The titles of the Magic Continent can be divided into three main categories.

One is the royal title, which is given to members of the royal family or the highest nobles, such as a princess, or a divided principality. One is the rank of nobility, which is given to ordinary nobles, and it is a hereditary system. The third type is the merit title, which is given to people who have made significant contributions to the empire, and the empire has relaxed the conditions for obtaining the third type of nobility in order to attract talents. For example, swordsmen who have advanced to the "Great Sword Master" and mages who have advanced to the "Great Mage" will get the most basic "Baron" status after declaring their allegiance to the Empire.

Whether it is to learn martial arts or magic, it takes a lot of money, which causes most of the great swordsmen or great magicians to carry their own titles above the barons.

For example, Rachel's father, Count Lorenz.

The Lorenz family is a hereditary nobleman, and Rachel's mother was born into a commoner family, because of her outstanding magical talent, she obtained the status of a baron after advancing to the rank of great magician, and only then did she overcome the barrier that nobles and commoners were not allowed to intermarry and became the Countess of Lorenz.

In the heyday of the Lorenz family, a small half of the estate in the city of the Rhine belonged to this behemoth.

The Champagne Boulevard, where Liu Ci's current residence is located, used to belong to the Lorenz family, but now it has changed hands several times and has been dismantled and sold. Because the Lorenz family, which has been hereditary for hundreds of years, was arrested by the empire for "treason" as early as six years ago, and without a public trial, the Lorentz family was deprived of its hereditary nobility for hundreds of years, and all the main figures in the clan were sentenced to hanging.

The light of treason not only directly led to the silence of the Lorenz family in the Rhine, but the residents of the Rhine are still silent about the family's past six years later.

The reliefs of the Lorenz family's iconic roses have been erased, the castle where Rachel lived as a child has been sealed, and no one even dares to take over the once majestic castle on charges of treason.

Rachel's old home still has no owner, and she can sneak in at any time if she wants to.

The residence is still there, but the home is gone.

On the fifth day of his stay in the Rhine, Liu Ci found out that the disappearance of the Lorenz family was limited to these superficial rumors.

What is the truth, Liu Ci can only guess that it has something to do with the Holy See's search for the "Demon Star".

The function of the Mage Tower between the Lorenz family is too rebellious, and it is also possible that the Spur Kingdom wants to snatch the ancient Mage Tower belonging to the Rachel family.

Rachel didn't comment on that.

After learning what happened to the Lorentz family, the little girl became more and more silent, wearing a hood and living in seclusion, locking herself in her room and often forgetting to eat.

Liu Ci originally thought about whether to certify the "Great Sword Master", get the most basic baron in the Spur Country, and buy a few pieces of land as a backing to become a manor owner. The Rachel family has been a great nobleman for hundreds of years, and he will kill him when he says he will kill under the power, and Liu Ci suddenly feels that it is not so safe to be a nobleman.

On the contrary, after listening to Lydia's talk, she had a good impression of the town of Gase, the destination that the group was going to reach.

The town of Gasai is an important town bordering the Morok Mountains in the country of Xiyi, and it is no worse than the city of the Rhine in terms of prosperity. Moreover, because of its proximity to the Moroch Mountains, no nobles were willing to add fields outside the town, and there were large tracts of fertile land on the buffer zone between the city walls and the Moroch Mountains.

Since they don't have to pay taxes, many of the poor people in the town have ventured to farm in the unnulled land outside the town, and the annual harvest is not bad in the years when there is no monster scourge.

Uncle Sam's family business is in the town of Gasai, and although he is grateful to Liu Ci for saving him, he still bid farewell to Liu Ci a few days later.

Liu Ci not only didn't stop him, but also gave him a small bag of gold coins, which was enough for him to take the car all the way back to Xiyi Kingdom.

The old guide got into the carriage returning to his hometown, Liu Ci only said "the coming day is long", and Sam understood and didn't care much about her.

Lydia deserves to be the somewhat silly female captain she fancies.

After much deliberation, she gave up on the idea of returning to Gasai Town to reorganize the adventure team, and instead decided to follow Liu Ci.

The only requirement was to send George to the Academy of Magic to continue his studies.

It takes a lot of money to train a great magician, but Liu Ci is not stingy with this investment. Gold coins are easy to obtain, loyalty is hard to find, she has spent so much effort on Lydia and the others, and Liu Ci will not give up if she does not charge double the return.

As for Arnold, the former mercenary big man is still swinging.

Liu Ci had already seen that he was also a mess in Lydia's team, and he couldn't talk about any allegiance, and a few favors were not what Arnold urgently needed. It is not easy to gain Arnold's loyalty, and Liu Cimo's status as a "great sword master" is not enough to make this silent man bow his head...... She needs to be invested, and people like Arnold seem to be indifferent, and once they are loyal to someone, they are the least likely to betray.

She still has time, not in a hurry.

Originally, she just wanted to travel around the continent leisurely, but the conversation with the silver wolf before leaving the Moloch Mountains gave her a faint sense of crisis in her heart. The encounter with Rachel and the fate of the Lorentz family deepened the sense of crisis...... If one day it was confirmed that she was the "magic star" that the Holy See was looking for, Liu Ci didn't want to have time to flee to the Moroch Mountains.

There was a vague plan in his heart, but the specific outline was not very clear, so Liu Ci put the matter aside for the time being.

18 Champagne Avenue is the apartment that Liu Ci bought newly.

It took a whole week to renovate the small building, and the garden originally planted with tulips was plucked out by Liu Ci and the old housekeeper James. Her house, of course, has to be based on her own aesthetics.

Don't think about growing grain on a large scale, the lotus pond space is full of wheat, corn, soybeans, sweet potatoes and yams and other miscellaneous grains, and it will not be empty for a while.

The newly opened garden was paved with gravel roads, vines were erected, and James had stone tables and chairs brought back, and the professional butler was intimate.

You can't grow staple foods, you can grow some seasonal vegetables.

Liu Ci took out the vegetable seeds he was carrying and asked someone to open up a vegetable patch in a remote part of the garden. Ginger and shallots are a necessary condiment, she doesn't like to eat garlic, cabbage, loofah, cucumber, radish, and potatoes are also common vegetables in the Magic Continent, the maids are very strong in housekeeping, and it is a layman to grow vegetables, and the old housekeeper James hired a gardener to come back and manage it.

Grow flowers and vegetables...... It can be regarded as the same source, anyway, Liu Ci will water the lotus pond water for vegetables in private.

There are also common Chinese herbs that Liu Ci has cultivated in the Molok Mountains for several years and have been domesticated by Reiki.

She asked the housekeeper to buy back the fruit tree seedlings, the garden full of tulips in name only, in Liu Ci's aesthetic point of view, the invited gardener has the ability to plan such a complex variety into a garden.

The two extra gold coins she paid each month for this were worth the money.

The housekeeper at 18 Champagne Avenue was busy every day, transporting saplings, stone tables, and changing decorations in the house, which attracted the attention of other residents of Champagne Avenue.

Whether it's a declining aristocrat who is holding on to his face, or a businessman who has exploded, they are all waiting for an invitation from Apartment Eighteen.

A well-prepared banquet will allow the owner of Apartment 18 to quickly integrate into the social circle of the same class.

The line between aristocrats and merchants is blurred on the Champagne Avenue, and the people who live here are either reeling in the waning glory of their families or lamenting the disparity of status and wealth, and they are far more in need of a revelry than in the rest of the Rhine.

James, a competent butler, had already vaguely reminded Liu Ci of the banquet problem.

Liu Ci let go and let him prepare.

James inquired in detail about Liu Ci's requirements for jewelry and clothes, and the master and servant, who complemented each other, did not reach a consensus on this.

Rhine City has recently become popular with retro court style, the upper body is naked and close-fitting, and the lower body is layered with layers of skirts, Liu Ci feels that she must be overwhelmed if she wears that kind of clothes.

In terms of tidying up, Liu Ci used to wear all kinds of classical hairpins and hairpins, mostly using gold and silver as the main materials, or jade, coral, etc., unfortunately, gold and silver are only circulating currency in the magic continent, and few people use them as women's headdresses.

Not to mention jade, no one likes it at all in the Magic Continent.

The aesthetics of the other world is flamboyant and extremely gorgeous, Liu Ci received the traditional education of ancient China in his bones, and naturally loves the warm jade.

James looked at her with a strange look, Liu Ci didn't want to even change his aesthetic habits, and he wouldn't have to completely abandon his original self if he followed the local customs.

Fortunately, there are also "pearl jewelry" that Liu Ci and upper-class women from other worlds like to see, and they finally don't see people barenecked.

As for the tailor hired by James, under Liu Ci's money offensive, how can there be any discipline for the sake of customers.

Liu Ci drew the picture and threw them away for their own research, and sent the tailors out under James's disapproving stereotyped face.

Before the banquet began, Liu Ci felt that Rachel's breath of anger was really going to cause a big problem if it wasn't vented.

After the candlelight on Champagne Avenue went out, Liu Ci knocked on Rachel's door.

The expression hidden under the hood was probably even more indifferent than it had been in the Moroch Mountains, after all, Rachel was not sure that her parents had both died, and now that hope was completely shattered.

Regardless of Rachel's displeasure, Liu Ci took her out the door.

The two of them walked silently down the dark streets, and the whole of the Rhine was quiet, except for the taverns in the ghetto that were open all night.

Liu Ci pasted a magic talisman for each of them, evaded the guards guarding the city, and walked to the eastern suburbs with Rachel.

On the outskirts of the city in May, large fields of wheat are already golden and ready to be harvested.

The undulating wheat waves dot the scattered flat-roofed low houses that were the residences of slaves on the aristocratic estates.

A dozen miles away is a tall building, which is the castle where the Lorenz family has lived for hundreds of years. Once left unmaintained, the centuries-old castle fell into decay quickly, and Rachel's shoulders trembled in the face of the "home" she grew up in, and her eyes were nostalgic and greedy.

Pointing to a withered vine in the garden, she said, "It used to be all roses. ”

Not just one place, the whole of Lorentz Fort is a sea of roses, after the Lorenz family was convicted, all the imprints of the Lorentz family in the city were erased, and these roses hid in the corner, and could not grow in a grand manner.

Liu Ci pointed to the charred rose vine and said angrily: "You know best whether the Lorenz family has treason, you are willing to live in Tibet without a name and surname for the rest of your life, or have some pursuits, one day you will appear in Rhine City with the full name of 'Rachel Cappado Lorenz', you can choose for yourself!" ”

If a person's back is bent first, how can the rest of the world look up to you?

Liu Ci has a domineering temperament and naturally doesn't like people with cowardly personalities. The sun and the moon are eternal, and the stars cannot ensure immortality, let alone a family. There is a decline and a boom, and he lives a lifeless life at a young age, Liu Ci really wants to send Rachel back to the Moroch Mountains, out of sight and out of mind.

was scolded by Liu Ci pointing at her nose, and Rachel's shoulders shook even more.

Liu Ci was very disappointed in her cowardice, no matter how young Rachel looked, in fact she was eighteen years old and should take her own responsibility. Not to mention whether you can take revenge, your parents died inexplicably, at least you have to investigate the truth of the year.

Rachel's shoulders twitched, and there was a thin sobbing sound under her hood.

Liu Ci turned around and wanted to leave, but Rachel unexpectedly reached out and grabbed her sleeve:

"Liu Ci, teach me, what do I have to do, these flowers will ...... Open again? ”