Great Knight, Great Magician, and High Priest, and to some extent, they have entered the stage of transcending mortals, they can form a stable aura or magic field, through which they can feel the magical environment of the whole world, and they can also connect with other people's aura or magic field.

For example, the big knight can form a powerful knight phalanx with other intermediate and junior knights and use group tricks; The Grand Magician can use his own magic field to replenish magic to people above the junior magician around him, or cast a stronger and larger range of magic or a mystery.

Albert knows less about level 7 and above, what he knows is that level 1, level 2, and level 3 are collectively referred to as low-level demon holders, in levels 4-6 they are called middle-level transcendents, and levels 7-9 are called high-level transcendents.

Among them, the 7th, 8th, and 9th levels of knights are called the three levels of Silver Knight, Sky Knight, and Gold Knight, respectively; Mages are called Junior Magister, Magister, and Grand Magister; Priests/clergy are referred to as temple priests, altar priests, and pre-divine priests, respectively.

The higher the level, the stronger the body and the longer the lifespan. The beginner-level demon supporter has a lifespan of around 100 years old, and the level 3 demon supporter can basically live to be 100 years old, and at the age of 80, there is still the physical strength of the non-demon person about 40 years old;

It is normal to enter the intermediate level and have a lifespan of 100 years old, and almost all of them can live past 150 years old.

Entering the high level, life has been successfully transformed, and powerful 200-300-year-old golden knights are not uncommon, and the three transcendents at level 8 can directly rise into the air with their own strength.

As for the 10-12 level transcendental, Albert only knew that 1000 years ago, all the transcendents of this level were collectively called demigods.

It wasn't until the God Emperor ascended the throne that it was clear that the legendary rank was divided into three levels.

After entering the legendary rank, it can no longer be called an ordinary creature, and many strong people who ascended to the legendary rank in the early days of the establishment of the human empire are still alive today.

Among the three major professions of knight, magician and clergyman, in the primary stage, the cultivation methods of the three are completely different, for knights it is to exercise physical fitness and guide fighting spirit; For magicians, it is to constantly meditate to increase their mana reserves; For the clergy, it is to pray constantly to bring oneself closer to the gods.

However, after entering the intermediate level, the cultivation of the three has become common, and they all constantly mobilize the magic power in the body, and constantly practice and apply the magic power.

At the advanced level, for those who are above the level of high-level knights, magisters, and temple priests, they can easily use the abilities of other professions. For the legendary powerhouse, there is almost no essential difference between these three professions, and it is more about the professional's own habits and proficiency.

Because of the powerful abilities of the demon supporters, all the noble ranks, positions, and resources of the human empire are formulated around the demon supporters.

Taking knights as an example, a knight with a knight's domain can usually live in 5-30 households in its own territory, and the population is about 50-300 people.

Whether it is a knight or a knighthood, the rank of junior knight is required.

When it comes to the field baron, the territory must be able to live in 20-200 households, and if the baron is divided, the supernatural person needs to reach level 4, that is, an intermediate knight or an intermediate mage, and to inherit the baronial title, the demon holder needs to reach the primary level.

From the beginning, the baron can be divided into low-ranking titles such as knights, lords, or life lords with no inheritance.

The baron is the viscount upwards, and the main difference between the baron and the viscount is the strength gap rather than the status gap, both of which are divided by the nobles above the earl, but the viscount's territory is usually 50% larger than the baron's territory, and the viscount's inheritance and division are one level higher than the baron's, that is to say, only the demon supporters above the intermediate knight can inherit the viscount title, and the demon supporters above the senior knight can be divided into the viscount title.

The viscount and above are the earls, and the earls on the ground are already important ministers in charge of a kingdom, and the earls require a strong person who has reached level 6 or above to inherit, and a strong person above level 7 can be divided.

The marquis is one level higher than the earl's requirements, 7 levels inherit 8 levels of feuds, the earl and the marquis can be divided into barons and viscounts, but the divided viscounts usually have to be approved by the king before they are officially appointed, and the earl's fief requires that in addition to having a town directly under the earl, it needs to be able to divide at least one viscount and one baron.

The requirements are stricter above the duke, but the basic conditions are determined, the inheritance level needs to be level 8, and the sub-seal level needs to be above level 9.

The principality of a separate feudal state only has a level 9 requirement for the Grand Duke, but it requires at least one legend in the country as a national pillar, and the kingdom needs at least 3 legends as a national pillar in the kingdom.

In addition to the fiefdom nobles, there will also be court nobles in the domains above the marquis, these nobles are either completely dependent on the high-ranking nobles, or have the right to govern some cities, and have no income from the fiefdom, and can only take the wealth and rewards of the superiors.

Therefore, there is no one-size-fits-all between the strength of the court nobles and the title.