The Lord of Ashes

Earl Grant's voice was not loud, but it was enough to reach everyone around him.

Thain is no exception.

For this father, Thain's emotions are slightly complicated.

He complained that Grant had not found him for many years, and he also complained that Grant immediately married a new wife after the death of his mother, Katharine.

Thain's half-brother looks to be about eighteen years old this year.

(ps: I made a mistake in the previous article and it has been corrected. Thanks to several readers for their reminders in the book review area.)

The age difference of six or seven years between Thain and Thain means that in less than a year or two after Thain was kidnapped and disappeared, and his mother, Lady Catherine, died, Earl Grant immediately married a new one, and soon Give birth to a son.

Yes, with a new wife and son, why would he bother to find me?

There was actually a resentment accumulating in Thain's heart. This resentment had not shown much before. He had even made plans to leave the Earl's castle freely.

But after seeing Earl Grant himself, this resentment quietly revived.

Faced with the question from the count on the black horse, Thain, who covered his hair with the hood of his black robe again, replied: "Go back to my home."

"This is your home." On the war horse, Earl Grant said with a frown.

"No, not here. I only saw a stepmother who made things difficult for me, a younger brother who was hostile to me, and a portrait of my mother."

"My home is elsewhere," Thain replied.

Thain's answer chilled the aura around Earl Grant.

I don’t know if he was angry at Thain’s words or at what Mrs. Tia did.

The riding whip in his hand slapped the ground. Infused with the power of fighting spirit, the riding whip even made an obvious gap in the stone bridge.

This performance alone showed that the count's strength surpassed that of the previous red-armored knight from the Kingdom of Western France by countless times.

"I believe Tia will apologize to you, just today!"

"Including your brother Zoro...he will also apologize to you and recognize you as your brother."

"I promise!" said Earl Grant.

Earl Grant seems to have true feelings for Thain, otherwise he would not have said these words.

It's a pity that if his mother was still alive, maybe Thain would happily accept this family that he had been away from for nineteen years.

But now, no matter how close the count appears, Thane feels like an outsider.

"No, this place doesn't belong to me."

I want to pursue things that should be pursued more, instead of getting lost in false aristocratic affection. Thain said, shaking his head.

"False?" Earl Grant frowned after hearing this.

In fact, in the wizarding world, noble knights pay more attention to the inheritance of blood than magicians.

Many magicians spend their entire lives obsessed with exploring the power of magic and elements, neglecting the issue of procreation, and therefore pay more attention to the inheritance of knowledge and sects.

Indeed, in large aristocratic families, there are many things that go wrong.

Some intrigues and intrigues also occurred.

But when it comes to the inheritance of direct bloodline, no noble will be ambiguous, especially those family heads and heirs with considerable strength.

It’s understandable that Lady Tia is upset about Thane’s return.

But the stupidest thing she did was to drive Thain out of the Grant Territory, and even wanted to arrest him and endanger him.

Faced with this situation, if it weren't for the strength of Mrs. Tiya's natal family, it would not be inferior to the Grant family.

It was possible for Earl Grant to kick this woman away or even divorce her.

Many great nobles regard women as nothing more than tools to carry on the family line.

Including the marriage between Earl Grant and Mrs. Tiya, more emphasis was placed on the interests of Mrs. Tiya's natal family and the ability to give birth to an offspring with good pedigree.

Even in these years, it was relatively rare for Earl Grant to sleep with Lady Tia.

The reason why Thain's half-brother was born a year after his marriage was because Earl Grant used the help of a rare medicine in the family.

The higher the level of a knight, the lower the chance of giving birth to offspring.

This is the result of the theory of biological evolution and the embodiment of the law of balance.

Of course, knights below level one are not considered too advanced creatures.

With the power of the Grant family, it is not difficult to find some potions that can help improve the pregnancy rate.

In fact, these drugs

The elixir has always been sought after by the major knight families in the wizarding world.

The Grant family is relatively good and does not pursue the spread of the family branches excessively.

The number of core members and collateral members of the family has always been maintained in a relatively reasonable range.

In order to obtain as many high-quality bloodlines as possible, it is not uncommon for some noble families to have more than a dozen or even dozens of heirs in one generation.

There are advantages to this situation, but of course there are also many disadvantages.

It mainly depends on the size of a family and their specific situation.

The Grant family does have knights of the first level or above, but the ancestors of their family left the wizarding world more than forty years ago, seemingly going to an alien plane to participate in a dimensional war.

Not only the Grant family, but most of the first-level and above knights from the Lycian Alliance, the Kingdom of Western France and the Oak Empire have left their home countries and the wizarding world.

I am afraid that the hundreds of millions of civilians living in the three major human kingdoms will never imagine that the bottom level wars in the three major kingdoms are constant, but in the real high-level realm, that is, those beings above level one, they are actually almost all the same forces and knights. The strong man in the palace.

The so-called war is nothing more than training soldiers and selecting true strong knights.

This is a plan carried out by most knight halls in the wizarding world, with the purpose of cultivating qualified knights of level one or above.

Because only by reaching the first level of life level or above can one adapt to the dangerous environment of the star universe and truly represent the wizard civilization in waging war and plundering alien planes.

The reputation that the wizard civilization has made in the surrounding star field is definitely beyond the imagination of those weak and low-level creatures.

This is a powerful and top-notch civilization that is powerful enough to sweep over 90% of the Star Boundary planes.

This is the truth of the world!

If Thane could stay and serve as the first heir to the Grant family, Earl Grant would naturally tell him this information.

But now, it is obvious that Thain has not wavered in any way because of the other party's promise.

Ask that woman to apologize to herself? Let that half-brother accept him?

Thane is not that boring.

Continuing to walk firmly and calmly outside the castle, Thain was determined to leave.

Seeing this, Earl Grant sighed softly.

"Tie him up!" the count ordered.