Chapter 1583 Family Banquet
Although the architectural form of the castle of the Belmont family is in the style of the knight castle of the French Empire, the architectural layout does not follow the layout of the knight castle, but refers to the Tubbsburg style layout in the Middle Kingdom of the world, which is commonly known as Manor castle layout.
Although this kind of castle layout is very poor in dealing with war defense, the beauty of the whole castle is not comparable to that of the knight castles of the French Empire.
For the sake of aesthetics, winding corridors are usually used to connect the various buildings in the castle, and this kind of corridor does not use a straight-through method from one building to another, but needs to go around the edge of the building. If you take a long way, for example, the Baihua Garden is right next to the castle hall. If you walk in a straight line, you only need to walk a few hundred meters to reach it. However, you can follow the servant who leads you to the corridor and take a detour for more than ten minutes. Just arrived at the castle hall.
The architectural style of the castle hall is the common Roschel divine architectural style. The top is a huge dome, the dome reliefs are some legendary stories, and the inside of the dome is beautifully painted murals. Supported by stone pillars, the dome of the entire hall is erected. The stone pillars are usually carved with reliefs of heroes of mainland legends.
When the Belmont family built the castle hall, it was obviously built according to the standard Roschel architecture. The only modification was to change the legends and mural stories into family legends, and the relief figures on the stone pillars were also changed to A family legend.
People who come here don't need to read other books on the history of the Belmont family. They can get a panoramic view of some of the experiences of the Belmont family in the past by looking directly at the castle hall.
For example, the sixteen stone pillar statue clock supporting the huge dome of the castle hall, the characters carved on the six innermost stone pillars are all standard knights, and from the carved armor, it can be seen that these six knights are still French knights, because the armor It is the standard knight armor of the French Empire.
Afterwards, the clothes of the relief characters pushed outwards gradually changed into other costumes, including scholars, businessmen, soldiers, etc. It can be seen that the Belmont family was undergoing drastic changes during this period, so that the core figures of the family were constantly changing. Change.
The statues of the last four stone pillars have become the statues of the heretic hunters, but the costumes of the heretic hunters still retain some features of knight armor, which should represent the state of the Belmont family after entering Mount Teresa.
As for the stories carved on the top of the poor and those story murals, they are some heroic stories experienced by the Belmont family, such as crusade against a huge monster, such as saving a certain country caught in war.
Among these stories, what attracted Leo's attention the most was the story of the mural in the middle of the dome, on which were painted the shapes of several abyssal dragons, and there were several people standing around the abyssal dragons, but among those few people Except for the person wearing knight armor, the images of the other two are very vague, but judging from the clothes on the two people and the items in their hands, one should be a wizard, while the other should have mastered cosmic technology A person, or a survivor of cosmic civilization, because in that person's hand is holding a very eye-catching energy weapon.
When Leo and Sylvia came to the castle hall, the only long table in the hall was already full of people. They all looked at Leo and Sylvia in unison after hearing footsteps. Oh, they just passed by with a glance, but after seeing Sylvia, they all showed surprised expressions, and a few of them even stood up instinctively and wanted to salute Sylvia, but they suddenly thought of Sylvia Not knowing Ya's identity, she sat back in embarrassment.
These people sitting here can be said to be members of the direct line of the Belmont family, but this direct line does not mean that the people here are all direct descendants of the old duke. In fact, except for the Earl of Belmont, only three of them are the old duke. The descendants of the family, the others are all from the side branches of the family, and it is only because their blood is extremely pure that they have obtained the identity of the direct line. If they can make the blood more pure, perhaps they are still qualified to replace the current Belmont Earl, becoming the patriarch of the family and the new heir to the title of Duke.
In addition, apart from these members of the Belmont family, there are several other members of Teresa's royal family. These are the few people who instinctively wanted to stand up and salute after seeing Sylvia just now. The oldest one in the middle should be about to reach adulthood, while the youngest one is only seven or eight years old.
In fact, members of the Belmont family and Theresa royal family living in the castle are not the only ones on the long table in front of them. On the way to the castle hall, Leo and Sylvia saw some other members of the Belmont family. However, the blood power of those people is not strong enough to be placed on the long table in the castle hall.
When he saw Leo and Sylvia coming, the old duke motioned them to sit on the two vacant seats on his left, and after they sat down, he introduced: "This is the academic Master Leo Dodd of the city, this is Ms. Sylvia Belmont, a distant relative of our family."
After hearing the old duke's introduction, everyone around greeted the two of them one after another, but compared to just now, everyone's attention was more on Leo at this time.
The reason why they pay more attention to Leo is not because of Leo's identity as the academic city, but because when the old duke made the introduction just now, he first introduced Leo and then Sylvia. Obviously, Leo's status in the old Duke's mind surpassed that of Sylvia, who was of the same clan and whose blood was purer than that of the previous patriarchs.
Afterwards, the old duke briefly introduced the family members who were going to do it again. Perhaps it was because of the large number of people. If everyone gave a detailed introduction, the dinner would not be served until late at night, so he just It was just a brief introduction of the names and family origins of some of these people, but then he ordered the servants to serve up the prepared food, just like an ordinary family dinner, chatting casually while eating.
When introducing these people, Sylvia felt the blood of these people. There is no doubt that the blood of these people is much thicker and purer than the members of the Belmont family she met before. The members of the Royal Leisa family all have some dragon-like mutations, and they seem to be very proud of their mutations. As long as they are not private parts, most of them will choose to expose their mutant parts.
For example, someone deliberately hollowed out the armor on his chest to reveal a dragon scale on his chest, and the most respected among these people is the second son of the old duke. The mutated part of his body is the eyes, which are completely magic. Longhua's vertical pupils, this person seems to be highly respected by the tribe, faintly fighting with his elder brother, Earl Belmont, on the long table.
The actions of these direct members of the Belmont family, let alone in the eyes of Sylvia, are a bit naive and ridiculous even in the eyes of the old duke, because they know very well that the mutation status of their bodies does not represent the purity of their blood. The second son of the old duke who was mutated and respected was not outstanding in terms of blood purity. If the people on the long table were ranked in terms of blood purity, they could only be ranked outside the top ten.
However, the old duke's second son doesn't seem to know that his blood is not pure enough, he is still proud of the mutation of his eyes, and even thinks that he has the opportunity to replace his elder brother and become the Earl of Belmont, so he always speaks It was aimed at Earl Belmont, and other people around were also vaguely creating conflicts between the two brothers.
Seeing this scene, Sylvia felt like laughing, because she was used to seeing all kinds of court struggles, seeing the behavior of these people was like watching a group of children fighting, she felt only naive, while the old man The Duke always had a calm expression on his face, and he didn't mean to stop him at all. Perhaps in his eyes, this kind of boring trick was just a kind of pastime after dinner.
Although Leo on the other side seemed to be immersed in tasting delicious food, he had actually checked the conditions of these people on the long table thoroughly. People's understanding of themselves may be far from being comparable to Leo's.
Most of these people are very ordinary, no different from other members of the Belmont family, except that their blood is slightly thicker, but among these people, there are three people with different energy fluctuations, and these energy fluctuations are obviously Coming from the abyss, that is to say, these three people should have had extremely close contact with the abyss or things from the abyss.
Although the blood of the Belmont family comes from the abyss dragon, this does not mean that their contact with the abyss is normal, nor does it mean that their contact with the abyss is beneficial to the development and refinement of their own blood, especially the abyss dragon in the abyss. There are so many mortal enemies, and many abyssal high-ranking species can't do anything to a powerful high-ranking race like the abyssal dragon, but they don't mind the descendants of the abyssal dragon's bloodline to do the surgery, and grab one or two as their own collections.
As for how these three people came into contact with the things from the abyss, Leo was not curious about it. After all, this world is so close to the abyss. It is also possible to enter this world and stay for a long time, which means that the barrier of this world has cracked. It is not difficult for other abyssal races to enter this world, but after they enter this world with a large number of gods, In the end, who is the hunter and who is the prey are two things to say.
The three people that Leo noticed seemed to be a small group. Judging from the introduction of the old duke, they all came from a side branch, and the tribe of this side branch also lived in the valley, and seemed to occupy a small town with a population of about There are hundreds of people, which is not considered prosperous.
The three of them didn't have the habit of talking with other people, they just ate in silence, but the careful Leo could find that the three of them would always look at Sylvia inadvertently, and the gaze in their eyes was full of nakedness. Desire, this kind of desire is not the lust of the sexes, but more like the appetite of hunger, as if the three of them took Sylvia as food in their hearts when they ate.
Although the three of them hid their vision and desires deeply, when they looked at Sylvia, their eyes only stopped for a while and then moved away, but for the sensitive Sylvia, their gaze was too much. Obviously, although I don't understand why these three people are showing malice towards her, Sylvia doesn't intend to spoil them. She has already quietly left marks on the three of them during the meal, and obviously intends to find an opportunity to have a good time. It is best to talk to these three people. As for how to deal with these people after the conversation, it depends on the content of the conversation.
Although there were two outsiders, Leo and Sylvia, on the long table, everyone was not too restrained in the topics they talked about. Most of them were talking about internal affairs of the family. When it was time for business, the old prince would interrupt the topic and divert it in other directions.
However, even so, from the conversations of these people, Leo and Sylvia also gained a lot of information, and also learned about the predicament that the Belmont family is currently encountering.
It is true that the Belmonts are now confronted with a crucial difficulty, which is that they may need to move.
Through the conversations of these people, Leo and Sylvia learned that the active volcano at their feet seemed to have begun to wake up from the dormant period and began to enter the active period. The second major earthquake, one of which even broke the bridge leading to the castle, also caused the wall on the side of the castle to collapse.
The old duke also consulted the city of learning about volcanoes, and all the results he got were at most ten years, at least two or three years, and the volcano under his feet would completely enter the active period, and the earthquake would still be slight The volcanic eruption is the ultimate disaster, so in the past few years, the old duke has been busy with the relocation of his family, and has no mind to manage other family affairs. This is why the farce of the Moor City lord's family has arisen.
However, the relocation of the Belmont family castle is not as simple as the relocation of other noble castles, that is, the whole family leaves the original residence and lives in another place. The cub of the abyssal dragon also moved away together, otherwise losing this cub of the abyssal dragon would be no less than a crisis of extinction for the Belmont family that would cut off their bloodlines.
At the long table, when the people around mentioned the castle relocation, it was obvious that these matters were the most secret and important affairs of the Belmont family, but the old duke did not stop these people from talking, obviously he just wanted to let Ray Ou and Sylvia heard that as for his intention to do so, it was self-evident, and it should be hoped that the two of them would help with the relocation of the castle.