Chapter 5: The Castle
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Because if you abandon your status as a free man, it will be difficult to gain trust even if you become a knight in the future, and who will trust a person who has no past?
But even if he still went to deliver the letter, he couldn't go empty-handed like this, Setta's eyes rolled to look at the archdemon who was lying on the ground and had died completely, and the corners of his mouth turned slightly:
It's a nice gift!
He walked over and drew his long sword, and in a flash of the sword, he cut off his head, wrapped it in a cloth and carried it on his back;
The Great Demon is equivalent to a human level 5 knight, which is a great feat, and combined with the fact that he has become a level 5 knight, if he is lucky, he is likely to be canonized as a civilian knight directly;
Even if it is not hereditary and there is no fiefdom, it is a good starting point;
And the Martin family, which has lost the power of knights, will no longer be an obstacle to themselves;
Let's rest here tonight, and set off early tomorrow morning, Seta thought, according to his memory, he should be able to reach Finn Castle at 3 or 4 p.m.;
Go back to the boulder where you have just taken refuge, clear a small clearing, and the last thing missing in the woods is a pile of branches to gather and light the fire;
Sparks, sparks, campfires, and fires slowly become stronger:
"Huh~" sat down cross-legged, rested the long sword on his lap, took out dry food and roasted it on the fire;
This dry food is still prepared before rebirth, and it naturally doesn't taste good after a long time, but it will still taste better when it is roasted over the fire, and slowly a fragrance of food comes out:
Eating hot dry food, feeling the slight warmth from the fire, I gradually fell asleep
The woods slowly fell silent, except for the occasional birdsong in the distance:
"Ahh
"Ah~"、、、、、、
The morning sun shone through the layers of branches and imprinted on his face, and Seta slowly opened his eyes, and stood up to move his body, which had been stiff after a long night of sitting:
"Ge~Ballast!"
The morning air was slightly cool, and Seta patted her face to look at the fire that had been extinguished, and took out a few bites of the dry food she had eaten last night;
Stand up and tie the sword carefully to your back with a belt, and take a deep breath of cool air with your waist in your waist.
Every time a calamity erupts, the fog becomes much thicker;
But now that the sun is suppressing during the day, Seta has become better when he walks out of the woods and looks at the blue sky;
If you had horses, you could have reached the castle by noon, but now it is much slower on foot;
At noon, Seta ate dry food by a brook;
This world is very similar to the Middle Ages in Europe on Earth, where only two meals a day were eaten, and even many poor people ate only one meal, but Seta had the habit of eating three meals a day for more than twenty years in his previous life;
Finally arrived at Finn Castle in the afternoon;
It was a well-equipped feudal manor house with its own blacksmith shop, garment shop, bakery, tavern, herb shop, and even a chapel!
Even standing outside the manor, Seta could see the tall stone castle, with few small windows on it, and it must be uncomfortable to live in, too dark and damp;
But it was a symbol of a powerful aristocracy, because it would take a lot of money and more than ten years to build such a stone castle;
Outside the manor is a low stone wall, the cracks of the wall are crawling with moss, although the stone wall is not high, but with the guards, there is also a certain defensive force;
With two town guards guarding the door, Seta stepped forward:
"I am the messenger of the knight's wife, and I have an urgent matter to report to the knight, and this is a letter from the knight's wife," said Seta before the guards could react;
"Wait a minute!" the guard looked at the brown blood stains on his body vigilantly, took the paperwork, and separated one of them and walked inside;
In a short time, the guard returned, and was greeted by a middle-aged man, who was neatly dressed and had a straight face, who looked like a butler, and looked Seta up and down and said:
"Come in, Sir said, you can eat some first, rest a little, and I'll summon you later."
The package and sword were untied from his back, and when the package was opened, the guard screamed and threw the package on the ground;
With screams, several guards rushed forward with spears in hand;
The middle-aged man looked at the contents of the package and was startled at first, waved his hand to stop the impact of the guards, and said in surprise:
"Great Demon?"
Seta stood up straight:
"Yes, sir, I came across a demon squad on the way here, and I killed them, and cut off the head of the great demon," after a pause, he continued:
"It's an honor, after all!"
Seta was satisfied to see that the middle-aged man's stiff face and expression changed, and then returned to normal in an instant;
The middle-aged man stepped forward, ignoring the smell of blood emanating from his skull, and examined it carefully, then he put down his head, stood up and asked:
"Messenger, your name?"
"Setta, Freedmen"
The middle-aged man nodded:
"Mr. Seta, please go inside, please take a shower, and I will have you brought you clean clothes and a sumptuous dinner worthy of your status, and when you are done, the Jazz will summon you"
After saying that, he gave an order, and naturally a servant went in with Seta;
When he got to the kitchen, he boiled the water and poured it into a large wooden barrel, and Seta took off his clothes and jumped in, and soon the water became muddy, which was normal, after all, he was covered with blood and dirt;
I changed another bucket of water to wash my body;
The castle servant brought clean clothes, made of fine linen, fitting his present status as a freeman;
The food is ready, and the smell wafts through the air;
The servant seemed to have been instructed to lead him to the table and sit down at the table when she saw him come in, with potato soup, a large piece of noodles, and even half a sausage;
This is no longer something that ordinary freedmen can eat, it should be a reward for him to kill a demon squad, and Seta has gobbled it up at this time after eating dry food all day;
At this time, one of the rooms of the castle;
Sir Finn touched his beautiful mustache and watched his chief knight take a terrifying head in his hand and look through it:
"How's it going? Carter."
The chief knight, a strong middle-aged man, put his head down at this time, and replied:
"It's true, and the time of death is no more than a day!"
Sir nodded, then turned to the butler again:
"George, what do you think? What is this man, what is his name?"
The middle-aged housekeeper bowed and said:
"His name is Seta, Sir Knight, he's a freeman from Martin Manor, and he looks like a smart man."
Sir Finn nodded, pointed to the open letter on his desk, and said:
"Martin is dead, and this time the catastrophe seems to have changed again, and our previous preparations seem to be insufficient!"
"George, what did the mercenaries say?"
The middle-aged housekeeper bowed and said:
"It's not good, they're asking for too much pay"
"Bump!" slapped on the table:
"These bastards! Bandits! should be hanged!"
At this time, the strong Carter Knight stood up and said:
"Sir, I think we can meet this free man, the big demon is equivalent to a level 5 knight, of course, we all know that low-level demons have no intelligence, and they are much easier to deal with than normal knights"
"But if it's really this demon killed by this free people, he should also be a powerful warrior, at least a level 4 warrior!"
Speaking of this, Knight Carter bowed and saluted:
"Sir, I've always felt that mercenaries are unreliable! These bastards only keep an eye on our money, not how to get things done!"
"You're right, my knight" turned his head:
"George, go see if he's rested, I'm going to see him now, go and bring him over"
The knights of Fein themselves were reluctant to spend a lot of money on mercenaries;
"As you wish, sir"