Tome of Blood

  Chapter 345-1-The trip to the capital

   If you want to ask which city on Xingyue Peninsula is the most famous, it is undoubtedly Lutetia, the capital of the New Moon Kingdom.

As one of the oldest cities in the West Unite region, Lutetia was already one of the many capitals of the ancient blood dynasty as early as the blood kingship era. At the beginning, it was once the imperial capital of the empire.

  Nine hundred years ago, the Unet Empire encountered a succession crisis, and the entire country was divided into two, namely the East Unet Empire and the West Unet Empire.

  Eastern Unet Empire was destroyed in a disaster not long after, and has since turned into the East Unet Black Land where monsters are rampant.

  The Siunet Empire has persisted until today, but it has also experienced division, destruction and reconstruction in history...

  The Kingdom of the New Moon was established during the division of the Siunite Empire.

After the division of the Unet Empire from east to west, the ancestor of the Varva family, who was then the palace minister of the Unet Empire, took advantage of the weakening of the imperial power to seize power and split the country again, splitting nearly one-third of the northwestern part of the Unet Empire and establishing an independent country. , proclaimed himself king, which is now the New Moon Kingdom.

  Lutetia naturally became the capital of the New Moon Kingdom.

   It is precisely because of such a period of history that even today, the residents of the New Moon Kingdom regard themselves as the purest descendants of Unet, and compete with the rebuilt Western Unet Empire for the orthodoxy of Unet.

  These histories are what Charlotte saw from the historical materials of the church.

   The nobles of Miria seldom record history, but the Church of the Holy Royal Court has such a good habit, which also allows Charlotte to fully understand the past of this world.

  Of course, even the Holy Royal Court, the detailed history is only from the founding of the Unet Empire.

  As for the history of the earlier period of blood kingship, it may be due to certain taboos, or it may be that there is indeed a lack of records, and most of them are already oral legends.

   Maybe some long-lived species such as elves and dragons still have memories of that period.

   But humans are humans and they are them.

  Elves and dragons who have always looked down on ephemeral species will not be interested in human history.

  As for the Mythical Era and Elven Era earlier than the Blood Moon Era, I am afraid that even in the records of elves and giant dragons, many of them have already been buried in the past...

  After all, even a giant dragon with a longer lifespan than an elf has a maximum lifespan of only seventeen or eight hundred years, and it is far from possible to experience the past of two thousand years ago.

  The only ones that can be called walking myths and history books are probably the blood races that survived from ancient times.

   But it’s a pity, counting on these guys who sleep in the coffin boards most of the time, sometimes it’s even better to go to the ancient ruins to see the murals...

  Let’s gossip less and get back to the present moment.

  The king's capital, Lutetia, is located in the middle of the New Moon Kingdom, about half a month away from Castel.

   There is less than a month before the central meeting. In order to hurry, Charlotte reduced the number of visits and stay time to the noble lords along the way.

The trip went smoothly, escorted by more than a hundred armored knights in full armor, no one dared to touch Charlotte, even if there were bandits and robbers along the way, after seeing Castel's convoy, they had to carefully detour Walk.

   Almost twenty days later, Charlotte saw the tall city walls of Lutecia, the capital of the New Moon King.

   That's a really tall wall...

  The huge city gate is nearly 20 meters high, made of solid stone and iron components, standing like a giant, declaring the authority of the kingdom to the people passing by.

  The sparkling moat is very wide, probably more than 50 meters. It is connected to the Keina River surrounding Lutetia, and there are even boats.

  As the royal capital of the New Moon Kingdom, Lutetia is much more prosperous than Beigang, and it is said that the population is close to one million, second only to the Holy City of the Church.

  On the main road leading to the gate of the city, there are horse-drawn carriages like dragons, pedestrians, passengers and caravans in an endless stream, which is more lively than the wharf in the busiest period of Beigang.

  When Charlotte's convoy drove in mightily, it was such a bustling scene.

  The Castel family's team is still very conspicuous.

  A total of twenty luxuriously decorated carriages, and more than a hundred armored knights in full armor, attracted the attention of countless people as soon as they arrived, showing the limelight of the great nobles.

  Pedestrians, passengers, and small caravans in the vicinity voluntarily gave way to Castel's convoy.

  Of course, it's just to get out of the way.

   There are very few people who stop to salute like they did in the Northland, or look at them curiously like they did in other places.

  Most of the caravans and pedestrians just took a few more glances at the armored knight, then avoided them from a distance, and stopped paying attention.

   This is also normal.

   What Lutetia lacks most is nobles. Nobles, big and small, can be seen everywhere. Throwing a brick casually on the street may hit a baron or viscount. People's awe of nobles is not as deep as in other places.

  Luxe noble caravans like the carriages of the Castel family are very common in Lutetia, and you can see quite a few in Charlotte just outside the city gate.

  Charlotte was even skeptical that it was the more than a hundred majestic and majestic armored knights who were escorting people to avoid them.

   In addition, not all teams will avoid Castel's team after seeing it.

   Some convoys with the aristocratic emblems on the side of the carriages did not give way, and this even included some caravans full of goods.

  Many of these convoys were escorted by knights, and Charlotte even felt the extraordinary aura from some knights.

  Obviously, these convoys all have aristocratic backgrounds, and Charlotte even saw the family emblems of several of the kingdom's big families that she made up for.

  Different from pedestrians, the people in these convoys just looked curiously at the luxurious carriage and the unfamiliar family emblem of the Castel family, and stopped paying attention.

   Instead, the knights escorting the convoy couldn't help looking at Charlotte's escorting team, or more precisely, at the excellent equipment of the Knights of Castel.

  As for those extraordinary knights, their eyes kept falling on those knights around Charlotte's carriage, with a look of surprise on their faces.

  Without him, many of Charlotte's fellow knights are also extraordinary, and even a few advanced ones.

Among the nobles of Miria, they will also watch the dishes. In order to show off their momentum during this trip to the capital, and to avoid being approached by some short-sighted guys, Charlotte brought the most elite guard knights with her. Yes, and the best knight armor was also brought out.

  She came to the meeting and negotiated as the victor and a new vassal, and she didn't intend to keep a low profile from the beginning.

   After glancing at the exterior of Lutetia, Charlotte lowered the curtains of the carriage and waited quietly to enter the city.

  However, just as Castel's convoy was about to enter the stone bridge of the moat, the sound of horseshoes mixed with screams and curses suddenly came from behind the convoy.

  Charlotte only felt that the carriage stopped slightly, and there was abuse from the coachman.

  She frowned slightly, opened the curtain again and asked:

"What happened?"

   "My lord, it's the cavalry! We were supposed to be on the bridge, but suddenly a cavalry joined our team and rushed to the front!"

  The driver of the carriage said angrily.

   "Cavalry?"

  Charlotte raised her eyebrows slightly.

  She looked out the car window, and saw two rows of armored knights wearing gray capes who were also heavily armed, surpassing Castel's team and occupying the stone bridge leading to the city gate first, inserting Charlotte's team.

  They lined up on both sides, majestic, and rampant all the way. The scream just now was that a cavalry ran into a pedestrian. At this moment, the cry can still be heard, obviously someone was injured.

  However, these knights didn't seem to care. They didn't even look at the pedestrian who was knocked to the ground, and just rudely let other passers-by move him to the side of the road.

   Several knights who happened to block the Castel convoy whistled at Charlotte's guard knights, making a provocative gesture, which caused Charlotte's knights to glare.

   At the front of the convoy, the captain of the guard, Baron Sharon, was riding on his horse, frowning and talking to the knight who was obviously the leader of the team.

  The opponent's leading knight was arrogant, and only when his eyes fell on Castel's guarding knight team did he take it seriously.

   And when Charlotte's eyes fell on the aristocratic badge on the chest of the other party, a trace of surprise flashed across her expression.

  No one else, she is too familiar with the other party's family emblem, and has dealt with it some time ago.

   That is the family emblem of the Gaston family, exactly the same as the emblem of the Earl Gaston family that she transformed into a blood servant.

  The only difference is probably that the opponent's badge is surrounded by a circle of gold, while the family emblem of Earl Gaston's family is surrounded by a circle of silver.

  Charlotte intended to use her magic power to listen to what they were saying, but before she could listen, Baron Sharon ended the conversation with the other party.

  He appeased his knights, and then rode towards Charlotte.

"what happened?"

   Charlotte asked.

   "Lord Earl, it is the cavalry team of Duke Gaston's family, and their family members are about to enter the city."

   Baron Sharon said with an ugly expression.

   "People of the family? Not the Duke himself?"

  Charlotte's heart moved slightly.

   "I don't know, they didn't elaborate, they just asked us to get out of the way."

   Baron Sharon shook his head.

   "Tsk, it's pretty majestic."

  Charlotte clicked her tongue.

   Baron Sharon showed hesitation:

   "Master Earl, then we..."

   "It's okay, let them go first, you send someone to look at the person they just hit, and bring the accompanying priest, don't give up anyone's life."

   Charlotte said.

  Duke Gaston is one of the nine Dukes of the kingdom. The opponent's convoy is so unscrupulous, even if it is not the Duke himself, he is probably an important figure in the Gaston family.

  Although Charlotte did not intend to keep a low profile during this trip, she also did not intend to fight against other nobles before finding out the details.

   It's just being inserted into a team, just wait a little longer, Charlotte doesn't care that much yet.

   Not long after, Baron Sharon went back and reported to Charlotte about being hit by a pedestrian:

   "The wounded are not seriously injured and are not life-threatening. It should be that the cavalry has kept their hands. We have asked our accompanying priests to help treat them. After the healing magic, the wound should be cured after a few days."

  After listening to Sharon's report, Charlotte nodded slightly:

   "Well, yes."

   At this time, the Gaston family's convoy also arrived under the **** of the knights.

  The motorcade was mighty, even more imposing than that of the Castel family. The tall carriages were extremely luxurious, and even the horses pulling the carriages were dragon scale horses with dragon blood.

  However, just when Charlotte thought that the Gaston family's motorcade would enter the city gate directly, it stopped when it passed the Castel motorcade.

   Immediately afterwards, the carriage closest to Charlotte and the most luxuriously decorated carriage in the entire Gaston fleet suddenly closed the curtains, and a young and frivolous voice came:

   "The black northern mountain hawk... Family Castle?"

  Charlotte looked over, and saw a handsome young nobleman in his twenties sitting in the other party's carriage.

  His left and right are holding two beautiful maids with graceful figures and scantily clad clothes. Their half-pointed ears proclaim their identities as half-elfs.

  Seeing Charlotte looking back, a look of surprise flashed across the face of the young nobleman, but he quickly returned to normal.

  I saw him whistle and smiled frivolously:

   "You are Charlotte of Castel? The Pearl of Bold, the saint who has not yet been certified by the Holy Court?"

   As he spoke, without waiting for Charlotte to answer, he looked at Charlotte's appearance and said to himself:

"It seems that the rumors are sometimes quite true. The Pearl of Boulder... I thought it was a gimmick. Looking at it today, hehe, it is indeed well-deserved. It can even be called the New Moon Kingdom and even Siunet. Pearl!"

   "Looking at your appearance, you should have elven blood, right? You are so beautiful, but you have to swear celibacy to the gods, tsk, what a pity... What a pity."

   "Hahahahahahaha..."

  Charlotte raised her eyebrows slightly, intending to ask the other party's identity, but the young noble had already lowered the curtains amidst loud laughter, and moved on.

Amidst the dust, the Gaston family's convoy entered the city gate under the **** of the knights. Even the guards at the city gate saluted them respectfully. They didn't raise their heads until the convoy had gone away and continued to straighten their backs. stand guard.

   "Let's go too."

   Charlotte said.

  The armored knights looked at the direction of the Gaston family's convoy with some dissatisfaction, cursed a few words angrily, and then escorted Charlotte's convoy towards the gate of the royal capital.

  However, just as the Castel family's convoy was about to set foot on the stone bridge leading to the capital, they were stopped by the guards at the city gate.

   "Which family's convoy are you? The royal capital, armed knights without permission are not allowed to enter!"

  At the city gate, the heavily armed guards glanced at the family emblem on the body of the Castel family and said solemnly.

  (end of this chapter)