Pendor Empire In Other Worlds

Chapter 62: New Nobles III

　　As long as you are sailing on the sea, you are no stranger to lighthouses.

　　In the era without precise positioning systems, the biggest risk of maritime navigation is not the changeable sea conditions.

　　 is lost course.

　　 hurricanes, vortexes, mists, submerged reefs... such difficult and dangerous shipwrecks, there is always a glimmer of hope to be able to escape the danger.

　　 Except losing course.

　　If you think about the consequences of losing your way in the desert, you can understand how it feels to lose your heading at sea.

　　Once you lose your course at sea, the entire ship will plunge into the abyss of despair.

　　Here, even if the sun rises and sets to roughly identify the direction, the ship will only stay where it is and dare not continue sailing.

　　 When the food is exhausted, the fresh water is exhausted, and the rest can only wait for death.

　　 and can help the ship not lose its way, except for the precise chart and compass.

　　 There is only a lighthouse.

　　 For those who sail on the sea, seeing a lighthouse means seeing hope.

　　 Lighthouses are not uncommon in Perth, a maritime country. As long as it is coastal islands and villages and towns, most of them will build lighthouses.

　　 But the Gelkaite Lighthouse is very different from these lighthouses.

　　 Ordinary lighthouses, because of the construction height and craftsmanship, the visible distance is often less than ten nautical miles.

　　 But the visible distance of the Gelkaite Lighthouse can reach up to thirty nautical miles.

　　 This distance can be called the longest in the world.

　　 can have such a huge breakthrough in the ordinary lighthouse, on the one hand because of his height.

　　 On the other hand, it is the original lighting method of the lighthouse.

　　 These are also what Lothar heard from the old scholar.

"continue."

　　 Even though he was panting, the earl didn't want to stop there.

　　 He tightened his jacket and pulled Lothar across the city wall and entered the lighthouse through a small door.

　　 Then he climbed up the spiraling stairs.

　　 Lothar noticed that in the middle of the stairs, there was a thick chain moving up and down, making a "ding-ding" sound.

　　 This section of the stairs is very long, and the count took several breaks halfway through before finally climbing to the top.

　　 The temperature at the top of the tower is very high, and the burning stove emits dazzling brilliance, but also emits waves of heat.

　　 At this moment, there are more than a dozen people working on the top of the tower, or move the mirror behind the stove, or add wood to the stove, or move materials through the pulley device in the middle.

　　 In the cold winter night, each of them is shirtless.

　　 Seeing Count Ostard coming up, except for the people who were moving supplies, everyone stopped their work and bowed to the count.

　　 The earl, panting heavily, just waved his hand to let them continue, then found a stool and sat down against the wall.

　　 Lothar looked around, took a scoop of water from a wooden bucket, and handed it to the earl.

　　The earl, who had been in the water scoop, ignored the image of the nobleman and swallowed the water.

　　 This scene made Lothar suddenly think of Lin Peng. It seemed that he was drinking water in this manner just now, and he couldn't help but smile.

　　 "Ha...Ha..."

　　 After drinking the water, the earl took a long time to regain some energy, and handed the wooden scoop to Lothar.

　　 "It's really old, I think I used to come up often when it was newly remodeled.

　　 Now, it has been more than a year. "

　　 Lothar took a look at the earl, and swallowed the phrase "No, you are just fat".

　　"This lighthouse has a history of fifty years. It was only completed when my grandfather was an earl.

　　 Before this, there were only a few small lighthouses of sixty to seventy meters high in the harbor, which could navigate ships. "

　　 While talking, Count Ostard patted the solid tower wall.

　　 "In the Principality of Perth at that time, this lighthouse was the tallest, and his light could be seen from 15 nautical miles away.

　　 At that time, he was called the Qatar Lighthouse.

How about 　　, this lighthouse is magical. "

　　 "Fifteen nautical miles?" Lothar was a little puzzled. "But I heard that you can see his glory even thirty nautical miles away?"

　　 "This is because the lighthouse was later rebuilt."

　　 The earl, who had not yet breathed his breath, smiled.

　　" Lin Peng presided over the reconstruction after I succeeded the earl.

　　 It was he who designed this mirror system to concentrate the light of the flame.

　　 also he replaced coal, which was once used as fuel, with firewood that burns faster and has a brighter flame.

　　 This allows the lighthouse to be seen by ships thirty nautical miles away. "

　　 Lothar never heard Lin Peng talk about this story.

　　 Until this moment, he did not understand why the old man was so familiar with Earls Castle.

　　 "Gelkate?" Lothar asked suddenly in surprise.

　　 "It's a syllable in our respective surnames." Count Ostard guessed what he was asking.

　　 "Did you know, Lothar?"

　　 "In my eyes, Lin Peng is like this lighthouse.

　　 Without him, we can illuminate the deep sea of more than ten nautical miles.

　　 But after all, we can only illuminate this distance. "

　　 "When I met Lin Peng, I was just over twenty years old.

　　 At that time, I was just like every aristocratic youth, proud and conceited.

　　 Or arrogant, arrogant is not bad.

　　 At that time, I was determined to be the heir to the title.

　　In the entire young generation of the Principality of Perth, except for several heirs of the former Grand Duke, and the contemporary Marquis of Paiano, Karl Karst who has also been determined as the heir.

　　 Other people, I don't care about it at all.

　　 At that time, what I did every day was to mobilize guards to wander around the territory.

　　 From time to time, I have to point out other people’s work, even if I don’t understand them at all~www.readwn.com~ In my words at the time, this is called showing the majesty of aristocracy. "

　　 "Hahahaha," At this point, the earl smiled suddenly.

　　 "What's more interesting is that in the eyes of other nobles, they are praised, ‘correct behavior’.

　　 I can be determined as the heir, and I can't get rid of these behaviors. "

　　"Until I met Lin Peng.

　　I finally realized how ridiculous this behavior is.

　　 The conversation with him has changed my past concept drastically.

　　 I suddenly began to think about what "nobleman" is. "

　　"Is it because of the noble blood?

　　 What is the nobility of this bloodline inherited from the evil wizard? "

　　"Is it because of a long heritage?

　　 Compared with ordinary people in those ancient empires, where can our inheritance last? "

　　"Is it because of strong power?