Tome of Blood

This time, the convoy from Castel has about 300 people, guarding a full 40 carriages.

Among them, one hundred were armored knights of the Castel family, three mages, and the remaining two hundred were followers and coachmen.

The leader leading the convoy is Baron Sharon, his full name is Sharon de Leon-Castel, a senior starry first-order knight.

After knowing the other party's full name, Charlotte was still a little surprised. She didn't expect to see half of her family's surname in the other party's surname.

However, after Quasimodo's introduction, Charlotte knew that the Leon-Castell family was a branch of the Castell family.

Just like the Castell family is a branch of the Bold family, there are also many branches of the Castell family in the Earl of Castell, but some of them continue to use Castell's name after the separation. Stayed in the surname, and some took on new names entirely.

Similar family branches are quite common in the world of Myria.

This is determined by the inheritance law of the Miriam aristocratic system. Its origin is also the Unet Empire, which established the current basic political structure of Miria. All heirs will receive the next-level noble title and territory.

It is also because of this that in the past thousand years, various aristocratic families have branched out. In addition to the main family, side branches have also continued to branch, forming more and more noble surnames.

In other words, Baron Sharon's ancestors were also direct members of the Castel family.

However, success also divides inheritance, and failure also divides inheritance.

Although the divided inheritance maintained a certain degree of fairness and allowed the noble family to continue to grow, the divided inheritance also brought wars, especially the struggle between the heirs over the right of inheritance.

In addition, the continuous division and succession is also weakening the centralization of power. Many feudal kingdoms, including the Unet Empire, have weakened the kingship with the continuous division. The country perishes.

Of course, this is the old calendar.

People have a long memory, and the same is true for nobles.

Today, a thousand years have passed, the vast majority of noble families have long since abandoned split inheritance, and instead chose the more "advanced" eldest son inheritance.

Although the heirs other than the eldest son may get the fief, it is not for inheritance reasons, but for the gift of the lord.

As for the Castle family...

In addition to branching out and branching out more than a hundred years ago, Castel's main branch has been single-passed for five generations in the past hundred years, and it is always on the verge of extinction.

When it comes to Charlotte, seriously speaking, it is almost the same as extinct heir.

It is also for this reason that although there are branches of the Castel family in the Earl of Castel, their blood relationship is not even close to other families in the kingdom and duchy that they married, and the same is true for the claim and inheritance of Castel.

Even if they have a blood relationship, even if they are still a part of the Castel family, the nobles in these territories are almost the same as those who were enfeoffed.

Besides Baron Sharon, among the 100 armored knights escorting the convoy, there were five advanced knights, including a hereditary nobleman, and four extraordinary knights who borrowed the seed of power to enter the advanced stage.

Although the remaining knights have not advanced, they are all extraordinary.

As for the three mages, there is also Fan Xing, and the remaining two are apprentices.

Obviously, the ratio of mages among extraordinary people is much lower than that of extraordinary knights.

But that's also normal.

The conditions for becoming a mage are already harsher than those of an extraordinary knight, not to mention that an extraordinary knight can still be mass-produced through the Seed of Origin Power.

Although the mass-produced beginners are less powerful, they are still beginners.

Seeing the strength of the escorting knights, Charlotte almost had a more intuitive concept of the strength of her family.

You must know that in the Demon Hunting House in Boulder City, there are no more than forty advanced Demon Hunting Knights in total, but here, there are seven advanced people in the castel family's supplies delivery team!

However, the knights escorting the convoy were not the strongest force in the team.

The strongest force is a middle-aged man standing beside Baron Sharon.

Unlike the armored knight, the equipment on his body looks much older, and his whole person also has a reckless look.

And in him, Charlotte felt an obvious sense of threat, although not as good as Sebastian, but it was already quite strong.

Silver Moon!

This is a superhuman of the second level of Silver Moon!

Aware of the opponent's strength, it was hard for Charlotte not to cast a curious look.

Undoubtedly, compared to the majestic armored knight, this second-level Silver Moon is the real escort.

He alone might be able to easily defeat these knights!

Noticing her gaze, Sharon hurriedly introduced respectfully:

"Miss Charlotte, this is Lord Carlisle."

After finishing speaking, he introduced Charlotte to the superhumans of the second level of Silver Moon:

"Your Excellency Carlisle, this is the young master of our Castel family, Miss Charlotte."

Carlisle... Your Excellency?

Her heart moved slightly.

As a first-rank baron of Fanxing, Sharon didn't address the other party as an adult, which meant that the other party was not an aristocrat.

The second rank of Yinyue is not an aristocrat, and coupled with the vicissitudes of life and rough attire, the answer is ready to come out.

The other party...is probably a free mercenary!

And as if to verify Charlotte's guess, the middle-aged man couldn't help but look at her a few more times before looking away. His eyes stopped at Sebastian at most, and then he said to Baron Sharon:

"Your Excellency Sharon, Polder is here, and I should go too."

"Your Excellency Carlisle, don't you want to stay and rest? Let's do our best as landlords."

Baron Sharon said in a deep voice.

However, the Transcendent named Carlisle just shook his head:

"Thank you for your invitation, but I have other things to do."

After some refusals, the extraordinary person of the second level of Silver Moon left.

Before leaving, Baron Sharon ordered a knight to give him a beautiful bag. Charlotte took a sharp look and found that there were many shiny silver metals inside, which looked like the legendary mithril.

She immediately understood that this mercenary was not Castel's retainer, but just hired to help escort supplies.

However, being able to hire a silver moon second-level escort to escort the supplies for a month is enough to show Castel's financial resources and the value of the delivered items.

According to Nice's price for hiring superhumans in the black market, if there are no tens of thousands of Quintana, I'm afraid they won't be able to hire them!

And this... also made Charlotte even more curious about the supplies delivered by the convoy.

After all, the cost of this trip alone may cost tens of thousands of Quintanas!

Accompanied by the excited pursuit of the children, the Castel family's convoy drove into Boulder City, and the surrounding knights sprinkled silver tana on both sides to open the way, welcoming bursts of applause.

Sitting in the carriage, Charlotte couldn't wait to order the guarding knights to send the list of supplies to Xian Kangkang.

After listening to her order, although Baron Sharon hesitated, he finally obeyed.

After seeing the list, Charlotte finally knew why forty carriages were used.

It turned out that the convoy they escorted not only provided funds for the manor, but also provided goods for the family's stores throughout the Principality of Boulder.

Forty carriages, most of which are goods!

They are not only a convoy of supplies, but also a caravan.

As for the supplies they transported... there are high-quality textiles from the Fallen Star Kingdom, elf ornaments and magic props from Luna Island, as well as minerals and gems from Castelland.

And when Charlotte saw the column of funds transported to the manor, her eyes suddenly lit up.

Five hundred thousand!

There are five hundred thousand quintana for the convoy transported to the manor as funds for family activities!

God, that's a month's worth of money!

That's six million Quintanas a year!

Is your family so rich? !

Charlotte felt that her little heart was trembling, and she felt that she still underestimated her family's wealth.

At this time, the old servant Quasimodo couldn't help knocking on the car window:

"Master, roughly how much money was transported from the family territory...?"

"Five hundred thousand Quintana!"

Charlotte took a deep breath and said with a red face.

However, after hearing her words, Quasimodo frowned slightly:

"Fifty... ten thousand?"

Seeing his expression, Charlotte felt a little strange:

"What, is there a problem?"

Quasimodo hesitated, and said in a low voice:

"It seems that there are some problems..."

"Master, I haven't been involved in family matters for too many years, so I don't know what the current territory is like."

"But only half a million ... seems too little."

Charlotte: ...?

The second update still has to wait until one o'clock in the morning.