Rebirth Of The Noble Mage Behind The Scenes Novel - Chapter 5
Chapter 5: Testing Ceremony
Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios
Erica carefully picked up the newborn and placed it into the array. The mage in charge of the ritual waved his staff, and invisible waves instantly emanated from the array, slowly sweeping across the newborn’s body.
But when it entered the newborn’s spirtual space, it encountered a special obstacle—the strange energy that brought Xia Yuan through.
The energy waves slid away from the surface of the energy layer, as if they were in two different spaces. Xia Yuan was unaware of this.
On the other side, the two rune rings in the spirit ritual instantly changed. The ten special runes in the rings gradually turned blood red.
The duke couldn’t help but hold his breath as his gaze followed the slowly moving runes, his blue eyes unblinking.
As time passed, the changes gradually stopped. The number of blood-colored runes in the two small rings finally stopped at nine at the same time. The last rune still shone with a faint blue light.
“Both bloodlines are at rank nine, Your Grace!”
The ritual sorcerer stared at the changes in the magic circle and exclaimed.
“Well—”
The duke simply agreed. His tone was unreadable, but a barely perceptible smile spread across his lips.
At this moment, he was staring unblinkingly at the strange three-dimensional rune on the other side of the spell formation.
The bloodline test results had already appeared, but the rune remained unchanged.
Seeing that there was no reaction from the rune, the duke could not help but frown.
This made the sorcerer, who was watching the duke’s reaction, sweat in his heart, secretly worried that he might have mistaken a certain line.
In Xia Yuan’s mind, the strange energy seemed to sense something. Its surface rippled.
A slightly illusory spiritual fragment gradually pushed away the surrounding energy and ‘floated’ out of the energy layer.
When the energy wave touched the spiritual fragment, the rune immediately emitted a dazzling white light. The duke let out a long sigh when he saw this, and his unconcealable smile finally crept onto his face.
“100% soul synchronization rate, Your Honor.”
The spellcaster who presided over the ritual finally relaxed and hurriedly reported.
“Hahahaha—Good! Very good!”
The duke burst out laughing, and this cheerfulness raised his volume by half.
“Leonard! Inform the Chief of the mages to prepare for the booklet ceremony. Send invitations to the royal family and the families, inviting them to attend the ceremony next full moon!
“Also, send my order to prepare for the festival! On the day of the ceremony, all mines, farms, and manors will be on holiday. This year, all citizens of Kalas will have their taxes halved! I want the entire Calas Province to celebrate for three days!”
“Yes, Your Grace!”
Butler Leonard bowed in acknowledgment before facing the duke and retreating from the room.
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Unlike ordinary people, the higher the rank of the mage, the lower the chances of producing offspring.
If the difficulty of an ordinary couple producing an offspring was set as one, then the difficulty for 1st rank mages was two, 2nd rank mages was four, 3rd rank mages was eight, 4th rank mages was sixteen… and so on.
Moreover, if the gap between husband and wife was large, then the difficulty of obtaining offspring would double.
As a rare ninth-rank Warlock on the continent, it was easy to imagine how difficult it was for the duke to have descendants.
In this situation, if a high rank mage wanted to obtain descendants, they would either use rare treasures that could increase the probability of success or… increase the number of times they did it.
The energetic and wealthy Grand Duke Karlos chose to do both.
Therefore, every time a new descendant was born, the duke would hold a grand celebration. During the celebration, all the subjects would receive three days of leave.
During these three days, the City Lord’s Estate and the various trading unions would provide free bread and ale. Most importantly, the taxes would also be halved.
To the civilians, a cut in taxes meant new clothes for the children and smiles on their wives’ faces.
For the poorer people, the cut in taxes meant surviving through the cold winter peacefully.
Therefore, when the news of the duke obtaining a noble son spread, Kalas City was filled with celebratory atmosphere immediately.
With the help of magic, this atmosphere quickly spread throughout the entire Karlas Province.
“Praise the Duke!”
People were chanting.
“The generous and benevolent Duke and his kind wife have once again been blessed by the heavens! May the gods bless them.”
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The year of Eunival was also divided into twelve months, following the twelve phases of the silver moon, Severn.
Glory Calendar year 2442, May, Day 15.
Breathing in the faint scent of calming flowers, Xia Yuan was held in the arms of a pink-haired girl. He looked at the roof of the gorgeous platinum carriage that was half blocked by something, contemplating life.
It had been about a month since he transmigrated. During this period of time, he had obtained even more memory fragments.
He was born in this world’s Ya Er continent, the continent’s map was divided by the three super forces, from big to small:
[Saint Messiah Empire], [Gloria Empire], [Ethel Kingdom Federation].
Just like the game’s introduction, the background of this world was the medieval period of sword and magic.
Those powerful fighters could form an army by themselves. They could easily flatten mountains that reached into the clouds, overturn the unfathomable sea, and even cause the stars in the sky to fall.
The owner of the memory fragment was a young noble named Anvis. For convenience, Xia Yuan called him past Anvis.
The memories varied from his childhood to his adolescence. To put it simply, he was a direct descendant of one of the four dukes of Gloria, the Olivendi family.
He was a descendant of a noble family who had inherited a legendary bloodline and was extremely talented.
Unfortunately, he was born at the wrong time.
At this juncture where the new and old eras were changing, this noble and gorgeous background was not a protective umbrella, but a life-threatening label.
A few decades after past Anvis was born, the old nobles gradually declined, and the new nobles rose in power.
As one of the representatives of the old nobles, the Olivendi family had been labeled as villains and suffered a devastating blow.
In the second expansion pack of the game in his previous life, the change in power balance had already occurred, and Olivendi could only form an alliance with the other three families to survive.
When he was a player, he even accepted the mission to finish off the alliance…
……
But where did these memory fragments come from?
Closing his eyes gently, Xia Yuan fell into deep thought.
It was not that he had not read novels before. He knew that there was a saying that a rebirth would bring back the memories of the original owner. However, his reincarnation status was that of a newborn. How could he have the memories of the original owner?
After a while, Xia Yuan gave up thinking.
The transmigration had already happened. It did not seem like it was a big deal to have an additional source of memories.
No use crying over spilt milk—
He was more interested in a new discovery:
In a certain memory scene, a player’s figure appeared!
Indeed, other than being able to revive, players looked no different from NPCs.
However, it was hard for the two of them to not attract Xia Yuan’s attention.
