CHAPTER XXVI
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An ornately decorated carriage is heading towards the estate of the old Earl of Sutton, an old aristocratic family born in the Northlands, dating back to the time when the Normans moved south, when a terrible monster appeared on the northern ice fields and forced the Normans to move south. The Earl of Sutton was a clever man, he had no good heirs but had many beautiful daughters, and he used his in-laws to win over the new aristocracy and maintain his influence in the north.
He has a total of seven daughters, six of whom have married nobles of the Northland, and now their granddaughters are also actively looking for qualified partners as bargaining chips. For example, the Baron de Carnot, mentioned by the Countess of Illya, the old Earl of Sutton intended to marry one of his granddaughters. The in-laws that the old Earl of Sutton had spent decades preparing were like a big net, and even the powerful Earl of Keaton could do nothing about him. The old earl's sister, daughter, niece, granddaughter, and even his widowed eldest sister were all married off in various ways, from Naraltel to Windy City, from Dragon City to the nobles of the South, many families could have something to do with him. For example, the dead husband of Countess Elijah, the mother of the Earl of Norrington is the cousin of the old Earl of Keaton. This kind of old aristocracy may not seem powerful, but the background is far superior to others.
The carriage was driven by a young man who looked to be in his twenties, and there was no family crest on it.
"It should be there. Stephen Zhou saw the outline of the manor from a distance and said softly, "Remember what I told you." ā
"Hmm. From inside the carriage came the voice of Countess Elijah, who was holding her daughter, her face slightly crimson, not because of what had happened, but because of the ornaments placed in the dark inside the carriage. It took Stephen Zhou a little effort to find such an aristocratic carriage, but as soon as Countess Elijah got into the carriage, she noticed that something was wrong, she looked at the hangers on the two walls, the round holes in the beams, and then reached out to lift the soft cushion and groped underneath, with a slight click, a dark compartment was opened, and the slender red rope and metal rings neatly placed inside made her whole person retract her hand as if she had been electrocuted, and then covered everything with a slight mist on her face. It was a carriage for nobles and wealthy merchants who occasionally took their lovers on 'outings', and Stephen Chow didn't understand the twists and turns, but the Countess Elija, a native, had heard of it.
Gently caressing her daughter's long hair with her palm, listening to the sound of her breathing evenly asleep, Countess Illya couldn't help but smile.
I don't know if it's her delusion, but Countess Elija has recently felt that her daughter seems to have grown a little taller, she has become a little lethargic, her appetite has doubled than before, and sometimes she wakes up with her in her arms in the morning and feels a pronounced static reaction. Although Countess Elijah, a native of the native, doesn't know much about this, the static reaction when she wears a sweater in winter is very similar to her daughter's situation now, and there is a very obvious static force on Flan when she wakes up every day. Fortunately, Stephen had already greeted her and told her that some kind of transformation was taking place in Fran's body, so Countess Elia was not very frightened.
Warlock's awakening is most commonly during puberty, and both physical and psychological changes are most likely to trigger the awakening of Warlock's talent. In general, adolescents who have not had the behavior of reproduction and mating are more likely to be aroused, and those who have done these behaviors may have the genes of the awakened warlock talent to the new mother and become latent again. Warlocks' abilities originally come from bloodlines, so the act of reproducing bloodlines may actually reduce the probability of awakening, and it is not recommended in the Arcane Academy that warlocks reproduce and mate before the age of twenty, but most warlocks in the aboriginal world are unaware of this, and because some traditions seem to be very absurd.
This period of awakening lasts until the age of 30, but it is generally stable by the age of 20, because the body is almost mature, the genetic level is gradually stable, and the likelihood of causing blood revival begins to decrease.
There are very few warlocks who wake up after the age of twenty-five, and the body is already approaching the age of aging (after the age of thirty).
These theories apply to the vast majority of human warlock bloodlines, and the span of other races will be different, but more than eighty percent of warlock awakenings are stable in adolescence.
Fran's case is very special.
Others are physiological changes that induce the awakening of the Warlock's bloodline, but she is currently the Warlock's bloodline awakening that induces physical changes.
This causes her physical development to speed up, and it speeds up the onset of puberty, and the mana accumulated during this time will have a large explosion when puberty arrives, and if no one guides her, this type of warlock is likely to cause some strange phenomenon that causes panic among ordinary people.
For example, strange sounds and lights, strange electricity, haunted houses, mysterious black shadows, etc., many of the strange phenomena rumored by folklore are caused by such warlocks.
And Fran's consequences without a guide would be even more exaggerated!
Often, these types of warlocks are more gifted than human-guided, and they belong to the category of natural warlocks. Most warlocks with ordinary talents need to use the meditation method of the Arcane Academy to awaken the warlock bloodline, and the qualifications of this type of warlock will be slightly worse, and the speed of strength improvement will be much slower.
"It's here. Stephen Zhou's deep voice came from outside the carriage.
Immediately afterwards, the guards shouted loudly: "Who is it? This is the territory of the Earl of Sutton!"
Stephen Zhou stared at the row of guards in front of him, because of the turmoil in Windy City, it was heavily guarded, and there were at least hundreds of guards scattered to patrol, he took out a metal badge and threw it over, and said in a deep voice: "Please report to the Earl of Sutton, just say that there is an old man visiting." ā
The young guard glanced at the emblem in his hand, then glanced at the carriage and whispered, "Stay here." I'll report it first. ā
"Hmm. Stephen Zhou nodded.
Countess Elijah also picked up her daughter, who had just woken up, and at this time she was also a little nervous, because whether the old Earl Sutton would see them or not depended on whether her judgment was correct and affected the feasibility of the plan later.
Soon.
A man who looked like a housekeeper greeted him with a group of people, his expression was a little nervous, and he couldn't help but be stunned when he saw Stephen Zhou, and then walked quickly to the carriage, and did not pay attention to Countess Illya next to him, but said to Stephen Zhou: "Welcome to Jinxi Manor." Dear Lord!"
A wizard's apprentice.
Stephen Zhou squinted his eyes and glanced at the other party, not surprised that his identity was seen through, he just nodded lightly and jumped out of the carriage, and then helped Countess Illya to walk down.
Many of the old aristocratic families in this world have the bloodline of warlocks, and if they don't have the ability to break through the bottleneck and become official first-order wizards, then wizard apprentices of grades 1 to 5 will return to this land after losing hope of advancement. The one in front of him should be a third-class wizard apprentice, and the level converted to the Arcane Empire is a third-level warlock. In this world, a first-order official wizard is a level 5 spellcaster, a second-order official wizard is a level 10 spellcaster, a third-order official wizard is a level 15 spellcaster, and a full-scale wizard above the fourth order is a legendary caster of level 20 or above, and the five-ring tower mentioned by Countess Illya was built by a spellcaster of level 25 or above.
Stephen Zhou's peak cast level is 45, and his current restored cast level is a level 5 Alchemist.
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