Banner of the Evil God

Another flag was erected on the gate tower of Dal City.

Originally, there were two flags here, one was the dragon tail flag symbolizing the Dal family and the other was the gold coin flag symbolizing the Gold Coin Federation. The gold coin flag was higher and the other was lower, which meant that the Dal family belonged to the Gold Coin Federation. But today, there was a third flag between the two flags.

The green jellyfish flag symbolizing the Void Mask Church was flying high, much higher than the gold coin flag.

This means that Dal Territory has changed from a traditional noble territory to a church territory. From today on, the Dal family will become a vassal of the Void Mask Church. If there are disputes over inheritance rights in the future, they will only ask the Void Mask Church to mediate, and they will have nothing to do with other nobles.

To put it bluntly, they left the noble system and joined the clergy system.

This kind of thing is not common, but it sometimes happens. Some weak nobles often consider hugging the thighs of a powerful church and transferring from the noble system to the clergy system.

For those weak nobles, if they want to survive and continue their family, they have to cling to someone, no matter which one. Compared with the nobles who are polite on the surface but eat people without spitting bones behind their backs, most of the good churches are sincere, reliable and trustworthy. The only problem is that the good church has strict requirements for believers and lords. If the family cannot keep on walking on the path of kindness in the future, it is likely to be deprived of the territory - this kind of thing has happened more than once in the past.

But even so, there are still weak nobles who switch to join the clergy system from time to time. After all, it is rare for the good church to deprive the territory, while it is much more common for the great nobles to annex the small nobles.

The most common method used by the great nobles is marriage, marrying a daughter to be the wife of the small noble, and then their children will naturally be the heirs of the territory. If there is a problem with the inheritance of this family in the future, the great nobles as elders will naturally be able to come forward and arrange for a direct descendant of that daughter to change the surname and inherit that family.

This so-called cuckoo occupying the magpie's nest is not a very clever method, but it is completely in line with the legal tradition of aristocratic inheritance. After all, in theory, the daughter's direct descendants also have the right of inheritance - although it is not big, the difference between "having" and "not having" is the most important.

There are also more beautiful means, such as intermarriage for several generations, so that the two families will naturally "you have me, I have you", and then the little noble will be swallowed up silently, and there will be no chance of inheritance disputes.

In contrast, although the Good Church has strict restrictions and more control, they will never do such a thing.

Baron Dahl originally did not intend to change the nature of the territory, but man proposes, God disposes. His eldest son, who he has painstakingly cultivated, had an accident not long ago - he did not die, but this "young man" who had married and had children suddenly awakened a special bloodline.

Awakening a special bloodline is generally not a bad thing, but what if it is a demon bloodline that is awakened?

This incident caught Baron Dahl off guard. Although he had blocked the news and no outsiders knew about it, the key to the problem was not here - he was sure that the eldest son was his biological son and the direct bloodline of the Dahl family. Since this child could awaken the demon bloodline, what about the other members of the Dahl family?

This was what worried him the most, especially after he asked the Kabbalah priest to hold a secret large-scale ceremony to confirm that his wife definitely did not have demon bloodline, he had a headache.

Theoretically, the eldest son's demon bloodline may come from his grandparents, that is, the baron's father-in-law and mother-in-law, but the two old people had already passed away, and Baron Dahl was really embarrassed to dig up the grave for this matter - not to mention that if he dug out a pile of rotten bones, he would probably not be able to verify anything.

And... To be honest, Baron Dahl felt that this bloodline was probably really from the consistent inheritance of the Dahl family.

He carefully recalled the process of his ancestor's rise to power, and he felt that this ancestor, who had always been felt to be cunning, deep and skillful in the past, was quite a bit of the legendary demonic cunning.

More importantly, after the ancestor became rich, he died in his prime inexplicably, and his son did not make any special comments. He originally thought that the ancestor was killed by his son, but now he thinks carefully... He is afraid that the ancestor discovered the signs of his blood awakening and had to use death to avoid the crisis and save the family.

Thinking of this, he is more certain that the demon blood of the Dahl family is mostly from the ancestor who founded the family.

So the question is, is Baron Dahl, who probably has demon blood, still suitable to be a lord?

Nonsense! Of course not!

The nobles pay the most attention to face, and the so-called "honor is my life" is definitely not just empty talk. Many things are shameful. Once exposed, at least they will lose face and be spurned by others, and at worst the legitimacy of the entire family will be questioned.

Possessing demon blood is a very serious one among these things, and the severity can probably be ranked in the top three.

Baron Dahl was very angry about this. There were too many dirty things in the aristocratic circle. Although many people looked like humans, they were not much better than demons in their bones. More than a hundred years ago, there was a female noble who captured the virgins of the common people in the territory and took their blood for bathing in order to maintain her youth.

Although Baron Dahl was of demon blood, he asked himself if he could do such a thing.

He is not a good person, but bad people also need to be elegant. Taking a bath in human blood? It is simply a disgrace to the group of "bad people"!

Compared with this vicious woman, the devil may not be that cruel.

However, no matter how angry he is, the devil bloodline is still a problem that cannot be avoided.

So he thought about it and the most appropriate way is to leave the aristocratic system and switch to the clergy system.

The Void Mask Church does not discriminate against all races and bloodlines, even the devil bloodline. He once specially consulted the Kabbalah priest about this matter, and the Kabbalah priest also held a special prayer to ask the great Majesty of the Void Mask directly. The answer of the Majesty of the Void Mask was "As long as he abides by my doctrine, let alone the devil bloodline, even if it is a devil, I will recognize his faith and be willing to protect him."

This dispelled Baron Dahl's last concerns, so he gathered the core members of the family and held a secret meeting. At the meeting, he talked about the crisis facing the Dahl family, and called out his eldest son, who had awakened his demon blood and had a small horn on his forehead, to meet everyone. Finally, he asked the Kabbalah priest who was also present to hold a small blood identification ceremony.

The result of the blood identification was not beyond his expectations. Among the core members of the Dahl family, three were found to have weak demon blood.

In other words, the Dahl family really has demon blood, but it is very weak.

At this point, there is no choice.