Chapter 161: The Hand of Flame (4) (2/5)
The Moleni family castle was built on the highest part of Fugu County, and you can see the castle at a glance if you stand in Fugu County from a place with a wide view.
At five o'clock in the afternoon, three dark elves dressed as Joe were riding on the Hamilton Bridge, and from here, the three of them looked at the castle from afar.
The three of them were strong and had excellent eyesight, and they saw not only the castle, but also a dark blue carriage going up the hill ramp on the high ground.
"Look, it's the carriage of the East Valley Academy, and it must be him in the carriage." The Assassin Hadel Dao, after they got the news of Link's return to his hometown, chased them all the way, and when they saw the carriage of the East Valley, it must be Link.
"Hurry up, we'll go up and catch him now!" Norrissa, the warrior, pinched the hilt of his sword.
"No, there's no hurry." Magician Parson looked at the carriage and castle in the distance: "This is his family castle, and it is full of his family. If he kills the eldest lady, we must give him the greatest pain. Wait until it gets dark, kill all his family members in front of him, and then burn down his family castle and ruin everything for him! β
"Good!" Hedell licked his lips cruelly, the dark elves are the darlings of the night, and Hedell, as an assassin, is the god of death in the night!
Link's carriage slowly drove into the castle, although the Moleni family is not very famous, but it is a lord of a land, the family has been inherited for more than three hundred years, and there is still some heritage, and the construction of the family castle has taken a lot of thought.
Around the castle, surrounded by a five-meter-deep trench, because it is on high ground, there is no water in the ditch, but it is covered with wooden spikes, the wall of the outer wall of the city wall is made of hard basalt star stone, the wall where the drawbridge is located is engraved with many magic runes, Link glanced at it, recognized it as a solid rune and a basic magic resistance rune, after entering the city gate is a square, there are many weapons to defend the city in the square, such as trebuchets, horses, giant crossbows, etc., the square is surrounded by high walls, and there are many arrow stacks on the wall, Behind the square is the second gate.
It is conceivable that when the foreign enemy breaks through the city gate and enters the castle square, they will immediately face a rain of death arrows, and it is also a dog-like attack with the door closed, and there is nowhere to escape.
The carriage drove all the way, Link looked all the way, and his feeling was that this castle was completely a war fortress, and if there were enough materials to defend the city, plus a few masters, there would be no problem at all in guarding the castle for a year and a half.
At this time, the carriage arrived at the inner fort, which was the courtyard, and there was a small garden in the courtyard, in which there were many evergreen landscape shrubs, which slightly broke some of the gloomy and damp atmosphere, and behind the courtyard was the castle gate, and at this time there were already three people standing at the door, who should have come to meet him.
Among the three people, two women and one man, the two women's dresses were half-old and not new, and they were a little thin, shivering in the cold winter, rubbing their arms from time to time, stomping their feet, and when they got closer, the other party's appearance became clearer and clearer, and Link had a memory in his heart and recognized each other.
The haggard and sorrowful look was his physical mother, Lilith, the young woman who was in some of the spirits was his eldest sister Molly, and the last gray-haired woman was the old butler of the Moleni family, Trefor.
Mother is also in the castle? This was somewhat of a surprise to Link. As for the eldest brother, with his temperament, it's normal not to see him, but when he does, he has a ghost. And the second brother is a knight of the kingdom, and he has been on duty in the Northern Silver Fortress, so it is normal for him to be absent.
At the door, the carriage stopped, and Linkla drove the door out.
This time he returned home, inevitably looked down upon by the family, Link did not wear civilian clothes, he was wearing the inky blue robe of the East Valley School of Magic, and he wore two rings on his fingers, one was a delicate Edelweiss defense ring, the other was the hereditary baron seal of the king's reward, and he held a star-picking wand with a mysterious brilliance in his hand.
The dress effect of this powerful magician is excellent, mother Lilith saw it, her eyes lit up suddenly, and the sadness on her face suddenly lightened by half, and his eldest sister Mo Li also came back to her senses and covered her mouth in surprise, obviously not expecting that the unsuccessful brother in her heart would become like this. The butler Trefford's face was also less contemptuous than before, and there was a lot more awe, and he had already bowed deeply and called the third young master.
"Brother, is this really you?" Molly suspected that she had mistaken it, their Morleni family admired force and followed the path of knighthood, so Link, who had been thin since childhood, was despised by Link.
But now, the young man in front of her was sturdy, his eyes were shining, and his dress was radiant, making people feel that he was a very powerful magician, which was too different from the younger brother she remembered.
"It's me." Link smiled, although he didn't have any special feelings for these two women, the memory of the original owner of the body was still there, and Link still had some intimacy in his heart.
When he hugged his mother, Link found that the poor woman's body was trembling slightly, and he turned his head to look, but saw that she had tears in her eyes, and stared at him tightly, looking like she couldn't see enough, and she was still muttering: "It's good, it's good, my son has finally grown up and has a future." β
Link's heart was a little sour when he heard this, he exhaled lightly, sorted out his emotions, turned around and walked to the coachman, took out 5 gold coins and threw them over: "Al, you go and rest first, I'm going to trouble you to stay in the castle these days." β
When the coachman saw the golden light, his eyes lit up, and when he saw that it was still 5 pieces, which had already topped him with half a year's salary, he was overjoyed in his heart, and said happily: "Thank you, sir." β
This scene fell in the eyes of the old butler Trevor, and his heart trembled: 'Hiss~ The reward turned out to be 5 gold coins! β
The annual income of the entire Moleni Castle is only 700 gold coins, and it has to support more than 300 people in the castle, and the most generous reward given by the Viscount to his subordinates in previous years is 5 silver coins, which is already a rare generosity, but I didn't expect Link to make a move that was ten times as much, which completely exceeded the psychological expectations of the old butler.
At this time, it was winter, it was freezing outside, and the cold wind was howling, and Link saw that the faces of his mother and eldest sister were blown by the cold wind, so he said, "Mother, sister, come in." β
"Okay, okay." Lilith was only looking at her son, and Link was what he said.
As for Molly, she, like the old butler, was also frightened by Link's generosity, her pocket money a year was only 6 gold coins, and on weekdays, she spent 1 gold coin to buy herself a skirt for more than half a month. Unexpectedly, her own brother casually rewarded her pocket money for nearly a year to a coachman, which is too much to treat money as money, right?
She was shocked, shocked, and with a hint of joy and anticipation, she followed Link into the castle, her eyes fixed on her brother.
On the way, Link said to the old butler, "I'm going to see my father, lead the way." β
Trevor was stunned for a moment, and said instinctively: "Lord Viscount is weak now, and he can't see it"
It's not that he doesn't want to lead the way, it's Hamilton's eldest son, the next Viscount Wharton. Moleni's order, he specially instructed that when the third young master came back this time, he would not let him easily see the seriously ill old viscount.
The reason is also very simple, it is nothing more than the fear that the old viscount will be soft-hearted and divide the family property.
In the past, Trevor didn't have any pressure to say this, but this time, before he finished speaking, he saw the black eyes of his third young master look over, without the slightest emotion in his eyes, just glanced at him lightly, and he suddenly felt a huge oppressive force.
The sweat on his forehead burst out, and Trevor subconsciously avoided: "Third Young Master, this is your eldest brother's order." β
Link sneered, where did he not know his eldest brother's thoughts, the family property was originally small, and he was afraid that he would be thinned again, but where could he see such a little thing now?
He said lightly: "What I want to see is my father, not my eldest brother, lead the way!" β
"Yes." Trevor found that he couldn't refuse the will of the young man in front of him at all, so he instinctively agreed, and when he finished speaking, he was shocked in his heart: 'How could the third young master become so powerful, strange things, too strange. β
Since he should be down, he can't help it, so he leads the way in front with a bitter face.
Just walked a few steps, and when he reached the staircase, a figure appeared from the second floor of the staircase, and at the same time, a voice came in: "My brother, you are back, I really miss you." β
Link looked up and saw a stocky young man walking down the stairs with a smile on his face.
The man was in his early 30s, with curly brown and black shawl hair, a neatly groomed beard, a stout build, a new black robe, fine fur shoulders draped over his back, delicate deerskin boots underfoot, and twice as much jewelry as Link's mother, Lilith, and eldest sister combined.
As soon as they saw this person, both their mothers and eldest sisters lowered their heads together, and their figures were much lower in an instant, like a deer trembling in front of a lion.
This man is none other than the eldest brother of this body, the orthodox heir to the title of viscount, Wharton. Moleni.
He walked down the steps step by step, looking Link up and down at the same time, and the smile on his face became more and more intense: "My dear brother, it seems that you are good at magic, you have all taken your wand." This wand is so beautiful, show me. β
As he spoke, he reached out directly to Link to take it, which was his previous habit, because his third brother would never refuse his request.
But that's the old Link.
As for now, what is this pampered guy?
Link's magic energy immediately poured into the wand, and the star-picking wand emitted a dazzling light, under the reflection of this light, Link looked at his arrogant big brother with a faint expression: "This is not something you should touch, Wharton." β
A magician's wand is a warrior's sword, never a second hand.
Wharton's face changed, his smile faded a lot, and he didn't withdraw his outstretched hand, a rich battle aura emerged from his hand, and he still leaned over: "Why, my younger brother, after learning a little magic, doesn't take me as a big brother seriously?" β
He cultivated the Ice Wind Battle Qi inherited by the Moleni family, and now he was a level 4 warrior, he was confident that even if he looked at the entire kingdom, he was also a master, and his younger brother had only been learning magic for a year.
How capable can a guy who has only been studying magic for a year have? As for the glowing gadgets on his body, nine times out of ten they were the things that this kid took out to put on a faΓ§ade.
So, he made such an extremely unwise choice.
The next moment, the light on Link's body flashed, and the level 4 edelweiss magic was instantly activated, and a radial force field shot out violently!
Link controlled the range of the force field and did not hurt his mother, eldest sister and housekeeper on the side, but on Wharton's side, the force field was much stronger and he crashed into it.
'Bang! Wharton couldn't reach it, his hand was bounced back, and his whole body was knocked backwards.
"Well, boy, you dare to do it to me!" Wharton was furious, in the Moleni family, he said that he had been one and the other for many years, even his father did not dare to go against his will too much, and this third brother had always been submissive to him, and now he dared to fight back!
As a result, the anger in his heart surged, the battle spirit broke out desperately, and the whole person rushed back, and he wanted to teach this disobedient brother a hard lesson! (To be continued.) )