The Righteous Player(s)

Chapter 617 Lily Rasputin's Ring

"—Rasputin never tells a secret."

This is the family motto of the Rasputin family.

And they did so.

This ancient family with elven blood that has existed since the third era, so far, no member has ever voluntarily revealed any secrets.

Not just the curses of others and the secrets among the gods... even any joke of "I need you to keep this secret" between friends will be firmly remembered by them and will never be forgotten. Forget, never leak.

Rather than saying it is a family motto, it is better to say it is a curse flowing in the blood.

But it is also because of their loyalty to this oath.

In the Duchy of Winter alone, the Rasputins control more than one-fifth of the superhuman spells... When the superhumans do not have a trustworthy "Keeper of Secrets", they will give priority to finding Rasputin .There are even foreign transcendents who will come to the Principality of Winter, just to let Rasputin keep the secret for them.

The secrecy continued until either of the two died.

As a price for keeping the secret, Rasputin will ask for an additional "confirmed correct" secret as a reward.

This directly led to Rasputin becoming the most powerful ritualist family in the Duchy of Winter.

Every Rasputin will store the secrets he holds and needs to tell others in his secret ring before he dies.After Rasputin's death, as long as he got the other party's password, he could extract the secret from it.

And the password of this ring is not even known to the owner himself-the three elders of the Rasputin family each hold a password table.According to their date of birth, gender, and number of children in the family, a password can be obtained from the table.

Only by piecing together the three codes can their secret ring be unlocked.

"I've confirmed it, Annan. The ring you are holding is actually a secret ring of Rasputin."

Grand Duke Ivan said to Annan.

"……ring?"

Annan was taken aback for a moment: "What ring?"

"It is the relic of Don Juan Geraint's mother. It should be with you now."

Ivan reminded.

But what he said made Annan a little confused.

He frowned and thought for a while: "Don Juan Geraint's mother...should be from the Melvin family?"

"It was supposed to be like this. Or rather, we all thought so."

Ivan shook his head: "But, that is indeed the ring of the Rasputin family. You should understand what this means."

"...Is it an exchange of identities?"

Annan murmured: "But I remember, the surname Rasputin..."

"Yes, it is the family of your mother, Anya Rasputin. And the owner of this ring is Anya's own sister... Lily Rasputin who disappeared suddenly that year."

Grand Duke Ivan said slowly.

"Then who was supposed to marry into Geraint's family?"

"It's Euphemia Melvin, the third daughter of the Melvin family."

In other words, she was the sister of Wolf Professor Frederick Melvin and the sister of Eugene Melvin who died in the White Tower.

"...Euphemia is gone too?"

"Of course. But according to what we said before, we all thought she was married to Noah and the Crow's family... Because of the special status of the Crow's family, it's understandable that we couldn't contact her."

Otherwise, we would not have discovered this until now.

Ivan said so.

"Okay, let me think..."

The amount of information in these words can be said to be quite large.

Annan couldn't help frowning and thinking.

On the side, Ivan still whispered: "You should also know the meaning of Rasputin's house. I have already asked someone to ask for Lily's password... As for how to deal with it, should you open it first, or put it away?" It's up to you to give it to the Rasputins, or to the old crow of the Geraints.

"... After all, when you come back this time, you will succeed the Grand Duke."

——So, I can no longer make up your mind.

Although Ivan didn't say this directly, he said it to Annan with his eyes.

It was a steady and gentle look, full of hope.

"……I see."

Annan was silent for a while, then nodded slightly.

Unlike the Melvin family who remained neutral, the Rasputin family was one of the very few core families that were closer to Duke Winter.They also live in Frostwhisper province.

In other words, the Rasputin family can be wooed.Annan also had to take their feelings into consideration... so it was impossible to hand it over to the Geraint family.

However, why has Lily not responded for so many years?
Judging from the ring she left to Don Juan, she seems to have a deep affection for Don Juan.And she doesn't dislike the Geraint family - she even engraved the flying feather mark on the ring.

The crow's feather is the unique symbol of the Geraint family.

It was also because of this that Annan thought it was a ring produced by the Geraint family.But until he was a guest at Geraint's house, he never saw anyone else wearing this kind of ring...

At that time, Annan didn't think much about it.

In the end, is this actually the secret ring of the Rasputin family?

"...Fortunately, I really took it with me."

Annan took out the ring with some hesitation.

It was a luxurious silver ring inlaid with sapphires.

On the outer ring of that ring, a feather-like pattern was engraved.But if you look closely, it seems that there are indeed subtle runes on the inside.

After getting the information from Ivan, the attributes on the ring have quietly changed:
【Dark Blue Guardian】

[Type: Ring (Purple) / Sealed Item]

[Description: The relic left by Don Juan Geraint's mother for him, which contains cold magic power and curse]

[Description: A ring that seals a secret, the inner ring is engraved with "Lily Rasputin" in the language of elves]

[Description: This ring has undergone secondary processing by special craftsmanship, and it seems to be somewhat similar to the seal ring of "Hand of Winter"]

Seeing this, Annan raised his head subconsciously, and looked at the woman with long dark blue hair, Winter's Hand.

The transparent ring on her left ring finger is undoubtedly very different from this ring.

Where is the similarity...

Annan held the ring hesitantly, raised his head and asked Ivan again: "Is it really okay to leave this to me?"

"After all, this is Lily's ring... She has no other relatives, and you and Maria are her closest relatives. It is legal and reasonable for you to dispose of it."

Ivan seems to know this "Lily", his... aunt?
"Where's Euphemia?"

"Melvin is different from Rasputin. I don't intend to let their family investigate this matter."

Ivan replied.

The implication is that this matter should be investigated by Annan himself.

This is reasonable.

"...Then, give me the password."

"The password to unlock the seal is—the shoulder fur of a brown calf, stained with three drops of snake's tears, and wipe the surface when the flame burns the ring until it is slightly hot but not red."

Ivan said, turning his gaze to his desk: "Zoya has already prepared it for you.

"Do we need to get out of the way?"

The Grand Duke seems to have a vague understanding of that secret.

　update completed!I'm so busy today, I can only make one update...

　　Tomorrow (referring to Sunday) should be able to do double changes. On Monday, I have to go to my father’s grave during the day, maybe only one change (it will be a bit late)
　　good night kids
　　
　
(End of this chapter)