Facts have proved that the world turns the same way without anyone, and people's ability to adapt is extremely strong.

Ever since King Louis V launched the Great Purge and harshly stripped many of his vassal titles, the royal capital has been in turmoil, with the nobles fearing the fish in the pond and the commoners fearing that they will be regarded as cultists by the unscrupulous city guards and local inquisitionists.

However, less than a week has passed since the purge, and the whole of Rutasia has once again returned to its former tranquility, as if the previous Great Purge, the previous Great Censorship that covered the whole city, was an illusion.

The reaction of the civilians is understandable.

After all, Louis V tried to avoid the impact on the civilians during the Great Purge, and only targeted the slums to eliminate the pawns belonging to the Blood Demon Order.

However, the aristocracy was a little unexpected by Charlotte.

She thought that the dissatisfaction and resistance of the nobles against the king would last for a long time, and even unite because of Louis V's step-by-step pressing, but the fact was that after Louis V took out part of the recovered aristocratic wealth to appease him, the other nobles almost all calmed down.

Continued salon feasts, continued singing and dancing, and while talk of the Great Purge was still commonplace, it had also evolved into after-dinner conversation and complaints.

The inertia and short-sightedness of the nobility of the crescent moon are even more outrageous than Charlotte imagined.

Charlotte could probably guess what the nobles were thinking, which was nothing more than that it was difficult for His Majesty the King to strengthen the centralization of power, and even if he deprived some nobles of their titles, it would not affect the overall situation.

As long as the fire does not burn on himself, and as long as the king remembers to share the benefits to the nobles, in the eyes of many nobles, the centralization of the king's power is nothing more than the intermittent strengthening of power by the royal family.

It had always been a political tradition in the kingdom to die, and Louis V did not have an heir as strong as him, and he may have been frightened now, but given Louis V's age, the nobles were more or less worried.

"It's good to wait for the new king to ascend the throne, as for now, bear with it for now."

This is a statement that even Charlotte has heard.

However, Charlotte did not think that everything would follow the wishes of the nobles.

Louis V was indeed old, but he was determined to strengthen the centralization of power, not only for the sake of the royal family, but also for the day of Advent.

To be able to build a luxurious palace like the Crescent Palace, Louis V's belief in strengthening centralized power was by no means a whim, but a long-term thought, and what the nobles thought of, Charlotte believed that the other party also wanted.

And...... Charlotte believes that the other side must have the means to deal with it.

However, that has nothing to do with Charlotte.

Now that she knows about Advent Day, she should also shift her focus to strengthening her own power and power, and as for the Crescent Kingdom, there is no need to participate.

Her royal pact with Louis V, her declaration of celibacy, was enough to buy her more than enough time.

As for the future......

If it really comes to the moment when the gods come, the old order will definitely be broken, and how to rise in the turbulent continental storm will depend on their own ability.

Charlotte chose to visit the Royal Library for the same reason.

Knowledge is also power, and some knowledge may not be needed by her, but the Northland needs it, and believers need it.

The carriage slowly stopped, and Charlotte gathered her thoughts.

"Master, here we are."

Sebas's respectful voice came from outside the car window.

Charlotte bowed slightly, motioned for the maid Shirley to open the door, and then stepped out of the carriage.

She looked up and was greeted by a towering tower.

The tower is made of some kind of black boulder, and there are faint traces of ancient magic on it, mottled marks showing the vicissitudes of time.

This is the royal library of the Crescent Kingdom.

The Royal Library is the oldest library in the Crescent Kingdom, dating back to the time of the Yunette Empire, and was formerly the library of the Yunette Royal Mage Tower.

After the fall of the Unette Empire, the Royal Mage Tower was inherited by the Varvar family, who banned some of the banned books and transformed the Mage Tower into a library.

The library is said to have a collection of more than 200,000 volumes, ranging from extraordinary materials, to various histories and biographies of the mainland, to various literature, art, and alchemical knowledge.

And the most attractive thing about the collection here is the various extraordinary classics that have been treasured by aristocratic families.

It is a book that records how to awaken the power of the bloodline and how to develop supernatural power.

This is also the biggest purpose of Charlotte's trip in addition to historical materials.

Extraordinary power comes from blood, although the Castel family also has a lot of transcendent texts, but in fact, the quality is not too high, and most of them are mainly adapted to the Castel bloodline, which is not suitable for widespread promotion.

Since Charlotte intends to build her own power, it is imperative to develop supernatural powers, and giving believers divine grace is one thing, but she cannot completely rely on divine grace to improve the power of her followers, and providing various "cheats" for tracers is also one of the ways.

The channel for transcendent promotion is controlled by the aristocracy, so ...... Providing believers with a channel for transcendent promotion is also a kind of "divine grace", which is conducive to allowing more people to step into the transcendent path and enhance the strength of the Northland.

Charlotte doesn't have that much time, and it is impossible for Charlotte to carefully select believers who adapt to the divine power to develop into priests like the Divine Court, so the best way is to fully blossom and increase the power of all believers as much as possible, so as to also use the power of believers to enhance their own power.

The gods are a group of "parasites", and Charlotte is actually so, since she is a "parasite", it is better to find more "hosts".

Perhaps the benefits brought by the increase in the strength of non-blooded "host" believers are not as high as those of bloodline believers, but they are better than the number of people, and the accumulation of small amounts is also quite considerable divine power.

As for whether this kind of pure power without bloodline power will lead to other problems because it is too mixed......

Charlotte wasn't too worried.

As the True Ancestor of Blood, devouring the power of the bloodline itself is her ability, no matter who the source of the bloodline power of her followers is, as long as the power of the ascension is shared by her through the belief network, it can be successfully absorbed by her.

This is also a plug-in on her "mythical level".

Thinking of this, Charlotte took a deep breath and walked towards the library.

The Royal Library is currently managed by the royal family's mage corps, and when the Castel family's carriage stopped at the door, the mage apprentices who managed the library were alarmed.

And when Charlotte came to the entrance of the library, the librarian in the mage robe had already greeted her warmly:

"Lord Castelle, welcome to the Royal Library."

This is the decency of the great aristocracy.

Although the Castel family is not a duke, with the first person under the duke, it is enough to make many kingdom nobles look up.

Even if you come to the Royal Library, you are a distinguished guest.

Seeing the librarian, Charlotte smiled slightly, she motioned to Sebas to take out the VIP pass to the library that Louis V gave her, and said:

"Hello, Your Excellency the Curator, I am here today to borrow a few books from the extraordinary side."

Seeing the VIP pass, the librarian was even more respectful:

"Please come with me, Lord Earl."

Following the librarian, Charlotte enters the Royal Library.

The interior of the library is larger than it looks from the outside, as if some spatial magic has been used, and the collection of books is incomparably larger, arranged in a spiral.

There are many people who come to borrow books in the library, most of them are dressed as nobles, and a very small number of people who are not nobles also wear uniform uniforms.

Charlotte glanced at it and recognized that it was a student of the Royal Academy of Magic, and the highest institution of learning in the Crescent Kingdom.

The Royal Family Library is only open to two kinds of people, one is the nobles, and the other is the students of the Academy of Magic.

When Charlotte entered the library, she naturally attracted the curious eyes of everyone.

Especially when everyone saw the director of the library and his subordinate Master Wang enthusiastically following aside:

"Who's that? Alarmed the librarian of the library? And so many Wang family mages accompanying? ”

"There is no dress system, I am not a student of the academy, and I should be a nobleman with a high status based on my clothing and temperament."

"Could it be...... Which country's princess? ”

However, there are also some people who recognize Charlotte's identity:

"Charlotte of Castel, the pearl of the Northlands, the saint of the royal court, the richest and youngest countess of the Crescent Kingdom."

"Shhh...... Is it the girl who is said to have made the third prince swoon just by looking at it, and even if he didn't hesitate to start a war, he wanted to succeed? ”

"Silence! It's all messy, listen less to some of the lace news from the taverns in the outer city! ”

"But...... She's so beautiful, and if it were me, I'd probably be willing to go to war for her. ”

"It's all said, don't go to the tavern and listen to those nonsense stories!"

Charlotte: ......

Although the talkers deliberately lowered their voices, with the super high spiritual sense of the blood clan, Charlotte still heard it clearly.

Thanks to a series of recent events, she is indeed a celebrity in the royal capital now.

One after another eyes fell on her, either curious, or admiring, or in awe, or hostile......

Well?

Hostile?

Charlotte was a little surprised, she didn't expect that anyone would be hostile to her when she visited the library, and when her spiritual sense extended over, she was suddenly surprised.

The eyes hostile to her are not nobles.

Rather, there were some uniformed students who belonged to the Royal Academy of Magic.

"She's the Earl of the Northlands?"

"I heard that she acted perversely in the north, persecuted many transcendentals, and even forced the people to rebel, and the third prince dared to start a war, and it was also the first chaos in the north."

"It's really a crime, these nobles, one by one, for their own selfish desires, don't care about the lives of civilians at all!"

"Weak on the outside, but a devil on the inside."

"I heard that she also declined the appointment of the Holy Maiden......"

"It's a weak heart, right? The church is rotten, too. ”

"What's the use of being pretty? In the end, this world still depends on extraordinary strength, without strength, even if it is a nobleman, he can't keep his position, so brutal, he will be attacked in the future. ”

"You don't know this, don't look at her so young and weak, but it is said that she is already a silver moon mage."

"It's already a silver moon? Wouldn't that be even worse? The people of the Northland are pitiful. ”

"Isn't it! Don't look at her innocent appearance, I heard that she is quite erosive in private, and the so-called declaration of celibacy is said to be just a cover for covering up her private life. ”

"Sure enough, the nobles...... Not a good thing! ”

Charlotte: ......

She never expected to hear so many outrageous rumors.

It is impossible for one person to satisfy all.

Although Charlotte knew that as long as she continued to strengthen her rule over the Northlands and develop her own power, all kinds of rumors would not be broken, and those potential hostiles would always exist, but she didn't expect the rumors about the Northlands to be so outrageous.

This level can no longer be explained by simple "rumors", and there is no one behind to help the trouble, and Charlotte does not believe it.

Sebas glanced faintly at the group of students.

His gaze was calm, but the moment he looked at the students, the students of the Academy of Magic felt a terrifying feeling that made their hair stand on end, and the pressure from their souls made them subconsciously stop talking.

"Ahem, Sir Sebas, this is the Royal Library."

The librarian coughed lightly and reminded.

"I'm sorry, Lord, I'm a person who hates the rumors of other man-made owners the most."

Sebas replied with a smile.

It's just that the smile is a little chilly.

The librarian said helplessly:

"I'm really sorry, but please don't meet them in general, they're just ordinary students, and they must have heard some nonsense from somewhere."

"You know, many of the students of the Academy of Magic are from civilian backgrounds, and they are naturally distrustful of nobles, and everything about nobles will be thought badly, and if someone secretly spreads rumors at this time, it will be easy to gain their approval."

Listening to the words of the librarian, Sebas nodded slightly:

"What you said makes sense, it seems that I should check carefully, who is behind the rumors of the master, saying bad things about the master, I heard that you are also a teacher of the Academy of Magic, please also restrain the students of your academy over there, after all...... The honor of the nobility is not to be offended. ”

With that, he withdrew his gaze, and the students in the distance breathed a sigh of relief.

They looked at each other, their eyes growing more hostile and disgusted at Charlotte's group, and they whispered cautiously.

"Let's go, don't forget what we're here for."

Charlotte shook her head and said.

Although she was also very unhappy with this inexplicable rumor, she also knew that these students who were used as guns were not real rumors, and attacking these people would not make these civilian students who thought she was a bad billet really reflect, but only made them more hateful and follow the wishes of some people.

As for how to deal with rumors, just leave it to Sebas, who is a professional in this area.

It's just that such one-sided malicious remarks also made her feel complicated.

Charlotte doesn't think she's a good person, but after going to the Northlands, she feels that she cares most about the civilians of her territory, and she has developed a lot of policies that benefit the civilians.

But I didn't expect it to be spread like this by rumors.

Charlotte stepped out of the library's antechamber and into the deeper inner hall.

However, just as she was about to step into the inner hall, she heard an angry voice coming from behind:

"Enough of you! Which bastard made this rumor? Slander! It's all slander! ”

"I'm a student from the Northland! I have seen with my own eyes how the Earl deals with those wicked nobles! Lord Earl is a good lord, for more than a year, he has punished evil and promoted good, stabilized the territory, and even paid out of his own pocket to build schools in the Northland, subsidize the poor, and expand roads, how many nobles can do it?! ”

"The lord decided to dedicate his life to the territory, so he swore not to marry for the rest of his life, the lord is a good lord, and you will not be allowed to blaspheme!"

Hearing this, Charlotte was stunned.

She looked back and saw several students in the uniforms of the Academy of Magic, angrily confronting the students who were talking about her behind her back.

It was a student from the North who had come to the royal capital to study.

Seeing the angry appearance of those students, Charlotte's heart warmed slightly.

At this moment, the unhappiness in her heart suddenly disappeared.