Gawain looked a little surprised when he saw Lilith Kant disappearing into thin air along with Viscount Kant.
He did not expect that Lilith Kant was also a product of nightmares.
In his original inference, Lilith Kant should be a living person and the only awake "dream maker" in the entire castle, but it was obvious that he made a mistake in his judgment in this regard. .
He and Amber came to the huge stone pavilion together, and saw the two skeletons inside and the body of the Viscountess that was protected by magic and was still not decaying. Then it suddenly dawned on her: Lilith· Kant really died, perhaps in order to initiate this terrible dream-making ritual, or perhaps in order to better "contact" her husband and son, she really gave up her life.
What wanders in the cellar of the North Tower and wanders in the castle with a lantern is just her shadow - no wonder this Viscountess, as a "dream maker", has not been able to achieve anything for thirty years. She didn't leave the castle, not because Gawain didn't want to leave as he imagined, but because she couldn't leave here anymore.
But these things are no longer important. The dream has ended. The sunshine of the real world is shining on this dark and ancient fortress. Both the dreamer and the dreamer have followed the dream. ended and returned to where they should be.
What they left behind was the mess of the real world.
Amber was still a little dazed. This incredible adventure had made her mind a mess (of course, her mind might be messed up all the time). Looking at the stone pavilion in front of her and the three corpses in the coffins, It took her a long time to say something: "So we have actually been entangled with three dead people for so long?"
"It is this entire land that has been entangled with them for thirty years." Gawain shook his head, "Eternal sleep The one... is indeed the most dangerous of the three dark sects."
"A man crawling out of the coffin looked at the three people lying in the coffin and lamented that cults harm people, I will never do it again in my life. I've never seen anything more supernatural than this..." Amber didn't know what she was thinking about. She suddenly shivered and said to scare herself. Then she lowered her head and looked at her feet, and suddenly discovered something, "Hey, Gao. "Wen, there are some pieces of paper here!"
A few pieces of enchanted parchment that were emitting a faint light were scattered in front of the stone hall. This is exactly where Viscount Victor Kant disappeared before, Gao Wen picked them up in surprise and saw the handwriting of Viscount Kant on them: "Is this... left by Viscount Kant?"
"He left it? Is it a letter left for you? ?" Amber blinked in confusion, "Look what it is!"
"It is indeed a letter, but not all of it is left to me, there are also letters to the king and to the public. " Gawain quickly looked at the parchments, and the neat handwriting on them came into his sight:
"I am Viscount Victor Kant, a nobleman conferred by the Ansu royal family, from the town of Kant in the south. As for the lords of the surrounding farms, manors, and villages, I regard the Kant family asI swear on the name of my ancestors that everything I say is true, and these facts should be made public to alert the world.
“My family has been cursed by the Eternal Sleeper.
“…Cultists have corrupted my territory with sinful ritual magic. In the past thirty years, countless innocent people have lost their lives. In this ritual magic, my wife was controlled by evil, and my soul could not escape the curse and became its accomplice...
"...if it were not for the help of Duke Gawain Cecil , I will never have peace - the Duke responded to my call for help. It was his help that sacrificed his life to lift the curse that enveloped me and my family..."
"Sincerely, His Majesty the King ——Your loyal vassal sends you greetings. This will be the last secret letter I send you. The incident that occurred in the Kant Territory...
"What happened is as mentioned above. Last Humanity and My Last Name assure you that everything is true.
“I have no heirs or direct relatives who can inherit the title and property, and the same goes for my wife. We only have one nephew who is very distantly related and is eligible to inherit, but he is congenitally mentally retarded and has difficulty inheriting the title. Noble honor, so I am willing to return the fiefdom inherited from my ancestors to the royal family in accordance with the laws of the kingdom, but before that, I must repay Duke Cecil's kindness-this is the kindness of redeeming the soul.
"I am willing to give all the wealth in my name except land-including the books, treasures, antiques and other items in the castle to Duke Cecil for free, and acknowledge that his right to dispose of these properties as he pleases.
"All the wealth produced in my territory this year, in addition to the part that should be handed over to the royal family, will also be given to Duke Cecil."
In a letter to In addition to the open letters from the nobles in the south and a secret letter to the king, there is another letter left for Gawain:
"Duke Gawain Cecil, when you see this letter By that time, my soul should have regained peace.
“For this ending, I am only happy and calm, without any resentment. If there is anything regrettable, it is only. I failed to fulfill my promise - I swore to reverse the extravagance and decadence of my family, and not to join the ranks of the new generation of cruel and cold-blooded nobles. I also swore to imitate the pioneering martyrs of your generation, open up territories, protect refugees, and become innocent people. and protector of the poor, but the end result was a mess.
"I am very fortunate that you appeared in time and dispelled the haze in this land before my soul completely fell into darkness and everything was irreversible.
" When I was young, I always regarded you as a role model and idol. I even aspired to become a knight, rush into the darkness like you, and open up a new place for my people to live - so there was a new place in Kant Territory. The six farms in the southern region may be the only shining light in my miserable life.
“If I could change the time and the way, meeting you might be the most glorious moment in my life.At the moment, I am even willing to abandon my title and all my property, use my old age to become one of your knight apprentices, and go with you to the developed territory at the foot of the dark mountains to complete the dream that I could not complete when I was young... ...But all this is ultimately impossible to achieve.
"Besides the property in the castle and the six personal pioneer farms, I really can't think of anything else that can be given to you as a reward, but I want to know something about the evil of the Eternal Sleeper. You should be interested in the information about the cultists.
“Over the years, I have lived as a puppet in dreams, and even my thoughts have always been under guidance and control, but perhaps I have been exposed to eternal sleep too much. The moment after finally gaining free will, I understood some of the truth behind this 'curse'.
"Please be alert, the conspiracy of the Eversleeping Ones is by no means as simple as the Kant Territory. The sensational and horrific sacrifice they set up in this castle is actually just a 'node' in a series of their plans , this node is called a computing node by them, and they have a huge plan, which requires more souls and more victims to participate...
"Their conspiracy may spread throughout the entire The world, and once this plan succeeds, they will drag all intelligent creatures in the world into the abyss of eternal destruction.
"But their actions are not traceable. According to the facts I have learned, each of their 'computing nodes' requires a large number of living people as 'consumables'. In the southern border, they may You can gradually gather the necessary supplies for the ceremony by secretly arresting refugees, but in other places where there are fewer refugees and better order, you can find their clues by carefully observing the disappearance and movement of the population.
< p> "I have reported these things to His Majesty the King, and at the same time I also hope that you can be more vigilant and wary of the resurgence of those cultists around you - in the southern part of this declining kingdom, you are already the only hope for the people."——Victor Kant, a guilty man who really wanted to be a good man."
Gawain's eyes moved between those words, and he The parchments were turned over one by one until the last piece of paper appeared in front of him.
Hu Huo has sharp eyes and can tell at a glance that this does not seem to be a letter: "Hey! This doesn't seem to be a letter addressed to anyone!"
"Yes, this is an order from the lord, It was announced in the territory after it was signed." Gawain saw clearly what was written on it and couldn't help but sigh softly, "He canceled the debts of everyone in the territory to the Kant family, and transferred all serfs directly under the lord as well as The slaves in the castle were liberated and declared free to leave the territory."
Amber blinked and suddenly remembered what Gawain had said: "Hey, I remember you said. However, this kind of liberation should be gradual..."
"Yes, it should be gradual. Directly liberating serfs into free people will only cause them to lose the benefits provided by the landlords.Basic guarantees. Without a complete and follow-up land distribution and security system, these slaves who have become freedmen cannot survive for long with just a little severance payment. They will soon lose their freedom again and eventually sell themselves back to being slaves or even slaves. "We are on the same path," Gawain shook his head, "But Viscount Victor Kant is not a whimsical idealist. He can definitely think of these things, but he has no other choice - the Kant family is gone, and at present Due to the administrative efficiency of the Anzu royal family, I am afraid that the new lord will not arrive within a year or two. According to Anzu's laws, all the property in this castle belongs to the noble himself, and any servant has no private property. Therefore, during this period, The people left behind by the old lords were the most miserable. They either ran out to find a way to make a living, but it was a crime for slaves to make a living on their own, or they stole the property in the castle and sold it off - but this is also a crime.
"That's why Viscount Kant wants to liberate these people as free people and allow them to leave freely - at least leaving them a way to survive."
Amber was stunned. , suddenly felt that his head was a little big: "It feels... such a big mess!"
"It is indeed a mess, but someone has to deal with it," Gao Wen curled his lips, "And I feel that this matter has already been resolved. It fell on my head."
Hubo blinked in a particularly twitchy manner: "So it's better for us in this industry. We usually just walk away after the work is done, without having to think about the aftermath at all—— It’s just that when you walk slowly, you will be punished..."
Gawain glanced at this guy, went up and grabbed her arm: "Yes, you walked slowly last time when you dug a grave. So come with me to deal with the aftermath now."