Chapter 2: The Del Family
The one who shouted Charon was a gray-haired old man, and the old man and an honest middle-aged coachman were standing next to the black carriage, and this scene was not much different from other aristocratic families.
"Master Charon, you have worked hard. The old man and the coachman greeted each other respectfully, and their meticulous movements revealed a strict class character.
"Steward Wall, Mr. Renault. ”
Charon bowed slightly, a look of respect flashed in his eyes, although these two people did not look much different from the other servants of the noble family who came to pick them up, but Charon knew that as long as these two people wanted, they could easily tear apart everyone on this path.
More than a decade ago, flintlock pistols appeared in this world, and even if they were widespread now, in the time it took to pull the trigger, it would be enough for a transcendent to kill a dozen times.
Charon is confident that he can do it himself, and he is just a small knight squire, and he has not yet become an official knight, let alone the unfathomable strength of Wall and Renault. Charon even suspected that the two men would be threatened by thermal weapons, at least with sophisticated heavy weaponry.
This is a world of transcendent oppression of science, and Charon sees infinite possibilities here, and it is not delusional to let the power of the individual override the world, it is possible.
Of course, the current world has also entered a stage similar to the era of the end of the law, all kinds of evolutionary paths have been hindered, fewer and fewer people have embarked on the transcendent path, and it is more and more difficult to advance on the road, so the major transcendent forces have maintained restraint and have not caused large-scale battles, but only secretly local small-scale battles.
Transcendent existence gradually faded out of the sight of ordinary people, and for hundreds of years, most people regarded historical records as exaggerated stories or jokes, and only those who understood could vaguely glimpse the corner of that vast era.
Charon stepped on a small stool and walked into the carriage, and as soon as he entered the carriage, he saw that there was already a person sitting upright in the carriage, "Illya." ”
The girl has long silver hair, ruby eyes, a delicate little nose, and a slight pursed red lips looking at a book, with her noble and inviolable temperament, just like the royal daughter of the royal family.
Illya glanced up at Charon, and with a hum she looked down at her book, completely ignoring her half-brother.
Charon didn't care, and sat directly on the seat on the other side, looking out the window, silently thinking about the use of various sword skills. In his memory, his predecessor and Illya were almost strangers, even more estranged than strangers, and greeting was just a necessary courtesy.
Steward Wall also got into the carriage, he took care of three generations of the Del family, and was fully qualified to be on an equal footing with Charon.
Renault closed the door, turned over and sat in front of the car, raised his whip, and whipped the two black chestnut horses.
The horses rattled their noses and trotted with their stiff hooves, past the carriages on the road, and the groups of ordinary homeschoolchildren walking home.
Compared with the beautiful Illya, Charon is much more ordinary, inheriting the popular face of the Del family, the only thing that is okay is the soft blonde hair, and the extremely rare dark red pupils.
Illya's mother is said to be the head of the Del family, and died more than ten years ago, so the two or three-year-old Illya was taken to the Del family, and Charon's mother died earlier, and died of a hemorrhage due to dystocia on the night Charon was born, so Illya had little resistance to becoming Miss Del.
As the young master of the Del family, Charon has had a lot of education since he was a child, and his predecessor is not much worse than his personality, and basically all the skills to be mastered can meet the standard.
However, Illya's various skills passed perfectly, and the newly passed Charon was dwarfed, which also caused the predecessor to subconsciously avoid resisting this genius sister.
Charon came to this world in August last year, and it has been half a year now, during which time he is basically no different from his predecessor except for learning swordsmanship and starting to embark on the road of knighthood.
This is due to the fact that both of them are actually silent, and they have the habit of staying in the room most of the time, completely receiving the memories of their predecessors, and Charon will not have any strange behavior.
However, after he exercised, he found that his original talent was not bad, and in only half a year, he was promoted from the first level of the squire to the high level of the squire, and the seventeen-year-old squire was considered a small genius level in the Tor Federation.
Renaud was his instructor and knew his progress very well, so he was shocked that Charon, who had swallowed so many precious potions as a child and barely managed to improve his physical fitness to the first level of the squire, had such a talent.
The tradition of the Del family is to raise the physical fitness of the descendants to the level of squire, and it doesn't matter whether they want to follow the knight's path or do anything else, which seems to be very open-minded and relaxed.
However, Charon found a characteristic in the record, no matter what happened to the heir before the age of twenty, after the age of twenty, his personality would change drastically, and his strength would increase suddenly, of course, the life expectancy was generally only forty-five years. It may be a coincidence that three generations are like this, and it can't help but be shocking that generations are like this.
The cheap father sent him and Illya back to their ancestral land to study, Charon didn't think it was just because of the turmoil in the Eastern Capital, his father's personality has become more and more violent in recent years, probably because of the sequelae of the sudden rise in strength, where there are generations of peak-level knights, and they appear so inexplicably.
Charon felt that he was still down-to-earth and self-improving, and the sequelae of choosing the family secret method were too great, if he became not himself, it would be useless to have a strong power.
The carriage drove through the south of the town and made a half-circle along the outskirts of the town to the northern outskirts of the town, where there were only a few hunters, but there was a large old manor house with a large area.
This is the ancestral land of the Del family, although the Del family has only one manor in Dolan Town, and the other nobles in Dolan Town do not dare to offend easily, they know from their own channels that the Emigrants of the Del family are no longer what they used to be, but they don't know what the specific level is.
The local nobles of Dolan are very xenophobic, and the Del family has long been regarded as a Dolan noble, so they are very distant from the Del family, and maintain a tacit understanding that the well water does not interfere with the river water.
It may seem unreasonable that the Doran nobility would never marry a more powerful foreign noble, but it involves the Doran Union Treaty that was signed a hundred years ago at the time of life and death.
"If we don't unite, then the right to speak in Doran Town will no longer belong to us, and the right to freedom of Dolan nobles will be violated, which is absolutely not allowed. ”
"All nobles who have fornicated with the great nobles will be regarded as betrayers, and the rest of the nobles have the right and duty to deprive the betrayer's family of all power. ”
After several big nobles in the surrounding city failed to reach out several times, no one was willing to provoke the Doran nobles thanklessly, and one of the big nobles even said angrily, "The Dolan nobles are the most stubborn, stupid, and unenterprising group. ”
No matter what outsiders think of the Doran nobles, the Dolan nobles have been abiding by this treaty for a full hundred years, and it seems that they intend to continue it. However, this kind of unifying and abnormal power makes Dolan Town not like the nobles of other towns are subject to the big nobles, and they always have a deadly axe hanging over their heads.
The Del family was also a Doran nobleman two hundred years ago, but the lack of communication for so long was enough to cut a deep chasm between the Doran nobles.
The Del family is a special existence, of course, no one will provoke it, at least those young nobles who covet Illya's beauty have been severely repaired by the family, and no boy from the aristocratic family dares to approach Illya anymore.
Because Charon is relatively low-key, or he is too low-key, everyone really doesn't notice that he is from the Zhenbei Del family.
If it was in the Eastern Capital, he would have no sense of existence and there would be people who would be courteous, after all, in the upper aristocratic circle of the Eastern Capital, there were a few people who did not know the existence of the Del family. If it weren't for the heavy killing, and the people were not prosperous, the ranking of the Del family would have to be raised a few places.
In the past few hundred years, the rise of democratic consciousness has made the aristocracy now suppressed to an all-time low, and many rights have been lost.
But in fact, it is the aristocracy that holds the lifeblood of the country, especially the top aristocracy, except for the low-key point, the power that should not be there has been almost not weakened, and only the small aristocratic families have been weakened.
Thinking about the rise of democratic consciousness in the West of the earth for a short time, it killed the feudal aristocracy, and the democratic consciousness here has germinated for hundreds of years, and now it is tacitly accepted that the aristocracy retains some rights, you can know how powerful the aristocracy here is.
The top aristocracy firmly grasped everything, and even how democracy should develop, to what extent, at what speed it will develop in the future, how to reduce the resistance of the common class to the aristocracy, and how the aristocracy should occupy the commanding heights of society in other ways, etc., these are all controlled and designed by them.
As one of the twenty-two top nobles, although the Del family is in control of military affairs, they should know all this.
Charon didn't have the idea of being a fool, after all, the more abundant resources he had, the more responsibilities and obligations he had to bear, and he didn't know what the specific responsibilities were, but he knew that if he slackened, he would be in great trouble.