Chapter 41: Traces of the Devil
The corners of Baron Naheim's mouth twitched, but he was silenced by the maid's words.
There is no way to vent the anger in his heart, he can only endure it, in the face of Edith, his status as a baron is still useful, but in the face of Serena, the duchess, he can't have any disrespect.
The fingers pinching the wine glass turned white, and Baron Naheim snorted coldly, laughing at himself: "Yes, I am indeed incompetent, I can't catch a 'seductive demon' who is fleeing, and I can't even find the demon believers hidden in the territory, of course I can be regarded as incompetent!"
Edith was stunned, and Serena frowned, and asked, "What's the matter? Wasn't it just a blood sacrifice to a few villagers? How did they summon a bewitching demon?"
"Those few aren't villagers at all!
At this time, Baron Naheim calmed down for the time being, the pride of being an Austrian nobleman, the pride of the middle surname made him temporarily put aside his prejudices, although he disdained the commoners, but as a nobleman, he did not want this kind of thing to happen in his territory.
After blocking the news for half a month, he still couldn't kill the fleeing decoy demon, and he couldn't even find his trace......
Thinking of this, Baron Naheim felt that his face was hot, as if he had been slapped in the face by someone.
After a little thought, the maid guessed an approximation.
"Well, did they kill the demon cultists in order not to reveal their tracks, and set up the scene as a blood sacrifice scene? ”
Demon believers do not worship a specific demon god or demon lord, but worship the 'demon' itself, and no one knows why this strange phenomenon occurs.
But most demon believers are people who can hear the 'whispers from the abyss', and if a demon believer can get a demon response in his dreams, he will be able to develop more demon believers, and this time it should be the same.
But with just a few villagers, how did they summon a deluge demon? Even if that decoeur was their 'master', the price of a demon wanting to project itself onto the main material plane and being a decoeur was definitely not low.
"You've found the ceremony?"
The maid's words were like a ray of light in the night, illuminating the way ahead, and Edith immediately understood what was going on.
Why was Baron Naheim able to confirm that the demon was a seduction, when he had not found any trace of the demon?
Why did Baron Naheim say that those 'villagers' were demon believers, the priest of the God of Light had confirmed that those 'villagers' were indeed sacrificed by blood.
Because Baron Naheim has found the real ceremonial scene!
"Yes!" Baron Naheim tugged at his collar, unbuttoned the first button, and said irritably: "But the news has been blocked for half a month, and there is only such a small gain, which is ridiculous, right?"
The maid did not speak, but stood up and commanded Baron Naheim, "Take me to the ceremony." ”
Sensing the indiscriminity of the maid's words, Baron Naheim pursed his lips unhappily, drank the red wine from his glass, and got up.
Pulling open the door, Baron Naheim said to the deacon with a cold face: "Go and prepare a carriage, let Karl wait at the door with twenty men, I will go out." ”
With that, he glanced at the chief maid who walked past him and snorted softly.
The servants bowed their heads and waited on either side, and the deacon turned to explain the matter to a few of the servants, who nodded, and walked away quickly.
Edith looked at the house, which looked dark because of its history, and then looked at the back of the maid with a complicated expression, and lowered her head and followed behind her own maid leader.
While waiting, Baron Naheim closed his eyes and said nothing, the head maid also had a cold face, and Miss Edith did not know what she was thinking, so the atmosphere was always strange.
Click!
The coachman drove the two horses, the wheels of the carriage rolling and crushing against the stone tiles, and walked slowly.
Two servants of the house of Naheim came with the horses of the two knights, and the knight of Tosolo and the knight of Gors turned over and mounted their horses, and instead of plate armor, they wore light armor with only a few pieces of iron to protect the vital points, arms and feet, and a set of chain mail under their tunics, which provided adequate protection.
The carriage drove out of the Dunkir manor, and the maid opened the curtains and said to the absent-minded Edith, "Edith, look. ”
"Huh?"
Edith woke up and looked at Serena's fingers.
She saw the smooth stone brick pavement, and the dirt pavement connected to the stone pavement, and the peasants sitting on both sides of the road looked at it.
Edith noticed more than that, she noticed the fields.
There were no ridges, no farm tools, and it was already a hot afternoon, but the farmers still had to fetch water to keep the land moist.
"This, this ......"
The expressions on the peasants' faces could not be seen clearly, but Edith thought they were bitter in their hearts.
There were dragon tail carts and piston pumps in the manor, but there was nothing in the farmland outside the manor, and the opposite of Winde City made Edith feel as if she had traveled back in time to before Sister Serena came to the Winds Realm.
The maid leaned against the window, closed her eyes and sighed, "This is the nobleman!"
Baron Naheim was certainly not the only aristocrat, but they couldn't do anything to them.
"Mistakes must be corrected, otherwise it will be ...... a long time," said the maid, "and everyone will take mistakes for granted." ”
The kind-hearted Miss Edith could not bear to see these sights, turned her head sadly, and said to herself in a depressed mood, "Baron Naheim...... It's not like that when he's in front of his father......"
"There are more nobles in the front and in the back, and he is not missing. ”
The maid leaned back in her chair and said, "We'll slowly figure out a way to do this later, now there is still a seduction demon in the Sorrowful Wind Collar, and the top priority is to solve the temptation demon, and then find a way to solve this matter." ”
The GDP of the Sad Wind Collar has not been able to go up because of this group of damn nobles!
Baron Naheim's carriage led the way, and after about half an hour, the carriage in front came to a halt.
The Baron of Naheim got out of the carriage with a gloomy face, and the Knight of Tosolo stood behind the chief maid, stepped forward and whispered: "Master maid, this is the forest of the Barony of Naheim......"
The maid nodded, and the knight returned to where he had stood, his head bowed as if nothing had happened.
In the territory, everything is the lord's, the forest, the fields, and the people, everything is the lord's, and the scene of the ceremony to summon the demon is in the forest in his territory, if this thing spreads, Baron Naheim may be laughed at by other nobles for a lifetime.
That's why Baron Naheim doesn't want the news to get out!
It's just that I haven't caught a fleeing decoy demon for half a month, which is not ashamed, maybe Baron Naheim will feel that he has lost face, but in comparison, the fact that the altar that summons the demon exists in the forest of his territory is even more shameful, this shame is a lifetime, if this thing is passed out, Baron Naheim can be ready to pass on the throne to a descendant or direct family member of the Naheim family.
Because the proud Baron Naheim did not allow it, he blocked the news, but he didn't expect that the news would reach the ears of the head maid of the Grieving Wind family half a month later.
In the face of the 'Duchess', Baron Naheim couldn't get angry, if her identity was only the head maid, Baron Naheim would not be afraid of her, but she stood in front of him as a 'Duchess'.
"Huh!" Approaching the Baron, the maid chuckled lightly and said, "Don't worry, I won't tell anyone else about this." ”
Baron Naheim almost crushed his teeth because of this chuckle, his fists clenched, his arms trembling, and he lowered his head not to let the others see the hideousness on his face.
For the first time since birth, he felt 'humiliation'!
The maid did not pay attention to Baron Naheim, she looked at the forest and muttered, "This is it...... The familiar smell of sulfur!"