Tome of Blood Chapter 38

  Chapter 38-38-Sebas' Decision

   In the next few days, Charlotte's life was much quieter.

  I sleep until I wake up naturally every day, and then I pray devoutly with the priests from the church, and then I receive "spiritual treatment" from the priests from the church hospital.

  Her enthusiastic attitude, proactive actions, and fanaticism of faith won the praise of the priests who came to earn extra money.

  Charlotte is indeed religious.

  Looking at the blood summoning charge bar that has started to skyrocket again, she sends her heartfelt blessings and sincere thanks to the great God Lord Haral in her heart every day...

  The only regret is probably not being able to see Miss Lottie.

  The beautiful priestess is not only seductive, fragrant and soft, but also brings Charlotte a natural intimacy.

  She was the first person to be kind to Charlotte after time travel.

  During those days in the hospital, Lottie took care of her in every possible way, and Charlotte could really feel the concern and tenderness from her heart.

  Charlotte was looking forward to the other party's visit, but all the priests who came were men.

   Enthusiasm is more enthusiastic than one, but it is just not seductive.

  Later, she acted cute, got close to condoms, and chatted with the priest, and Charlotte found out that Lottie had gone to the cathedral for further studies these days.

Pity.

  The morning "Holy Code Recharge" is over, and it's lunch time.

  The new maid who took office respectfully shared meals and poured milk for the girl, allowing Charlotte to return to the sinful life of reaching out for clothes and opening her mouth for food.

  Lunch was as sumptuous as ever.

   Quasimodo finally managed to persuade Charlotte to increase the meal fee, and finally only reduced the meal fee to one-fifth of the original.

  According to what he said, he had already picked out a pair of the least valuable porcelain and exchanged it for 80,000 quintana at a **** shop opened by the Yuccas, which was enough for the next expenses.

   And similar collections, there are several houses in the manor...

  Charlotte was really shocked by the background of her family.

  She thought it was a miracle that the manor hadn't been missed by thieves during this time.

   "They dare not, because the Duke's Mansion has been sending people to help keep an eye on it a few days ago, and the team leader is even an advanced person, and now...you have hired a demon hunter to patrol around."

   Quasimodo explained.

   "What about our entrants? Don't tell me that the dignified Castel family doesn't even have a single entrant."

  Charlotte asked the question she had always wanted to ask.

   Quasimodo sighed:

"There are indeed seniors in the family, and there are even two viscounts of the second rank of Silver Moon. In the past, at least one of them had to be at the side of the prince at all times, but in recent years, all the seniors have been successively replaced by the previous ones. That one was sent back to the earldom under various names..."

  Charlotte understood instantly.

   It's not that Castel doesn't have superhumans.

   It was the old witch who was afraid that she would be exposed, so she sent them all back to the territory.

   This caused the Castle Manor in Boulder City to become a bare rod!

   "Outrageous, she is not afraid of being attacked."

  The girl muttered.

   "With the church and the "Holy Code", who dares to mess around in the capital?"

   Quasimodo shook his head.

   "Then now, with such a big incident happening in the manor, why didn't the seniors come back from the territory?"

   Charlotte asked again.

   Quasimodo was silent.

   Obviously, he couldn't answer this question.

  Maybe he guessed something, but dared not answer.

  Charlotte quickly came back to the taste.

   "Hey, it's not easy to be a feudal lord..."

   She sighed helplessly.

   Those who are loyal to the great nobles, of course, also belong to the nobles.

   If you are an aristocrat, you almost have a fief.

  Even if there is no fiefdom, it is very easy to obtain a country manor.

  Where there is territory, there is selfishness...

   Obviously, the Castel family, which has been managed by the old countess for ten years, is probably a mess internally.

  Castel's succession to the title has not yet landed, and everyone is watching.

   Of course, this is not what Charlotte is worried about now.

   I really have to worry, and it will be after she successfully inherits the territory in the future.

   Now there is no official inheritance of the territory, she can't even command those lower-level nobles...

  After lunch, drink a glass of milk habitually, and then take a nice nap, the afternoon is the time to train the servants.

  Prestige technique is indeed a good thing.

   It can both deter and charm.

  Combined with Charlotte's own understanding of noble etiquette in her own memory, she trained the newcomers to look good in a few days, and she respected and feared her.

  Charlotte reckoned that giving her a month would make these people change into her shape from top to bottom.

  Tell them to go east, as soon as you give them a look, they will all stick their butts up and go east.

  With daily training, the proficiency of low-level prestige arts is almost like a rocket.

   On the third day, it broke through 100, and it was promoted from beginner to proficient, and the progress bar became 0/300.

  The power didn't increase much, but it became more convenient to use, at least the duration became quite long.

  It was performed once before, and it lasted for fifteen minutes.

  Now, it can last almost an hour sooner.

  Charlotte reckons that in another week, she should be able to go to the next level and enter the next level.

  The time at night is relatively free. Charlotte usually chooses to read books to recharge her energy and absorb as much knowledge about the world as possible.

  Especially about nobles, as well as information about their own family.

   With a deeper understanding, she also understood why she always felt that her territory was so slow in responding.

  No one else, because the Earl of Castel was originally an enclave of the Duchy of Boulder.

  The Principality of Boulder is located on the southwestern coast of the New Moon Kingdom.

  However, the Earl of Castel is located on the northern seashore, which is the northern border of the kingdom. The first Earl of Castel personally conquered the territory from the orc tribe.

  The area is not small, accounting for one-third of the total area of ​​the Principality of Boulder.

  The territory of the two duchies, one in the south and the other in the north, is separated by several duchies and counties.

  In fact, the Castel family has been living in their own territory for a long time, and they only come to the territory to see the lord once a year.

   It wasn't until the earl of the previous generation became the head of the Principality's Mages that he lived in Boulder City for a long time.

  As for the family's powerful source of income... It's easy to say, and in layman's terms, the Castel family owns mines.

   And it is also a silver mine associated with Mithril.

In addition, as the territory facing the Fallen Star Kingdom and the Luna Island across the sea, the close neighbor of the Grand Duchy of the North, the only land route leading to the Badlands of East Unet and even the Koria Kingdom in the east... In recent years Since then, the business development of the Earl's Territory is also booming.

  Charlotte finally understood why the nobles were so greedy for their own territory.

  Hundreds of years ago it was indeed a wasteland, but now it is a land of hope, with high potential for future development.

   In addition to researching family information, the girl did not forget to find a vest in the collection of blood records.

   After picking and choosing, Charlotte found that the effect of her prestige technique was very similar to the blood power of an ancient fallen noble family in the Eastern Kolia Kingdom.

  This bloodline has a very famous name—Tianxuan.

  The effect is to strengthen the physical fitness in all directions, increase the probability of becoming a knight or mage, plus the "potential" that can be actively released like the prestige technique.

   This bloodline has good abilities, it is like a panacea for armor, so she used it directly.

   I just don't know if she, who is already a blood clan, can really awaken the blood power that belongs to the nobles.

  Charlotte has been brooding about the "half-elf" in her blood, but she couldn't find out why by asking Quasimodo or checking the literature.

   It can only be speculated whether the ancestors of the Castel family married elves.

  In the next few days, the interior of the manor was fairly calm.

  However, Boulder City is a bit weird.

  During Charlotte's "retreat" these days, the rumors in town about the Castle family's collusion with the Gorefiend intensified...

  Even the priest who went to the manor every day to earn extra money was interpreted by the public as the Castel family's guilty conscience to cover up their ears.

   There are some more vicious ones, who even describe Charlotte as a gorefiend who resurrected from a dead body, a succubus who bewitches people...

  When hearing the old servant's indignant recounting of the news he had inquired, Charlotte was somewhat guilty.

  Because of the last rumor... In a sense, part of it is really wrong.

   Obviously, this is still fueled by someone behind the scenes.

  It is absolutely inseparable from the vassal nobles of the principality, and there may even be the duke's secret instigation among them.

   Apart from this, the assassination did not appear again.

  The other party seemed to be very afraid of the witcher knights, even though most of the patrols were apprentice knights, they stopped.

   In the blink of an eye, a week has passed...

  The Duke's birthday party is tomorrow.

   And at the same time.

  In a luxurious manor somewhere in the outer city.

Leisurely half-lying on the soft sleeper, while enjoying the fruit peeled by the demi-human maid, while elegantly holding a goblet full of red wine, Sebastian, the president of the Rose Society, finally saw the people below searching After the investigation, sort out the information.

   "Huh? Did the church's sedative bell ring a few days ago?"

   "Hey, the great priest blocked the news well."

   "The thorns... the roses... so that's what it means."

  Looking at the file on the table, Sebastian touched his chin with great interest.

   In front of him, on the parchment at the top of the file, there was clearly the pattern of the sacrificial circle in the basement of Castel Manor that night!

  I saw Sebas picking up the parchment, drinking the red wine gracefully, while thinking:

   "The Countess of Castel has a page of the cursed book in her hands. She wanted to sacrifice her granddaughter to communicate with the Gorefiend Duke, but in the end she died in the sacrifice of a mysterious existence..."

   "I got the page of the cursed book from her, and was summoned to the dreamland by Lady Dark Night soon after..."

   "The Grand Duke of Gorefiend is one of the five vassals of the blood clan, and the leader of the dark clan of the blood clan 'Shedet'."

   "Ms. Dark Night is very likely to be the one who returned from the Blood Race..."

"coincide?"

   "Or...is there some kind of deeper connection between the two?"

   Sebastian's eyes gradually darkened.

  He put down the parchment, and picked up a pair of drawing paper underneath.

  On the drawing paper is a beautiful blonde girl.

  Wearing a holy white dress, she is kneeling in front of the statue of Lord Harald, closing her eyes and praying.

  Holy light shone on her body, making her look extremely holy, like a descending angel.

   "Charlotte de Castel..."

  Sebas rubbed the drawing paper, his clear eyes were full of appreciation for beauty:

   "Worthy of being the heir of the Castel family, she is indeed born beautiful and moving, even the pure white witch is three points inferior."

   "However, being able to survive that kind of sacrifice is not something that ordinary people can do."

   "Perhaps, she has experienced something and knows something..."

  Thinking of this, Sebas fell into deep thought.

  He continued to scroll down, and found the latest intelligence collection of Boulder City.

   "Huh? There are still such rumors?"

  He was slightly taken aback.

   Flipping through it a few times at random, Sebastian sneered:

   "Hey, this group of greedy human nobles are really shameless! You don't feel ashamed to bully a child!"

   And when Sebastian turned to the last page, he immediately raised his eyebrows:

   "Duke's birthday party?"

   After pondering for a moment, he moved slightly in his heart and had an idea:

   "It's interesting, maybe... this is a good opportunity to investigate for yourself!"

  I saw him put down the information, drank the red wine in the goblet, then stood up gracefully, and ordered to the accompanying demi-human maid:

   "Help me prepare an elegant dress and some decent gifts."

   "I'm going to attend the birthday party at the Duke's Mansion tomorrow."

   Ask for a monthly pass!

   py friend's book! "Surviving the Fourth Calamity" by Nasiriya, DND

   Introduction: The civil engineer was reincarnated in the magic continent, and tragically became a wood-earth-water warlock. When he was still wondering where his blood of the earth bear came from, the Chosen One next door summoned the player. Looking at other people's life, Hill just wanted to hide it.

  (end of this chapter)

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