Vic Fort is located about seventy kilometers northeast of Harden Castle. It is not in the same province as Harden Castle.

Vikburg belongs to Heihe County, Geda Province. Harden Castle belongs to Blaze County in the province of Gascoigne.

Seventy kilometers of speed, riding an iron wildebeest, takes about two hours to travel.

But the night road is not easy to walk, and there is still half of the mountain road along the way. It took Richard five hours to get to the vicinity of Fort Vik.

During the period when the orcs occupied Vikburg, the people under Baron Stopa either fled from the territory or became slaves of the orcs.

The castle was silent in the middle of the night, and there was no sound of chickens and dogs crowing.

It's like a ghost castle, and it makes people feel like their scalp is tingling. Richard was bold, and he actually felt panicked.

He suppressed his thoughts and rode straight to the baron's mansion on his iron wildebeest.

The Baron's Mansion is very large, adding up to more than a hundred houses.

Richard searched room after house and soon discovered the Baron's library.

Baron Stopa has been passed down for three generations and has been granted a hereditary fief for more than sixty years. After sixty years of accumulation, the baron's collection of books has become relatively rich.

With the exception of a few far-sighted officers, the orc army did not value human books. The library had been searched by the orcs, and volumes of books were discarded in a mess.

There are more than 300 books in the library, most of which are history, geography, and humanities.

Richard opened the books and found that there was very little content. Each book is bound only a few sheets of parchment, and the parchment is not very well made, and each page is exceptionally thick.

It's been six years since he was reborn into this world, and Richard found that this world should not have papermaking. Almost all the books Richard had seen were all parchment, and the contents of the books were entirely transcribed by hand.

Paper was not born, and the cost of knowledge dissemination was very high.

The reason why the aristocracy is superior to others, in addition to their strong strength and excellent bloodline, is also a key factor in their monopoly of knowledge.

The Dawn Continent has a written history of thousands of years.

There is no shortage of smart people in every generation, and the reason why papermaking has not appeared now is probably due to the lack of social demand.

Parchment paper, which is expensive to make, is not conducive to cultural transmission. But on the other hand, it is conducive to the aristocracy to monopolize knowledge and maintain class solidification.

The aristocracy was reluctant to let ordinary citizens learn knowledge, so naturally they were not keen to invent paper and study movable type printing.

In addition to books on history, geography, and humanities, Richard also found more than a dozen knightly novels, which should be some pastime reading. In addition, Richard also discovered a cult bible that recorded a cult mystery called the God of Killing.

Richard looked at this cult bible and saw the name of the god of killing, and his heart suddenly tightened, and he was secretly a little worried.

In addition to this cult Bible, the most precious of the books are the notebooks and memoirs of Baron Stoppa's nobles throughout the ages.

Richard took a closer look and found that it recorded a lot of secrets about the upper echelons of the nobility, such as the marriage between the Grant royal family and that nobleman, the death of a big nobleman may be murder, and so on.

There is one notebook that is the most special, dedicated to recording a lot of process techniques.

The family of Baron Stopa excelled in beekeeping.

Vic Castle is home to a low-level magical beast, the Purple-headed Bee, which can be used to refine second-order healing potions.

Cultivating Purple Head is an important source of income for Baron Stoppa's family. With this income, the baron was able to support his daughter to study magic in Makholm, and to arrange for his son to become an official in the royal capital.

This notebook dedicated to recording the craft technology is a detailed account of the beekeeping techniques of the Baron family.

It took Barony Stopa thirty years to explore the cultivation technology of cultivating Purple Head Peak. Now that the orcs have invaded, the Stopa family has cheaper heritage than Richard.

Unfortunately, after the orcs captured Vikburg, several bears destroyed the hive, ate all the honey, killed the queen bee, and the remaining worker bees all fled.

Richard bent down, sorted out the books, and found a few wooden boxes from the castle to put them together, ready to read them later.

Then he went to the hive at the back of the castle and found that there were still some eggs left in the broken hive, and Richard took all the broken hives with him, regardless of whether they were dead or alive.

Next, Richard carefully searched the Baron's Mansion, and seeing that there was no other discovery, Richard secretly thought in his heart: "Generally speaking, hereditary barons will collect breathing methods and use them to cultivate family force. The human breathing method is of no use to the orcs, and the orcs did not take away the books in the library, so naturally they will not look for the breathing method to take them away alone.

The library didn't find the Stopa family breathing method, could it be that the baron has other hidden secret vaults? ”

With this in mind, Richard searched all the suspicions the following morning.

Eventually, a secret passage was discovered in a warehouse.

The secret passage is only more than twenty meters, there are several starving people in it, and at the end of the secret passage is a secret room of less than ten square meters, and there are very few things in the secret room, except for a blue badge, only a parchment scroll, and a beautifully made book.

The outer shell of the book is inlaid with copper skin, and the paper inside is delicate and soft, which should be made of special monster skin.

Richard opened it and was stunned to see that this beautiful book inlaid with copper skin turned out to be a precious magic book.

Grant Kingdom magic books are very rare, and the number of magicians is particularly low.

The Wild Lion Legion has formed a magic squad, which is regarded as a treasure by the Legion Commander, and follows the Legion Headquarters on weekdays. Every time the magic squad casts a spell, they are protected by powerful warriors.

Baron Stoppa's rank, it stands to reason that he should not master the magic inheritance. Most of the magic inheritance of the Grant Kingdom is in the hands of the great nobles. Wild magicians rarely operate in this magical desert country.

After all, if a magician wants to progress, what he needs most is inspiration and knowledge exchange.

There are only a few magic towers in the Kingdom of Grant, and each one is controlled by the great nobles. To join the Magic Tower, you must serve the great nobles and sign a long contract of sale.

The vast majority of mages are active in several kingdoms on the southwest coast of the Dawn Continent.

The hereditary aristocracy of the southwestern countries is relatively weak, the magicians have more inheritance, and the main power of the country is controlled by large magical organizations.

The Magic Kingdom in the southwest region has a more enlightened social atmosphere, and such an environment is more suitable for the development of magicians.

Most of the civilian magicians who are fighting in the Grant Kingdom are some locals who are lucky enough to get the magic inheritance, and the magic level is not very high.

If you are a high-level magician, you can basically make meritorious deeds and become a hereditary nobleman.

Richard wrapped the magic book in layers and placed it at the bottom of his suitcase. Then he flipped through the parchment scroll and found that it was indeed Baron Stoppa's cherished breathing method.

This breathing method is called the Silver Wolf Breathing Method, but unfortunately there are only eight layers, three layers of apprentice level, and five layers of professional level.

If you learn this breathing method, you can become a fifth-order professional at most. For a nobleman, the ceiling is relatively low.

According to what Richard knew, the breathing method practiced by his uncle Soros could be promoted to the eighth order. His father, William, also redeemed the seventh layer of the Northern Legion's breathing method.

After William's death, this breathing book will become a precious heritage of the Haaland family.

The last blue badge, I don't know what material was used. It has a cold feeling to the touch, and Richard is probably also a magical item.

It was still a time of war, and there could be a mission at any time, so Richard did not dare to stay too long at Vic Castle, and immediately rode a wildebeest and carried several large wooden boxes of books back to the barracks before dark.