dark witches rise

Chapter 281 Roja's Heir
early morning.

The dewdrops glow like jewels under the sunlight.

jijiji.

The early birds stood on the branches and twittered, shaking off the dew.

In Nange Castle.

A gray-haired, slightly fat old man sat on the bluestone steps in the garden, staring blankly at the flower buds unfolding in the morning light.

Derry Nanger!

Viscount Nange, Patriarch of Nange Family, Honorary President of Pharmacy Guild, Father of Paladin Roja...

Today's Delhi is definitely one of the most distinguished people in the land of the Six Kingdoms.

Back then, he was just a commoner who sold medicinal materials.

His ancestors have been medicine farmers for three generations, and it was only in his generation that he managed to own a medicine shop of his own in Xinluo Town.

Later, he was favored by the widow of the Kaiteri Knight Family, and joined the Kaiteri Knight Family, becoming a member of the Knight Family.

With the help of the Kaiteri knight family, he successfully owned his own medicine store in Silla Town.

The president of a small medicine shop in a small Xinluo town, even the baron of Xinluo town is not worthy to see him, the president of the medicine shop who is randomly manipulated by the baron's housekeeper.

Who would have thought that he, who was not even qualified to kneel and kowtow to the baron, would be able to stand in the current high position in his lifetime?

Become one of the most powerful people in the entire Shenglan Kingdom?

Although he is only a viscount now, the earl will bow his head when he sees him, and the duke will take the initiative to shake hands when he sees him.

All this is because of his son Roja.

That paladin who is believed by the entire Shenglan Kingdom as a god!
Derry looked up at the sky.

In the blue sky, flocks of white pigeons were moving in and out of Nange Castle.

These white pigeons are pigeons used for communication.

Nange Castle seems to have become the center of a huge force, receiving many messages and delivering many orders every day.

Especially recently, it has been very busy, with tens of thousands of pigeons flying in and out of Nange Castle every day.

"You have to deal with so many things, you must be very busy, right?"

Derry had a leisurely smile on his face.

Although he is the nominal Viscount Nange and the president of the pharmacy union, he has delegated his rights many years ago.

Things are left to his children and grandchildren.

It's not that he doesn't like power, on the contrary he is very fascinated by power.

It's really not his job.

He grew up from a family of drug farmers, and his wisdom and emotional intelligence are outstanding among many drug farmers.

That's why he was able to own a pharmacy in the town by his own strength.

That's why he was able to use the strength of the Kaiteri knight family to establish the Kaiteri Medicine Store and become the president of the medicine store.

But his wisdom and EQ are close to the limit to become the president of a medicine store.

Maybe give him a knight collar, and he can handle it.

Let him manage a barony, and after two or three years with the assistance of his eldest son, Roja, he is slowly able to take over the territory that is on the right track.

After becoming a viscount and obtaining a huge viscount territory.

During the period when Roja hadn't returned and he managed the Viscount's territory alone, he was both excited and ignorant.

Viscount territory?

How should it be managed?

How can I be a viscount?
If he wants strength but not strength, if he wants knowledge but not knowledge, he can't manage a viscount's territory at all.

Fortunately, Roja later became a paladin and came back.

In his opinion, the viscount's territory that he didn't know how to manage at all, Roja managed it in a few clicks.

The entire territory is thriving, and its development speed exceeds that of any Viscountdom in the Six Kingdoms.

That's when Derry knew -- "Ah, this is my limit."

So he gradually delegated power.

Up to now, he only appeared on some important occasions, said a few words, enlivened the atmosphere, and honestly acted as a mascot.

As for the matters that really need to make a decision and seal, he will not touch it at all.

He looked away from the sky, listening to the sound of guards doing morning exercises in the distance.

"Hey, it won't be long before our Nange family can become an earl or even a duke, right?"

Although he doesn't care about things, he still cares about rights.

If he could sit on the throne of the duke in his lifetime, he would die without regret.

Da da da.

An innocent girl served by a beautiful maid dressed in black and white came to the garden with crisp steps, carrying a plate, and knelt down beside Derry.

"Master Viscount, here is your soup for today." The maid said respectfully with her head lowered while holding the plate high.

Derry looked at the soup on the plate, patted the bluestone steps beside him, "Just put it here."

"Lord Roja ordered you to watch the Viscount drink the soup." The maid's eyes were full of pleading.

"..." Derry picked up the medicine bowl and drank the soup in one gulp, "Is this all right?"

"Yes." The maid kept a kneeling posture and slowly distanced herself from Derry, and stood up when she came to the back where Derry couldn't see.

"Master Viscount, do you need to help you over the chair over there?" The maid looked at Derry sitting on the bluestone steps and asked in a low voice.

"unnecessary."

"But……"

"Is this also what Roanna ordered?"

"That's not true, but if Master Rick and the others find out, they will blame us for not taking good care of them."

"Except for that kid Roja, no one in the family is qualified to control me. You step down, if they dare to blame you, you just say that's what I mean, and let them come to me."

The maid left.

Derry sat alone on the bluestone steps, staring blankly at the vibrant flowers and trees in the garden.

When people get old, they always like to look at things that represent vitality, and always like to recall the past.

He sat there for a while.

He stood up on his hands and knees, and went to the pool in the garden.

Looking at his own reflection in the water, his eyes were a little blurred.

Not because he is old, but because he is too young.

He is 90 years old, and he seems to have grown backwards. The white hair on his head and the wrinkles on his face are actually less than 20 years ago.

It all happened after Roja came back again almost 20 years apart.

He was originally full of white hair, trembling when he walked, wondering if he could meet his favorite son Roja once before he died of old age.

After Roja came back, he became younger, he became stronger physically.

The lascivious he didn't have the ability to work on beautiful women 20 years ago, and now he can use the potion refined by Roja to control ten girls at night. Not long ago, he even impregnated a beautiful maid.

However, Delhi's mood is very complicated.

People of the same age as him are old and dead, and he doesn't even have an old friend who can talk to him, and he can't keep up with the progress and development of the times.

Many times in the middle of the night, he wondered if he should just stay asleep like this.

But his favorite son will not let him die easily, right?
He also said that he has only reached the middle age of his life now, and he still has decades to live in the future.

"Hey, I have such a wonderful son, sometimes it's very troublesome."

Derry shook his head with a half-smile.

Boo!Boo!Boo! ——

The sound of crisp and hurried footsteps came from a distance.

A cute little boy in his early ten years came trotting into the garden.

When the little boy saw Derry standing in the garden, he immediately yelled "great-grandfather" and hugged him.

Derry, who was still looking sad a second ago, immediately showed a doting expression after seeing the little boy, "Qionuo, get up so early?"

Jono Nange is his favorite great-grandson and the most valued heir of the Nange family. Everyone in the Nange family regards Jono as the most important treasure.

Although Qiao Nuo entered Nange Castle, it has been less than a month since he officially became a member of the Nange family.

The reason why Qiao Nuo has such an honor is very simple, because he is the only grandson of Roja!
Because he inherited Roja's blood!
With the improvement of status, Derry has a certain understanding of wizards.

Although he doesn't understand the principle, he still knows that most wizards are unable to have offspring.

Roja is a wizard and can't have offspring.

Many people feel sorry for this.

Derry knew that although his son didn't say anything, he still wanted to have his own children and grandchildren.

He asked Roja before, since he already knew that becoming a wizard would lose the ability to reproduce offspring, why didn't he find a few women to give birth to offspring for him before participating in the wizard trial?

At that time, Roja replied like this - "I can't even guarantee that I can come back alive, so let's not get involved with innocent women."

After Roja entered the world of wizards, he disappeared for more than ten or twenty years. During this period, he must have experienced many desperate moments of life and death. Survival depends on strength and luck.

In this case, it is really not suitable for marriage and childbirth.

For Roja's choice, should I say it is gentle?Still ruthless?

Derry doesn't know how to rate.

However, Roja finally left behind his own bloodline!
It is said that Roja had sex with a woman named Ulema from the Viscount family of Winter City when he was temporarily staying at Hayne Port on the way to participate in the wizard's trial.

Not long after this Ulema separated from Roja, she found out that she was pregnant.

However, before she informed Roja of this matter, her family was overthrown because of the rebellion.Almost all her family members were killed, and she managed to escape into the deep mountains to hide her name and hunt for a living, and she has lived to this day.

In this era of underdeveloped transportation and difficult communication, she didn't know that Roja was still alive until a year ago, and she became a paladin believed by everyone in the Land of the Six Kingdoms.

But when Ulema knew about this, he didn't bring his son and grandson to Roja to admit his relatives.

First, the journey is too far, and the place where she lives is thousands of kilometers away from Nange Castle.

Second, will the aloof Paladin Roja recognize her?I have never taken the initiative to find her for so many years, so I have probably forgotten her, right?

Third, poor health.She is an old woman in her 60s, her only son broke a leg while hunting, and her oldest grandson is only ten years old.

Under all kinds of mistakes, Roja didn't even know that he still had blood.

Until the day I learned about it from Leia.

Derry stroked the little head of his great-grandson Qiao Nuo, "It's a pity that your grandma and parents don't want to join the Nange family."

On the surface, Delhi felt sorry for Ulema's choice, but in his heart he wanted to praise Ulema for his understanding of current affairs.

As long as Ulema nods, Roja will definitely make her his wife and announce to the world that she, Ulema, is the wife of his Roja paladin.

But almost everyone, including Delhi, felt that Ulema was not qualified.

It's just a woman from a small family of fallen viscounts.

As for the son?

Although it is Roja's closest bloodline, they are all 40 to [-] years old. Due to their living environment and education since childhood, their thinking and knowledge are not much different from those of ordinary farmers in the countryside. The responsibility of the Ge family, a family that is about to become an earl or even a duke.

On the contrary, Roja's grandson Qiao Nuo, who is only in his early ten years, still has a lot of plasticity.

In the end, after some detailed discussions, Roja helped Ulema restore the family's honor, and promised to promote Ulema's family to the earl family, and his son would inherit the earl title.

Then he brought back his grandson, Qiao Nuo, and decided to let Qiao Nuo inherit everything from the Nange family.

In the past, because Roja had no descendants, the family was handed over to other people.

Now that Roja has a son and a grandson, and has brought the grandson back, it is natural that his grandson will become the heir.

For this matter, no one will object, let alone dare to object.

Derry gently stroked the head of his great-grandson Qiao Nuo, and the more he looked at it, the more he liked it, "This is my great-grandson! This is Roja's son! This is the heir of our Nange family!"

"Hahaha……"

Although Delhi has many sons and daughters, in his heart, Roja is the most important!

Other children and grandchildren are not only inferior to Roja, but even Roja's descendants are inferior to him in his mind!
The great-grandson Qiao Nuo is the most important existence in the Nange family after Roja!
"Great-grandfather, you promised me yesterday, you won't lie to me, will you?" Qiao Nuo looked at Delhi with sparkling eyes.

"How could I lie to my lovely great-grandson?" Derry gently scratched Qiao Nuo's nose, took Qiao Nuo's hand and left the garden.

The two of them came to a hall deep in the castle.

Beside the closed gate, two guards in full-body armor with the peak strength of a great knight stood motionless like statues made of steel.

Qiao Nuo hid behind his great-grandfather Derry, secretly glanced at the two big knight guards, and then looked at the closed door in front of him.

Following Derry's order, the guards opened the thick gate.

Rumbling--

Just as the door opened a gap, a thunderous roar came from inside, and Qiao Nuo's cute little face instantly turned pale with fright.

"Are you scared? How about we come back another day?" Deri said, rubbing Qiao Nuo's little head.

"No! I want to go in!" Qiao Nuo clenched his fists and said courageously.

When the door was fully opened, the sound of thunder became more intense and deafening.

Qiao Nuo, whose body was trembling with fear and excitement, hugged his great-grandfather Derry's thigh tightly, and followed his great-grandfather Derry into the hall step by step.

crunch--

Bah!
The moment the door closed, the whole room became pitch black.

In the darkness, the thunder sounded even more terrifying.

"do not be afraid."

After Derry comforted Qiao Nuo, he clapped his hands lightly.

call!call!call! ——

The oil lamps in the room lit automatically.

The flickering candles illuminated the dark hall, allowing Qiao Nuo to finally see the source of the thunder that had been ringing in his ears.

There is a raised platform in the center of the room.

A heavy two-handed sword was planted on the high platform.

The big sword with the handle trembled slightly, and the sword body flashed with lightning arcs that were similar to lightning but did not emit light.

"Is this Grandpa's holy sword Lionheart Roar?" For a moment, Qiao Nuo forgot his fear, and only had eyes on the great sword that was constantly flickering with electric arcs and making thunderous noises.

That is the sword of the holy knight Roja, who is believed by all the commoners in the land of the Six Kingdoms!
Just a few months ago, Qiao Nuo was living with his father, mother, and grandmother in a remote, sparsely populated village in the north of Shenglan Kingdom.

His grandmother was old and feeble, and his father was seriously injured and disabled. The whole family relied on his mother to support him.

At such a young age, he could not see a glimmer of hope in his life.

The only thing that can make him happy is to go to Grandpa Vido at the end of the village and listen to Grandpa Vido tell the story about Paladin Roja.

Since he can remember, he has admired the Roja Paladin so much, and even dreamed of being able to see the Roja Paladin with his own eyes.

His biggest dream in this life is to become a Roja Paladin student, to become a powerful knight like the Roja Paladin.

Apart from listening to Grandpa Vido's stories, their group of children spend their free time pestering the village's most powerful Orion, the Quasi-Knight Buck, to teach them swordsmanship.

The quasi-knight Buck was the guard of the baron in the town when he was young, and he returned to the village to retire after breaking a hand. He was the idol of all the children in the village.

I thought the days would pass like this day by day.

Difficult but unchanging life.

Then that day, the god in his mind descended!

The old and frail grandma returned to her youth in an instant, much more beautiful than the most beautiful woman in the village, the daughter-in-law of the village head's silly son, Sister Tracy.

His mother, who was suffering from various diseases due to housework, suddenly became healthy.

Because of hunting, he broke a leg and became a disabled father. The broken leg actually grew back.

Simply a miracle!
And it was the Paladin Roja who made the miracle in the dream come true.

No, it should be his grandfather.

Only then did he know that his grandma was the princess of the viscount family when she was young, and only then did he know that his grandfather was the legendary paladin.

So he turned out to be the down and out prince in a fairy tale?

Due to the appearance of paladin Roja, their grandfather, their lives have undergone tremendous changes.

With the help of his grandfather Roja paladin, his grandmother regained control of the former viscount family, and his father became a viscount, and it is said that he can become an earl in the future.

He followed his grandfather Roja paladin to the legendary Nange City and became the heir of the Nange family.

In just a few months, he has grown from a naughty kid in a small remote village to the grandson of the strongest and most powerful man in the Six Kingdoms!

Every day he felt like he was in a dream.

Every night when I close my eyes, I am afraid that when I open them the next morning, I will see dilapidated huts in front of the sun.

"Suck--"

Qiao Nuo watched as the Nange family's holy sword, the lion heart, roared.

He took a deep breath, "Great-grandfather, can I go up and touch it?"

"Of course no problem."

"Really? Those lightning bolts on the blade?"

"You are Roja's grandson, the heir of our Nange family, how could Lionheart Roar, who is the town's divine soldier, hurt you?"

"Then I went?"

"come on!"

Inspired by Derry, Qiao Nuo walked up the stairs step by step to the high platform, and came to the roar of the holy sword Lionheart.

Looking at the saber of the Paladin Roja, Qiao Nuo was so excited that his heart was beating fast.

He looked down at the arc wrapped around the sword, and after a long time he didn't dare to stretch out his hand, he looked back at his great-grandfather Derry.

With the repeated encouragement of his great-grandfather Derry, he finally mustered up the courage.

He stretched out his hands and grasped the hilt of the holy sword Lionheart Roaring forcefully.

buzzing-

The thunderous sound that resounded throughout the hall disappeared at once.

Qiao Nuo looked at the buzzing and vibrating in his hand, as if the holy sword Lionheart was roaring to please his kitten, he smiled happily.

"Hey, I have met the legendary holy sword Lionheart Roar!"

"If Duo Lun finds out, he will definitely envy me to death, right?"

Qiao Nuo pulled out the hand holding the hilt!
The holy sword Lionheart Roar remained motionless.

Derry did not know when he had already stood beside Qiao Nuo, patted Qiao Nuo on the shoulder and said: "The holy sword Lionheart roars, only with the strength of a great knight can it be wielded, and only when it reaches the level of a holy knight can it exert its full power. "

While regretting, Qiao Nuo looked at the holy sword Lion Heart with glowing eyes and roared, "One day, I will make you my saber!"

As if expecting to become Qiao Nuo's saber, the holy sword Lionheart roared and vibrated, responding to Qiao Nuo.

(End of this chapter)