"Speaking of the earl's seal, I don't know how those scholars from Italy have handled it, let's go and see."

I laid my glass on the table, and accompanied by my attendants and Wangcai, came to a quiet room in the castle, where I had arranged for the scholars to work, sunny and clean, and never disturbed the minds of the wise.

"The Earl has arrived!"

The little attendant pushed open the heavy wooden door and shouted my name, but a room full of scholars who bowed their heads and wrote and researched, completely immersed in their own world, deaf to his voice, muttering incomprehensible mutters in their mouths, still busy with their own business.

"Praise God, and educate such a devout explorer with the breadth and depth of the world's learning, these are the testimonies of miracles!"

I smiled at Wangcai embarrassedly: "Don't blame them, no wonder they can't hear it, many scholars are old, and they are already old when they graduate from the school city, and they may not be deaf and clear!" ”

As I spoke, I cautiously avoided the pile of tattered books or strange-shaped instruments on the ground, and looked at an old man with a white beard in horror, pouring the strange liquid in the bottles and jars into the boiling cauldron, stirring excitedly, staring at the steaming and bubbling water like a child cooking for the first time.

After mixing and longing for unknown novelties, I thought to myself: No wonder the Holy See will soon burn you Frankensteins at the stake as wizards and heretics.

"Earl, is that you?"

The leader of the scholars, the old man of Lagunias of Bologna, looked up from the thick parchment scroll, and I could tell from his blank eyes that he was only about to rest his eyes that were about to squeeze into his book, and then he found out that I was coming, and had to be polite to me with a soft-handed and short-mouthed man.

"If you don't have anything to do, please go out and close the door, the research is at a critical moment, what we need is absolute silence, the slightest change in the dust in the air can cause immeasurable horrific consequences, and all the people sitting here are people who may discover the magical science that will change the world, and not even God can disturb us from thinking about the mysteries of the universe."

"Presumptuous, you are blaspheming against God and disrespectful to Lord Earl!"

Wangcai shouted to express his dissatisfaction, and I was slightly not very happy by the old man's words, so I didn't stop Wangcai's scolding and watched coldly.

"I don't think the merciful Lord Count would mind my rudeness, and his magnanimity is the reason why we are willing to travel so far and so much, even if it is so old, and especially the bad food that is hard to swallow, but the perennial conquests of Italy, and the occasional intrusions of the Saracens, keep us from concentrating on our studies, and every nobleman wishes to obtain from us lethal weapons that can change the outcome of the war."

"Their ignorant practices desecrate the sanctity of science, and they even want to use their power to suppress scholars to obey, you must know that science and technology are the fundamental force of social progress, not the pope nor the king, their prominence in life will eventually turn into a piece of loess in the grave, and only the unbreakable truth can live forever in the world!"

Lagunias chewed on the words and made a fortune, and then continued to bury his head in the dilapidated ancient book handed down in an unknown year and month, looking for the wisdom of the sages.

I stepped forward and tried to see the complicated floral letters on the book, what fascinating things were written, but my knowledge was so shallow, I didn't even understand a complete sentence after reading for a long time, so I could only give up: "I'm here to ask, how is the family genealogy that asked you to help me research a while ago, and the family coat of arms designed?" ”

I looked left and right, hoping to find clues to what I was looking for, but the mess of piles of paper and the dirty busy scholars were not to my liking.

"You mean that......"

Lagunias rubbed his eyes, which were sore and red from his long-term myopia, and flipped through the parchment scrolls beside him.

"Based on the family information you provided, we rummaged through all the relevant historical records, and did not let go of a single annotation in small print, but unfortunately we did not find any records of your family in the long history, perhaps like all countries built on the ruins of the Roman Empire, your ancestors were just barbarians wielding battle axes and riding lynxes into civilized countries, and after being forcibly seized in other people's homes, they learned to be kings of the torn earth and tried their best to smear themselves with divine brilliance. Assert the legitimacy of the divine right of kings. ”

"Shut up! Believe it or not, these words are enough to put you on the gallows! ”

Wangcai was really angry this time, every wrinkle was swollen and stretched out because of anger, insulting his lord was enough reason for the vassals to start a war.

I stand aside without caring about myself, as a traverser I don't have any affectionate feelings for my family, and as he said, my ancestors are likely to be shirtless barbarians who drink the blood of Maoru, and it does seem nondescript to put on the hat of civilization and sacredness, but I am interested in the original ancient nerds, and they are as incomprehensible as later generations, and dare to speak and scold.

"Show me your coat of arms, it's going to be called that."

I said to the old man with a pleasant face, not unhappy that he was not displeased with his presumptuousness, that the coat of arms was actually a family symbol that was not officially used on a large scale until hundreds of years later, and that in my time there were only some primitive totems inherited from the ancient clans, or hieroglyphs used to identify various principalities of the same nation, and were used on the battlefield to distinguish troops and issue orders, and were not as widespread as they were after the middle of the Middle Ages.

But as an earl, especially a new nobleman, I urgently need a coat of arms that can identify my family, not only to ensure the legitimacy of the order, but also to save face when the nobles gather, just like when you get a distinctive style tattoo at a party in later generations, so that the girls will admire you.

"You're talking about the ugly floppy flag?" Lagunias always had no regard for the feelings of the people in front of him, telling the truth.

"I'll have someone bring it to you, and I'll throw it in a corner, because I can't do anything about it, and I can't even drink water!"

After several twists and turns, in the thick pile of old papers, I finally found the family coat of arms carefully drawn by scholars.

I call it: [Chapter of the Dragon]!

However, after researching the books that are said to have been left by Egyptian saints, Lagunias insisted that it was a toad turned into a cursed jealous woman in ancient times, imprisoned by Apollo in the depths of the Egyptian desert and never reborn.

The main body of the coat of arms is a hovering and rising wyvern, with a hideous face that exudes an inviolable temperament, and its four claws grasp a cross, a long sword, a shield, and a ribbon with Bible proverbs written on it.

The shield with a red slash on a white background is derived from the insignia of ancient Germanic warriors.

The dragon is printed on two blue and white stripes, blue symbolizes the dream of immortality and is also the color of the ancient clans of the Rhineland.

White symbolizes the purity of the faith of Christ.

I looked at the coat of arms I had designed myself, and the more I looked at it, the more pleasing it became, but I didn't expect to be splashed with cold water on Lagunias's head.

"Oops, this toad has only three paws in the toad book, I'll fix it right away, Lord Earl!"

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