Over the next few days, Charlotte's life became much calmer.
He sleeps until he wakes up naturally every day, then worships devoutly with the priests from the church, and then receives "spiritual treatment" from the priests from the church hospital.
Her enthusiastic attitude, proactive actions, and fanatical faith won her praise from the priests who came to earn extra money.
Charlotte was indeed very religious.
Looking at the Blood Summoning Charge Bar that was starting to surge again, she sent her heartfelt blessings and sincere gratitude to the great Lord Harald in her heart every day...
The only regret is probably that I didn’t get to meet Miss Lottie.
The beautiful priestess was not only pleasing to the eyes, fragrant and soft, but also brought Charlotte a natural sense of closeness.
She was the first person to be nice to Charlotte after she traveled through time.
During those days in the hospital, Lottie's care was meticulous, and Charlotte could truly feel her genuine concern and tenderness.
Charlotte was looking forward to the other party coming, but it turned out that all the priests who came were men.
They are more enthusiastic than each other, but they are just not pleasing to the eyes.
Later, after some cuteness, trying to get close to the priest and chatting with him, Charlotte realized that Lottie had been studying in the cathedral these days.
Pity.
After the morning's "holy scripture recharging" is over, it's time for lunch.
The new maid respectfully served meals and poured milk for the girl, forcing Charlotte to return to her sinful life of having everything provided for her.
Lunch was as sumptuous as always.
In the end, Quasimodo successfully persuaded Charlotte to give up the idea of raising the meal expenses, and finally reduced the meal expenses to only one-fifth of the original amount.
According to him, he had picked out a set of the least valuable porcelain and exchanged it for 80,000 quintanas at a pawn shop run by the Yuca people, which was enough for his subsequent expenses.
There are several rooms in the manor with similar collections...
Charlotte was really stunned by her family's background.
She thought it was a miracle that the manor had not been robbed during this period.
"They don't dare, because the Duke's Mansion has been sending people to help keep an eye on it for the past few days, and the leader is even an Entry-level person, and now... you have found a demon hunter to patrol the surrounding area."
Quasimodo explained.
"What about our entry-level people? Don't tell me that the Castel family doesn't have a single entry-level extraordinary person."
Charlotte asked the question she had always wanted to ask.
Quasimodo sighed:
"There are indeed people who have entered the rank in the family, and there are even two Silver Moon rank II Viscounts. In the past, there had to be at least one person always accompanying the Lord, but in the past few years, all the people who have entered the rank have been sent back to the Earldom by the previous one under various pretexts..."
Charlotte understood instantly.
It’s not that there are no extraordinary people in Castel.
But the old witch was afraid of being exposed, so she sent them all back to her territory.
This resulted in the Castel Manor in Boulder City becoming deserted!
"Outrageous. She is not afraid of being attacked by someone."
The girl muttered.
"With the church and the Sacred Code, who dares to mess around in the capital?"
Quasimodo shook his head.
"What about now? With such a big incident happening in the manor, why haven't any of the Entry-level people in the territory rushed back?"
Charlotte asked again.
Quasimodo was silent.
Obviously, he couldn't answer this question.
Perhaps he guessed something, but didn't dare to answer.
Charlotte soon came to her senses.
"Alas, it's not easy to be a feudal lord..."
She sighed helplessly.
Those who are loyal to the great nobles are of course also nobles.
Almost all nobles have fiefdoms.
Even without a fief, it is easy to obtain a country estate.
Where there is territory, there is selfishness...
It is obvious that the Castel family, which has been managed by the old countess for ten years, is probably a mess internally.
The succession to Castel's title has not yet been finalized, and everyone is waiting and watching.
Of course, this is not what Charlotte is worried about now.
If we really have to worry, it will be after she successfully inherits the territory in the future.
Now that she has not officially inherited the territory, she can't even command the lower nobles...
After lunch, I habitually drink a glass of milk and take a good nap. In the afternoon, it is time to train the servants.
The art of majesty is indeed a good thing.
It can both intimidate and seduce.
Coupled with Charlotte's own memory of aristocratic etiquette, she had trained the newcomers in a very good manner in just a few days, and they were both respectful and fearful of her.
Charlotte estimated that if she gave them a month or so, they would all become like her from head to toe.
If you tell them to go east, they will all stick their butts out and go east just by giving them a look.
And with day-to-day training, his proficiency in low-level majesty techniques increased almost like a rocket.
On the third day, I broke through 100, and was promoted from entry level to proficient, and the progress bar became 0/300.
The power didn't increase much, but it was easier to use, and at least the duration was much longer.
In the past, it would only last for fifteen minutes each time it was used.
Now, it lasts almost an hour.
Charlotte figured that in another week, she would be able to move up to the next level.
Charlotte has more free time at night, so she usually chooses to read books to recharge her energy and absorb as much knowledge about the world as possible.
Especially information about the nobility and his own family.
As she got to know him better, she began to understand why her own territory always seemed so slow to respond.
There is no other reason, because the Earldom of Castel was originally an enclave of the Duchy of Bold.
The Principality of Boulder is located on the southwest coast of the Crescent Kingdom.
But the Earldom of Castel is located on the northern coast, the northern border of the kingdom, and is the territory conquered by the first Earl of Castel himself from the orc tribe.
The area is not small, accounting for one third of the total area of the Principality of Bolder.
The two duchy territories are located in the south and the north, and are separated by several duchies and counties. It would be difficult for them to have strong control.
In fact, throughout the generations, the Castel family has always lived a simple life in their own territory, and only came to the territory to meet the lord once a year.
It was not until the previous earl became the head of the Duchy's Mage Corps that he began to live in Boulder City for a long time.
As for the family's powerful source of income... it's simple, to put it simply, the Castel family owns a mine.
It is also a silver mine with associated mithril.
In addition, as a territory across the sea from the Fallen Star Kingdom, a close neighbor of the Northern Grand Duchy, and the only land route leading to the East Yunete Badlands and even the Kingdom of Coria in the east... In recent years, the business development of the Earldom has also been booming.
Charlotte finally understood why the nobles were so jealous of their own territories.
It was indeed a barren land hundreds of years ago, but now it is a land of hope with great potential for future development.
In addition to studying family information, the girl did not forget to look for a vest in the collection of books that recorded her bloodline.
After careful selection, Charlotte discovered that the effect of her majesty was very similar to the bloodline power of an ancient and declining noble family in the Eastern Kingdom of Koria.
This bloodline has a very resounding name—Chosen One.
The effect is to strengthen physical fitness in all aspects, increase the probability of becoming a knight or a wizard, and can actively release "momentum" like a majestic spell.
This bloodline ability is quite good, it is simply a panacea for disguise, so she just used it directly.
I just don't know if she, who is already a vampire, can truly awaken the blood power of the nobility.
Charlotte is still troubled by the "half-elf" in her bloodline, but she cannot find out the reason after asking Quasimodo or looking up literature.
We can only speculate whether the ancestors of the Castel family married elves.
The next few days were relatively peaceful inside the manor.
However, Boulder City is a bit weird.
During the days when Charlotte was "secluded", rumors in the city about the Castel family's collusion with the blood demon intensified...
Even the priest who went to the manor every day to earn extra money was interpreted by the public as the Castel family's guilty confession in order to cover up their tracks.
Some are even more vicious, even describing Charlotte as a blood demon that has resurrected from the dead, or a succubus that bewitches people...
Charlotte felt somewhat guilty when she heard the old servant indignantly recounting the news he had heard.
Because this last rumor... in a sense, part of it was actually a blessing in disguise.
It is obvious that there is still someone behind the scenes fanning the flames.
It is definitely related to the vassal nobles of the duchy, and perhaps there is even the Duke's secret instigation.
Apart from that, there were no more assassinations.
The other side seemed to be quite afraid of the Demon Hunters, and even though most of the patrolling knights were apprentice knights, they still held back.
In the blink of an eye, a week has passed...
The Duke's birthday party is tomorrow.
And at the same time.
In a luxurious manor somewhere in the outer city.
Sebastian, the president of the Rose Society, was half-lying leisurely on the soft sleeper, enjoying the fruits peeled by the demi-human maid while elegantly holding a goblet filled with red wine. He finally saw the information sorted out by the people below after a search and investigation.
"Hmm? Did the church's sedation bell ring a few days ago?"
"Hey, the high priest did a good job of blocking the news."
"Thorns... roses... so this is what it means."
Looking at the files on the table, Sebastian stroked his chin with interest.
In front of him, on the parchment at the top of the file, was a clear copy of the diagram of the sacrificial array in the basement of Castel Manor that night!
Sebastian picked up the parchment and drank the red wine elegantly while thinking:
"The Countess of Castel holds a cursed page in her hand. She wants to sacrifice her granddaughter to communicate with the Blood Demon Archduke, but she ends up dying from the sacrifice of a mysterious being..."
"I got the cursed page from her, and soon after, I was summoned into the dreamland by the Lady of the Dark Night..."
"The Blood Demon Duke is one of the five princes of the blood race and the leader of the dark clan of the blood race, 'Shedit'."
"The Lady of the Dark Night is most likely the one who returned from the vampire race..."
"coincide?"
"Or... is there some deeper connection between the two?"
Sebastian's eyes gradually became deeper.
He put down the parchment and picked up the drawing paper underneath.
There is a beautiful blonde girl on the drawing paper.
She was wearing a holy white dress and was kneeling in front of the statue of Lord Harald, praying with her eyes closed.
The holy light shone on her, making her look extremely sacred, like a descended angel.
"Charlotte de Castel..."
Sebastian stroked the drawing paper, his clear eyes full of appreciation for beauty:
"As expected of the heir of the Castel family, she is indeed very beautiful. Even the Pure White Witch is three points inferior to her."
"However, being able to survive that kind of sacrifice is not something that ordinary people can do."
"Perhaps, she has experienced something and knows something..."
Thinking of this, Sebastian fell into deep thought.
He continued to flip through the pages and came across the latest intelligence collection on Boulder City.
"Huh? There is such a rumor?"
He was slightly stunned.
After flipping through the pages for a while, Sebastian sneered:
"Hey, these greedy human nobles are so shameless! They don't even feel ashamed to bully a child!"
When Sebastian turned to the last page, his eyebrows suddenly raised:
"The Duke's birthday party?"
After pondering for a moment, he had an idea:
"Interesting, maybe... this is a good opportunity to investigate it myself!"
He put down the information, drank the red wine in the goblet, and then stood up gracefully and ordered the demi-human maid who was serving him:
"Help me prepare an elegant dress and some appropriate gifts."
"I'm going to attend the Duke's birthday party tomorrow."
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