In the middle of the city, there is an area surrounded by greenery, which forms a beautiful garden like a quiet valley.

This is the first district in the imperial capital where only the nobles have the right to live.

On the shore of Weiyang Lake, there are castle buildings of different styles in the exquisite gardens, the castle in each manor is like a beautiful electricity artwork, whether it is a garden, a courtyard, a castle, in the hands of the design master are perfectly integrated, surrounded by green trees, the grass on both sides of the avenue is full of rhododendrons, passionflowers, begonias, sage, dahlias and roses of various colors, like a colorful big flower basket.

On the meadows by the lake, some nobles scattered at the intersection of the meadow and the sand, leaving neat rows of footprints on those sands.

Many young sons from aristocratic families liked to wear a kind of clothing that resembled a military uniform, but there were some very delicate ornaments in the details of these clothes, and magnificent gems and gold were always the favorite of the noblewomen.

The blue water of Weiyang Lake is flooded with white waves, and those waves kiss the soft sand, and the lakeside road is lined with sycamores.

There are almost no pedestrians on the streets, the clean and tidy streets are quiet and quiet, those high courtyard walls are full of vines, creepers crawling all over the high walls, and those lush ivy and white-ringed vines, and on each wall is placed a 'Eye of Sight', which can guarantee the absolute safety of the estate.

There aren't many buildings to see in the first arrondissement, but there are many beautiful castles, each with a huge manor.

Not all magic caravans in the Imperial Capital have the right to drive on the roads of the First District, and those magic caravans need to have the badge of a wealthy nobleman on them.

The gorgeous magic caravans made of gold, the monsters like silver pegasus or the thorn-tailed crystal lion, and even the snow-white cloud deer and white bears, there are many things that will feel very new to me in the first district.

Walk through a green corridor and come to the door of this No. 49 manor, and see a monument of black iron rock erected at the gate, the history of the Babington family is engraved on the front of the stele, and the top of the monument has the coat of arms of the Babington family, which is a circle of rune metal plates overlapped, and a San Carlos city is embossed on top of the circle, I didn't expect the Babington family to be the largest industrial province in the Green Empire, San Carlos Province.

I thought back to why Arya was so familiar with the customs and customs of San Carlos when she was in San Carlos, or every street, and she could tell a poignant history even a stone at the crossroads, it turned out that she had married into a wealthy family, and the Babington family was the great nobles who ruled the city of San Carlos.

It's just that she didn't mention her identity at the time, and when she settled in San Carlos, she stayed with us in a small hotel.

I remembered that time, I politely asked her if she had a place to stay, and she said in a panic, 'No'. Then she even turned red at the root of her ears, and now she realized that it was not that she had anything unspeakable, but that she had woven a small lie in order to hide her identity.

Standing at the gate of the manor, handing the letterhead that Lady Arya had written to me, the old janitor glanced lightly at the badge on the envelope, and silently opened the big iron door, his somewhat dirty eyes were somewhat like the eyes of a dead fish, and his gaze fell on my chest without any emotion, I could feel the indifference of life and death in him, I thought he must be a veteran who had come down from the battlefield.

The big iron door was opened by the caretaker, and I walked in, and the main road of the manor was lined with pale pink roses, and clusters of flowers blooming on the tree walls, and the fragrance was overflowing. The main road paved with bluestone slabs is very smooth, and the gaps between the slabs are polished very evenly, and those slate pieces together into some large-scale geometric patterns, like a drawing of a beautiful magic pattern circle.

Behind the rose bush walls on both sides of the main road, there is a white jade sculpture every ten meters away, these exquisite sculptures are lifelike, involving a lot of birds and beasts, I have roughly seen some, most of them are I know, I think maybe these birds and beasts are all species in the province of San Carlos, the closer to the castle of the manor, the larger the size of the birds and beasts, and gradually from ordinary beasts to low-level magical beasts.

There were a few gardeners in bloomers and waistcoats who were pedaling on wooden ladders to build landscape trees in the garden, and in the distance on the grass there was a group of maids carrying baskets along the gravel path towards the castle, they were wearing beige dresses, they gathered in twos and threes to talk and laugh, the maids seemed to be very young, they saw me walking in through the gate, and for a moment, they seemed to stop in surprise.

A tall maid ran briskly across the meadow, stood beside me and looked at me curiously, saw the magician's badge on my chest, bowed slightly to me, her head was slightly down, her long chestnut hair draped behind her head was scattered on both sides of her face like a waterfall, revealing a snow-white neck, with a faint smile, the maid said to me, "Are you the Wizard Jijia in the Royal Academy of Magic?"

A silk belt was tied around her waist, reflecting her very slender figure, the thin and transparent dress reflected two straight and slender legs in the afternoon sun, my eyes unconsciously wanted to see through the light gauze dress, but my magic perception suddenly felt a tremor in my cheeks, as if I was holding back that scornful smile, my hands behind my back, fingers kept tangled together.

This kind of temptation, although not too offensive, but it makes me have to be cautious.

I stared into the lady's eyes and said calmly, "Yes." ”

She bowed her head a little embarrassed by my eyes, and whispered, "Lady Arya has commanded us to take you to her if we meet you, for Madame has been waiting in the castle for a long time!"

Then he walked in front of me and showed me the way. Her steps were as gentle as a cat's, and the pace of her steps was very fast, and the soft gauze skirt swayed under her movements, and the skirt and wide sleeves kept swaying, and the group of maids who had been traveling with her had entered the castle through the side door.

I expected to meet the other members of the House of Babington, but I followed the maid through the fine courtyard, through an arched cloister, up the semicircular gentle staircase, and into the gate of the castle, where the maids on both sides of the gate bowed to me, and then two maids came up, leaned down and crouched down at my feet, helped me take off my boots, and put on a pair of comfortable soft shoes, and I stepped on a soft corn-coloured cashmere blanket into the drawing-room.

The lavish hall was decorated in gold, and the first floor of the castle was separated by screens on both sides, which seemed to form two very standard reception rooms, and I expected to wait a little in the reception room, but the lady-in-waiting who led the way clearly did not stop.

Directly opposite the castle gate there was a spiral staircase that stretched on both sides, and the carpet went up the staircase, and the maid went up the staircase, and I stood at the bottom of the staircase, and after a little hesitation, she stopped on the jogging platform between the first and second floors of the staircase, and then looked back at me, and said to me, "Madame is on the third floor, please move your Excellency the Wizard Giga, and come upstairs with me!"

I walked up the stairs slowly, the oak floor was polished very smooth and flat, the whole floor was waxed, the oil was shiny, the floor was covered with a thick blanket, I held on to the handrail of the stairs, climbed up step by step, and saw the crystal chandelier on the ceiling overhead, and the core of each crystal stone lamp was inlaid with a moonstone.

On the walls on both sides of the stairs hang some very pastoral oil paintings, whether it is the perspective, light and darkness, or the artistic conception of the painting are very integrated with the decoration in the castle, just like opening a window in the castle wall, through that window and see another kind of beauty.

There are also a few sharp weapons hanging on the wall, exaggerated axes and sharp spears exude an air of savagery, the pattern of the axe blade has black and purple marks, it is not difficult to see that these weapons are blood-stained murder weapons, those patterns are also completely unknown to me, different from the magic runes, and different from the words on the totems of the orc shaman.

There is also a strange beast horn hanging on the wall, the horn exudes a faint magical atmosphere, that is a strange feeling that makes me faintly aware of the crisis, but it is easy to ignore a strange feeling, although the beast horn looks a little blunt, but it makes me feel that holding it, as long as I have enough strength, I should be able to pierce through the ten-centimeter-thick ironwood shield.

There are some delicate flowers at the staircase on the second floor, and you can walk out of the staircase, turn the corridor that is not too long, and continue to climb up the staircase.

The third floor looks a bit like the living room in the castle, the maid walks in front, whenever I stop a little and look at the gorgeous decoration in the castle, she will wait for me very patiently in front, and she does not speak, with a humble smile on her face, it seems that in this castle, the etiquette requirements for maids are still very strict.

Seeing her stop again at the corner in front of me to wait for me, I quickly gave up admiring a beautiful metal plate of magic runes on the wall and quickly followed.

The castle was spotlessly cleaned, with young maids on every floor, but it still looked a little deserted.

......

I had no idea that I would see Lady Arya in this way.

When I was in El City, I heard Bobby say that many of the nobles of the upper class would be very hospitable, some nobles would meet together to watch an opera, some nobles would go to the suburbs to hunt together on horseback, or some wealthy ladies would meet some guests in the bathroom that she thought was important.

At the time, I just thought Bobby was talking some gonzo, just as a joke.

Unexpectedly, my first formal visit to a noble lady was actually in a very large bathroom, which was made of fine marble and made of a pool full of rose petals.

Two maids were standing in the pool in thin gauze clothes, and Lady Arya was washing her long hair, and when she heard the footsteps, Lady Arya slipped into the pool like a mermaid, she turned her body in the water, and swam towards me with a relaxed smile, and it seemed that her complexion was much better than when I saw her before, and the skin on her face was very tight even when she was without makeup, as if the years had not left any marks on her face.

I stood in the doorway of the bathroom, refusing to take a step forward.

"It took so long to come to me, I thought you were so immersed in the books of the Royal Academy of Magic that I couldn't extricate myself from, Jiga, I'm really glad to see you again. Lady Arya had a happy smile on her face.

I rubbed my nose a little embarrassed before I said, "Please forgive me for taking the liberty of disturbing you, you look so beautiful." There's a lot more going on at the Royal Academy of Magic than I thought, and I didn't expect you to have such a beautiful manor in the imperial capital. ”

Seeing that I had no intention of entering, Lady Arya waved her hand at the maids beside her, and the curtains on both sides were lowered at once, blocking my view.

Not long after, Lady Arya came out of the bathroom in a long silk dress that was slippery and soft, and two maids followed her, carefully wiping her hair, her watery eyes with three points of charm in them, and a faint smile led me into a living room, which was much more normal, at least with a comfortable sofa and a coffee table, which was full of all kinds of fine food and fruits, and Lady Arya asked me to sit opposite her.

The two maids knelt on the carpet and served two cups of fragrant hot tea, and at this time, Lady Arya leaned back on the sofa a little lazily, and said, "Although you have saved me twice, it seems that I have never thanked you very formally, and Ann often mentions you in her letters, and I only sent Demi on the airship bound for El City last week." ”

We sat down and chatted in the living room, the topic had been around the incident of the airship being hijacked by the defectors, she seemed a little excited, her eyes were shining, she seemed to feel a little curious about my visit, but she never resisted asking, she was always pulling the topic, she didn't seem to deliberately avoid her identity.

During the conversation, I slowly learned that she was the widow of the Marquis Colin Babington, the most outstanding general of the new generation of the Babington family, who died in a plane war, but left a large inheritance, as the widow of the Marquis of Colin, she inherited all the inheritance of the Marquis of Colin except for the army, and this estate built in the first district of the imperial capital is also part of the inheritance.