Tome of Blood

Chapter 345 -1- The trip to the capital

If one were to ask which city on the Xingyue Peninsula was the most famous, it would undoubtedly be Lutetia, the capital of the New Moon Kingdom.

As one of the oldest cities in the West Unite region, Lutetia was already one of the many capitals of the ancient blood dynasty as early as the blood kingship era. At the beginning, it was once the imperial capital of the empire.

Nine hundred years ago, the Unet Empire encountered a succession crisis, and the entire country was divided into two, namely the East Unet Empire and the West Unet Empire.

The East Unet Empire was destroyed in a disaster not long after, and it has since turned into the East Unet Black Land where monsters are rampant.

The Siunite Empire has persisted until today, but it has also experienced division, destruction and reconstruction in history...

The New Moon Kingdom was established during the division of the Siunite Empire.

After the division of the Unet Empire from east to west, the ancestor of the Varva family, who was then the palace minister of the Unet Empire, took advantage of the weakening of the imperial power to seize power and split the country again, splitting nearly one-third of the northwestern part of the Unet Empire and establishing an independent country. , proclaimed himself king, which is now the New Moon Kingdom.

Lutetia naturally became the capital of the New Moon Kingdom.

It is precisely because of such a period of history that even today, the residents of the New Moon Kingdom regard themselves as the purest descendants of Unet, and compete with the rebuilt Western Unet Empire for the orthodoxy of Unet.

All these histories were seen by Charlotte from the historical materials of the church.

The nobles of Miria seldom record history, but the Church of the Holy King Court has such a good habit, which also allows Charlotte to fully understand the past of this world.

Of course, even for the Holy Royal Court, the detailed history is only from the founding of the Unet Empire.

As for the history of the earlier period of blood kingship, it may be due to certain taboos, or it may be that there is indeed a lack of records, and most of them are already oral legends.

Perhaps some long-lived species such as elves and dragons still have memories of that period.

But humans are humans, and they are them.

Elves and giant dragons who have always looked down on ephemeral species are not interested in human history.

As for the Mythical Era and the Elven Era earlier than the Blood Moon Era, I am afraid that even in the records of the elves and giant dragons, many of them have already been buried in the past...

After all, even a giant dragon with a longer lifespan than an elf has a maximum lifespan of only seventeen or eight hundred years, and it is far from possible to experience the past of two thousand years ago.

The only ones that can be called walking myths and history books are probably those blood races that survived from ancient times.

But it's a pity, counting on these guys who sleep in the coffin boards most of the time, sometimes it's even better to go to the ancient ruins to see the murals...

Cut the gossip and get back to the present moment.

Lutetia, the capital of the kingdom, is located in the middle of the New Moon Kingdom, about half a month away from Castel.

There is less than a month before the central meeting. In order to hurry, Charlotte reduced the number of visits and stay time to the noble lords along the way.

The trip went smoothly, escorted by more than a hundred armored knights in full armor, no one dared to touch Charlotte, even if there were bandits and robbers along the way, after seeing Castel's convoy, they had to carefully detour Walk.

And almost twenty days later, Charlotte saw the tall city walls of Lutecia, the capital of the New Moon King.

That's a really tall wall...

The huge city gate is nearly twenty meters high, made of solid stone and iron components, standing like a giant, declaring the authority of the kingdom to the people passing by.

The sparkling moat is very wide, probably more than 50 meters, and it is connected to the Keina River that surrounds Lutetia, and there are even boats.

As the capital of the New Moon Kingdom, Lutetia is much more prosperous than Beigang. It is said that the population is close to one million, second only to the Holy City of the Church.

On the main road leading to the gate of the city, there are horse-drawn carriages like dragons, pedestrians, tourists and caravans in an endless stream, which is more lively than the wharf in the busiest period of Beigang.

When Charlotte's convoy drove forward, it was such a bustling scene.

The Castel family's team is still very conspicuous.

A total of twenty luxuriously decorated carriages, and more than a hundred armored knights in full armor, attracted the attention of countless people as soon as they arrived, showing the limelight of the great nobles.

Pedestrians, travelers and small caravans nearby voluntarily stepped aside and let Castel's convoy go first.

Of course, it's just to get out of the way.

There are very few people who stop to salute like they did in the Northland, or look at them curiously like they did in other places.

The vast majority of caravans and pedestrians just looked at the armored knight a few more times, then avoided them from a distance, and stopped paying attention.

This is also normal.

The most important thing in Lutetia is nobility. Nobility, big and small, can be seen everywhere. Throwing a brick on the street may hit a baron or viscount. People's awe of nobility is not as deep as in other places.

The luxurious noble convoys like the carriages of the Castel family are very common in Lutetia, and Charlotte has seen quite a few of them just outside the city gate.

Charlotte even doubted that it was the more than a hundred majestic and majestic armored knights who really made people avoid them.

In addition, not all teams will avoid Castel's team after seeing it.

Some convoys with the noble family emblem on the side of the carriage did not move away, and this even included some caravans full of goods.

Many of these convoys were also escorted by knights, and Charlotte even felt the extraordinary aura from some knights.

Obviously, these convoys all have aristocratic backgrounds, and Charlotte even saw the family crests of a few of the kingdom's big families that she made up for.

Different from pedestrians, the people in these convoys just looked at the luxurious carriage and the unfamiliar family emblem of the Castel family curiously, and stopped paying attention.

On the contrary, the knights escorting the convoy couldn't help looking at Charlotte's escorting team, or more precisely, at the excellent equipment of the Knights of Castel.

As for those extraordinary knights, their gazes kept falling on those knights around Charlotte's carriage, with a look of surprise on their faces.

Without him, many of Charlotte's fellow knights are also extraordinary, and even a few advanced ones.

Among the nobles of Miria, they will also watch the dishes. In order to show off their momentum during this trip to the capital, and to avoid being approached by some short-sighted guys, Charlotte brought the most elite guard knights with her. Yes, and the best knight armor was also brought out.

She came to the meeting and negotiated as the victor and a new vassal, and she didn't intend to keep a low profile from the beginning.

After glancing at the exterior of Lutetia, Charlotte lowered the curtains of the carriage and waited quietly to enter the city.

However, just as Castel's convoy was about to enter the stone bridge over the moat, the sound of horseshoes mixed with screams and curses suddenly came from behind the convoy.

Charlotte only felt that the carriage stopped slightly, and there was abuse from the coachman.

She frowned slightly, opened the curtain again and asked:

"What happened?"

"My lord, it's the cavalry! We were supposed to be on the bridge, but suddenly a cavalry joined our team and rushed to the front!"

The driver of the carriage said angrily.

"cavalry?"

Charlotte raised her eyebrows slightly.

She looked out of the car window, and saw two rows of armored knights wearing gray cloaks and also heavily armed, surpassing Castel's team to occupy the stone bridge leading to the city gate first, and inserting Charlotte's team.

They lined up on both sides, majestic, and rampant all the way. The scream just now was that a cavalry ran into a pedestrian. At this moment, the cry can still be heard, obviously someone was injured.

However, these knights didn't seem to care. They didn't even look at the pedestrian who was knocked to the ground, and just rudely let other passers-by move him to the side of the road.

A few knights who happened to block the Castel convoy whistled at Charlotte's guard knights and made a provocative gesture, which caused Charlotte's knights to glare.

At the front of the convoy, the captain of the guard, Baron Sharon, was riding on his horse, frowning and talking to the knight who was obviously the leader.

The opponent's leading knight had a haughty attitude, and only when his eyes fell on Castel's guarding knight team did he take it seriously.

And when Charlotte's eyes fell on the aristocratic badge on the chest of the other party, a trace of surprise flashed across her expression.

Without him, she is too familiar with the other party's family emblem, and has dealt with it some time ago.

That was the crest of the Gaston family, exactly the same as the crest of the Earl Gaston family that she transformed into a blood servant.

The only difference is probably that the opponent's badge is surrounded by a circle of gold, while the family coat of arms of Earl Gaston's family is surrounded by a circle of silver.

Charlotte intended to use her magic to listen to what they were saying, but before she could listen, Baron Sharon ended the conversation with the other party.

He appeased his knights, and then rode towards Charlotte.

"what happened?"

Charlotte asked.

"My lord, it's the cavalry team of Duke Gaston's family, and their family members are about to enter the city."

Baron Sharon said with an ugly expression.

"Family? Not the Duke himself?"

Charlotte's heart twitched slightly.

"I don't know, they didn't say it carefully, they just asked us to get out of the way."

Baron Sharon shook his head.

"Tsk, it's quite majestic."

Charlotte clicked his tongue.

Baron Sharon showed hesitation:

"My lord, then we..."

"It's okay, let them go first, you send someone to look at the person they just hit, and bring the accompanying priest, don't let anyone die."

Charlotte said.

The Duke of Gaston is one of the nine Dukes of the kingdom. The opponent's convoy is so unscrupulous, even if it is not the Duke himself, he is probably an important figure in the Gaston family.

Although Charlotte didn't intend to keep a low profile during this trip, she also didn't intend to fight against other great nobles before finding out the details.

It's just being inserted into the team, just wait a little longer, Charlotte doesn't care that much.

After a while, Baron Sharon went back and forth, reporting to Charlotte about being hit by a pedestrian:

"The wounded are not seriously injured, and their lives are not in danger. The cavalry should have kept their hands. The priests who accompanied us have helped treat them. After the healing magic, the wound should be cured within a few days."

After listening to Sharon's report, Charlotte nodded slightly:

"Well, yes."

At this time, the convoy of the Gaston family also arrived under the escort of the knights.

The motorcade was mighty, even more imposing than that of the Castel family. The tall carriages were extremely luxurious, and even the horses pulling the carriages were dragon scale horses with dragon blood.

However, just when Charlotte thought that the Gaston family's motorcade would enter the gate directly, it stopped when it passed the Castel motorcade.

Immediately afterwards, the carriage closest to Charlotte and the most luxuriously decorated carriage in the entire Gaston fleet suddenly closed the curtains, and a young and frivolous voice came:

"The black northern mountain eagle... the Castel family?"

Charlotte looked over, and saw a handsome young nobleman in his twenties sitting in the other party's carriage.

On the left and right sides of him are two beautiful maids with graceful figures and scantily clad clothes. Their half-pointed ears proclaim their identities as half-elfs. In the hands of the maids, there are wine glasses full of fine wine and peeled fruits.

Seeing Charlotte looking back, a look of surprise flashed across the face of the young nobleman, but he quickly returned to normal.

I saw him whistle and smiled frivolously:

"You are Charlotte of Castel? The Pearl of Bold, the saint who has not yet been certified by the Holy Court?"

As he spoke, without waiting for Charlotte to answer, he looked at Charlotte's appearance and said to himself:

"It seems that the rumors are sometimes quite true. The Pearl of Boulder... I thought it was a gimmick. Looking at it today, hehe, it is indeed well-deserved. It can even be called the Kingdom of the New Moon and even Siunet. It's the pearl!"

"Looking at your appearance, you should have elven blood, right? You are so beautiful, but you have to swear celibacy to the gods, tsk, what a pity... what a pity."

"Hahahahahaha..."

Charlotte raised her eyebrows slightly, intending to ask the other party's identity, but the young nobleman had already lowered the curtains amidst laughter and continued on his way.

Amidst the dust, the Gaston family's convoy entered the city gate under the escort of the knights. Even the guards at the city gate saluted them respectfully. They didn't raise their heads until the convoy had gone away and continued to straighten their backs. stand guard.

"Let's go too."

Charlotte said.

The armored knights looked at the direction of the Gaston family's convoy with some dissatisfaction, cursed a few words angrily, and then escorted Charlotte's convoy towards the gate of the royal capital.

However, just as the Castel family's convoy was about to set foot on the stone bridge leading to the capital, they were stopped by the guards at the city gate.

"Which family's convoy are you guys from? The royal capital is an important place, and armed knights without permission are not allowed to enter!"

At the city gate, the guards in full armor glanced at the family emblem on the body of the Castel family and said solemnly.