Chapter 5 Testing Ceremony
Erica carefully picked up the newborn and put it into the array. The mage in charge of the ceremony waved his staff, and invisible detection waves instantly emanated from the magic circle and slowly swept over the newborn's body.
But when it entered the newborn's spiritual space, it encountered a special obstacle - the strange energy that carried Xia Yuan through.
The detection wave slides directly away from the surface of the energy layer, as if it is in two different time and space. Furthermore, Xia Yuan's consciousness was also completely unaware of it.
On the other side, the two rune rings in the magic circle changed instantly. Starting from the top, the ten special runes in the ring gradually turned into blood red one by one.
The Duke couldn't help but hold his breath slightly, his eyes followed the runes slowly, his blue eyes unblinking.
Over time, the changes gradually cease. The number of bloody runes in the two small rings was finally fixed at nine at the same time, and the last rune was still shining with a faint blue light.
"Both bloodline concentrations have reached level nine, Your Excellency the Duke!"
The ritual mage stared at the changes in the magic circle and said with some amazement.
"Um--"
The Duke simply agreed. There was no emotion or anger in his voice, but there was an undetectable smile on his lips.
At this time, he was looking at the strange three-dimensional rune on the other side of the magic circle without blinking.
The blood test results have appeared, but the rune remains unchanged.
Looking at the rune that didn't respond for a long time, the Duke couldn't help but frown.
This made the mage who was paying attention to the Duke's reaction sweat in his heart, secretly worrying whether he had made a mistake in a certain line.
In Xia Yuan's mind, the strange energy seemed to sense something, and the surface rippled like ripples.
A slightly illusory spiritual fragment gradually squeezed away the surrounding energy and 'floated' out of the energy layer.
When the detection wave touched the spiritual fragment, the rune suddenly emitted a dazzling white glow. The Duke let out a sigh of relief when he saw this, and an unconcealable smile finally spread across his cheeks.
"The soul synchronization rate is 100%, Your Excellency the Duke."
The spell caster who presided over the ceremony finally relaxed and reported quickly.
"Hahahaha - good! Very good!"
The Duke laughed loudly, his tone rising half a degree with such joy.
"Leonard! Inform the chief of the mage group to prepare for the registration ceremony. Submit invitations to the royal family and major families, and invite them to come and participate on the next full moon night!
In addition, send my order to prepare for the festival celebration! Starting from the day of the registration ceremony, all mines, farms, and manors will be on holiday, and the taxes of all Kalras citizens will be halved this year! I want the entire province of Kalras to celebrate for three days! "
"As you command, Your Excellency the Duke!"
Butler Leonard bowed to accept the order, then faced the Duke, walked backwards and left the room.
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Unlike ordinary people, the higher the level of a professional, the smaller the chance of producing offspring.
If the difficulty for an ordinary couple to obtain offspring is set as one, then the difficulty for a pair of first-level professionals is two, for a pair of second-level professionals is four, for a third-level couple it is eight, for a fourth-level professional it is sixteen... and so on.
Moreover, if the class gap between the husband and wife is large, it will be twice as difficult to obtain offspring.
As a rare ninth-level bloodline sorcerer in the mainland, the Duke's difficulty in obtaining descendants can be imagined.
Under this situation, if high-level professionals want to obtain offspring, they must either use some rare treasures that can increase the probability, or... increase the number of efforts.
The energetic and wealthy Archduke Karlas chose to pursue a two-pronged approach.
Therefore, whenever a new offspring is obtained, the Duke will hold a grand celebration for it. During the celebration, all slave classes were given three days' leave.
During these three days, the city lord's palace and major chambers of commerce will provide unlimited free bread and ale. Best of all, taxes for the year are cut in half.
For ordinary people, a tax cut in half means brand new clothes for their children and a smile on the face of their tired wife.
For the poorer people, the tax cut by half means that the cold winter can be passed safely and the whole family can be together.
Therefore, when the news spread that the lord was pregnant with a son, the atmosphere of celebration suddenly filled the city of Kalras.
With the help of magic, this atmosphere quickly spread to the entire province of Kalras.
"Praise your lord the Duke!"
People are singing the praises.
"The generous and kind-hearted Duke and his kind lady have once again received the gift of God! May the gods bless them."
………
The year of Yunivar is also divided into twelve months, and its length is divided by the lunar phases of Silver Moon Severn.
It’s May 15th, Year 2442 of the Glorious Calendar.
Breathing the air with the faint fragrance of Ningshen flower, Xia Yuan was held in the arms of a pink-haired girl. He quietly looked at the gorgeous white-gold carriage roof that was half blocked by something, doubting life.
It has been about a month since the time travel, and during this time, he has obtained more memory fragments.
He was born in the Yar continent in this world. The continent's territory is divided by three superpowers. From large to small, they are:
[Saint Mecia Empire], [Gloria Empire], [Itel Kingdom Federation].
As the game information introduces, the background of this world is the medieval era of swords and magic.
Those powerful professionals can form an army by themselves, easily leveling towering mountain peaks, overturning unfathomable oceans, and even causing stars in the sky to fall.
The owner of the memory fragment is a young nobleman named Anvis - for the convenience of distinguishing, Xia Yuan calls him Little Anvis.
The time of the memory scene ranges from childhood to adolescence. To put it simply, he is a direct descendant of the Olivendi family, one of the four duke families of Gloria.
A noble son who inherited the legendary bloodline and has extraordinary talent.
It's a pity that he is an unlucky child who was born at the wrong time.
At this juncture of the transition between the old and new eras, this noble and gorgeous background is not a protective umbrella, but a death warrant.
In the decades after Little Anvis was born, the old nobles gradually declined, and the new nobles rose strongly.
As one of the representatives of the old nobles, the Olivendi family has been completely labeled as a villain and suffered a nearly devastating blow.
In the second expansion pack of the previous life game, "The Change of Times", it was already in name only, and could only form an alliance with the other three major families to survive.
As a player, he even took on the task of clearing out the alliance forces...
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But where did these memory fragments come from?
Xia Yuan closed his eyes gently and fell into deep thought.
He had read novels before and knew that rebirth would give one the memories of the original owner, but he was a newborn, so where did the memories of the original owner come from?
After a while, Xia Yuan gave up thinking.
Even time travel had happened, so having an extra memory of unknown origin didn't seem to be a big deal.
Just read the story and it was over -
Compared to these, he was more interested in a new discovery:
In a certain memory scene, a figure suspected to be a player suddenly appeared!
Indeed, except for the resurrection of the player, the appearance of the player was basically the same as that of the NPC.
But it was hard for two people jumping and walking without attracting Xia Yuan's attention.