Blood Holy Scripture: True Ancestor Charlotte de Castel
Chapter 170: Travel-style rushing_2

Chapter 170: Travel-style rushing_2

Because of the presence of Demon Beasts, Nobles controlling transcendent forces became the main protectors of ordinary people and the rulers of various domains, large and small.

Compared to robbers and bandits, Demon Beasts were the most feared entities for passing merchant caravans.

Robbers and bandits often merely sought wealth, but once a merchant caravan encountered even the lowest tier of Demon Beast without the protection of transcendent power, it faced the crisis of being completely wiped out.

Not long after leaving Bold, Charlotte’s caravan encountered a Demon Beast.

In her view, its strength was not formidable—it was a Magic Wolf that had not entered the tier, which Sebastian called a Wind Wolf Beast, capable of using Wind Blade and Light Body Skill.

But the problem was that it was a pack of more than thirty Wind Wolf Beasts.

A transcendent who had entered the tier might easily exterminate them, but for a common merchant caravan that could not afford to hire such transcendent beings, and not running into mercenaries or adventurers on the road, survival upon encountering them was difficult.

Of course, Charlotte did not let them escape.

She led the Knights herself and the thirty-plus Wind Wolf Beasts quickly turned into thirty-plus high-quality pelts.

According to the merchants in the accompanying caravans, one of these wolf pelts could sell for ten gold tanas on the market!

"That expensive?"

Charlotte clicked her tongue.

"Hey, mistress, anything related to transcendent power is pricey. These Wind Wolf Beasts’ pelts are also considered quite good magical materials and are among the top choices for making Mage robes."

Sebastian explained.

Speaking of which, he added:

"By the way, don’t think that the income of Castel is plentiful just because we haven’t been massively cultivating transcendent power. If you want to do so on a large scale... the domain’s income might not seem that considerable."

Charlotte pondered this thoughtfully.

The Count Castle Domain was a vassal to the Bold Duchy, which often bore the pressure on the transcendent side.

Take the Bold Mage Group that once followed Lord and Lady Castel, for instance; although the Castel family bore most of their salaries, a lot of the transcendent supplies were provided by the Duchy.

Perhaps the income of Bold Duchy was not much higher than that of the Count Castle Domain, but thanks to its vast lands, the Duchy’s income from transcendent materials was far more than Count Castle Domain’s.

And transcendent materials... were often priceless, constituting important strategic materials.

They might be unattainable even with money; even if they were available for purchase, it might not be possible to buy enough.

In the future, Charlotte very likely had to develop her own transcendent power, as Castel might be disconnected in deed if not in name from Bold.

She had yet to indulge in using her Blood Divine Power to cultivate transcendent power; buying transcendent materials with money was nowhere near as substantial as controlling the source of those materials.

Charlotte then remembered the silver mine of her family.

The accompanying Mithril mine, a silver mine, was Castel’s most crucial source of strategic materials; Mithril was not only valuable but also a hard currency for trading transcendent materials.

"It seems that when I return to my domain, the first thing to do is to thoroughly investigate the depletion of the Mithril mine."

Charlotte thought to herself.

She hadn’t been idle in the past half year; after comparing the domain’s accounts, she found that the timing of the Mithril mine’s reduced production and depletion coincided precisely with Countess Castel sending all her accompanying transcendent beings back to the domain.

This was too coincidental.

Charlotte always felt there might be a connection and that the depletion of the Mithril mine might not be as simple as she imagined.

The caravan continued northward.

The grand procession naturally attracted attention.

In the second Star Moon War, the Castel family, featuring two Blazing Suns, had made quite an impression, especially with the Roman Battle that nearly made them famous in a single fight, and most Nobles within the Kingdom recognized the black eagle heraldry of Castel.

Although Mr. and Mrs. Castel were no longer present, the Castel family territory remained, still wealthy, and even within the Kingdom, they were no small nobles.

For this reason, wherever Charlotte went, she received a warm welcome and hospitality from the local nobility.

From the smaller Viscounts and even Barons to Counts and even Marquises, all would send envoys to invite her to dinner or even social balls during the caravan’s rest stops.

Nobles were like that.

If there weren’t truly irreconcilable feuds, most of the time upon meeting, the atmosphere would be warm and the attitude friendly.

Even if they encountered each other on the battlefield, in many cases, they spared each other’s lives unless it was a case of an accidental death. They preferred to take prisoners alive and then demand a ransom.

It was somewhat an unwritten rule among Mireya’s nobility.

Better to gain a friend than another enemy; nobility cared much about expanding their circles, especially among noble circles. For a long-established and very wealthy Great Nobles like Castel, naturally, they were a popular choice for many nobles to befriend.

Not to mention that Castel had a lot of business dealings within the Kingdom’s interior.

Although more and more nobles have been engaging in trade in recent years, the vast majority still rely on their estates and taxes to live. Nobles like Castel who dealt in commerce with flair were not numerous and had dealings with many families.

Therefore, whether it was to form a bond or to talk business, the nobles along the way were very enthusiastic about the Castel family’s caravan. Charlotte, carrying a "tourist attitude," did not refuse them, and nearly every day was filled with banquets.