Redwood castle is the central Castle led by Baron Schultz. It stands on the Bank of KASAN River and has a history of more than 100 years.
This huge fortification covers an area of 15 mu and is made of limestone. The thick and solid wall is about 40 meters high. The wall is smooth and there is no gap. The moat outside the city wall is connected with the KASAN river. The water surface is sparkling, and occasionally fish and shrimp jump out.
The huge iron oak suspension bridge spans the 10 meter wide river. A dozen strong soldiers guard the side of the winch. Once the guard on the watchtower gives an alarm, they can pull up the suspension bridge at any time. On the high wall, there are several teams of patrolling guards. Their lock armor is polished, and their snow spears are shining. One by one, they hold their heads high, are energetic, and appear to be extraordinary.
The Schultz family has ruled this territory for more than 300 years. Except for the early elimination of monsters in the territory, they have hardly experienced a real war. The vassal soldiers led by the Baron are inherited by their father and son and have been maintained at the scale of 300 people. They usually guard two towns respectively, responsible for patrolling the territory and urban public security. They are rarely seen on the mahogany fort.
The residents of mahogany town were very curious. It was the first time they saw the Lord summon so many soldiers to guard the castle. However, mahogany town is located in the hinterland of the kingdom. It has always been stable and peaceful, and the residents will not feel nervous. This is just talk after dinner. They still have a lot of work to do.
Residents were busy making a living, while Baron Schultz was busy entertaining distinguished guests.
Baron Schultz is a knight. He is 40 years old, just in his prime of life. Like all the country nobles, he scrupulously abided by the duties of the Lord, tried his best to protect his territory and people, and never left the Baron''s leadership. Baron Schultz does not regret this. He has a territory of 2600 square kilometers, more than 19000 residents, 2 towns, 11 villages, 3 knights and 8 trainee knights. This strength is also the top in the Baron''s leadership. The inexhaustible timber in the dark forest attracted many caravans, who brought wealth, prosperity and a wide range of commodities to mahogany town.
There are all kinds of good things in mahogany town. What are you going to do?
In fact, Baron Schultz thought that all the poor neighbors were a group of woodlouse, and he himself was the real knight aristocracy.
Baron Schultz, who boasted of nobility, paid close attention to the deeds of the great nobility. When he heard that Viscount Randall was about to visit his territory, he was surprised and delighted. Although Baron Schultz didn''t know what the popular shooter meant, he knew that Viscount Randall had noble blood and silver rank strength. He not only shot and killed the great Knight of the Buryat family, but also occupied the Baroness of the Buryat. He was questioned by the Senate without being punished, which was enough to show that Viscount Randall was a real great aristocrat.
Baron Schultz began to prepare for Viscount Randall''s visit. He first arranged for the Baroness to go home to visit his relatives. He didn''t want to die because of his wife''s beauty. After seeing off the reluctant lady, Baron Schultz ordered his servants to clean the castle, wash the moss on the city wall, put on the newly purchased red carpet, summoned the guards as a guard of honor, and asked them to show their best mental outlook to welcome the distinguished guests.
Under normal circumstances, the Lord should entertain guests in a comfortable noble manor, because the castle is not suitable for living. However, Baron Schultz is going to entertain the Viscount Randall from afar in the mahogany castle. This is the most decent building of the Schultz family, and his manor is no different from those of the landlords in the countryside. It is all earth houses and wooden houses, which can''t be taken.
Although the study of mahogany castle is spacious, the low roof gives people a depressing feeling. The narrow windows can only penetrate a little sunshine. Fortunately, hundreds of gray green candles shine brightly on the room. The thick mahogany platform gives a taste of years'' precipitation, which can reflect the heritage of Schultz family.
Baron Schultz sat on the mahogany sofa, secretly regretting. Viscount Randall is not as ferocious as it is said, but an elegant and modest young Lord. The two valets of the Viscount are much better than the Baroness in appearance and manners, and they are of noble blood. They are all female trainee Knights of the York family. It is not impolite for the Baroness to entertain them in person.
It''s all the fault of the rumour mongering caravan! Next time his caravan comes to Redwood Town, we must charge him three times the tax!
Baron Schultz was in a much better mood when he decided to revenge the shameful caravan. He smiled and said, "Lord Randall, please taste mushroom tea, which is a specialty of Schultz."
The silver cup on the tea table is steaming. It contains light yellow liquid. It smells like broth. The rich aroma makes people''s appetite open. The feeling of drinking into the mouth can only be described as delicious.
Well, it''s really mushroom broth. It just eliminates the oily flowers in the broth, but it still retains the greasy taste.
"Very unique taste." Victor resisted the urge to drink it up and gave a euphemistic evaluation.
"The raw material of this fungus tea is the unique red fungus from the dark forest. It is rare and has a unique flavor, but it is not as good as Randall''s coffee. Unfortunately, coffee, an element friendly drink, is so precious that most nobles have never experienced the mellow and smooth taste." A handsome young nobleman shook his head and said to victor, "my father is full of praise for coffee. He thinks that drinking coffee for a long time will help the knight resonate with the fire element, which is the most difficult element for the knight to touch. Lord Randall must know the secret?"
"I''m not a knight... But lady Sylvia and Marquis goron have similar comments." Said Victor lightly.
Victor didn''t mind another push when someone praised the efficacy of coffee.
"That won''t be wrong." The young aristocrat laughed and said, "I recently resonated with a fire element, which is precisely because of the continuous drinking of coffee. Speaking, I also thank Lord Randall for inventing coffee."
"You''re very kind, Mr. SoLIM." Victor found that there was something wrong with the atmosphere in the study and timely changed the topic, "Mr. Schultz, I found your candle very special. I was the first to see a green candle."
Baron Schultz''s face looked much better. He said proudly: "this kind of candle is also a specialty of Schultz. It''s called lvsha candle. It''s a commodity that major caravans are competing to buy."
"Green salsa candle is actually mixed with the unique green sedge of the dark forest in the butter candle. This kind of candle has no smell of ordinary butter candle. It is more resistant to burning and brighter than ordinary butter candle. It is really a good specialty." The young nobleman nodded in admiration, but his next sentence was not so friendly. "Of course, butter candles are still butter candles. No amount of spices can be compared with water lizard oil candles."
Baron Schultz took a heavy breath and tried to calm his anger. He really doesn''t have coffee, but there are a lot of lizard oil candles in the warehouse! In order to entertain Viscount Randall, Baron Schultz did not spend less time. In his opinion, viscount Randall has a noble status and has never seen anything good? Although mushroom tea and lvsha candle are not valuable things, they are also the specialties of the territory, which can always make distinguished guests feel novel. But Clifton SoLIM''s repeated sarcasm made him angry.
Don''t look at the decline of his family. The Marquis is the only great Knight of his lineal blood. How dare you, a second son who is not even an heir, tell me what to do!?
Anger turned to anger, and Baron Schultz could not express his dissatisfaction. Schultz collar is a good independent collar, but after all, it is the blood line of the southern Lord. In the early stage of the family''s territory development, it once relied on the support of SoLIM family. The two families have also been married. Although the Schultz family has never intermarried with the SoLIM family in the last 100 years, Baron Schultz does have the blood of the SoLIM family.
The SoLIM family is declining, and even the family heirs are not knights. Baron Schultz didn''t care much about the blood of the SoLIM family. Therefore, when the second son of the SoLIM family arrived in mahogany Town, Baron Schultz was also very indifferent to him.
Victor doesn''t want to take care of the sorim family''s troubles. He doesn''t need to care about other people''s opinions. He is very interested in lvsha candle.
"Take me a Lufthansa candle."
The attendant quickly took down a candle and handed it to victor. Picking up the candle, Victor smelled a faint fragrance. He praised, "great."
"Ha ha!" The haze on Baron Schultz''s face dissipated and said forthrightly, "if your excellency likes, I''ll have a car of green sand candles prepared for you."
"Thank you for your generosity. I really can''t bring so many green Sha candles." Victor put down the candle and said, "I mean, the man who invented this candle is great."
Moy, the presiding priest led by Schultz, said: "the green salsa candle was invented by father cagra. Father cagra was my predecessor. He found that the land near the dark forest could not grow crops, but was full of this unique green salsa. For the livelihood of the people, father cagra spent five years studying the green salsa and finally invented the green salsa candle."
"The land on the edge of the dark forest can''t grow crops?" Vic asked in surprise.
"It''s not that you can''t plant it." Baron Schultz shook his head and said, "the green sedge is too tenacious. No matter how clean the farmland is, it will soon be covered with this kind of thing. Fortunately, the green sedge only grows on the edge of the forest. Other land can grow crops, and it has a good harvest every year."
"It''s not just the green sedge. The mangroves in the dark forest grow very fast." Clifton said bitterly, "the trees in the dark forest can grow into towering trees in 20 years, even bigger and stronger than those hundred year old trees. All lords close to the dark forest have made a lot of money by cutting trees alone."
"At first, no one thought that this remote territory could make a lot of money!"
Baron Schultz''s tone was not without teasing. Clifton snorted coldly and turned away from looking at the baron.
"This is the blessing of my Lord." Father MOI folded his hands on his forehead and said seriously, "it is the great power of our Lord who created this magical forest!"
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Everyone bowed their heads and said, "the glory of the Lord of glory is immortal!"
After the ceremony, Victor pointed to the oil painting on the wall and asked, "Baron Schultz, is the knight in that oil painting your ancestor?"
When Victor first entered the study, he noticed the picture on the wall. The picture showed a knight holding a long sword and stepping on a monster. The monster has indigo skin, ape body and sheep head. Its lower limbs are short, but its arms are very strong. Its curved horns have broken gold stripes. It looks very beautiful.
"Yes." Baron Schultz proudly said, "this is the second generation Baron of the Schultz family, my great great grandfather. This painting describes the deeds of ancestors who killed the sheep head monster in the dark forest."
"Sheep head monster? Not sheep head man?" Asked Victor curiously.
"It''s really a sheep head monster." Clifton looked proudly at Baron Schultz and said: "The shape of the sheep headed man is much larger than that of this monster. The horns are straight, and the horns of this monster are curved. The sheep headed monster is a unique monster in the dark forest. It is timid in nature and never appears in front of humans. No one has seen this monster except one hunted by the Schultz family. The horny ground of that sheep headed monster is hard and beautiful, and it is still stored in the treasure of our SoLIM family In the library, you can come to our SoLIM family to see this strange thing. "
"Lord Randall, our SoLIM family is looking forward to your visit. My father hopes to meet you as soon as possible. Do you think we can set out as soon as possible? Anyway, Baron Schultz is not a neighbor of viscount Buryat, nor will he participate in our plan."
Clifton''s words made Baron Schultz look blue. Victor''s eyes twinkled and said with a smile, "it''s rare to come to the dark forest. I''d like to see the magical forest opened up by the Lord of glory... Well, let''s go to KASAN town for two days tomorrow and then start to visit your father."
"Good!" Clifton nodded, smiled and said to Baron Schultz, "Baron, would you like to accompany us?"
According to the traditional etiquette of the nobility, the Lord can''t pick up the nobility passing by. He can''t send an heir to accompany him at most, but he must accompany his Lord in person. Victor has a noble status, but he is not Lord of Baron Schultz after all. Clifton counts him as half Lord.
If Clifton didn''t stir up the game here, Baron Schultz would be happy to continue to accompany Victor, but he really didn''t want to see Clifton''s face, let alone bow to the SoLIM family.
"Lord Randall, the territory is busy and I can''t get away. Please forgive me for my neglect. I''ll arrange Knight cruse to accompany you to KASAN town tomorrow. How about it?" Baron Schultz made a knightly salute to victor.
Victor bowed back and said, "I always welcome members of the Schultz family to visit Renma hill. If your children visit Randall''s collar, I will wholeheartedly entertain them in return for your kindness."
Baron Schultz was overjoyed and thanked again and again. It was enough for him to boast to his neighbors for a while to get Victor''s invitation.
Victor ended the discordant party on the grounds that he needed to rest. When she returned to the room, the Elena sisters saw Victor''s bad face and skillfully massaged him to relax.
Victor was really a headache. He went around in a big circle and visited seven families. The main purpose was to explore the ruins of the alchemy empire in the dark forest. However, since Judy returned to Yeliu City, Victor was always surrounded by all kinds of people.
When he arrived at Baron Schultz, Marquis SoLIM directly asked his second son Clifton to meet him. The worst thing was that the church was afraid that Victor would be poisoned. Every time Victor went to a territory, the local presiding priest would accompany him. Bishop Thain was also worried that the SoLIM family would be difficult to ensure Victor''s safety. He arranged a ruling warrior to act as victor''s guardian Wei.
The ruling warrior is not an ordinary role. It is said that three ruling warriors can compete with the top Knights by cooperating with the divine skills of level 4 priests. The ruling warrior itself has the combat power of silver knights and extremely keen senses. Under his close protection, Victor can hardly hide his eyes and ears and sneak into the dark forest.
A moment later, Renault''s footsteps came outside the door, and Victor motioned the sisters to avoid. When they left the room, Victor hurriedly asked Renault, "how''s it going? Have you contacted the mercury person?"
"Yes, my Lord." Renault said, "the host who left mercury here is the monkey. He learned from the sheriff that Clifton likes hunting very much. In addition, he told me that the closest Schultz leads to the dark forest is not casan Town, but thorn manor, which is Lord leilila Schultz''s fief."
Victor began planning his trip to the dark forest half a year ago. He not only arranged 30 subdued cattle militia, 40 monkey militia, 25 alchemical war mastiff and 40 alchemical crows to hide in the dark forest, but also ordered barrol to stay in Schultz.
After the motorcade entered rosewood Town, Victor couldn''t get away, so he had to order Renault to contact mercury to see if he could find a way. Victor didn''t expect that barrol''s men in rosewood town were an old acquaintance, and he could get in touch with the sheriff in such a short time and feel Clifton''s hobby.
"Like hunting..."
Victor thought for a moment and said with a smile, "I remember, the bull sent me a letter saying that a baron supported the mountain people leader to open up a mountain forest hunting ground in order to please the second son of Marquis SoLIM. As a result, the man was killed by the Warhammer mercenary group, which forced the hammer to escape into the dark forest. It turned out that the Baron wanted to please Clifton!"
"Since you like hunting, you can go to the dark forest... The key is what about the ruling knight and the Schultz knight?"
Victor frowned and lost himself in thought.