Chapter 224 Best Rhine

A thousand years ago, the continent of Oden was in darkness and chaos. Every extraordinary person at that time was a slave owner. The war groups they formed fought each other frantically, city-states rose and fell, and almost all mortals were slaves.

It was not until hundreds of years ago that the church re-established order and everything began to turn around. The mortals who were once equivalent to slaves finally possessed the very little, humble and insignificant dignity.

Because of the forced restraints of the gods and the Orthodox Church, the fighting between the nobles became milder. Everyone understood that all souls would return to the gods in the end. Violating the rules of the church and killing other extraordinary nobles during one's lifetime was undoubtedly irresponsible after death.

More than seventy years ago, it was an era when the church and the gods constrained each country and everything was in order.

Even when many nobles went to war with each other, few of them were actually killed in battle. People called the low death rate of nobles in that era the mercy of the gods.

But the common people were not so lucky. Even among the gods, only the Lord of Redemption and Lady Silver Moon cared about them. The other gods did not care about the existence of mortals.

At that time, the Lion Family was already a viscount family on the east coast. They were one of the small nobles that followed the ten major families to migrate eastward, and the first head of the family at that time was a knight loyal to the Roman Family.

Because of the gift from the Duke of Dark Iron, he was able to obtain sufficient resources to achieve a qualitative breakthrough. At the time, it was still called a qualitative breakthrough.

When the Syat people migrated eastward to this place, they naturally had various conflicts with the local people, so they adopted the most violent methods and killed the East Coast natives who did not believe in the true gods until they could not resist.

The foreign wars waged by the nobles of that era were fierce, and finally, after decades of bloodshed and madness, all the East Coast people who had reached the monarch level perished.

Their civilization was also completely destroyed, and those ancient traditions were completely destroyed by the Syat people.

The remaining East Coast natives either went out to sea or hid in the jungle, fleeing one by one.

Best Rhine's mother was a woman who married into a knight family. She was plain-looking and not an extraordinary person. She was just a mortal with low-level hidden blood.

The main wars of that era were to expel the indigenous people of the East Coast and kill the various mysterious creatures there.

So just like now, everyone attaches great importance to supernatural powers, and in that most feudal era, people without supernatural powers were born with an extremely low status.

Even the descendants of nobles are no exception.

The old patriarch originally had a rather cold relationship with Best's mother, and after Best Rhine was born, the old patriarch did not have a good attitude towards his son.

Even though he was the eldest son he received no special treatment.

Because Best Rhine is a mortal.

Since no blood power was detected at birth, Best was always treated as a useless mortal in the family during his childhood. Like his mortal brothers and sisters, he became a vassal of the extraordinary blood relatives in the family.

There was a hint of coldness in Viscount Best's eyes, and his voice gradually became colder.

"At that time, I deeply understood the beauty of power. All the brothers and sisters with extraordinary powers could always get good things. They could get almost anything they wanted. Moreover, they only needed to give an order casually, and we mortals had to execute it."

"We are not a family at all. Or, according to what scholars say, we are two completely different species, whether or not there are supernatural powers. Haha."

Hearing this, Byrne frowned, and was very curious. He finally couldn't help but ask, "But you clearly have blood power? What's going on?"

"Detection error." Viscount Best replied.

"What?"

Byrne was stunned, in disbelief. He paused and continued, "Are you serious?"

Viscount Best nodded seriously, stared into Byrne's eyes, and said calmly:

"It is indeed a detection error. Haha, you didn't expect it, it is so absurd! That era is different from now. The crystal ball used to detect bloodline power is even more unreliable. There is a possibility of detection error of up to one in several tens!"

A few tenths.

After listening to this, Byrne fell into deep thought, and then asked, "So you didn't take the test again? I know that the descendants of the family now will be tested more than once."

"Yes! In order to avoid misdiagnosis, everyone in the Lion family will have a second chance for testing!"

Best nodded deeply, couldn't help but smile, and continued: "But I am the one unlucky one in a thousand!"

"Both detection errors!"

Byrne was stunned. He didn't expect that the life of the old man in front of him was so magical and that such an incredible thing would happen.

He couldn't help but feel that it was just a deliberate trick of fate.

“Hahahahahahaha!”

Having said this, Viscount Best drank another glass of wine and couldn't help laughing. His laughter became more and more enthusiastic, and in the end he laughed so hard that tears came out.

"This is so funny! My miserable life for the past ten years was caused by a wrong test! Hahahaha! That must be fate!"

“It’s really funny.”

Byrne said lightly, shook his head slightly, looked into the old man's eyes and said: "Many times, the truth of things is so absurd. Just an unlucky coincidence can ruin many things."

"Yes, that's when I realized what fate is. It turns out that most people in the world are pawns of fate, being toyed with in a ridiculous way."

Best's face was full of self-mockery, but there was a strong ambition in his eyes.

"However, I am different now. Even fate has become my plaything!"

Best paused, his passionate eyes faded, and he continued, "My power was discovered by chance. On a meaningless night, the few remaining transmuted extraordinary people among the natives of the East Coast came to kill me."

"They set fire to the then Finn City, well, it was still Finn Town."

He said with emotion: "The fire was really too big, and the main forces of each family were all exterminating the nearby indigenous tribes and were not in the town, so the fire caused heavy casualties."

There seemed to be fire still in Best's eyes. Everything in the past would not disappear easily, but live in the memories of the living.

That night was like a bizarre fantasy under a huge cloak of flames. In the light of the fire, houses fell down one after another, as if they were pushed down by a ruthless magic hand.

Thick smoke filled the air, explosions were heard everywhere, screams and flames intertwined into tragic yet terrifying music, and raging fire danced in the darkness, like an out-of-control demon unleashing its rage and destruction.

The people in the town seemed so small and fragile in the face of the merciless flames.

"I was lucky enough to escape immediately, but when I looked back, I found that my seriously ill mother was still in the flames! No one helped her escape from her room!"

Viscount Best's hand was shaking slightly, the goblet broke into pieces, and the wine flowed onto his old palm.

"At that time, I was ashamed, angry, and anxious. I rushed into the sea of ​​fire and tried to save her..."

"It's a pity it's too late!"

Best took a deep breath and remained silent for a long time. His eyes seemed to be looking into the distance, or as if he was recalling the past.

The raging fire at that time was like a ferocious beast, with bared fangs and claws, devouring everything into ashes and burning all life on the earth.

As the flames danced, the sky was filled with thick smoke and ash, as if the dark end was quietly approaching.

The young man gradually walked out of the sea of ​​fire holding a burning corpse.

Amid the horrified gazes of the crowd, he looked up to the sky and roared!

Viscount Best's eyes wandered as he slowly said, "I should have died in the fire, but I managed to walk out of my serious injuries, showing physical abilities that are different from those of ordinary people."

“So, the family members all realized that I was different.”

Byrne had heard that there were very few people who could break through to the origin level without taking magic potions. From this point of view, Best could be considered a lucky man.

"After that old guy came back, the family conducted a third blood test on me. My bloodline power was finally discovered, and the whole family was in an uproar!"

He smiled and grabbed Byrne's hand, and said in a subtle tone:

"You have never experienced that feeling, the experience of being looked down upon by others and then being admired by others. I want to tell you that this experience is the most wonderful in the world!"

It’s not that Byrne has never experienced similar feelings, but he also understands that his feelings are definitely not as strong as Best’s.

"From that time on, I understood that becoming strong and excellent is the root of everything!"

"Even if it's family love, except for the love of a mother, the love of everyone else is conditional. If you are worthless, you won't be able to attract love at all!"

His tone became more and more enthusiastic, and he said loudly:

"After that, I worked hard to become stronger, seizing every opportunity to become powerful! Finally, I finally became the head of the Rhine Family. Because I am strong enough, I am the king of the Lion Family and the overall situation in their hearts. Those weak people are even willing to die for me!"

When Viscount Bester said this, he couldn't stop sneering, and there was a strong mockery in his eyes.

"Abel, Renzo, they had no respect for me decades ago, but now, everything is completely different."

Byrne fell into deep thought. He had always been wondering who the arrogant brothers and sisters that Best mentioned were, and whether they were Abel and Renzo.

It is true.

Now he finally understood why Viscount Best had always been so cold-blooded towards his relatives and friends. This man simply did not believe in the connection brought by blood.

I'm afraid I can't trust him either...

At this moment, Viscount Best suddenly changed the subject.

"I haven't told anyone else about this, Byrne. I'm only telling you one person, that is, during my attempt to break through the monarch this time, people from the Star Embrace Society are likely to come over."

Byrne was slightly stunned, as if he found it unbelievable, and asked: "Star Embracing Society?"

Viscount Best nodded slightly and said, "Well, I have cooperated with them before. I have leverage over them, and they also have leverage over me."

"We were able to check and balance each other before, but once I reach the Monarch, everything will be completely different. Therefore, those heretics will never want me to succeed in breaking through!"

(End of this chapter)