Night Raven Master

Chapter 176 The Castle in the Snow
The melodious and long music came from the spell props on the wall behind Earl Durard. It looked like an accordion-like instrument, and it seemed that a pair of invisible hands were playing it.

An exquisite tablecloth is placed on the long dining table, the circular family crest is located in the center of the dining table, and the white and smooth shell porcelain tableware and alloy textured knives and forks are placed in all positions.

"I don't have any silver or copper tableware here." Earl Durard said with a smile after noticing that Art's gaze stayed on the knife and fork, "They have reached a morbid level in pursuit of blue blood. , using a large amount of blue blood gems for the final struggle, and after discovering that blue blood gems could not improve their strength, they even began to devour silver and copper products, and tried to use silver and copper tableware."

His tone was slightly sarcastic: "Make your blood look bluer?"

Yate's complexion remained unchanged, and the phantom of the night, which had taken off its mask, was completely a black image formed by shadows.

However, compared with the shadow, the facial features are very obvious.

"After the wizard's strength reaches the limit, there are only two ways to increase the title and make the territory more prosperous." Art said in a leisurely tone, "But not everyone can increase the title, can it?"

Earl Durard nodded: "Yes, that's right, not everyone is eligible."

"Military merit, contribution." He leisurely sliced ​​open the food with a knife and fork, "How can you get a higher title without corresponding contribution?"

From baron to earl, the Durard family completed this process, but it took more than 500 years, and the process of raising the status from viscount to earl was completed in his father's generation.

And he also used the method of constantly fighting for the Duke of Scala and accumulating military merits. Originally, if there were no accidents, he would be able to become the "Marquis Durard" in more than ten years.

However, everything has changed now.

Earl Durard sighed, now Durard County has belonged to the Duke of Rose, that is to say, he is no longer under the command of Duke Scala.

The previous military achievements are not counted, and the real gain of the decades of fighting for the Duke of Scala is only the territory won.

It would be fine if it was just a change of lord, but the problem is that the Rose City of the Duke of Rose is in Dullard County, and half of the original Dullard County has become the direct jurisdiction of the Duke of Rose.

The improvement of strength has temporarily slowed down.

But fortunately, in the previous discussions, several young counts did not choose the Duke Rose's camp, but still sided with the Duke of Scala.

If he could choose, he would not choose to side with the Duke of Rose. Although he is the legendary Duke, under the current situation, it is a new force after all, and the risk of standing on this side is too great.

But he has no choice, Durad County is too close to the territory of Duke Rose, if he chooses to stand in another camp, he has no doubt that he will be killed the next second he makes such a choice .

But okay
If there is no accident, after the end of winter, Duke Rose will launch a war against Duke South or Duke North.

As he is good at fighting, he should be able to become a good player under Duke Rose's command. Not to mention other things, the chance of gaining military exploits and becoming a marquis is even greater.

Originally under the command of the Duke of the North, the Marquis was already saturated, and now after the re-division of power, the pattern has been completely disrupted, which can be regarded as a good thing for him.

If he worked hard enough, he might be able to gain enough military exploits within ten years to become the first Marquis under Duke Rose.

At present, the faction closest to the Duke of Rose is the Earl of Red Rose. According to the legend, the other party is the heir of the Duke of Rose, but the other party has just advanced to Tianqi, compared with him who has been in the second level of Tianqi for many years, It's completely different. Judging from the situation, the opponent will not be promoted to the second level in the short term, at least 20 years.

Other than that, there is only one other Earl of Mercury.

The Earl of Mercury has always been a mysterious figure.

"In front of you, the morning star of mercury."

A character who rises suddenly.

Although the two territories were directly adjacent, he rarely dealt with each other. Every time the Duke of the North summoned the lord, the other party did not show up at all. He did not regard the other party as a marginal figure like other nobles.

Through some clues and the attitude of the Duke of the North, Earl Durard has always had a guess——

The other party may be a reclusive big shot, or have some powerful background.

I don't know who the other party is.

And the last time he went to Rose City to negotiate with the Duke of Rose, the Earl of Mercury seemed to be one step ahead of him, that is to say, the other party knew about the Duke of Rose's appearance earlier, and seemed to have a very close relationship with the Duke of Rose.

This situation also made him feel that his conjecture was close to the truth. Earl Faster of Mercury was not an ordinary earl.

However, he was just curious, and there was no doubt that the Earl of Mercury had a higher position in the power of Duke Rose than him.

Without doubt, I and Earl Mercury are currently the two most likely to become marquises.

Some information can be obtained through his apprentices.

Thinking of this, Earl Durard and Art began to talk——

At night, in the Duolun Tavern.

"Have you heard about the castle in the blizzard! It's really spectacular!" A tall and thin mercenary raised his arms high, "Someone really saw it! The castle in the blizzard!"

"Yes, yes, we know." The mercenary who was drinking next to him with a grumpy face shook his glass, "I said Andy, how many times have you said this? Have you said it a hundred times? "

The mercenary named Andy spread his hands, with a drop of sweat running down his head: "No way, you are slandering."

"I think so. I remember that after Andy joined the mercenary guild that day, there was an extra mission to find the castle." Another mercenary said, "Although it is anonymous, I think it is probably Andy who discovered it." .”

"I remember that if this kind of exploration mission is really confirmed, the first discoverer will have a high reward, right?"

"That's right, if it's really found out and the mercenary guild has something to gain, Andy will be prosperous." The ruffian-like mercenary bumped him with an elbow.

"Ahem, I told you it wasn't me." Andy turned his head guiltily, "If I knew, I would have explored it by myself. What kind of castle in the snowstorm, it looks like a big harvest."

His explanation also stunned the mercenaries who originally suspected that he was the discoverer, and they are right. When encountering such an opportunity, as long as they are not too timid, they will try to confirm it by themselves. In case any treasure can be found if.
"No, no, this guy was sent back after being seriously injured, and then ran out by himself. He passed out in the heavy snow and almost died. He probably went to look for it again."

The ruffian mercenary clicked his tongue and said, "Andy's guts should be quite bold, but after he almost died twice, he didn't dare to go again, so he handed over the clues to the mercenary guild."

The well-founded statement made the other mercenaries suddenly realize that the other mercenaries who knew about Andy also connected the clues together. The discussion got closer to the truth, and the expression on Andy's face changed from guilty to nervous, and finally to nervous. For resignation.

"Okay, okay, I'll tell you." Andy scratched his head and sat down on the chair, "Actually, this is how it happened."

When he told the story, Yate's body had already moved.

Compared with the area cleaned by someone, there is no one to clean it in the wild.

The snow has already exceeded a depth of one meter.

In the shadow of a big tree crushed by snow, a figure walked.

The black tuxedo and black boots stepped lightly on the snow without sinking in. His indifferent and calm face looked into the depths of the forest.

"It's quite difficult to shuttle through the shadows." Art put the twisted lens on his right eye, "I originally wanted to locate directly next to the castle, but"

This distance has shifted by at least two kilometers.

Jumping through the shadow world is a good way to move quickly, and this kind of action can only be done by stalkers and shadow creatures. Other teleportation is either through the teleportation magic circle that requires complicated operations, or through wizards. Created astral worlds for jumping.

If you want to pass through the shadow world at will, even a marquis-level wizard at the fourth level of the apocalypse cannot do it.

The world of shadows only shelters shadow creatures and rejects all non-shadow alien creatures.

Yate can turn himself into a shadow creature through the ability of the shadow crow. He once tried to disarm the crow mage's ability when he was in the shadow world, but at that moment, he felt a huge malice attack.

The shading effect of the phantom magic eye almost failed.

but
At that time, although he didn't have time to turn on the effect of the crow mage, but the thing like the will of the shadow world stayed on him for a while, and the malice disappeared, replaced by a puzzled and strange gaze.

After much deliberation, the only one that fits the situation is that I have the aptitude and complete dark attribute.

No longer thinking about it, Art moved forward, and the shadow crows hiding in the shadow of the crevice of his clothes, blinked, came out from the shadow behind the tuxedo, and jumped into the shadow of the top hat again, playing happily It's fun.

"Although I don't want to say it, you'd better not play too crazy."

While walking, Art said to the crows:
"We're almost there."

In the distance, in a castle built in the frozen forest, there is a room under the shelter of a fireplace warming the fire.

When Art was walking towards the castle, a figure walked up to the window. The next moment, the fire went out instantly, and the warmth disappeared in an instant.

"Someone is here again, why do they always bother me?"

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