Gawain was a little surprised to see Lilith Kant's figure disappearing with Viscount Kant.
He didn't expect that Lilith Kant was also a product of a nightmare.
In his original deduction, Lilith Kant should be a living person, the only "dream maker" who remained awake in the entire castle, but obviously, he made a mistake in his judgment in this regard.
He and Amber came to the huge stone hall together, saw the two skeletons inside and the body of the Viscountess who was protected by magic and had not decomposed, so it suddenly dawned on him: Lilith Kant is really dead, Perhaps in order to start this terrible dream-making ritual, or perhaps in order to better "contact" her husband and son, she really gave up her life.
It is only her shadow that wanders in the cellar of the North Tower, and wanders in the castle with a lantern—no wonder the Viscountess, as a "dream maker", has not left the castle for thirty years. Gao Wen didn't want to leave as he imagined, but she couldn't leave here anymore.
But these things are no longer important, the dream is over, the real world is shining on this dark and ancient fortress, whether it is the dreamer or the dreamer, they have returned to the place they should be with the end of the dream. Places to go.
All they left behind was the mess of the real world.
Amber was still a little dazed, this incredible adventure made her mind messed up (of course, her mind may often be messed up), looking at the stone hall in front of her and the three corpses in the coffin, it took her a long time to say a word : "So we have actually been entangled with three dead people for so long?"
"It's the whole land that has been entangled with them for thirty years," Gawain shook his head. "The Eternal Sleepers... are indeed the most dangerous of the three dark sects."
"A person crawled out of the coffin and looked at the three people lying in the coffin and lamented that the cult has harmed people. I have never seen anything more supernatural than this in my life..." Amber was thinking something crazy, She suddenly shivered and said to herself to scare herself, then she looked down at her feet and suddenly found something, "Hey, Gao Wen, here are some pieces of paper!"
Several sheets of enchanted parchment that were emitting shimmering light were scattered in front of the stone hall. This was where Viscount Victor Kant disappeared before. Gawain picked them up in surprise and saw Viscount Kant's handwriting on them: "Is this... left by Viscount Kant?"
"He left it? Is it a letter for you?" Amber blinked her eyes in a daze, "Look what it is!"
"It is indeed a letter, but not all of it is reserved for me. There are also letters addressed to the king and made public." Gawain quickly flipped through the parchment, and the neat handwriting on it came into his sight:
"I am Viscount Victor Kant, a nobleman entrusted by the Ansu royal family, the lord of Kant town in the south and the surrounding farms, manors, and villages. I swear in the name of the ancestors of the Kant family that everything I say is true. And these facts should be made public to alert the world.
"My family is cursed by the Sleeper.
"...the heretics have corrupted my territory with evil ritual magic. In the past thirty years, countless innocent people have lost their lives in this ritual magic. My wife was controlled by the magic, and my soul could not escape the curse. I became its owner." accomplice…
"... I would never be at peace without the help of Duke Gawain Cecil - the Duke answered my plea, and it was he who gave his life to help lift the curse over me and my family..."
"Sincerely, Your Majesty the King—your loyal vassals send you greetings. This will be the last confidential letter I send to you. The incident that happened in Kant...
"As it happened, I assure you, with the last of my humanity and my last name, that it is true.
"I have no heirs or immediate family members who can inherit the title and property, and so does my wife. There is only one nephew of the two of us who is qualified to inherit, but he is congenitally mentally retarded and difficult to inherit the honor of the nobility. According to the laws of the kingdom, return the fiefs inherited from the ancestors to the royal family, but before that, I must repay the kindness of Duke Cecil—this is the kindness of saving souls.
"I would like to donate all the wealth in my name except the land—including the books, treasures, antiques, etc. in the castle, as well as the six developed farms in the southern part of the Kant Territory that are not fiefdoms—to Duke Cecil free of charge, and acknowledge his respect for the land. The right to dispose of these properties at will.
"All the wealth produced in my territory this year, in addition to the part that should be handed over to the royal family, is also given to Duke Cecil."
In addition to an open letter to the nobles in the southern region and a secret letter to the king, there is another letter to Gao Wen:
"Duke Gawain Cecil, when you read this letter, my soul should have regained peace.
"For this ending, I only have joy and peace, without any resentment. If I have to say something regrettable, it is only that I failed to fulfill my promise - I swore to reverse the family's extravagance and depravity. I joined forces with the cruel and cold-blooded nobles of the new generation, and vowed to emulate the pioneers of your generation, open up territories, shelter the refugees, and become the protector of the innocent and the poor, but the final result was a mess.
"I'm very glad that you appeared in time and dispelled the haze on this land before my soul completely fell into darkness and everything was irreparable.
"When I was young, I have always regarded you as a role model and idol, and I even yearned to become a knight, rushing into the darkness like you, and opening up a new place for people to live in - so there is a The six farms in the southern part of Kant Territory, that may be the only light in my sad life.
"If I could change the timing and the way, meeting you would be the most glorious moment in my life, and I would even abandon my title and all my possessions to become one of your knights in this old age." Apprentice, I will go with you to the pioneering territory at the foot of the dark mountains, to fulfill the dream that I failed to achieve when I was young...but all of them cannot be realized after all.
"Besides the belongings in the castle and the six farms that belong to me, I really can't think of anything else that can be used as a reward for you, but I think you should be grateful for some information about the cultists of the Eternal Sleeper." interested.
"Over the years, I have lived as a puppet of dreams, and even my thoughts are always under guidance and control, but perhaps because I have been in contact with the power of the eternal sleeper too much, the moment after finally gaining free will, I have insight Some truth behind this 'curse'.
"Please be alert, the conspiracy of the Eternal Sleepers is by no means as simple as a Kant land. The sensational and terrible sacrifice they set up in this castle is actually just a 'node' in their series of plans. This node is called by them Computing nodes, and they have a huge plan that needs more souls, more victims involved...
"Their conspiracy may spread throughout the world, and once this plan succeeds, they will drag all intelligent creatures in the world into the abyss of eternal doom.
"However, their actions are not without trace. According to the facts I have learned, each of their 'computing nodes' needs a large number of living people as 'consumables'. In the southern border, they may be able to capture refugees secretly. Slowly make up enough for the ceremony, but in other places where there are fewer refugees and better order, as long as you carefully observe the disappearance and flow of the population, you can find their clues.
"I have reported these things to His Majesty the King, and at the same time, I also hope that you will be more vigilant, and be alert to the resurgence of those cultists around you—in the southern part of this declining kingdom, you are already the only hope for the people.
"—Victor Kant, a guilty man who really wanted to be good."
Gawain's eyes moved between those words, and he turned over the parchments one by one until the last piece of paper appeared before his eyes.
Amber has sharp eyes, and can tell at a glance that this is not a letter: "Hey! This letter doesn't seem to be addressed to anyone!"
"That's right, this is the lord's order, and it was announced on the territory after it was signed." Gao Wen saw what was written on it, and couldn't help sighing softly, "He exempted everyone in the territory from their debts to the Kant family , and liberated all the serfs directly under the lord and the slaves in the castle, and declared that they have the right to leave the territory freely."
Amber blinked, and suddenly remembered what Gao Wen had said: "Hey, I remember you said that this kind of liberation should be gradual..."
"That's right, it should be done step by step. Directly emancipating serfs into freemen can only make them lose the basic security provided by the landlord. If there is no perfect and follow-up land distribution and security system, these slaves who become freemen can only rely on a little dismissal Fei simply can't last long, they will soon lose their freedom again, and eventually sell themselves back to the old ways of servants or even slaves," Gawain shook his head, "But Viscount Victor Kant is not a whimsical idealist, he is sure He can also think of this, but he has no other choice—the Kant family is gone, and with the current administrative efficiency of the Ansu royal family, the new lord may not come within a year or two. According to Ansu's law, the castle All property in the land belongs to the nobles themselves, and any servants have no private property. Therefore, during this period, the people left by the old lords are the most miserable. They either run out to find ways to make a living by themselves, but it is a crime for slaves to make a living by themselves , or steal the property in the castle and sell it-but this is also a crime.
"That's why Viscount Kant liberated these people as free citizens and allowed them to leave freely—at least leaving them a way to survive."
Amber was stunned for a moment, and suddenly felt her head was a little big: "It feels... a big mess!"
"It's indeed a mess, but someone has to take care of it," Gao Wen curled his lips, "and I feel that this matter has already fallen on me."
Amber blinked sluggishly: "So it's better for us in this line of work. Usually, we walk away after the work is done, and we don't have to think about the aftermath at all—it's just that when we walk slowly, we will be dealt with aftermath..."
Gawain glanced at this guy, went up to grab her arm: "Yeah, you walked slowly last time you dug a grave, so now go with me to clean up the aftermath."