Chapter 32: The Half-Elf Teacher
In terms of status, the knight is taller than the civilian Al. But Al became their lord at this moment, and they became Al again's subordinates.
As the new master, all knights are required to come and swear allegiance, but in the event of a change of power, the knight has the right to choose to become a free person, and the master must fulfill this obligation.
"I swear that I will follow the virtues of knighthood, and that you will be the sword in your hand, and that you will be the crown of my glory. The four knights recited their long oaths, handed their swords, and pledged their allegiance to Al, who sat in formal dress as the master of the parlour. Al took the sword in turn and gave it back to them. It is one of the rituals that expresses loyalty and trust.
The Wandering Knight and the Family Knight are different concepts, and these four knights have chosen realistic allegiance to the rightful owner. They can then continue to manage the estate and breed families in the area.
Lord Boone was able to have four estates in the imperial capital, and whether they were good or bad, they all showed the heritage of his ancestors.
After two months, Al had his first morning exercise and got up late. Al, who was recovering from a serious injury, could even hear the rust creaking in his body, and he was sweating with great effort in his usual set of skillful movements. He's hurting his blood.
At that time, he summoned the ancestors to awaken the bloodline to strengthen his body, and then extracted the magic power of the magic furnace to turn the power of his body into magic, and used his fragile throat as a resonance generator, and he was the first to be injured.
I'm afraid this kind of thing can't happen again, the more the blood is injured, the stronger the absorption, and the heavier the burden on the body. He is just an ordinary exercise, and he can't effectively nourish, grow, and integrate his bloodline. He still has to supply the huge demand of the bloodline, he is still the atavistic bloodline, and his body is like a bamboo pole to provoke a mountain.
If Lu Oman hadn't given him the snake lizard egg liquid that the family had given him this time, or if the family didn't help, he might have to die of blood before he grew old.
The chubby flesh that had been raised for twelve years disappeared and he had to eat wildly, relying on his regenerative ability to convert food into energy and then let his blood absorb it. Under the cover of illusion, Alshi was fat and thin, and when he was thin, he hurried to eat again, for fear that he would accidentally say goodbye to this world. For this reason, Aunt Miranda recruited two more cooks and four servants.
The once spacious building is now a little crowded. The housekeeper Matilda's suggestion to change houses was also approved. His two-story bookshelves were also piled up for a long time.
Bico, who hadn't seen this for a long time, made a move.
The Adventure Guild also has the function of pawning, and Bico is in charge of this. The imperial capital is mostly small and medium-sized nobles who have lost the glory of their ancestors and sold their property to maintain dignity, and Bico deceived a few miserable little nobles who bought their ancestral houses for 3,500 gold coins, and then bought the middle few households at a high price. All of them were demolished and expanded to an area of 700 square meters, and a mansion of Alr was rebuilt.
The 700-square-meter dwellings in the imperial capital were only a sign of the middle class, and the mansions of Lord Thun were twice as large as theirs, but they were enough to cheer up those who had taken refuge in Ar.
Speaking of Lord Thun's mansion, Al did not want to move in because a mentor and a friend had died in it, and he also rejected the proposal to renovate it, so he put it on hold. I don't let it be sold or moved.
In addition to a few shops under Lord Thun's name, the most valuable ones are four estates near the imperial capital. Al looked through Lord Thun's family records and found that his ancestors had served the royal family to leave so much fortune to their descendants. There are also four knightly families who have served Lord Thun for generations.
Lord Thun, who was young and vigorous, died inexplicably at home, leaving no one alive in the whole house, and donated his family property to an unknown person. Although the four knights below follow Lord Thun's will and are recognized by the House of Commons of the noble council, they have been secretly trying to investigate the truth and avenge the Thun family.
They are knights, the embodiment of loyalty and oath.
No matter what others think, Al just eats, sleeps, sleeps, and doesn't go anywhere under the activity.
Almost raised at home for more than half a year, so that he didn't need the cover of illusion to appear in front of everyone. Al had become white and fat again, and finally grew taller under his burning desire.
He hadn't been in the lab much for most of the year, and after practicing every morning, he basically read, slept, and ate after his routine meditation, just like an animal that spent the winter.
Matilda was determined to make Al an aristocracy. The waiter is no longer a random valet Ali, and two new personal maids and two maids who meet the criteria of nobility have been added to his bedroom to cultivate Al's high temperament, and in view of Al's reputation at the end of last year, Matilda deliberately chose beautiful and moving girls.
Al really needed someone to take care of him during that time, so he didn't refuse, and after a long time, he got used to the old-fashioned life.
He got up from a nap at this moment, and the two personal maids immediately came to change and wash Al. Because Al doesn't like to be noisy, although the two girls always have some intentional or unintentional movements, they never make a sound.
He took a short nap today, because under the mediation of Bi Ke's best efforts, Norma, an eighth-level illusionist who had observed Al for almost a year, agreed to formally teach Al, and Al offered Norma 800 gold coins per month for the treatment of supporting the family mage.
Since Brut got the order from the special forces of the Imperial Military Department, the net income of the pharmaceutical workshop is now about fifteen thousand gold coins per month. In addition to nutritional medicines, there are other medicines that are used by Al as an assembly line for the daily needs of the army, such as physical strength agents to relieve fatigue for soldiers who train a large number of soldiers every day, military ointments to stop bleeding and restore wounds, military antidotes, etc. These ordinary potions are very cheap, a dozen silver coins to more than two dozen silver coins. But it is better in large quantities and stable demand.
Al and Bico split 40,000 of them equally every month. Except for the newly bought house and the large number of various ingredients needed to recover in the past half a year, Al basically didn't spend much money, and it was more than enough to support an eighth-level mage.
Although the two sides took what they needed, they did not establish a mentor-apprentice relationship. Norma is a half-elf, and her school is elven mysteries, and it is not allowed to teach them privately, otherwise the legendary beautiful and proud elves may come to her door. And most of Norma's spells rely on the power of the elven bloodline, and Al can't learn it even if he teaches it.
Al still has a great respect for Norma, and holds each other with the etiquette of an apprentice. What he needed was knowledge, a stepping stone to move forward, not those indifferent spells.
That's why Norma is willing to teach Al. Respectful and thirsty for knowledge, studious and clear-eyed, he is a true pioneer in the pursuit of magic. Without the bad habits of the rich people of the privileged class, they get along very happily.