The Family

Saw Yashan from a distance , he realized that his father was a real big shot.

Yashan, located on the Farview Peninsula , has a population of over 100,000. The city is built in the shape of the peninsula, with the highest terrain in the northwest and extending in an arc to the south to the Apennines Sea, a narrow strip of the city that lies quietly between the water and the sky like a resting beast, with neatly arranged houses and well-organized streets. A 20-meter-high city wall winds around and protects the residents. On the vast plains outside the city, there is fertile land everywhere. The broad Lion River runs through the city and flows into the Apennines Sea, providing an inexhaustible source of water for the endless fertile fields.

Yashan , and the world-famous Black Rose Castle is built on the top of the hill. This is a majestic and huge building complex that can easily accommodate more than 3,000 warriors. The tops of the towers in each corner are even equipped with permanent large-scale catapults, overlooking the city below with a contemptuous attitude. However, since the Black Rose Castle was built, those catapults have never been used. Although there have been enemies attacking Yashan , their footsteps have only touched the walls of Yashan at most , and then they were defeated.

A castle is a weapon of defense, and Black Rose Castle has reached the pinnacle in design. Looking at the complex fortress-type building with a castle within a castle as the core, there are wooden shooting platforms that can be extended from the top of the city wall or arrow tower at any time, and the city gates that are like passing through a tunnel. There are five layers of extremely solid gates in the ten-meter depth, and many other arrangements that cannot be directly seen by the naked eye. When Black Rose Castle was built, it was said that only one thousand qualified soldiers were stationed there, and with sufficient supplies, it was almost unbreakable.

Many travelers with different purposes have visited this city in various capacities. After seeing the monster occupying the commanding heights of the city, they had to agree with the crazy boasting of the designer of Black Rose Castle. An aristocratic military strategist who refused to reveal his name was invited to visit the castle. After returning, he conducted a sand table simulation based on the defense facilities he saw. The conclusion was that even if a 50,000-strong army with all kinds of arms and heavy siege equipment were used, it would still cost a heavy price to capture the castle.

But she had never really experienced the test of war, because the previous owners of the castle did not like to defend. Even if they were at an absolute disadvantage in terms of military strength, they would rather choose endless plains or deep mountains as the background to eliminate the enemy through mobile warfare. And they would always win in the end.

Even throughout the Holy Alliance, the madness of the Malificus family is well known.

No one wants to fight a madman, not to mention that there will always be one or even several geniuses in this crazy family at some point in time. Duke Joseph of Lennon Peninsula, the former greatest enemy of the Malificus family, once said with emotion that when a madman and a genius come together, the damage they can cause is multiplication rather than addition.

When he said this, Duke Joseph's 20,000 main forces had just been defeated by Malificus ' 10,000 elite troops in a long and brutal battle, and less than 2,000 of them escaped. However, the fighting force under Joseph, the Son of Iron, was by no means ordinary, and was among the best in the entire continent.

After hundreds of years of development, the members of the Malificus family now include two marquises and seven earls. Viscounts and barons are not as numerous as dogs, but they are not much different. The total territory they own exceeds 100,000 square kilometers. The history of the Malificus family is not long in the entire Holy Alliance, but its strength is definitely not weak. It is one of the most important forces. However, it is a bit strange that if other families have so many real nobles, they should have a duke or even a grand duke long ago, but the highest rank of the Malificus family is only a marquis. You must know that the Malificus family is not short of force and strong people. They have powerful magicians, high-level warriors, and more various strange high-level professions, such as Dragonblood Sorcerer, Hell Knight , Shadow Priest, etc. However, the Norland continent is not peaceful. It can even be said that war is the norm. The land occupied by the human race is less than half of the continent, and they are fighting with a large number of races to compete for living space.

Humans are perhaps as warlike as demons. They not only fight against other races, but also among themselves. The raging war is not only burning in Norland, but also spreading to the depths of the ocean and many other planes.

In such a chaotic and complex situation, it is not difficult for the Malificus family, which has many geniuses, to produce a duke or even a founding duke. As long as they concentrate their resources to expand outward, obtain enough territory from foreign races, and occupy it steadily, establish a complete civil, economic, and judicial system, and coordinate and balance the distribution of interests within the family, a duke will be born in two generations at most. At least half of the dukes of the Holy Alliance were born in this way, so in the eyes of the nobles of other countries, the Holy Alliance Empire is a base camp for upstarts and country bumpkins, and the emperor of the empire is the biggest upstart among them. It's just that everything will undergo qualitative changes after reaching a certain level, and the same is true for outbreaks. The outbreak of the Holy Alliance royal family exceeded the critical point that people could bear psychologically, so it won the respect and respect of most of the old nobles.

Malificus 's outbreak was no less severe, but their history was too short, and the fatal thing about their short history was that they did not accumulate enough wealth and power. And they were too crazy, so they failed to win respect.

Malificus, Marquis Gordon, is an example of an outburst. When he first started training fifteen years ago, he was only a third-level rookie warrior. He then showed his personal martial arts and political and military talents, and ten years ago, he captured the Elf King's Court in Everdark Forest in one fell swoop, shocking the entire Holy Alliance! There are many people who dare to attack the elves' territory, but Gordon is the only one who dares to go deep into Everdark Forest with only fifty Arcane Knights and more than a thousand miscellaneous soldiers, and he succeeded!

Now Gordon, who is only 33 years old, has become a marquis , lives in the Black Rose Castle, and has obtained Yashan, the territory specially prepared by Malificus for the patriarch.

In the eyes of those who admire him, Gordon's experience is a legend, and the legend is still being written. However, besides Black Rose Castle, the absolute influence of Marquis Gordon is only the territory he has conquered. Other members of the Malificus family usually ignore his orders. In Malificus , the title of patriarch is more like a simple honor, if it weren't for Black Rose Castle and Yashan .

who specialize in the Malificus family genealogy have concluded that the reason why this family has not produced a grand duke is due to the independence and rebellion flowing in the family blood. Every Malificus is unwilling to submit to others, even if that person is his father.

This is not a rigorous argument, and the scholar who made the conclusion is not very knowledgeable, let alone famous. In fact, if this scholar could not earn funding from a noble in the Malificus family with his research results , he would even have to live on the streets. If he really had the ability, he would not have studied such an unconventional family. The final outcome of the scholar was to be homeless and die of illness . It is said that when his research results were sent to the desk of the then patriarch Malificus , the patriarch flipped through them casually and ordered that no one from Malificus should give him any form of funding. The Malificus, who had a rebellious tradition , were surprisingly obedient and carried out the patriarch's orders completely.

There is only one real reason behind this, and that is that this article is full of fancy words. Although the logic is confusing, the examples are absurd, and it is full of groundless and childish conjectures, the conclusion is damn correct.

from Rutheran Village to Yashan was more than 3,000 kilometers, and it took less than half a month to get there. On the way, Mordred told Eldrin a lot about the Malificus family, and also introduced some customs and power distribution on several continents. So when he arrived at Yashan , Eldrin already knew a lot about the family.

Family, this is a brand new word for Eldrin. In the past, he even had a vague concept of his father, so how could he know what family is? But judging from Mordred's attitude, this powerful knight attaches great importance to family. The concept of family here is much broader, including not only the bloodline of the direct and collateral lines, but also the small nobles and knights who follow the main family, who can all be regarded as members of the family. Bloodline is the bond that connects the family, but its meaning is not limited to blood relationship. Many special bloodlines have unique abilities, and the combination of different bloodlines often produces new abilities. The abilities of some bloodlines are extremely powerful, so powerful that people will pursue them at all costs. Therefore, nobles and families have a brand new meaning in the world of Norland. Marriage is not only for political alliances, but also for the purpose of creating powerful offspring.

When Eldrin stood in front of the gate of the Black Rose Castle, he should have had a deep understanding of Malificus . But little Eldrin felt even more confused. Everything that Mordred poured into his mind without any system was like broken pieces of a puzzle, and he could not piece together a complete picture.