Chapter Seventy-Four: The Count of Cooler
Everyone looked up in unison with the shouting, and saw a pure white Pegasus flying over everyone's heads comfortably and heading towards Pegasus Castle, and suddenly everyone held their breath, staring at the graceful creature as if glued, as for who was on the back of Pegasus, no one cared.
"Pegasus is so nice, if only I had one. Eliza's face showed a look of great yearning.
"I'll catch one for you later. Sawan said confidently.
"Haha......" Winnett on the side couldn't help but laugh when she heard Savan's words.
Savin asked, "What? Do you think it's impossible?"
"Silly boy. Winnett couldn't hold back a smile and said: "Do you know how rare Pegasus is, the kingdoms of the entire continent combined, I'm afraid it's only about a thousand, and the price of a Pegasus on the market is as high as tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of gold coins, even if you have the ability to catch Pegasus, there is probably no place to catch it." ”
Sawin couldn't help but gasp after listening to Winnett's words, it turned out that Pegasus was so precious, wouldn't it be a fortune to catch one. Sawan couldn't help but have a greedy glint in his eyes at the thought that Pegasus could be exchanged for a large pile of gold coins. Winnett saw Savan's thoughtful appearance, and chuckled: "You kid don't dream, it's better to be your mercenary, it's true that you have money to make Eliza live a good life in the future." ”
Sawin was a little unconvinced when he heard this, and said in his heart: "It's not a very simple thing for my dragon clan to let Eliza live a good life, being a mercenary is just a current interest......
The crowd laughed and walked in front of Pegasus Castle, a majestic castle that looked even taller up closer, with a wide moat in front of the gate and a huge drawbridge made of wood wide and smooth enough for eight horses to walk side by side. Hotz sent someone to call the door, and in a short time he saw the two tall gates slowly open, and a knight in silver-white metal armor rode out of the city, and the bright and smooth armor shook in the sunlight so that people could hardly open their eyes.
"It's really showy enough......" I don't know who muttered quietly.
"Shut up. Hortz lowered his voice and admonished.
"I'm the lord of Pegasus Castle and a knight under the command of Earl Greenlore, what do you have to do?" the knight asked proudly as he came to the crowd.
Hottsze immediately stepped forward and said, "I am the leader of the White Griffin Mercenary Regiment, and I have been entrusted by the Mercenary Guild to send the things of Lord Earl. ”
"What is it? Let me see it first. The knight said very politely.
Hortz sneered and said, "This thing is very important, I must hand it over to the Earl myself, if there is any mistake, I am afraid you cannot afford it." ”
"Hmph!" the knight snorted with disdain, then turned his horse away and dropped coldly, "You are waiting here." ”
The knight's figure quickly disappeared into the doorway, and everyone said dissatisfiedly: "Fool, what a proud fart!"
"I really can't get used to his face, isn't it just because of his background to be a knight? what's so great, I can kill him with a single sword......
The more the crowd complained, the more Hortz did not want to make a fuss, and stopped everyone with a loud voice: "Okay, don't complain here!" Everyone had to shut up when they heard Hortz's admonition, and swallowed the dissatisfied voice back into their stomachs.
Just when everyone was waiting impatiently, the knight finally came on horseback again, this time his attitude turned a hundred and eighty degrees, and his face was full of warm spring breeze, as if they had not seen friends for many years. Everyone was puzzled by his pretentious attitude, only Hortz and Winnett understood better, I am afraid that this person was scolded by the earl, otherwise how could his attitude change so much.
A group of people followed the knight into the castle, through the deep and deep doorway, in front of a narrow slope, and on both sides of the slope are tall and smooth stone walls, Hortz couldn't help but secretly admire, the design of this castle is really extraordinary, everywhere has a unique role, not to mention, just the slope behind the doorway and the high walls on both sides, even if the enemy breaks through the gate, it will take a lot of trouble to attack before coming to the slope, which actually plays the role of a second layer of defense.
Going up the slope, a stone wall appeared in front of you, and in the middle of the stone wall was a doorway, but this stone wall was much shorter than the outer wall. Larger castles often have more than one wall, and most of them have interior walls in addition to the outer walls, which seems to be the case here. Hortz admired himself as he carefully observed the castle's defenses, while the others did not think much of it, except to look around and whisper about the majesty of the castle.
Passing through the inner city wall, there are rows of neat barracks in front, presumably these houses are places for soldiers to live, after passing through the barracks, and then there is a third city wall, seeing here Hortz was a little surprised, this count is really rich enough, no wonder others say that Pegasus Castle is stronger than King Linkey's castle, three city walls, it is really generous.
After passing through the third wall, I finally entered the core area of the castle, and the previous feeling of oppression suddenly disappeared, and the front suddenly opened up, and the turquoise lawn was wide and flat like a huge green carpet extending forward, and at the other end of the lawn was the tall castle tower, which stood quietly on the ground like a titan giant.
When they came to a stop in front of the tower, the guards came forward to take the reins from them, and the guests' horses had their own stables, so they didn't have to worry about it. The knight led them into a large drawing-room, where the fire was blazing in the tall fireplace, the thick carpet was soft to step on, and the furnishings showed everywhere how luxurious the life of the master was, and he would not have spent a great reward for a headband from thousands of years ago.
All kinds of extravagant scenes were jaw-dropping, and even the well-informed Hortz and Winnett secretly marveled in their hearts, the life of these great nobles was really exaggerated, and the life of the lower class people was like living in hell in comparison.
"Welcome. As he spoke, a footstep sounded from far and near, and I saw an old man of medium stature and gray hair walking into the living room with vigorous steps. Everyone followed the voice, and they didn't need to be introduced by others, just by looking at his gorgeous clothes, they knew who it was, and this person was the owner of Pegasus Castle - Count Cooler.
Unlike the lazy and tired look on the faces of ordinary nobles, Count Cooler's face was full of energy, and his two blue eyes projected an aggressive gaze, as if he could pierce a person's body at once. In short, the Count came across as shrewd and strong, as if he had no end of energy.
After the two sides finished saluting, Hotz did not say any unnecessary nonsense, and directly delivered the box containing the headband to the Count of Cooler. The Count opened the box, held the headband in his hand and looked at it carefully, his expression was very attentive, and the others did not dare to disturb him, but stood quietly and waited patiently. Sawin really couldn't stand the oppressive atmosphere, he was like saying that he was going out to take some breath, but that would be rude, and he didn't want to make that impression.
Finally, Count Kule finally put down the headband, nodded with satisfaction: "It is indeed the headband of the Sun King, I really didn't expect it, things thousands of years ago can be so exquisite, it seems that prehistoric civilization is indeed not something that ordinary people can imagine." ”
Hortz didn't quite understand this, but nodded in agreement. The Count ordered the headband to be taken away, and with a wave of his hand, one of the attendants stepped forward and handed a small box to Hotts. "This box contains my handwritten letter and seal, as long as you rely on these two things, you can directly withdraw gold coins from the largest bank in Lin Kai Kingdom, and the amount is the agreed fifty thousand. ”
When everyone in the mercenary group heard about the 50,000 gold coins, their faces couldn't help but be full of joy, even Hortz, but the earl's squire seemed to be indifferent, as if it had nothing to do with this matter. Sawan leaned over to Eliza and whispered, "If I have fifty thousand gold coins, I'll buy you a Pegasus." ”
Sawin didn't expect that this sentence would be heard by Count Cooler, but he didn't expect the old man's ears to be so sensitive, and as soon as he heard Sawin's words, he immediately took it: "Pegasus? I have a few here, do you want to visit." ”
Pegasus is one of Count Cooler's most proud collections, and when he hears someone say about Pegasus, he can't help but show it off, after all, Pegasus is not something that can be bought with money, and the value of Pegasus is more valuable than gold, silver and jewelry. When everyone saw that the Count himself had brought it up, who was embarrassed to say that they didn't want to see it, not to mention that Pegasus was not something that could be seen casually, so everyone nodded one after another.
Count Culler seemed to be in high spirits, and he immediately commanded his attendants: "You tell them to prepare, and we will go after that." The squire took the order, and Count Culler turned to the crowd and said, "Pegasus is not an ordinary creature, and it is even more difficult to find someone who can domesticate Pegasus, and it took me several years to get such one, and the shelf is so big that even if I want to go, I have to inform them first." At this, Count Cooler smiled self-deprecatingly.
After a while, the attendant returned to the drawing-room, and said to the Count, "Ready, she said she could go." ”
The Count nodded, then made a gesture to the crowd and said, "Please, everybody." ”