Candle Castle, a gathering place of knowledge perched on a high cliff overlooking the sea, is a typical fortress-type castle with thick walls and towers, it is located at the very top of the cliff near the sea, surrounded by the sea on three sides, with only a rugged path leading to the main entrance of the castle.

As a gathering place of knowledge, Candle Castle has an interesting rule, they are not subject to city taxes, but every foreign traveler who enters Candle Castle must pay a book. And anyone who wanted to transcribe material or conduct research in the Great Library of the Candlestick had to provide Candlestick with a new book, and the value of the book had to be evaluated by the Candlestick's shrewd guards.

Since Dugufeng and the others came to Candle Castle to check the information, they naturally had already prepared, and after paying the book as a ticket, they easily entered Candle Castle.

The Candle Castle is a very large castle, and after passing through a thick wall, the first thing everyone sees is a beautiful garden.

Although it is not carefully tended, the natural vines and countless colorful wildflowers make this old and old castle beautiful. Delicate roses, blooming moon flowers, slender leaves with beautiful silver-gray stone leaves, and creepers crawling all over the castle's inner walls add a lot of late spring to this castle.

The interior of the castle resembles a small town, and in addition to the main body of the castle, which is surrounded by nine towers, there are also a number of other buildings scattered between the thick outer walls and the beautiful gardens inside the castle. They have inns for visitors, as well as the castle's own stables, barns, warehouses, hospitals, and temples to Ogmar, the Lord of Knowledge, and several of his servants.

Candle Fort is an important stronghold of the gods of the knowledge god system on the mainland, and naturally there are powerful armed forces stationed here. However, the organizational structure of Candlecastle is quite complex and interesting. Its supreme leader is known as the Keeper of the Scroll, and the deputy of the Guardian of the Scroll is known as the First Reader, the second in command of the Candle Castle, and is traditionally the most knowledgeable sage in this monastery. Below the first reader, there are eight great readers, each of whom is in charge of a tall tower and is responsible for the day-to-day affairs. The assistant of the great reader is the bard, who, under the leadership of the beater reader, constantly sings hymns in praise of Arlando's prophecy.

The readers and chanters are the guides and gatekeepers, who are in charge of the security of the castle and are always ready to carry out the tasks assigned by the keepers and readers of the scrolls, and they are also responsible for communicating with visitors, and they are the group that usually deals with the visitors of Candlecaste. In addition to this, the clergy serving the gods of knowledge in the Candle Castle were revered as an honorable task, but were not counted as part of the monastic institution.

It is not the first time for Dugu Feng to come to Candle Castle, so he is very familiar with the road. Candle Castle has nine towers that contain books, and except for the one in the middle, the other eight towers are controlled by eight great readers, and anyone who enters the tower can visit it at will and look through its materials. As for the secret materials held in the Central Tower, they are only entitled to access them after being adjudicated by the Guardian of the Volume and the First Reader.

The current Keeper of the Candlestick is Ullanth, an eccentric soothsayer and polymath with a bitter personality and a ruthless mouth that is difficult to deal with unless you have some unique knowledge and are willing to share it with him.

"Hey, Sister Aelita! You're here too! ”

According to the rules of Candle Castle, every person who enters Candle Castle to check information will be equipped with a guide, and Dugu Feng's guide is exactly someone who knows her.

The person who spoke to Dugufeng was a little girl with pink hair, she had a beautiful face, a small body, and looked as cute and dexterous as a cat.

"Oh, it's Aemon! You're starting to be a facilitator too! ”

Of course, Dugu Feng knew this little girl, she was Ammon, one of the two sons of Baal secretly raised in Candlecastle by the Harper's League, and in the original Baldur's Gate game, she was the sister of the protagonist Aberdell. When Dugufeng came to Candle Castle a few times ago, he had some contacts with her, and they were not strangers to each other.

"Hehe, only when you are a guide can you get money!"

Ammon stuck out his tongue and said without hesitation: "Everything is good in the candle castle, but there is no copper plate in your pocket!" ”

Although they are the sons of Baal, Aemon and Aberdell's nominal adoptive father is just an ordinary low-level mage, and the two little ones have not received special preferential treatment in the growth of Candlekee, and like most of the apprentices in Candlekee, they have to train, study, and participate in the daily work of the castle, and their lives are hard and poor.

However, thanks to the system of Fort Candle, they were able to earn some tips by acting as guides for outsiders.

"Sister Aelita, let me be your guide!"

Aimeng knew that Dugufeng was a rich man with a lot of money, so he did not hesitate to choose Dugufeng as his service object.

Of course, she didn't forget to sell her companion, pointing to a young man wearing an apprentice's robe, with a delicate appearance and a somewhat pale face, and said, "This is my companion Sebasta!" He's our most knowledgeable apprentice at Candle Castle, and whatever you're looking for, he'll find it quickly! And Sebasta is a very powerful mage, he is now a level 3 mage, if you have information or magic that needs to be copied, as long as the level is not too high, he can help copy, and the price can be discounted! ”

The Candlestick stipulates that all visitors may stay in the Candlestick for ten days at a time, but cannot re-enter for one month after leaving. Visitors are only allowed to read, not to copy in the library, and can only pay to ask the monks here to copy copies for you. As for the price of copying, a normal copy costs 100 gold coins, while copying a spell book or a copy of a spell book with spells, spell formulas, or an introduction to spell rituals, spell protection, mantras, and similar content is 10,000 gold per copy.

The young man who was introduced by Ammon took the initiative looked to be about fifteen or sixteen years old, about the same age as the little wizard from the Netherworld City and the young holy warrior, his appearance was very delicate, and he seemed to have some celestial blood, but his face was a little pale and bloodless, as if he had not seen the sun for many years.

"My lord, I salute you."

Sebasta bowed politely, although he was not very old, but he showed a kind of aristocratic etiquette and temperament.

"Oh, another brilliant young man!"

Looking at the polite Sebasta, the corners of Ms. Veria Loren's mouth couldn't help but turn up slightly, and a smile escaped. A young and unique teenager like this has met many since she came to the main material world. This boy is a celestial descendant, although there is nothing unique about him other than the bloodline of the mastiff-headed divine envoy. But Veria Roland noticed that Dugu Feng's gaze paused when she looked at him, and after so much time with Dugu Feng, she was already familiar with some of the small actions of this killing princess, and this pause meant that she seemed to see something different from this young man.

Therefore, she said with great interest: "You will be my guide!" It just so happened that I was looking up some materials and needed a guide who was familiar with the library. ”

"We'll be happy to serve you, ma'am!"

Sebasta's attitude is neither humble nor arrogant, very decent, and mature does not look like a teenager.

For this little episode, except for Dugufeng and Ms. Vilia Roland, everyone else didn't care much. The little wizard from the Ghost City was still immersed in the shock of the news he got from Dugu Feng not long ago, he originally came to Candle Castle to inquire about the information of the great lich Lavok, since he accidentally learned about Lavok's hermitage from Dugu Feng, then his main purpose of coming to Candle Castle had been completed in advance.

Now, all he's left to do is learn some new spells with the help of Candlekeep's library - he's leveled up as a mage on his adventure out of Netherworld, but unfortunately he hasn't had time to learn new spells. However, he wasn't familiar with the rules of Candlekee, didn't know the cost of copying magic in Candlekee, and didn't realize the benefits of choosing a mage apprentice like Sebasta as his guide, so he didn't care much.

As for the other maiden paladin of the Lord of Justice, she kept an eye on Amon as soon as she appeared. Her abnormality was so obvious that Shiki, who had always been unresponsive, couldn't help but look at her curiously, secretly wondering if she was a girl who liked women like Nilou like her.

Dugu Feng saw all this in his eyes, and couldn't help but smile secretly in his heart. She naturally understood the reason why the young paladin behaved abnormally, because both of them were the sons of Baal who carried the murderous divinity, and in a sense, they were also brothers and sisters with the same father. It's just that compared to Ammon's ignorance, the girl Holy Warrior, who has gathered nearly one-fifth of Baal's divinity, knows her identity, so she has a very complicated feeling in the face of the son of Baal with the same identity.

However, although the maiden paladin saw the identity of the son of Ammonbar, he did not realize that the boy named Sebasta was also the son of Baal with the god of killing.

"The fog of war that obscures fate? With so many gods intervening in this killing game, it's getting more and more interesting. ”

Looking at the young man who led Ms. Vilia Roland away, Dugufeng couldn't help but smile lightly. The boy named Sebasta was clearly shielded from his presence by a powerful deity, and unless the avatar of the gods was personally in front of him, he could not see through his murderous divinity hidden by the mist.

And this boy is not simply passively inherited the killing divinity, he even began to actively digest his own divinity, and now the Baal brand in the killing divinity on his body is getting weaker and weaker, or it won't be long before he will completely turn into his own divinity, I have to say, this is a very gifted and talented teenager.