The Earldom of Castells is located in the northern part of the Crescent Kingdom.
It takes about a month to travel overland from Bold in the south to Castres in the north.
Maybe it would be faster for a powerful transcendent to travel alone, but for Castel's mighty convoy of a thousand people, a month is already considered fast.
Of course, in addition to land routes, there are also sea routes.
The western part of the Principality of Boulder is close to the sea. If you go west first, walk to the western seaside of Boulder, then take a boat north, and then pass through the Star and Moon Strait in the northeast, you can also reach Castel in the Northland.
It might be faster if we take the sea route.
However, Charlotte did not choose sea or land.
One is that the war between the Fallen Star Kingdom and the Crescent Moon Kingdom ended not long ago, and the Fallen Star Kingdom has always had a better command of the sea in the Xingyue Strait.
Not only that, the Duchy of Boit, which is on the seaside to the west of the Crescent Kingdom, is the feudal enemy of the Duchy of Boulder. Even if Charlotte no longer wants to see the Duke of Boulder, she still belongs to the Duchy of Boulder when she is walking outside, and she can easily be betrayed by others. Thinking about it.
Not to mention that when passing through the Star-Moon Strait, you have to pass through the Roman Principality, the enclave of the Fallen Star Kingdom on this side of the Star-Moon Strait.
To sum up, Charlotte thought it was better to be cautious.
In the decades-long Star-Moon War, the Castel Territory has always been one of the important territories coveted by the Fallen Star Kingdom!
Secondly, Charlotte also wants to take this opportunity to learn more about the world she lives in.
Although she already knew a lot of knowledge about the world from books, the knowledge on paper was ultimately shallow.
Compared with spending most of the time at sea, taking the land route allows you to appreciate the customs and customs of the Crescent Kingdom.
Go north from Bold to reach the Castel Territory, avoiding the feuding Boit in the northwest. If you take a detour and take the overland route, you will need to pass through two other principalities and two counties.
These four lords are all direct vassals of the Crescent Royal Family and swear allegiance directly to the king.
Among them, the two most powerful principalities are the Moon Protector Principality and the Violet Principality, one in the south and one in the north. They are the close neighbors of the Bold Principality itself and the Earl of Castells respectively.
The full name of the Moon Guardian Principality is the Moon Guardian Principality. The ruling family is a branch of the Crescent Royal Family. They are loyal supporters of the royal family and one of the few nobles who support the king in strengthening centralization of power.
The Violet Principality is located in the north of the kingdom. It is a neighbor of the Roman Principality, an enclave of the Fallen Star Kingdom, and the Earl of Castells. It is also the main battlefield of the Star-Moon War. Due to the constant war, the folk customs are quite tough.
As for the other two counties... they are all vassals of the Crescent Principality, which is directly under the jurisdiction of the Crescent Royal Family.
They are sandwiched between two principalities and have a close relationship with the royal family. The lords are all branch families of the royal family. A little further to the northeast is Crescent City, the capital of the Crescent Kingdom.
Not to mention the two counties, whose strength is far inferior to that of Castel, although the relationship between the two principalities that must pass through, one in the south and the other in the north, and Boulder cannot be considered to be on good terms, they are far from being hostile.
Taking the land route is indeed much safer for Charlotte than the sea route.
Charlotte had done her homework in advance for this information.
Unlike the city of Boulder, which was already highly urbanized, only after leaving Boulder and coming to the vast countryside did Charlotte truly see the true appearance of the feudal kingdom in this era.
The city of Bold is the capital of the principality.
There are very few such big cities even in the kingdom. In the vast area of the Crescent Kingdom, there are more castles, manors, churches and villages dotted here and there.
Every castle represents at least one baron; every manor almost represents an extraordinary knight; and every church almost represents a priest.
Regardless of whether they have entered the rank or not, they are at least extraordinary, their strength is far beyond that of ordinary people, and they even have their own retainers or servants.
Almost all villages were built around manors, churches and castles, receiving the protection of nobles and priests.
Even those cities tended to develop gradually with noble castles as the center. The places where cities could develop were either located on traffic thoroughfares or had relatively influential local nobles, and they usually started at least as a viscount.
The scale of these cities is much smaller than that of Boulder. Most of them may only be towns with a population of less than 20,000 to 30,000 people. Those with a population of more than 50,000 people are considered large cities.
However, there are many of them, spread over the vast land like stars.
These cities, castles, manors and villages formed the blood network that ruled the entire kingdom.
There are often large areas of farmland surrounding cities, castles, manors and villages, but if you look a little further out, there is endless wilderness.
The wilderness is not safe and harbors bandits and robbers who attack passing caravans.
However, these robbers and robber mercenaries rarely appear as extraordinary beings, and they threaten more ordinary people.
Apart from them, what really makes ordinary people take shelter from the nobles are the monsters wandering in the wilderness.
The origin of Warcraft cannot be traced. The more accepted view is that the power of Warcraft comes from those fallen gods.
The extraordinary power in the world of Miria comes from the gods, and so do the monsters that control the extraordinary power.
They are considered to be monsters born from the corpses of fallen gods. They have reproduced from generation to generation and have footprints throughout the entire Miria continent. They are also a force that cannot be ignored that threatens civilization.
Precisely because of the existence of Warcraft, nobles who control extraordinary power will become the main force in protecting ordinary people and become lords of all sizes.
Compared to bandits and robbers, monsters are the creatures that passing caravans are most afraid of encountering.
Bandits and robbers often just seek money, but once they encounter a monster, even the lowest level monster, those caravans without extraordinary power will face the crisis of total annihilation.
Not long after leaving Boulder, Charlotte's team encountered a World of Warcraft.
In her opinion, it is not very powerful, just a low-level demonic wolf. Sebas calls it Wind Wolfmon, a magical beast that can use wind blades and light body techniques.
But the problem is that it is a wolf pack composed of more than thirty wind wolves.
A high-level transcendent may be able to easily destroy them, but for ordinary caravans that cannot afford to hire a high-level transcendent, and cannot meet passing mercenary adventurers, it will be difficult to survive when encountering them.
Of course, Charlotte didn't let them go.
She took the knights to take action personally, and more than thirty wind wolf beasts were quickly transformed into more than thirty fine wolf skins.
According to the merchants in the caravan, this wolf skin can be sold for ten quintana in the market!
"Is it so expensive?"
Charlotte clicked her tongue.
"Hey, Master, anything related to extraordinary power is expensive. The wolf skin of this wind wolf beast can be considered a pretty good magic material. It is one of the best materials for making mage robes."
Sebastian Cope said.
As he spoke, he added:
"By the way, don't look at Castel's income, but that is under the premise that we have not cultivated extraordinary power on a large scale. If you want to cultivate extraordinary power on a large scale... the income from the territory seems to be considerable. Not so much.”
Charlotte mused.
The Earl of Castells is a vassal of the Principality of Boulder, and the pressure on the extraordinary side is often shouldered by the Principality.
Take the Boulder mages who once followed the Earl and Countess of Castel. Although the Castel family shared most of the salary, many extraordinary supplies were provided by the principality.
Perhaps the income of the Principality of Bold is not much higher than that of the Earl of Castres, but with its vast land, the income of the extraordinary materials of the Principality of Bold is far more than that of the Earl of Castres.
As for extraordinary materials... many times they cannot be measured in terms of money. They are also priceless and are important strategic materials.
Even if you have money, you may not be able to buy it, and if you have money, you may not be able to buy enough.
In the future, Castel is likely to be separated from Bold. In this case, Charlotte will definitely develop her own extraordinary power.
She is not so luxurious as to consume the divine power of blood to cultivate extraordinary strength. Using money to buy extraordinary materials is far less practical than controlling the origin of extraordinary materials.
Charlotte thought about her silver mine again.
The silver mine associated with the mithril mine is Castell's most important source of strategic materials. Mithril is not only valuable, but it is also a hard currency for trading extraordinary materials.
"It seems that when we return to the territory, the first thing to do is to investigate the depletion of mithril mines."
Charlotte secretly thought.
She has not been idle for more than half a year. After comparing the bills of the territory, she found that the time when the Mithril Mine decreased and dried up happened to be after the Countess of Castel sent all the accompanying extraordinary people back to the territory.
This is too much of a coincidence.
Charlotte always felt that there might be some connection, and the depletion of mithril mines might not be as simple as she imagined.
The convoy continued to move forward, heading north.
The vast team is naturally eye-catching.
In the Second Star-Moon War, the Castel family, one family and two blazing suns, stole the show, especially the Roman battle that prevented the Fallen Star Kingdom from invading Castel. It almost became famous in one battle. Most of the nobles recognized the Black Eagle family crest of Castle.
Although the Castel couple are gone, the Castel family still has its territory and is still rich. Even in the kingdom, it is not considered a minor noble.
For this reason, Charlotte would be warmly welcomed and entertained by local nobles wherever she went.
As small as some viscounts or even barons, as large as earls or even marquises, they would send envoys to invite her to dinners and even social dances when the motorcade stopped to rest.
That's what nobles are like.
If there is no real irreconcilable feud, in most cases the atmosphere after meeting will be warm and friendly.
Even if they meet on the battlefield, in many cases they will spare the opponent's life. Unless the sword has no eyes, they will capture him alive and then demand a ransom.
It can be regarded as the same rules of the game among the nobles of Miria.
It is better to have one more friend than one more enemy. Nobles are very concerned about expanding their own circles, especially the circle of nobles. And a big noble with a long history and quite wealth like Castell is naturally the friend of many nobles.
Not to mention that Castel still has a lot of business in the hinterland of the kingdom.
Although more and more nobles have begun to engage in business in recent years, the vast majority of nobles still rely on estates and taxes to survive. There are not many nobles like Castel who have done impressive business in business, and many families have them. contacts.
Therefore, whether it was for friendship or business, the nobles along the way were extremely enthusiastic about the Castel family's motorcade. Charlotte, who had a "tourist mentality", did not refuse, and kept having banquets almost every day.
The only thing that made her uncomfortable was that there were too many nobles at the banquet who wanted to invite her to dance, and the young nobles looked at her too hotly.
Even after traveling a year, Charlotte still couldn't adapt to this kind of sight.
But she is not what she used to be.
Among the vampire's innate magic, whether it is spiritual memory control, mental shock or charming words, they can teach those who go too far to behave.
Charlotte only needs one look, and the guy who looked wildly just now will immediately fall under her rose skirt.
Needless to say, this feeling of using mental magic to control others was quite satisfying, but Sebas couldn’t stand it any longer, so he carefully reminded in a low voice:
"Master, you have a special status. When you are outside, we should keep a low profile."
"Don't worry, I'm measured."
Charlotte replied.
The people I met along the way were all small and medium-sized nobles, and at most they were only at the second level of Silver Moon.
As long as you pay attention, it's relatively safe.
In this way, Charlotte's touristy rush stopped and stopped.
And the result is...the team moves slower.
A month's journey, almost half a month has passed and I still haven't left Yuehu Principality.
But Charlotte felt pretty good.
Everywhere he went, he was given warm hospitality. While making friends, he also broadened his horizons and learned a lot of information about the nobles of the Crescent Kingdom.
What's more, she also learned a lot of information about the Blood Clan from these nobles. To be more precise, the information about the Blood Demon Order.
The Blood Demon Order is rampant in the Crescent Kingdom. Although Bold's influence has been eradicated, their shadow can still be seen in other places.
As an enthusiastic person who loves peace and justice, Charlotte will naturally not let these rampant cultists go.
That's all for the uncertain news. If she really had accurate local information, Charlotte would not hesitate to take action to help the local nobles deal with the cultists involved in these activities.
Surprisingly, I got two more fragments of holy scriptures. I can only say that the Blood Demon Cult is really a hamster of hoarding goods. If not other things, they like to collect cursed book pages.
Charlotte really loved these cultists.
The repercussions were obvious. As Charlotte successfully eradicated several Blood Demon Order strongholds along the way, her name gradually spread among passing caravans and bards.
Especially after the vision she had at her coming-of-age ceremony somehow got spread, it became more and more outrageous.
A descendant of the God Lord, a born saint, a purifier of blood demons, etc... Charlotte scratched her head after hearing this, and even felt guilty.
Such a high profile will certainly make it easier to hide her vampire identity, but if it is passed down like this, it won't really attract the attention of the higher-ups of the Holy Royal Court one day, right?
Charlotte couldn't help but murmur.
And half a month after setting off, Charlotte finally saw a second big city that was as big as Boulder City, or to be more precise, it was much more prosperous than Boulder City.
Located in the north of Yuehu Principality, the capital of the principality, Anluo City, is a large city with a population of more than 500,000.
Duke Yuehu, who had already received the news, sent an envoy before the motorcade entered the city, inviting Charlotte to attend a dinner at the Duke's Palace.
At the same time, Charlotte also learned another news from other caravans entering and leaving Anluo City.
Tonight, there is another distinguished guest at the Duke's Mansion in Anluo City.
He went south with his wife Eleanor to the third prince of the Crescent Kingdom, Philippe de Valva, in the Principality of Bold.
2-in-1
(End of chapter)
