Surviving The Fourth Natural Disaster Chapter 1: Self-reliant portal

White Horse City is a beautiful place. The small town with white walls and red tiles slowly unfolds along the gently sloping foothills. Nine windmills are scattered on the rolling hills. Low clouds fell over the roof and pavement. Hill walked slowly towards the castle, and the only thing that seemed to be quiet on the stone road was the sound of his own footsteps. He was about to come of age today.

Hill's identity is actually very embarrassing. Earl Perast has married three wives and gave birth to three sons. He is the middle one. According to the rules of the Salar Kingdom, when the non-eldest son reaches the age of 16, he will take a sum of property and leave the family.

The mother of the earl's eldest son, Manton, was of a noble birth, the daughter of the Duke of Clare, with a rich dowry. It is a pity that the body is weak, otherwise he would not marry the earl, and Manton died shortly after birth.

The eldest son had a powerful family. When the Count married his second wife, he could only consider his appearance, so he took a fancy to Melanie, the daughter of the court archmage Obersdan Fran.

Melanie is a big beauty, with fair skin, big eyes, a straight and delicate nose, a plump mouth, and long hair like a golden waterfall, which deeply attracted the Earl. And Earl Perast, a handsome, rich, romantic, beautiful and simple female mage, was quickly moved by the court women and married him, but unfortunately, he regretted it within two years. The entire Earl's Castle was rejecting this female mage. Everyone felt that she would definitely attack the eldest son Manton, including the husband who claimed to love her the most. After Hill was born, he was even more defensive about her. However, no one thought that there would be no women's war in the wizard's world. Melanie plunged into alchemy, bought a manor outside the town with her son and lived in it, never seeing her husband again.

Until the age of 12, Hill only saw his father at the annual New Year's banquet. It's a pity that when Hill was 12 years old, Melanie's alchemy experiment failed, and the spell backfired. He died a few months later, and Hill had to return to the Earl's Castle.

Count Perast was indifferent to this son, and immediately invested in the selection of a third wife. He no longer dared to marry a lofty female mage, and he had had enough of 12 years without a hostess being ridiculed by others. In the end, Earl Perast chose a baron's daughter who was famous for her brains and beauty, and gave birth to her third son, Edgar, two years ago. This time, the people in the castle finally returned to the familiar pace. As soon as the young and beautiful wife made a move, Manton postponed his marriage at the age of 16 to after the age of 20. Whoever made Manton not live up to his expectations is still far from being a formal knight.

The vast majority of people, in the absence of pressure, pursue comfort and pleasure; only when a certain amount of pressure is exerted will they work hard. Hill is going to leave anyway, but if 14 years later, Manton, who is in his 30s, has not become a knight, his inheritance depends on whether Edgar can become a knight. Of course, if the earl is unlucky to die before that, Hill can also come back to grab the title. After all, in the next generation, Hill is the only person above the knight level. So in order to reduce trouble and keep his ears quiet, Hill rarely used spells in the castle, so these people thought he was still an apprentice.

Manton also tried to win over Hill, but unfortunately the method was clumsy. Hill showed a lofty and indifferent look and got rid of him just waiting for the adult to break up. The stepmother observed that he just wanted to leave and went silent. Sound off.

Hill passed the time in the castle study every day until last night when he received a message from his grandfather whom he had never contacted. He rushed to the manor overnight, and the indifferent mage sensed his mage-level spiritual power, gave him a storage ring with satisfaction, and left, leaving no room for Hill to speak.

Hill didn't even respond to his grandfather who had been calling for a long time. He packed up the manor angrily and put away all his mother's things. The storage ring is huge and contains a lot of spell books. He understood that being a mage is a self-taught profession, and after his mother led him in, he should see more and learn more. There's nothing wrong with Frank's approach, though indifference. As a grandfather, Fran's love for him is all in the ring, which contains a lot of precious materials, large sums of gold coins, enough books for a library, and the most important building materials for the magic tower, which is A high-level magic tower core that Hill cannot buy even with money. but! Hill wailed in his heart: "Dear grandfather! I'm a warlock! I don't know any blood!"

Yes, Hill's many years of meditation turned a corner when he was about to walk on the path of the mage, and he awakened to a glorious civil engineering and water warlock. He didn't know if it was because he traveled through time and space to cause trouble. He was a civil engineer in his previous life, and he added water after awakening in this life. In Hill's spell list, Fossil into Mud and Mud into Stone are juxtaposed at the front, Summoning Earth Element, Wood Element, and Water Element in the back. In the middle are earth shields, ground movement, slowness, natural growth, summoning of natural companions and purification.

Hill knows that his bloodline is definitely not bad, and not everyone can have so many spells in the beginning of Warlock Awakening. And since his awakening, his body has begun to grow stronger day by day, and his seemingly thin body contains powerful strength. As a sorcerer, Hill's strength is almost comparable to that of a full-fledged knight.

When Hill woke up, he vaguely saw a giant bear roaring towards the sky. He knew that his main bloodline must be a bear. The bear clan is basically the soil type, and it must be an equal bloodline to coexist, so Hill has been thinking about what the earth bear can mix with the descendants of the unearthed wood and water type. He is very curious about his bloodline, but he has not found any clues after reading all the books in the castle and manor. Finally came an archmage who might know, but still got nothing.

She told the manor housekeeper Lina to wait for him at the entrance of the manor after packing up her luggage. Hill, who was full of chest tightness, could only walk back to the castle in the early morning light.

Earl Perast has not woken up yet, and in the castle, only the awakened Manton is working hard to cultivate accompanied by several illegitimate children. Hill ignored them and went back to the room to tidy up. A few days ago, the butler had revealed to him what the count meant. He could choose between a lord with a small fief and a baron without a fief but with a pioneering order. He chose the baron without hesitation. What a joke! Staying in the earldom, there will be trouble waiting for him in the future, whether magic is not fragrant or alchemy is not fun, Hill is not in the mood to find this guilt.

No one in the Earl's Castle knew that Hill was a sorcerer. Low-level mages were not uncommon among nobles. It took a lot of time for mages to grow. But if he was a bloodline-inherited warlock, he would definitely be given to the great nobles as a stallion in the name of marriage. Hill just wants to run as far as possible, and find a place to go to the Archmage.

After tidying up the room, Hill did not wait long to receive the housekeeper's call. The count and lady and family members were all waiting for him to dine together. Hill slowly walked down the stairs, and the large dining room was full of people watching the fun. After eating his stomach-ache breakfast in whispers, he followed the group to the conference hall.

The earl stood at the front of the hall, facing Hill in the crowd, and said with a smile: "Dear Hill, my cherished second son, at the important moment of your adulthood, I am canonized in the name of Earl Perast. You are Baron Bolaño! I give you 20,000 gp in my father's capacity and allow you to take all your mother's property. I hope you will be Baron Hill Perast Bolaño Another glory for the Perast family!"

As soon as the voice fell, Hill heard the suddenly amplified whispers, and the people watching the lively couldn't hide their surprise at all.

Count Perast's annual income is about 50,000 to 60,000 gold coins. The status of a baron without a fief is very high in the eyes of the common people, but a real fief count can be canonized once a year, which is generally used to win over the big Knights or nobles buy with money. No great knight appeared this year, and it was normal for Hill to be a baron. But the earl didn't even give his son a fief! The sum of the property Hill received was not as much as the Earl's two-year annuity.

Hill knew that the earl felt that Melanie's property was enough to compensate him. Although the earl was not afraid of the court mages~IndoMTL.com~, he did not want to cause trouble. But he didn't like the son very much, which was proof that he couldn't control his own woman. As long as Hill is around, everyone will not forget Melanie's story. He would never keep this son in his fief. Hill is also a mage, and he will definitely not choose to be a little lord.

The earl always thought that Melanie was just a little mage who knew how to do alchemy, and even killed herself. Even if she left Hill's property, it would be worth at most 100,000 gold coins, so after Melanie's death, he was very generous Called Hill to keep it himself. But women's property belongs to men. Before becoming an adult, Hill can only get the gifts that Melanie gave before her death. Everything written on Melanie's dowry list belongs to the earl. The count didn't care what Melanie had brought, and the family was always a knight, so he didn't even look at it. But if he didn't make it clear in today's statement, the Countess could have stopped Hilchar from taking what he took. This was the only kindness he gave Hill as a father.

With Manton, the eldest son of a powerful mother's family, if the earl wants to share money with other children, he can only divide it in his own annuity. So for the son he didn't like, he didn't want to give Hill too much.

Hill only took 20,000 gold coins, and Edgar and his possibly born younger brother will be able to share hundreds of thousands. Hill saw Manton's eyes suddenly sharpen, and the little brother Edgar has truly become his enemy from now on. And the beautiful young stepmother's eyes twinkled, and everyone knew that Edgar was going to get a lot, but she wanted more. The Castle of the Earl of Perast will be very lively in the future, leaving a rich discussion space for the satisfied people.

Hill didn't want to pay attention to these people and things. He got the baron's document from the butler, and solemnly thanked the earl for the canonization. He turned around and left the castle in the sight of everyone.