Chapter 13: Half a Year

Translator: Dragon Boat Translation Editor: Dragon Boat Translation

“Father!”

Young Leicester’s eyes became hot. He rushed forward and picked up Leicester, who was in a pool of blood.

The nobles all went forward to comfort him.

Heath also took the opportunity to go forward. Of course, he was not there to comfort him, but to extract it.

‘I wonder what can be extracted from the body of such a high-ranking noble?’

As he guessed in his heart, he put his unconscious hand on Viscount Leicester’s corpse: ‘Extract.’

[Ding! Extraction successful. Obtained knowledge — Guide to Life Refinement.]

A large amount of unfamiliar information surged into Heath’s mind. This was a special knowledge that was completely different from the past. It was of different levels and different domains.

When Heath finished accepting this knowledge, his eyes suddenly widened.

At this moment, he suddenly understood all the questions that he had been curious about previously. He understood what the Graystone Mine was. He understood what the small stone the Baron had given him was.

He understood why so many nobles had risked their lives and risked their entire family for it.

At this moment, his understanding of this world had changed drastically…

…

According to the investigation, the man who had assassinated Viscount Leicester was a commoner in the territory of the Leicester family.

Viscount Leicester heard from somewhere that eating the heart of a young virgin could delay the aging process and restore youth, so he kidnapped the man’s sister and killed her.

On the day of the wedding, the carriage driver of the Horn family fell ill, and the man acted as the carriage driver at the last minute, so he appeared at the scene.

After that, the fate of the Leicester family was the same as that of the White Wolf Territory, or even worse.

Half of the family territory was taken back by the King, and the remaining half was divided into many different sizes. Through marriage, alliances, and other legal means, they entered the various families in River Valley.

The reason why the nobles appeared at the scene that night was coincidental. Some of them had to take a detour because the road was cut off, and some of them had gotten lost, so they coincidentally became witnesses.

However, everyone could choose to come or not, so these were all things that the witnesses deserved.

Of course, the largest piece of the nobles’ territory was still inherited by the son of Viscount Leicester, who appeared that night. The younger Leicester had received Knight training in Graystone Castle and was conferred the title of Baron.

In short, the matter had come to an end. River Valley that had been in turmoil for a long time had finally regained its tranquility.

All the nobles were doing their own things, preparing for the upcoming feast… In half a year’s time… They were working hard to prepare…

…

Time flew by, and in the blink of an eye, half a year had passed.

Heath.

In the training field, Heath was practicing his sword.

Hu! Hu! Hu!

The cold sound of the wind breaking could be heard. The cross-shaped sword was like a windmill that kept spinning in the air, drawing out streaks of light and shadows.

After half an hour, the sound of the wind breaking stopped abruptly.

“Huff!”

After taking two deep breaths, Heath placed the cross-shaped sword on the weapon rack beside him.

Alisa walked forward with a towel in her hand and said with a smile, “Sir’s sword skills are getting more and more advanced.”

Compared to half a year ago, Alisa looked much better. She was smiling all the time.

In fact, although she was a young lady in the White Wolf Castle, because of the Baroness, her life was worse than that of a servant.

She was hung up, injected with needles, stripped naked in the middle of winter, and soaked in ice water. It was common for her to suffer from hunger. If it were not for the fact that she still had some value, she would not have lived until today.

Even so, her future was used as a bargaining chip for her marriage. The people she chose for her marriage were either old and ugly men or psychopaths with twisted minds. Anyway, they wouldn’t let her have it easy.

So when she found out that her family was destroyed and she had to be sent to the person who killed her father… Alisa didn’t have any resistance. She only thought that it would be good if she could survive.

She did not expect that her life would unexpectedly be better after coming here.

This man did not hit her or scold her. He fed her well every day. Other than helping him bathe and warm his bed, she did not have to do anything else.

Although she was a servant, she lived like a lady.

Heath took the towel and wiped his wet hair. Then, he used his hand to pinch Alisa’s cheek and said with a casual smile, “Aren’t you becoming more and more beautiful?”

Alisa said happily, “My Lord knows how to coax me.”

Heath raised his hand and patted her perky buttocks gently. “Alright, quickly put in some water for me to bathe.”

“Yes.”

When he went to the bathroom, Alisa quickly put in the water. As usual, Heath took off his clothes and entered the pool to bathe, allowing Alisa to scrub his body.

For the past six months, Alisa had been serving him in the bath. He had long gotten used to it.

As he felt the soft fingertips of the young lady glide across his skin, Heath opened the system to check his stats.

Stats: Strength 11.2, Agility 11.8, Vitality 10.9, Spirit 1.3

For the past half a year, he had been going to the Demonized Forest to hunt demonized beasts almost every day. After half a year of continuous effort, his stats had all increased significantly.

He was an Intermediate Knight with an average of more than 8 points in his three measurements, and an Advanced Knight had an average of more than 12 points in their three measurements.

His attributes were not far from that of an Advanced Knight.

There were only a few Advanced Knights at the age of 14 in the entire Aike Continent, not to mention the Rodin Kingdom. If word got out, it would definitely cause a sensation.

Unfortunately, it seemed to have come to an end.

His current talent should be able to reach the upper limit of a high-level Knight. Recently, he had clearly felt that the attributes that a demonized beast could extract had decreased significantly.

If he wanted to continue improving, he would either increase his talent or increase his resources to find higher-level demonized beasts.

There was no need to think about the former. Not only would he get into trouble, Heath would not be so crazy.

But where could he find a higher-level demonized beast?

Thinking of this, Heath could not help but frown.

Alisa quickly noticed the worry on Heath’s face. She quickly asked, “My Lord, did Alisa not serve you well?”

The girl was currently soaking in the water to help Heath wash his body. Her wet skirt stuck tightly to her body, and her curvaceous curves were very eye-catching.

Heath shook off the messy thoughts in his mind. ‘Forget it, I’ll take it one step at a time.’

Thinking of this, his brows relaxed. “Let me see if you’ve grown up a little more recently.”

As he said this, he pulled Alisa into the water… and got up.

Although Heath had been guarding his bottom line for the past six months because his body was still developing, other than that… There was nothing less…

On a whim, he would ask the tailor to make some strange dresses for Alisa to change into and then ask her to… This was the problem he had when he was playing with dolls.

This had little to do with respect. This was how the times were. People here could not understand the worldview of the 21st century at all.

For example, when Heath played with Alisa like this, she would feel happy that she was valued and cared about by her master. If Heath treated her with respect, she would only be afraid and terrified.

If it was to change the current situation, it would require the advancement of the entire civilization. It would require… it would require the experience of countless wars and the sacrifice of countless lives. Only then would it be possible.

This… The difficulty factor was too great. It was far beyond the scope of Heath’s abilities. He was not that great.

In short, there was nothing to be conflicted about. After half a year of baptism, Heath had calmly accepted the social customs here and was at ease with it.

Of course, he would not do anything that would cause physical injury. For example, some nobles liked ‘Beauty and the Beast’…

“Aiya! Sir, you’re so bad. You’re messing with me again.”

In the water… After a while, the two of them came out of the water.

After changing their clothes, they came out of the bathroom. Butler Starr was already waiting at the door.

More than half a month ago, Heath had ‘successfully advanced’ to become a Knight, and Baron Carter had followed his previous promise and bestowed a farm to Heath. It included more than 200 people, including the subjects, butlers, servants, and gardeners.

Seeing Heath come out, the butler, Starr, bowed and said, “Lord Heath, Miss Alisa.”

There was only Alisa by Heath’s side, so everyone in the farm naturally treated her as the mistress of the farm.

Heath asked, “What’s the matter, Mr. Starr?”

Starr said, “Knight Kayla has arrived. He’s waiting for you in the reception room downstairs.”

Kayla was from the Portia family. He was the nephew of Count Portia, and his mother was the first daughter of Count Portia.

Because of this, after splitting up the Leicester family half a year ago, Kayla was arranged to hold a wedding with the wife of a Knight who passed away during the turmoil of the Leicester family. Then, he inherited the other party’s farm and moved out of Graystone Castle.

Kayla’s farm was relatively close to Heath’s farm, so he would visit from time to time.

Heath nodded. “Okay, I got it. Get someone to prepare some tea and snacks.”

“Yes.”