The Lord of Ashes

Living as a young master of the Grant family made Thain uncomfortable at first.

But gradually, he got used to it.

Every morning, ten young girls dressed in maid outfits appeared in Thain's room.

Help him get up, change clothes, wash, brush teeth, etc.

These beautiful maids were arranged by Earl Grant for Thain, and they are all virgins.

Thain's treatment is the only one in the Earl's Mansion.

Another young master, Sauron, who inherited the Earl's bloodline, only had two personal maids to serve him.

Since Thain is not a knight, he does not need to get up too early like most people in the Earl's Mansion.

Thain's younger brother Sauron, although in Thain's opinion, he is just a showman.

But this kid is pretty good compared to other noble youths.

Every day before the sun rises, Sauron will come to the training ground of the castle with Earl Grant to hone his combat skills or build up his fighting spirit.

Sauron's mid-level knight attendant's fighting spirit and physical strength are both excellent for his age group.

The only thing he lacks now is the training of actual war.

Judging from the count's recent performance and some of the information revealed, war and training are not far away.

As the war between the Kingdom of Western France and the Oak Empire becomes more and more intense, in the face of two urgent requests for help from the Kingdom of Western France, the troops of the Lycian Alliance will soon be dispatched.

Earl Grant, who has the strength of a quasi-knight, must be one of the leaders of the Lycian Alliance.

Although he may not necessarily go to the battlefield personally, he is one of the battlefield commanders.

Zoro has also reached adulthood, and he will most likely go on an expedition with his father this time.

Regarding the wars between these secular kingdoms, Thane, who has reached the level of an advanced apprentice and is suspected of having a second-level magician as a mentor, has learned many relevant secrets from Earl Grant in private these days.

The truth of the war is undoubtedly shocking.

However, Thain did not say much. He also had no expressions about the low-level soldiers from several countries who died in the war, and the damage caused to the larger number of civilian groups.

Thain's mentality is essentially that of a black magic apprentice.

He is not a compassionate sage. It is one thing to have a bottom line, but he does not show random kindness.

The world is too big, and Thain can't take care of so many things. It's good if he can take care of himself and the people around him.

The slogans shouted by the knights' attendants during training were the first noise that broke through the Earl's Mansion in the early morning.

Originally, Earl Grant was worried that the sound of these knights training would disturb Thane.

However, the Earl was relieved when he noticed that the crystal lamp in Thain's room sometimes lit up earlier.

Early morning is undoubtedly the time when the human brain is the freshest.

Although Thane did not have a clear concept of day and night when he was at the Academy of Dark Arts, he was accustomed to being on time no matter what he did.

After getting up under the service of the maids, Thain walked to the window with a glass of green juice he had mixed.

The room he was in was located on the highest floor of the Earl's Castle, a spire-like building.

When Thain saw this place for the first time, he asked Earl Grant to take it as his own room.

This spire reminded Thane of the magic tower of the Black Magic Academy.

Although there are no magic inscriptions here, Thain felt very comfortable after moving in.

The interior space of the minaret is very large, and Thain usually lives in a room on the fifth floor of the tower.

The third and fourth floors were transformed by Thain into his own laboratory, alchemist, meditation room, etc. respectively.

The first and second floors are directly connected to the Earl's Castle. Most of the maids who serve Thain live nearby.

Including there are some magic books that the Earl recently got for Thain.

They are said to be magic books, but in fact they are just relatively low-level stuff.

It seems that except for Thain, no decent magician has been born in the Grant family. This is a family of knights.

Most of the magic books that Earl Grant brought here were books similar to the "Illustrated Book of Peripheral Creatures" that Thain got when he was in Peter City.

There are also some precious magic books that record spell models, but those magics are either beyond the reach of Thain, or they are of a low level, and are basically low-level spells.

Thain only flipped through a few books.

There are no magical elements in the books, but they record the biographies and histories of several surrounding countries. Thain has read a lot of them these days.

Reading through these historical books gave Thain a certain understanding of the situation in several countries surrounding the Lycian League.

Not to mention the south, the Lycian Union is bounded by the Kingdom of Western France to the west, the Orc Empire to the north, and the endless volcanoes to the east.

Outside of the Kingdom of West France and the Oak Empire, there are also many vast and powerful human kingdoms.

However, those human countries have little contact with the three countries including the Lycian Alliance. Although there are frequent commercial and trade exchanges, no war has been heard of breaking out between these countries.

Lycian League So far, the formation of the League has

There are nearly five thousand years.

The Oak Empire and the Kingdom of Western France are older, and both seem to have a history of thousands of years.

It's just that the Kingdom of Western France began to decline early, from the empire it was back then to the kingdom it is today.

The relevant history, including its ancient imperial period, has also become unclear.

During his stay at the Earl's Palace, Thain mainly read books at first.

After roughly understanding the history and human customs of several surrounding countries, and learning a few more practical magic tricks, Thain continued to devote himself to experimental research and the study of higher-level spell models. .

Earl Grant's previous promise has been fulfilled. Fifty thousand gold coins is not a small amount.

After receiving the relevant funds, Thain immediately asked the Count to use relevant channels to purchase the gold coins into the experimental equipment and related materials he needed.

Beakers, test tubes and other props that are often used in experiments are not rare materials. If you spend enough gold coins, you can buy high-quality goods for Thain.

It is the various magic materials and World of Warcraft organs mentioned by Thain that are more difficult to deal with.

In addition to spending a lot of money to buy it, the Earl's Palace also offered a reward to the mercenary union of the Lycian Alliance.

In fact, if the war hadn't been imminent, Earl Grant would have thought of leading a group of knights to the Warcraft Forest in the Lycian Alliance to try his luck.

Anyway, going to the World of Warcraft Forest is also a trial, and by the way, you can help Thain collect some things for his experiments.

With an entire family and a large group of people serving him, Thane immediately felt that it was different from when he was exploring the truth alone.

Of course, Thain did not completely rely on the Earl family.

Because there is a fictitious second-level magician as a mentor, although Thain did not come up with something as shocking as a second-level energy crystal.

But some mid-to-high-level energy crystals began to appear frequently in his laboratory.

Especially the appearance of a first-level energy crystal made Earl Grant's eyelids twitch when he learned about it.

Thain did not take out this first-level fire element energy crystal for show off.

In addition to speeding up his meditation and magic power accumulation, Thain also began to study other advanced magic during this time.

Including the field of alchemy, Thain has not fallen behind.

Don't look at the knight attendants in the Earl's Mansion, they train very hard every day.

The second young master Zoro was sweating profusely on the training ground.

In fact, Thain is also very busy.