Chapter 547 Preparation
In the west of Adus, on top of a bell tower in Karnak, Rahman, the ancient king of Adus, was leaning on Nefernis's body and kissing Dorothy's corpse. From Rahman's mouth, Dorothy learned the truth about the royal ritual of the Baruch royal family for hundreds of years.
Because of his extraordinary rank, Soul Blood Knight's special ability, Rahman can give his descendants the power of the Red Stage through blood connection. In order to facilitate the Baruch royal family to use their own power forever to stabilize the country, Rahman even imprisoned his soul in the royal mausoleum and presided over every royal training ceremony. With the royal training ceremony, the successive kings of Baruch no longer need to work hard to find ways to advance to the Red Stage through normal channels. They only need to have a certain level of power and pass the royal training ceremony. They don't need to spend a lot of energy and effort to train heirs.
Rahman's King Refining Ceremony is called a trial, but in fact it does not test the heir's attitude towards being an extraordinary person, but tests the heir's qualifications to be a king. During the King Refining Ceremony, Rahman will conduct different trials on the heir from various aspects such as virtue, knowledge, strategy, and leadership. As long as the trial can be passed, Rahman will give his power to the heir until the heir dies and then hold a return ceremony to take back the power. Rahman believes that since he can provide his descendants with the power to be kings, his descendants must do their best in qualities other than power.
Rahman ruled Adus for fifty years in the eyes of the public, and then secretly assisted the king in ruling for another 150 years as a behind-the-scenes man. The Adus kings during these 150 years were called the first kings together with Rahman. In the Adus royal family's own count of dynasties, these kings and Rahman were counted as the first generation of kings. It was not until Rahman's death four hundred years ago that the first king Baruch officially succeeded to the throne.
The royal ritual succession system designed by Rahman worked very well at the beginning. Every generation of kings he selected were monarchs with outstanding abilities. Under the rule of generations of highly qualified monarchs, the development of ancient Adus reached its peak. The entire country began to prosper rapidly and became a well-deserved great power in northern Udang.
However, along with the prosperity, corruption also grew. After King Rahman stopped directly managing Adus, various hidden dangers emerged. Under the constant palace intrigue and material corruption, the quality of the Baruch royal family's direct bloodline declined rapidly. Facing King Rahman's trials, each generation was more and more incapable. Each king training ceremony required more successors to be selected before the next king could be elected. During the fourth generation king's king training ceremony, even all the members of the royal family at the lower level failed. Helplessly, the king had to make an exception and let the members of the black soil level participate in the trial. After the members passed the test, they would concentrate resources to promote them to the upper level and officially inherit the power.
This phenomenon reached its peak during the sixth king's training ceremony. At the sixth king's training ceremony, the direct line of the Baruch royal family was almost wiped out. From the disciples to the apprentices, none of the candidates for succession passed King Rahman's soul test. After this situation occurred, the court priests and the king elects at that time all pleaded with Rahman, asking him to lower the standard of the test a little and let one person pass. However, Rahman's attitude was extremely tough at that time. He was absolutely unwilling to lower the requirements and directly told all the royal family members at that time that if there were not enough direct lines, then they would switch to another one until a qualified king was chosen.
Rahman's attitude made the direct descendants of Baruch, who had controlled the throne of Adus for nearly a hundred years and had established a huge network of interests in Adus, feel panic. They were worried that once the throne slipped away from their hands, the huge power and wealth they had accumulated over the years would be lost. So in the moment of panic, they launched a bold action.
During the sixth king's ordination ceremony, members of Baruch's direct line deceived Rahman. While Rahman's soul was sleeping in the coffin, they arranged a blasphemous ritual obtained from an unknown secret society, and then controlled Rahman's soul by sacrificing the blood of members of the same clan. King Rahman used the power of his bloodline to leave a strong force to stabilize the throne for his descendants, but his descendants also used bloodline as a medium to blaspheme and control King Rahman's soul.
In this way, King Rahman was forcibly controlled by his own descendants in anger. Under coercion, King Rahman recognized the heir to the throne whom he had previously considered unqualified. The sixth Baruch King, Hurham, was thus crowned. From then on, every Baruch King was directly succeeded by the first-in-line heir. Under the control of the blood shackle ceremony, Rahman's spirit was forced to recognize one king after another whom he considered unqualified. The entire king-refining ceremony was in vain and merely became a formality. The entire Baruch dynasty began to decline rapidly until it was overthrown by the revolutionary alliance led by Shadi and the Saviorists.
"To protect the dynasty with blood, but then be betrayed by blood? This is truly a tragedy..."
On the bell tower, after listening to Rahman's story, Dorothy controlled the corpse to speak with emotion, and Rahman responded with a sigh.
"I just don't trust my bloodline... I just established the King Refining Ceremony, and now it has been proven... The changes in people's hearts are far more profound than I thought. It's only been six generations... and such an embarrassing situation has appeared. Perhaps it would have been the best choice for me to no longer care about the world and return to the netherworld after death. In this way, after Baruch decayed, the resistance would have overthrown him more easily. It is my power that has made Baruch decay until now... I am so ashamed..." Rahman said this, and then he turned his gaze to the corpse doll beside him.
"But fortunately, this corruption did not continue forever. Thanks to you... and the endless resistance on this land, Baruch was able to end and we were able to be liberated... I am here in the name of Adus to thank you, strangers..."
As he spoke, Rahman performed the traditional ritual of Adus with Nefernis's body towards Dorothy's corpse to express his gratitude, and Dorothy responded with a smile.
"No need to thank us. We just took what we needed. We came to your mausoleum to rob it. Now that we have the things, we are very satisfied that you, the owner of the tomb, will not pursue the matter..."
Dorothy said this, and then he asked the corpse doll to take out the wine glass "Hellenistic Lamp" from his clothes and fiddled with it for a few times. After seeing the "Hellenistic Lamp", Rahman smiled slightly, and then continued to speak.
"The Netherworld Lamp... is the most precious treasure I have obtained during my many years of battles. It is said that it carries a blessing from the Lord of the Netherworld. I hope you can use it well and not use it to do anything that would harm Adus, thief."
"Don't worry about that..." Dorothy responded, then she asked the corpse doll to take back the Hades Lamp, and then asked Rahman again.
"Well, it's time for us to say goodbye now, Your Majesty Rahman, are you going to start your journey to Adus immediately?"
"No... I'm not in a hurry yet. Over the past few hundred years, dozens of rituals have deeply damaged my spirit. What I need to do first is to find a place suitable for soul cultivation and recovery. When I am almost recovered, I will travel in Adus. My tomb has been opened and destroyed, so this is not a suitable place."
Rahman continued to speak to Dorothy. After listening to Rahman's words, Dorothy thought for a moment, then asked the corpse to turn its head and look at the spirit of an old man floating not far away on the other side.
"Shaman Uta, is there a place suitable for soul recuperation and recovery in your area?"
Dorothy asked the corpse doll to use the spirit seal language to speak to the old shaman's spirit. At this moment, Uta's spirit was studying the soul fragments collected from the tomb of King Rahman. They were from the two wilderness spirits that were torn apart before. After hearing Dorothy's words, he temporarily put down his research and responded to Dorothy.
"There are many high-quality forest spiritual sites on our land. As long as you can obtain the consent of the owner there, you can cultivate at will."
Uta responded to Dorothy like this. Needless to say, the owner of the spiritual field he mentioned was the wilderness spirits of the continent. After hearing Uta's response, Dorothy asked the corpse to look at Rahman and spoke in Northern Ukrainian.
"If you want a spiritual place suitable for soul cultivation, I have some good options here."
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