Blood Holy Scripture: True Ancestor Charlotte de Castel
Chapter 266: -43- Banquet and Audience_2

Chapter 266: -43- Banquet and Audience_2

Under the watchful gaze of many eyes, Charlotte made her way to the Lord’s seat and elegantly took a seat. She then nodded slightly toward the orchestra, smiling as she lightly uttered a single word:

"Continue."

With the sign given, the Half-Elf orchestra resumed their music, and the nobles, after a moment of hesitation, also continued dancing, quickly restoring the lively atmosphere of the venue.

Charlotte sat in the Lord’s seat, one hand gracefully supporting her head, the other resting on the ornate armrest. Her deep blue eyes gently swept over the crowd, cross-referencing the nobles’ attire and crests with the information she had reviewed.

Beside her stood the North Port Mayor, Madoc.

Whenever Charlotte’s gaze landed somewhere, he would lean in slightly, respectfully introducing the identity and lineage of the individuals to Charlotte.

Charlotte acknowledged him with a nod while keenly observing, quickly recognizing among her own vassals three Viscount families and seventeen Baron families.

The dancing nobles seemed chaotic.

However, a careful observer would notice that the Castel nobles gathered in the hall were subtly divided into four factions.

Among them, each of the three major Viscount families formed a faction, each with their own allied nobles, especially Lien Castel and Legris, who were akin to stars surrounding the moon.

Charlotte’s mind quickly produced the information on these two families.

She was very familiar with Lien Castel, the main house of Baron Sharon, a branch of the Castel family, and a loyalist noble according to the records, perhaps with their own minor schemes, but always a staunch supporter of Castel.

Their Family Head, Emery, was also a seasoned Silver Moon Knight, who for many years served as the Minister of External Affairs for the Count Territory, with extensive connections.

As for Legris... it was said they were followers of the first-generation Count Castel, one of the earliest knights, with the Red Dragon Bloodline, true Dragon Descendants.

The Legris Family’s territory bordered the Northern Territory Dukedom and possessed a brave and skilled cavalry troop; their influence in the Count Territory was not to be underestimated.

However, according to the information, Charlotte remembered the Legris Family had been in decline in recent years following the death of the old Family Head. But what she saw today suggested otherwise.

The new Family Head was also a Silver Moon, and moreover, such a young woman.

As for the last of the three Viscount families, the nobles gathered around the Roman Fuer family were the fewest, yet this family’s presence was the strongest.

Charlotte perceptively noticed that other nobles almost unanimously kept their distance from where they gathered, a sense of isolation, respect, and fear was palpable.

This also matched the information she had seen.

Unlike other families, the Roman Fuer family was an affiliated family with a complex background.

Their ancestors—the Roman family—were once pirates of the Northern Territory, who often attacked the coastline of the New Moon Kingdom during the era when Northern Territory pirates were rampant hundreds of years ago.

Later, after the Roman family seized lands to the north of the New Moon Kingdom, the then-weak Royal Family of New Moon had no choice but to appease them by bestowing on them the title of Duke Roman, which is the origin of the current Romany Duchy.

However, the Roman family later invaded the Falling Star Kingdom, establishing the Romany Dynasty there, and the Romany Duchy followed suit, becoming an exclave of the Falling Star Kingdom.

The Roman Fuer family split from the Romany Duchy not long after that.

Unlike the Roman main house, they chose to stay in the New Moon Kingdom.

Because they also inherited the tradition of piracy, the Roman Fuer family didn’t have a good reputation. Even though they were selective with their privateering targets, they were scorned by many nobles.

Nonetheless, despite being scorned, the Roman Fuer family controlled a powerful fleet. In the trade-centric Castel, they were a force to be reckoned with and feared by nearly all other families.

Moreover, during the Star Moon War, it was said they wavered between the two kingdoms and even angered the then Bold Duke...

In short, they were a family with formidable power, complex background, and delicate stance.

Recalling the various information she had read, Charlotte slowly withdrew her gaze from Viscount Roman Fuer.

For some reason, the moment she looked at him, she felt a vaguely familiar sensation.

Apart from the three Viscount families, there were also some landless nobles who had formed another small circle. Although their titles were quite modest compared to those of the established nobles—many just bearing the title of a landless Baron or a Knight—their attire was quite luxurious, and some even appeared wealthier than many established nobles.

Having perused the information, Charlotte knew these individuals were the rising nouveaux riches in recent years, different from traditional nobles who relied largely on their land’s taxes. Almost all of them were involved in commerce, operated workshops, or were actually merchants, with purchased titles.

They cared about nothing but making money and how to secure a higher status in the Count Territory.

These four forces nearly represented the current state of the Castel nobles.

Charlotte didn’t know which of these were involved with the Nais Bloodline; it could be one faction or perhaps more than one.

However, her purpose today was observation.

Of course, mere observation was not enough.

To truly understand, one also needed to interact and probe.

With a glance, Charlotte signaled, and the attendants immediately understood, drawing a curtain in front of the Lord’s

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