A mansion with a large area of land appeared in front of me. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

This is the Earl of Norrington's mansion in the Windy City, covering an area of about 3,500 square meters, with dozens of rooms, two back gardens, a swimming pool, a pond and so on. The Normans were fond of marble construction, and the main body of the entire mansion was a marble structure, paved with an elevated canal, with flower beds, grape trellises, and pavilions in the front yard, warehouses, wine cellars, and basements in the back yard, and a small house in the back garden on the left, which was connected to the basement and was a small interrogation room. There weren't many people in the entire mansion, and the original servants either died or took advantage of the chaos to flee.

After the death of the Earl of Keaton, a small number of faithful servants returned, but only seven or eight of them, all of whom had served the Norrington family since childhood.

At the time of Countess Elijah's martyrdom, the faithful knightly guards were largely dead. The only one still alive was Highland Knight Lancet's nephew, Werther, a sixteen-year-old knight who survived the scuffle and then hid in the slum, but one of his arms was gone, and his injuries were comminuted. The current escort was a group sent by the old Earl of Sutton, and servants had been drawn from elsewhere. There are still traces of blood in the entire mansion, and the flowers in the back garden are very conspicuous, and a faint smell of blood can be smelled.

The Earl of Keaton took it and simply cleaned it up, and most of the valuable things were removed.

"Lady Elijah!"

The servants who had rushed back spontaneously wept bitterly at the sight of Countess Elijah, for what had happened not long ago was not only a nightmare for Lady Elijah, but also a terrible disaster for them.

A middle-aged deacon from Sutton Manor nodded slightly to Lady Elijah, and then began to arrange for people to clean the mansion, buckets of water washed the ground, and a trace of blood could still be seen after three washes. Lady Elia's expression has been sad since she returned here, but she still managed to arrange things, and now that everything is back, many places are still blank, and Stephen can still suppress the other nobles, but if Stephen leaves one day, she must ensure that all this power and wealth are in her own hands.

"Clean a clean room for Lord Stephen first. ”

Countess Illya bit her lip and waved a middle-aged maid to take care of her daughter, Fran, and then ordered, "Clean up the house to the south, and put the new furniture on the way first." ”

The whole cellar was smashed, and it was evident that the old Earl of Sutton was very attentive to Stephen, and that before evening some people had brought in good food and wine. It would take a day or two to complete the house, but in the evening the group had a place to stay, and Countess Elijah promoted some of the more qualified servants as squires, and then recruited some young girls from the slums with clean backgrounds. The guards are basically helpless, the mercenaries are not reliable, the Norrington family's reliable knight guards are dead, and all this has to be done slowly.

For everything out there, Stephen didn't care too much.

Before returning, he went to the library in Windy City to borrow some books, mainly in history, astrology, and geography.

It took less than eight hundred years for the Normans to migrate to this land, and the reasons for their migration are vaguely stated, but some supernatural events are certainly taking place. In terms of history, most of it records the expansion and rise of the Normans, who changed from barbarians in the ice fields to civilized people with superb smelting and construction skills in just one or two hundred years. The history recorded in the books is incomplete, basically all of them praise virtues, and even the large ruins that Stephen saw after entering the civilization zone are not recorded in detail, and the terrible 'death marks' are definitely left by the legendary monsters. But the books simply record that herds from the wilderness attacked the southern regions, forcing the Normans to abandon large areas of land and relocate.

Geography books only specifically describe the southern windy valley, and mention that there is a large area of land on the other side of the strait.

The real key is the astrological aspect, more than 90% of which is nonsense, but what Stephen really cares about is that there is a record of the 'Quarter Moon'. The Normans were called the 'Blood Moon' on the night of the Quarter Moon, representing calamity and evil, and their priests performed great rituals before entering civilization, but now they only sent heavy troops to block the borders. The arrival of a Blood Moon causes the beasts of the wilderness to become restless, with occasional attacks on villages, but a massive beast wave occurs only once every ten years. There is a vague reference to wizards in the books, alluding to the presence of wizards who disperse the beasts when the blood moon arrives.

But Stephen didn't believe that, because there were mutant beasts in the wilderness that even he couldn't beat. From the mouth of Countess Illya, he learned that there are indeed many wizards stationed in other places on this continent, according to his guess, someone should have arranged a super large protective circle on this land, some low-level wizards are stationed here, and whenever the blood moon comes, the magic circle will be activated, this magic circle will cancel out the energy field of the blood moon and automatically disperse the restless beasts. There are also some very important things recorded in the books, the appearance of the [Blood Moon] was originally once every three years, but then it became once every two years, then every year, and almost twice a year for the last sixty years.

Once is the waning moon and once is the full moon.

It's a pity.

There is no specific record of the Quarter Moon in these books, and it is not even said that there is no one living on the Quarter Moon.

"I always feel that the energy field of this world is a little wrong!"

Stephen's gaze looked out the window at the moon light, purple rings across the sky, starry under the night sky, the starry sky looked unusually magnificent, but I don't know why he felt a kind of uneasiness every time he saw the three moons, as if he was facing a god's heart palpitations, but a little more intense than that.

He trusts his instincts, there must be something wrong with this world!

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Inside the study.

After a long day's work, the tired Countess Elijah came to the cleaned study, spread out her pen and paper and pondered for a moment, and then began to write letters to the South.

Almost all of the Norrington family members are gone, and the only survivor is her daughter Fran. Countess Illya did not trust the side children, even the knights loyal to her husband, and she desperately needed a little help from the south.

She is now in charge of all things Norrington.

With the land she has now regained, she can provide at least twenty knightly fiefs, more than three tax collectors, the mayor of a large town, the chief steward of two estates, and so on, and she needs some people she can trust for these positions, and there are some people in her family who are not born well but are quite talented. Countess Elijah struggled to remember which of her cousins were talented and reliable, and wrote another letter to send to the Southern Highlands, remembering that Lancet also had a daughter who was studying at the High Tower Academy, a Highland knight who had died in battle to cover her escape, and whose descendants were entitled to a fief.

Lancet's nephew was so badly injured that if he couldn't recover, he would have to be sent to the town as a patrol leader.

Countess Illya's fingers pressed lightly on her temples to think about what else she had to arrange, and she was a little overwhelmed by the sudden arrival of a large number of things, but she was a smart aristocratic woman after all, and she soon had some experience in handling things.

(PS: Thank you to the leader of the book friend [Glasses That Can Draw].) The name looks like a cute boy... →_→）