Survive In The Fourth Heavenly Calamity

Chapter 1 Self-reliance

Baima City is a beautiful place. The small city with white walls and red tiles slowly spreads along the gentle slopes of the hills. 9 windmills are scattered on the undulating hills. The breeze of early autumn brings a hint of coolness, and the morning sun penetrates the low clouds. To the roof and pavement. Hill walked towards the castle slowly, and the quiet on the stone road seemed to hear only the sound of own footsteps. He was going to be an adult today.

Hill’s identity is actually very embarrassing. Count Perast has married three wives and gave birth to three sons. He is the middle one. According to the rules of the Salar Kingdom, when the non-eldest son reaches 16 years of age, he will take a certain amount of property and leave.

The mother of the Earl’s eldest son, Manton, was born noble, and as the daughter of the Duke of Claire, she had a rich dowry. It is a pity that he is weak, otherwise he would not marry the earl. Manton died soon after he was born.

The eldest son had a strong External Martial Arts, and when the earl married his second wife, he could only consider his appearance, so he took a fancy to Melanie, the daughter of the palace mage Obertan Fran.

Melanie was a big beauty, fair skin, big eyes, a pretty nose, a full mouth, and long hair like a golden waterfall, which deeply attracted the earl. And Earl Perast was handsome, rich, romantic, passionate, and beautiful and innocent, and soon became tempted by the court women’s help. She married him, but it was a pity that she regretted it within two years. The entire Earl’s Castle was rejecting this female mage, and 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, she was even more defensive against her. However, no one thought that there was no woman’s war in the wizard’s world. Melanie plunged into alchemy, bought a manor outside the town with her son and lived in it, and never met her husband again.

Before Hill was 12 years old, he would only see his father at the annual New Year banquet. It’s a pity that Melanie’s alchemy experiment failed when Hill was 12 years old, and the spell backlash died a few months later, and Hill had to return to the Earl’s Castle.

Count Perast was indifferent to this son, and immediately went to the selection of his third wife. He never dared to marry a noble female mage anymore, he had enough of 12 years without a hostess to laugh at. In the end, Earl Perast chose a daughter of the baron who was known for her outstanding brains, beauty and generosity, and gave birth to his third son Edgar two years ago. This time the people of the castle finally returned to a familiar pace. The young and beautiful wife put off Manton’s 16-year-old marrying time until after 20. Who made Manton unbelievable, he was far from being a formal knight.

The vast majority of people pursue comfort and pleasure when there is no pressure; only when a certain amount of pressure is exerted can they work hard, and when there is pressure, they will have motivation. So Manton is still too late to work hard. Hill is going to leave anyway, but if Manton, who is in his 30s, has not become a knight after 14 years, his inheritance will depend on whether Edgar can become a knight. Of course, if the earl was unlucky before that, Hill could also come back to grab the title. After all, among the next generation, Hill is the only one above the knight level. Therefore, in order to reduce the trouble, the ears can also be quieter, and Hill rarely uses spells in the castle, so these people think that he is still an apprentice.

Manton had also tried to win over Hill, but the methods were awkward. Hill showed a high and indifferent look and got rid of him just waiting for the adult to separate from him. The stepmother observed that he just wanted to leave, so he was silent.

Hill spent time in the castle study every day, until last night he received a message from his grandfather who he had never contacted. He rushed to the manor overnight. After the indifferent mage sensed his mage-level Mental Energy, he satisfactorily gave him a storage ring and left. There was no room for Hill to speak.

Hill’s grandfather, who had called for a long time, didn’t respond. He packed up the manor in a dull manner, and put away all his mother’s things. The storage ring is large, and there are many spell books in it. He understood that Master was a self-study profession, and after his mother led him through the door, he should read more and learn more. There is nothing wrong with Flange’s indifference. As a grandfather, Fran’s love for him is in the ring, which contains a lot of precious materials, a large sum of gold coins, enough to hold a library of books, and the most important building materials for the magic tower. A high-level magic tower core that Hill couldn’t buy even if he had money. but! Hill wailed in his heart: “Dear grandfather! I am a warlock! I don’t know what bloodline!”

Yes, Hill’s many years of Meditation turned a corner when he was about to step onto the mage’s avenue, and he awakened to become a glorious civil water warlock. He didn’t know if traveling through time and space caused trouble. In his previous life, he was a civil engineer. After awakening in this life, he added water. In Hill’s spell list, the fossil is mud, and the mud is turned into stone. They are in the front, summoning the earth element, wood element, and water element. There are earth shields in the middle, ground movement, slowness, natural growth, summoning natural companions and purification.

Hill knew that his own bloodline was definitely not bad. Not everyone in Warlock Awakening could have so many spells in the first place. And since awakening, his body began to grow stronger day by day, and his seemingly thin body contained powerful strength. As a warlock, Hill’s power is almost comparable to that of a formal knight.

When Hill awakened, he vaguely saw a giant bear roaring upwards. He knew that the main bloodline of own must be a bear. The bear clan is basically the earth system, and it must be of equal bloodlines to coexist, so Hill has been thinking about what earth bear can interfere with the descendants of the unearthed wood water system. He was very curious about own blood, but he read all the books of the castle and manor and found no clue. Finally, an archmage who might know came to him, but he still got nothing.

It was told that Lina, the housekeeper of the manor, was waiting for him at the entrance of the manor after packing up her luggage. Hill, who was so tight in chest, could only walk back to the castle in the light of the morning.

Count Perast hadn’t gotten up yet, only the awake Manton in the castle was struggling to cultivate with a few illegitimate children. Hill ignored them and went straight to the room to tidy up. A few days ago, the butler had already revealed the meaning of the earl to him. He could choose between a lord with a small fief in the earl and a baron with no fief but holding a development order. He did not hesitate to pick the baron. What a joke! Staying in the earl, 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 sin.

No one in the earl’s castle knew that Hill was a warlock. Low-level mages were not uncommon among the nobles. It took a lot of time for mages to grow up. Hill, who was indifferent and could not get much property, was not taken seriously. But if he was a warlock of blood inheritance, he would definitely be given to the great nobles in the name of marriage as a stallion. Hill just wanted to run as far as possible, find a place to go to the archmage and talk about it.

After clearing the room, Hill did not wait long before receiving the call from the butler. The count and lady and family members were all waiting for him to dine with him. Hill slowly walked down the stairs, and the large dining room was full of people watching the excitement. After eating the stomach-paining breakfast while whispering, he followed the group to the conference hall again.

The earl stood in the 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 canonize you as a wave in the name of Earl Perast. Baron Lanio! I give you 20,000 gold coins as a father and allow you to take away all of your mother’s property. I hope you will be Perlas as Baron Hill Perast Polano. The special family adds more glory!”

As soon as the voice fell, Hill heard the abruptly amplified whispers, and the people watching the excitement couldn’t cover up Own’s surprise.

The annual income of Earl Perast is about 50,000 to 60,000 gold coins. The status of a baron without a fief is very high in the eyes of common people, but an earl of real power can canonize one every year, and it is generally used to win over great knights or nobles. We 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 own son a fief! The total amount of property Hill received was not as much as the Earl’s two-year annuity.

Hill knew that the earl felt that Melanie’s fortune was sufficient to compensate him. Although the earl was not afraid of the palace mage, he did not want to cause trouble. But he doesn’t like this son very much, which is a clear proof that he can’t control his own woman. As long as Hill is here, no one will forget Melanie’s story. He would never leave this son in his own fief. Hill is a mage again, and he would 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 she killed herself. Even if she left her property to Hill, it was worth at most 100,000 gold coins. So after Melanie died, he was very generous and called Xi You keep it by yourself. But the woman’s property belongs to the man. Before he became an adult, Hill could only get the gifts Melanie had before her death, and all the things written on Melanie’s dowry list belonged to the earl. The earl didn’t care what Melanie brought, and the family had always been a knight, so he didn’t even look at it. But if he didn’t make it clear in today’s statement, the countess could stop Hillcha from taking something with him. This was the only kindness he gave Hill as a father.

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

Hill only took away 20,000 gold coins, and Edgar and his possibly born Little Brother will be able to divide up to hundreds of thousands. Hill saw Manton’s eyes suddenly sharpened, and Edgar the Little Brother truly became his enemy from this moment on. And the beautiful young stepmother’s eyes flickered and everyone knew that Edgar would get a lot, but she wanted more. The castle of the Earl of Perast will certainly be lively in the future, leaving plenty of room for discussion for contented people.

Hill didn’t want to pay attention to these people and things, took the baron’s paper from the steward, solemnly thanked the earl for the canonization, and turned around and left the castle while everyone watched.