Chapter 174 Lilith Kant’s Visit

Since he was scheduled to be a guest in Kant Land for a few days, after a rather sumptuous welcome banquet, Viscount Victor Kant arranged a resting place for Gawain and his entourage.

This ancient castle did not give Gawain a very good feeling.

Although its interior is filled with light and warmth, and the magic crystal lamps everywhere as well as the newly wiped doors, windows, tables and chairs have dispelled the depression brought about by nightfall, Gawain still keeps thinking about it. He had an unpleasant feeling, as if he could see the depths of the castle through those bright windows and whitewashed walls - behind those glossy coverings, there were dark, cold stones, which were smooth and slippery. Moss and vertical and horizontal cracks, as well as the shadows and germs that constantly breed in those moist cracks.

After a brief conversation with Victor Kant, Gawain returned to his room on the grounds that he needed to rest after the journey. This is a guest room specially set up for distinguished guests. It has the same gorgeous furnishings and warm fireplace as the castle master's bedroom. On both sides of his room are the guest rooms where Amber and Philip knights rest. Opposite their rooms are rooms for guests. There is a lounge for playing chess and entertainment and a place dedicated to drinking tea and reading.

The rain outside the window was still falling, and there were signs that the wind was getting stronger. Gawain came to the window and looked at the Kant Castle in the rainy night through the expensive artificial crystal. The meandering water formed an ever-changing trajectory on the window sash, making the scene outside not only hazy but also distorted. In this hazy and distorted vision, he could see several towers of Kant Castle opposite. Towering in the night.

There were several lighted windows at the base of those towers, dimly outlining the outline of the building, but their upper parts were so dark that they almost blended into the dark night.

Gawain frowned and observed the towers carefully. After concentrating, he suddenly saw an obvious crack in the middle of one of the towers.

The cracks seemed to be crawling and growing in the darkness, quickly spreading to the entire upper half of the tower. They widened little by little, and blood-like light leaked from the cracks - the highest The larger tower appeared to be fragmented in the bloody cracks, and collapsed bit by bit in a slow-motion manner, with many people screaming and howling in between.

Gawain woke up quickly. The sound of wind and rain came into the house through the window again. He saw that the tall tower opposite had once again been restored to its integrity. The previous cracks and shouts were like a dream. Gone.

But Gawain would not really regard it as an illusion. He immediately frowned and doubted in his heart: "Is there some kind of large-scale illusion in the castle?"

A burst of light footsteps suddenly came from outside the door, seeming to be heading towards this room. Gawain quickly adjusted his expression as if nothing had happened. When there was a knock on the door, he went over to open the door.

The door opened, and a man who looked about thirty years old, wearing a white longA lady wearing a skirt and holding a lantern in her hand stood outside the door. This lady had long flaxen hair and her face seemed to be extremely pale due to illness. She stood there cautiously, with a look of restraint and nervousness on her face. Look at Gawain.

Gawain looked at the other person calmly, and then showed a curious look: "Madam?"

"Hello, are you Duke Gawain Cecil?" ?" the lady at the door said in a low voice, as if she would get out of breath if she spoke louder.

Gawain nodded: "I am Gawain Cecil, who are you, madam?"

"Victor Kant is my husband," this The frail lady who looked to be only about thirty years old whispered. Although her voice was low, her tone still had the elegance that a noble lady should have, "I am the mistress of this castle, and my name is Lilith Kant."

"Viscountess?" Gawain looked at the other party in surprise. He did not expect that Viscount Kant, who seemed to be already old, would have such a young and beautiful wife, but he thought of the "tradition" of the nobility. " His surprise didn't last long, but he was just curious about why he hadn't seen her at the banquet before, and he hadn't heard the old viscount mention her, "You didn't attend the previous dinner? "

She then hung the lantern on the hook next to the door. , bowed slightly to greet you: "Welcome to your arrival, the great Duke Gawain Cecil, and please forgive me for not being able to fulfill my responsibility as the hostess of this place before."

"Ah, no need. Do you mind?" Various speculations and doubts emerged in Gawain's mind one after another, but the expression on his face was still very calm, "Do you only go out at night? Oh, I know some knowledge about medicines. , maybe it can help your health."

Lilith Kant showed a pale smile: "My husband has the best pharmacist for me, but my weakness is not just that. Because of the disease and the natural constitution, it cannot be treated with medicine, but I still thank you for your concern, Your Excellency."

Gawain has no intention of inviting the viscountess in front of him into the house. , because the other party was visiting alone, this kind of invitation was impolite - even if this was the castle of the Kant family, he just stood at the door and exchanged a few words with the other party, and then the lady said goodbye and left.

After the other party left, Gawain's eyes instantly became sharp.

The lantern in the opponent’s hand!

That was exactly what Gawain saw in his dream, the magic lantern located on the ground floor of the Kant family castle that served as the center of ritual ceremonies. It was the magic lantern that Gawain saw seven hundred years ago.The lantern that Vin Cecil gave as a gift to the then Bishop of Dreams, Selina Gerfen!

But Gawain did not point it out on the spot, nor did he take any action, because he did not feel any magic fluctuations from the lantern, which meant that the lantern was "fake" - either It is a fake, or the lantern has been transformed by magical power, and its true core of power is still sleeping somewhere in this castle. Acting rashly in this case will probably only do bad things.

At this time, a voice from the side interrupted Gawain's thinking: "Huh? Old...Gawain, why are you standing at the door?"

I saw The door next door was pushed open, and half of Amber's head poked out of the door frame, looking at him curiously.

And she didn’t wait for Gawain to answer, and then she stretched out her hand and shook it enthusiastically, holding a deck of cards in her hand: "I found a set of 'King's Deck' in the room. ! You call the poker face next door and let the three of us play cards!"

"I intend to call you here, but not to play cards." Gawain gave the half-elf a helpless look. , and then knocked on Phillip's door.

After gathering everyone in his room, Gawain mentioned the lady who just visited: "I just met Victor Kant's wife, Lilith Kant. She looked very beautiful. Something's wrong..."

After hearing Gawain's description, Amber's pointed ears immediately twitched: "Such an old man married a wife who could almost be his granddaughter? Ugh - you guys are nobles? "It's so shameless."

Then her thoughts started to diverge: "It's better for me to have elf blood. If I don't tell others, they won't dare to guess my age, even you. If this seven-hundred-year-old man marries me, he can go out and tell people with a shy face that I am actually the same age as you..."

The always serious Philip Knight suddenly looked at Amber almost in horror, half-heartedly. The elf girl's tongue-in-cheek way of talking once again knocked this poor upright knight into confusion.

Gawain's answer to Amber was to knock him on the head: "Let's get down to business!"

"We have never heard that such a 'Viscountess' exists," Philip The knight said seriously, "The Viscount Victor Conde didn't mention it either. This is very abnormal - even if the Viscountess is unable to come out to meet guests due to her illness, the Viscount himself wouldn't even mention it, right? And in the castle There are so many male and female servants, and no one has even mentioned in private that there is a mistress here... This is so strange."

"If you want to say that, I have told people in the castle before. Just chatting," Amber rubbed the head that Gawain had knocked on her head, and also participated in the serious discussion, "Although they didn't mention that the castle had a mistress, they did mention that the old viscount had a son named Belm. But he left the castle when he was very young, saying that he was traveling to the central region, and it seemed like he hadn’t come back for decades..."

Gawain touched his chin: "Isn’t this what it means?I went on a trip and was sold to someone else! "

Amber rolled her eyes: "Perhaps he went to be a hostage for some noble family in the central region who had interests to exchange? Aren’t you nobles all interested in this? "

"Don't talk nonsense, this was not fashionable for us back then," Gawain said immediately and seriously, "We relied on self-consciousness to make the covenant at that time, and we did not rely on any little trick of exchanging hostages. "

Knight Philip suddenly looked admiring: "That is what an upright and honest person should do. "

"No, the main reason is that the old pigeons who founded the country generally had a bad temper. At that time, anyone who did not keep his word would be beaten by the nobles of the country - sometimes the king would go there and beat him in person when he was free, because The transportation is inconvenient, everyone is on a first-come-first-served basis, and the founding pigeons who come to beat people sometimes come in an endless stream for a year in a row. I really don’t dare to violate the covenant..."

Philip: "... "

"Mom, how did the founding nobles who were so honest and honest back then become what they are today?" Amber, however, yearned for the era described by Gawain, and it was a pity to think of the current atmosphere. He shook his head and said, "Anyway, the heir to the Kant family named Belm did go on a trip, because he often sent letters back - if there were no accidents, after the death of the old Viscount Kant, Belm Kant would After his travels, he came back to inherit the family business. ”