Duke Brandon's Mansion, guarding the entrance are two bone kings.
This is an undead creature with a level of up to LV70. Using this level of undead creature to guard the gate is too luxurious even for the Duke, so this just shows that the situation of the Brandon family is not very good, so that they need to use the Bone King to guard the gate.
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"Please inform Duke Brandon that I will come to recognize you."
Li Mu walked up to the Bone King and said calmly.
The Bone King looked at Li Mu, seemingly motionless, but he was actually sending a message inward.
Within a moment, the Bone King in front of Li Mu grabbed his shoulder.
The next moment, he had appeared in the magnificent main hall of the castle in the Duke's Palace.
It's not space teleportation, but a pure burst of speed.
Li Mu's eyes flashed as a one-eyed old man appeared in front of him. The one-eyed old man grabbed his hand, and the blood in his body immediately began to boil, and a bloody halo quickly formed in his heart.
The moment the halo condensed, the one-eyed old man hugged Li Mu with tears in his eyes.
However, the next moment, the one-eyed old man let go of Li Mu and looked at him with his one eye.
In just an instant, Li Mu's mental consciousness was controlled.
His brain thoughts and memories were also clearly seen by the one-eyed old man.
Li Mu had already expected that this situation would occur.
So before entering, he had already forged all his memories, completely deleted the part about himself as Li Mu, and modified Belloc's memory. He was very experienced in this aspect, and he was confident enough that his flaws would not be discovered.
After forging memories, Bello was targeted by Vivian in Gunshan City.
Vivian passed on the Codex of Blood Origin to Belloc and told Belloc that his bloodline was very powerful.
Belloc, who obtained the manuscript of the Bloodborne Grimoire, returned to the capital after being transferred to the Bloodborne Wizard in Gunshan City. As a result, he unexpectedly discovered that his mentor Joseph was paying abnormal attention to him, and he also discovered that the tall and lanky man in the dormitory next door was paying attention to him.
Monitor.
With the help of the Bloodborne Scarecrow, Belloc controlled the lanky man and knew that he was being watched by William.
Recalling that Vivian had said that his bloodline was very powerful, she immediately used the blood source tracing spell. As a result, she successfully discovered the possible blood relationship between herself and William, and then deduced that she was inadvertently involved in the inheritance struggle of the great nobles.
At this time, Belloc hadn't thought about acknowledging his relatives.
After all, he was abandoned, and he had no idea whether his two remaining relatives recognized him.
However, unexpectedly, when he returned to the dormitory, he sensed William's murderous intention.
I originally planned to control the tall and thin man to investigate the situation of the big nobles behind William, but I didn't expect that the tall and thin man was actually arranged by William to deliver the letter. With the help of the Bloodborne Scarecrow, he obtained the token, and it turned out that the token was related to the Twilight Church.
At the same time, using the information bought by the Slender Man, he also discovered that it was the Twilight Church that caused the Brandon family's troubles.
From this analysis, it was analyzed that William was a puppet of the Twilight Church. Out of some kind of orphan's subconscious longing for relatives, coupled with the threat posed by the Twilight Church, Belloc made a decisive decision to come to recognize his relatives, and then he was beaten by his old man as soon as they met.
The Duke activates the Bloodline Charm to control the mind-reading.
This entire memory is true and false without any flaw.
There is no way to let old Duke Brandon know the Bloodborne Grimoire, because this is the only way to explain how Belloc knows his life experience. As for further identity doubts caused by the Bloodborne Grimoire, he still has the talent of disguise as a cover.
"Give me the Bloodborne Grimoire Codex."
The one-eyed Duke Brandon ordered Li Mu.
Li Mu handed over the manuscript of the Blood Origin Grimoire with dull eyes. Old Duke Brandon opened the manuscript and looked at the several inheritances on it thoughtfully.
He has lived for thousands of years, gone through countless power struggles, and experienced countless conspiracies. It is difficult to trust a stranger.
Especially when his most valued heir caused the family to suffer, this made him even more cautious and suspicious.
Not only Belloc, he also read William's thoughts and memories.
He also found nothing suspicious, and it was only out of caution and suspicion that he sent someone to monitor William.
If it weren't for the bad relationship between the Pure White Tower and the Duke's Palace, William's surveillance would have extended to the inside of the Pure White Tower.
After such a long time, he has recently relaxed his doubts about William.
After all, he had personally checked William's memory and there was no problem, but now it seems that if it wasn't the Belloc in front of him who had a memory problem, or the Twilight Church helped William deceive him, since William had problems, the Belloc who suddenly appeared also had problems.
Very suspicious.
The Bloodborne Grimoire manuscript is not a fake, and only Vivian, the sealed ancestor of the blood clan, can produce it.
Belloc is indeed a blood wizard, but judging from the spells recorded in the Blood Grimoire, Belloc may also be the artificially refined Son of Blood God, so at the moment he needs to determine whether Belloc is a blood wizard or a blood wizard.
Blood God Son?
Then he needed to determine whether Belloc had falsified his memory by some means like William?
According to his suspicion, Belloc is very likely to be controlled by the Twilight Church or Vivian.
Only if there is no doubt in all the tests, will he truly recognize the child abandoned by his youngest son.
Old Duke Brandon quietly left the Duke's Palace and went to the palace for a long time before returning.
Back at the Duke's Palace, old Duke Brandon took out a scarlet goblet.
This is the semi-artifact feast wine cup of Vivian, the ancestor of the vampire family, who is in charge of the royal family. With the power of this semi-artifact, it is enough to restrain the lives of all vampires except Vivian, including the blood wizard. With the power of the feast wine cup,
If Belloc is the son of the Blood God, he will definitely show up.
Seeing Li Mu who was having a hard time maintaining his human form, old Duke Brandon was very happy.
If Belloc was the Son of Blood God, he would turn into a ball of blood at this time.
It's just uncomfortable, which means that he is a blood-borne wizard who changed his profession from Belloc.
Now we still need to confirm whether she is secretly controlled by Vivian. Thinking of this, old Duke Brandon has completely activated the power of the feast wine glass. If Belloc has the means left by Vivian in his body, it is impossible for Vivian to do so in his current weak state.
How secretive.
Seeing that no abnormality was found, old Duke Brandon was even happier.
Now he can be sure that Belloc is not controlled by Vivian.
Vivian chose Belloc, probably because she was desperate and prepared a way out.
Now it is enough to make sure that Beilock is not controlled by other forces.
When probing William's memory, he was busy taking care of Lucy and simply probed William's memory. To a certain extent, he also deceived himself and did not want to use stronger probing methods, because once Lucy was really gone, William, the grandson, would no longer be alive.
He is the only descendant of the Brandon family.
But this time it involved his grandson, and he couldn't take any chances no matter what.
Old Duke Brandon took out the red [relic] he borrowed from the royal family. This [relic] called the Mirror of Truth can see the deepest and most authentic memory of a living soul, unless a god personally changes Belloc's memory.
Memory, otherwise nothing can deceive the mirror of reality.
A few minutes later, old Duke Brandon put away the Mirror of Truth and hugged Li Mu again with trembling.
Confirmed, this is his grandson.
In the mirror world madhouse, Li Mu's demon larval clone breathed a sigh of relief.
The scarlet wine glass almost caused the blood wizard's clone to reveal its true form. Fortunately, at the critical moment, the blood wizard's talent for disguise successfully successfully disguised him as Belloc. Apart from being unable to disguise the holy symbol, he could not disguise himself in other aspects.
His talent is not lost at all to the Blood Transformation Spell.
As for the [Relic]'s exploration of the memory, he was also blocked.
Although that [relic] is most likely of red quality, it is ineffective against him who is essentially a demon. He just merged his own power with the blood wizard's clone and successfully deceived the relic. It seems that his good luck is still there.
will continue to continue.
Now that all the tests have passed, old Duke Brandon's performance shows that his identity as the heir is stable.
When Li Mu woke up, he was already lying on the bed and changed into luxurious clothes.
There were more than a dozen maids kneeling beside the bed, some were pure, some were coquettish, some were mature and plump, and some were delicate and graceful. Each one of them looked at Li Mu secretly with a blushing face, which made Li Mu feel very bad.
He immediately learned what happened from the demon larval clone through the connection between the Golden Crow's deputy souls.
After old Duke Brandon verified his identity, he immediately summoned all the maids in the Duke's Palace and selected these to become his personal maids. Their only task was to find ways to conceive his children and strengthen the Brandon family.
population.
Knowing this, Li Mu almost lost control of his emotions and turned black on the spot.
He didn't care what happened with these maids, but he would never do this while disguised as Belloc, because the blood transformation spell disguised himself as Belloc at the genetic level, and the offspring born in the end were really Belloc's children.
rather than his.
He didn't want to raise a son for someone else, especially since Belloc died in his hands.
It seems that these beautiful maids are destined to have no fate with him.
"Why am I here?"
Li Mu sat up and asked pretending to be nervous.
"Lord Belloc, you passed out while activating the blood curse."
The head maid, who was the closest and most beautiful, said respectfully.
"Bloodline curse, so I am really a member of the Brandon family."
Li Mu said to himself with joy and a little sadness.
"Sir Brandon is waiting for you next door."
The head maid reminded.
"I'll go right away."
Li Mu put on his shoes under the service of the head maid and strode to the next door.
The walls of the next room are all pink, and the room is filled with various dolls. Lying on the bed is a girl who can't even feel her breath. Old Duke Brandon is sitting on a stool beside the bed, looking at his most beloved granddaughter.
The face is sad.
"She is your cousin Lucy."
Old Duke Brandon whispered.
"Who is your heir, me or her?"
Li Mu asked indifferently.
He is deliberately provoking old Duke Brandon, with the purpose of forcing old Duke Brandon to express his stance.
Judging from the appearance of old Duke Brandon, it won't be a problem to live for another few hundred years.
He had to test whether old Duke Brandon had any intention of handing down the title of duke in a short time.
Old Duke Brandon was furious at Bellocq's indifference, but looking at Lucy lying on the bed, thinking about the current situation of the Brandon family, and thinking about Bellocc being abandoned and orphaned since he was a child, these
It was like basins of cold water dousing his anger.
"You are now the first in line to succeed."
Old Duke Brandon said mockingly, "Do you want to know what happened to the Brandon family?"
"think!"
Li Mu nodded.
Old Duke Brandon smiled bitterly and successively told the story of how the Brandon family became what it is now.
The cause of the problem is that old Duke Brandon has been a duke for thousands of years.
He had three sons. The second son died very early. The eldest son had been the heir for a thousand years. The youngest son was born the last and was spoiled and could only eat, drink and have fun.
Old Duke Brandon is a qualified duke, but he is not a very good father.
It’s not that it’s not good for children, it’s that it’s done very poorly in educating children.
Therefore, he never noticed that his eldest son Otto gradually became more and more dissatisfied with his status as duke heir.
A few months ago, Otto stole the red [relic] Altar of the Dead, which was inherited by the Brandon family. Using the altar of the dead as a bargaining chip, he secretly contacted the Twilight Church to attack the old Duke Brandon. However, Otto was too ambitious and talented to know that Twilight was the only one in the world.
What the Light Church wants is the entire Brandon family.
Otto was taken advantage of and secretly released the Twilight Ashes at a family dinner in the Duke's Palace.
The Church of Twilight deceived Otto, saying that it was just a drug that could make people comatose.
As a result, the cursed twilight ashes almost killed dozens of generations of the entire Brandon family, thousands of direct and branch members. Even Otto himself did not survive. Only Lucy survived by luck and still had strength.
The tyrannical old Duke Brandon withstood the curse.
The furious old Duke Brandon broke out into a two-month war with the Twilight Church.
In the end, I had to stop because the Church of the Sun intervened.
The Twilight Church finally returned the [Relic] Altar of the Dead, and at the same time converted the Brandon family's losses into monetary compensation, and even threw an archbishop as a scapegoat. Only then did the war have to cease due to the mediation of the Church of the Sun.
Until now, old Duke Brandon still doesn’t know why the Twilight Church did this?
Moreover, the behavior of the royal family and the remaining six dukes of the Mayan Empire in this incident was also very abnormal. Normally speaking, if the evil church almost wiped out a duke family, it would definitely cause the royal family and other dukes to jointly retaliate.
But this time, the royal family and the six dukes remained silent.
The Twilight Church obviously does not have this strength, so old Duke Brandon suspects that the real mastermind behind this is the Church of the Sun.
The Church of Twilight is just a knife. Only in this way can the royal family and the other six dukes bow their heads.
But why the Church of the Sun stabbed it like this, old Duke Brandon couldn't figure it out no matter how hard he tried.
"Sun Church, as expected, the opportunity presented to us is not that easy to come by..."
Li Mu thought secretly.
"Do you still want to be the heir?"
Old Duke Brandon looked at Li Mu and asked.
"why not?"
Li Mu asked rhetorically.
"Tomorrow morning I will submit an application for title change to the noble council."
Old Duke Brandon sighed.
"So fast."
Li Mu was slightly startled.
"I hope you can marry your cousin."
Old Duke Brandon looked at Lucy who was dying and said coldly.
Li Mu understood that old Duke Brandon wanted to take something from the Twilight Church that could cure Lucy's Twilight Ashes curse.
His behavior would undoubtedly slap the Church of the Sun in the face, so he would only go to the Church of Twilight after passing on the title of duke to him.
In this way, even in the worst possible outcome, only the old Duke will die.
This is both good news and bad news for him.
Fortunately, he will be the Duke of the Mayan Empire tomorrow. Unfortunately, he has lost the support of old Duke Brandon, and offended the Sun Church and the Twilight Church, a sworn enemy.
It will be great.
Li Mu stood aside, watching old Duke Brandon looking at Lucy blankly.
It was noon before old Duke Brandon got up and left.
Li Mu wanted to follow, but old Duke Brandon shook his head at him and asked him to stay and take care of Lucy.
Li Mu sat by the window and reached out to grab Lucy's somewhat stiff hand.
According to the old Duke, Lucy was able to survive entirely because she was a believer in the Lord of the Red Moon. She had even been blessed by the Pope of the Red Moon Church, and she was lucky enough to survive after eating the ashes of Twilight.
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But as time goes by, she will lose her life in a few months at most.
"wrong……"
Li Mu suddenly felt a tremor in his heart.
His judgment just now was wrong. Lucy would not die in a few months.
On the surface, she looks like her bloodline is withered and her soul is failing, but in fact, deep in her soul and heart, there is a very weak but gradually growing vitality hidden deep in her soul and heart. According to this growth rate, she will be alive and kicking in a few months.
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Whether old Duke Brandon knows this, most likely he doesn't.
The reason is very simple. He was able to discover the vitality hidden in Lucy's body. That's because he is a blood wizard and has an extremely strong sense of life. In addition, he has the power to master fire, which is the highest manifestation of life in all known things.
The perception of life is terrifyingly powerful.
Therefore, he can discover the vitality in Lucy's body, but it is difficult for the old Duke Brandon of LV80 to discover it.
Li Mu hadn't sat down for a while when the maid from the Duke's Palace came to inform him of his meal.
After lunch, Li Mu continued to take care of Lucy until dinner.
After dinner, he took care of her from night to the next morning.
Old Duke Brandon, who had been away for nearly a day, finally came back. Hearing the butler talk about Belloc taking care of Lucy all night, his tired face finally smiled. He didn't care whether Belloc was sincere or fake, as long as he didn't care about Lucy.
Malice is enough.
As for the rest, the housekeeper will take care of Lucy for him.
"Follow me."
Old Duke Brandon said to Li Mu.
Li Mu followed old Duke Brandon to a door deep underground in the Duke's Mansion. He watched him take out a skull ring and press it on the door. The door filled with countless magic circles suddenly opened. Li Mu followed and walked in and saw
There are mountains of wealth and treasures.
An ancient family that has existed for more than 20,000 years has an unusually rich family fortune.
Old Duke Brandon took Li Mu to the deepest part of the treasure house, and finally picked up a crystal skull from a stone platform.
Different from ordinary skeletons, the skull also has an eye socket between the eyebrows, and there is also a crystal-like eyeball inside.
"This is a legacy of the Brandon family and must not be thrown away..."
Old Duke Brandon introduced, "If you master this, you can master all the magic arrays in the entire Duke's Palace, master one-seventh of the magic arrays in the royal capital, and master the ancient bone dragon in the pure white tower on your main campus.
Master it and you will be the new patriarch of the Brandon family."
"What do I do?"
Li Mu asked excitedly.
"Use your blood and soul to refine the inherited items."
Old Duke Brandon said and handed the crystal skull to Li Mu.
Li Mu took the crystal skull and cut his wrist to let the blood infect the crystal skull. At the same time, his soul left the body and wrapped around the crystal skull. As he refined the inherited objects, his spiritual power also spread to
The entire Duke's Palace even spread to one-seventh of the royal capital.
The six current dukes in the other six major ducal palaces in the royal capital all sighed helplessly at this moment.
They knew that Old Brandon made the wrong choice after all.
When Li Mu completely refined the Crystal Skull, old Duke Brandon had left silently.
The butler appeared next to Li Mu, holding a tray in his hand, which contained the key to the treasure house, the hereditary scepter of the dukedom, and even a crown. With these and the statement of old Duke Brandon in the noble council,
Enough to make the new Duke Brandon legally ascend to the throne.
Li Mu finished refining the crystal skull, picked up the treasure house key from the tray and put it on his hand.
He took the scepter again, but he put the crown on the head of the crystal skull.
The Seven Dukes of the Mayan Empire were once the seven most powerful kingdoms of the Mayan civilization. The ancestors of the kingdoms were impressed by the royal ancestor and the Son of God, who was also the Lord of the Sun. They gave up their respective thrones and established the Mayan Empire under the leadership of the Son of the Sun.
From then on, hereditary crowns were no longer allowed to be worn on the head.
But the scepter was chartered to remain as a symbol of hereditary ducal power.
"I want to be quiet."
Li Mu said to the old housekeeper.
The old butler nodded and left the treasure house, following the old Duke's instructions to look after Lucy.
With only himself left in the treasure house, Li Mu looked at the crystal skull thoughtfully.
Activating his mental perception, he immediately observed the crystal skull from a higher dimension, which made him feel something was wrong. When the soul was being refined just now, the eyes between the eyebrows of the crystal skull resisted refining, which meant that he had not completely refined the crystal.
skull.
The inheritance of the Brandon family is stored inside the crystal skull. He looked at the past patriarchs and none of them had refined their eyes.
They also know that the eyes have secrets, but they have never discovered the secrets.
In the perception of his mind, Li Mu looked at the crystal skull in disbelief.
The eye between the eyebrows is the eye of the god, the eye of the Lord of Death in the first era. The crystal skull is a seal that seals all the power of this eye of god. This secret was not passed down by the first generation patriarch of the Brandon family.
Descendants.
Because those who have the ability to decipher the secrets of eyeballs can know the secrets of eyeballs without knowing the truth.
Those who are unable to crack it will find it a disaster rather than a blessing in the future.
Li Mu was about to study the Crystal Skull more carefully. The spiritual power he integrated into it suddenly made him use the control of all the magic circles in the Duke's Palace to sense that the Holy Knights were constantly appearing outside the Duke's Palace and surrounding the entire Duke's Palace.
This is the ace force of the Church of the Sun. At this time, the intention of suddenly surrounding the Duke's Palace is obvious.
Li Mu looked at the crystal skull in his hand and suddenly came up with a guess.
He may know why the Twilight Church is so stubbornly against the Brandon family, and why the royal family and other dukes stand idly by.
It is very likely that it was because the Church of the Sun wanted to obtain the Eye of God sealed by the Crystal Skull, so when William failed to ascend to power, the Church of the Sun immediately showed its last face.
If he hands over the Crystal Skull now, he might still be able to be his Duke Brandon.
But if you refuse to hand it over, the Holy Knights will destroy Duke Brandon's Mansion.
Li Mu looked around at the treasures in the treasury, expanded the mirror void and began to collect all the treasures. At the same time, clones walked out of the lunatic asylum in the mirror world one after another, and began to collect whatever they saw in the entire Duke's Palace, even people and things that could be taken away.
The housekeeper who came after hearing the news immediately took Lucy and followed the clone into the mirror void after learning that the Duke's Palace was surrounded.
In less than five minutes, the entire Duke's Palace was nothing but an empty shell.
The space outside the Duke's Mansion has been blocked. Li Mu finally closed the treasure house door and went to the deepest part of the treasure house to activate an ancient teleportation array that had been prepared for 20,000 years. This was the last retreat for the Brandon family. Unless the gods personally took action, otherwise
No one can stop the transmission.
The moment Li Mu disappeared into the teleportation array, the Pope in the temple of the Church of the Sun smiled coldly.
He had expected that the Brandon family would have a secret final means of escape.
But he didn't expect it to be an ancient teleportation array that could break the magical blockade. Because of the magical blockade, the transmission of the teleportation array was not smooth. The spatial fluctuations that should have been well covered were not covered up, which was enough for him.
Catch up and capture the little duke who doesn't know whether he's dead or alive.
When we used the Church of Twilight to deal with the Brandon family, we knew that the old Duke was tough and would not hand over the inherited treasure.
I didn't expect that the little Duke was so hard-boned, so he wasted the pleas of the other six Dukes.