Chapter 504: Heraldry
On a main road outside the city of Modena in the province of Faren of the Ya'an Empire, a luxurious carriage was heading towards the north gate of the city of Modena, and several ordinary carriages were clustered around this luxurious carriage.
On the periphery of the convoy were more than a dozen cavalrymen in uniform and carrying various magical energy guns around them, looking around vigilantly.
"Who is it?" On the main road into the city of Modena, there were soldiers of the defense regiment of the city of Modena to set up a blockade to stop it, and now when they saw the convoy approaching slowly, more than a dozen soldiers immediately stepped forward to stop the convoy.
Seeing that his convoy had been stopped, a man immediately rushed out from the dozen or so cavalrymen guarding the convoy.
The cavalryman held his head high, sat steadily on his horse, and condescendingly said to the soldiers who were blocking: "My name is Abram, I am the captain of the guard of the Prand family, and behind me are the family members of the Count of Prand, now we are going to the city of Modena to do business, please give way!"
The soldier who blocked the road frowned, he had never heard of the name of Count Plant, and he didn't know whether what the other party said was true or false, after all, there were thousands of nobles in the empire, and he was just an ordinary company leader of the city defense regiment of Modena, and it was impossible to know all the nobles.
At most, he knew the nobility of the Modena region covered by the city of Modena, and he was completely unaware of the more distant noble families.
Of course, the captain of the company didn't want to offend the other party, but he didn't dare to let the other party into the city easily. Once something goes wrong, dismissal and investigation are all trivial matters, and it is not impossible to seriously lose one's own life.
After a moment's hesitation, the captain turned around and whispered a few words to a soldier behind him, who nodded and ran towards the city of Modena.
After instructing his subordinates, the captain turned around and said, "If you are indeed a family member of the nobles, please show the family's noble coat of arms and the corresponding documents, we need to verify it!"
"In addition, if all of you want to enter the city, you must register, including your number, the number of weapons, etc., by the way, the people in your carriage also need to come out and register!"
"What?!, how dare you ask the Purland family to be inspected by you?" said Abram, the captain of the Purland family's guard, angrily.
"I'm sorry, but it's our duty!" Although the company commander of the defense regiment of Modena City was afraid of offending the nobles, if it was only a mere captain of the guard, it would not make him bow his head, so he was not afraid of the other party's threat.
Abram was about to say something, but suddenly a voice came from behind him: "Okay Abram, the form has been more severe recently, and this captain is also his duty, so let's not embarrass him." โ
The company commander of the defense regiment of the city of Modena followed the sound and saw a man dismounting from the most luxurious carriage in the convoy and slowly walking towards them.
The visitor wore a two-cornered hat and a black velvet jacket with a blue-black striped silk waistcoat inside, a white shirt with frilled cuffs inside the waistcoat, a pair of satin breeches of the same color as the waistcoat, and a pair of black leather shoes on his feet.
Although he is tall, he does not give people a dull feeling, on the contrary, he has an inexplicable temperament.
Even if the company commander of the defense regiment of the city of Modena did not know the value of this dress, he could see that each one was expensive.
Seeing the comer, Abram pursed his lips and said, "Understood, Lord Barron!"
"Hello, my name is Barron, and I am the butler of the Plant family, and I am very happy to meet you!" Barron took off his double-horned hat and put it on his chest and bowed slightly: "I don't know your name yet, captain?"
The company commander of the defense regiment of the city of Modena is a big man among ordinary people, but when facing a nobleman, and he is also a big noble butler like the count, he is nothing at all.
He could ignore the captain of the noble guard, but as the nobleman's most loyal and trusted butler, he could not ignore it.
Now the butler of the Earl's family actually saluted himself, which made the company commander of the defense regiment of Modena City blushed instantly, and hurriedly returned a military salute and said: "My name is Agafรณn, and I am the company commander of the sixth company of the defense regiment of Modena City. โ
"Captain Agaphon, this is the coat of arms and supporting documents of the Prand family, please take a look at it first. Barron took out a knight's coat of arms in the shape of a shield and a quarter of a palm's weight from his bosom, along with the corresponding proof, and handed it to Agaphon.
Receiving the shield-shaped noble coat of arms from Barron's hand, Agaphon took a closer look at it, and the shield coat of arms made of pure gold was divided into two pieces, the left side was the color of the gold itself as the background, and the right side was painted black with special paint.
In the center of the coat of arms on a gold-black background, a strange-looking creature is engraved, and the gold background is the head of an eagle, and the forelimbs under the skull are also two sharp eagle talons.
But on the black background, the pattern changes to three bloodthirsty vipers with their fangs exposed, the hooves of a goat underneath the viper, and the body of a lion connecting the head and tail of the eagle.
Even if Agaphon didn't know much about heraldry, he felt that such a unique heraldic pattern was very easy to recognize, and if someone pretended to be, he would not choose such an easily recognizable noble coat of arms.
"Captain, I'm back!" At this moment, the soldier who had just been sent out by Agaphon ran back, followed by an old man.
"Master Picheno, I'm sorry to make you make a long trip, I need to trouble you to identify it this time......" Agaphon first gave a military salute to the old man, and then turned to Barron and said, "I don't know much about heraldry, so I invited Master Picheno." โ
"Master Piceno is our master of heraldry in the city of Modena, and he has the most say in the area of noble heraldry, so please understand that the determination of your status will be decided by Master Piceno. โ
"It's okay!" Barron said with a smile.
While Barron was talking to Agaphon, Master Piceno had already read Baron's coat of arms and proof several times, and only after a half-ring did he say, "The creature on this coat of arms must be some kind of variant of Chimera." โ
"The head of the eagle and the talon represent the noble spirit, the body of the lion represents courage, the hooves of the goat represent the victor, and the three snake heads at the end represent wisdom, intrigue, and fear!"