Knights and Magic Wand
Chapter 625 - 625 294 Blood and Fire Ashes

625: Chapter 294: Blood and Fire Ashes 625: Chapter 294: Blood and Fire Ashes After leaving the Holy Artifact Room and returning to the Main Church, Leon planned to return to the main castle.

Just as he stepped down the stairs of the main hall, he saw David arriving at Avalon with several Thorny Flower Knights, escorting a cloaked noblewoman into the Holy Hall.

The woman entered the front hall of the Holy Hall, removed her velvet hood protecting against the wind, and her sorrowful eyes gazed toward the statue of Illaril at the end of the main hall, revealing her simply elegant face.

This visitor was none other than Lady Adelina, the daughter of Count Duwana and the wife of Count Eriv.

She glanced at the statue of the foreign deity on the distant altar and also noticed Leon approaching her.

“Lady Adelina.” Leon stopped and courteously saluted, not just out of respect for the Baroness but also a subtle guilt for the loss of Adelina’s husband.

“This is not the court, and I am no longer the mistress of the Thorny Flower Family, so there’s no need for such formalities, Little Griffin,” Adelina said with a slight smile, gently raising Leon’s shoulder.

“You will always be my most respected elder.

It is my great honor that you can come to witness my marriage to Olivia,” Leon said sincerely.

Adelina smiled, but as she looked at the young man rising to his full height, a fleeting confusion glimmered in her eyes.

Remembering the figure of her late husband, a longing for Eriv stirred in her heart…

a longing that brought a heartache far more painful than the subtle indifference increasingly shown to her by Fedor’s wife.

Leon noticed the sorrow in her eyes and couldn’t help but glance at David standing beside his mother.

Baron David, Adelina’s second son, now lord of a region in Eastern Kechin County, gave Leon a helpless look and nodded slightly.

Leon felt a stir in his heart.

Looking at Adelina again, he lowered his voice, solemnly saying, “Lady, please give me some more time.

I swear, I will find Lord Eriv’s whereabouts!”

Adelina lowered her eyes, only nodding gently:

“I hope Eriv is still alive, but do not risk your lives for this search.

The Farolis Family…

cannot bear the sacrifice of any more important people.”

After speaking, she raised her eyes again, apologizing to Leon: “Please do not take Fedor’s attitude that day to heart.

Although he is much older than you, he is still young.

Suddenly losing his father and bearing the burden of the entire family might have led to his outburst.

He genuinely couldn’t find the time to come due to overwhelming territorial affairs.”

“The rebuke from Lord Fedor is not excessive; not being able to protect the Baron is my negligence,” Leon did not harbor any grudge.

Even though the majority did not blame him for Count Eriv’s sacrifice, as a vassal of the Thorny Flower Family during the Undead War, his failure to shield Count Eriv was an irrefutable fact.

Moreover, the Thorny Flower Young Master…

now the new Thorny Flower Earl, already had some misconceptions about him.

His not using this opportunity to reclaim part of Leon’s domain as a punishment showed great magnanimity.

Of course, though their relationship was not particularly harmonious, before the wedding, Leon had not forgotten to follow etiquette and invite Fedor, the successor of the earldom and head of the family, to attend.

Despite Fedor’s absence, which he anticipated, Leon wasn’t surprised.

In any case, with Lady Adelina, Baron David, Baron Marcello, and Baron Reddo attending, the internal forces of the Farolis family showed great respect to him.

“So many excellent family knights sacrificed themselves back then.

Eriv’s death in battle was by no fault of yours.

I am proud of my husband’s bravery; you should not blame yourself.” Saying this, Adelina looked towards the distant statue and sighed, “His lifelong wish was the revival of the Farolis family.

Whether or not you discover his whereabouts, as long as you safeguard the family’s safety, it’s not in vain…”

…

Watching Lady Adelina walk into the chapel, learning the way to pray from the Cultivator, and then taking a seat as if she began praying for Eriv.

Leon turned his head to look at David, who had just rushed back from the Sobonitz Domain.

The original Thorny Flower Master’s second son, who survived the bloody Battle of Rolandena, is now not only a Holy War Knight but also was granted territories in Eastern Kechin County after the war, becoming a major baron overseeing a region.

As the force that contributed the most to the Alliance from beginning to end, even with their family leader who died for it, the Thorny Flower Family naturally received a tremendous advantage in the post-war distribution, with surviving warriors gaining vast lands in Eastern Kantadar.

The influence of the Farolis family, now no longer limited only to Eastern Kosos County and Glade County.

Now across the four regions of the Sobonitz Domain, many Thorny Flower Family lords are stationed throughout.

If ignoring the army size and population that have not recovered, concerning the controlled territory alone, the Thorny Flower Family has become a significant power crossing multiple regions of both the north and south countries.

Of course, these territories, vast after the Great Calamity, are still sparse and will require many years to be fully developed.

“I have organized several expeditions southward into the Southern Mountain Territory.

Initially, there were no gains, but Rangers returning from the Ustato Territory mentioned incidents of suspected vampire attacks on residents at night in Rifen County and Bekuya County,” David reported.

Listening to the information gathered by David, Leon fell into deep thought.

After the Battle of Rolandena, the Corpse Ghost hordes in Voslaylia and Sobonitz areas were gradually defeated and driven out by the Orland Army and the Holy War Alliance.

However, further south in Kantadar, neither Lydwen III’s army nor the Holy War Alliance troops, severely depleted beyond limits in the Undead War, had the provisions or military strength to continue the campaign against the Undead.