Tome of Blood

  Chapter 140-139-Is your family so rich? !

  The convoy from Castel this time has a total of about 300 people, guarding a full 40 carriages.

  Among them, one hundred were armored knights of the Castel family, three mages, and the remaining two hundred were followers and coachmen.

  The leader leading the convoy is Baron Sharon, his full name is Sharon de Leon-Castel, a veteran starry first-order knight.

  After knowing the other party's full name, Charlotte was a little surprised. She didn't expect to see half of her family's surname in the other party's surname.

  However, after Quasimodo's introduction, Charlotte knew that the Leon-Castell family was a branch of the Castell family.

Just like the Castell family is a branch of the Bold family, there are also many branches of the Castell family in the Earl of Castell, but some of them continue to use Castell's name after the separation. Stayed in the surname, and some took on new names entirely.

   Similar family branches are quite common in the Myria world.

This is determined by the inheritance law of the Miriam aristocratic system. Its origin is also the Unet Empire, which established the current basic political structure of Miria. All heirs will receive the next-level noble title and territory.

   It is also because of this that in the past thousand years, various noble families have branched out. In addition to the main family, the side branches have also continued to branch, forming an increasingly large number of noble surnames.

   In other words, the ancestor of Baron Sharon was also a direct member of the Castel family.

  However, success is divided and inherited, and failure is also divided and inherited.

  Although the division of inheritance maintains a certain degree of fairness and allows the noble family to continue to grow, the division of inheritance also brings war, especially the struggle between the heirs over the right of inheritance.

In addition, the continuous division and succession is also weakening the centralization of power. Many feudal kingdoms, including the Unet Empire, have weakened the kingship with the continuous division, and eventually the central government lost control of the local area, and even caused The country perishes.

  Of course, this is the old calendar.

  People have long memories, and the same is true for nobles.

  To this day, a thousand years have passed, and the vast majority of noble families have long since abandoned split inheritance, and instead chose the more "advanced" eldest son inheritance.

  Although heirs other than the eldest son may get fiefdoms, it is not because of inheritance, but because of the gift of the lord.

   As for the Castells...

  In addition to branching out and branching out more than a hundred years ago, the main branch of Castel has been passed down for five generations in the past hundred years, and it is always on the verge of extinction.

  When I arrived at Charlotte, seriously speaking, it was already almost extinct.

   It is also because of this that although the Earl of Castel has a branch of the Castel family, their blood relationship is not even close to other families in the kingdom and duchy that they married, and the same is true for the claim and inheritance of Castel.

  Even if they have a blood relationship, even if they are still a part of the Castel family, the nobles in these territories are almost the same as those who were enfeoffed.

  In addition to Baron Sharon, among the 100 armored knights escorting the convoy, there were five advanced knights, including a hereditary nobleman, and four extraordinary knights who borrowed the seed of power to enter the advanced stage.

  Although the remaining knights have not advanced, they are all extraordinary.

  As for the three mages, there is also a star, and the remaining two are apprentices.

   Obviously, the ratio of mages among extraordinary people is much lower than that of extraordinary knights.

   But this is also normal.

  The conditions for becoming a mage are already stricter than those of an extraordinary knight, not to mention that an extraordinary knight can be mass-produced through the Seed of Origin Power.

  Although the mass-produced beginners are less powerful, they are still beginners.

   Seeing the strength of the escorting knights, Charlotte almost had a more intuitive concept of the strength of her family.

   You must know that in the Demon Hunting House in Boulder City, there are no more than forty advanced Demon Hunting Knights in total, but here, there are seven advanced people in the castel family's supplies delivery team!

  However, the knights escorting the convoy were not the strongest force in this team.

  The strongest force is a middle-aged man standing beside Baron Sharon.

  Different from the armored knight, the equipment on his body looks much more old-fashioned, and his whole person also has a reckless look.

   In him, Charlotte felt an obvious sense of threat, although not as good as Sebastian, but it was already quite strong.

  Silver Moon!

   This is a superhuman of the second level of Silver Moon!

   Aware of the opponent's strength, it was hard for Charlotte not to cast a curious gaze.

  There is no doubt that, compared to the majestic armored knight, the second rank of Silver Moon is the real escort.

   He alone may easily defeat these knights!

   Noticing her gaze, Sharon hurriedly introduced respectfully:

   "Miss Charlotte, this is Lord Carlisle."

   After finishing speaking, he introduced Charlotte to the superhumans of the second level of Silver Moon:

   "Your Excellency Carlisle, this is the young master of our Castel family, Miss Charlotte."

  Carlisle... Your Excellency?

   Her heart moved slightly.

  As a first-rank baron of Starry Stars, Sharon didn't address him as an adult, which meant that he was not an aristocrat.

  Yinyue rank two, but not aristocrat, coupled with the vicissitudes of life and rough attire, the answer is ready to come out.

  The other party...is probably a free mercenary!

   As if to verify Charlotte's guess, the middle-aged man couldn't help but look at her a few more times before looking away. At most, his eyes stopped on Sebastian, and then he said to Baron Sharon:

   "Your Excellency Sharon, Boulder is here, and I should go too."

   "Your Excellency Carlisle, don't you want to stay and rest? Let's do our best as landlords."

   Baron Sharon said in a deep voice.

  However, the transcendent named Carlisle just shook his head:

   "Thank you for your invitation, but I have other things to do."

  After some refusals, the Transcendent of the second level of Silver Moon left.

  Before he left, Baron Sharon ordered a knight to hand him an exquisite bag. Charlotte glanced at it sharply and found that it contained a lot of shiny silver metal, which looked very much like the legendary mithril.

  She immediately understood that this mercenary was not Castel's retainer, but just hired to help **** supplies.

  However, being able to hire a silver moon second-level **** to **** supplies for a month is enough to show Castel's financial resources and the value of the delivered items.

  Based on Nice’s price for hiring superhumans in the black market, if there are no tens of thousands of Quintanas, I’m afraid they won’t be able to hire them!

  And this... also made Charlotte more curious about the supplies delivered by the convoy.

   After all, the cost of this trip alone may cost tens of thousands of Quintanas!

  Accompanied by the excited pursuit of the children, the Castel family's convoy drove into Boulder City, and the knights outside sprinkled silver tana on both sides to open the way, welcoming bursts of applause.

  Sitting in the carriage, Charlotte couldn't wait to order the guarding knights to send the list of supplies to Xian Kangkang.

  After listening to her order, although Baron Sharon hesitated, he finally obeyed.

  After seeing the list, Charlotte finally knew why forty carriages were used.

  It turned out that the convoy they escorted not only provided funds for the manor, but also provided goods for the family's stores throughout the Principality of Boulder.

  Forty carriages, most of them are goods!

  They are not only a convoy transporting supplies, but also a caravan.

   As for the supplies they delivered... there are high-quality textiles from the Fallen Star Kingdom, elf jewelry and magic items from Luna Island, and minerals and gems from Castelland.

   And when Charlotte saw the column of funds sent to the manor, his eyes suddenly lit up.

  500,000!

  The convoy was transported to the manor as a fund for family activities, and there were 500,000 Quintanas!

  Gosh, that's a month's worth of money!

   That’s six million Quintanas a year!

  Grandpa’s family is so rich? !

  Charlotte felt that her little heart was trembling. She felt that she still underestimated her family's wealth.

   At this time, the old servant Quasimodo couldn't help knocking on the car window:

   "Master, roughly how much money was transported from the family territory...?"

   "500,000 Quintana!"

  Charlotte took a deep breath and said with a red face.

  However, after hearing her words, Quasimodo frowned slightly:

   "Fifty... million?"

   Seeing his expression, Charlotte was a little strange:

   "What, is there a problem?"

   Quasimodo hesitated, and whispered:

   "It seems that there are some problems..."

   "Master, I haven't been involved in family affairs for too many years, so I don't know what the current territory is like."

   "But only half a million...seems too little."

  Charlotte: ...?

   The second update still has to wait until one o'clock in the morning.

  (end of this chapter)