The first impression that Viscount Oak Cliff made on Angus was not his pure eyes or his smile as warm as the sun, but his dazzling blond hair.
That was proof of pure Titanic blood.
There is no intermarriage with other races or marriages with foreign races. This is a characteristic of a very small number of ultra-conservatives in Titan. The Oak Clifford family is a member of this faction.
Like most Titans, they also worship immortality, but these people refuse to intermarry with foreign races and insist on the purity of blood. They believe that the blood of the Titans comes from Tirelath, the people of the sun thousands of years ago, and their golden hair is
This proves that they were the noblest race before the high elves and giants ruled the world. They had blond hair and golden eyes, were wise and powerful, and had infinite life. They could argue with people in their wombs, they were priests at birth, and they would pray when they landed.
Therefore, the tradition of these people is to perform purification rituals for newborn babies.
Preparations for the ceremony start from the time of pregnancy. Pregnant women will only be able to eat vegetarian food and livestock slaughtered in the ceremony; they must be cleansed, change clothes and pray so that the baby can be conceived from divine grace and born in holy water.
In the days until the age of thirteen, these children are only allowed to have contact with their parents, and apart from the most basic literacy education and lifestyle education, they do not receive any oral education in order to "not let others think about it"
The purpose of polluted knowledge is to pollute their souls.
These children can only understand the world through the books given by their parents. They are more like scholars than nobles. But the fundamental difference is that their parents don't care at all what their children learn from books.
This is just a way to purify their blood. As long as this ritual is maintained and passed down from generation to generation, their blood will become purer.
These extreme conservatives believe that people fall from struggle. They are opposed to war, party struggle, and all radical or advanced ideas, and reject all possibilities that can change the status quo. They are proud of this tepid and unchanging thought
It was called the "Peace of the Noble Men". It was also the first faction to publicly state that it would not participate in the war if Titan was invaded.
For them, people with different-colored hair are all mongrels and inferior people. Only pure blond hair can prove their nobility. They firmly believe that in today's fallen era, they will be the greatest group of people.
Even the Titan royal family is not necessarily nobler than them. After all, there are many people in the Titan royal family who marry with other races to pray for the longevity of their offspring.
From a long time ago, the Cthugyas have not had a good impression of these ultra-conservatives.
Although both sides have the goal of peace, one is for others and the other is for himself. Their standards are completely opposite, which only makes them more hostile.
The so-called heretics are even more unforgivable than the heretics, and this is the case.
However, Angus also knew that this generation of Viscount Oakliford seemed to be different from his predecessors.
The Viscount, whose full name is Jeffrey Francis Oakliford, is known as an outlier in his family.
Jeffrey showed sensitivity and enthusiasm for knowledge at a very young age. Therefore, after the purification ceremony, at the age of twelve, he proposed the idea of going out to see the world.
Although his parents were firmly opposed to this, under the insistence of little Jeffrey, they finally took a step back and allowed their head guard to go out with little Jeffrey. The only requirement was to come back every year to see him.
look.
After all, they not only have one son. Little Jeffrey also has two brothers and a sister, which is enough for the current family to pass on.
And little Jeffrey did not disappoint his parents. In the first year he went out, he saved a prince, and as a result, his entire family received the gratitude of the royal family, and Jeffrey became good friends with the prince.
And when he was sixteen years old, he led a mercenary team to hunt down a twin-tailed pterosaur through traps and poisons, saving a town that was being persecuted by dragons. His name spread and he became a hero.
But when he was nineteen years old, he had a very violent quarrel with his family. In the end, his right leg was broken, and he slammed the door and left Titan in a rage and entered Kalar.
Two years after Jeffrey left the family, that is, two or three months ago this year, a plague spread on the earth, and even the gods could not cure it. Unfortunately, Jeffrey's parents and his brothers and sisters suffered from the disease.
symptoms, and strange dark red spots appeared on the body.
When the priest started a grand ceremony on his father and two brothers and prepared to treat them, they died suddenly and inexplicably after being infused with holy light. So the priest could only attribute this to the legendary incurable "bloodstain syndrome".
", let it go.
Just when his mother and sister were weak and about to die, Titan also happened to fall into chaos. Countless eyes stared at the Oak Cliff family, like a group of hungry hyenas, waiting for their prey to take its last breath.
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At this time, Jeffrey appeared like a hero. Not only did he use very tough and clever methods to frighten others, but he also used the panacea from Kalal to cure his mother and sister from the disease, and also helped
Prince Robert contacted many old and new nobles and made a simple covenant.
It only took less than half a month for Jeffrey to reverse the decline of the Oak Cliff family in one fell swoop. He severely beat those who added insult to injury and almost pulled a layer of skin off their bodies. And in the case of two
Months ago, one week after His Majesty Roland read the Declaration of Freedom, Jeffrey successfully passed the ceremony and became the head of the contemporary Oak Clifford family. He married his sister and inherited the position of Viscount.
If we want to talk about the reputation of the younger generation of Titan today, Jeffrey is undoubtedly the highest among them. He can even be compared with Robert, and even the eldest son of the Cthugya family is one step behind him. If Robert
If His Highness successfully succeeds to the throne, there is more than an 80% chance that Jeffrey will become an earl or even a marquis.
Therefore, when Vega proposed the name, Angus did not realize anything strange.
Indeed, if you want to stop the Marquis, Viscount Oak Clifford is one of the best choices.
First of all, he is also a person who fights for the people and peace. There is no big difference between him and Angus and the Marquis; besides, he is a friend of Prince Robert. It is impossible for the neutral Marquis to decide on peace because of such a trivial matter.
Robert's faction broke off.
The Marquis of Lyria has not taken sides for a long time because he believes that the current situation may change. But no matter how it changes, Robert is currently the party with an absolute advantage. On one-third of the land of Titan, people
There is already discussion about what benefits it would bring to them if Prince Robert ruled Titan.
The more important reason is that Viscount Oakleyford is a young man after all. If he is asked by a junior to dissuade the Marquis, although it will appear disrespectful, at least it will not make the Marquis think that Angus is moving out of Robert to suppress him. After all, "
"Exceeding one's authority" is a deeply abhorred behavior wherever it occurs.
But after he saw the long-famous Viscount Oakleyford in person, Angus immediately realized that this man was definitely not simple.
In other words, Viscount Oakleyford had malice towards him. And this malice was not limited to the relationship between the camp and the family, but a deeper malice.
Although these were just Angus's intuitions, Angus was already a million times more energetic at this time.
If you want to say why...
Probably, the way Viscount Oak Clifford smiled was too gentle and harmless.
So much so that it reminds Angus of the way a sand fox looks when hunting. (To be continued.)