"Mastasha, can you introduce Candle Castle in detail to me!"

Qin Lun's eyes flashed. When he was with Milleras before, the Sun Elf Prince, who had seen a lot of knowledge, introduced him to many famous events and regions in the Feren continent, including content about Candle Castle, but only a few sentences, Milleras himself did not know the detailed inside story.

"Of course!" The Highland Elf was not surprised that the moon elf prince in front of him would not know about the candle castle.

In fact, although Candle Castle is well-known in the continent of Feren, most of the people who know it are knowledgeable historians and arcane researchers. Ordinary people, even the nobles of various countries, are not very familiar with this place, and only know that that place is a fortress-style library occupied by arcane scholars.

The important trading city of Candle Fort and Bayshore Highway, Belgost, is across the sea, and there is a road called the Lion Road.

This gathering place of knowledge stands on the towering cliff overlooking Jianwan. It is a hexagonal prismatic fortress, with a mage tower at the angle between each side.

It was once the home of the great prophet and sage "Alando". The large library here preserves many historic prophecies he made about Faren, one of the most famous prophecies was the appearance of the Demon Aoi.

Candle Castle was once a gathering place for a few scholars who studied Alando's prophecy. As they left more and more research works and knowledge inheritances here, it gradually became a famous library and arcane holy land on the mainland.

(The arcane here does not refer to magic alone, but also includes all areas involved in magical magic, such as: enchantment, alchemy, magical creatures, ancient runes and divine arts, and also includes popular academics such as philosophy, music, architecture, forging, and political economy.)

There are two kinds of costs for outsiders to enter this castle, one is a large amount of gold coins, and the other is a knowledge or documentary book that candle castle does not have. Usually, the rumors on the mainland are to provide a new book to candle castle.

The candle castle is surrounded by powerful multiple protective spells to ensure that nothing burns besides wicks and wax oil, and no piece of book paper can burn in the castle. This protection also blocks destructive spells, kills bacteria and borers, and prohibits anyone without the candle castle mark from entering the Central Library.

However, this protective spell that covers the entire fortress consumes extremely magic crystals, so the annual maintenance cost is astronomical.

There is an absolute rule in Candle Castle: "Anyone who destroys knowledge, whether using ink, fire, or sword, will perish himself. Here, books are more important than human life!"

There are two types of permanent staff in Candle Castle, one is research scholars, who usually wear monk costumes and act more loyal than the most devout religious believers. They call themselves knowledge propagandists and disseminators, and they also entrust agents to acquire some precious books and texts.

Another type of permanent staff in Candle Castle is arcane researchers, who are usually powerful magicians and great sages. They signed contracts with the propagandists of Candle Castle throughout the ages. Candle Castle provides them with the books and knowledge they need and the tower laboratory, while they provide force protection to Candle Castle.

The most powerful one among them is called the Guardian of the Book, and his assistant is called the First Reader. He is both the traditional second-powerful man and the most knowledgeable sage and fortune teller in the Candle Castle.

Below these two there are other great readers, chanters, professors, and tower guards.

The central tower of Candle Castle, which is the Central Library, is surrounded by beautiful gardens, is surrounded by other buildings. It includes the residence of visitors, griffon stables, barns, debris warehouses, hospitals, Ogma Monastery (the God of Knowledge), and a shrine of Denell, Gond and Milier. On the outside are the hexagonal walls and the Mage Tower.

Foreign visitors can usually stay in the candlestick until the tenth day at one time and cannot enter again within one month after leaving. Visitors are not allowed to write records in the library, but they can entrust scholars here to copy the copies.

Each ordinary manuscript costs one hundred wealth gold coins, magic books and some precious documents are even more expensive, usually between hundreds to hundreds of thousands of wealth gold coins, and forbidden spells are not allowed to be read or outflowed.

The most precious documents in Candle Castle are generally preserved in the storage rooms of underground mazes, and there are also tombs of scholars who have contributed their lives to knowledge in the past dynasties.

Although these scholars will not treat books as burial objects when they die, their tombs often leave personal inheritance objects and spell notes, which is definitely a very precious asset. Generally speaking, only the heirs who are recognized can take them out of the tomb.

The defense here is so tight that no infiltrator can truly enter the candle castle from the underground maze. Even if a legendary thief enters here, he will face the strongest guard of the maze - Mirimu.

Mirimu is a ghost of an ancient silver dragon. He has been bound by the great sorcerer Thors since a thousand years ago to protect the scholars, buildings and books of the Candle Castle. With the support of the candle castle's protective magic circle, Mirimu is an immortal spirit. Unless he uses a forbidden spell to destroy the entire candle castle, even if he defeats it, he will be resurrected in a short time.

However, Mirimu usually does not kill the infiltrator. Her soul is too lonely and prefers to talk rather than fight. She often appears in front of visitors and uses the historical legends she knows to exchange information on major events that have occurred in modern times.

Of course, if you plan to deceive Mirimu with false information or attack her, the ghost of the Silver Dragon will throw out a lot of dragon-word magic without hesitation and directly knock you into a slag.

When facing Mirimu, one thing you pay attention to is that you cannot carry books with you, whether they are from Candle Castle or your own. This silver dragon ghost will insist on you surrendering and "returning" the book to Candle Castle.

(In Mirimu's opinion, all books belong to Candle Castle, which adheres to the domineering and evil tastes of all the ancient dragons: mine is mine, and yours is mine.)

Each book in Candle Castle has at least one copy, and there is also a complete "mirror library" hidden somewhere in Feren. All the books in Candle Castle have the logo of this castle - the tall castle tower with candlelight shining on the top of the tower.

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"Linda, is the stronghold of Candle Castle in the Baldur Gate area in front of it?" Mastasha turned his head and asked.

"It's not a big stronghold, it's just a relay station for transferring magic materials." Linda said with a lip silence, "My teacher also has some investment here. We can borrow their horned eagles and return to Candle Castle and save you some valuable time by the way."

When everyone heard this, they looked at the hillside in front of them. They could indeed hear some chirpings similar to eagles in the sparse woodland.

At this time, they were half a day away from the Troll's Claws. With the help of the giant eagle that Ilistin turned into, the group left the top of the waterfall cliff without any danger, and truly escaped from the Troll Mountains.

The Blood-Thorn Trio, Severe and Mason's Old Butler had parted ways with them. When they parted, Qin Lun gave part of the gold coins obtained by the three murderers from the Ambori Church to Rick and part of them to save the people.

In fact, the three apostles are now following Mastasha and can no longer use gold coins to make orders along the way. Anyway, gold coins are useless to the apostles, so it is better to give them to Rick and others to leave a good impression on the Highland Elves and Linda.

As for whether to pay after arriving at Candle Castle, Qin Lun and others don’t need to worry about this problem. Even without Linda, Mastasha will find a way to solve it.

Rick and Siver did not refuse this gift, and it would take a lot of money for the Knights to return to the Kingdom of Charia or the reconstruction of the caravan.

The only thing that surprised Qin Lun was that after so many hardships, Idriya had to go to the north with them. Ms. Lauvita's believers were indeed some madmen and masochists who could not be described in words.

Because the conspiracy of the Santalin Society was close to us, Qin Lun and others left the Troll's Claws and did not even have time to feel the sorrow of separation from their friends, so they had to set out again and come to the place in front of them.

This is a candlestick stronghold nearest to the north exit of the Troll's Claw. It is full of more than ten adult horned eagles all year round for the transportation of valuables. It is usually precious books and documents, magical materials and alchemy items used in the Mage Tower.

After climbing up the hillside, a simple double-storey wooden house appeared in front of everyone. In front of the wooden house was a small horned eagle stable. Although it was a small horned eagle stable with only more than ten horned eagles, the horned eagle is a large bird. Its usual range of movement is large and its area is much larger than that of the stable.

"Miss Linda! Shouldn't you be in Candle Castle at this time?" The magic apprentice stationed in the wooden house obviously knew Linda and was very surprised when she saw her.

"Hey, Lasco!" The little girl Linda's expression was very unnatural. Obviously, the teacher's anger was reminded of the magic apprentice. "This is a long story, so let's prepare some food for us first. I'm about to starve to death! I also gave some holy water No. 7 for my companions, and they were seriously injured."

Leaving the heavy burden of nearly half a month, Qin Lun felt that this time his sleep was extremely sweet. Even with his self-discipline, when he opened his eyes again, it was already dusk the next day. Others were not much better than him, and they had to continue to stay in this forest hut for one night.

However, this rest is very necessary. Although the medical effect of No. 7 Holy Water is powerful, it will take some time to take effect. Especially for Ilistin and Idriya, who have suffered a lot of torture, their hidden injuries have not been completely healed even now.
Chapter completed!