Blood Holy Scripture: True Ancestor Charlotte de Castel
Chapter 190: -13- Pay respects to the great Ancestor

Chapter 190: -13- Pay respects to the great Ancestor

Charlotte’s pointed command weighed heavily on Sebastian’s heart.

Inside the Castel family’s caravan, other Bloodline members were hidden!

It was Sebastian who had conducted the check of the personnel before the caravan departed, yet even he failed to notice that the Bloodline members had infiltrated unnoticed.

This made him feel extremely embarrassed, even to the point of having no face to show.

He was the deity’s steward!

For this reason, after leaving Charlotte’s tent, he immediately started a personnel check.

The reason was well justified—the attack of the Undead Tide had frightened everyone. As the steward of the Castel family, it was necessary for him to console the family Knights who held their positions in tonight’s defensive battle and to also apologize to the accompanying merchants.

As for what to apologize for... of course, it was an apology for involving them because of the Castel family.

The target of the Undead was Count Castel, and the Mage manipulating the Undead was acting under the instructions of the Third Prince of the New Moon Kingdom. If it were not for staying with the Castel family, everyone would not have been subjected to the threat of the Undead.

This could kill two birds with one stone.

He had an excuse to probe the entire caravan and could use the accompanying merchants and their hired mercenaries to spread the news that the Third Prince was the mastermind behind this attack...

Merchants and mercenaries were already disseminators of many pieces of intelligence, Sebastian didn’t even need to find someone to deliberately spread the word; just by dropping hints during his consolations, this shocking news from the Bold Duchy would spread quickly throughout the entire New Moon Kingdom.

The Royal Family of New Moon, a wealthy and beautiful unmarried Countess, orphans, noble conspiracies, titles inheritance rights, and Undead Mages...

Any of these elements could "trend" within the pubs and brothels.

Just as Sebastian had thought, let alone discussing the Castel family’s own Knights, gossiping wouldn’t be direct about their own Lord, but those accompanying merchants, after knowing the "truth" about tonight’s attack, were all sleepless and bombarded Sebastian with questions for a long time.

Officially, they expressed righteous anger at the Third Prince’s actions and appreciation and understanding for Count Castel’s apologies, while possibly flattering the young Count by saying that even without the attack of the Undead, following the Castel family’s caravan might have spared them the dangers of bandits or vicious mercenaries...

But in reality, each one of them, with sparkling eyes, couldn’t have made the word "gossip" any clearer if it were written on their foreheads.

Traveling north to south, moving east to west, for these merchants and mercenaries, trafficking valuable intelligence was often a source of income.

And the discord between the Third Prince and the Castels was naturally incredibly valuable information.

This meant that it was very possible that the relationship between the Castels and the Bold Duchy would further deteriorate in the future, even potentially signaling that the young Count might intend to break away from the Duchy and pledge direct loyalty to the King.

The impact was multifaceted, and therein lay great business opportunities and prospects.

Perhaps even Charlotte had not expected that the rumor Sebastian spread would be taken so seriously by the merchants and mercenaries.

After all, even now, she probably still did not possess the true self-awareness of a Feudal Lord.

Once power reached a certain level, every word you say would have a corresponding impact.

Even if you didn’t think that far, others would help you "interpret" and "implement" your will.

This was the power of authority, and its extension.

Charlotte soon felt this too.

"What did you say? Breaking away from the Duchy and becoming independent?"

Charlotte looked astonished at the Accompanying envoy from a Vassal Family who visited her late at night, clearly confused.

"No... isn’t it? I heard from Lord Sebastian that tonight’s Undead Tide was driven by the Third Prince..."

"How despicable and shameless! To treat our Castel family in such a manner! But, Lord Charlotte, you must be cautious about your relationship with the Bold Duchy..."

"Yes, yes, if you really want independence, you also need to communicate this with all the Lords in your territory..."

"No, no, I actually think we should become independent; our Viscount has been unhappy with the Duchy for a long time. The Count Castle Domain has contributed massive taxes to the Duchy, but what has the Duchy done for us? They just leech off us!"

"Foolish! Without the protection of the Bold family, Castel would have been devoured by the greedy families around us long ago!"

Representatives from different families were all talking at once, some even started arguing.

Charlotte: ...

What is all this mess?

When did she want independence?

No, to be correct, although she indeed harbored thoughts of breaking away from Bold and starting anew in the future, that was for the future. How had it suddenly been brought up now?

Watching the noisy crowd of family envoys, Charlotte was bewildered.

Gradually, she began to realize that these people had interpreted her allowing Sebastian to release the rumor as some kind of political signal.

In that moment, Charlotte truly felt the power of authority for the first time.

She was already a Countess.

Every word of hers would affect the future of millions of people in the entire Count Castle Domain.

Yet, at the same time, seeing the envoys bustling in her tent, her mood was not very good.

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