Since it was planned to be a guest in Kantland for a few days, Viscount Victor Kant arranged a place for Gao Wen and his entourage to rest after a rather sumptuous welcome banquet.
Gawain didn't feel very good about this ancient castle.
Although its interior is filled with light and warmth, and the magic spar lamps that can be seen everywhere, as well as the newly wiped doors, windows, tables and chairs all dispel the depression caused by the nightfall, but Gao Wen still has an unpleasant feeling in his heart. He seemed to be able to see the deep appearance of the castle through the bright window frames and whitewashed walls. Behind those bright coverings, there were dark, cold stones, slippery moss and vertical and horizontal cracks, and The shadows and germs that keep growing in those damp crevices.
After a brief conversation with Victor Kant, Gawain returned to his room on the grounds that he needed to rest first after the journey. This is a guest room specially set up for distinguished guests. It has the same gorgeous furnishings and a warm fireplace as the master bedroom of the castle. On both sides of his room are the rooms where Amber and Knight Philip rest. There is a lounge for playing chess and entertainment, and a place for drinking tea and reading books.
The rain outside the window was still falling, and there were signs of the wind getting stronger. Gawain came to the window and looked at Kant Castle in the rainy night through the expensive artificial crystal. The meandering water flow formed an ever-changing trajectory on the window sash, which also made the outside scene not only hazy, but also distorted. In this hazy and distorted vision, he could see several towers of Kant Castle on the opposite side. Standing tall in the night.
The bases of the towers had lighted windows that vaguely outlined the building, but their upper parts were so dark that they almost blended into the darkness of the night.
Gawain frowned and observed those towers carefully. After concentrating, he suddenly saw an obvious crack in the middle of one of the towers.
The fissure seemed to be wriggling and growing in the darkness, and quickly spread to the entire upper half of the tower. They widened little by little, and the blood-like light leaked from the fissure. The tallest tower stood in this blood-colored The crack appeared to be fragmented, and it collapsed little by little in a slow-motion motion, with many people's exclamations and howls mixed in.
Gao Wen quickly woke up, the sound of wind and rain came into the house again through the window, he saw that the high tower on the opposite side was restored to its integrity once again, and the previous cracking and shouting disappeared like a dream.
But Gawain would not really regard it as an illusion, he immediately frowned, wondering in his heart: "Is there some kind of large-scale illusion in the castle?"
A sound of light footsteps suddenly came from outside the door, seeming to be heading towards this room. Gawain quickly straightened his expression, as if nothing had happened, and only went to open the door when there was a knock on the door.
The door opened, and a lady in her thirties, wearing a long white dress and holding a lantern in her hand, stood outside the door. This lady had long flaxen hair, and her face seemed to be extremely pale due to illness. She stood there cautiously, looking at Gao Wen with a bit of restraint and nervousness on her face.
Gao Wen looked at the other party calmly, and then showed curiosity: "Ma'am?"
"Hello, are you Duke Gawain Cecil?" The lady at the door said in a very low voice, as if speaking louder would make her breathless.
Gawain nodded: "I am Gawain Cecil, who are you, ma'am?"
"Victor Kant is my husband," the frail lady who seemed to be only about thirty years old whispered, although her voice was very low, but her tone still had the elegance that a noble lady should have, "I am the king of this castle." My mistress, my name is Lilith Conder."
"Viscountess?" Gawain looked at the other party in surprise. He did not expect that Viscount Kant, who seemed to be very old, would have such a young and beautiful wife, but thinking of the "tradition" of the nobility, his surprise It didn't last long, but I was just curious why I didn't see each other at the banquet before, and I didn't hear the old viscount mention her, "Did you not attend the previous dinner?"
"I am weak, and my illness prevents me from eating with many people and coming out to greet guests during the day," Lilith Kant said apologetically, "I know you will come to visit the castle, but my husband Insisting on letting me rest until night before coming out, now that I am in better spirits, he asked me to come and say hello to the guests."
Then she hung the lantern on the hook next to the door and bowed slightly to greet her: "Welcome to you, the great Duke Gawain Cecil, and please forgive me for not being able to fulfill my responsibilities as the hostess of this place before."
"Ah, don't mind," Gao Wen had various guesses and doubts in his mind one after another, but the expression on his face was still very calm, "Do you only come out for activities at night? Oh, I know something The knowledge of medicine may be helpful to your health."
Lilith Kant showed a pale smile: "My husband hired the best pharmacist for me, but my weakness is not only due to disease, but also because of my natural constitution, which cannot be treated with medicine. But Thank you very much for your concern, Your Excellency the Duke."
Gao Wen had no intention of inviting the Viscountess in front of him into the house, because the other party was visiting alone, and such an invitation would be impolite even if this was the Kant family's castle, he just stood at the door and exchanged a few words with the other party, The lady then said goodbye and left.
After the other party left, Gao Wen's eyes became sharp in an instant.
The lantern in the opponent's hand!
That is exactly the magical lantern that Gawain saw in the dream, located at the bottom of the Kant family castle as the ritual center, it was Gawain Cecil's gift to the then dream bishop, Selina Gee, seven hundred years ago. Erfen's lantern!
But Gawain didn't point it out on the spot, and didn't take any action, because he didn't feel any magic fluctuations from the lantern, which meant that the lantern was "fake" or it was a fake, or the lantern had been enchanted. For power transformation, its true core of power is still sleeping somewhere in this castle, and acting rashly in this situation is likely to only cause bad things.
At this time, a voice from the side interrupted Gao Wen's thinking: "Huh? Old... Gao Wen, what are you doing standing at the door?"
The door next door was pushed open, and half of Amber's head poked out from the door frame, looking at him curiously.
And she didn't wait for Gao Wen's answer, and then she shook her hand excitedly, holding a deck of cards in her hand: "I found a set of 'King's deck' in the room! You put the poker face next door Call us over to play cards!"
"I intend to call you here, but I don't intend to play cards." Gawain looked at the half-elf helplessly, and then knocked on Philip's door.
Waiting to mention the lady who visited just now: "Just now I saw Victor Kant's wife, Lilith Kant, she looks very strange..."
After listening to Gao Wen's description, Amber's sharp ears twitched immediately: "Then the old man married a wife who could almost be his granddaughter? Oh, you aristocrats are really shameless."
Then her thoughts diverged: "It's better that I have elven blood like me. If I don't tell others, I won't dare to guess my age. Even if you marry me when you are seven hundred years old, you can go out and shy." Tell people with a straight face that I am actually the same age as you..."
Cavalier Philip, who was always serious, looked at Amber almost in horror. The way the half-elf girl ran the train with her mouth full of words knocked the poor upright knight into a coma again.
And Gao Wen's answer to Amber was to knock it down on the head: "Speak the business!"
"We haven't heard of the existence of such a 'Viscountess'," said Philip Cavalier seriously. "The Viscount Victor Kant didn't mention it either. The viscount himself didn’t even mention it, did he? And there are so many servants and servants in the castle, and no one has privately mentioned that there is a mistress here... This is too strange.”
"If you want to put it that way, I was chatting with people in the castle before." Amber rubbed the head that Gawain had knocked on, and also participated in the serious discussion, "Although they didn't mention that the castle has a mistress, but They mentioned that the old viscount had a son named Belm, but he left the castle when he was very young, saying that he traveled to the central region, and he didn’t look like he came back for decades... "
Gao Wen stroked his chin: "Haven't come back for decades? Is this a trip or someone sold it!"
Amber rolled her eyes: "Maybe she went to be a hostage to some noble family in the central region who has interests in exchange? Don't you nobles like this?"
"Don't talk nonsense, we weren't in fashion back then," Gao Wen immediately said seriously, "At that time, we relied on self-consciousness when we signed the covenant, and we didn't rely on any tricks of exchanging hostages."
Knight Philip immediately expressed admiration: "That's what an upright and honest person should do."
"No, the main reason is that the old pigeons who founded the country were generally irritable. At that time, whoever said nothing would be beaten by the nobles of the whole country. Sometimes the king would go there to beat him when he was free, because the transportation was inconvenient. Sometimes the old pigeons of the founding of the country who come to beat people will come in an endless stream for a year in a row, so they really dare not violate the covenant... "
Philip: "…"
"Oh my god, how did the honest and honest founding nobles become what they are today?" Amber was looking forward to the era Gao Wen described, and she shook her head regretfully thinking of the current atmosphere, "In short, that The heir of the Kant family named Belm has indeed traveled, because he often sends letters back. If there is no accident, after the death of the old Viscount Kant, Belm Kant will end his travels and come back to inherit the family business."