Chapter 227: Exploring the Ruins 2

Asking more, Chesterton couldn't tell any more useful information, and Ed's own knowledge was too small, "Where can I find out more?"

It seems that there is only one guest in the entire Wolf's Tooth Castle except for the two of himself who are not part of the Grand Duke's power, and Eddard has to decide to find the time to meet the magician to see if he can get more useful information.

"Hah! Look who is visiting me, a little knight gentleman, I have eighty points for this handsome face, but with a confident momentum can be a little higher, hmm!" When Ed came to visit, the magician was working part-time on his side job, and he was carefully drawing something on the drawing board with a slender brush, and he didn't forget to look up and down and evaluate the young man when he saw him.

"Master ......"

"Call me Raphael, come, let's talk in a different place, and don't let the uncleanness of words get on my paintings and dust them. The other party put down the paintbrush, and naturally a servant next to him stepped forward to wash and clean up carefully.

Ed followed Raphael out of the studio and into the drawing-room, "Look, praise the generous Philip III, how to build such a magnificent castle here, isn't it even better from here!" Pushing open the door of the balcony, they were presented with an incomparably beautiful view.

At this time, the sunset is falling into the sea of clouds in the distance, looming, the golden red sunset is rendered by the fog from far to near the layers of clear layers showing a gradient of color, the nearest mountain peak is also far away, in the middle is a huge abyss straight to the netherworld.

"What a view, praise to the Grand Duke!" said Ed, who seemed to have the best view of the entire castle. The Grand Duke gave up this residence for guests to live in, on the one hand, the status of this magician is not low. On the other hand, it also shows that the Grand Duke himself is noble.

"Come, please take a seat. With this pot of cold drink, let's talk about the knight's intentions, is there anything I can do to help?" clapping his hands, Raphael asked.

Ed didn't expect the other party to be so easy to speak, so he politely said the question in his heart, "I don't know what the master knows about the ruins in Burgundy, the Throne of the Giants?"

"Hah! You're asking the right person. Wait a minute!" Raphael turned to leave, and soon fetched a small painting, handed it to Eddard to look at, and explained it to him.

It turned out that he traveled around the world as a patrol officer of the Holy See in this area, and his hobby was to record the beauty with a paintbrush, and he would not let go of the famous ruins everywhere, and this painting was made when he visited the ruins of the Throne of the Giants before.

This ruin has been discovered for at least 100 years, and has been excavated and explored, and a large number of precious items have flowed out, including both rare props and works of art with high collection value. The most talked-about thing is the huge weapon armor, which is said to have been inhabited by foreign giants, hence the name of the ruins.

After being excavated by explorers, the ruins became a tourist destination, but due to its remote location, it has not been very popular. At one time, some people wanted to build a small city on the same site, but later it was too far away from the main transportation artery.

This was until the new Grand Duke of Burgundy, Philip III, came to power ten years ago, and it is said that he was fond of legends about the ruins as a child. Someone was sent to bring it under the jurisdiction of the family and secretly develop it, digging deeper. The outside world didn't know the news, and everything was going on in secret.

Until a few years ago. The Grand Duke suddenly announced in a high-profile manner that he had opened the ruins of the second layer, and invited powerful adventurers to help explore, in which all the gains could be prioritized, and the news immediately caused a lot of sensation, and the new ruins thought that it was an opportunity to get rich overnight, and countless guys who were not afraid of death flocked to it.

It wasn't until the news reached the ears of King Roland, the suzerainty of Burgundy, that the war between Ingier and Roland had not yet officially broken out, but there were premonitions on all fronts.

For some reason, the first king directly declared that this relic belonged to the Roland royal family, and put pressure on the Grand Duke to close the ruins, and then he personally organized an adventure, which included a number of powerful people who were extremely famous at that time, and the other ordinary people accompanying him alone amounted to as many as three thousand.

Such a small army smoothly took over the control of the ruins and began to explore, and a month later the operation ended, everyone successfully withdrew to Roland, and the strong men invited to participate suffered few casualties, and each brought back a large number of antique treasures, as for what the initiator Roland royal family got is unknown.

Then the war between Ingier and Roland broke out, and soon the king of Rowland went mad and died, some say that he contracted a strange disease in the ruins, some say that he blasphemed the ancients and was cursed, because of his previous domineering style and Burgundy was very unpleasant, the Grand Duke gradually fell to Ingier after the war began.

Since then, the ruins have been limited to the outside world by the Grand Duke, and adventurers with a certain strength can apply for entry, but according to them, the second floor inside is relatively small, and it is very clean, and there is no oil and water than the first layer, and everyone secretly scolds the King of Roland who organized this robbery, on the other hand, I hope that the Grand Duke of Burgundy will continue to develop it to see if the third layer can be found.

This is the end of the story, Ed looks at Raphael's painting and has a rough outline of the ruin, but no matter how you look at it, the matter itself seems to be very suspicious.

"So, the Grand Duke invited you to explore the ruins, did he really find a way to go deeper?" said Raphael, smacking his lips, as if he was contemplating the idea of going again.

Perhaps this is the most plausible explanation in logic, and it is also in line with the image of the Grand Duke in the past.

On the way back after saying goodbye, Ed thought a lot, of course, this secret history of Roland does not exist in the official records, and there is no information in the information he collected at Hill Castle, for what reason did King Roland, who became the villain in the story, go to the ruins in person regardless of destroying the relationship with Burgundy?

That was already a harbinger of war, could it be that there were powerful weapons in the ruins that could turn the tide of war? In addition, his disgraceful behavior also confirmed why the country almost fell apart after his death, and the knight lords everywhere were reluctant to listen to the new crown prince of the royal family to defend the country.

Raphael showed interest in the ruins at the end, and didn't know if he would join in, but Ed knew that he received a message from Delia on the third day, and King Roland expressed his opinion first. (To be continued......)