The West End is close to the South End, on the wide Worce Road, near Franklin Street. There are several three-story residential buildings with patterned curves on the edges. In the past five years, Arthur has discovered that the architectural style of Brighton City has become more ornate, so he
Even ordinary homes have a lot more bold style in appearance. For example, the floor where Elise currently lives is in the shape of a semi-circular arc with a hollow in the middle. This is in sharp contrast to the charity house with a triangular roof. But after approaching the door, Ya
Se had a different experience again. Various metal collections, patterns like warblers on the ground, and huge life-size portraits hanging on the walls. This was not much worse than some aristocratic families, but less.
Just gorgeous carpets and lots of servants.
"The first floor now belongs to someone else's house, and the two floors up from the spiral iron staircase here belong to my house. Don't keep looking at the bronze statue of Gaia above the door. That was my grandfather's huge sum of money from the dwarf family.
Bought it, by the way, this place and the two buildings next door were originally our home." Elise stepped on the steps of the stairs holding on to the carved handrail, while Arthur behind him paid close attention to the iron door about two meters high.
There are also wooden doors leading to four rooms on the first floor, and the logo on the door is also the warbler's tail flower.
This mark reminded Arthur of the books he had read, which recorded the ruined nobles of Brighton City, the Ardesno family, one of the founders of Brighton City, who later went bankrupt due to an unknown accident. In recent years
I have never seen reports about the Ardesno family on various occasions or in newspapers. Could it be that Elise is a descendant of that family?
The footsteps on the iron steps made someone in a room on the second floor ask. The voice sounded like a very lazy woman: "Elise? Are you back, or are you Andrew, you stinky boy?"
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"It's me, mom, I brought a friend back." Eloise pulled Arthur onto the second floor, which covers an area of about one hundred square meters. There is an extremely exaggerated large fireplace in Arthur's sight, followed by
It is a luxurious sofa, table and chair. The main furniture has the Orioles mark on it. Only a few relatively new pieces of furniture have no mark. Surprisingly, there are various candlesticks, but not a single kerosene lamp. Above the fireplace
Two rapiers with rusty handles were placed crosswise. There was a kitchen cabinet on the wall to Arthur's left, with several slightly broken porcelain plates placed on it.
In addition to the hall where Arthur was on the second floor, there were three rooms. After Eloise took him to the second floor, she walked into the farthest room and talked with her mother inside. Liu Ben didn't want to
Ignoring Arthur who was left alone outside, Arthur had no choice but to walk to what looked like a glass collection cabinet and carefully look at the more or less defective valuables inside. The temperature on the second floor was much warmer than on the first floor.
Arthur looked at the blazing flames in the fireplace. Even if he was not afraid of the cold night because of the wood elemental power working in his body, the warm place was finally soothing to the soul.
"Are you our Elise's boyfriend?" A lazy voice mixed with the smell of stardew came out. Arthur looked away from the glittering small wine glass and looked at the man who was almost as tall as him, wearing floor-length pink clothes.
The woman in the long skirt has the same fair skin and delicate facial features as Elise. The long pipe in her hand is burning stardew leaves. What is even more unforgettable is that the mother and daughter are sitting on the stove at night.
The emerald eyes are more obvious in front of her.
"It's not my boyfriend, mom. It's not like you don't know the person I like!" Eluse on the side looked more like a doll when she pouted, but the woman hit Eluse on the head with her pipe. "Isn't this young man inferior to me?
That bastard Guy? I really don’t know what you like about that obedient young man. Be careful to end up like your mother and me. You won’t be able to keep whatever you want.”
"You are not allowed to say that, Mom, okay, Arthur, let me introduce you. This is my mother. Others call her Mrs. Ino. You can also call her Mrs. Enoch. Mom, this is Arthur. In the library
He was an interesting person, so when I saw how homeless he was, I brought him back and planned to let him stay for one night."
Ino exhaled the smoke and bowed slightly to signal. Arthur responded with a salute. After a slight hesitation, he still couldn't hold back his confusion and asked: "Excuse me, madam, is your last name...Ardesno?"
After these words were spoken, even the blazing flames in the fireplace rippled.
Ino took a deep breath of smoke and looked at his daughter with a sad face, "How did you know this name? I haven't heard this surname in nearly ten years."
"The "A Brief History of the Kingdom of Heath" has a description of your family. I am deeply impressed by your family crest." Arthur picked up the small wine glass at hand and turned the side with the warbler's tail pattern engraved on the glass towards Iraq.
Mrs. Now, in fact, Arthur was so impressed because he had read through the histories of most nobles in order to find information about his own family. Arthur found it very interesting that the Ardesnot family used the warbler as their family emblem. Like other
Several big nobles usually use majestic images such as lion heads to show their status. For example, the Childe family of Lord Edwards uses a leaping horse body to represent their family. The one in the center of Brighton City
There is also a horse pattern engraved on the fountain landscape. This is because Edwards has been in power for more than ten years. If nothing happens, Edwards, who has just turned forty, will still be in office for ten more decades.
"I just said that this young man is very good, Eloise, including his memory. Yes, Arthur, we are the Ardesno family, a former great noble. But as you can see, the current Ardesno Mansion
Now it is extremely desolate, and even our family's land has to be rented out to maintain our livelihood. My daughter is a librarian, and I only own two shops in the South District. "Mrs. Eno
His tone was full of sentimentality, but Arthur secretly sighed. For ordinary people, the status of a librarian is already very noble. There are two shops in such a big house, which is much more lonely than Arthur imagined.
Much the same.
Elusi didn't say much, and took the initiative to say with Mrs. Inno's eyes: "Arthur, I think you must be hungry. I'll go and make you something to eat."
Arthur had no intention of staying for a long time and causing trouble to others, so he quickly rejected Elusi's kindness: "No, Elusi, I plan to leave. If I stay any longer..." Before he could finish speaking, he saw
Eloise had disappeared behind the door of a room. At the same time, Arthur heard Mrs. Ino, who was already sitting on the sofa in front of the fireplace, saying leisurely: "It's okay, young man, come and sit down. At this time, the Arbitration Institute's
Those are the most active times. If you go out now, I'm afraid you will be hung in the middle of Brighton City."
"Madam, I don't understand what you mean..." Arthur became vigilant. Indeed, Elise brought him to her house. Arthur already felt that something was wrong. He brought the stranger he met for the first time back to him for no reason.
Jia Lai was still unprepared. Arthur began to think that this was a trap, but he didn't know which force the other party belonged to. If it was a man in black robe, then he would be in a certain death situation. Arthur moved slightly closer to the entrance of the stairs.
, always be ready to escape.
"Don't be nervous, Arthur... My daughter recognized you when she heard your name for the first time. Your name is quite famous among our group in Brighton City, Parrish."
Little bastard, not one mention of you could change our current situation."
Arthur froze in place, watching Mrs. Inno behind the sofa raise her right hand, making an elegant gesture, and exhaled the smoke. A cool breeze gradually blew in the warm and dry hall. This was a wizard.
"I'm just an ordinary awakening wizard, and I don't know any witchcraft. Unlike you, Arthur, who may be the only dual-attribute wizard in the world. Now that you are here, you no longer have to worry about people from the Arbitration Institute coming in rashly.
, our family’s reputation is still there. So, would you like to tell me what happened to you?”
"I don't understand... Mrs. Inno, are you the so-called friends of Parrish? It was also arranged by Parrish for Eloise to meet me in the library?"
"No, Arthur, this is just a coincidence. Eloise, this child, originally liked reading. It is your luck that she met you, or it was fate. But you are really much better than that young man Guy, a little bit
Stay here for a while, Arthur, I will notify the Hermits and other wizards to come and see you tomorrow."
"But... I haven't decided yet what kind of leader, leader, no... Ugor's matter hasn't been resolved yet... Where is Parrish now?"
"Arthur, Parrish has left Brighton City this morning. He already knows about Ugor's sacrifice. He needs to go to the Western Continent urgently. Our compatriots in the group need to know this.
News, if you have to find him, just use your dwarf collar button."
Eloise walked out of the room, holding three bowls of tomato soup in her hands. The aroma covered up the turbid smoke in the hall, "I'm sorry, Arthur, it's really hard to tell you my identity outside. My mother and I both
He is a member of the Hermitage, which you should know is a secret organization established by Parrish in Brighton City to protect the wizarding community."