The Divine Hunter Chapter 12: Family Tree
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Is the continuation of the family bloodline or the dignity of the nobility more important? After a long silence, Ignatius chose the former and slowly knelt down in front of Kolgrim's bones. The beard on his lips trembled and his head hit the ground.
"Bang, bang, bang."
Three times in a row.
Out of nervousness, fear, shame and anger, the sweat and tears on Ignatius's head wetted the ground in front of the corpse.
Roy nodded with satisfaction. As a time traveler, he never felt that nobles were superior to others - since they made a mistake, they should use their proud honor to apologize!
Seeing this scene, Leisuo briefly lost his mind.
His initial idea was to teach Ignatius a profound lesson, or to simply kill him decisively. After living for decades, Lei Suo also had the blood of some nobles on his hands.
He never thought of taking revenge in another way.
Demon hunter, what a vulgar and despicable word, a freak and mutant that even ordinary people dare to despise and cast aside, a being with a status as low as the dirt.
But today, at this moment - the majestic Kingdom of Temeria, a legally recognized lord, actually lowered his "noble head" in an extremely humiliating gesture and looked down upon them. Demon hunter, kowtow to apologize.
This kid has no concept of superiority or inferiority at all?
The bald man took a deep breath to calm down his slightly restless mood, but the green back of the young man in his eyes became inexplicably blurry.
"How about it? Leisuo," Roy looked at the prostrate Lord of the White Orchard and lowered his voice, "Do you want to continue?"
Korgamlin's life cannot be canceled with just a few clicks of his head.
"First find out the whereabouts of the banshee," Leisuo shook his head, "and then decide Ignatius's fate."
……
"Okay. Sir Ignatius, I think the undead of Kolgrim have felt your repentance."
Hearing this, Ignatius breathed a sigh of relief and stood up slowly with the help of the maid. His face was ashen and his figure was stooped, as if he had aged by more than ten years in an instant, "Demon hunter...I ...I sincerely apologize...it's your turn...to fulfill your promise."
"Of course, but one code equals one code... This is considered a commission... We have to talk about the reward." Lei Suo's voice joined in.
"Two masters, don't worry! The reward will definitely satisfy you!"
"In order to completely clarify the source of the witchcraft mark on your body. Sir Ignatius, I have some questions... What does the unknown coffin at the end of the tomb have to do with you? Whose child is the baby in the coffin? ”
Ignatius raised his head and stared straight at the witcher, silent.
"Sir, if you want to completely solve the family's misfortune, please don't hide anything. We can assure you that the privacy of the Leliwes family will never be leaked to the outside world."
Ignatius sighed and sat down on the sofa, "He is my illegitimate son."
"Illegitimate child?" Roy suddenly asked, "Where is the mother of the child? We have never seen your wife since we entered the castle."
"He has no mother, and I have no wife." Ignatius shook his fingers on the sofa.
"Jazz——"
"Okay, let me tell you everything!" Ignatius suddenly roared uncontrollably, and then there was a knock on the door and Butler Grant's question, "Master, are you okay?"
Ignatius ordered impatiently, "Liv, go outside and don't let anyone get close!"
The dazed maid took the order and left, leaving only two demon hunters and the Baron of White Orchard in the drawing room.
"No one will bother you now." Jazz hooked up with Roy, "Remember your promise, demon hunters, and never reveal this secret to anyone outside Armavit Castle——"
"Don't worry, Sir, solve your problem and we will leave White Orchard immediately."
Ignatius clenched his fists, his expression changed, and he hesitated for a long time. Before Roy's patience was about to disappear, he finally lowered his voice and said, "To be honest... the child who died in childbirth was not my child, but my mother." Mary's illegitimate son."
Roy's expression condensed, and then he suddenly realized, "That's right, the tombstone records that Mary died due to dystocia. Now it seems that the baby in the unnamed coffin is the poor child."
"The mother became pregnant after the death of the father..." Ignatius suddenly raised his head and glanced at the two of them, with a hint of madness on his face, "Witcher, don't you think it's perverted and ridiculous? ”
"No... you have misunderstood..." Roy and Leisuo said calmly, "This is an internal matter of the Viriles family. As outsiders, we are not qualified to judge... In short, just be happy with it."
Old Lady Mary, her husband has passed away, and she cannot restrain her loneliness and find a mistress and have a child.
It's not surprising to Roy. After all, the family tradition of nobles has always been so messy. In this regard, King Foltest of Temeria has already set a further "example".
But his son fell in love with someone of the same sex, and his mother cheated on him... Didn’t Ignatius Villiers have any normal relatives?
Roy had a vague feeling that the various strange phenomena in this family were closely related to the so-called "birthmarks" on their bodies, and he wanted to dig deeper.
"There are many demon spirits in the Villires family tomb. How were Lady Mary's remains brought into the tomb for burial?"
"There were only one or two before, and the soldiers in the castle were enough to deal with it. Most of the demons appeared after my mother was buried," Ignatius explained, "Then Kolgrim came and he asked for a trial. ."
The witcher was silent.
"About Mrs. Mary, the father of the dead child..." Leisuo asked further,
"Witcher! Please..." Ignatius' voice became hoarse and dry, "Don't torture me with words anymore!"
"Sir Ignatius..." Roy sighed, "It seems that you need to rest and adjust." He changed his tone, "If possible, let me see your family tree, and we will find a solution ourselves. Look for clues."
……
Pent floor bedroom.
"Thank you, two masters, don't let others see it." Ignatius handed a parchment scroll he took out of the safe to the demon hunter, his face showing fatigue, "I'm sorry, I need it now. Rest. Grant, entertain the two masters for me and try your best to meet their requests."
Although Grant was curious about his master's demeanor as if he was seriously ill, he abided by his duty and thoughtfully closed the bedroom door for Ignatius without asking a single word.
"Please come this way," Grant shook the key in his hand, "Now you two can go check the basement."
Then, the group stepped into the dark and spacious basement through the wooden ladder that extended downward through the kitchen secret door. The housekeeper lit a torch for lighting.
"Hmm..." The demon hunter twitched his nose, "What are all these things, moldy?" Old clothes, tattered armor, old furniture, rags, covered with dust and cobwebs, all kinds of miscellaneous things Objects were piled up into hills, as far as the eye could see.
"Decades of debris from Armavit Castle have accumulated here, and no one has taken care of it for a long time." The housekeeper fanned his nose at the lingering dust and smell,
He led Lei Suo to look for the missing drawing of the Snake Faction.
And Roy began to browse the family tree of the Verres family. The yellowed parchment roll had a faint strange smell, and he felt heavy at first.
"Well, let me see, in the spring of 1134, the ancestors of the Viriles family came to the White Orchard in the eastern part of Vizima, Temeria. Gee, at this time, the castle of Armavit was still a piece of land. Desolate, it has only been two hundred years since the birth of the witcher, a long time ago."
"In 1150, the Amavit Fortress was built east of the White Orchard. Leon Villiers and Jennifer Villiers gave birth to twins, a boy and a girl, the following year."
Roy glanced at the family history, and then at the family tree branching like branches.
"The first generation ancestors of the Villiers family, Leon and Jennifer, jointly founded the Villiers family."
"In 1154, the two had another child. So the second generation of the Villiers family had a total of three children."
Leon and Jennifer are at the top of the pyramid, and the family tree going down is divided into three parts, like the branches of a big tree, becoming wider and more luxuriant.
"After the three children of the second generation grew up, the twin girl Sarah Villiers married her son-in-law Richardson Villiers and gave birth to a daughter, Laney, and a son, Ferris. Lanz."
Their bloodline is located at the center of the family tree, and can be called the core members of the Villires family, serving as the head of the family.
"The remaining two boys of the second generation married foreigners and still live in Amavit Castle." These two groups are located on the left and right sides of the family tree, and their family status is obviously inferior to Sarah Villiers
"That's weird." Dark Gold's pupils showed confusion.
Aren’t noble families placing more emphasis on male heirs? Why should Sarah Villiers be placed at the center of the family tree, while the two boys are placed next to it?
Look down——
"In the third generation, Sarah's son Franz had an accident when he was six years old and fell from a horse and died. Sarah's daughter Lanny married another son-in-law when she was thirty-two and gave birth to a little daughter. Marie Villiers...while the collateral line still intermarryed with outsiders and spread its branches, the number of descendants is obviously more than that of Sarah's line, and the bloodline is more vigorous."
Exhibited in the genealogy, the two sides are broad and lush, while the central genealogy remains unchanged, or even withers and narrows.
Until the third generation, members of the entire Villires family were buried in huge family tombs after their deaths.
But it’s the fourth generation, that is, the generation of Sir Ignatius’s parents, Mary Villiers, and her husband-in-law, John Villiers.
Members of the other two groups in the castle gradually left White Orchard and settled in Vizima in the west, or further afield, in Aedirn in the far east.
Only Mary, the fourth generation, and her husband, Ignatius, the fifth generation, are left in the castle.
"Do the two Veriles who moved away from the castle...have any traces of witchcraft on them?"
Roy looked through the family tree from beginning to end again, and suddenly discovered a shocking fact. According to the records in the family tree, all the members of the Ignatius branch died of illness or accidents, and not a single one of them died. Can live a long and healthy life.
In comparison, the encounters of the other two teams were much more normal.
"Is this a coincidence, or is it the function of the witchcraft brand?"
After the fourth generation John and Mary gave birth to Ignatius, he lost the ability to have offspring, and later died of consumption.
John Villiers and Mary Villiers only have one son as the current head of the family.
"Jazz is the only child of the family, but his parents have passed away, his son hanged to death, and he is alone in the family. He also lost his fertility due to excessive drinking and indulgence. The family bloodline may be cut off at his hands."
Roy thought about Ignatius's ridiculous behavior in the past, which gradually transformed into the miserable appearance he is today - is it possible that the imprint is affecting his mind?
The young man was lost in thought, and Lei Suo came to him at some point, holding an animal skin blueprint in his hand - the long-lost silver sword forging plan of the Viper School.
Roy took it in his hand and studied it for a moment before putting the blueprint into the space.
Then he expressed his doubts.
"According to what you said, there is something fishy. Why did the second generation of the Villires family choose their daughter Sarah? Villires to inherit the position of head of the family~IndoMTL.com~The two men were replaced by Marginalized? You have to ask Ignatius.",
"As for the witchcraft brand," the bald man rubbed his rough chin, "Intuition tells me that only Ignatius and his immediate family members are affected and have the birthmark." It will not be affected."
"So the members of Ignatius's branch had to die in their old age, and their heirs were generally rare, with at most one son and one daughter, and there were only one heir for several generations."
"In comparison, the next two branches will have much more prosperous future generations."
"To die a good death and cut off future generations? Is the mark of witchcraft some kind of curse?" Roy thought thoughtfully,
"I have never seen the same type of curse," Leisuo said with a cautious expression. "Even the priests of the God of Omens do not have the ability to pass the curse down through the bloodline and from generation to generation."
"Not even the God of Omens?" Roy was silent for a moment, "What about the more powerful warlocks and spellcasters? Ignatius's ancestors offended them and were cursed?"
"Then we need more clues to understand Ita's ancestors."