Chapter 38 38 Sebastian's Decision

Chapter 38 -38- Sebastian’s decision

Over the next few days, Charlotte's life became much calmer.

She sleeps until she wakes up naturally every day, then worships devoutly with the priests from the church, and then receives "spiritual treatment" from the priests from the church hospital.

Her enthusiastic attitude, initiative in action, and fervent belief earned her praises from the priests who came to make extra money.

Charlotte was indeed very religious.

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

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

The beautiful Priestess is not only eye-catching, fragrant and soft, but also brings a natural closeness to Charlotte.

She was the first person to treat Charlotte well after time travel.

During those days in the hospital, Lottie took meticulous care of her, and Charlotte could truly feel her heartfelt concern and tenderness.

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

Each one is more enthusiastic than the other, but it's just not eye-catching.

After some cuteness, sex, and chatting with the priest, Charlotte realized that Lottie had been studying in the cathedral these days.

Pity.

After the morning "Sacred Scripture Recharging" is over, it's lunch time.

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

Lunch was sumptuous as always.

Quasimodo finally succeeded in persuading Charlotte's idea of ​​drastically increasing the meal fee, and in the end only reduced the meal fee to one-fifth of the original price.

According to him, he had picked out a pair of the least valuable porcelain and exchanged it for 80,000 quintana at a pawn shop run by a Yuca man, which was enough for the next expenses.

There are several rooms in the manor with similar collections...

Charlotte was truly stunned by her family's heritage.

She felt that it was a miracle that no thieves were paying attention to the manor during this period.

"They don't dare, because the Duke's Palace has been sending people to help keep an eye on it in the past few days, and the team leader is even an initiate, and now... you have hired a demon hunting knight to patrol around."

Quasimodo explained.

"What about our initiates? Don't tell me that the noble Castel family doesn't even have a single transcendent who has entered the stage."

Charlotte asked the question she had always wanted to ask.

Quasimodo sighed:

"There are indeed initiates in the family, and there are even two viscounts of the second rank of Silver Moon. In the past, at least one of them would always be with the lord, but in recent years, all the initiates have been gradually replaced by the previous ones. That one was sent back to the earldom under various pretexts..."

Charlotte understood instantly.

It’s not that Castel doesn’t have transcendent beings.

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

This resulted in the Castle Manor in Boulder being left bare!

"That's outrageous. She's not afraid of being attacked."

The girl muttered.

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

Quasimodo shook his head.

"Now, with such a big thing happening in the manor, why are there no initiates in the territory rushing back?"

Charlotte asked again.

Quasimodo was silent.

Obviously, he couldn't answer this question.

Maybe he guessed something, but didn't dare to answer.

Charlotte came around quickly.

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

She sighed helplessly.

Those who are loyal to the nobility are of course also members of the aristocracy.

If you are a noble, you almost have a fiefdom.

Even if you don't have a fief, it's easy to get a country manor.

And when there is territory, there is selfishness...

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

Castel's title succession has not yet been finalized, and everyone is waiting to see.

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

What she really needs to worry about is after she successfully inherits the territory in the future.

Now that she has not officially inherited the territory, she cannot even command the lower-level nobles...

After lunch, I drank a glass of milk as usual, and then took a nice nap. In the afternoon, it was time to train the servants.

Prestige is indeed a good thing.

It can both intimidate and charm.

Coupled with Charlotte's own understanding of aristocratic etiquette, she was able to train the newcomers in a decent manner within a few days, and they respected and feared her.

Charlotte estimated that given a few months, all these people could transform into her shape from top to bottom.

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

And with training day by day, the proficiency of low-level majestic techniques has risen almost like a rocket.

On the third day, it exceeded 100. It was promoted from beginner to master, and the progress bar also changed to 0/300.

The power has not increased much, but it has become easier to use, and at least the duration has become quite long.

In the past, it only lasted fifteen minutes if it was used once.

Now, it can last almost an hour.

Charlotte figured that in another week, she should be able to move up a level and enter the next level.

In the evening, Charlotte usually chooses to read books to recharge her batteries and absorb as much knowledge about the world as possible.

Especially the information about nobles and her own family.

As she got to know more, she also understood why she always felt that her territory was so slow to respond.

It was because the Earldom of Castel was originally an enclave of the Principality of Boulder.

The Principality of Boulder is located on the southwest coast of the Crescent Kingdom.

But the Earldom of Castel is located on the northern coast, the northern border of the kingdom, and the territory conquered by the first Earl of Castel from the orc tribe.

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

The two duchies are located in the south and north, separated by several duchies and earls, so it would be strange if they have strong control.

In fact, the Castel family has always lived a small life in their own territory for generations, and only came to the territory to meet the lord once a year.

It was not until the previous generation of earls became the head of the Principality Mage Corps that they lived in Boulder City for a long time.

As for the family's strong source of income... it is simple to say, in layman's terms, that the Castel family has a mine.

And it is a silver mine with associated mithril.

In addition, as a territory across the sea from the Falling Star Kingdom and the Moon God Island, a neighbor of the Northern Grand Duchy, and the only way to the East Yunite Badlands and even the Kingdom of Koria in the east... In recent years, the Earl's business has also been booming.

Charlotte finally understood why the nobles were all coveting their own territories.

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

In addition to studying family information, the girl did not forget to find a vest in the collection of books recording blood.

After picking and choosing, Charlotte found that the effect of her majesty was very similar to the blood power of an ancient declining noble family in the Kingdom of Koria in the east.

This blood has a very loud name-Chosen by Heaven.

The effect is to strengthen physical fitness in all directions, increase the probability of becoming a knight or a mage, and can actively release "momentum" like majesty.

This blood has good ability, it is simply a panacea for vests, so she used it directly.

I just don't know if she, who is already a vampire, can truly awaken the blood power of the nobility.

Charlotte still feels bothered by the "half-elf" in her bloodline, but she can't find out the reason by asking Quasimodo or looking up literature.

She can only speculate whether the ancestors of the Castel family married elves.

In the next few days, the manor was relatively calm.

However, Boulder City was a bit weird.

During the days when Charlotte was "secluded", rumors about the Castel family's collusion with the blood demon in the city intensified...

Even the priests who came to the manor every day to earn extra money were interpreted by the public as the Castel family's guilty confession to cover up their ears.

There were even more vicious ones, who even described Charlotte as a blood demon who had resurrected from the dead, a succubus who bewitched people's hearts...

When Charlotte heard the old servant indignantly recounting the news he had inquired, she felt a little guilty.

Because the last rumor... in a sense, part of it was really a lucky coincidence.

Obviously, there is still someone behind the scenes fanning the flames.

It is definitely related to the vassal nobles of the principality, and perhaps even the Duke secretly instigated it.

Apart from that, there have been no more assassinations.

The other party seems to be quite afraid of the Demon Hunter Knights, even though most of the patrols are apprentice knights, they have stopped.

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

The Duke's birthday party is tomorrow.

Meanwhile.

In a luxurious manor somewhere in the outer city.

Sebastian, the president of the Rose Society, who was half-lying on the soft sleeper, enjoying the fruits peeled by the subhuman maid while elegantly holding a goblet filled with red wine, finally saw the information sorted out by the people below after a search and investigation.

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

"Hey, the high priest did a good job of blocking the news."

"Thorns... roses... so that's what it means."

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

In front of him, on the parchment at the top of the file, there was a clear copy of the pattern of the sacrificial array in the basement of Castel Manor that night!

Sebastian picked up the parchment, drank red wine elegantly, and thought:

"The Countess of Castel has the cursed page in her hand. She wanted to sacrifice her granddaughter to communicate with the Blood Demon Grand Duke, but she died in the sacrifice of a mysterious existence..."

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

"The Blood Demon Grand Duke is one of the five crowns of the blood clan, and the leader of the dark clan of the blood clan, 'Shedit'."

"Lady of the Dark Night is likely to be the one who returned from the blood clan..."

"Coincidence?"

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

Sebastian's eyes gradually deepened.

He put down the parchment and picked up a piece of drawing paper below.

On the drawing paper was a beautiful blonde girl.

She was wearing a holy white dress, kneeling in front of the statue of Lord Harald, closing her eyes and praying.

The holy light shone on her, making her look extremely holy, like an angel descending.

"Charlotte de Castel..."

Sebastian stroked the drawing paper, his clear eyes full of appreciation for beauty:

"As expected of the heir to the Castel family, she is indeed so beautiful that even the pure white witch is inferior to her."

"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, Sebastian fell into deep thought.

He continued to scroll down and came to the recent collection of information on Boulder City.

"Huh? There are still such rumors?"

He was slightly startled.

After casually browsing a few times, Sebastian sneered:

"Hey, these greedy human nobles are really shameless! They are not ashamed to bully a child!"

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

"The Duke's birthday party?"

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

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

He put down the information, drank the red wine in the goblet, then stood up gracefully, and ordered to the accompanying demihuman maid:

"Prepare me an elegant dress and some decent gifts."

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

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