Owen Castle in winter looks particularly solemn, the castle built in the north of the city has a strong rococo style, the mottled city wall seems to show people its long history, there is no green shade and verdant walls, the walls of this castle look a little bleak in winter, the courtyard gate is a long way from the castle, Surdak entered the manor in a magic caravan, and the carriage stopped in front of the steps of the castle.

The Owen family's castle was unaffected by the previous night's attack on the city, and the Marquis of Owen sent a large number of cavalry out of the city to capture the bandits from the north of the tower, and the castle was less guarded than before.

The butler stood at the front of the steps with a line of servants, and when the carriage stopped, the butler came up and opened the door.

This time it was obviously much higher than the last time he visited, Surdak walked out of the magic tent car, Iman followed behind Surdak, glanced at the butler with an inquiring gaze, and the butler said respectfully to the two: "Madame is in the living room on the west side of the second floor. ”

"Where's my father?" Iman. Owen asked the butler.

The housekeeper stopped and said to Iman. Owen explained, "When the Marquis heard that the bandit group was going to go to Grey Canyon, he chased after him with the Knights of Constructed Formation. ”

Surdak didn't expect that Marquis Owen would personally chase those robbers, he looked around the castle, the sculptures on both sides of the steps, the last time I came, I couldn't appreciate it carefully, this time I went up the steps, and saw that the bronze statues on both sides of the steps at the door were also briefly written under the biography, Iman. Owen said: "These are all people who have made great contributions to the Owen family, and my father very much hopes that there will be a bronze statue of him here in the future." ”

Walk into the castle and follow the stairs on the side of the main entrance hall to the second floor. Owen said to Surdak, "Mother will be very happy to see you. ”

While leading Surdak into a meeting room, there were four maids standing at the door. Owen and Surdak curtsy, and Iman. Owen asked them, "Mother is in there?" ”

"Yes, young master." The maid was very familiar with Iman, and quickly whispered a reply.

The two maids pushed open the door of the living room, and Surdak found that the living room was actually very lively, in addition to Mrs. Annabella, who was sitting on the main seat, there were two other ladies and a group of young and beautiful aristocratic girls in the living room, everyone was sitting around chatting.

The women in the living room saw Iman and a young knight walking into the room, and their eyes fell on Surdak in unison, and Surdak couldn't help but touch his nose to hide the embarrassment on his face with shy, curious, and bold eyes. He took a few steps forward and saluted Lady Annabella, who was seated on the throne.

Mrs. Annabella sat in the main seat of the room, dressed in a purple cashmere dress, with her hair pulled up high, and looking at her face, which had almost no signs of age, it was hard to imagine that she was actually Iman. Mother Owen, her soft gaze first fell on Iman, then looked at Surdak, and said with a slight smile: "Two weeks ago, I received a letter from Dorothy and Marianne on the same day, in which they mentioned you invariably, Dorothy was full of praise for your performance in Pena City, and Marianne told me about you and Hathaway. ”

The maid brought two chairs for Iman and Surdak, who sat across from the noble ladies, who were pulled aside by several noble ladies and whispered to each other.

Surdak had hardly experienced such a scene, and he sat in his chair, feeling a little uncomfortable, and even felt that there was no place for his hands.

"Sit down a little bit, come and talk to me about you, we don't know much about you, maybe only Ferdinand knows something about you, but he doesn't want to tell us all the news, I heard that your territory is in Highlandza?" Lady Annabella beckoned to Surdak and said gently.

"Yes, Lady Annabella, my territory is located in the middle of nowhere, on the outskirts of the city of Highland, where there is an active volcano, and where there is a sulphur mine, and I currently live in the village of Wall in the Badlands, where I have lived since I was a child." Surdak told Lady Annabella that, in fact, he said this when he first came to Constantinople.

"I remember you told me last time, and about your sulfur mines, Iman also said that the purity of those sulfur mines is not bad, and now the demand for firescale bullets continues to increase everywhere, and sulfur mines have also begun to become a straining magic material, and your mine has continued to supply steadily in the past few months, bringing a lot of resources to the Owen family's firearms workshop, in this regard, I think you and Iman can also strengthen cooperation!" Lady Annabella said to Surdak.

Iman stood up and immediately offered Mrs. Annabella that he was willing to sign a long-term agreement with Surdak for the supply of sulphur ore.

Surdak took a letter from his bosom and said to Lady Annabella, "Lady Annabella, this is Hathaway's letter to you. ”

Mrs. Annabella leaned forward, reached out and took the letter in Surdak's hand, and did not open the letterhead to read it immediately, but stroked a line of beautiful handwriting on the envelope with her hand, showing some nostalgia in her eyes, and muttered to herself: "Time flies so fast! I didn't expect that elf to get married! ”

Then he cleaned up his mood and told Surdak: "The Tarapakant region has been a bit chaotic recently, especially the city of Hylanza is located in Tassi, you should pay attention to it, and you Iman are now familiar with him, you can ask him for any needs." Don't be easily deceived, don't promise easily, if something can't be solved, you can take a magic airship to Bena City, or you can ride a horse to Constantinople on a mountain road. ”

"Iman has helped me a lot." Surdak looked at Iman, who was surrounded by a group of sisters, and said with a smile.

Mrs. Annabella seemed to have long been accustomed to it, and said casually: "You young people, you always have to help each other. ”

It has always been said that the ratio of women to men in the Grimm Empire is somewhat out of balance, and this situation is still expanding due to the recent outbreak of the plane war.

Surdak didn't have any special feelings before, but now when he sees a group of warblers and swallows in the living room, he feels breathless.

He thought that he had prepared a gift before coming this time, so he took out a small magic chest from his magic waist bag, placed it at the feet of Lady Annabella, and said: "This time I came in a bit of a hurry, I couldn't prepare any gifts, although this gift is a little shabby, I hope you can accept it, Madame!" ”

The gift Surdak prepared was a 'bull's tailbone', which was put into a demon sealing box, which looked very classy.

"It's really heartfelt, and I actually prepared a gift for me." Lady Annabella looked down at the Demon Sealing Box and said.

None of the aristocratic ladies seemed to be curious about what was in the magic box, they were more curious about Surdak than about the box, a group of young women in court evening dresses, and some underage little girls, almost surrounded by them, one of the big-breasted beauties who had been holding Iman approached Surdak, she exuded a rich fragrance of roses, and a pair of big eyes seemed to be stained with a brush, and Bryn Bling kept blinking.

She was the first to ask Surdak, "Are you the one Hathaway has chosen?" ”

Immediately afterward, someone asked, "...... Uncle Luthor admires you too? ”

The women seemed to have a new topic, and they chattered together: "It's rare that Hathaway and Uncle Luther see the same thing, you are really from Highlands, and you are really burly." ”

Surdak felt like a slave standing on the auction table wearing nothing, and he felt ashamed of being shown in public.

Iman. Owen seemed to have become accustomed to this way of chatting, he quickly changed the topic, and led the topic to the attack on the city the day before yesterday, and now the truth seems to have been revealed, Lord MacDonnell has become the target of public criticism, and everyone expressed their indignation at Lord MacDonnell's sneak attack on Constantinople.

Not all lords are willing to put up with the cunning Lord Macdonnell, and this time Marquis Owen was tough enough, and he led the Constructed Knights to the border area between Talapa and County Osorno to find Lord MacDonnell's bad luck.

Lord MacDonnell has the strongest military power in the entire Tarrapa region, and even in the entire province of Benay, Lord Macdonnell's military strength ranks in the top five. I heard that the nobles in the northern part of the tower are either attached to Lord Macdonnell, or they are oppressed to the point that they cannot even enjoy the normal noble rights.

While the women are worried about Marquis Owen, they hope that Marquis Owen can clean up Lord MacDonnell fiercely, so that maybe the family's ranking in Bena Province will rise significantly, maybe more young talents will come to him, and maybe more nobles will want to marry the Owen family, so as to alleviate the problem that they can't marry.

Compared with Hathaway and Beatrice, who dare to pursue their own ideals and freedom, the daughters of the Owen family are more like infatuated women who hate to marry, in addition to hoping that they can marry a wonderful man, they hope that this day will come soon......

Mrs. Annabella kept Surdak in Constantinople for a few more days.

Surdak politely declined.

Iman. Owen accompanied Surdak to a fine lunch in the castle, after which Surdak tendered his farewell to Lady Annabella.

Leaving the Owen family's castle and taking advantage of the fact that there was still some time in the afternoon, Iman. Owen took Surdak back to the comptoir in Constantine City, and got the lowest transaction discount from the comptoir manager, according to Iman's idea, those overcharged magic crystals should be returned in full, Surdak was not too embarrassed to take back those magic crystals, so he exchanged those magic crystals for nearly a hundred sets of full-covered armor.

Iman insisted that the manager of the trading house hire the carriages from the carriage shop and transport the armor back to the city of Highlandza.

In addition to this, Surdak also made a request to Iman. Owen ordered ten boxes of firescale shells, but since the firearms workshop did not have any inventory, this batch of firescale shells would be shipped to Highlandsa in half a month later with the carriage of the carriage dealership.

When Surdak was in the city of Voljmara, he had seen the power of firescale bullets, a firescale bullet thrown into a group of hellhounds could blow up several hellhounds, and the smashed shacks outside the Constantinople firearms workshop were enough to show that the firescale bullets had a good power.

On this trip to Constantinople, Surdak's biggest gain was not to buy nearly 600 sets of well-made full-covered armor as he wished, nor to buy the extremely surgent firescale bullets on the market, but to meet the Grand Knight of Grover and master the Knight's Seal, even if it was a weakened Seal, which made Surdak very happy.

Surdak returned to the city of Highlandsa with three wagons from the carriage company of Constantinople, a mountain road that had been crushed with snow and was hard and slippery, especially when it came to climbing the mountains.

Of course, Aphrodite was the only one who faced these treacherous terrain and bad weather along the way, and she had to return to the city of Highlandsa with the caravan in the carriage shop.

Surdak chose to leave the team shortly after leaving the city, ending the summoning directly, and then stepped into the Void Gate to return to the treasure chamber.

Compared to the cold wind in the mountains and dense forests, the treasure chamber is much more comfortable.

Surdak returned to the treasure chamber, and the red dragon Isser, who had been waiting in the chamber for a long time, looked impatient, shaking his head like a small house, trying to arch Surdak with his smoky nose, and from his abdomen, he said: "Surdak...... Isser's Eat! ”

Surdak dodged the hot smoke, took out a bag of red crystals from his magic waist bag, and poured it into the open mouth of the red dragon Isser, and when it lay its huge head on the platform and slowly chewed the red crystal in its mouth, Surdak began to give the next class, he taught the red dragon rune twenty-second and an imperial Chinese, understood that Isser's head quickly retracted, and let it go.

After not going to the Brimstone Mines for a while, Surdak left the Treasure Chamber and walked out of the lava mine.

Outside the cave, the sulphur mines downstream of the lava river have been mined by kobold slaves, who are congregating beneath the lava waterfalls, trying to bypass the narrow fault formed by the lava falls and climb upstream to mine the sulphur mines.

When Surdak came out of the lava mine, these kobold slaves had been studying here for three days, but unfortunately they had not come up with any easy way for the time being, and the kobold slaves were trying to build a rope ladder to climb directly to the top of the lava waterfall fault, although this kind of rope ladder was very simple to build, but it was inconvenient to move if all the kobold slaves climbed up the soft ladder.

But if you have to rely on the soft ladder to go up and down every day, how much sulfur can be collected!

The five villager overseers were also working with the kobold slaves at this time to figure out a way.

Although he didn't have a good idea for the time being, Surdak ordered the kobold slaves to relocate the mine camp to a leveled hillside next to the lava falls.

Although the smoke is billowing here, the pungent smell of sulfur everywhere, the boiling lava river can be seen everywhere, and the occasional salamander crawling out of the mine is very dangerous, but if you want to mine the sulfur mines in the upper reaches of the lava river, you must camp here, so that you can at least have to walk a few kilometers along the lava river every day.