Chapter 155

A team walked slowly from the angloda mountains to the Viscount shaov of the former dabion kingdom. The speed of the team was not fast, but they did not detour. Instead, they chose to cross the whole black reef grassland and enter the black swan castle in the northwest corner of viscount shaov's kingdom.

The ancient castle is located in the southwest of the angorda mountains. It is built at an altitude of about 500 meters. The castle is built close to the mountain. There are six layers in total. The bottom two layers are built after the mountain is hollowed out. In order to make the foundation of the castle more solid, the hollowed out mountain is covered with special materials called black asphalt and mountain god ash. The castle on the mountain uses large pieces of black steel rock.

Because the castle is built on the mountain, the fourth floor of the castle is connected with a lake in the angloda mountains, which is about hundreds of square meters wide. It is said that since a long time ago, a large number of black swans will rest here every autumn in this lake, so this ancient castle is also named Black Swan Castle. Only when the war between Athena and the kingdom of dabion began, there were no black swans in the ancient castle.

When tonis fortress was built, yasna lived in the ancient castle. In fact, she came to watch the black swan, but it was a pity that she couldn't see it. Yasna knew later that the black swan hadn't visited here for a long time. The kingdom of dabion claims that these black swans are the dependents of the gods. The war launched by Athena angered the gods, so the black swans will not visit here.

Of course, Athena ignored the claims of the defeated. Only after she was annoyed and anxious, she replied, "in the name of the gods, let's fight another war to see who is favored by the gods and who will be abandoned by the gods". In the face of yasna's arrogant declaration, the whole country of the kingdom of dabion fell into silence for an instant, and never mentioned the Black Swan Castle again.

And Athena never paid any attention to the black swan castle, and the two sides seemed to have reached a tacit understanding.

It wasn't until Sean mentioned the castle again that Athena remembered such a thing. Of course, Asina will give the castle directly to Sean so readily. In fact, it is not because she failed to see the black swan before. Otherwise, Asina will not send the black swan castle, a rare castle in the miracle continent that can integrate fortification and beauty.

Team, go straight ahead and stop in front of the castle.

Black Swan Castle, one of the five most famous castles in the south of the whole continent, has been abandoned for many years. Now, the walls of the castle are mottled and the cracks are crisscrossed in depth. Even you can vaguely see many collapse marks left during the siege. Green plants spread all over the outer walls of more than half of the castle, with weeds. These plants with extremely strong vitality even pierced their roots into the walls, destroying many basic structures of the castle.

When she lived here for a short time, she never wanted to repair the castle.

However, Cecilia and William can also understand this. After all, the black swan castle is not just an ornamental castle. Its location also has a certain degree of strategic value - to the south is the wilderness, to the East is the kingdom of dabion, and to the north is the fortress of tonis. If we do not completely occupy the castle, taking the castle as a stronghold, any army led by shaov will be attacked or even completely cut off.

However, if yasna invested in the maintenance and use of the castle after the war, it must consume more funds. Later, thousands of troops need to be sent to defend the castle, which is a great burden for yasna. Therefore, it is understandable that Athena gave up the ancient castle and let it be completely abandoned - in other words, those who know it will only feel sorry, and no one will accuse Athena of doing wrong.

"Did you know this would happen?" When William and Cecilia saw the dilapidated castle, William finally couldn't help asking.

Sean has made a big deal in the trade capital. If he doesn't pursue the quality of armaments and materials and only configures the troops with ordinary quality equipment, he can even arm a cavalry force of 3000 people. Although it is only a light cavalry force, the value of such an army is definitely higher than that of a steel wing. If William chooses, he will let the steel wing carry out farming, and then reconfigure and train a light cavalry force.

But after seeing the black swan castle, William finally knew why Sean insisted on keeping the money.

A castle as like as two peas and a series of maintenance functions, which is a great expense, especially if the castle like the black swan castle is the same. If William wants to refurbish it to the same extent as before, does he think that the two million gold coins are not enough?

"It's much worse than I thought." Sean smiled bitterly.

For the black swan castle, he only heard others mention it in the game, and the most impressive thing is that the renovation of the whole castle has invested about 2 million pan continental gold coins. Because of this, Sean didn't dare to spend money freely until he sold the devil's book. However, according to the current situation, the renovation cost of the black swan castle is definitely more than that.

Of course, this refers to the money needed for the complete renovation and perfection of the black swan castle.

But in Sean's mind, he can't put all his money here, because he still has more than 7000 northern barbarians and more than 1000 white wing mercenaries to settle. Although the black swan castle can accommodate nearly 500 soldiers, it is impossible for him to put all the soldiers in the castle. Who knows if there will be any accident, so it means that he needs to build at least another stronghold or directly build a new town, which means more expenses.

Two million gold coins. What should I do first?

This multiple-choice question is really difficult.

Sean thought in some distress, "let's go inside the castle first."

With that, Sean walked towards the main gate of the castle.

It is a three-story isolation door that needs to be started by the runner: the outermost layer is the most common grid iron bar door in castle buildings, the middle is a steel plate hanging door, and the last is two thickened steel plate wooden doors. But now the first two floors of the castle gate have been completely destroyed - more than two-thirds of the area of the grid iron bar door on the first floor has disappeared. From the fracture, it is obvious that it has been melted, and the hanging door in the middle has also been smashed into a huge perforation that can accommodate three people passing side by side.

Only the last door was intact, but it was only the one on the left, and the one on the right had collapsed to the ground.

There was only one person in yasna's army who could melt and destroy these steel plates and steels so easily.

Ray of light. Simi.

It is not difficult to imagine how strong the humiliation and panic was when the 500 garrison of the black swan castle was forced to give up all the fortifications of the castle and fight hand to hand with yasna's wolf like army.

"It's crazy." Sean walked through the gate of the castle and looked at it with lingering fear. For the magician with special means, it was simply a useless decoration gate. He secretly determined that in the future, the gate of the Black Swan Castle must be built with materials that can resist or invalidate magic, even if it was a little expensive.

Then the whole team poured in through the gate.

After passing through the gate of the castle, there is a vestibule of about hundreds of square meters.

It can be seen that the original scenery of this vestibule should also be regarded as beautiful - there are two lawns on the left and right sides of the vestibule, but now it is full of weeds, dead branches and fallen leaves. There are four sculptures on each of the two lawns. The sculptures are in different shapes, or holding bows or swords, and even knights with front feet off the ground. However, except two or three of them are still well preserved, the others have already collapsed.

In the middle of the lawn is a black stone road leading to neibao. In the middle of the stone road is a fountain about three meters high. The fountain is carved with four baby height statues. They have wings on their backs. It seems that they fly in mid air and pay tribute to something in the middle, but the thing they pay tribute to has disappeared, revealing a water pipe under the inner base, and the fountain has dried up.

No matter how you look at it, it is a dilapidated castle.

Sean pushed open the gate of the inner castle, and then the two gates collapsed in Sean's hands, raising a piece of dust like a dust fog.

The castle hall is also very luxurious, as high as seven meters, and in the middle is a huge statue five meters high. The statue stands on the sword as if the wind blows, and the cloak behind him rises like a hunting sound, which looks very powerful. But unfortunately, the head of the statue was cut off by a sword, and the incision was very smooth, so Sean didn't know who carved the statue everywhere.

Behind the statue is a double landing staircase - Stairs on the left and right sides rise up, and then close to the middle to form a prominent platform. Behind this platform is a 23 step staircase, which then extends to the second floor in the opposite direction of the left and right branches - this kind of staircase is very common in noble mansions.

There should have been many decorations on the first floor of the castle, but now all these decorations have disappeared. It is obvious that they have been searched out. But even so, the luxury and scale of the castle are still shocking, especially the surrender of the northern barbarians and the white wing mercenaries who have not seen much of the world.

In fact, Sean can understand the psychological thoughts of these guys. He was so shocked when he first saw Utopia. So he didn't let the soldiers stay here, but let them move freely as an adventure to see if they could find something useful in the castle - of course, he didn't expect it, because yasna lived in the castle for a period of time, and for her who was poor at that time, The valuable must have been emptied long ago.

However, these soldiers don't care about this. What they enjoy is this adventurous psychology similar to exploration.

Soon all the soldiers ran away, leaving only William, Arnold and Cecilia.

Sean didn't say anything. He went straight to the wall under the platform at the double landing stairs, and then stretched out his hand to pull the candlestick hanging on the left side of the wall. He only heard a click of the mechanism, followed by a roar. It seemed that the mechanism had not been started for a long time, so it was rusty.

Then in the surprised eyes of the people, the statue in the middle began to rise slowly.

With the rise of the statue, countless dust fell one after another, like a gray waterfall. After the statue had been raised to a full height of two meters, it finally stopped. Behind the foundation on which the statue was raised, a dark hole was exposed, and a downward ladder appeared here（ To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for recommendation and monthly ticket at qidian.com. Your support is my greatest motivation.)