Hyper-Dimensional Player-Chapter 378 - 11: Holy Relic, Magic Refueling, Tithing (3)

History is like a harlot; anyone can manipulate it. Kings and noblemen are naturally legendary, but without proper handling, Duncan can only support them. That’s just the lower limit; the upper limit has to rely on themselves.

The same earliest woman to follow Duncan, the Crow Queen Triss can ascend to godhood, while Anya remains a five-star whiteboard.

There’s nothing to be done about it.

Duncan can’t support Anya at all costs. Sometimes, they need to rely on their own efforts so Duncan can help them break through the ceiling’s upper limit.

Even the women closest to him can’t defy destiny by force. They must lay a solid foundation by themselves.

When he finally retired, he learned from the legendary Yellow Emperor. Some folk tales say the Three Emperors retired to the Fire Cloud Cave Sacred Palace, which includes Fu Xi, Shennong, and the Yellow Emperor. There’s no particularly suitable place in European legends, so Duncan could only choose the Land of Blessings, Avalon, otherwise, he could only go to the Otherworld.

There’s no way he would go to heaven or Asgard of the Norse Pantheon.

The current situation.

Duncan feels a bit stuck himself; he can forcefully enter reality but can only coalesce as an avatar and cannot stay long. As for others, Heroic Spirit Transformation is like separating heaven and earth. They can only be summoned as heroic spirits.

However, Anya isn’t in the regular heroic spirit summoning sequence; she’s essentially just an accessory to Duncan.

The world’s laws have already changed anew; the East has given birth to the Underworld, while the West has the concept of hell condensed in the Otherworld. Within hundreds of years, even myths have been updated.

Woosh.

The sound of flowing water resounded.

Duncan rose and took position, like a drawn bow ready to shoot; the emotional debts he incurred must naturally be paid by himself. With too many women around, it becomes hard to have enough energy for many things. Given the rare chance to awaken and return, he would definitely not stop until he satisfied them.

Even the emperor of the empire must bury his head and toil hard, as he willingly took on so many concubines and lovers.

Since it’s Magic Refueling, let’s refill completely.

A night passes without a word.

After appeasing the clingy Anya, Duncan finally has time to study historical changes.

Regarding the empire’s collapse, he’s actually not surprised at all. No one can escape the cycle of history. The vast empire he built didn’t die by external invasion but was destroyed by severe land consolidation.

When power and wealth are highly concentrated in a few people, no one can change the major trend of history. 𝒻𝑟ℯℯ𝑤𝑒𝑏𝑛𝘰𝓋𝑒𝓁.𝒸𝑜𝘮

The descendants can’t stand firm, and there’s nothing he can do.

Though there were descendants attempting reforms, such as Duncan IX, who died under suspicious circumstances; the backlash from such reforms only further destabilized and confused the empire. Some noble families that initially rose by following Duncan either lasted one or two hundred years before being destroyed.

Even families established by Severus, Kvito, and Clegane mostly perished after three hundred years. The requirements for thousand-year families are extremely stringent. Duncan relied on the blessing of the King of Kings and the Father of Europe to maintain the continuation of three branch bloodlines.

Yet during history’s evolution, the legitimate bloodline has long been replaced several times. The Dragon Bloodline only passed down to Duncan IV; later, it was the illegitimate children who ascended to power, and collateral bloodlines took over.

As for Duncan VI, who experienced atavism with the Dragon Bloodline, he was a one-night stand’s product, born secretly by a maid, barely counting as an illegitimate child.

This era’s illegitimate children also have certain thresholds.

After so many generations of continuation, Duncan’s sole connection to them is being their ancestral origin. Later, the Dragon Bloodline intermingled with the Giant Bloodline; after five generations, it became increasingly mixed, but the chance of bloodline atavism remains particularly low.

Among them, there are also incompetent descendants, such as Duncan IV, the Convert. He once secretly swapped the deity statue inside Duncan’s altar temple for his own.

Of course, it was later switched back by his son.

After Duncan VI ascended, he further promoted Duncan’s deification, as he awakened the Dragon Bloodline’s atavism. As a descendant possessing a trace of the giant dragon’s power, he was more aware of how strong his ancestor truly was.

The empire continued nearly four hundred years; the descendants did too many absurd things, not finishable in a few phrases. Duncan might whip them thoroughly when he gets a chance in the future.

Duncan IV is mentioned here; starting from him, subsequent emperors even established ancestral instructions forbidding the change of sacrificial temple statues.

Simply lawless!

Duncan IV’s reputation isn’t much better than Nero’s. If the church hadn’t bestowed the title of Convert, he might end up dining with Nero. He actually dared to aspire to godhood and wanted to replace Duncan, gathering divine virtues for himself as the emperor of the empire.

If Duncan VI hadn’t ascended and dedicated himself to rectifying matters later, the empire’s fate might have shortened by a hundred or two hundred years.

Avalon Holy Sanctuary.

What Duncan learned from the log wasn’t detailed enough. In these two days of returning, he mainly listened to the Guardian Fairies narrate events over the centuries.

Among them, the most crucial is the rise of Monotheism.

"Even with my suppression, did they finally rise over a hundred years later?"

Duncan shook his head and sighed, marveling at the power of the era’s waves.

From him all the way to Duncan III, Monotheism was tightly suppressed by imperial authority. For nearly one hundred and fifty years, Monotheistic Popes were all appointed by the empire’s emperors.