The Lord of Ashes

Less than a year and a half later, Thain returned to Grant Territory.

This time, Thain did not plan to stay with the family for a long time, because his experiment had reached a critical period, and this experiment was about the Jade Fire Tempered Body.

The former Grant Territory was expanded based on the original territory.

This is the result of the coordination of the vast majority of the nobles of the Lycian Alliance. Since the Grant family has greatly increased in strength in recent years, naturally their territory and status should also increase accordingly.

As a first-level magician, Thane knows a little more.

He knew that the reason why some small nobles were willing to give up some territories and annex them to other nobles, including the Grant family, was because their family's first-level ancestors and above might have had trouble.

Plane war is not a child's play. Hundreds of official magicians died in the Poison Fire Green Flame World War and the Jade Origin Holy Tower.

Many first-level and above knights from the human kingdoms around the Lycian Alliance seemed to have been transferred to the Knights Hall not long ago and participated in a plane war.

Including Thain's ancestors, Ulysses and Jerami, only came back after the war.

An invasion and reshuffle of forces invisible to ordinary people occurred in many surrounding human countries, including the Lycian Alliance.

Thanks to the sound rules of the Knights Hall, this shuffle and turmoil did not cause any trouble to the bottom of the wizarding world.

In fact, the death of hundreds of formal magicians in the Holy Tower of Blue Origin will inevitably lead to the weakening of magic families in many surrounding human countries.

However, until now, there has been no major disturbance, which is enough to prove the comprehensiveness of the current system.

The Ferrelan family where Thane's mother belonged once was also glorious, but now that it is like this, it can only be said that it has bad luck, and it hopes to rise again in the future.

The Grant family is not an extravagant aristocratic family. At least Thain feels that the three knights above the first level in the family are very frugal.

At the racecourse behind the Earl's Palace, Thain, who had just returned, saw a group of first-level and above knights from the surrounding human countries and the Knights' Hall.

There is a reason why Old Grant and others chose to place the banquet here.

Because only the vast space here can support so many people.

There were only knights of the first level and above present, a total of two hundred people, not to mention some knights who also brought many entourages with them.

In addition to the huge figure of the second-level super-level Warcraft Reverse Feather Lion King appearing on the lawn, Thain also saw at least dozens of ferocious creatures with different looks.

These first- and second-level creatures of staggering size should be the mounts of the knights present.

Not all knights' mounts were World of Warcraft from the Wizarding World. On several of the weird-looking monsters, Thane felt the obvious aura of alien creatures.

Of course, Thane was more concerned about the more than two hundred knights on the lawn banquet venue than these first- and second-level creatures that had become mounts.

To be honest, Thain really didn't expect that his great-grandfathers Ulysses and Jerami could call so many knights above the first level.

If it were Thain who held a celebration party, he would definitely not be able to invite more than ten "friends", and it is very likely that only five would be enough.

The appearance of Thain undoubtedly instantly became the most eye-catching presence at this open-air banquet.

After landing from the sky, Xiaoqi, the owl carrying Thain, consciously flew in the direction of the first and second level creature mounts.

There, the Grant family prepared a large number of maids and waiters to provide sufficient food for these first- and second-level creatures with amazing appetites.

Fortunately, the Grant family took this opportunity to accept a lot of gifts, otherwise just these dozens of big-eating kings would probably be enough to cause a wave of bloodshed in the Grant family.

At this kind of celebration banquet, it is naturally impossible for the Grant family to bring out any ordinary beef and mutton. Even the flesh and blood provided for the mount creatures are all World of Warcraft flesh and blood or delicious alien-plane creature ingredients.

After Thain landed, he walked straight towards the center of the banquet where Old Grant and others were.

But the first one to make a loud noise was the Niyu Lion King who was eating there.

"Our first-level magician from the Grant family is back!" Niyu Lion King shouted.

Thain's status as a mere first-level magician naturally cannot attract too much attention from so many knights around him, not to mention that there are many second-level knights among them.

But Thane's other identity made these knights curious.

Originally, the Grant family's connections in the Knights Hall would not have attracted so many formal or above-level magicians to come in person.

At best, the families of these knights would send an envoy to greet them and give them a not-too-thin gift.

But a few years ago, the Reverse Feather Lion King carried Ulysses back to the main hall of the Knights Hall. After shouting with his loud voice in the Knights Hall, the other knights wondered whether they knew the details of the Grant family. It's a bit difficult.

After nodding to his father Grant Sr., his great-grandfather Ulysses, who was standing beside Sr. Grant, took the lead in introducing the majestic knight beside him to Thain.

This knight who is over three meters tall, has thick brown-red hair, and is extremely strong is also one of the focuses of all the knights present.

This is a third-level knight and the most distinguished guest of the Grant family at the moment.

"This is Knight Snape, from the Oak Empire, and an eternal friend of our Grant family." Great-grandfather Ulysses said to Thain.

When his great-grandfather introduced this third-level knight to Thain, the first thing that came to Thain's mind was that when his father, Earl Grant, was young, he led the army of the Lycian Alliance to fight against the invasion of the Orc Empire Legion.

It seems that the nickname "Earl of Bauhinia" was the reputation gained when the old Grant led the army to counterattack into the Oak Empire.

Even though Thain is extremely young and has a reputation as a genius, he was actually not bad back then.

At least in the field of knights, old Grant was also an outstanding elite in the Lycian League. Otherwise, the two great-grandfathers of the family would not have high hopes of being promoted to the first level.

The thought in his mind just flashed away. Of course, Thain could not mention his father's achievements back then to the third-level knight in front of him.

Disputes between secular human kingdoms can hardly involve the social circle of powerful people above the first level.

Under the constraints of the rules of the Knights Hall, at least everyone behaved decently on the surface.

"Hello, Knight Snape." Thain said with a mage salute.

Knight Snape had obviously seen the etiquette of magicians. He smiled and nodded, and said in a more friendly tone: "Hello, Master Thain. You are indeed as young as the rumors."

"I have dealt with Emperi, the dean of Jade Origin Holy Tower, several times. I heard that you just ended a plane war?"