Step out of the rolling violet forest and the view is suddenly wide.

Charlotte's vision is a plain plain, and from the hills, you can see the crisscrossing river system, the lakes and ponds, and the reed haystacks, shrub groves, and large patches of farmland interspersed between the water systems.

The winding stone road leads into the distance, cleverly connecting the fields one after another, and at the junction of the roads, you can see villages with misty cooking smoke.

Windmills of all sizes stand around the village and in the fields, spinning slowly, and if you look closely, you can see farmers busy in the fields and craftsmen driving donkey carts full of goods in and out of the windmill.

The clear blue sky is pure, and occasionally a large black bird can be seen soaring above the sky and leaping between the water systems, a falcon endemic to the Northlands and the source of the Castel emblem.

What an infinitely beautiful rural scenery!

Charlotte could keenly feel that everything here had a flourishing atmosphere, far more than the deep and lonely violet forests and the sparsely populated countryside of the Duchy of Boulder.

If you look at it from the top of the road, you can see the city and castle in the northeast, surrounded by silver-gray walls.

Keep your eyes on the city and continue to walk due north, and you can see the beautiful scenery of the water and sky at the end of the view.

That's the sea.

Or more precisely, the Star Moon Strait, which faces north and south from the Falling Star Kingdom.

The Castel Territory is a seaside territory.

Standing on the hills, Charlotte looked far away, and after leaving the forest, perhaps because of the proximity, the oncoming wind was noticeably stronger.

Far from being cold, it was clearly beyond the scope of the breeze, blowing her beautiful blonde hair a little messy.

Charlotte stroked her hair and looked at this paradise-like world in the distance with burning eyes, and her heart was inevitably excited.

She finally came, into her territory.

From now on, everywhere she looks, it is the land that belongs to Castel!

The mighty convoy left the Violet Forest, and everyone's expressions became relaxed and bright.

As soon as the convoy left the forest, a knight in full armor with more than thirty cavalry came from afar, and it seemed that he was already waiting at the exit of the forest.

Baron Chalon, who was leading the team at the front of the team, obviously knew the knight, and after exchanging a few pleasantries, he brought the knight to meet Charlotte.

The strange knight, led by Baron de Chalon, came to the carriage and saluted respectfully:

"Angus de Vallai, commander of the cavalry of the Count of Castel, meet the Count!"

Shirley, who was also sitting in the carriage, lifted the gauze curtains for Charlotte, and Charlotte could see the knight on one knee.

This is a middle-aged man who looks about forty years old, and his expression is resolute.

Charlotte had studied the relevant information of the Countdom of Castel in advance, and quickly recognized the identity of the other party through the name reported by the other party.

Angus de Vallai, one of the seventeen fiefdom barons directly under the county of Castel, the contemporary head of the Valais family, and the knightly commander of the county of Castel.

At the same time, he is also the gateway to the Duchy of Violet and the Castle of Valais.

The city Charlotte had just seen on the hills was the city of Valais.

Looking at the resolute knight in front of her, Charlotte quickly recalled the documents she had seen in the study of Castell's Manor.

The Valais, one of the most supportive aristocratic families in the Counts of Castel.

His current patriarch, Angus de Walay, succeeded to the throne at the age of seventeen and fought with the Counts of Castell for more than a decade, participating in the Romans campaign to repel the invasion of the Falling Star Kingdom.

Angus de Valle himself is taciturn, does not like to socialize, and does not like to form gangs, his only hobby is sword competition, he is a swordsman obsessed with swordsmanship, and he is also a serious knight, but unfortunately his talent is not good, and he can only be trapped in the starry rank all his life.

These materials were all seen by Charlotte in the files in Castell's study, and those files were left by her father, the last Earl of Castel.

Although it has been ten years, it still has a certain reference value.

Incidentally, Baron Chalon's family, Ryan Castel, is also one of the families recorded in the file that has always been loyal to the earl, which is also what Charlotte later learned after carefully looking through the file.

Of course, unlike the Valais, the title of Len-Castel was viscount, and he was one of only three fiefdom viscounts in the county of Castel.

The fief of the Leon-Castel family, just northeast of the city of Valais.

"Excuse me, Lord Angus."

Putting away her divergent thoughts, Charlotte said gently.

Her voice was soft and soft, neither overly enthusiastic nor detached, but just right to maintain a level that made people feel comfortable and couldn't help but feel close.

After practicing the Bloodline Dao of Spiritual Resonance for so long, even if Charlotte didn't use the Majestic Technique or the Charm Language, her rank in this area was not low.

Receiving Charlotte's order, Angus stood up again, and then said in a deep voice:

"Lord Earl, you have worked hard all the way, the Valai family has prepared a dinner, please allow me to welcome you on behalf of the people of the Valai Barony."

Angus is clearly not very socially enthusiastic.

When she invited Charlotte into the city of Valais for a banquet, her expression was also serious, and her expression was stiff, as if she was studying, just as recorded in the Castel study file.

Charlotte did not respond directly to Baron Angus's invitation, but looked behind him:

"Is it only you who are here?"

"Lord Earl, the Baroness of Valai is the gateway from the Violet Forest to the Castel Territory, the distance is relatively close, and the news was received early, and the other families are relatively far away, so I don't know yet."

"We know you're coming north from this road."

Angus said in a deep voice.

Charlotte: ......

That's too honest, isn't it?

Shouldn't you behave well in front of the lord at this time, and step on those nobles who didn't come?

Charlotte gave the baron a strange look, convinced that it was an honest man.

As for the reason why the other nobles did not come, she didn't believe it at all.

With so many family representatives in the convoy following, Charlotte couldn't believe that none of them had sent the news before entering the Violet Forest.

In the otherworldly world of magic, it is still convenient to conduct magic communication at the Magic Association residence in the city.

However, it was normal that no one came to pick her up.

This is not the emperor's southern tour of the Celestial Empire, even as an earl, the degree of centralization of power in the Castel lord is not so high, and the lord's restraint on vassals is not so strong.

This is originally a matter of love coming, not loving not coming, no one forcing it.

Not to mention that Charlotte has just succeeded to the throne and has no prestige at all.

"Your Excellency, thank you very much for the invitation, just ...... I've been delayed so much along the way that I don't plan to attend any banquets until I get back to Northport. ”

Charlotte said mildly.

Yes, no more banquets.

Charlotte had already thought before entering Castel's territory that she was not going to attend any aristocratic banquets until she returned to Castel's main city, Northport.

In fact, it doesn't matter if someone comes to answer her after entering the territory.

Every time Duke Boulder came back from outside, not all the nobles would rush towards the Duke's Mansion like licking dogs, that was the lord, not the father.

But judging from the emissaries sent by the various families in the county of Castel to her coming-of-age ceremony and succession ceremony, it is true that these families did not attach much importance to her.

You know, Quasimodo had summoned the families in various territories at the beginning.

And it's not the first time I've been arraigned, and after the Castel Manor Blood Demon Eucalyptus, the nobles of the territory have been summoned to "escort".

Of course, in the end, no one moved, and the response given was that the mage tower of the mage association in the territory was broken.

Charlotte can almost foresee that after entering the territory, she will continue to participate in large and small banquets, and I am afraid that she will also face a scene of vanity and wrongful snake amusement of children.

Not paying attention means not caring, not caring means despising and underestimating, it means prevarication and alleying, it means the breeding of ambition, and so on......

Charlotte was too lazy to do any more of this, and she was used to attending various banquets along the way, and she knew that the nobles were best at disguise.

If she could, she didn't want to go into the home of any nobleman before returning to the main city, and make a first impression of the other party in the environment that the other party wanted to give her.

Although the Castells family has allowed her to have a preliminary understanding of the nobility in the territory, first impressions are still important, and wrong first impressions can easily lead to misjudgments.

She wanted to see what the nobles were doing towards her, and she wanted to see what the nobles themselves were.

She wanted to see how many of them would come to see if she didn't visit them.

Of course, the Valai family may really want to invite her.

But since she decided not to attend any aristocratic banquets, Charlotte naturally couldn't open this opening.

Charlotte's refusal obviously caught the middle-aged knight off guard.

He was stunned for a moment, obviously not knowing how to answer, and after scratching his head, he said in a deep voice:

"Okay, then...... Your vassals will act as escorts to the North Harbor with Lord Shalon. ”

Charlotte deliberately glanced at the middle-aged knight, and now believed that the other party should really belong to the allegiance faction.

"Then it's hard for you, Lord Angus."

She smiled brightly, gently.

The bright smile made Baron Angus obviously stunned again, the smile full of appearance and charm has always been very lethal, even the taciturn middle-aged knight lost his mind in an instant.

But he quickly reacted and quickly bowed his head respectfully.

Then the knight of the Baron turned on his horse again and stood in front of Charlotte's carriage with Baron de Chalon.

One left and one right, like the two Dharma Protectors.

"The Valai Family...... At the time of my coming-of-age ceremony, the messenger who came was the younger brother of Baron Angus, right? ”

Charlotte lowered the curtain and asked.

"Yes."

Across from her, Shirley replied as she filled her with a glass of milk.

Charlotte bowed slightly.

The younger brother of the head of the family attended her coming-of-age ceremony, which was already considered high among all the envoys of the noble families who visited.

Baron Angus's cavalry joined Castel's convoy, and Charlotte set out again.

This time, instead of taking a detour to the northeast of the city of Valai, the convoy followed the main road of the county all the way north.

The caravan that finally arrived at its destination also said goodbye to the Castel family's convoy and left, and along the way, they paid "protection money", which made Charlotte earn a total of almost 2,000 gold tana pocket money.

Without the caravan, the Castel convoy went faster, and according to Baron Angus, it would have been three days at most.

The county of Castel was large, very large.

As far as Charlotte knew, it was about one-third the size of the Duchy of Boulder, and the official area was about 120,000 square kilometers.

From the map, the shape of the entire duchy is about a 120-degree arc obtuse triangle, with the obtuse side facing northeast and the north facing the Xingyue Strait, which is also the location of the capital of the Castel Lord, Beigang.

Incidentally, the population of the county is said to be more than five million.

When Charlotte knew these data, she really couldn't help but smack her tongue, seriously, this scale is completely equivalent to a principality, even if it is placed in a similar background to Blue Star, it is also a very important prince.

Of course, the world of Miria has extraordinary powers, and the scale of the administrative division is obviously much larger than the similar history of the Blue Star, for example, the population of the Crescent Kingdom is said to be eighty or ninety million.

But even so, the Castel Territory is also a 100% great noble, even if it is independent of the Duchy of Boulder and placed in the Crescent Kingdom, it is still a big force.

The convoy headed north, and gradually, there were more towns and more pedestrians on the way.

Castel's lords were noticeably wealthier, and even the peasants were dressed in the same way as the inhabitants of the outer cities of Boulder, and in the countryside of Boulder, Charlotte saw peasants dressed almost indistinguishably from beggars.

However, to Charlotte's surprise, the faces of pedestrians on the road changed slightly after seeing the Castel family's convoy, and they all stopped their work and moved out of the way, or hid far away, looking at the Castel family emblem on the convoy with a rather complicated and even hostile gaze.

"Why are they looking at us like that?"

Charlotte frowned, lifted the curtain and looked suspiciously at Baron Angus on horseback outside.

Baron Angus, on the other hand, hesitated.

Seeing the other party like this, Charlotte's heart jumped.

"It's okay, what's the matter, just tell me."

She said.

Angus hesitated for a moment, and said in a deep voice:

"Lord Earl, actually...... Recently, there have been bad rumors in the county......"