Weird Star Witch

Seeing Rudolf waiting at the intersection early, Steward Nairn's mood was strange for a moment, but he quickly adjusted: "Mr. Rudolf, I asked the dockyard and the Bauhinia will be completed by the time you come back. Modification."

Rudolf felt that given Nairn's age and the kindness of saving Rudolf's life, there was no need to use the honorific "you". Maybe it was because I was a little touched to see Rudolf being so proactive and waiting at the intersection early...

"It doesn't matter. Master Kedrick's safety is the most important. It's okay for the Bauhinia to leave a few days later."

Only Kedrick really didn't want Rudolph to leave: "Mr. Rudolph, I hope you can stay in the manor for a few more days, so that I can ask you many things. Oh, by the way, Ursula didn't come with her. There are still many questions she wants to ask you, and before she left, she even made a list full of wizard questions."

Steward Nairn looked at Kedric with satisfaction, hoping that Kedric could let the wizard stay for a few more days.

Several people left the dock on horseback and the city of Navier. Nairn's clipper ship left Port Navier ahead of time to prepare the manor to welcome the young master.

"Mr. Rudolph, our destination is the Golden Anchor Family Doc Manor. Doc Manor has 30,000 acres of grape plantations and is one of the top ten wine estates in the Southern Continent."

When the numerical value reaches a certain level, it is difficult to establish an intuitive impression of the numerical value. A 30,000-acre plantation sounds huge, much larger than most people imagine.

Doc Manor is not far from Navier City. If you ride a horse, you can reach Doc Manor in four days.

Rudolf saw very few people along the way. The population density of the southern continent was not very high, and there were more plantations.

The large and small tributaries on both sides of the Suluo River all belong to the sphere of influence of the Oblivion Church. The Suluo River and its tributaries support much of the surrounding farmland.

While passing through a town, Rudolf said: "While I have a rest tonight, I want to see the customs and customs of the Southern Continent. Butler Nairn, do you have any suggestions? Is there anything I need to pay attention to in advance?"

"Hmm..." Steward Nairn was thinking. He didn't want to be troublesome. He just wanted to reach Doc Manor as soon as possible. However, he did not restrain Rudolph: "My suggestion is, don't be captured by the church and become the Lord of Nothingness. believers.”

"This is absolutely impossible. I am an atheist and I believe in my own abilities. In the myths of more than two thousand years ago, wasn't Emperor Alek capable of killing gods? This proves that gods are nothing to be afraid of."

Steward Nairn shook his head: "Don't underestimate each church. Their missionary methods have been practiced and improved for thousands of years and are very efficient. Maybe after something happens, your mentality changes, and you will become a god of nothingness from now on." Followers of the Lord. The best thing to do is to avoid the priests and avoid their preaching.”

"I am a wizard and I cannot become a priest. Can I still believe in the Lord of Nothingness?"

"Priests are clergy who shepherd sheep in place of the evil god. You cannot become a priest, but you can become a fanatical believer who has made a great contribution to the church. Once other apostles believe in the evil god, they will be cared for by the church. Sooner or later, they will become fanatics and contribute their wholeheartedly to the church. Apostolic power.”

Seeing Rudolph's indifferent expression, Butler Nairn said nothing more.

Rudolf really didn't worry about which evil god he would believe in. He was a staunch materialist atheist. But then I thought about it, there is nothing ‘materialistic’ about time travel. Perhaps only the Almighty God can allow a person to time travel.

After settling in in the evening, Rudolf left the tavern and wandered around the town. Ten minutes after walking out, I found that Kedrick had followed behind me.

"I don't want to be restricted by the housekeeper all the time, and I also want to come and understand the situation here."

Before his sixteenth-year-old coming-of-age ceremony, Kedrick didn't want to go back to the Northern Continent. Anyway, he was just waiting everywhere. It was better to stay here, away from the castle, and be more free.

The two of them walked towards the center of the town together. If they wanted to observe the operation here, the best way was to find the core of the town's operation, the church of the Oblivion Church.

Like what was seen in Port Navier, the church of the Oblivion Church is not a building, but a circle of stone pillars.

There is a circular altar on the nine steps, surrounded by twelve stone pillars. These stone pillars were selected from stone pillars in the wild. Their outlines are naturally changeable and have a rough beauty. The priests carved various oracles from the Lord of Nothingness on the stone pillars.

When the bright moon rises, all the lights around the Stone Pillar Array are extinguished, and groups of believers walk out of the streets and alleys toward the Stone Pillar Array Square.

There are many children in the crowd, and the people here have been indoctrinated into the teachings of the Oblivion Church since they were young, and have devoted their faith to the Lord of Nothingness since they were young.

Rudolf felt a little uncomfortable about the children joining the church. When these children have no ability to distinguish, they are influenced by the people around them and ignorantly take everything they see as a matter of course. It is natural for their grandfather to believe in the Lord of Nothingness, and their parents should believe in the Lord of Nothingness. Brothers and sisters are at home. Of course, everyone should believe in the Lord of Nothingness.

Rudolf and Kedric retreated into the distance, hiding in the distant shadows. There were people kneeling around the Stone Pillar Square, and it would look strange if the two of them didn't kneel.

Two sacrifices were sent to the stone pillar array, they were two naked men and women. The Lord of Nothingness believes that people come naked and should leave naked. Everything a person experiences in this life is nothingness, and the ultimate development of all things is death.

People are always impressed by the refinement and profundity of oracles. However, people may not need to live so profoundly. If they all act according to the oracles, everything will become too cold.

For example, now, black unknown smoke is rising from the top of each stone pillar. The smoke slowly moves toward the center, eventually forming a vortex.

The black vortex of smoke was said to be the realm of silence created by the Lord of Nothingness. The two naked sacrifices slowly floated up and disappeared little by little into the black vortex of silence.

Rudolf's level 4 wolf eyes gave him very good vision. He saw that after the heads of the two people disappeared, their limbs showed tiny twitches, which was a precursor to death.

The believers around the stone pillar array raised their heads and saluted the smoke vortex. The dark and deep vortex was a miracle performed by the great Lord of Nothingness.

"Let's go, don't linger here."

Rudolf had already noticed Nairn, and he really couldn't stay here for long.

As the level increases, the oppression from the evil god becomes more and more felt. The evil god Anniu doesn't know where he is, but he can use his divine power to affect this remote town. This ability is so powerful that it is unimaginable. The evil god can also directly gaze at a certain priest, giving the priest extremely powerful magical powers.

Perhaps two thousand years ago, it was in the face of this absolute coercion and in despair that the entire Northern Continent united behind Emperor Alek and declared war on the evil god.

On the way back, Rudolf asked: "Steward Nien, the Mogwen Emperor who lives in the North, is this the reason why the evil gods did not counterattack the Northern Continent?"

"Yes, during the constitutional movement two hundred years ago, Mogwen XI told his people that if he did not retain an empire of knights, the evil gods of the southern continent would build temples again. , occupying the northern continent. This is the reason why the Mogwen Empire has existed for the past two hundred years. The Alchemy Councils of the various kingdoms and the United States have a tacit agreement not to take action against the Mogwen Empire. Of course, their actions are not necessarily from the Mogwen Empire. Opponent.      The Mogwen Empire is located in the snowfields and pine forests. The conditions there are difficult. It is said that some knights can be promoted by challenging the avalanche. It is the last paradise of knights.

"Our King, Carolingian XVI must become the Great Emperor. The Kingdom of Elba is the bridgehead against the Evil God. Those greedy alchemists only know how to collect money and minerals. They don't understand at all. If the Evil God counterattacks the Northern Continent, When Emperor Mogwen leads his cavalry south, half of the northern continent will be in ruins."

Both knights and alchemists have reasons to become masters. Knights are born kings, and alchemists bring technology and innovation. They all feel that they are standing on the top of a moral mountain.

When Rudolph saw the Doc Manor... he still had no concept of the size of 30,000 acres. The entire plantation has no boundaries and no end in any direction. There are neat rows of vines everywhere.

It's not the time for grape picking yet. There are many people working in the vines, whether they are spraying pesticides or pruning.

"Welcome to Doc Manor! Doc Manor will provide you with unlimited amounts of fine wine!"

The servants of the earl's palace, the knights of the manor, and the earl's vassals here formed a long queue to greet Master Kedrick.

Kedric was so excited, he loved the feeling of being the master. Before Caleb became the new Earl, he was still the Earl's son and one of the owners here... Hundreds of years ago, the ancestors of the family captured and firmly occupied this grape plantation, bringing massive wealth to the Golden Anchor family.

No matter how powerful Nairn is, he can walk in front of Nairn and enjoy Nairn's services. When his father dies, he will no longer be the owner here. The owners here belong to Caleb and his son.

After passing through a stone-paved road and passing through a large grape plantation, you are about to enter the manor complex.

This is one of the palaces of Count Pallu. When the northern continent enters winter, Count Pallu comes here to spend the winter every year. The seasons in the northern and southern continents are opposite, and the winter in the northern continent is the summer here.

The manor steward and cavalry captain of Doc Manor accompanied them all the way to greet Master Kedric and the traveling steward Nairn.

Among the earl's many butlers, the most powerful one is the great butler Mr. Wenler, followed by itinerant butlers like Nairn, who can supervise and inspect many properties on the earl's behalf. Later, he became the manor steward, managing various properties on behalf of the earl.

What surprised Rudolph was that there were nearly 100 cavalrymen in Doc Manor, which was a complete cavalry company.

Many of these cavalry are formal knights. The knight's armor is very different from the armor of ordinary cavalry. The knight's armor is thicker and more powerful, and there is even an alchemical reinforcement circle on it.

No matter how anxious the war in the northern continent is, Earl Pallu keeps an elite cavalry here, which shows how important this grape plantation is. The output here is amazing, and it is one of the Earl's core interests.

Another reason is that the Southern Continent is too chaotic and does not have enough strength to deal with the crazy attacks of the evil cultists.

The manor butler was serving Master Kedrick attentively. They knew about the war in the Northern Continent. They also sent a batch of supplies to the northern continent urgently. Now that Master Kedrick suddenly arrived, the manor steward was a little unresponsive. Could it be that the earl was very pessimistic about the war and was using this method to preserve the bloodline of the Golden Anchor family?

I can only think about such questions in my own mind, but I don't dare to ask the itinerant butler Nairn.

This palace is not a castle, but more like a holiday manor. The magnificent buildings are scattered on the hillside, unlike the land in the northern continent.

After entering the earl's palace, Rudolf once again sighed at the earl's wealth. This palace is so gorgeous, much more luxurious than the baron's mansion like Jennifer. There are lamps made of pure silver everywhere, carpets in every room, and precious paintings by masters on the walls.

Entering the noble's mansion again, Rudolf suddenly thought of Jennifer.

I don't know how Jennifer is doing in Fabro City, and whether she can deal with those old foxes. I don't know if there is a direct conflict between the nobles and alchemists in the Carolingian Kingdom, and I don't know if Jennifer will be affected.

The palace arranged a bedroom for Rudolf, where the view is wide and you can see the plantation outside to the horizon. Carpet, goose down sofa, silver mirror, Jennifer's maid outfit... cough, I think too much.

In the evening, Kedrick knocked on the door and personally invited Rudolf to the dinner.

"Mr. Rudolph, there is a dinner specially prepared for you tonight! Please feel the enthusiasm of Dok Manor!"

Kedrick's invitation was so sincere that Rudolph also felt Kedrick's happiness.

The war ahead did not affect the palace. Whether it was Kedrick, butler Nain, or other people in the palace, they all felt that the luxury here was a very normal thing.

The banquet hall was in a building a few hundred meters away. Servants carried two people there in a sedan chair. Rudolph did not refuse the servants' service. The status of the noble guest was equally noble.

In the banquet hall, there was only a long table with two chairs on the left and right of the long table, one for Kedrick and one for Rudolph.

Kedrick was the host and Rudolph was the guest. Butler Nain and the manor butler stood aside and served the two.

To be honest, Rudolph was not used to this kind of service. He preferred to do it himself. However, the manor butler took a knife and fork and cut the roast goose for Rudolph.

The silver knife and fork flickered in the candlelight.

"Mr. Rudolf, please taste the wine here. The wine of Doc Manor is the court tribute wine of the Elba royal family and has a very good taste."

Facing Kedrick's cordial invitation, Rudolf smiled and took a sip of wine. The mellow aroma of the wine surprised him. He, who didn't know much about wine, could taste that it was a good wine.

After taking a sip, holding the wine glass, Rudolf looked carefully at the crystal wine in the wine glass. This precious bright red liquid obtained after countless labor was emitting an attractive light in the candlelight.

The wine in the wine glass was rippling with circles of ripples, as if something was shaking this small pool of water. This was Rudolf's vibration detection at work. A wizard's abilities were so diverse. There were some footsteps outside the banquet hall. No matter how carefully these footsteps fell on the carpet, Rudolf could detect them.

The butler of the manor patiently cut the roast goose into rectangular pieces of the same size. Butler Nain had a white handkerchief on his hand and looked down at the ground. He was the most well-trained and considerate butler.

Rudolph looked up and looked at Kedrick opposite him. Kedrick looked proud and was waiting for Rudolph to praise the wine of the Doc Manor, which was one of the signatures of the Golden Anchor Family.

Before Kedrick noticed anything unusual, something strange happened.

Kedrick did not wait for Rudolph's praise, but waited for the cold light of the silver knife!