The portable grandfathers that appear are all problematic.

“Miss Laurent, the Queen has received news of your family’s participation in the Great Expedition and has prepared a seat for you,” a maid said.

“Yes.” The noble lady also gave a slight bow.

Xue Lude glanced at the little girl briefly. Although she was very arrogant, she was really good at putting on a show.

It is certain that even if this child grows up normally, he will definitely become an extraordinary person. A nobleman who gives basic courtesy to his maid is already a Hammimedes among insects.

Although Xue's Law always believed that the nobility was full of scoundrels, how could civilization be well developed when surrounded by such fools?

However, under the education of the nobility, some outstanding talents will always emerge among these scions of noble families, in addition to the scoundrels, barely managing to keep the broken-down cart of the noble family moving forward. Until the broken-down cart of the noble family can no longer be moved even by these outstanding talents, it will be time for the noble families to choose between streetlights and soap factories for their future.

Once the two entered the palace, everyone else turned to look at them.

There were five teams in total. Xue Luding glanced at them and saw that one was a warrior wielding a greatsword, another was a contestant who looked like a bard, a one-eyed woman who resembled a pirate, an archer, and a mystic holding a book.

He didn't even know Xue's laws, and he didn't know much about the history of this world, since he had spent most of last night fighting wits and courage with Zeus.

There's a Zeus sealed within the consciousness space that could explode at any moment.

The Queen did not arrive. Now, with the addition of Xue Luding's group, all six teams are present. The seventh person should be Zeus, but his coffin lid is currently being firmly suppressed by Xue Luding.

While Xue was silently observing, he asked Lana, who was standing next to him, "Who do you know here? And who don't you know?"

The Laurent family, after all, were nobles in the capital region, and generally, the people they knew were at least from the noble circle.

As for the others, they should be lucky geniuses who emerged from the common people, similar to the little beggar who summoned Xue's Law before.

"The heroic spirit wielding the greatsword is likely an ancestor of the Duke's family, the heroic spirit known as the Blood Duke, while the mystic is the Duke's second son," Lana whispered to Xue Dinglu.

At the same time, Xue Dinglu set up a soundproof barrier between the two of them, ensuring that their conversation would not be leaked.

I don't know that bard or his master; they must be commoners.

"The pirates' master is a child of a coastal viscount family, but I'm not sure who the heroic spirit is."

“I’m not sure about the other two groups, but they should also be commoners.” The noble lady analyzed the information she had seen for Xue Luding in detail.

Xue Dinglu nodded in agreement. They could basically distinguish between the nobles and the commoners for the time being. He was just curious whether this great expedition was really randomly assigned or whether there was a selection mechanism involved.

For example, they must be mystics, or their ancestors were mystics. Even if they become commoners, they may have awakened their aptitude in this generation, but they have not yet become mystics because they lack resources and knowledge.

Xue Lude has always believed that this great expedition was actually a large-scale magical ritual carried out by the followers of the Ninth Apostle. As for the purpose of the ritual, he is not sure yet, but it may be related to the flowering and fruiting of the Divine Tree.

The others seemed to be observing Xue Luding's group as well, but they remained silent, perhaps because they didn't want to communicate directly with the Heroic Spirit in front of everyone, or perhaps they simply didn't understand this simple soundproofing magic.

After waiting for almost the entire morning, until Xue Luding grew impatient, the over-seventy-year-old Queen slowly entered the palace's reception room, accompanied by a middle-aged prince.

"My lords, this great expedition also relies on your battles and the support of the ancient heroes." The Queen said, supported by her attendants, and then briefly went through the kingdom's ceremony.

She held the blood-red wine in a glass in her hand and passed it to the six groups of leaders and followers in turn.

This is a tradition in human empires where, before going to war, the king would drink blood-stained wine with his warriors to boost their morale.

However, as it has been passed down to this day, it seems to have become the idea that bright red wine replaced the blood-stained beverage.

Xue Dinglu silently took a sip. It tasted very sour and astringent. Even with sugar, it was still unpleasant to drink. There was nothing wrong with the red wine itself. He just didn't know why this noble lady could finish it without changing her expression.

The Queen seemed to have only made a brief appearance before leaving. Two days later, they would participate in this great expedition, heading to an island called the Land of Judgment to engage in a battle royale-style fight against the seven pairs of demons.

This great expedition will not end until one side is completely dead.

Therefore, in the next two days, they need to wait for the last group of masters and followers to settle in the palace, get to know each other, and become familiar with each other's abilities. Only then can they cooperate effectively when they arrive at the Judgment Land.

Even though many disdain the master-servant relationship, the royal family still requires them to be familiar with each other and cooperate, at least to form an alliance. After all, this concerns the development of humanity for the next hundred years. They don't want to wake up one day to find that the Great Expedition has failed, humanity has completely turned into demons, and they have to endure a hundred years of sulfur and poison gas to survive this century of natural disasters and find another opportunity for the Great Expedition.

The prince led everyone to a large training ground, where houses had been built beforehand for the lords and their followers who were participating in this great expedition to rest.

"Our ancestors, we are all fighting for the future of humanity. Therefore, we hope that you will reveal your true names and form alliances and cooperate accordingly to successfully complete this great expedition." The prince also bowed slightly to the seven pairs of masters and servants.

Everyone else returned the greeting, even the children from the commoner families, who were now frantically trying to imitate the others, performing the completely unfamiliar etiquette towards the prince as if they had learned it on the spot.

"I will come here frequently these next two days to communicate with you. You can come to me with any materials or resources you need. I will be your solid logistical support. Also, if our ancestors need special ritual materials or pre-arranged spells, you can consult me. I will do my best to cooperate." The prince seemed to be very respectful to the other heroic spirits as he spoke.

Xue Lu looked at the man and found that this prince was not bad. Despite being a top-level nobleman, he did not have the stereotypical image of a useless person among nobles. On the contrary, he seemed to be quite capable.

The nobles of this world suddenly piqued Xue Lude's interest. He had dealt with countless nobles, from the most unsettling god-like nobles to the Giant Beast Star Council, who had also been involved in human affairs. He had gotten to know and communicated with them all.

In general, most nobles are insects, and those who are more human only unite to do human things when they are forced to move forward due to external pressure or other circumstances.

However, the vast majority of nobles were extremely hypocritical.

In this world, both the Earl's family and the royal family seem to have some level of competence, basically reaching the level of feudal founding nobles. Although they still cannot shake off the anthropomorphic flavor of nobility, they are already considered potential partners.

If everyone were like the gods and nobles in Rachel's world, Xue's Law would probably just raise his right hand at a 45-degree angle and give a speech in a beer hall.

Next, the prince left the camp and went out to prepare the corresponding spellcasting materials and ritual props for the six groups of masters and followers.

After all, this was a war that would determine the fate of all mankind for the next hundred years or so, so the royal family spared no effort in providing support, opening up their national treasury with precious materials, mystical tools, and even strange and unusual spellbooks.

These items, if left out, would be enough to form the foundation of a mystical nobleman, but now this prince is taking them all out without any hesitation. Judging from his expression, he seems quite distressed, as if the royal treasury has shrunk considerably.

"Gentlemen, I thank our ancestors for their support. Please make sure this great expedition is completed." After saying this, the prince finally left.

Xue Dinglu and the noblewoman named Lana arrived at their residence and began the final preparations for this great expedition.

Chapter 329 Oh no, the breeding has become rampant!

At this moment, on Earth, countless light-years away, the Earth consciousness looked at the seal within its body with great confusion.

"Where did this huge reproductive authority that I sealed away go?"

After the Age of Gods, all the powers in the world were dismantled and taken back, but among all the divine powers, the power of procreation was the only exception.

If the right to reproduce were taken back, all species on Earth might be plunged into a state of infertility. Therefore, although the right to reproduce represents the Greek gods and contains many elements of Zeus and his family, it is necessary to retain this right.

But where did my enormous reproductive authority go?

……

On another planet, on the training ground arranged by the royal family, Xue Luding spoke quietly.

"You can call me the Mad Viscount. I'm skilled in spellcasting and mystical rituals. My special ability is summoning terrifying blood-borne monsters. That's all," Xue Dinglu stated to everyone without batting an eye.

Others also had doubts, but they mostly chose to believe Xue's Law because, by sheer luck, none of the other resurrected heroes were from the same era as the Mad Viscount from a hundred years ago, or even knew him.

The remaining people then introduced their basic abilities to each other.

The knight wielding the greatsword is none other than the Blood Duke from human history, one of the comrades who fought alongside the Golden Emperor a thousand years ago. He possesses super-fast regeneration and the ability to go berserk by burning blood, enough to unleash combat power of level 4 or higher.

The bard is a support character who possesses a morale-boosting song, and is a Tier 3 bard.

The one-eyed pirate woman can manipulate water over a wide area, the archer has the ability to snipe from a great distance, and the last mystic is the originator of mysticism among mankind, and is said to have an extremely strong ability to complete rituals. All three of them are near-Tier 4.

However, after seeing the strength of these individuals, Xue Luding silently estimated that the average combat strength of the enemy should not exceed level 4. After all, this was just a small-scale magical ritual on a planet, which could not even involve the planet's consciousness and the divine tree. If the combat intensity could reach the peak of level 4, it would already be very high.

Of course, Xue's enemy is not the seven heroic spirits of the demon race, but the mastermind behind this large-scale magical ritual.

The Ninth Apostle is named "Tavi," or "Judgment-Tavi" for short.

His power is to influence the present world through the subspace, separating others in the present world through the subspace or pulling them into His subspace, which is an endless deep sea.

However, to date, Xue's Law has not found any information corresponding to the Ninth Apostle, nor has it even found the Divine Tree.

Xue's Law does not believe that apostles will have any pity for their home planet, just like that mystic Brinton from the parallel world of Earth in 2028, who was the kind of guy who would rather devour all eight billion people in the world to feed the divine magic than stop.

Moreover, he is still wearing Brinton's leather suit in the Mist Council.

In the following time, the royal court mages, drenched in sweat, came over to train the six heroic spirits, devising cooperation plans and tactics for each other.

Some of them were not particularly fond of this court mystic, but in the end, they all chose to cooperate for the sake of humanity's development over the next hundred years.

After all, they are all ancestors in human history, and more than half of them were noble ancestors who participated in the great expeditions of the past.

Soon, everyone understood each other's abilities and formulated a simple plan.

That meant the Blood Duke was the vanguard, the archers were the scouts, the pirate woman was the center forward, and Xue, the mystic, and the bard were all there to set up and defend the position.

Commonly known as... a slacker!

After all, the bard's buffs are very random, and the abilities that Xue Law and the mystic show on the surface are mainly in terms of ritual setup and spell formations, which are not very useful on the front lines.

But the mystic was said to be able to conjure up miracles that would cause meteorites to fall.

As for Xue's Law, in the legend of the Mad Viscount, his demonstrated ability is to create newborn monsters.

Overall, their human lineup was quite reasonable, and for this great expedition, it was one of the more reasonable lineup combinations in recent wars.

After getting to know each other and practicing their abilities on the first day, everyone separated to take their final rest before heading to the island known as the "Land of Judgment" the next day for the grand expedition.

However, after returning to their respective cottages, Lana, the noblewoman, frowned and activated the soundproof barrier set up by Xue Dinglu, then said, "Your Excellency, although you may think I'm being pretentious, I have a very strange feeling that I must report to you."

The noblewoman looked at Xue Luding and recounted in detail what had happened during her training session that day.

To put it simply, she was targeted by other contestants. The bard's master, a lucky commoner boy, kept harassing her, and even threatened her after she clearly rejected him, saying he would make her kneel before him.

When Xue Dinglu first heard this story, he thought it was just a very ordinary little thing. Young people's hormones are surging, they can't see the situation clearly, and after suddenly receiving courtesy and power, they can't distinguish between the big and small kings. The sky cleared and the rain stopped, and he seemed to think he was invincible.

Xue Dinglu has seen this kind of situation many times. Even when Yun Xing first obtained the power of the giant beast, he had the same mentality. After being hit by the jeep twice, he became obedient, then recognized himself and reality, and finally grew into a qualified senator and the subsequent commander-in-chief of the super beast army.

In particular, this count's daughter is at least aesthetically pleasing, and her pure white dress even has a unique attraction for young boys.

Seemingly realizing that Xue Dinglu didn't seem to care about the matter, the noblewoman continued, "I initially thought he was just a commoner who didn't recognize his own worth, but soon, the second son of the Grand Duke..."

At this point, her face showed a slight hint of shame and indignation, and she said, "He approached me and said that if I spent a night with him, he would help me resolve this problem."

Xue Law: “?”

No, what kind of low-class villain's remarks are these?

Seeing that the noblewoman looked like she had come to find her parents, Xue Dinglu, who had been nonchalant, now silently leaned back and said, "Go on, is there any other information?"

“Yes, I find it very unusual. I know the second son of that Grand Duke. He shouldn’t be this kind of person. At least in my circle and from the information I’ve gathered, he should be a very ambitious person with a grand vision.” Lana said, sitting down opposite Xue Dinglu and explaining her information in detail.

“The second son of the Grand Duke is quite famous in our circle. He doesn’t have the right to inherit the dukedom, but he actively participated in the empire’s bandit suppression and wild animal cleanup efforts from a young age. If nothing unexpected happens, even without a noble title, he can become a general of the empire through military merit and the Grand Duke’s influence, and obtain other titles, or become a guard of the imperial palace,” the girl said.

"It's just that he got the chance to participate in the Great Expedition by chance this time, and he was also the best performer among everyone. But at least in my circle, his reputation has always been good. He's the kind of person that other noble ladies in my circle are willing to fawn over."

Xue listened for a moment and concluded that the circle the noble lady was referring to was probably the gossip circle of noble ladies in the capital. She seemed to be quite familiar with the other noble ladies and young women, so they gossiped about each other, and at the same time, she also collected some information worth recording.

"Don't you think this is an intelligence error within your circle, and that the second son of that Grand Duke is actually that kind of person?" Xue Dinglu retorted.

“No, I can confirm that he’s not that kind of person. He’s in a relationship with another marquis’s daughter, and they’re probably close to getting engaged. That marquis is related to the royal family, so he wouldn’t dare say such a thing in the palace,” Miss Lana said firmly.

"Because if he truly wanted to marry the Marquis's only daughter, then be adopted and inherit the title, he certainly wouldn't have made such a foolish request. Even if he was faking it, he would have acted very affectionate towards the Marquis's daughter in front of others," Lana continued, a chilling smile appearing on her face.

“I am a nobleman, and I know very well why nobles fight so hard to obtain titles. If he were normal, he would inherit the title even if he died. That is the mindset a nobleman should have.”

“Instead of abandoning the soon-to-be-acquired Marquis's daughter and the title of Marquis just for the sake of some desire in his crotch,” Lana said resolutely.

Xue's Law silently began to ponder.

He didn't know much about the human customs of this world, but now, after listening to the girl's explanation, he was able to construct a model.

That is, the nobles of this world are closer to the aristocratic families before the Han Dynasty, valuing their status and titles more than their own lives.

However, it's one thing for ordinary people to try to satisfy their desires by threatening Lana, but it just shows they've really gone too far.

But it seems rather unworthy for the second son of the Grand Duke to abandon his title, which is more important than life itself, for such a trivial desire.

As for whether he was attracted to Lana's status as the daughter of Countess Lana, or whether he was confident that he would return safely from his expedition and obtain a title...

Firstly, if he truly coveted Lana's status as a daughter of the Earl's family, he shouldn't have resorted to such a despicable threatening method. Instead, a romantic "hero saves the beauty" scenario would have been far more appropriate.

Xue's Law doesn't believe that noble families lack basic manners. Lana's method of gathering information while gossiping among noble ladies proves that the nobles in this world at least have some ability in terms of upbringing.

As for the second one...

Xue's Law didn't think the second son of the Grand Duke's family, who couldn't inherit the title, was a fool. He wondered whether the difference between marrying a marquis's daughter to rise to power and live off his wife to become a marquis or starting from scratch as a baron was enormous.

Marquis was similar to the Cao, Yang, and Chen families in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, while baron was at most the level of the Mi family, Liu Bei's brother-in-law. The difference could be hundreds of times.

No, this kind of situation where people value their crotch above everything else...

Could it be caused by the descent of Zeus?

Xue's law suddenly had a very strange conjecture.

“Indeed, this behavior is very problematic. Not only the second son of that duke, but also that commoner who threatened you, are both very problematic…” Xue Dinglu thought, and for some reason, he thought again of the little beggar who had summoned him and was so arrogant and foolish.

He had felt that the little beggar was unusual at the time, and now, comparing him with the other two people Lana mentioned, he suddenly realized that the situation of those two people was very similar to that of the little beggar.

Just as Xue Dinglu and the countess's daughter were deep in thought, their fingers tapping incessantly on the table, there was a knock on their door.

"Please come in." Lana opened the door directly. She thought it was the royal court mystic who had come, or that he had brought some ritual props and materials that Xue Lude needed.

But the person who opened the door was not a member of the royal family, but another heroic spirit, the one-eyed pirate woman.