The Original Vampire

TOV88

Under the leadership of the attendant, Colin came to his room in Lion's Roar.

The long journey will be inevitably contaminated with dust, so Colin naturally has to take a bath and change into clean clothes.

This is also the respect for the first family in the north.

"Boom boom boom."

Just after changing into clean aristocratic casual clothes, the door of the room was knocked.

Colin thought it was the waiter who called him to dinner, but it was obviously too early.

The butler had told him before that there would be a banquet tonight.

Curious, Colin opened the door.

Then, a stunning color flashed across his face.

Outside the door was Vera!

Today, Vera is wearing a red velvet coat, her golden waist-length hair with a trace of water vapor. It should have been a short time since the bath.

The fair skin was exuding a moving blush, and it seemed that she couldn't bear the hot gaze of Colin's eyes.

"It's been a long time, Miss Vera!"

"It's been a long time, Colin." The female mage smiled slightly, revealing two faint dimples, looking very cute.

"Should this be your first visit to Lion's Roar, right?"

"Yes." Colin the "soil bun" nodded honestly.

Vera smiled sweetly, turned around, and waved to Colin: "Let's go, I'll take you around."

"Okay, Miss Tour Guide!"

"Oh..."

The crisp laughter was still echoing on the promenade, and Vera's figure had disappeared in the corner.

Colin closed the door, followed the faint fragrance of roses, and chased after her.

"This is the vestibule. There were a lot of sweet-scented osmanthus trees, but my father thought they had a too strong scent, so he replaced them all..."

"This is the tower. When I was a kid, I liked to climb up. I could see far and far away, but my father always said that girls shouldn't climb that high..."

"This is the kitchen and warehouse. When I was playing hide-and-seek with Charles and Adam when I was young, I liked to hide there. They always couldn't find me, haha!

And every time the old housekeeper gets angry, always saying that this is not the place for a lady to come...huh, it's as old-fashioned as my father! "

"This is a garden, my favorite place to go..."

"This is the church..."

...

Vera seemed to be a chirping bird, constantly introducing to Colin everything about Lion's Roar and the fond memories of her staying in these places.

Along with her telling, Colin seemed to see in a daze the innocent, cute, and somewhat weird little girl.

"Here... is the place I feared the most when I was a kid."

Vera's voice suddenly lowered.

Colin also felt that the surrounding atmosphere seemed to become solemn.

He curiously followed Vera into a courtyard deep in the castle, and then he froze!

Successive gazes shot at him like real arrows, making him unable to move at all.

Lifting his head, Colin was surprised to find that the owner of these gazes turned out to be a huge statue!

"These are the paladins in the history of the St. Hilde family!" Vera's face was serious, and her tone became solemn.

Paladin!

It was only then that Colin understood, no wonder there was such pressure. 

After a quick count, Colin found that there were a total of twelve statues here.

In other words, a total of twelve Paladins have been born to the Saint Hilde family for more than a thousand years.

They are the guarantee of the prosperity of this family and the embodiment of its noble blood.

At the same time, Colin also noticed that the eyes of these paladin statues seemed to have been carefully designed, and they all looked in the same direction - that is, the gate of the courtyard.

People who had just walked in were caught off guard, and withstood so many staring gazes, even though they were all statues, they were enough to shock the faint-hearted person.

"This is the Paladin of Franço, this is the Paladin of Breta, this is the Paladin of Lemming..."

Vera pointed to these statues and introduced them to Colin one by one.

Finally, the two came to the largest statue placed in the middle of the courtyard.

"This is the first-generation paladin of the St. Hilde family - Ryan St. Hilde, the Lion on the Fire."

Colin looked up at this huge statue of more than ten meters in height, feeling slightly awe-inspiring in his heart.

The pioneer of the north, the gravedigger of the trolls, the northern barrier of the empire... this series of extremely glorious titles are all about the first-generation paladin of the Saint Hilde family.

Colin easily pulled out related information from his memory.

The territory halfway through the northern border was conquered by this Paladin more than a thousand years ago.

More importantly, he completely broke the backbone of the troll clan!

It laid the military and psychological advantages of the Northern Territory over the Troll Empire.

Even if more than a thousand years have passed, the trolls can only linger on the ice sheet and can no longer return to their ancestral land.

The life story of this paladin has long been sung by the bard's thousands of times, but it is still enduring.

The reason why the people of the North agree with the Saint Hilde family so much, I am afraid that 80% of them are because of this paladin Ryan.

This is also the reason why other families have never dared to imagine overthrowing the position of the Lord of the North.

The north can only be guarded by the Saint Hilde family!

"Colin, do you know? Actually, I wanted to be a knight before."

"Really?" Colin turned to look at the female mage. She was staring at the statue of Paladin Ryan, with a face full of reverence.

"Yes. I had planned it. After my tenth birthday, I asked my father to help me arrange the baptism ceremony. But...

But when I was six years old, my father sent me to Yevil to study arcane arts..."

"Why does Lord Duke send you to learn arcane arts?" Colin took the opportunity to ask his doubts all along.

In this world, nobles and mages are naturally uncomfortable with each other.

Vera, a Duke's adopted daughter, shouldn't have anything to do with mages.

"At that time, my father told me that if you want to know the truth about this world, you should go to Yevil."

Colin frowned: "Then you believed it?"

"Why don't you believe it? That's my father!"

Colin rolled his eyes, and said in his heart that she was really tricked by her father.

From the perspective of this old coin, the Duke sent Vera to Yevil, in fact, to keep her away from the center of power in the North.

After becoming a mage, Vera will find it harder to inherit the title of Duke.

In short, this should be the Duke guarding himself against his brother.

But obviously, the Marquis of Garcia still found an opportunity to take advantage of this northern chaos to let Vera return to the northern border.

Even he has already gotten the promise from the Duke. After Charles, Vera will become the Duke's first heir.

But unfortunately, the Duke finally betrayed.

Betrayed his promise to his younger brother.

Since the hatred is in this way, I don't know when it will break out.

"So, have you found the truth about the world?"

"Uh, there is no..." Vera pursed her lips with a firm face, "But I firmly believe that this path is right! The unremitting pursuit of arcane truth will one day guide me to find the truth of the world. !"

Colin was about to continue teasing the innocent female mage, but he heard footsteps behind him.

"Miss Vera, Viscount Angele! Her Royal Highness's carriage is about to reach Lion's Roar."

"Queen?"

"Aunt!"