Tome of Blood

The County of Castell is located in the northern part of the Crescent Kingdom.

From Boulder in the south to Castle in the north, it is about a month's journey overland.

Perhaps a powerful Transcendent will be faster when traveling alone, but for Castel's mighty thousand-member convoy, one month is already considered fast.

Of course, in addition to land routes, there are also sea routes.

The western part of the Principality of Boulder is close to the sea. If you go west first, go to the western seashore of Boulder, then take a boat to the north, and then pass through the Xingyue Strait in the northeast, you can also reach Castel in the Northland.

It might be faster by sea.

However, Charlotte did not choose sea and land.

One was that the war between the Fallen Star Kingdom and the New Moon Kingdom had not been over for long, and the Star-Moon Strait had always been dominated by the Fallen Star Kingdom.

Not only that, but the Duchy of Bois, which faces the sea in the west of the New Moon Kingdom, is the blood feud of the Duchy of Boulder. Even if Charlotte doesn't want to see the Duke of Boulder anymore, she is still a member of the Duchy of Boulder when she walks outside, and she is easy to be seen by others. miss.

Not to mention that when they pass through the Xingyue Strait, they have to pass through the Luoman Principality, an enclave of the Fallen Star Kingdom on the side of the Xingyue Strait.

To sum up, Charlotte thinks it is better to be cautious.

During the decades-long Star-Moon War, Castel Territory has always been one of the important territories coveted by the Fallen Star Kingdom!

The second thing is that Charlotte also wants to take this opportunity to get a better understanding of the world she lives in.

Although she already knew a lot of knowledge about this world from books, what she learned on paper was superficial.

Compared with land and sea where most of the time is spent at sea, you can appreciate the customs and customs of the New Moon Kingdom by land.

Going north from Boulder to the territory of Castel, avoiding the feud in the northwest of Bois, if you take a detour by land, you need to pass through two other duchies and two counties.

These four lords are all direct vassals of the Crescent Royal Family and directly swear allegiance to the king.

Among them, the two most powerful duchies are Yuehu Duchy and Violet Duchy, one in the south and one in the north.

The full name of the Moon Guard Principality is the Moon Guardian Principality. The ruling family is a branch of the Crescent Royal Family. They are loyal supporters of the royal family and one of the few nobles who support the king to strengthen the centralization of power.

The Principality of Violet is located in the north of the Kingdom. It is the enclave of the Fallen Star Kingdom, the Principality of Roman and the neighbor of the Earl of Castel. It is also the main battlefield of the Star Moon War.

As for the other two counties... they are both vassals of the New Moon Principality, the territory directly under the New Moon Royal Family.

They are sandwiched between the two duchies, and they are very close to the royal family. The lords are all offshoot families of the royal family, and a little further to the northeast is New Moon City, the royal capital of the New Moon Kingdom.

Not to mention that the strength of the two counties is far inferior to that of Castel. Although the relationship between the two duchies, the south and the north, and Bold is not on good terms, it is far from the level of hostility.

It is indeed much safer for Charlotte to go by land than by sea.

These messages are all done by Charlotte in advance.

Unlike Boulder City, which is already highly urbanized, Charlotte has truly seen the true appearance of the feudal kingdom in this era after leaving Boulder and coming to the vast countryside.

Boulder City is the capital of the Principality.

There are very few such large cities even in the kingdom. In the vast area of ​​the New Moon Kingdom, there are more castles, manors, churches and villages dotted around.

Every castle represents at least one baron; every manor almost means an extraordinary knight; and every church almost means a priest.

Regardless of whether they entered the rank or not, they are at least extraordinary, their strength is far beyond comparison, and they have their own retainers or servants.

Almost all villages are built around manors, churches and castles, receiving the protection of nobles and priests.

Even those cities are often gradually developed around the noble castles, and the places where the cities can develop are either located on the main roads, or there are relatively influential nobles in the local area, and usually at least the Viscount started.

These cities are much smaller than Boulder, and most of them may only be towns with a population of less than 20,000 to 30,000 people, and those with a population of more than 50,000 people are considered large cities.

However, there are many in number, distributed over a vast land like stars.

These cities, castles, manors and villages constitute the blood network of the entire kingdom.

Cities, castles, manors, and villages are often surrounded by large tracts of farmland, but if you look a little further outside, there is an endless wilderness.

The wilderness is not safe, and there are robbers and robbers who attack passing caravans.

However, these bandits and robbers mercenary seldom appeared as superhumans, and they threatened more ordinary people.

Apart from them, it is the monsters wandering in the wilderness that really allow ordinary people to take shelter of nobles.

The origin of Warcraft is unknown, and the more accepted view is that the power of Warcraft comes from those fallen gods.

The extraordinary power in the world of Miria comes from the gods, and so does the monster that controls the extraordinary power.

They are considered to be monsters born from the corpses of fallen gods. They have multiplied from generation to generation and have traveled all over the entire Myria continent. They are also a force that cannot be ignored that threatens civilization.

Because of the existence of monsters, nobles who control extraordinary power will become the main force to protect ordinary people, and become lords of all sizes.

Compared with robbers and robbers, Warcraft is the existence that caravans are most afraid of encountering in the past.

Robbers and robbers often just ask for money, but once they encounter monsters, even the lowest level of monsters, those caravans without extraordinary power will face the crisis of complete annihilation.

Charlotte's team encountered a monster not long after leaving Boulder.

In her opinion, the strength is not strong, but it is a demonic wolf that is not advanced. Sebas calls it a wind wolf, a magical beast that can use wind blades and lightness techniques.

But the problem is that it is a pack of more than 30 wind wolves.

A high-level transcendent might be able to easily wipe them out, but for ordinary caravans who couldn't afford to hire high-level transcendents, and couldn't meet passing mercenary adventurers, it would be difficult to survive encountering them.

Of course, Charlotte didn't let them go.

She led the knights to do it herself, and more than thirty wind wolves quickly turned into more than thirty high-quality wolf skins.

According to the merchants in the caravan, this wolf skin can be sold for ten Quintanas in the market!

"It's so expensive?"

Charlotte clicked her tongue.

"Hey, master, things related to extraordinary power are expensive. The wolf skin of this wind wolf beast is also a good magic material, and it is one of the best materials for making mage robes."

Sebastian Kopp said.

Then he said:

"By the way, don't look at Castel's income, but that's on the premise that we haven't cultivated extraordinary power on a large scale. If you want to cultivate extraordinary power on a large scale... the income of the territory seems terrible. Not so much."

Charlotte thought about it.

The Earl of Castel is a vassal of the Principality of Boulder, and the pressure on the extraordinary side is often borne by the Principality.

Take the Boulder mage group who once followed the Earl of Castel and his wife as an example. Although the Castel family shared most of the salary, many extraordinary supplies were provided by the Principality.

Perhaps the income of the Duchy of Boulder is not much higher than that of the Earl of Castell, but with its vast land, the income of the Duchy of Boulder is far more than that of the Earl of Castel.

As for extraordinary materials... most of the time, they cannot be measured by money, and they are also priceless, and they are important strategic materials.

If you have money, you may not be able to buy it, and if you can buy it, you may not be able to buy enough.

In the future, Castel and Boulder are likely to be at odds. In this case, Charlotte must also develop her own extraordinary power.

She hasn't had the extravagance to spend the divine power of blood to cultivate supernatural power, and use money to buy supernatural materials, but it is far from controlling the origin of supernatural materials.

Charlotte remembered her silver mine again.

The silver mine associated with the mithril mine is the most important source of strategic materials for Castel. Mithril is not only valuable, but also a hard currency for trading extraordinary materials.

"It seems that when we return to the territory, the first thing to do is to investigate the depletion of the Mithril mine."

Charlotte secretly thought.

She has not been idle for more than half a year. After comparing the bills of the territory, she found that the time when the production of the Mithril mine was reduced and dried up happened to be after the Countess of Castel sent all the accompanying Transcendents back to the territory.

It was too much of a coincidence.

Charlotte always felt that there might be some connection between them, and the depletion of the Mithril mine might not be as simple as she imagined.

The convoy continued on, all the way north.

The mighty team is naturally eye-catching.

In the second Star-Moon War, the Castel family with one family and two blazing suns was considered to be in the limelight, especially the Roman campaign that prevented the Fallen Star Kingdom from invading Castel almost became famous in one battle. Most nobles recognize Castel's black eagle crest.

Although the Castel couple is gone, the Castel family's territory is still there, and they are still rich. Even if they are placed in the kingdom, they are not considered minor nobles.

For this reason, Charlotte will be warmly welcomed and entertained by local nobles wherever he goes.

As small as some viscounts or even barons, as large as earls and even marquises, they would send envoys to invite her to dinner parties and even social dances when the convoy was resting.

That's how the nobles are.

If there is no real feud that cannot be reconciled, in most cases, the atmosphere after meeting is warm and friendly.

Even if you encounter them on the battlefield, in many cases, you will spare the other party's life. Unless the sword has no eyes, you will be caught alive, and then you will be asked for a ransom.

It can be regarded as the rules of the game that the nobles of Miria agree with each other.

It is better to have one more friend than one more enemy. Nobles are very concerned about expanding their circle, especially the circle of nobility, and such a rich and rich nobleman like Castel is naturally a good friend of many nobles.

Not to mention that Castel still has a lot of business in the hinterland of the kingdom.

Although more and more aristocrats have started to do business in recent years, the vast majority of aristocrats still rely on manors and taxes to make a living. There are not many aristocrats like Castel who do business well, and many families have contacts.

Therefore, whether it was for friendship or business, the nobles along the way were extremely enthusiastic about the Castel family's motorcade. Charlotte, who already had a "tourist mentality", did not refuse, and kept having banquets almost every day.

The only thing that made her uncomfortable was that there were too many nobles who wanted to invite her to dance at the banquet, and those young nobles looked at her too hotly.

Even after a year has passed, Charlotte is still not used to this kind of sight.

But she's also not what she used to be.

Among the innate magic of the blood race, whether it is the memory control of the spiritual way, the mental shock or the words of charm, they can teach those excessive guys to be human.

Charlotte only needs one look, and the guy who looked presumptuously just now will immediately bow down under her rose skirt.

Not to mention, the feeling of manipulating others with spiritual magic is pretty cool, but Sebas couldn't stand it any longer, and reminded carefully in a low voice:

"Master, you have a special status and we should keep a low profile when walking outside."

"Don't worry, I have a measure."

Charlotte replied.

All the people encountered along the way were small and medium-sized nobles, at most no more than the second-level strength of Yinyue.

As long as you pay attention, it is relatively safe.

In this way, Charlotte's tourist-style stop-and-go.

And the result was...the convoy moved slower.

One month's journey, nearly half a month has passed and he still hasn't left Yuehu Principality.

But Charlotte feels pretty good.

Everywhere he went was warm hospitality, and while making friends, he also broadened his horizons, knowing a lot of information about the nobles of the New Moon Kingdom.

What's more, she also learned a lot of information about blood races from these nobles, more precisely, information about the Blood Demon Cult.

The Gorefiend Cult was rampant in the New Moon Kingdom. Although Boulder's influence had been removed, their shadows could still be seen in other places.

As an enthusiastic person who loves peace and justice, Charlotte will naturally not let these rampant cultists go.

That's all for the uncertain news. If there is accurate information from the local area, Charlotte will not hesitate to take action to solve these activities of the cultists for the local nobles.

Unexpectedly, I got two more broken pages of the holy scriptures. I can only say that the Blood Demon Cult really deserves to be a hamster who hoards goods.

Charlotte really loves these cultists.

The repercussions were also obvious. After Charlotte eliminated several strongholds of the Gorefiend Cult along the way, her name was faintly spread along with the passing caravans and bards.

Especially after the vision at her coming-of-age ceremony somehow spread, it became more and more outrageous.

What kind of dependents of the God Lord, natural saints, purifiers of blood demons, etc... Charlotte scratched her head when she heard this, and even felt a little guilty.

Such a high-profile will certainly make her blood clan identity better concealed, but if it is passed on like this, it won't really attract the attention of the high-level officials of the holy royal court one day, right?

Charlotte couldn't help muttering.

And half a month after setting off, Charlotte finally saw a second big city that was no less in size than Boulder City, or to be more precise, much more prosperous than Boulder City.

Anluo City, the capital of the Principality located in the north of the Principality of Yuehu, is a large city with a population exceeding 500,000.

The Duke of Yuehu, who had already received the news, sent an envoy before the convoy entered the city to invite Charlotte to the dinner at the Duke's mansion.

At the same time, Charlotte also learned another piece of news from other caravans entering and leaving Anluo City.

Tonight, there is another honored guest at the Duke's Mansion in Anluo City.

Along with his wife Eleanor, he went south to the third prince of the Crescent Kingdom of Boulder, Philip de Valva.

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