Baima City is a beautiful place, with white walls, red tiles, green grass and flowers.
Hill slowly walked towards the castle. The stone road was so quiet that he could only hear his own footsteps. He would be an adult today and bid farewell to this city.
Hill's identity is actually a bit embarrassing. His father, Count Perast, married three wives and gave birth to three sons, and he was the middle one. According to the rules of the Salar Kingdom, after the eldest son reaches adulthood at the age of 16, he is the middle one.
I want to take a piece of property, divide the family and leave.
The mother of the Earl's eldest son, Manton, was of noble birth, and as the daughter of Duke Krall, she received a rich dowry. Unfortunately, she was weak and died soon after Manton was born.
The eldest son had a powerful maternal family. When the earl married his second wife, he only considered her appearance. However, he was unwilling to choose a wife among the minor nobles, so he fell in love with the court mage who was not in the aristocratic system.
Melanie, Oberstein Farland's daughter.
Melanie is a great beauty, with fair skin, big eyes, a straight and delicate nose, a full mouth, and long hair like a golden waterfall, which deeply attracted the earl.
Count Perast, a handsome, rich, romantic, passionate, beautiful and innocent female mage, was soon moved by the encouragement of the palace women and married him. Unfortunately, she regretted it within two years.
The entire earl's castle rejected this female mage, and everyone felt that she would definitely attack her eldest son, Manton, including the husband who claimed to love her the most. After Hill was born, he was even more on guard against her.
However, no one thought that there would be no boring wars between women in the world of mages. Melanie plunged into alchemy, bought a manor outside the town with her son, lived in it, and never saw her husband again.
Before Hill was 12 years old, he would only see this so-called father at the annual New Year's banquet. Unfortunately, when he was 12 years old, Melanie's alchemy experiment failed, and the spell backfired. He died a few months later, and Hill had to return home.
To the count's castle.
Count Perast was indifferent to this son and immediately invested in the selection of a third wife. He never dared to marry a noble female mage again. He had had enough of 12 years without a mistress and being laughed at.
In the end, Count Perast chose a baron's daughter who was famous for her outstanding brains, beauty and generosity. She gave birth to her third son Edgar 2 years ago.
This time, the people in the castle finally returned to the familiar pace. The young and beautiful wife took action and postponed Manton's coming-of-age ceremony that was supposed to be held at the age of 16 to after he was 20 years old. Who made Manton fail to live up to his expectations and was still far away from becoming a formal knight?
How far away.
Most people pursue comfort and enjoyment when there is no pressure; only by exerting a certain amount of pressure can they work hard, so Manton began to exercise hard every day.
Hill is leaving anyway, but if Manton, who is in his 30s, has not become a knight in 14 years, his inheritance will depend on whether Edgar can become a knight.
Of course, if the earl is unlucky enough to die before then, Hill can come back to grab the title. After all, Hill is the only one in the next generation who is above the knight level.
So in order to reduce trouble and keep his ears quiet, Hill rarely even used spells in the castle, so these people thought he was still an apprentice.
Manton also tried to win over Hill, but unfortunately the method was clumsy. Hill got rid of him with an aloof and indifferent look as if he was just waiting for the adult family to separate. After careful observation for a while, his stepmother found that he really just wanted to leave.
It became silent.
Hill spent time in the castle study every day until last night, when he suddenly received a message from his grandfather who had never had direct contact with him.
He rushed to the manor overnight. After the indifferent mage sensed his mage-level mental power, he gave him a storage ring with satisfaction and left, leaving no room for Hill to speak.
Hill didn't even respond to his grandfather who had called him for a long time. He packed up the manor angrily and collected all his mother's things. The storage ring was very big and there were many spell books in it.
He understood that magic was a self-taught profession. After his mother introduced him to the profession, he should read more and learn more. There was nothing wrong with Frank's approach.
As a grandfather, Fran's love for him is all in the ring. There are many precious materials in it, a large amount of gold coins, enough to hold a library of books, and the most important magic tower building materials. This is
A high-level magic tower core that Hill couldn't buy even if he had money.
But! Hill wailed in his heart: "Dear grandfather! I am a warlock! I don't know any bloodline!"
Yes, Hill's years of meditation turned a corner when he was about to embark on the path of becoming a mage. He awakened and became a glorious civil engineering and water magician. He didn't know if he caused trouble by traveling through time and space. In his previous life, he was a civil engineering engineer.
After awakening in this life, I added some water.
In Hill's spell list, Fossils to Mud, Mud to Stone are listed at the front, summoning earth elements, wood elements, and water elements are at the back. Mixed in between are Earth Shield, Earthquake, Slowness, Natural Growth, Summoning Natural Companions, and
Purify.
Hill knows that his bloodline is definitely not bad. Not everyone can have so many spells when awakening as a warlock. And since awakening, his body has become stronger day by day. The seemingly thin body contains powerful
The power. As a warlock, his power is almost comparable to that of a formal knight.
When Hill woke up, he vaguely saw a giant bear roaring toward the sky. He knew that his main bloodline must be bears. The bear tribe is basically earth type, and only equal bloodlines can coexist, so Hill has been thinking about it.
What can the earth bear do to mess with the descendants of the earth and water system?
He was extremely curious about his own bloodline, but he had read all the books in the castle and the manor but could not find any clues. Finally, he found a great mage who might know about it, but he still found nothing.
He told Lina, the housekeeper of the manor, to pack his luggage and wait for him at the gate of the manor. Hill, who was feeling tight-chested, could only walk back to the castle in the early morning light.
Count Perast hadn't gotten up yet. In the castle, only the awakened Manton was practicing hard accompanied by a few illegitimate children. Hill ignored them and went back to the room to tidy up.
The butler had revealed to him the count's intentions a few days ago. The count gave Hill two choices. There was a lord with a small fiefdom in the earldom or a baron without a fiefdom but with a development order. He chose without hesitation.
Baron, what a joke! If he stays in the earldom, there will be a lot of trouble waiting for him in the future. Either magic is not good or alchemy is not fun. Hill is not in the mood to suffer this.
No one in the earl's castle knew that Hill was a warlock. Low-level mages were not uncommon among nobles. It took a lot of time to grow as a mage and consumed countless resources. He had a cold relationship with the earl and would definitely not get much property after the separation.
You are not taken seriously.
But if he is a warlock inherited by blood, he will definitely be treated as a stallion and given to a big noble in the name of marriage. Hill just wants to run as far as possible and find a place to find the archmage.
After tidying up the room, Hill didn't wait long before he saw the butler who invited him downstairs. The count, his wife, and family members were all waiting for him to dine with him. Hill slowly walked down the stairs, and the large dining room was full.
People who came to see the fun. After eating the stomach-ache breakfast in whispers, he followed the group of people to the conference hall.
The Count stood at the front of the hall, facing Hill in the crowd, and said with a smile: "Dear Hill, my cherished second son, at this important moment of your adulthood, I canonize you as Count Perast.
Baron Ranio!
As a father, I will give you 20,000 gold coins and allow you to take away all your mother's property. I hope that you will add glory to the Perast family as Baron Hill Perast Bolaño.
!”
As soon as Hill finished speaking, he heard a sudden amplification of whispers, and the people watching the excitement could not hide their surprise at all.
Count Perast's annual income is about 50,000 to 60,000 gold coins. The status of a baron without a fiefdom is considered very high by ordinary people, but a Earl with real power can be canonized once a year, which is usually used to win over high knights or nobles.
They use money to buy it. There is no big knight appearing this year, so it is normal for Hill to be given the baron status.
But the earl didn't even give his son a fief! The total property Hill received was less than the earl's two-year annuity.
Hill knew that the earl felt that Melanie's property was enough to compensate him. Although the earl was not afraid of the court mage, he did not want to cause trouble.
But he dislikes this son very much, which is clear evidence that he has been rejected by his wife. As long as Hill is around, everyone will never forget Melanie's story. He will never leave this son in his fiefdom.
Hill is a mage and will definitely not choose to be a minor lord.
The Earl always thought that Melanie was just a little mage who knew how to do alchemy, and even tried to commit suicide. Even if the property left to Hill was worth at most 100,000 gold coins, so after Melanie passed away, he generously called Hill
You keep it yourself.
However, a woman's property belongs to a man. Before reaching adulthood, Hill can only get the items donated by Melanie before her death. Everything written on Melanie's dowry list belongs to the earl. The earl does not care about Melanie.
What did he bring? Since there were always knights in his family, he didn't even look at it.
But if he hadn't made it clear in today's statement, the Countess could have intercepted Hil and asked him to take something away. This was the only kindness he showed to Hil as a father.
With Manton, the eldest son of a powerful mother's family, if the Earl wanted to distribute money to other children, he could only divide it in his own annuity. Therefore, he did not want to give too much to Hill to a son he did not like.
The 16-year-old coming-of-age ceremony that was supposed to be held before the enfeoffment ceremony was completely ignored by the earl. If the child is a favorite, he will receive a generous fortune at the coming-of-age ceremony. But only the children who are particularly disliked will not even receive ordinary gifts.
There is no coming of age ceremony.
Everything today is just to let everyone understand that Hill is an unwelcome presence in this castle, and there is no need to treat Hill favorably in the face of the count in the future.
Hill didn't care about this at all, he watched the atmosphere in the hall change instantly.
From now on, it is left to the new countess and Manton to continue their war!
Hill only took away 20,000 gold coins, and Edgar and his brother who might be born will get hundreds of thousands. Hill's eyes suddenly became sharp when he saw Manton. From this moment on, the little brother Edgar really
became his enemy.
The young and beautiful stepmother's eyes twinkled, and everyone understood that Edgar would get a lot, but she wanted more. Count Perast's castle would be bustling in the future, leaving plenty of room for discussion among satisfied people.
Hill didn't want to pay attention to these people and things, got the baronial document from the butler, solemnly thanked the earl for the canonization, and turned and left the castle as everyone watched.