Owen Castle looks particularly solemn in winter. The castle built in the north of the city has a strong rococo style. The mottled city walls seem to show people its long history. Without the green shade and green walls, the walls of this castle
It seemed a bit bleak in winter, and the courtyard gate was a long way from the castle. Suldak entered the manor in a magic caravan, and the carriage stopped in front of the steps of the castle.
The castle of the Owen family was not affected by the attack on the city the night before. Marquis Owen sent a large number of cavalry out of the city to capture the group of bandits from the north of the tower. There were fewer guards in the castle than before.
The butler stood in front of the steps with a row of servants. When the carriage stopped, the butler walked up and opened the door.
This time the treatment was obviously much higher than the last time he visited. Surdak walked out of the magic canopy carriage. Iman followed Surdak and glanced at the housekeeper with questioning eyes. The housekeeper looked at the two of them.
He said respectfully: "Madam is in the reception room on the west side of the second floor."
"Where is father?" Iman Owen asked the housekeeper.
The butler stopped and explained to Iman Owen: "The Marquis heard that the bandit group was going to Gray Canyon, so he led the Construct Knights to chase after them."
Suldak did not expect that Marquis Owen would actually chase the robbers himself. He looked around the castle and saw the sculptures on both sides of the steps. The last time he came here, he could not appreciate them carefully. This time when he went up the steps, he saw
Under the bronze statues on both sides of the steps at the door, there is a brief biography written. Iman Owen introduced from the side: "These are people who have made great contributions to the Owen family. My father very much hopes that there will be people here in the future."
His bronze statue.”
After walking into the castle and walking along the stairs on the side of the main entrance hall to the second floor, Iman Owen said to Suldak: "Mother will be very happy to see you."
While leading Surdak into a living room, there were four maids standing at the door, curtsying to Iman Owen and Surdak. Iman Owen asked them: "Is mother in there?"
"Yes, Master." The maid was very familiar with Iman and replied quickly in a low voice.
The two maids pushed open the door to the living room, and Suldak discovered that the living room was actually very lively. In addition to Lady Annabelle, who was sitting on the main seat, there were two other ladies and a group of young and beautiful people in the living room.
Noble girl, everyone is sitting around chatting.
The women in the living room saw Iman and a young knight walking into the room, and their eyes fell on Suldak invariably. Their shy, curious, and bold eyes made Suldak couldn't help but touch him.
His nose concealed the embarrassment on his face. He took a few steps forward and saluted Lady Annabelle who was sitting on the main seat.
Mrs. Annabelle was sitting at the head of the room, wearing a purple cashmere dress, with her hair held high. Looking at her face with almost no trace of age, it was hard to imagine that she was Iman Owen's mother, so gentle.
His eyes first fell on Iman, then looked at Suldak, smiled slightly and said: "Two weeks ago, I received letters from Dorothy and Marianne on the same day.
I mentioned you, Dorothy was full of praise for your performance in Bena City, and Marianne told me about you and Hathaway."
The maid brought two chairs for Iman and Surdak. Surdak sat opposite the noble lady, and Iman was pulled aside by several noble ladies to talk in a low voice.
Suldak had almost never experienced such a scene. He felt a little uncomfortable sitting on the chair, and he even felt that he had nowhere to put his hands.
"Sit over here and talk to me about you. We don't know much about you. Maybe only Ferdinand knows something about you, but he doesn't want to tell us all the news at all. I heard that you
Your territory is in Helensa?" Lady Annabella waved to Suldak and said gently.
"Yes, Mrs. Annabella, my territory is located in the deserted land outside the city of Helensa. There is an active volcano there, and there is a sulfur mine there. Currently I live in the village of Wall in the deserted land, where is
The place where I have lived since I was a child." Suldak introduced it to Lady Annabella. In fact, he also said this when he first came to Constantinople.
"I remember what you said to me last time, and about your sulfur mines, Iman also said that the purity of those sulfur mines is pretty good. Now the demand for fire scale bombs continues to increase everywhere, and sulfur mines
Mines have also begun to become a scarce magic material. The continuous and stable supply of your mines in the past few months has brought a lot of resources to the Owen family firearms workshop. In this regard, I think you and Iman can still strengthen
Cooperate!" Lady Annabelle said to Suldak.
Iman stood up next to him and immediately expressed to Mrs. Annabelle that he was willing to sign a long-term sulfur ore supply agreement with Surdak.
Suldak took out a letter from his arms and said to Lady Annabelle: "Mrs. Annabelle, this is a letter written by Hathaway to you."
Mrs. Annabelle leaned forward and reached out to take the letter from Suldak's hand. She did not immediately open the letter and read it. Instead, she touched the line of beautiful handwriting on the cover with her hand, showing some nostalgia in her eyes.
, murmuring to himself: "Time flies so fast! I didn't expect that the elf is getting married soon!"
Then he calmed down and warned Surdak: "The Tarapagan area has been a bit chaotic recently, especially since the city of Hiranza is located in Taxi. You should pay attention to it at ordinary times. Iman is now familiar with you.
, if you have any needs, you can come to him for help. Don’t be easily fooled by others, and don’t agree to any promises easily. If there is something that cannot be solved, you can take a magic airship to Bena City, or you can ride a horse and take the mountain road to Constantinople.
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"Iman has helped me a lot." Suldak looked at Iman who was surrounded by a group of sisters opposite and said with a smile.
Mrs. Annabelle seemed to have long been used to it, and said casually: "You young people, you always have to help each other."
It is always said that the ratio of women to men in the Green Empire is somewhat imbalanced. Due to the recent outbreak of the Plane War, the imbalance is still expanding.
Suldak didn't have any special feeling before, but now when he saw a group of warblers watching in the living room, he felt like he couldn't breathe.
He thought that he had prepared gifts before coming this time, so he took out a small magic-sealing box from his magic belt bag, placed it at the feet of Lady Annabelle, and said: "I came in a bit of a hurry this time, so I didn't prepare any gifts.
, although this gift is a bit shabby, I hope you can accept it, madam!"
The gift prepared by Suldak was a piece of 'barbarian cow's tailbone', which was put into a magic-sealing box, which looked quite classy.
"You are so thoughtful, you actually prepared a gift for me." Lady Annabelle lowered her head to look at the magic sealing box and said.
None of the noble ladies seemed to be curious about what was in the magic-sealing box. They were more curious about Suldak than the magic-sealing box. A group of young girls in palace evening dresses, and some underage girls, almost
To surround him, one of the busty beauties who had been holding on to Iman approached Suldak. She exuded a strong fragrance of roses, and her big eyes looked like they were stained with hairbrushes, and she blinked like a baby.
Non-stop.
She first asked Suldak, "Are you Hathaway's chosen one?"
Immediately afterwards, someone asked: "...Uncle Luther also appreciates you?"
The women seemed to have a new topic, chattering together: "It's rare that Hathaway and Uncle Luther have the same vision. You are really from Helena, and your figure is really burly."
Surdak felt like a slave standing on the auction block wearing nothing, feeling ashamed of being displayed in public.
Iman Owen seems to have become accustomed to this way of chatting. He quickly changed the topic and brought it to the attack on the city the day before yesterday. Now the truth of this matter seems to have been revealed. Lord McDonnell has become the target of public criticism. Everyone is worried about Mike.
Lord Donnell expressed his inner indignation with this sneak attack on Constantinople.
Not all lords are willing to endure the cunning Lord MacDonnell. This time, Marquis Owen was tough enough. He led the Constructed Knights to the border area between Tarapagan and Osorno County to look for Lord MacDonnell's bad luck.
Lord MacDonnell has the strongest military strength in the entire Tarapa region. Even in the entire Bena Province, Lord MacDonnell's military strength can be ranked among the top five. I heard that the nobles in the Tarapa region are either attached.
Lord MacDonnell is either so oppressed that he cannot even enjoy normal noble rights.
While the women are worried about Marquis Owen, they also hope that you, Marquis Owen, can severely deal with Lord MacDonnell. In this way, perhaps the family's ranking in Bena Province will rise significantly, and perhaps more young talents will defect to them.
Maybe more nobles will hope to marry into the Owen family, which can alleviate their problem of being unable to marry.
Compared with Hathaway and Beatrice who dare to pursue their own ideals and freedom, the daughters of the Owen family are more like infatuated girls who hate to marry. In addition to hoping that they can marry an outstanding man, they also hope that this day will come soon.
arrival……
Lady Annabella persuaded Suldak to stay in Constantinople for a longer period of time.
Surdak politely declined.
Iman Owen accompanied Suldak to have an exquisite lunch in the castle, and then Suldak bid farewell to Lady Annabella.
After leaving the castle of the Owen family, while there was still some time in the afternoon, Iman Owen took Suldak back to the trading house in Constantine City, and obtained the lowest trading discount from the manager of the trading company. According to Iman's idea, those
The excess magic crystals should be returned in full. Surdak was too embarrassed to take back those magic crystals, so he used those magic crystals in exchange for nearly a hundred sets of full-coverage armor.
Iman even insisted that the manager of the trading company hire a carriage from the carriage house to transport these full-cover armors back to Hellanza City.
In addition, Suldak also ordered ten boxes of fire scale bombs from Iman Owen. However, since the firearms workshop does not have any inventory, these fire scale bombs will be shipped to the carriage shop with the carriage in half a month.
Shipping to Hilanza.
Surdak had seen the power of the explosion of fire scale bombs when he was in Vozhmara City. A fire scale bomb thrown into a group of hell dogs could blow up several hell dogs, and the Constantinople Firearms Workshop
The smashed-to-ruins work sheds outside the city are enough to show that the fire scale bullets have considerable power.
During this trip to Constantinople, Surdak's biggest gain was not that he bought nearly 600 sets of well-made full-coverage armors as he wished, nor that he bought fire-scale bullets that were extremely in demand on the market, but that he met the unique
Grand Knight Rover, and mastered the Knight's Seal, even if it is a weakened Seal, it still makes Surdak very happy.
Suldak returned to the city of Hiranza with three carriages from the Constantinople Carriage Company. The snow on this mountain road had been packed very tightly, and the road surface was hard and slippery, especially when crossing the mountains.
Times are more difficult.
Of course, the only one who faced these dangerous terrains and bad weather along the way was Aphrodite, who wanted to return to the city of Hiranza with the transport team in the carriage house.
Surdak chose to leave the team shortly after leaving the city, ended the summons directly, and then stepped into the Void Gate and returned to the treasure chamber.
Compared with the cold wind in the mountains and dense forests, it is much more comfortable in the treasure secret room.
Surdak returned to the secret room of the treasure. The red dragon Yisel had been waiting in the secret room for a long time, looking impatient. He shook his head like a small house, tried to thrust Suldak with his nose that breathed out fireworks, and erupted from his abdomen.
: "Suldak...Iser eat it!"
Surdak avoided the hot smoke, took out a bag of red crystals from his magic waist bag, and poured it into the open mouth of the red dragon Iser, waiting for its huge head to lie on the platform.
After slowly chewing the red crystal in his mouth, Surdak started the next class. He taught the red dragon Rune No. 22 and an imperial language. After understanding Yisel's head, he quickly retracted his head.
Just let it go.
After not going to the sulfur mine for a while, Surdak left the treasure room and walked out of the lava mine.
The sulfur ore downstream of the lava river outside the mine has been mined by kobold slaves. The kobold slaves are gathering under the lava waterfall. They want to bypass the narrow fault formed by the lava waterfall and climb upstream to mine the sulfur ore.
When Surdak came out of the lava mine, these kobold slaves had been studying here for three days. Unfortunately, they had not come up with any easy method yet. The kobold slaves were trying to build a rope ladder and climb directly.
To the top of the Lava Falls fault, although this kind of rope ladder is very simple to build, it is very inconvenient for all the kobold slaves to climb up the ladder.
But if you have to rely on the ladder to go up and down every day, how much sulfur ore can be collected!
The five village overseers were also trying to figure out a solution with the kobold slaves at this time.
Although he didn't have any good ideas yet, Surdak ordered these kobold slaves to move the mining camp to a flat hillside next to the lava waterfall.
Although there is thick smoke billowing here, the pungent smell of sulfur is everywhere, underground rivers of hot lava can be seen everywhere, and occasionally salamanders crawl out of the mines, which seems very dangerous, but those who want to mine the upper reaches of the lava river
If you want to find a sulfur mine, you must camp here. This way you can save at least a few kilometers of walking along the lava river every day.