Surviving the Fourth Calamity

Chapter 1 Independent Portal
White Horse City is a beautiful place, with white walls and red tiles, green grass and flowers.

Hill walked slowly to the castle, he will come of age today, and then bid farewell to the city.

Hill's identity is actually a bit embarrassing. His father, the Earl of Perast, married three wives and each gave birth to a son, and he was the middle one.

According to the rules of the Salar Kingdom, when the non-eldest son reaches the age of 16, he will take a sum of property and leave the family.

The mother of the Earl's eldest son, Manton, was of noble birth.As the daughter of the Duke of Klar, the dowry is even more generous.It is a pity that the body was relatively weak and died shortly after Manton was born.

The eldest son had a powerful family, and the earl had to be careful when marrying his second wife.

He was unwilling to choose a wife among the minor nobles, so he took a fancy to Melanie, the daughter of the court archmage Obersdan Farren, who was not in the aristocratic system.

Melanie, a fair-skinned and beautiful mage with long hair like a golden waterfall, deeply attracted the count.

And Earl Perast, a handsome, rich, romantic, beautiful and simple female mage, was quickly moved by the help of the court women and made up her mind to marry him. Unfortunately, she regretted it within two years.

The entire Earl's Castle was rejecting this female mage. Everyone felt that she would definitely attack the eldest son Manton, including the husband who claimed to love her the most. After Hill was born, he was even more defensive about her.

However, no one thought that there would be no boring women's wars in the wizard's world. Melanie plunged into alchemy, bought a manor outside the town with her son and lived in it, never seeing her husband again.

Hill only saw the so-called father at the annual New Year's banquet until he was 12 years old.It is a pity that when he was 12 years old, Melanie's alchemy experiment failed, and the magic backfired. He died a few months later, and Hill had to return to the Earl's Castle.

Count Perast was indifferent to this son, and immediately threw himself into the selection of a third wife.He no longer dared to marry a lofty female mage. It had been 12 years, and he had had enough to make the nobles laugh at him.

In the end, Earl Perast chose a baron's daughter who was famous for her brains and beauty, and gave birth to her third son, Edgar, two years ago.

This time, the people in the castle finally returned to the familiar pace. The young and beautiful little wife postponed the time of Manton's bar mitzvah that should have been held at the age of 16 to after the age of 20.Whoever made Manton not live up to his expectations is still far from being a formal knight.

Most people, in the absence of pressure, pursue comfort and enjoyment. Only when there is pressure will they work hard, so Manton began to exercise hard every day.

Hill is going to leave anyway, but if 14 years later, Manton, who is in his 30s, has not become a knight, his inheritance depends on whether Edgar can become a knight.

Of course, if the earl is unlucky to die before that, Hill can also come back to grab the title.After all, in the next generation, Hill is the only person above the knight level.

So in order to reduce trouble and keep his ears quiet, Hill rarely used spells in the castle, so these people thought he was still an apprentice.

Manton also tried to win over Hill, but unfortunately the method was clumsy. Hill showed a lofty and indifferent look and got rid of him just waiting for the adult to split up. The stepmother observed it carefully for a while and found that he really just wanted to leave. It was silent.

Hill passed the time in the castle study every day until last night, when he suddenly received a message from his grandfather who had never contacted him directly.

He rushed to the manor overnight, and the indifferent mage sensed his mage-level spiritual power, gave him a storage ring with satisfaction, and left, leaving no room for Hill to speak.

Hill didn't even respond to his grandfather who had been calling for a long time. He packed up the manor angrily and put away all his mother's things.The storage ring is huge and contains a lot of spell books.

He understood that being a mage is a self-taught profession, and after his mother led him in, he should see more and learn more.There's nothing wrong with Frank doing this.

As a grandfather, Fran's love for him is all in the ring, which contains a lot of precious materials, large sums of gold coins, enough books for a library, and the most important building materials for the magic tower, which is A high-level magic tower core that Hill cannot buy even with money.

but!Hill wailed in his heart: "Dear grandfather! I'm a warlock! I don't know what bloodline I have!"

Yes, Hill's years of meditation turned a corner when he was about to step onto the avenue of the mage, and he awakened to become a glorious civil engineering and water warlock.He didn't know if it was because he traveled through time and space to cause trouble. He was a civil engineer in his previous life, and he added water after awakening in this life.

In Hill's spell list, Fossil into Mud and Mud into Stone are juxtaposed at the front, Summoning Earth Element, Wood Element, and Water Element in the back.In the middle are earth shields, ground movement, slowness, natural growth, summoning of natural companions and purification.

Hill knows that his blood is definitely not bad, and Warlock Awakening is not everyone who can have so many spells at the beginning.And since his awakening, his body has begun to grow stronger day by day, and his seemingly thin body contains powerful strength.As a sorcerer, his strength is almost comparable to that of a full-fledged knight.

When Hill woke up, he vaguely saw a giant bear roaring towards the sky, and he knew that his main bloodline must be a bear.The bear clan is basically the soil type, and it must be an equal bloodline to coexist, so Hill has been thinking about what the earth bear can mix with the descendants of the unearthed wood and water type.

He is very curious about his bloodline, but he has not found any clues after reading all the books in the castle and manor.Finally came an archmage who might know, but still got nothing.

He instructed Lina, the housekeeper of the manor, to wait for him at the entrance of the manor after packing up his luggage. Hill, who was full of chest tightness, could only walk back to the castle in the morning light.

Earl Perast hadn't gotten up yet, and in the castle, only the awakened Manton, accompanied by several illegitimate sons, worked hard to cultivate.Hill ignored them and went back to the room to tidy up.

A few days ago, the butler had already revealed the earl's meaning to him. The earl gave Hill two choices: a lord with a small fief in the earldom or a baron without a fief but with a development order. He chose without hesitation. baron.What a joke!Staying in the earldom, there will be trouble waiting for him in the future, whether magic is not fragrant or alchemy is not fun, Hill is not in the mood to find this guilt.

No one in the Earl's Castle knew that Hill was a warlock. Low-level mages were not uncommon among nobles. It took a lot of time for mages to grow, and they consumed countless resources.Hill, who has a cold relationship with the Count, will definitely not get much property from the separation, and is not taken seriously.

But if he was a bloodline-inherited warlock, he would definitely be given to the great nobles as a stallion in the name of marriage.

Hill just wants to run as far as possible, and find a place to go to the Archmage.

After tidying up the room, Hill did not wait long to see the housekeeper who invited him downstairs. The count and lady and family members were all waiting for him to dine together.Hill slowly walked down the stairs, and the large dining room was full of people watching the fun.After eating his stomach-ache breakfast in whispers, he followed the group to the conference hall.

The earl stood in front of the hall, facing Hill in the crowd, and said with a smile: "Dear Hill, my cherished second son, at the important moment of your adulthood, I canonized you as a Bo in the name of Earl Perast. Baron Lanio!
I give you 2 gp as a father and allow you to take all your mother's property.I hope you will add glory to the Perast family as Baron Hill Perast Bolaño! "

As soon as the voice fell, Hill heard the suddenly amplified whispers, and the people watching the lively could not hide their surprise at all.

Count Perast's annual income is about 5 to 6 gold coins. The status of a baron without a fief is very high in the eyes of commoners, but a real fief count can be canonized once a year, which is generally used to win over great knights or nobles They buy with money.No great knight appeared this year, and it was normal for Hill to be a baron.

But the earl didn't even give his son a fief!The sum of the property Hill received was not as much as the Earl's two-year annuity.

Hill knew that the earl felt that Melanie's property was enough to compensate him. Although the earl was not afraid of the court mages, he did not want to cause trouble.

But he didn't like the son very much, which was proof that he was terribly rejected by his wife.As long as Hill is around, everyone will not forget Melanie's story.He would never keep this son in his fief.Hill is also a mage, and he will definitely not choose to be a little lord.

The Earl always thought that Melanie was just a little mage who knew how to do alchemy, and even killed herself. Even if the property was left to Hill, it would be worth at most 10 gold coins, so after Melanie's death, he generously called him Xi. I take it myself.

Before she became an adult, Hill was not willing to let the Earl find out that Melanie was a mage with a storage ring.

With Manton, the eldest son of a powerful mother's family, if the earl wants to distribute money to other children, he can only divide it in his annuity.So for the son he didn't like, he didn't want to give Hill too much.

The 16-year-old coming-of-age ceremony that should have been held before the enfeoffment ceremony was completely ignored by the earl.

Generally speaking, children who go out of the family will receive a generous compensation at the bar mitzvah.

Hill, on the other hand, didn't even have a rite of passage.

Everything today is just to make everyone understand more, and there is no need to treat Hill in the count's face in the future.

Hill didn't care about this at all, he looked at the instantly changing atmosphere in the hall.

From now on, this is reserved for the new Countess and Manton to continue their war!

Hill only took away 2 gold coins, and Edgar and his possibly born younger brother will be able to share several hundred thousand.

Hill saw Manton's eyes suddenly sharpen, and the little brother Edgar has truly become his enemy from now on.

And the beautiful young stepmother's eyes twinkled, and everyone knew that even though Edgar would get a lot later, she wanted more.The Castle of the Earl of Perast must be very lively in the future, leaving enough talk for the contented people.

Hill didn't want to pay attention to these people and things, got the baron's document from the butler, thanked the earl for the canonization, and turned away from the castle while everyone watched.

(End of this chapter)