The ruins under the moonlight, without any lights at all. Kurt Fuerten and his party even wondered if they had taken the wrong road because it was too dark at night, and therefore ran to the wrong place. But are there any abandoned castles around here?
There are no such abandoned castles or fortresses in the military kingdom. Because such a place may be used by bandits and bandits, or even become a hiding place for enemies of the military and state. In addition, the military country has been at peace for a long time, and there has been no war to attack the city. Therefore, old war relics will be demolished and the stones will be used. The rotten wood was either burned on the spot or brought by people from neighboring villages to be burned as firewood. It's not uncommon for some bold people to demolish old castles and build their own houses.
After all, this kind of behavior is a national policy, so Kurt Fuerten is very convinced that after more than a hundred years of hard work, there is no longer a castle in ruins like this one in front of him.
But it’s not quite right to say ruins. Because there are no toppled walls, no overgrown scenes, and it even looks like... no traces of war damage. It's like a very ordinary castle, but with many parts dug out. There was no human habitation at all, not even ghosts, everything was clean.
After hesitating for a long time, Kutel finally ordered a knight and said, "Go and confirm who that castle belongs to."
The knight galloped out and ran back after a while and said, "Sir, I saw the goat flag of the Bachmann family inside."
The noble flag represents status, but it cannot be hung randomly, nor can it be easily lent to others. Kutel asked again: "Did you see anyone alive inside?"
"My lord, I saw no one."
"Then, the body?"
"There is no body either, my lord."
"Blood? Signs of a fire? Any sign of a battle?"
"None of that, my lord."
"Is it possible that it is occupied by the undead? There are ghosts everywhere and corpses collecting corpses?"
"No, sir. It doesn't look like it's occupied by the undead. There aren't any scary ghosts inside."
This time, not only Kurt Fuerten was dumbfounded, but the knights who followed also had the same expression. Someone asked the knight who went to investigate: "What's the scene like there?"
"Well, it's hard to understand in words. I don't know how to describe what I saw inside. If you want to know, go see it with your own eyes. There should be no danger."
The group made some local materials, prepared some torches, and set out to explore this very strange Bachman city.
Where there should be city gates and walls, if you look closely, you will find that there is still a small part of the foundation on the ground. Some places leave more, some places less. The same thing is that the city wall no longer has the function of a city wall.
The remaining wall has very beautiful and smooth cut surfaces. Under the light of the torch, it looks even more weird. The bold one took out his war hammer and hit it on the smooth surface, knocking off a stone.
After crossing the city wall that was no longer a wall, Kurt Fuerten seemed to have remembered something and walked towards a specific place. In a certain direction, I searched back and forth for a partially intact wall. Finally, he stopped in front of a circular building with only half a floor left.
He looked at the remnants of the building with an ugly expression, and shouted to his subordinates: "Come here, try to knock on the foundation stone here."
After their lord spoke, several knights took out their warhammers and struck the ruined wall hard. But everyone's hands were numb from the shock, and the foundation stone was intact as before. Everyone was cursing at this result.
The strongest and most reckless knight was also shocked. He complained: "It's so hard! It's not the wall of the magic tower."
This sentence actually silenced all those who complained. I have the same question in my mind: Is this really a magic tower? Everyone looked at their lord.
Kurt Fuerten nodded with difficulty and said: "This is a secret that only a very few people know. I only heard it from my father and have not confirmed the authenticity. Now it seems that this is a magic tower; Or, at least, it is a building with similar capabilities to the Magic Tower."
Although the magic tower built in the city is also registered with the Magician Association, the appointment of the tower owner is usually not decided by the association, but also takes into account local influence. If it is built like this in a castle, it will not even have the most basic control rights, and it will become a black account that will not appear on the table.
Because castles are usually the residence of nobles, the magic tower built here will be regarded as the private property of the nobles. He can let whoever he wants to settle in. If the Magicians Association places too much emphasis on their control over such magic towers, it will be similar to robbing a noble's territory, which will cause public outrage.
As far as the association is concerned, such magic towers falling into the hands of nobles do not actually pose a threat to the group of magicians. After all, the tower can only be regarded as a defensive fortress. It is impossible to carry it on your back and run somewhere to attack others.
Of course, the more important reason is that the local magicians association is not strong enough to challenge the Vader Military State. As long as both parties do not cross the bottom line, in this difficult-to-diagnose gray area, everyone usually turns a blind eye and gets by.
If an ill-informed enemy knocks on the door of a magic tower in a castle like this, it is not a situation where one foot has stepped into a trap, and the most you can do is chop off your foot and still survive. At least Viscount Bachmann has been able to keep the secret until now, so he knows what will happen to those who break into his house and offend him. Until today, the results seemed to have taken a turn.
Thinking of this, Kurt Fuerten made a quick decision and said: "Find some food and we will camp outside. We will search the castle again during the day tomorrow, and we will do this for today."
Everyone replied in unison: "Yes, my lord."
The strange sight in front of them left the brave men of the Fu Teng family speechless all night. Kutel thought for a while, chose some words, and used the forum to report what happened here to his father. After all, Duke Becker was involved, and his nominal superior lord was also this Duke. Some things have to be done in advance.
Early next morning. After briefly eating dry food, everyone walked towards the deserted castle, searching every corner. As a castle that combines the functions of a residence and a military fortress, it is actually not very big, especially since the owner of the castle is only a viscount.
According to military and national armaments, a viscount must provide at least C (100) troops in wartime. There will be fewer standing soldiers, so the castle will not be too big. There is no problem with exceeding the limit in Mi Di, but if you have a great success without restraint, you will only squander the family wealth. When wartime comes, they can't even pay for recruiting troops, and even a big castle can't protect anyone.
Therefore, although the number of Viscount Wuerten's men was small, they quickly searched the Bachmann family's castle. After all, one thing was confirmed, there really wasn't even a single person here. There were traces of someone's life, but no trace of where they were going. It was as if the people living in this castle had disappeared out of thin air. There were no servants, no guards, no women and children, not even... not even a mouse to be found.
The weirdest thing is that round holes with smooth cut surfaces appear everywhere. It might be a wall, it might be a door, almost opening up the entire castle, making it undefended.
To say that no discovery was made is not quite correct. At least the treasure trove and property in this castle are still intact. As for whether there are any, how would outsiders like Viscount Fu Teng know. Even so, no one dared to grab a handful of gold coins or hide a few silver spoons and take them back. There are weird things everywhere in the castle. Who would be so bold as to touch the things here before the situation is understood.
It is said that the beauty next to the magician may be the devil, probably a lich, and can definitely be a great magician. For such a person, it would be as easy to curse someone as spitting.
The nobles look down on magicians, but they will not look down upon such a group of people. Magicians may be able to play like berserkers on the frontal battlefield; but when it comes to plotting against people behind the scenes, magicians have much better tricks than nobles, so they have to be on guard.
Before the middle of the day, Fu Teng and his party couldn't stay any longer. There is no saying that the yang energy is strong and the ghosts are frightened in Mi Di. Viscount Fu Teng and the others just take advantage of the daytime and can see more clearly than at night. But now they just want to get away from this place as soon as possible, because the holes everywhere are like evil things that can devour people, and people don't know how to resist them.
Not to mention there is a magic tower with only the base remaining. There is no noble who doesn't think about how to attack the magic tower, but if the results in front of them don't make them curious, it will only make people scared. This is true for castles protected by magic towers, so what does the fortification of your own castle mean?
Before leaving, Kurt Fuerten warned his knights. "After you go back, warn everyone not to cause trouble with that magician. Including you. If anyone offends that person, I will personally tie him and his family to that magician. No one will be left behind. Don’t resent me for not fulfilling my duty as a lord to protect you and your families. I have my family to protect, and I don’t want to end up like this.”
..."Yes, sir." Although the tone of the reply was a bit depressing, the knights also knew that someone who could do such a thing to Bachman City was not something they could deal with.
Kurt Wuerten added: "I will report the things here to Duke Becker when I get back. Then it will be their big shots who should worry about it, and we will not care too much."
Hearing what their lord said, everyone felt relieved. People like them who only know how to wield swords really don't know how to fight against an enemy who can do such a thing.
However, what Kuter was thinking about was another matter, how to put this trouble away so that Duke Becker could not force himself to come forward to solve the matter. Maybe he should invite his father to come out, expose the matter directly, and tell everyone clearly that this cannot be solved by a 'viscount', and that the superior nobles must come forward. They do not make a clear decision, which is the result of the lack of ability of the superior nobles, not the fault of a small noble.
