The two statues outside the castle's grand gates have been completely destroyed, and now only the bases of the two statues remain, with the part below the ankle of the statue, and the rest is just a pile of broken stones, with the occasional ear or finger to be distinguished.

The rocks were scattered in the grass around him, and Roy casually built a piece of the broken stone of the statue, and he could tell that it was the corner of the right palm of the stone statue, which was probably bigger than Roy's head.

Many elves are looking for valuable stones in the rubble.

Claire found a basketball-sized blue-white stone, and happily showed it off to Roy, not caring about Edith next to her......

The stone is a very good marble, and the carving process is also great, the only pity is that it is broken into a pile of broken stone.

When you walk in from the door, you have to cross a stone bridge.

Although it can be called a stone bridge, the difference of this stone bridge is that it is built directly from the bottom of the valley, and there is no water in the deep stream......

After passing the stone bridge, the buildings in the castle are very dense, many lanes are very narrow, only the main street in the middle of the castle can pass the carriage, and there is a small square in front, and now there are many students of the Elf Academy gathered in the small square.

There were also many Silver Moon Elves who took the initiative to greet Edith, and it could be seen that she had a high reputation in the eyes of these Silver Moon Elves.

Edith is polite and responds positively to whoever greets her......

The delegation unconsciously walked to the front of the main building of the castle, and everyone climbed dozens of stone steps to reach the main gate of the castle, but the two ironwood gates have been seriously damaged, one of the doors is lying on the steps, and the ironwood on it has almost been demolished.

Although the other one is still erected at the gate, unfortunately there are only some rotten wood left.

However, the statues on both sides of the main entrance of the castle have been preserved, which are the statues of two sword dancers wearing heavy armor.

Walking into the dimly lit hall on the first floor, there were countless cracks in the marble floor inside the hall, which was covered with this kind of debris and garbage, and the hall was empty.

The coating on the surrounding walls had long since peeled off, revealing the stone walls inside.

There are still some painted motifs on the roof of the hall, and all the chandeliers on the ceiling are missing.

There were only a few hanging slings, and some vines were still wrapped around them.

There are also some corner cabinets against the wall around the hall, but the lid of the cabinet is also missing......

Even the stairs have been removed, and members of the mission have to use rope ladders to climb up to the second floor.

Team 16 seemed to be prepared for this, Claire and the elf who had prepared the rope ladder quickly climbed up to the second floor, fixed the rope ladder to the railing next to the staircase, and then the rope ladder hung down, and the members of the 16 team climbed up the rope ladder one by one.

Perhaps the staircase leading from the first floor to the second floor has been cut off, and the cloister on the second floor is much cleaner, at least the floor can still be seen with patterns.

There are not many animal traces left, the most is some bird droppings by the window.

It seems that not many expeditions have ever been to the second floor, there are only a few lines of footprints on the floor, and the second floor of the castle is more delicately designed, with many rooms, but there are only a few empty rooms left in the room, and even the furniture such as cabinets has been moved.

Edith walked at the front, and the group followed Edith, quietly listening to her introduction to the rooms.

On the second floor, in addition to the guest rooms, there are 24 rooms including the piano room, the painting room, and the reception room, and the corridors in the castle are designed in a circular shape, and everyone can see the reliefs and exquisite paintings on the walls when you walk in the corridors.

It was obvious that Ellington Castle was really large, and Roy wondered how such a majestic building had come to ruins.

The third floor is the rooms of the Ellington family members, which are more complex, and the third floor is divided into three separate areas, each with a separate staircase leading to the second floor, and the third floor of the castle is more intact.

You can also see some stair handrails at the staircase,

While the railings are likely to collapse completely if you touch them with your hands, they've been completely preserved, at least so far.

Some of the rooms still had simple furniture, and Edith walked into one room, her eyes full of memories, and she pushed open the wooden door that was hidden on the terrace, and the harsh sunlight shone in, forming a golden border around her body.

She turned to the group and smiled and said, "This used to be my father's bedroom, and there is a room in Castletown's house that is exactly like this. ”

Walking up to the fourth floor, this is already the top floor of the castle, and there is nothing higher than here, except for the observation deck and the attic.

After everyone walked up the spiral staircase, they were greeted by a mural, the colors on this wall were still extremely bright, and the earl on the wall was also lifelike, she was riding a silver pegasus, wearing silver armor, holding the reins of the silver pegasus in one hand, and raising the long sword in the other, looking down on the entire castle of Castletown.

Behind the Earl was an army of silver Pegasus......

"The fresco on the wall is Count Amelia."

Edith stood in front of the mural and took the initiative to introduce to everyone:

"She was my grandmother, and my grandmother had three children in her life, and my father had two older brothers, and my father was her third son, and he was born in Ellington Castle."

"Grandmother has been following the Silver Moon Elf King for almost all her life, in charge of the Seventeenth Silver Pegasus Legion, and she spent her later years in this ancient castle."

"The original barracks of the 17th Regiment was located across from Fort Ellington, and you can see it from the terrace, but it is now abandoned."

"Grandmother was once a Moonlight Guardian, she could communicate with Silver Pegasus on a spiritual level, and she would banish any foreigner who dared to set foot in Castletown Bay."

“……”

Roy felt that accepting Edith's invitation was the wisest thing to do.

Listening to Edith's introduction, Roy not only had a certain understanding of Ellington Castle, but also had some understanding of Ellington's final owner, Earl Amelia.

In Roy's opinion, the time when Count Amelia was the captain of the 17th Silver Pegasus Legion should be the most glorious period of Fort Ellington.

Sure enough, the decoration style of the fourth floor of the castle has become more imposing, and the colorful murals with imposing domes have changed from those rich elven styles to the battle of the gods.

However, to Roy's surprise, the battle of the gods painted on the dome depicts many gods, but Elune, the goddess of the moon, is not seen......

He then searched for reliefs and murals on the walls around him, but unfortunately he didn't see Elune anywhere.

Walking around the main building of the castle took almost a whole afternoon.

When a group of people came down from the top floor, they found that there were also several expedition groups on the second floor wandering around......

……

At nightfall, the temperature inside the castle plummets.

Maybe it's cooler in the mountains than in the sea, and a cool breeze blows into the camping ground on this side of the arsenal.

It was Claire's first time camping outside, and she couldn't sleep a bit, and there was a constant 'whining' of the wind and a rustling of leaves.

Emerged from the tent and looked around......

In the darkness of night, there was not a glimmer of light in the castle, and he looked at Roy's tent beside him.

Roy's snoring was heard in the tent, and Claire couldn't sleep even more, and he was now wearing a robe and getting out of the tent.

I wanted to take a walk outside the arsenal, but it was a bit eerie......

Seeing that the other tents were also very quiet, he cautiously walked over to Roy's tent and called Roy up.

Roy slept a little dazed and heard Claire's shout.

When I opened my eyes and poked my head out of the tent, I saw Claire standing outside the tent, looking at her pitifully.

"Why don't you sleep at such a late hour?" Roy asked in a daze.

Claire hurriedly said, "I can't sleep a little, why don't you go with me?" ”

Roy closed his eyes and responded, "Forget it, it's so late!" ”

At night, Roy also sorted out the information he had obtained during the day, and now he was so sleepy and tired that it was difficult to even open his eyes.

Roy was required to write a report on the castle from a tourist's point of view, noting down several places worth stopping at the castle.

In addition, Roy also asks Edith some interesting facts, and he plans to make up a few short stories about these stories, which are all described around Count Emilia, and then briefly introduce the simple life of Count Emilia.

Claire also needed to write a travelogue about the entire Malaga jungle.

But so far, Claire hasn't even started writing, and even some short stories haven't been written.

He sat a little distressed outside Roy's tent, and Roy could only get out of the tent, put on a dress, and sat beside Claire in a daze, looking up at the starry night sky, muttering:

"Tell me, what do I need to help you with this time?"

Claire said to Roy, "Why don't you talk about how to write my travelogue?" ”

"I'm really not good at that, right...... What are you going to do with the assignment in sculpture class? I saw that you picked up a stone outside the castle gate, what kind of work are you going to carve......? ”

Roy asked.

…… I've had a headache lately, so I'm waiting for me to adjust

(End of chapter)