Regarding Gao Wen's third request, Viscount Andrew agreed to it very readily.

Although he didn't know what Gao Wen wanted so many people who knew the words and counted to do in the territory, he was not interested in it. This was the most insignificant part of the three things in his mind: Although the people who knew the words were a minority, it was not very difficult for the prosperous Tanzan town to find such a group of people who had read books and lived in a down-and-out life. It was easy to attract a group of such people from the chamber of commerce and churches.

After a long-term acquisition of magic materials at low prices, gathering populations, recruiting middle and low-level intellectuals, and finishing these three most important things, Gao Wencai mentioned the ancient ruins dug up under his territory as if he was casually mentioned.

"I'm afraid I know the ruins you mentioned," Gowen did not mention the same ruins in the Dark Mountains, but directly used his "ancient identity" to open the topic. "You know, I was active seven hundred years ago when the Gondor Empire was still prosperous. According to the imperial history I have mastered, the ruins that appeared in this area are most likely the "outpost research station" left by the Spark Age of the Gondor Empire, and most of them are from the mid-to-late Spark Age."

Viscount Andrew was obviously not an ignorant person (in fact, apart from the weirdness of Rebecca, there are probably not many bad history among the nobles of the kingdom). He immediately showed a surprised expression: "Isn't that a thousand years ago?! The ancient magical mechanisms inside are still operating!"

"Yes, the magical devices in ancient ruins a thousand years ago can still be used. This is not unimaginable for the Gondor Empire back then. Compared to those magical mechanisms, the fragments of eternal stone slabs sealed in the ruins are more concerned," Gao Wen shook his head. "Even the Gondor Empire back then, they cared about eternal stone slabs. They would not throw such an important "holy object" into the abandoned institute for no reason."

Viscount Andrew's brows gradually frowned. He had already heard the profound meaning in Gao Wen's words. After a long time, he spoke: "I thought I had discovered a treasure, but now I realize that the Leslie family has been sitting on a volcano for generations..."

Then he looked up at Gao Wen with an extremely serious expression: "I know what you mean, and I also know that you are the person who knows the best of the Gondor Empire. I am afraid that no scholar can surpass your knowledge in this era. So I hope to get your guidance on the matter about the underground ruins."

Gao Wen smiled slightly: This was a wise decision. The viscount was obviously not blinded by the possible "treasure" or that he had been stunned, but after he was affected by this huge change and learned the truth of the ruins, he had completely calmed down.

An eternal stone slab has made the mess here uneasy, and the ruins may also contain something more dangerous and terrible than eternal stone slabs. Needless to say, people standing here at this moment may also think about it.

Oh, Amber standing next to her might not have thought that she was wandering outside the sky and looking at the ceiling. She didn't know what to think about, it was probably related to supper.

"I suggest you explore the underground palaces and corridors more carefully, but no matter what you don't know, it's best to come to me for discussion," Gao Wen nodded, "Of course, you can stop exploring this area for the time being, which is a safer choice. In short, those things are in your territory, you can do whatever you want."

It was already late at this moment, and the group simply stayed in the castle that was gradually getting rid of evil magic. In the early morning of the next day, Gowen said goodbye to Viscount Andrew and left the place with his men.

Gao Wen breathed a sigh of relief as he watched the messengers running through the streets of the town and loudly announced the new order from the Lord's Castle.

In the foreseeable period of time, Viscount Andrew would probably be extremely busy. Under the influence of cultists, just a few days are enough to accumulate unimaginable chaos, and these chaos are not easy to deal with. Martial law is to be lifted, the merchants and mine owners need to be comforted, and those who died in this crisis also need to be buried... But then you don’t have to worry about it yourself.

The group left Tanzan Town and looked back at the town gate that had been opened again. Amber couldn't help but turn his head and look at Gao Wen curiously: "You are really decent. Viscount Andrew is at the weakest time, and you were still holding his life just now. To be honest, if it were the most insidious nobles, it is possible to take the opportunity to annex the Leslie family's property at this time, but you didn't take advantage of the situation to rob?"

Gao Wen glanced at Amber and smiled meaningfully: "No, you don't understand, I've already robbed."

Amber frowned and looked up and down at Gao Wen for a long time: "You didn't sleep well last night, are you? Are you talking nonsense?"

Gao Wen just smiled and did not explain in detail.

"Let's go back to the Goring Mill first," he raised his hand and pointed to the Southeast, "bring that little mute with him, who saved the life of the Byron Knight."

The Byron Knight looked at Gao Wen with a little moved: "Thank you for your kindness. But the child is probably the 'property' of a wealthy businessman in Tanzan Town, so we will take it away..."

Gao Wen waved his hand: "I have mentioned this to Viscount Andrew. He will find the child's master and help us redeem the child's freedom. This is a trivial matter, so there is no need to worry about it."

In the dilapidated and abandoned Goering Mill, they met the mute child again.

The mute child completely remembered what Gao Wen told him before leaving. He stayed in the mill for the whole day and night waiting for them to come back. When Byron and Gao Wen, the tall figures of two men, first emerged from the woods, the child was rising a pile of small bonfires in the open space in front of the mill, and was seriously roasting a handful of unknown dried fruits picked from the forest.

Seeing Gao Wen and his party return safely, the mute child immediately cheered and ran up happily. He reached out in front of the Knight Byron, holding a handful of freshly baked dried fruit in his hand.

"It seems that he likes you very much," Amber glanced at the middle-aged knight with a smile, "and even left food for you."

"I've never been a kid-like person," Byron took the dried fruit and scratched his hair awkwardly with his other hand. "I don't know what's going on."

The Knight Philip thought for a moment and asked Byron very seriously: "I remember you probably didn't get married, right?"

"What's wrong with not getting married?" Byron glanced at Philip, "I'm like you, there are different people who come over there..."

"Ugly, don't care," Philip comforted Byron with a straightforward and serious look, and said before the other party jumped up, "How about you adopt this child and let him be your heir?"

Byron was stunned and said, "Ah?"

"This is quite reasonable," Philip said with a serious face. "First of all, he saved your life. As a knight, you cannot live up to this kindness. Secondly, this child has many excellent qualities. He is brave, kind, upright, and has certain wisdom. Although he is very thin now, his physical strength can be completely compensated by acquired cultivation. Of course, his disability is a problem. Now the magic of regeneration is no longer effective for him, so he will enter the aristocratic circle in the future..."

"Okay, okay, don't say it, don't say it," Byron interrupted the other party halfway through Philip's long speech, "I didn't say it, no. And when you didn't come... I actually thought of this."

While saying that, he smiled self-deprecatingly: "I thought at that time that if I could survive this time, I would bring this child back to the territory, but I really didn't expect that I would really survive."

After saying that, he turned to Gao Wen, with a serious expression, and was about to apply to his lord according to the process of adopting adopted sons by ordinary knights, and swear again. However, before he spoke, Gao Wen nodded with a smile: "I have already allowed it. You might as well ask this child to see what he thinks."

"You heard us just now?" Byron lowered his head, tried to adjust his expression to an approachable state with a little awkwardness, and squeezed out a smile and said to the mute child, "I am willing to adopt you, are you willing?"

The mute child raised his head and looked at the adults a little blankly, then lowered his head and nodded slowly.

...

After riding a few fast horses tied to the mill before, Gao Wen and his party took a day to return to the new Cecil, located in the lower reaches of the Baishui River.

The hearts hanging by Heti and Rebecca were finally relieved.

Rebecca was particularly thorough in fact, in fact, Gao Wen even suspected that this silly girl had never worried about herself. After hearing the news that her ancestors came back, the first thing the girl rushed over was to pull herself to tell her the story of the ancient castle adventure fighting cultists. Moreover, Hetty was standing next to her at that time, and her aunt was almost convulsing. She didn't feel it. She could only say that the silly roe deer had a sharp head, and she would never realize the atmosphere before she was beaten.

However, Gowen just smiled knowingly at Rebecca's escape: Perhaps in this girl's heart, her legendary ancestor who had been resurrected seven hundred years ago is really omnipotent. It is not worth worrying about just a cultist.

What's more, her super powerful ancestor took her proud crystal grenade to war.

Speaking of crystal grenades, Gao Wen felt that he would still praise the silly roe deer, so after returning to his tent, the first thing he did was to smile and pat Rebecca's head: "Your crystal grenade really played a big role."

"Really?!" Rebecca's eyes were about to emit light, "You guys use that thing?"

Gao Wen smiled: "Only one but that one was used, it directly exploded one of the cult's arm. That was a level 5 depraved druid."

Of course there are many specific factors in this, such as the cult who was injured at that time, for example, he did not have time to release more powerful protective spells, for example, he held the explosives himself... But no matter what, there is one fact that will not change:

Even a child can learn to detonate the crystal grenade, which can hurt the body of a level 5 super powerful man.

This made Rebecca cheer loudly, and even heard from a distance outside the tent.

Byron and Knight Philip, who were already walking outside the tent, heard Miss Viscount's cheers and couldn't help but look at each other.

"It seems that our eldest lady has been praised," Byron smiled, "she has been smiling every day lately."

"She used to smile every day," Philip had no expression, but looked down at the little mute who was following Byron. "For anything else, you should take your 'adopted son' to wash and change clothes first. From today on, he is a member of Cecil's leader, and he is also a knight's child, so you have to pay attention to his image."

Byron showed a frown expression: "Oh... who would have thought that I was so old and my wife didn't have it, but I had to learn how to take care of the children first..."

On Gaowen's side, after Rebecca and Hetty reported on the situation in the territory for the past two days and left, he lowered his head and looked at the two things he had just put on the table.

One is the fragments of the eternal slab, the other... is the Ring of Mithril from the cultists.
Chapter completed!