After a while, Castina was brought in. Vanessa couldn't help but wonder if this woman was really that sweet and lovely aristocratic girl. The woman in front of her was wearing a long gray cloth dress, although the color was old, but the workmanship was first-class, and it could be seen that she chose such an inconspicuous skirt in order not to attract attention, the skirt and the bottom edge were full of dust and mud, and the folds on one side were scratched and torn, which made her look wolf-bèi. In her memory, Castina was so delicate and beautiful, like a quiet and fragile glass vase, but now her face was like a wheat field after frost, withered. The satin-smooth skin had withered and turned into parchment for memorization; The golden curls of the sun's hair hung low behind his head, like a lifeless ponytail; The most painful thing is that her fawn-like eyes have lost their brilliance, and in just a few months, she is as sluggish as a dying woman.

"Kastina?" Brant tried to call her name.

"Prince Brandt!" Recognized the most familiar face in the room, Castina threw herself into Brant's arms, and cried aloud.

"What happened?" Vanessa felt the need to maintain the atmosphere in the camp while also relieving Brant. Oh no, maybe he's smug that a beautiful girl throws himself into his arms. Vanessa glanced at the prince and saw that he wasn't enjoying it.

Kastina sobbed and recounted what had happened.

It turns out that after Brandt, Sansillo, and Vanessa rolled into the Doron Gate together, Brandt's brother Creon once again took charge of the Land of the Wine Valley, and he easily found Castina and tortured her to death. Later, in order to befriend Koman, Creon sent Castina to the Land of Midsummer to make amends for losing Vanessa. Coman didn't like women at all, so he gave Castina to Baron Koren in the Halberd Castle, and poor Kastina was blown around like a leaf in the wind, and finally couldn't get out of the mud.

From Castina's staccato crying, Vanessa learns an important message - the Opland family has been plotting a rebellion for a century! Since they introduced the powerful magic gene, this family has ceased to be a vassal of the Delin family.

Colen? The real reason why Opplan has not seen outsiders for so many years is actually very simple, he is studying evil magic, and after failing, he is attacked by magic, and a simple glance from a stranger can insert a rusty silver needle into his internal organs. And the reason why he is so eager to study evil magic is because his successors simply can't meet his requirements, and no one has the powerful magic that can conquer the land of Midsummer.

Treated as a fertility machine, Kastina became pregnant with Kelun through a gauze tent, and under the help of magic, she gave birth to twins in a week. This would have been a great joy for the first-time mother, but she couldn't be happier when the children were growing at a geometric rate before her eyes. All the facts indicate that Colen has a perverted purpose for his desire for children, and she has no right to ask him what he wants to do with them.

This uneasiness had been buried in Castina's heart, and as time calmed down, she let her guard down and began to naively think that the uneasiness was just her own foolish thought. Until one day, her eldest son disappeared. She searched the whole castle, shouted her son's name, climbed the tower with her hands and feet worn out, cried to the sky, but never saw her son again. The previous uneasiness came to her mind again, and her intuition told her that her son had been taken away by Kolun and taken to his unspeakable room, perhaps the son was experiencing terrible loneliness, perhaps he was cowering in the corner and weeping, perhaps he was being disemboweled by his evil father......

Castina couldn't go on. Vanessa handed her a glass of wine, watched her pour the pale yellow liquid into her stomach in one gulp, and then poured her another glass, which was a lime wine from the city-state of ale, which had a calming effect. Sure enough, the poor girl raised her teary eyes and continued to tell her story.

Rather than waiting for her son's body, Castina searched around the castle and finally found the secret passage that Colon usually used to enter and exit, and successfully entered his secret room. There, she finally meets her eldest son and solves many mysteries, such as the secret secrets of the Opland family.

"He had many wives, and each of them bore him children," Castina recalled with a trembling voice, "and those children were filled with transparent tubes, and their magic was pumped out and delivered to one of the most powerful children. ”

"Magical offerings?" Vanessa asked Sir Donald with her gaze, "No wonder Kolun can make so many crit fighters. ”

"But it's evil magic that was banned by the Wizards' Guild many years ago!" Sir widened in rage, "What's more, on his own offspring!" ”

"That's why I have to close the door so that outsiders don't see it." Vanessa raised her chin and motioned for Kastina to continue.

"My little Rick, he is tied to the rear, like a bird that has lost its wings," Castina wept helplessly, "I saw with my own eyes that the children before me died, and without magic, their lives came to an end......" She threw herself at Vanessa's feet and grabbed the princess by the corner of her skirt, "Your Royal Highness, please save my little Rick, he is still a child, he doesn't deserve such an ending!" ”

"Don't worry, I'll figure it out." Vanessa picked up Kastina and looked at her torn skirt, "How did you escape from the Halberd Castle alone?" ”

"I didn't run away," Kastina touched the back of her head, "I ran into Kolun's guards, who didn't hesitate to attack me, thinking I was dead, and threw me down the drain. When I woke up, I was already outside the sluice. ”

Vanessa and Brant glanced at each other and said in unison, "Sluice!" Vanessa took Castina's hand and led her to the table, pointing to the Halberd Castle on the sand table, "Show me, where did you come from?" ”

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