Chapter 29 Magical Inheritance

Vicburg is located about 70 kilometers northeast of Harden Castle. It is not in the same province as Harden Castle.

Vicburg belongs to Black River County of Gedda Province. Harden Castle belongs to Flame County of Gascoigne Province.

It takes about two hours to travel 70 kilometers on an iron-horned horse.

But the road is not easy to walk at night, and there are half of the mountain roads along the way. Richard spent five hours to get to the vicinity of Vicburg.

During the period when the orcs occupied Vicburg, the people under the rule of Baron Stopa either fled from the territory or became slaves of the orcs.

The castle was silent in the middle of the night, without the sound of chickens and dogs barking.

It was like a ghost castle, which made people feel tingling. Richard was brave, but he also felt scared.

He suppressed his thoughts and rode the iron-horned horse straight to the baron's mansion.

The baron's mansion was very large, with more than a hundred houses in total.

Richard searched the houses carefully one by one and soon found the baron's library.

Baron Stopa has been passed down for three generations and has obtained hereditary fiefdom for more than 60 years. After 60 years of accumulation, the baron's collection of books has become quite rich.

Except for a few far-sighted officers, the orc army does not attach importance to human books. The library was searched by the orcs, and books were thrown on the ground in a mess.

There are more than 300 books in the library, most of which are history, geography, and humanities.

Richard opened the books one by one and found that there was very little content inside. Each book was only bound with a few sheets of parchment, which was not made very well, and each page was particularly thick.

It has been six years since Richard was reborn in this world, and he found that there should be no papermaking in this world. Almost all the books Richard has seen are parchment, and the contents of the books are completely copied by hand.

Without the birth of paper, the cost of knowledge dissemination is very high.

In addition to powerful strength and excellent bloodline, the monopoly of knowledge is also a key factor for the superiority of the nobles.

The history of written records in the Dawn Continent has been thousands of years.

There is no shortage of smart people in every generation. The reason why papermaking has not appeared now is probably because there is no social demand.

Parchment is expensive to make and is not conducive to cultural dissemination. But on the other hand, it is conducive to the aristocracy's monopoly of knowledge and maintaining class solidification.

The aristocracy is unwilling to let ordinary citizens learn knowledge, so they will naturally not be keen on inventing paper and studying movable type printing.

In addition to books on history, geography, and humanities, Richard also found more than a dozen knight novels, which should be some recreational readings. In addition, Richard also found a cult Bible, which recorded the secrets of a cult named the God of Killing.

Richard looked at this cult Bible and saw the name of the God of Killing. His heart tightened and he was secretly worried.

In addition to this cult Bible, the most precious books are the notebooks and memoirs of Baron Stoppa's nobles of all generations.

Richard looked carefully and found that it recorded a lot of secrets of the upper class of the aristocracy, such as the marriage between the Grant royal family and that noble, and the death of a great noble may be murder, etc.

There is a most special notebook that records many crafts and technologies.

Baron Stoppa's family is good at beekeeping.

Vic Castle domesticated a low-level magical beast, the purple-headed bee, and royal jelly can be used to refine second-level healing potions.

Breeding purple-headed bees is a very important source of income for Baron Stopa's family. With this income, the baron can support his daughter to study magic in Markholm and arrange for his son to be an official in the capital.

This notebook, which specializes in recording craft technology, records the beekeeping technology of the baron's family in detail.

It took Baron Stopa 30 years to explore the breeding technology of purple-headed bees. Now that the orcs have invaded, the Stopa family's heritage has been taken advantage of by Richard.

Unfortunately, after the orcs occupied Vic Castle, several bears destroyed the beehive, ate up the honey, killed the queen bee, and the remaining worker bees all fled.

Richard bent down, sorted out these books separately, found a few wooden boxes in the castle to pack them up, and prepared to watch them slowly later.

Then he went to the beehive behind the castle and found that there were still some insect eggs left in the broken beehive. Richard took all the broken beehives away regardless of life or death.

Next, Richard searched the Baron's house carefully. Seeing that there was nothing else to find, Richard thought to himself: "Generally speaking, hereditary barons will collect breathing techniques to cultivate family forces. Human breathing techniques are of no use to orcs. Orcs did not take away the books in the library, so they naturally would not look for breathing techniques to take away alone.

The Stopa family breathing techniques were not found in the library. Could it be that the baron has other hidden secret warehouses?"

With this idea, Richard searched all the suspected places in the next morning.

Finally, a secret passage was found in a warehouse.

The secret passage was only more than 20 meters long, and there were several people who starved to death in it. At the end of the secret passage was a secret room of less than 10 square meters. There were very few things in the secret room. In addition to a blue badge, there was only a sheepskin scroll and a beautifully made book.

The outer shell of the book was inlaid with copper, and the paper inside was delicate and soft. It should be made of special magic beast skin.

Richard opened it and was stunned. This exquisite book inlaid with copper turned out to be a precious magic book.

Magic books are extremely rare in the Kingdom of Grant, and there are very few magicians.

The Mad Lion Legion organized a magic team, which was regarded as a treasure by the legion commander and usually followed the legion department. Every time the magic team cast a spell, there were powerful warriors protecting them.

Baron Stopa's level should not be able to master the magic inheritance. Most of the magic inheritance in the Grant Kingdom is in the hands of the nobles. Wild magicians rarely work in such a magical desert country.

After all, if a magician wants to make progress, what he needs most is inspiration collision and knowledge exchange.

There are only a few magic towers in the Grant Kingdom, and each magic tower is controlled by a noble. To join the magic tower, you must serve the nobles and sign a long contract of selling yourself.

Most magicians are active in several kingdoms on the southwest coast of the Dawn Continent.

The hereditary nobles in the southwestern countries are relatively weak, and there are more magicians. The main power of the country is controlled by large magic organizations.

The magic kingdoms in the southwest have a more open social atmosphere, and such an environment is more suitable for the development of magicians.

Most of the civilian magicians who hang out in the Grant Kingdom are locals who have obtained magic inheritance by chance, and their magic level is not very high.

If they are high-level magicians, they can basically make meritorious contributions and become hereditary nobles.

Richard wrapped the magic book layer by layer and put it at the bottom of the suitcase. Then he flipped through the parchment roll and found that it was indeed the breathing method collected by Baron Stopa.

This breathing method is called the Silver Wolf Breathing Method, but unfortunately it only has eight levels, three levels for apprentices, and five levels for professionals.

Learning this breathing method can at most become a fifth-level professional. For a noble, the ceiling is relatively low.

According to what Richard knows, the breathing method practiced by his uncle Soros can be promoted to the eighth level. Father William also exchanged for the seventh-level Northern Legion Breathing Method.

After William's death, this breathing method will become a precious heritage of the Harland family.

I don't know what material the last blue badge is made of. It feels cold to the touch. Richard estimates that it is also a magic item.

It is still a war period, and there may be missions at any time. Richard dare not stay in Wick Castle for too long. He immediately rode the iron-horned horse, carrying several large wooden boxes of books, and returned to the barracks before dark.