Chapter 182 Letters and Mess

Seeing Lilith Kant's figure disappearing with Viscount Kant, Gawain seemed a little surprised.

He didn't expect Lilith Kant to be a product of nightmares.

In his original inference, Lilith Kant should be a living person and the only "dream maker" in the entire castle who is awake, but obviously, his judgment in this regard has been wrong.

He and Amber came to the huge stone pavilion together, and saw the two skeletons inside and the magically protected body of the Viscountess, which was still not decomposed, so it suddenly dawned on him: Lilith Kant is really dead, Perhaps to initiate this terrifying dream-making ritual, or perhaps to better "contact" her husband and son, she really gave up her life.

The one who wandered in the cellar of the North Tower, and the one who wandered in the castle with a lantern, was just her shadow. No wonder the Viscountess, as a "dream maker", has not left the castle for 30 years. It was Gawain who was reluctant to leave as she imagined, but she could no longer leave here.

But these things are no longer important, the dream is over, the sun of the real world is shining on this dark and ancient fortress, whether it is the dreamer or the dreamer, they have returned with the end of the dream. They should Places to go.

All they left was a mess of the real world.

Amber was still a little stunned, this incredible adventure made her mind a mess (of course, her mind may be messed up often), looking at the stone pavilion and the three corpses in the coffin in front of her, she took a long time to pop out a sentence : "So we've actually been entangled with three dead people for so long?"

"It's this whole land that has been entangled with them for thirty years," Gawain shook his head. "The Eternal Sleeper... is indeed the most dangerous of the three dark sects."

"A person who climbed out of the coffin looked at the three people lying in the coffin and sighed that the cult was killing people. I have never seen anything more supernatural than this in my life..." Amber wondered something. , suddenly stunned herself and said to herself, then she looked down at her feet, and suddenly found something, "Hey, Gawain, there are a few pieces of paper here!"

Several sheets of enchanted parchment emitting a faint glow were scattered in front of the stone pavilion. This was where Viscount Victor Kant disappeared before. Gawain picked them up in surprise and saw the writings of Viscount Kant on them: "This is... left by Viscount Kant?"

"He left it? Is it a letter for you?" Amber blinked, "Look at what it is!"

"It is indeed a letter, but not all of it was left to me. There are also letters to the king and to the public." Gawain quickly flipped through the parchment, and the neat handwriting on it came into his sight:

"I am Victor Kant,

The nobles conferred by the Ansu royal family, the lords of Kangde Town in the southern border and surrounding fields, manors, and villages, I swear in the name of the ancestors of the Kangde family, all the things I say are true, and these facts should be made public to alert the world.

"My family is cursed by the Eternal Sleeper.

"...Cultists corrupted my territory with sinful ritual magic. For thirty years, countless innocent people were killed in this ritual magic. My wife was controlled by sorcery, and my soul could not escape the curse and became it. accomplice...

"...Without the help of Duke Gawain Cecil, I would never be at peace - the Duke responded to my plea, and it was his life-threatening help that lifted the curse that shrouded me and my family. …”

"Your Majesty the King - Greetings from your loyal vassals, this will be the last secret letter I will send you, the events that took place in Kant...

"As it happened, I assure you with my last humanity and my last name that everything is true.

"I have no heirs or immediate family members to inherit titles and property, and the same is true for my wife. The two of us only have a nephew who is very distant by blood and is eligible to inherit, but he is born with mental insufficiency and it is difficult to inherit the honor of aristocrats. Therefore, I am willing to follow The law of the kingdom, returning the fiefs inherited from the ancestors to the royal family, but before that, I must repay the kindness of Duke Cecil - this is the kindness that redeems the soul.

"I would like to give all the wealth in my name except the land - including the collection of books, treasures, antiques and other things in the castle, as well as the six pioneering farms in the south of Kant that are not fiefdoms to Duke Cecil for free, and recognize him the right to arbitrarily dispose of these properties.

"All the wealth produced in my territory this year, in addition to the part that should be handed over to the royal family, is also given to Duke Cecil."

In addition to an open letter to the nobles of the southern border and a secret letter to the king, there is another letter left to Gawain:

"Duke Gawain Cecil, by the time you read this letter, my soul should have regained its peace.

"For this ending, I only have joy and peace, without any resentment. If I have to say anything regrettable, it is only me who failed to fulfill the promise I made - I vowed to reverse the family's extravagant and depraved style, Don't join forces with the brutal and cold-blooded new generation of nobles, and have vowed to emulate the pioneers of your generation, open up territories, shelter the refugees, and be the protector of the innocent and the poor, but the end result is a mess.

"I am very fortunate that you appeared in time and dispelled the haze on this land before my soul completely fell into darkness and everything was irreversible.

"When I was young, I always regarded you as a model and idol, and I even longed to become a knight, like you, to rush into the darkness and carve out a new place for my people to live - so there was The six farms in the southern region of Kant's Land, and that's probably the only sparkle in my miserable life.

"If there is a different time, another way, meeting you may be the most glorious moment in my life, I am even willing to give up my title and all my property, and become one of your knights in my old age Apprentice, accompany you to the pioneering territory at the foot of the Dark Mountains, to fulfill the dream that I could not fulfill when I was young... But all of this will never come true.

"Besides the property in the castle and the six pioneering farms that belong to me, I really can't think of anything else that can be used as a reward for you, but I think you should feel some information about the cult of the Eternal Sleeper. interested.

"Over the years, I have lived as a puppet of my dreams, and even my thoughts have always been guided and controlled, but perhaps I have come into contact with the power of the Eternal Sleeper too much, and the moment after I finally gained free will, I realized Some truth behind this 'curse'.

"Please be alert, the Eternal Sleeper's conspiracy is not as simple as a mere Kant. The sensational and terrible sacrifice they set up in this castle is actually just a 'node' in their series of plans, which they call Compute nodes, and they have a massive plan that requires more souls, more victims involved...

"Their conspiracy may spread all over the world, and once this plan succeeds, they will drag all the intelligent creatures in the world into the abyss of doom.

"But their actions are not without a trace. According to what I have learned, each of their 'computing nodes' requires a large number of living people as 'consumables'. In the southern border, they may be able to secretly capture refugees. Gradually gather enough for the ceremony, but in other places with fewer refugees and better order, as long as you carefully observe the disappearance and movement of people, you can find clues about them.

"I have reported these matters to His Majesty the King, and at the same time, I hope that you will be vigilant and be wary of the resurgence of cultists by your side—you are the only hope for the people in the southern part of this declining kingdom.

"—Victor Kant, a guilty man who really wanted to be a good man."

Gawain's eyes moved between those words, and he turned the parchment over one by one until the last piece of paper appeared in front of him.

Amber's eyes are sharp, and at a glance, he can see that this does not seem to be a letter: "Hey! This does not seem to be a letter to anyone!"

"That's right, this is the lord's order, and it was announced on the territory after it was signed." Gawain saw what was written on it and couldn't help sighing softly, "He has forgiven everyone in the territory's debt to the Kant family. , and liberate all the serfs directly under the lord and the slaves in the castle to freedom, and declare that they have the right to leave the territory freely."

Amber blinked and suddenly remembered what Gawain once said: "Hey, I remember you said that this kind of liberation should be gradual or something..."

"Yes, it should be done step by step. Directly liberating serfs into free people will only make them lose the basic security provided by the landlords. Without a sound and follow-up land distribution and security system, these slaves who become free people can only rely on a little severance. Fei won't last long at all, they will soon lose their freedom again, and eventually sell themselves back to the old road of slaves and even slaves again," Gawain shook his head, "but Victor Kant is not a whimsical idealist, he is sure He can also think of these, but he has no other choice - the Kant family is gone, and with the current administrative efficiency of the Ansu royal family, I am afraid that the new lord will not arrive in a year or two. According to Ansu's law, this All the property in the castle belongs to the nobles themselves, and any servants are selfless, so during this period, the people left by the old lords are the most miserable. They either run out and find ways to make a living, but the slaves make a living by themselves. To commit a crime, or to steal the property from the castle and sell it—but it is also a crime.

"That's why Viscount Kant liberated these people into free people and allowed them to leave freely - at least to give them a way to live."

Amber was stunned for a while, and suddenly felt that his head was a little big: "I feel... what a big mess!"

"It's really a mess, but someone has to take care of the aftermath," Gawain pouted, "and I feel like this has already fallen on my head."

Amber blinked in a particularly slack manner: "So it's better for us to do this. Usually, after the work is completed, lift your legs and leave, and you don't have to think about the aftermath at all - it's just that when you walk slowly, someone will take care of you..."

Gawain glanced at this guy, went up and grabbed her arm: "Yeah, you slowed down the last time you dug a grave, so now go to the aftermath with me."