The cold wind of the night blew on the walls of the old castle from time to time with the sound of whining and rubble, and the old locust trees in the castle courtyard were bare, and all the leaves had fallen off, silently indicting the current season.

On the shriveled branches, a few crows landed on them to comb their feathers, and their little eyes looked at the brightly lit castle from time to time, and occasionally called out, making a terrible and terrifying sound.

Recently, for some reason, there are always traces of crows in the courtyard of Pochi Castle, and the stars generally believe that wild crows are ominous creatures, so the servants in the castle come out every once in a while and chase them away with a fierce face.

However, Alan is still very affectionate with crows, because he once became a crow, although that experience was very bad, but this did not affect his unconsciously love for crows.

"The crow and the mage go well together. ”

Whenever someone mentioned it, he replied like this, some were thoughtful about it, and some scoffed at it.

"I also think Honghu and mage are a good match. While discussing spells, Raphael laughed at Allen.

And Simon, the "tech nerd", as always, maintains the habit of talking as little as possible without nonsense, and does not participate in their boring questions at all, but has been thinking about the release of the mage's hand.

It's been a while since he got this spell, but he hasn't been able to release it, much to Simon's frustration.

It's the equivalent of someone giving you a supercar, which looks so cool that it can't be done, only to find out that the sports car can't open the door without a key...

However, in addition to being depressed, it also made Simon's fighting spirit greatly increased, and the previous processing fee settlement did not attract much attention to him, and he threw the gold coins in the house so casually, and he was not afraid that others would steal them.

He had only one thought in his mind now, to find the "key" or knock on the "car door"

So he agreed to Allen's invitation to enter the castle without the slightest hesitation, because he felt that as a user of this spell, although he didn't know why he was able to cast this spell (which has always been strange to Simon), he would be able to inspire him when he released it.

This question had taken over all of his body and mind, and he had no more to worry about anything else.

Raphael did the same, but it wasn't the spell that mattered to him, but the secret room under the castle and the magic circle in it.

Raphael is a very responsible mage, Elder Momiji asked him to guard this magic circle here, he really lived there diligently, and before Allen's invitation, he even lived in the dark secret room below to repair the magic circle.

Before, because he wanted to rescue Allen, he dismantled most of the magic circle, but now that Allen has escaped, he naturally has to repair the magic circle, although Elder Red Leaf doesn't seem to care much, and he has never even been there, but he can't be careless.

Every day he repaired the circle until late at night, when he was tired, he came up to rest, then discussed the spell with Simon, and then, before the rooster crowed the next day, he returned to the secret room to continue his mission.

Alan will also participate when he has free time, but he has no experience and experience in spell research, and participation is a good saying, but it is actually to go to the side.

The mages have a very serious custom of sweeping up their own treasures, and although they are already familiar with Allen, they will not take the initiative to teach Allen some deeper things, at least not one-on-one.

But this kind of spell exchange is not limited, and Alan can't get systematic knowledge, but listening to the side, the gain is not small.

During the day, he was busy with the affairs of the Gulf, discussing detailed cooperation issues with the goblins, discussing the development of the Gulf with Charles and Fisher, and talking about newspaper offices and military issues with Rowan and Barry.

Some ideas are expected to be good, but in practice it is not so simple, for example, he wants to promote the secret technique of the Free Federation in the mercenary union, the idea is good, to improve the overall strength of the people, for them, for the Gulf, and even for all the citizens, but as soon as this issue is discussed, it is strongly opposed by many people, especially Charles.

The reason was very good, the emperor did not allow it.

The Emperor didn't care if Alan was allowed or not, what he cared about was what the consequences would be for his blatant disobedience to this rule, and it was obvious that he might be attacked by other lords.

This is reasonable, if a lord openly provokes the system of stars, then it is difficult not to be attacked by the group, because the system is not so much customized by His Majesty the Emperor, but by the lords of the stars.

So Allen's idea is a bit of a matter of course, but it's not without a solution - there's no way to openly resist, so it's okay to take a detour.

The seasoned Fisher made a suggestion: "The Star Lords can form their own secret armies, such as Samuel's Hundred Flower Knights, Chrissy's Golden Flame Guards, and the Giant Legion of the White City...... Give mercenaries a supernumerary soldier status, and this rule is self-defeating. ”

This proposal was unanimously agreed, but at the same time, another issue arose.

Eren isn't a true lord yet!

Or rather, he has not yet fully received the officially granted title of lord.

Every nobleman above the earl level can freely allocate his own territory and give it to relatives or friends who are also nobles, so that this person can become a glorious lord, which is the common rule of the stars, and Allen's territory is given by his father.

However, this rule was not approved by the Stars Royalty, at least not on the surface, because the system of arbitrary granting of lords clearly did not take the emperor himself into account—that was supposed to be his authority.

However, the particularity of the stars made the emperor have little temper towards the princes of all walks of life, so this prohibition was only within a certain limit, and many nobles simply ignored the protests of the royal family.

Of course, the emperor is righteous, and ignoring his orders is tantamount to saying that the lordship is flawed, and if someone really wants to hold on to this issue, there is a certain reason.

"So the question in front of us is, should we spread the secret technique first, or should we go to Baicheng first to obtain the emperor's lord award?"

"I think the top priority is to develop the mercenary union first, what good is it for us to spread the secret skills now? ”

Fisher's argument was unanimously agreed again, and the problem was temporarily resolved.

Participated in political affairs during the day, "discussed" spells with Simon and Simon at night, and took care of the moonlight grass that seemed to be about to mature, but it had always been a difficult birth, and obviously passed the "due date", Alan's life in the past few days was extremely fulfilling, so he basically paid little attention to the various strange things that happened in the castle in the past few days.

The cries of the night, the water stored in the kitchen turned as red and viscous as blood, the servants fell inexplicably, the candles went out, the doors opened and closed automatically...

This series of strange things caused a lot of panic among the servants, and it seemed that after discovering the strange death of the servant, countless strange things happened in the castle one after another.

But because this kind of thing is always seen by a few people, most people think that these things are rumors, and they are not very credible, and only some timid servants are afraid of it every day.

But tonight, the bold servants had to believe in the truth of these things—

The moon was bright and the stars were thin, and a terrible scream suddenly appeared from somewhere in the castle, and the crows that landed on the branches also croaked.

The sound of terror mixed with it, startling countless sleeping people in the castle.

"What happened?"

This thought came to their minds.