Chapter 9: Abandoned Castles and Barren Territories
The Bella Coast, the domain of Charles, the newly baked earl, the most remote territory of the Holy Platinum Empire, the deserted coastal border.
At night, the humidity of the seaside dispels some of the sweltering heat of midsummer.
The slightly salty water, and the sound of the waves crashing against the shore after high tide, all indicate that they have left the hotel floor of a small town in the blink of an eye and arrived on an unfamiliar shore.
Everyone in the mercenary squad had a dull look on their faces, including the mage Kana among them.
Her whole body took on a sluggish appearance that had been battered, obviously struck by the random methods of the arcanist she was hostile to.
The magicians are very old-fashioned, and they are too focused on inheritance, which limits their progress in the tide of the times.
Compared to the shock of the mercenaries, Charlie showed the opposite look.
Her eyes sparkled, and her gaze became more intense as she looked around at the two Arcanists.
The white-robed arcanist who took out the Red Phoenix Arcane prop enjoyed the new disciple's gaze very much, and boasted, "Hey! This is what I got from a Grand Arcanist apprentice in the Spell Department at the last Arcane Exchange in the City of Erudition, hey~"
The red-robed arcanist Milami knew that his old friend had a lot of money, but he had no intention of tearing it down at this time, so he just rolled his eyes indecently.
"Stop bragging, Kappa, how long are you going to let me stand here and smell the sea? Little Charlie, this is your fiefdom, oh! Why is it all seawater? Did the emperor here give you a piece of the sea as a territory? ”
The red-robed old man with a fiery temper speaks habitually full of hatred.
Charlie was embarrassed and didn't know how to answer.
The white-robed arcanist handed over the steps very understandingly, "It's too late, we should go to your territory's residence first." ”
"I'm here for the first time, so I don't know where it should be?" Charlie said with no confidence.
"Oh, hehehe, this kind of thing depends on the arcane of the prophecy department Charlie, my student! You see, you can't expect to be a sculptor who will just 'boom boom' and live like a moving turret. ”
With that, an Ayn stone flying above Kapa's head shone brightly, and then he lifted one foot from the ground, bent slightly, and took off the shoe he was wearing.
Ditched the mage's boots under Charlie's slightly wide-eyed gaze......
The bootie hits the ground with the tip pointing in one direction.
The white-robed Capa smiled and raised his hand, bringing back the boots he had thrown out and putting them back on.
He pointed in the direction the tip of his shoe was pointing and said, "It's over there, let's go." ”
It looks 'metaphysical', and both Charlie and the mercenary team will suspiciously follow the confident two arcanists in that direction.
It was along the seashore to the north, and about five minutes into the night everyone could see an isolated castle perched on a rocky cliff on the coast.
An outer wall was built around the perimeter of the reef.
It wasn't really visible at night, but Charlie felt that the outer walls looked 'uneven' and seemed to be dilapidated.
The castle is isolated from the reef cliffs in the hazy night, and its silhouette is faintly visible in the silvery-white moonlight, which resembles a thin veil.
"If it's good, it should be somewhere. The residences of the nobility were always the most luxurious in the area. The white-robed mage said lightly, there was no mockery in his words, just a comment on a reality.
They walked for nearly 30 minutes before slowly climbing up the gentle slope to the east of the castle.
By the time he arrived at the castle's door, Charlie was already a little out of breath.
She's probably the least physically fit of all.
Seeing that the two silver-haired old arcanists were not blushing and out of breath along the way, Charlie secretly made up his mind to put exercise on his daily schedule in the future.
Her maid knocked on the door, and it stands to reason that the property of the nobles would be guarded by someone whether there was anyone in the territory or not.
There are also local officials who manage the local population.
The castle is in a bit of a state of disrepair, with a thick wooden gate that has decayed due to the seaside climate.
The maid did not even dare to slap the thick wooden door vigorously for fear of falling it off the door frame.
The two Arcanists apparently didn't have much patience for arcane laws and beyond knowledge, and oh, now there's a Charlie for the 'things' that make them so patient.
The red-robed arcanist Milami took out his spellcasting staff and said impatiently to the maid, "Get out of the way!" ”
Then he said to his new disciple, "Look! That's how we can do it in the energy shaping arcane! ”
After speaking, he whispered, "Magic Missile!" ”
As he exhaled the name of the arcane, the front of the wooden staff he held in his folded hand quickly gathered energy.
The energy gathered from all directions into a pink-purple ball of light the size of a basketball, and then the ball of light flew out and hit the wooden door.
There was a muffled 'boom'.
The thick wooden door that began to rot was blown to pieces, the wooden wedges flewed, and the scar man stepped in front of Charlie.
The maid, who didn't have time to dodge, was quickly rescued by the agile Serre.
Obviously, these two 'brothers and sisters', who were seriously injured by the shadow assassin and received treatment from Charlie's 'suturing', cultivated a deep 'friendship' after lying together on a flatbed truck and being used as a 'corpse'.
When the gate opens, the fly ash pavement in the castle is ushered in.
It can be seen that this place has been abandoned for a long time.
The most embarrassing person present was probably Charlie.
After all, if you calculate carefully, this is only half an hour before she patted her chest and fooled the red-robed arcanist to brag that she had money and a house.
'Ahem, I'm not cheating, I have a house, but the house is a little old, but it still looks like an ancient castle, I have money, but the money pocket is a little deflated, only a hundred gold coins and four hundred and forty-nine silver coins. ’
In short, the mercenaries covered their noses and entered the castle first.
As early as when they received the task and saw the location of the fiefdom, they understood that this was a down-and-out nobleman.
Now they are not surprised to see the appearance of the castle.
Charlie peeked at the two arcanists with some humility, only to find that the two arcanists were also looking at her, and their eyes did not dislike and care about the small 'lies' before, but rather the meaning of 'the more they looked, the more satisfied'.
"Ah, it's so dirty, Lord Earl, people can't live in it without cleaning. The smell of dampness and decay in the room would not be dispelled for a few days even if the windows of the castle were opened. The maid followed in and took a look.
When he came out, he reported to the Earl in distress.
Charlie just wanted to say that he would go to a nearby lord's house to spend the night, but he heard Miami, who had just violently demolished the door, say:
"Oh! My students, you have to put every bit of your life into the arcane in the long run, like the big men who live in the floating city, ah...... Their lives, bit by bit, even the water they drink come from the great arcane! ”
"To the point, my old friend." The white-robed Capa interrupted the old fellow's conversation.
"Ahem, I mean, this kind of trivial matter can't be handled by mortals, but it doesn't mean that we arcane masters can't handle it, you see!"
Charlie, who had witnessed the wooden door turn into a 'hidden weapon' flying everywhere, shuddered, hid directly behind the white-robed Kapa, and then showed a small head to watch.
The red-robed arcanist waved his staff again, and the three wonderful elements of breeze and foam and clear water came together into a kind of cleansing arcane, with Charlie and their place as the center, like a raging tornado, instantly swept through the entire castle, making it look new.
The only problem is that the mercenaries who went upstairs to investigate did not notice for a while, and they were recruited collectively......
It's not a powerful hurtful spell, they're just washed clean from the inside out.
Looking at the new castle, Charlie's eyes were 'bling' and 'bling'.
The gaze at Mentor Miami was stronger than the one that had been at Mentor Capa before.
This gaze probably cooled down after she saw the members of the mercenary team burping, spit out soap bubbles one by one, and all walked down from the second floor of the castle with numb faces.