Blood Holy Scripture: True Ancestor Charlotte de Castel
Chapter 201: -18- The History of the Castel Family

Chapter 201: -18- The History of the Castel Family

The capital of the Castel Domain, North Port City, was established on the sea, located beside the mouth of the Don River, the largest river in the West Yonette region.

Legend has it that eight hundred years ago, this area was just a coastal marshland, deserted and surrounded by dense forests teeming with demon beasts, and was once part of the Violet Forest.

Back then, the Violet Forest was not yet called the Violet Forest; the entire forest stretched across the Northern Territory Lowlands and was known as the Dark Forest, where many demon beasts would often form tides in spring, attacking villages in the southern human kingdoms.

Later, to permanently solve the problem of the demon beast tides in the north, the King of the New Moon Kingdom established the Pioneer Knight policy for feudal land development.

Anyone willing to head northward, delve into the Dark Forest to establish villages, whether nobles or commoners, could obtain the title of Pioneer Knight. All the land developed belonged to the knight, all the rare resources discovered on the properties were split evenly between the knight and the Royal Family, and all land-owning Pioneer Knights would receive corresponding hereditary noble titles.

The Count Castel Domain, the Violet Duchy, and even now what has become an exclave of the Falling Star Kingdom on the continent, the Romany Duchy, were all developed in this manner.

The origins of the Castel family trace back to seven hundred years ago.

At that time, a magic prodigy named Castel emerged from the prestigious Bold family in the southern kingdom.

Back then, the theory of transcendent four ranks had not been proposed, and the divisions of rank were not so clear, but... various historical records indicate that at the peak of his middle age, the ancestor of the Castel family was very likely a legendary figure.

As he was the posthumous child of an old Duke, Castel did not inherit any land or titles. To acquire his own land, he chose to become a Pioneer Knight as an adult. With the support of his older brother, the then Bold Duke, he raised a group of one thousand pioneers.

The Count Castel Domain was developed by Castel leading his own Pioneer Group.

Utilizing his powerful magic abilities, Castel slew countless demon beasts, pioneer a realm within the Dark Forest, and chose to build a city on an island in a shallow coastal area by the Don River, turning a large tract of the Dark Forest into his own territory.

There were four main reasons for building the city here.

First was the reliance on the shallow sea’s barrier to effectively fend off the demon beast tides; second was the proximity to the Don River, which allowed for upstream navigation to communicate with the inland of New Moon Kingdom, even reaching the Yonette Empire and Coria Kingdom in the east; third, according to the Pioneer Knight treaty, the division of noble lands was radiating from the stronghold, and having a stronghold deep in the Dark Forest granted a vast amount of territory; fourth, Castel had scouted beforehand that this stronghold could divide the flattest parts of the Dark Forest into his own name, and after clearing the demon beasts, these lands could be transformed into arable soil.

Thus, North Port City was constructed and became the northernmost city of the New Moon Kingdom. The Castel family came to own a vast expanse of twelve thousand square kilometers of land, which also benefited the Bold Duchy, the largest duchy of the New Moon Kingdom, making it remarkably prominent for a time.

Many people say that the Castel family is a family blessed by the deity.

During the great period of development, as transcendent power massively grew in the human world, materials primarily sourced from demon beasts were in high demand across various kingdoms.

Relying on the rich demon beast resources in the Dark Forest, North Port became a haven for adventurers and mercenaries. Merchants from all over Mireya flocked here, traveling north along the Don River to trade with mercenaries and adventurers, purchasing precious magical materials and reselling them worldwide.

In a sense, from the outset, the Castel family rose to prominence through commerce.

Over the subsequent two hundred years, the Castel family gradually cleared the demon beasts from their land, using North Port as their base of operations, and the city continually expanded. It grew from the initial population of barely two thousand people into a burgeoning city of tens of thousands.

The presence of demon beasts gradually disappeared from the Castel Domain, and the originally dense forest was completely deforested.

The subjects of Castel began to farm, and villages started to emerge.

However, at the same time, as it was no longer located within the forest, the trade in demon beast materials gradually disappeared from the Count Castel Domain, shifting to the southern Violet Duchy and to the Northern Territory Alliance in the north.

Logically, it might have been expected that Castel City would decline.

But once again, divine providence descended.

While clearing the eastern hills of their territory, the Castel family unexpectedly discovered a rich silver mine!

Surveyed personally by the contemporary Castel, also a mage like his ancestor, he found extremely high-quality mithril associated with the silver deposits...

Thus began the great silver mine era of the Count Castel Domain.

The extraction of silver and mithril brought immense wealth.

Not only the Castel family but also the Bold family and the Royal Family of the New Moon Kingdom benefited from this.

Especially with mithril.

The mining of mithril was accompanied by the emergence of a precious metal refining industry in Castel, gradually developing into a workshop industry for jewelry and transcendent materials.