415. Cause
Like many aristocratic families, people will eventually grow old.
Derek. Count Fornak stood out among his brothers and sisters, and obtained the title of earl from his father by virtue of his outstanding achievements, the leader of the new generation of the Fornak family, and sat in this seat for thirty years, although the Count of Fornak did not add more merits to the Fornak family in this life, but he was a very popular count in the city of Highlandza, and he liked to promote young nobles and leave some opportunities for young people to obtain merit.
Cal. Casment had been favored by the old Earl Fornack, but such a good earl was killed by a bandit group that had secretly invaded the manor, and then the only Billy who had the right to inherit it. Fornak inherited the title of Earl Fornack, but this rather introverted young nobleman had not established any merit of his own before, and according to the laws of the Grimm Empire, if the successor of the family did not obtain merit, the title would be reduced by one rank.
Hence Billy. After inheriting the fortune of the Fornak family, Fornak became the new Viscount of Fornack.
The most incomprehensible thing for everyone is this Billy. After Viscount Fornak took over the Fornak family, he rejected the proposals of the other nobles, and did not avenge the old Count Fornack, but allowed the bandit group to flee back into the mountains. Viscount Fornak was a coward, a timid turtle that liked nothing more than to be curled up in a tortoise's shell, but that didn't seem to be the case now......
The old Earl Fornack, though he died at the hands of the bandits, was not in conflict with Billy. Fornak has a lot to do with it.
The reason for all this is because the old Earl Fornak was in Billy. When Fornak was about to become an adult, he actually found a second spring and had a younger son, Hal . Fornack, and at this time, although the Earl Fornak is already a little old, but he is in good health and does not have any injuries, if you want to wait until the old Count Fornack slowly dies of old age, then it will be at least ten or twenty years.
Don't talk about Billy then. Fornak is already middle-aged, and the youngest son of the elder Fornak is Hal . Fornak has also grown up.
If that's the case, Billy. Fornak had more than a dozen years of preparation time than his younger brother, whether it was according to the accumulation of merits, or the order of the young and old, Billy. Fornak will be the first in line to the throne until Derek. On the day Count Fornak ascends to the Kingdom of God, he will naturally take over the Fornak family.
But it was not so simple, the youngest son of the old earl, Hal . Fornak was born with an eye pattern, this kind of life pattern brought from his mother's womb, he allowed him to see the soul of the other world, and such an eye has a very strange power, the high priest in the temple of Highlanza City predicted that Hal . Fornak will become a great witcher, and in the future he will most likely become a second-turn powerhouse, or even a magister or grand master, and he will bring greater glory to the Fornak family.
Old Count Fornack knew that his youngest son was very talented, and of course he had to ask a famous teacher to teach him carefully.
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But it all fell on the eldest son, Billy. In Fornack's eyes, the Fornak family will gain greater glory in the future, but it is not his own glory, and even he may not be able to inherit the property of the Fornak family, and in the end he is just a knight or baron with a small piece of land, which is certainly not what he wants.
But the old Earl of Fornack said nothing in the family, Billy. It was impossible for Fornak to prevent the elder Count Fornak from raising his younger son.
When he realizes one day that the old Earl Fornak is dead, and all his property is left to his younger brother Fornack, he will become a marginal person who eats and waits for death. Fornak began to fall into a state of panic and self-abandonment, locking himself in his room all day, not wanting to have contact with outsiders at all, and he felt that everyone was looking at him and Hal with two very different eyes.
Until one day, two dark magicians came to Billy Fournack, and they said everything about Billy. Fornack's heart, they also said to wait until Howl. Once the Fornak family has mastered the Fourak family, he will bring Billy. Fornak kicked out, maybe Billy at that time. Fornak will be left with nothing. It will be like some of the down-and-out nobles in the city of Highlandsa, in order to maintain their dignity as a nobleman, they will work hard like a commoner every day, or guard a shop until they die of old age.
Placed in Billy. The only way in front of Fornak is to cooperate with the demon and dedicate a little bit of his soul.
These two dark mages are none other than the head of the branch of the Dark Arts Order in Highlandsa City, Lady Grenfell, Margaret and Marion, of course, they are not just to develop the members of the Black Arts Order, they will help Billy in this way. Fornack, their target is actually Howl. Fornak, a child born with eye patterns, is not only able to see otherworldly souls, but is also a very rare medium for dark magicians. Fornack's body is a very rare bridge that can connect the Roland Continent with the hellish realm where the demon is located.
The Dark Mages of the Dark Magic Retreat share a common belief in the knowledge of demons, and in order to gain greater power, they study the Dark Arts, study bloody rituals, and try to summon demonic minions from hell.
Hal. Fornak came into the sight of the dark mages, and they began to deliberately search for a way to obtain Howl. Fornack's chance, and finally one day they found out about Billy, the eldest son of the Fornak family. Fornak would be a good breakthrough, so he began to approach Billy premeditatedly. Fornack, in fact, they had chosen the right target this time.
Soon they were in Billy. With the help of the outside, Fornacle succeeded in killing Count Fornack, and succeeded in making Billy . Fornak inherited the entire fortune of the Fornack family, and in return, Billy. Fornak offered his brother Hal to the Dark Arts Order. Fornack.
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Of course, it doesn't end there.
Derek. Although Count Fornak was killed by the bandits, he found some clues in the battle, there must be an accomplice of the bandit group in the family as an internal response, so he let himself take a vacation in the manor, just the knights around him left from all the things, and took advantage of this gap to rush into the manor where the defense force was empty, he was worried that the robbers would kill his two sons, so before he died, a fire of revenge accumulated in his heart.
When he was young, Count Fornak participated in the war of the human orc alliance against the undead in the Death Forest, when Count Fornak was only a captain of the Helllanza Swordsmen of the Bednar Legion, and their team once killed a young corpse witch when they were on a mission in the Death Forest, and Count Fornak was very lucky, he obtained a blood stone from the corpse witch.
This blood stone was not originally handed over to the military headquarters as a trophy to exchange for merit, but was kept by Count Fornack.
Although Count Fornak was killed by the bandits this time, his soul was not imprisoned, and at that time, a rotating staircase and a gate to the kingdom of God appeared above his soul, perhaps as a reward for his participation in the war against the undead when he was young, and he had the qualifications to enter the kingdom of God, but Count Fornak cared about his two sons and resolutely let his soul stay in the blood stone.
If it is a powerful soul, Count Fornak will become a new powerful corpse witch, but Count Fornak is not friendly with the undead, although he has an extremely precious blood stone, he only became a high-level ghost, and retains most of his memories and mind, in order to be able to take care of his two sons, Count Fornak hid the blood stone that represents his own natal blood stone under Fornak Manor, and he is integrated with the manor.
What Count Fornak saw afterwards raised his anger to the top, because he actually saw his eldest son, Billy. Fornak was actually the main mastermind of the bandit group's attack on the manor, and at the critical moment when he fused with the blood spirit stone, he saw his youngest son being tortured to death by several magicians of the Dark Magic Retreat. Fornack's blood creates a bloody magic circle to summon the sons of sin in the realm of flaming hell.
They will be little Hal. Fornak was locked in an iron cage next to the test table, until the old Count Fornak successfully fused with the Bloodstone, he had the power to deal with the dark magicians, as long as the Bloodstone was not destroyed, Count Fornak himself was like having an immortal body, but unfortunately he was not able to save his youngest son from the dark magicians of the Dark Magic Order, and even because he always had the identity of a ghost with Howl. When the younger son was tortured to death, Count Fornak saw his younger son turn into an unconscious evil spirit.
It wasn't until the robbers in Fornak Manor were discovered and cleared out by the Guards Camp Knights that the Dark Mages feared that their whereabouts would be exposed, attracting those Mad Dog-like Law Enforcement Wizards, so the Dark Mages completely abandoned Fornak Manor.
At this point, the old Count Fornack and Hal . Fornak became the true owner of the ruined manor.
After all, it is the only bloodline inheritance of the Fornak family, and the elder Fornak did not kill his eldest son Billy. Fornack, and Billy. Fornak also knew that he had hidden in his home in the city of Highlandsa, and he would not go out easily, and he also hired a night watchman to guard Fornack's manor.
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After listening to the long story told by the old Earl Fornack, Karl's whole mood became a little unpleasant, but he still forced Billy to do so. Viscount Fornack's anger turned to the old earl and asked, "Uncle Fornack, how did the previous Night's Watch die?" ”
Old Fornak sighed softly, and then glanced helplessly at his younger son, who had regained his composure, before saying, "They all died of greed. ”
Looks like it should be by Howl. Fornak killed, but Karl didn't continue the discussion along the topic, he just said with some sadness: "I attended your funeral before, I thought you were dead, I mean that kind of ...... Death in the truest sense of the word. ”
"What is the difference between the way I am now and dead?" Old Count Fornak said with a wry smile: "I hid in the manor, in addition to wanting revenge, I just hoped that one day I could take him away with me, I couldn't give him the best care when I was alive, and I didn't want him to become a tool of the devil when he died, I have been trying to find a way, I want to take him out of here with me......"