Chapter 995: Castle Black

"Impossible!" Sylvia quickly denied Leo's guess, and explained: "If there really is an abyss fissure here, forming an abyss domain, then everyone living here will definitely be infected by the abyss , turned into a monster, but since the construction of Castle Black, there has been no such thing as mutation in Castle Black. And if there is really an abyss rift here, wouldn't the Church of the Sea God next to it find out?"

After Leo heard it, although he still felt that it should be related to the abyss rift, he couldn't refute Sylvia's words.

Sylvia added: "However, what you said is also worthy of attention. Wanghaiya is a weird place, we need to check it carefully. I don't want Tolan and Irene to live in a dangerous place at any time." place."

"Leave it to me to check." Leo nodded and said, "You have lived here for too long, and even if there is something wrong, you have preconceived it as normal. I am new here and can be more objective than you." problem found."

As the convoy slowly drove into Castle Black, the servants in the castle had already been waiting here, and the officials of Randall Port also came here early to wait with Sylvia's prior notice.

Although everyone present had known from various channels that Sylvia had an heir, they were slightly surprised when they saw Sylvia holding a man and a woman in her arms.

Afterwards, Sylvia briefly introduced Leo and revealed his identity as the master of Castle Black. At this time, everyone couldn't help but look at Leo, and some people even looked at Leo with dirty eyes. Oh, they all obviously regard Leo as the kind of little boy who eats soft food.

However, Leo didn't care about the sights of the people around him at all. After he got off the carriage, he carefully looked at the surrounding castle buildings with his eyes.

In the past, Leo has been accustomed to using the spiritual network to survey the situation, constructing a three-dimensional image based on the feedback information, and surveying the geographical situation in a more comprehensive and intuitive way. Now the power such as psionic energy is restricted, and the spiritual network cannot be used normally, so he can only use it through Using eyes to observe the surrounding situation is not only inefficient, but also prone to errors and omissions.

This forced him to focus on checking the situation of the castle, while ignoring the communication with the people around him. In addition, he had a cold personality, which made everyone present subconsciously after Sylvia's introduction. Some people think Leo is a vulgar guy with no manners and arrogant personality.

Naturally, Sylvia noticed the attitudes of the people around her. She didn't explain the misunderstanding to Leo, and she didn't stop the servants in the castle from spreading the misunderstanding. With his intentional indulgence, she didn't enter the castle yet. After speaking ten words, Leo became the most unpopular person in the castle.

When she was in Kabu City, Sylvia had already sent someone to tell the housekeeper in the castle to prepare a separate baby room in the castle, but later, because someone wanted to assassinate little Tolan, Sylvia had to Change her mind and place the nursery right in her bedroom.

On the contrary, the bedroom of Leo, who is the male master, was arranged in another separate bedroom, which also caused rumors in the castle that Leo was just a tool used by Sylvia to create an heir, and now the heir already has , Leo's role as a tool man also disappeared. The reason why Leo is now given the status of a male master is just a charity for the face of the future earl's heir.

So, before Leo went to his bedroom and changed his clothes, his identity had changed from being the master of the castle to being an extra person in the castle.

Although the voices of the people in the castle were very low, and they all spoke behind Leo and Sylvia's back, but with Leo and Sylvia's hearing, the content of these conversations naturally could not escape their ears.

After Leo changed into a casual aristocratic outfit in the bedroom, he came to Sylvia's study. At this time, Sylvia, who also changed into a casual outfit, was processing the documents accumulated during this period at the desk. The two little guys, Tolan and Irene, were playing in the playground specially built for them not far away, and there were many servants waiting beside them.

Seeing Leo walking in from the outside, Sylvia immediately understood what Leo wanted to say, so she ordered the city government officials and servants in the room to wait outside the room, and after the outsiders left and closed the special door, , Sylvia, who always kept a serious face, finally couldn't help laughing. Obviously, the speculations of the servants made her very funny and interesting.

"Your Excellency, my toolman, are you angry?" Sylvia asked Leo with a smile.

Hearing what Sylvia said, Leo knew that this was the result of Sylvia's deliberate intentions, so he smiled helplessly and said, "It's hard for me to get anything from your servant by doing this. Useful news?"

"Is there any useful news from those people, and if you really become the master of the castle, do you think they will tell the truth in front of you?" Sylvia explained: "Actually, your current situation has just Well, they won't care about you, or even ignore you, so that you can walk around the castle without being noticed, and it will be more convenient for you to investigate the situation of the castle." After she finished speaking, she asked again: "Do you plan to How to investigate?"

Leo thought for a while, and said, "I'll walk inside the castle first to get a general overview of the castle, and then see if there are any materials from the castle's construction in the castle's library." He paused again. After a while, he continued: "Arrange another boat for me. I want to take a look at the sea area under the cliff."

"The sea area under the cliff is very dangerous. It is full of unstable turbulent currents, and if you don't pay attention, you will be sucked into it. Coupled with the constant waves all year round, all ships that try to approach the cliff eventually sink to the bottom of the sea." Hill Via shook his head slightly, and said, "No boat will come near here, unless you row the boat yourself."

Leo was silent for a while, and said: "Since no boat is willing to approach here, then I can just go down the cliff directly. You can prepare a bundle of rope for me, and I will need it at that time."

After finishing speaking, Leo turned around and walked out of the room. In order to cooperate with Sylvia's acting, he showed a very obvious look of indignation when he walked out, and slammed the door forcefully. Not long after, Leo and Sylvia Via fell out, and it didn't take long for rumors that the castle would no longer have a male master spread throughout the castle.

Afterwards, Leo walked back and forth in the castle, and the servants in the castle neither stopped him nor greeted him, as if he was a transparent person, allowing him to walk around.

Although Castle Black was very large, several times larger than ordinary castles, the architectural structure of the castle still did not break away from the scope of the castle of the Frankish Knights.

When the English royal family came here to build Castle Black, it happened to be the most popular time for French knights. At that time, there were more than 100,000 official knights in the entire French Empire, and there were more than 5,000 knight castles, large and small. Except for the more than 1,000 officially built knight castles, the other more than 3,000 knight castles were all self-built.

Because not every knight has enough financial and material resources to build a knight's castle, most knights will choose to occupy a small hill, then surround a piece of land with a wooden fence, and build several houses, which is called the castle. It is the knight's castle of so-and-so knight.

This kind of village-style knight castle occupies the vast majority of the more than 3,000 knight castles, so some people say that professional knight castles are a blasphemy against the knight class, and this kind of knight castle is not even comparable to those of the bandits. Copycat.

Therefore, for the overall honor of the knight class, the French Empire promulgated a set of construction standards for the knight castle, which stipulated the basic requirements of the knight castle from the administrative level, and then successively promulgated the architectural specifications of various buildings in the knight castle, etc., and finally An architectural form known as the Knightsburg style was formed.

Right now, this Castle Black is a standard model that integrates the architecture of the Knights Castle. The outer castle, the inner castle, the knight training ground, the octagonal arrow tower, the large granary, the main castle with both offensive and defensive features, etc. are all built according to the architectural standards of the Knights Castle. It was built, and therefore the roads inside the main castle of the Black Knight Castle are as intricate as a maze.

The main reason why the interior of the main castle is so complicated is that after the outer and inner castles are captured, the owner of the castle can still resist in the main castle and even reverse the situation of the battle, so the interior of the main castle is not only the road It is complicated, and there are many secret doors and passages.

Under the circumstances at that time, these secret doors and secret passages might have helped the castle owner resist foreign enemies and even escape from the castle, but at this moment, these secret doors and secret passages have become loopholes that threaten the safety of the castle owner.

After Sylvia inherited Castle Black, she led people to block all the secret doors and passages, but Sylvia had to admit that even so, she was not completely sure of the secret doors in the castle. , The secret passages have all been blocked, and it is not even sure whether there is a dark room in the castle.

You know, when the English royal family came here to build Castle Black, it was already after the conflict with the French royal family. I just want to see how the French royal family is going to deal with them, ready to flee to the sea at any time, so the castle is built as much as possible in wartime. In such a castle, a dark room used to avoid the war and wait for the time to shift Indispensable, and such a darkroom will be built very secretly, because if it is too obvious, it will be easily discovered by people, and it will lose its main function as a darkroom.

After Leo walked around the main castle, he only found a secret passage that was not discovered by Sylvia and the dark room behind it.

"Discovered a secret passage so quickly?" Sylvia said in surprise after hearing Leo's inspection results.

Leo said with a serious expression: "I'm afraid there are more than one. It would be great if my spiritual network can be used, and I will be able to find out all the secret paths soon."

"It's okay, I've lived here for several years, and nothing happened." Sylvia said relaxedly.

"But now you are not the only one living alone." Leo reminded.

When Sylvia heard this, her expression became a little serious.

Leo patted Sylvia on the shoulder and said: "You find someone to block the secret passage you found first, I will go to the library of the castle to see if there are other secret passages that have not been found. darkroom."

The library at Castle Black is not very large. After all, when the English royal family built Castle Black, they did not consider living here for a long time, so the library they built was not very large. Later, the French royal family took over the castle. After the castle, after two renovations, the size of the library has also increased a lot, but it is still much smaller than the library in the normal Knights Castle.

It is precisely because the library is too small that there are not many books here. Most of the new books are placed in the public library converted from a guard tower in the outer castle, and most of the books here are old and new. Materials related to Castle Black, and most of these materials are diaries written by the castle steward.

I don't know when it started. In addition to daily affairs, the stewards of noble castles or manors in the French Empire will be appointed by the castle owners to be record officials to record the daily affairs of the castle or noble families, and the noble families will be based on these. The diary writes its own family history, so usually the stewards of each castle are hereditary. A family has been responsible for the management of a castle or manor for generations, and Castle Black is no exception.

The history of the butler who is in charge of managing Castle Black now can be traced back to the time when the British royal family just built Castle Black, but his family was not a butler at that time, just an ordinary attendant. Later, after the English royal family fled the French Empire, their family was left behind, and then incorporated by the French royal family. Later, because of their understanding of Castle Black, their family was appointed by the French royal family as castle stewards. to today.

Also because this family has always served as the steward in the castle, even if the information about Castle Black suffered some fires and other disasters in the past, causing some damage, the damaged part can still be quickly completed by the steward at that time .

When Leo proposed to check the information of Castle Black and handed Sylvia's execution order to the butler, the castle steward took Leo to the library, asked Leo to wait for a while, and followed him to lead the library. Several servants put all the Castle Black diaries written by his ancestors in front of Leo one by one according to the chronological order of the materials, for Leo to read.

Leo didn't immediately pick up the diaries and read them carefully, but quickly glanced at the date on the cover, and then asked the castle steward, "Where is the earliest information about the castle being built by the English royal family?"

The castle steward replied truthfully: "Those materials were taken away by the Sea God Church a few years ago, and they haven't been returned yet."