John couldn't help but feel that he had learned a lot after hearing these inside stories.
Isn't this just like the situation in Journey to the West?
It doesn't matter how many people the monsters with background eat. When they are defeated, they will all be taken away by the masters of gods and Buddhas. Monsters without background will be beaten to death by Sun Dasheng even if they are devoted to the Tao and eat vegetarian food all day long.
According to Thelma, in addition to enshrining ancestral spirits and cultivating extraordinary beings, the ancient nobles of the Old World naturally had to secretly support some vampires. Many of these vampires were family ancestors who hoped to gain immortality or clan members who devoted themselves to serving the family. Some
It has even been passed down for hundreds or thousands of years since the establishment of the family. This kind of powerful heritage is unmatched by emerging nobles and capitalists.
Thelma is still relatively young among them, but because of her excellent talent, she has been transformed into a high-level bronze warrior. Now she has reached the peak of silver, and is stronger than many veteran vampires who are more than twice their age.
At the beginning of the Renaissance Revolution and the rise of the Extraordinary, the power of the Holy See of Light was greatly reduced, and the royal families of various countries regained control of secular power. Naturally, they no longer cared about the thoughts of the Holy See. The existence of the Vampire Clan was already a well-known secret in the Extraordinary World.
So it doesn't matter if these vampires walk on the street openly and openly, as long as they are not the kind of crazy and depraved people who try to cause mass murder and other tragedies among the crowd, it doesn't matter.
John would not be surprised or shocked that the Emsdan royal family also has its own blood guardian. With the background of their family, it would be a surprise not to have one.
The two came to the room arranged for John, and John found that his four attendants had already moved into several surrounding rooms in advance. It seemed that this cold-faced senior family member was the kind of person with a cold face and a warm heart.
Very appropriate.
John became less restrained, invited his great-great-aunt to sit down, and then asked:
"Lord Thelma, do our Haisensel family also worship ancestors? Is the evening ceremony related to this?"
Thelma sat down without politeness. Although she abided by the rules, John was still a descendant of her family and had not become the new king, so she spoke more casually.
"The Heisenser family naturally has its own ancestral beliefs, but when the kingdom underwent great changes decades ago, our family's guardian ancestral spirit had to take shelter from the double-headed eagle family of the Holy Empire Emperor, or in other words, the great
Your Majesty, the King of Knights, because only the true god can have the strength to protect so many ancestral spirits in the plane outside the main world. You must know that there are no less than ten ancestral spirits preserved by our Hessensel family in the past generations.
There can only be more from the Eagle Family."
John immediately understood what Thelma meant.
Ancestral spirits exist just like the ancestral temples enshrined in previous lives or even social gods in the medieval times. If they accept incense sacrifices from descendants all year round, they can become untitled Yin gods in the underworld. Some powerful ancestors or
If you are famous in the world of the earth, you will become even more powerful in the underworld after death, and it is not uncommon to win some canonizations from the underworld.
In addition, you can also use national sacrifices and ask the court to canonize you, so that you can ascend to heaven and die and become a god in one step.
The Emsdan royal family's worship of ancestral spirits is probably similar to this situation. Generally speaking, the first emperor is usually the most powerful ancestral spirit. In the underworld, he is also the master of one party. It is similar to the founding ancestor of the ancient country in previous lives. There is no need to canonize it.
, just the people in the world praising his name can elevate him to a level close to the true God.
Although Emsdan is only a small kingdom, it cannot stand that its ruler has a long history and noble blood. Although I have never heard of the nationwide sacrifices in ancient Middle-earth, I think there should be many powerful ancestral spirits. For the material world,
For living people, it is also a boost.
And he thought of more.
The Double-Headed Eagle family took care of the failed Hessenser family as it should. After all, not only had the two parties been married for generations and had enough affection for each other, but also because although the aristocrats of the empire and even the royal family of the state divided the power of the royal family,
But it is also the cornerstone and biggest supporter of the empire and the royal family. If it had not been forced by internal and external pressure to take care of itself, the Double-headed Eagle family would not have let Emsdan, one of the empire's largest sources of tax revenue, be destroyed by a group of rebellious officials and traitors.
Usurpation, and the big aristocratic families including the Double-Headed Eagle family also have their own territories and industries in Emsdan. This is why the Emsdan bourgeoisie relied on foreign forces such as Franz to successfully coup into the republic.
However, it still has not completely escaped from the protection of the Holy Empire, and is wandering between the Northern Holy Empire Federation and the Holy Empire, and is ambiguous with the respective countries on both sides.
Because if they really betrayed the name of the Holy Empire and the national justice of the Zeman people, then it would be an intolerable betrayal for both the Holy Empire and the separatists from the Northern Holy Empire Federation. Although the two countries are not
It will definitely provoke a war with a big country like Franz, but for a small country like Emsdam, which covers an area less than half the province of the two countries, it will definitely be a disaster.
They don't need to unite, or even several larger states under the Holy Empire send troops to level them.
After all, Emsdan is good at commerce and shipping. If the navy is pretty good and can barely rank at the tail of the top ten in the old continent, then there is no need to talk about the army. Even the Northern Holy Empire, formerly known as the Kingdom of Knights,
The number of active-duty troops in the Federation is greater than the entire adult male population of Emsdam.
As a member of the Zeman people who are famous for their bravery and fighting skills, although Emsdan has the advantage of being the tallest in average height among all countries in the world, his combat effectiveness is only better than that of the Roman soldiers in southern Europe who have always been called the belly troops.
The points are limited, which is really embarrassing for Zeman people.
This confirms a theory put forward by scholars, that is, nations in difficult areas have more fighting power and courage.
For example, the mountain people in the Schwaz region, the ancestral homeland of the Double-Headed Eagle family, are known as the world's number one mercenaries. The civilians in the mountains and forests in the northern Holy Empire are also more powerful than the wealthy people of the Holy Empire in the south.
Be tougher.
Emsdan has been a prosperous and commercial area for hundreds of years, but the will of the locals has been worn away by money, wine and sex. The sailors who go to sea all year round are better, so Emsdan's army is in a mess.
In the past, Emsdan relied on connections within the Holy Empire to hire mercenaries from poor areas to defend the country. During peacetime, it was not obvious that it was at war with foreign countries. However, when there was an internal coup, the kingdom did not have a force that was completely loyal to the royal family.
The shortcomings of the army are generally magnified and completely exposed.
Although the Heisensel family, as the royal family, still has one of the most powerful guards, the number is too small and it is difficult to resist the rebels supported by foreign forces such as Franz and Brooke, so they can only retreat to the palace. In the end
After the intervention of all parties, the two sides compromised, and with the support of the Zeman countries such as the Holy Empire, the royal family temporarily gave up its rule in Emsdan and fled to the New World to reestablish the kingdom in the colonies.