Some time must be saved as much as possible, but there is also some time that needs to be used as much as possible.

Xiao Yan thought of all this when he was talking to Salusli, the high priest of the griffons, in the griffon city-state. It's a dueling world, fighting for control of the Holy Grail, not simply time. Even if you enter this trial world by 10,000 years first, or expel all the other competitors from the field, it still doesn't make sense to not get the Holy Grail. This also means that a race against time will not solve the problem, and the first thing to consider in order to win is enough information. What Xiao Yan lacks now is a suitable source of information, or rather, a solid base.

With a solid base, he can calmly get all kinds of information, teammates, Holy Grails, opponents, etc. Just walking around like a grass patrol seems to be able to roam the whole of Europe quickly, but in the end you get nothing.

It was with this in mind that Xiao Yan stopped in Linz. The delay of more than ten days here is not a waste, on the contrary, now is the beginning of his real integration into this world.

In the past, when Xiao Yan participated in the Trial World Realm, he never regarded himself as a member of this World Realm, so he had always been above those Trial World Realms. However, this Duel World Realm is very different from the Trials World Realm, and the goal of keeping the Holy Grail for a period of time contains a condition in itself, that is, the person who owns the Holy Grail must get along well with the surrounding environment, including humans. In other words, it must be integrated into this worldly realm.

With these in mind, Xiao Yan was not in a hurry to send the two little girls to Stuttgart. Instead, it stopped in Linz. He hoped to find an ally in Linz. Make it easier for him to have his own base. This makes it easier to get more information.

Linz was chosen over Stuttgart because of the escalating tensions between Munich and Stuttgart. Xiao Yan didn't intend to really participate in the struggle of the royal family when he came to this world, especially before he was sure what the scale of this duel would be, getting involved in a legendary right and wrong had already given Xiao Yan a headache, and he didn't want to be attacked by the enemy at that time.

It's sometimes good to have a talkative adventurer like Lehman around, as long as you can put him in the right place. In just a few days, Xiao Yan had already learned a lot about this place in the tavern in Linz. Even those anecdotes in the castle of the lords of Linz, Xiao Yan knew a little.

When the lord's army reached their temporary base and scattered, Xiao Yan knew that the perfect time to visit Count Sakov had arrived.

He knew that we had griffons, and that we might pretend to be nothing, but that wasn't really the case in his heart. He would panic, be anxious, and be suspicious, afraid that we were an army sent by the Emperor. All this will make our conversation much easier. The premise is that we know what he really wants. And now. I happen to know this. ”

Xiao Yan said this to Sylvia, who was dressing him, and the female vampire was no longer wearing her holy choir clothes, but a simple dress. After checking Xiao Yan's coat, Sylvia held Norel with one hand, and Xiao Yan hugged Leah, and by their side, Hannibal, who had finally escaped from Leah's clutches, ran happily.

It's a very beautiful picture that looks like a family is on a pleasant outing. However, this kind of outing required Xiao Yan to walk a long way, because Linz's horses did not dare to approach the location of their temporary estate. The griffons' breath was enough to make the horses limp and immobile from miles away. Therefore, Lehman, who had been transformed into a groom, could only wait for a long distance in the carriage that he had purchased temporarily. The carriage looked a little shabby, but it was the best in condition that could be found on the market in Linz. The better carriages were either in the hands of Byzantine merchants or the Holy Roman nobles who used Linz as a transit point.

In the carriage, Leah tore her collar a little unhappily, and the baroque girl's dress wrapped her tightly, making her look like a doll. Of course, for Xiao Yan, Leah is indeed a "foreign" doll. However, this restraint made Leah less comfortable. After so many days of madness outside, even flying on the back of a griffin for a whole day, the well-informed Leah has turned into a wild child.

Nolelle glared at his sister and said, "Leah, don't do this, don't disgrace Palin. ”

Leah turned her head to look at Xiao Yan who was holding her, grinned, and then turned over suddenly, from kneeling on Xiao Yan's lap to standing on Xiao Yan's lap, the youngest girl stretched out her fat little hand and touched Xiao Yan's face, and said, "Beard, Palin, beard." ”

Xiao Yan touched his face and asked, "Do you like beards?" ”

Leah nodded vigorously and said, "The beard is good, the beard is good." ”

For the aesthetics of the Middle Ages, Xiao Yan could only smile, the surface of this face was a mask, if there was no beard on the mask, there was no way for him to grow a beard. So his face kept a blue surface, as if it had just been shaved. This should feel very good in modern times, but in the Middle Ages, it looked a lot more different.

"Didn't there be a razor in the Middle Ages?"

Xiao Yan asked Sylvia in Chinese, and Sylvia responded, "There is no razor with a three-layer blade." ”

The Young Awoken nodded, and said a few more casual words to Sylvia, and after about an hour, Lehman said outside the carriage, "Your lord, the Earl's Castle has arrived. ”

Xiao Yan nodded, jumped out of the carriage with Leah in his arms, and turned his head to look at the castle in front of him, although it was not magnificent, but it had some other feelings. There is no spire of Tobel Castle that is full of words struggling to the sky, and perhaps because of the Danube, the castle cannot be built too high, with only 3 or 4 floors in total. However, the castle stretches as far as possible along the Danube, so it is now very wide. Only the central tower of the castle has a cross erected on it. Moreover, the height and size of the cross are too insignificant for the whole castle complex, and it is not known whether this represents the devotion of the castle owner to the Lord, or for some other reason.

Compared to the heavily guarded situation of Tobel City, this lord of Linz seemed much more approachable, at least Xiao Yan could see that the gate of the first castle was always open, and between the first and second parapets, it was not a place for knights to train, but a place for those big deals.

Seeing Xiao Yan dragging his family down, those big businessmen subconsciously glanced at this side, and the businessmen paid more attention to the image of a stranger like Xiao Yan. As Sylvia jumped out of the carriage, the merchants' eyes wandered involuntarily. Although Sylvia also applied the mask, the face of this mask looked very ordinary, but the powerful aura of the female vampire full of confidence was enough to make those merchants feel a completely different feeling. It is an attraction that transcends beauty, and beauty is easy to wither, but Sylvia's momentum shows no signs of withering at all.

As for Norel, who was held in Sylvia's hand, although he looked only eleven or twelve years old now, he also had an indescribable posture. When the two of them walked together, it was difficult for the merchants to take their eyes off. But because of this, the eyes that originally cared about Xiao Yan naturally shifted to Sylvia and them.

The Young Awakened Man walked to the second gate of the castle with Leah, who didn't know when she had fallen asleep, and looked at the guards who were a little nervous, Xiao Yan smiled slightly, and said, "Please inform your earl, I am a lord from the east. I came with a griffon to see if I could find a suitable friend in this place. ”

One of the soldiers, whose face changed when he heard the griffin, stumbled back, and after a few moments, the castle's butler came out. Xiao Yan didn't know any aristocratic etiquette, and he didn't think about learning these red tape things, and the young awakened man calmly couldn't choose his own name, and then counted the Himalayas as his own territory, but the name was replaced by the Hilaire Mountains.

The butler didn't know anything about the Hilaire Mountains or the Himalayas, and although he didn't know any aristocratic etiquette, he spoke fluent Latin, and finally asked Xiao Yan to wait for a while, and then went in to report it.

After a few more minutes, the owner of the castle finally agreed to Xiao Yan's request and met the lord of the East who had come from afar in the castle's study.

Xiao Yan hugged Leah and casually followed the cautious butler into the spacious study. It's a veritable study, and paper is everywhere in Tobel City, where it is not yet fully popular. Trading with the Byzantines allowed Linz to become wealthy, and at the same time to enjoy the benefits of advanced technology earlier.

Looking at the gray-haired Count Sakov in front of him, Xiao Yan didn't care if the housekeeper had left, whether the woman who looked like her skin had become rough but was still looking here stayed in the study. The Young Awakened Man got straight to the point and said, "Well, Lord Earl, I don't have much time, so I'll make a long story short. I know what you need, and what you need coincides with mine. I need to find an ally, are you interested? ”

Count Sakov was not dissatisfied with Xiao Yan's words, and he calmly asked: "First of all, you have to tell me, what do I need?" ”

"You need to live, live for a long time." (To be continued......)