Throne of the North.

Chapter 536: The truth about the polluted Pascal bloodline, an era without paternity testing

Killing a legend is an extremely difficult task.

Killing a legendary leader of a supernatural legion is almost impossible.

If the opponent is extremely powerful, such as a priest with divine powers, with three buffs, it would be difficult to commit suicide.

The possibility in Ryan's mind had nothing to do with the war.

Facing Count Pascal's scrutiny, Ryan said with gritted teeth:

"The possibility I'm talking about requires many conditions to be met."

"First of all, because of the grudge between you two, Pastor Yawen is unwilling to let you go easily. He even wants to kill you, Lord Earl."

"Secondly, even if the war is impossible to win now, Pastor Yawen is not willing to face this failure easily. This requires the Pope on the Holy Mountain to put enough pressure on Pastor Yawen. It is even possible that if he fails, he will be judged and killed by the Pope."

"The grudges between you must be big enough, and the pressure from the Holy Mountain must be direct enough. There is no room for compromise or negotiation."

"This is Pastor Yawen's own condition."

"Then, Lord Earl, I'm afraid you will have to give me enough support. This support may also come at a great cost. If you fail in the end, after returning to the empire, I'm afraid you will have to go to the imperial capital in person to explain to His Majesty the Emperor. You will also be suspected of maintaining contact with the Dawn Church."

"I can't guarantee success. On the contrary, if we fail, the war will fall into completely new difficulties, and they may be able to survive the war."

"Here are the conditions you need to meet, the means to kill him, and the consequences you face from the Empire."

“Beyond that, third-party conditions are also required.”

"Gerald."

Ryan will not tell everything. Now that he has shown his sincerity, Count Pascal cannot show no sincerity at all.

After all, if he really failed, Ryan would also have to bear the responsibility from within the empire. The nobles and the emperor suspected that he was also in collusion with the Church of Dawn, and the situation of the Emperor Elector Volvo was even more troublesome.

Most importantly, the failure of the war also broke Ryan's legend of being undefeated. This was an unimaginable blow to his reputation. After all, he was the baron who killed the Silver Moon Werewolf King.

Count Pascal was silent for a long time, then looked up at Ryan and asked:
"How did you get your army to that plain?"

He needed a secret because he would also tell Ryan a secret, and for this purpose, there was even a contract written down to confirm the authenticity of both parties.

Ryan took out the Dragon Emperor's crown and began to explain. He naturally understood the Earl's thoughts. Both sides had to know some secrets of the other side to be equal.

Anyway, the principles of the two things are the same. After Ryan examined the words, he couldn't determine the power of the contract.

Or the contract doesn't know about the spiritual panel either.

"There is a shameful past between Pascal and Alvin Griffith!"

Count Pascal gritted his teeth and spoke out the darkest history and truth of Count Pascal's family.

“Dignity is trampled upon, honor is stolen, and all splendor becomes a joke and filth.”

That was a time when the world had not yet undergone drastic changes, that is, when the pan-dimensional war between gods had not yet brought unprecedented impact to the Norris continent.

In today's Danube Province, on the former Pascal Plateau, a powerful group of extraordinary monks from the Church of the Dawn, who rule the world on behalf of the sun, practiced on that land.

The reason they are there is because gargoyles are born in the magic-forbidden stone wrapped in agate, and the Silent Ascetics themselves are closely related to gargoyles. In addition, they also need the extraordinary factors contained in the agate to hone themselves.

Of course, the only connection between this matter and the Silent Ascetics is that Reverend Alvin Griffith is the chaplain assigned to the Silent Ascetics there.

He was a priest, but he followed the silent ascetics to practice, pray devoutly and believe in the great dawn.

But as a silent ascetic, he was obviously a heretic, because it was impossible for him to be completely like a silent ascetic and have no desires other than asceticism.

His desires included entering the eternal heaven and becoming a servant at the feet of the great Lord of the Dawn. Before that, he was also a human being, no matter how devout his faith was.

What was the Norris continent like more than a hundred years ago, before the Pan-Dimensional War of Gods came?
Under the teachings of the Dawn, the nobles' territories were oppressive.

But the Church of the Dawn has ruled humanity for too many years, and the long period of power and affluence has bred desire and corruption.

The oppressed nobles were filled with a lustful desire for rebellion. After all, rebellion in the extraordinary world was an impossible thing.

Of course, in that era, such things were common and were even part of social civilization.

It's just that the nobles are extremely oppressive in terms of morality, rules, honor, dignity, etc., and most importantly, the ideas under the rule of the Holy See. So no matter how chaotic it is, the nobles will cling to the purity of their own bloodline.

Especially among the nobles themselves, marriages between close relatives within the same surname account for more than 90% of the total, just to ensure the purity of their bloodline.

There is a huge gap between gods and mortals, but... gargoyles, also known as stone-winged beasts, are called angels on earth. The gargoyle family Pascal is too close to gods, but they are mortals.

Because of the gargoyles, Count Pascal's family has a close relationship with the Vatican, and has an equally close relationship with the Vatican's clergy.

Various conditions and factors resonated under this circumstance, and from some unknown time on, Pascal's blood became tainted.

Many children born between clergymen and women from the Pascal family became members of the Pascal family, and because of their relationships with those clergymen, these children were more likely to receive favor and power.

He was favored by the nobles and clergy, and both royal power and divine authority were combined in one person.

"Your Earl Clayton family is now known as the most fertile bloodline, envied by the nobles, but before the war of gods, the Pascal bloodline held this title."

The earl had a gloomy face when he spoke, but Ryan was not surprised. At that time, the nobles all married their close relatives, and the infant mortality rate was probably high. But if they were with outsiders, they would have a greater chance of survival. After all... the nobles and clergy enjoyed the best things in the world, including extraordinary means such as the priests' healing skills.

The environment led to a time when information could hardly circulate, and this dark matter was not widely spread. Even the clergy and the Pascal family themselves might not know about it.

The nobles at that time had no idea about inbreeding genes, and they did not have extraordinary means to conduct paternity tests.

And because of the chaos at that time, I'm afraid most women don't know who their father is.

The church was corrupt and the monarchy was rising.

This simple sentence covers everyone in the world, everyone!

Every noble, every commoner and slave was affected in unimaginable ways by this sentence.

For Count Pascal's family, the influence of the corruption of the Holy See lies here, in this shame, in which the antiquity and nobility of their bloodline have been trampled upon.

The impact of the rise of royal power on Count Pascal's family lies in this Count.

Ryan also knew what he had learned before, that those of the Pascal bloodline were not killed by the curse of the Church. The silence of the Church also had an answer. To admit such a thing, wouldn't it be to admit that they were corrupt and degenerate, and that their faith in the Lord of Dawn had mutated?

They are believers who have abandoned all human desires and serve the Lord of the Dawn devoutly.

It is no wonder that Count Pascal did not tell anyone about this, not even the emperor. But in fact, Count Pascal was the nobleman who had an irreconcilable conflict between the empire and the Dawn Church.

It’s not that I don’t want to say it, but that I can’t say it, and I dare not say it.

"After the end of the Pan-Plane War of Gods, all the nobles in the empire became blasphemers. Every noble gained a huge amount of benefits and extraordinary thresholds from the source of divinity."

This is also the reason why Ryan can only collect one or two copies of the Knight's Breathing Method in the other world, but on the Norris continent, in the hands of the nobles of the empire, almost every family has their own Knight's Breathing Method.

"It was also during this process that my father and I discovered the contamination of the bloodline. The bloodline of most people in the Pascal family was no longer pure Pascal. In fact, Pascal's bloodline had been diluted to the point where it could no longer withstand the benefits of bloodline sublimation brought by the divine origin."

"This includes many of my brothers, who are just bastards with Pascal blood, not Pascal family blood."

They can't even occupy half of it, so this certainly can't be the Pascal bloodline, they can only be considered as in-laws.

And what are the relatives by marriage in the noble territory? For example, if a knight marries the daughter of a noble, what are his descendants?
A servant of the nobles.

Count Pascal's eyes had turned bloodshot. Every time he recalled something, it was a disaster for him.

Fortunately, even though things were in such chaos, no one dared to harm the eldest son.

This was not because the clergy had a conscience, but because at that time, the earl nobles of the empire needed the cardinal to bathe for half a month to prepare for the title, and then perform the coronation ceremony for the earl in full view of the public. That required the participation of divine arts, which was equivalent to... the Dawn version of paternity test?

“My father died when this happened, and he was a legend.”

"The nobles all believed that something went wrong when manipulating the divine essence in his bloodline and he was killed by the divine essence."

Because of the gargoyles, even Count Pascal received countless benefits and became a powerful legend.

And such a legend was angered to death.

In front of the current Count Pascal.

This hatred... Ryan suddenly had no reason to persuade Count Pascal. If he really opened his mouth, he was afraid that once the first word was spoken, the Frozen Territory and the Earldom would become mortal enemies.

After this, the royal power of the empire challenged the Dawn Church, and Count Pascal turned against it, which led to the empire's first war against the Church.

"I killed all the clergy, otherwise how could Royal Columbus trust me?"

Pascal laughed at himself. In the entire vast land of the empire, he was the most brutal killer of the Vatican believers. Even the monks and nuns were all killed. At that time, the population of the Danube Province was dwindling, and it was only later replenished by relying on the other world.

"After killing them, I obtained the internal list of the Holy See. In the nearly 100 years that followed, I had no time to please the emperor. I used all my time to kill the clergy who had left the Danube Province, as long as they had been in the Danube Province."

The Pascal Plateau Roster of the Church of Dawn is the list of the God of Death.

"I killed all the clergy and consumed all the wealth that the Pascal family had accumulated."

"There is only one Alvin Griffith left, and he was judged and exiled to the abyss for his sins."

"Is that atonement? Whose sins are you atonement for?"

Count Pascal looked at the gargoyles in the sky outside. They were extremely powerful and brought countless authority to the Pascal family.

"He can't redeem the grudge of Pascal's bloodline."

After saying this, blood flowed from the count's teeth. The count looked at the gargoyle outside, then turned to look at Ryan.

"Do you know? The gargoyles do not belong to the Pascal family. Only the Silent Ascetic could command these angel stone-winged beasts in the human world, and not in the name of control, but as companions. The Silent Ascetic's practice is to turn himself into a gargoyle, so that he can become a real angel after entering the eternal heaven in the future."

"My father and I have done it. We have complete control over the gargoyles. I am the king of the gargoyles."

"The extraordinary gargoyle army of the Pascal family belongs only to our bloodline."

"Do you know how I did it?"

"The benefits of blasphemy are the sublimation of our bloodline, which truly widened the gap in life between us and the common people. However, it did not allow us to control the Gargoyle Legion. At that time, the Empire had not yet declared war on the Church, and the Silent Ascetics were extremely powerful."

“I used blood.”

"I killed all those bastards in the Pascal family, melted their blood and bones into the gargoyle's body, extracted their souls, and sealed them inside the gargoyle, making them endure the endless darkness without light forever. Inside the gargoyle's body made of forbidden magic stone, even magic and divine arts cannot detect their trapped souls, and they cannot transmit any information out."

"The Forbidden Magic Stone will stop everything instinctively."

“It was a sacrifice.”

"The gargoyle army will also die. After the gargoyles die, there is a chance that those bastards will be... liberated."

"But... their souls have already been sold to a great being by me. Even if they are freed, their souls will be taken away by the great being. After experiencing despair and madness with no response, their souls will become excellent materials."

"In exchange for the great being's resurrection from the North."

Count Pascal took out the prismatic red agate.

"Of course, even if this is the case, they may come back to life in an unfamiliar way and become followers of the great being."

"It's so easy for Alvin Griffith."

"The eternal and empty seal of despair is the cage I prepared for him. No one can save him. He will collapse in despair in endless exile and deathly silence."

"This is the method I discussed with His Excellency the [Eternal One of the Void]."

Hatred had been suppressed by Count Pascal for hundreds of years. Now it was time for Ryan to understand this man who ignored the commander of the Dragon Legion, the royal family member Loren Columbus.

In the face of such hatred, how could there be time to consider political exchanges within the empire?

It’s just that the possibility Ryan talked about was exactly the same as politics.

Always believe that war is an extension of politics. If war cannot kill a person, then politics must be able to do it.

"War is no longer possible to kill Pastor Yawen, but do you think that Lord Gerald Moonlight can kill him?"

Ryan had been a listener for a long time and finally spoke.

Lord Tiffany, who was nicknamed "Moonlight", traveled south from the northern kingdom as a knight before the Pan-Dimensional War of Gods and occupied the land that is now the territory of Gerald Noble.

The fact that he was able to do this in that era only proved one thing.

He lacked nothing except offspring.

What is particularly critical is combat effectiveness.

"Two days is the time I give them to collapse their morale."

"But how many people will starve to death in Gerald's territory in two days?"

"If the slaves starve to death, who will farm and produce for them? If the servants starve to death, who will clean up their houses and discipline the serfs? If the people around them starve to death, how can they maintain their dignity and honor?"

"Gerald, you have a romantic bloodline? Then how much do they admire and recognize the ancestor who led the kingdom's army to fight to the death in the north more than a hundred years ago and refused to go south?"

"If they lose the war, they will lose everything. Their serfs will starve to death, their servants will starve to death, and their dignity will starve to death."

"The honor and responsibility they bear will also be turned into a joke by hunger, and the entire southern land will see Gerald's honor become trampled garbage."

Dignity, honor, everything the nobles are proud of, just like what Count Pascal is doing now, he wants to wash away all the filth in Pascal's blood and regain the honor and dignity of the Count's family.

"I can make them lose all their future, or I can let them keep all their wealth."

The reason why Ryan was willing to discuss this matter with Pascal was, of course, because if it really succeeded, he would have control over Gerald.

Moreover, he achieved multiple goals at once. From now on, Count Pascal would probably be his most steadfast ally among the nobles in the empire.

"As long as they kill Pastor Yawen, help us destroy the Cross Redemption Army, and become friends of the Empire."

"If all three conditions are met, this matter will be that simple."

Ryan waved his hand and looked at Count Pascal.

"I will go and talk to them. The first thing I will do is to sell them some of the food that belongs to them, so that this war can be dragged on to the third day and beyond."

"Don't worry about arousing suspicion. I have raided several knights' manors in that plain before and left letters for them. By now... the two earls should have seen them."

Ryan's mouth corners slightly raised. Pascal looked at him in surprise and suddenly laughed.

"They all say that everything you have now is because you are a noble favored by the gods."

"And the great being who favors you is a devil."

"Because they are the only ones who have not fallen asleep because of the North."

(End of this chapter)