The sky is gray.

In the Moro Manor, on the large training ground, a blond boy was practicing archery.

The young boy is only five or six years old, but his face is very delicate and beautiful, and he can predict his handsomeness when he grows up.

The dazzling blonde hair and the charming green eyes all show the dignity and purity of his bloodline.

He was focused, holding the bow in one hand, pulling the string in the other, aiming at the target, shooting an arrow, hitting the bull's eye.

After shooting an arrow, he took out another arrow from the quiver behind him and continued his previous action.

Draw the bow, aim, shoot the arrow, and do it in one go.

He repeated this series of movements over and over again without feeling bored at all.

Every move he made was very standard, and every arrow hit the bull's eye.

It is smooth and natural, and easy to use, as if you have practiced it thousands of times.

"Swish", another arrow was shot out. He took out another arrow and was about to hit him, but there was a sound of footsteps behind him with a rhythmic sound.

He put down his bow and arrow and paused his bow training.

Without looking back, he knew that it was the butler Joseph who came.

Only the housekeeper Joseph, who has always been strict with himself and meticulous, will make such footsteps.

Sure enough, the footsteps gradually stopped, and at the same time, Joseph's voice came from behind him: "Master Arthur, Lord Viscount asked you to go to the study."

His speech speed is always fast and slow, and the syllables between each character are the same, but it is not difficult to hear his sincere respect.

Upon hearing this, Arthur put down the bow and arrow in his hand, tidied up his clothes, and took the lead in walking in front and heading towards the study, while Joseph followed him one step behind.

Along the way, Arthur kept thinking.

His father, the lord of Alexandria, Viscount Oriel Moro, rarely let him go to his study.

Generally speaking, if anything happens, Viscount will choose to inform his son during dinner.

Only when Viscount Orell asked Arthur to go to his study only if it was very important.

Arthur still remembers that the last time his father asked him to go to his study was three months ago, on his sixth birthday, when his father announced that he could start knight training.

And what would happen to going to the study this time? Arthur had no idea and was a little excited.

He was very enthusiastic about things like knight training that could improve his strength, but it is still unknown whether it was, but he did not intend to ask the butler behind him, Joseph.

Judging from Viscount Orell's always-behaved style, he would not tell a lowly servant what was really important.

That's right, although Joseph was the great steward of the Moro family, one of Viscount Orell's few absolute confidants and confidants, and had a high status in his manor and territory, he was just a lowly slave in his mind.

Arthur's father, Viscount Oriel Moro, is such a person.

He is strong, autocratic, cunning, cruel, and extremely cold-blooded and arrogant. He can only show rare warmth to his only descendant, his son and heir, Arthur.

Despite this, he was still strict with Arthur, even to the point of being harsh.

The Moro Manor is very large, with the training ground in the east, while Viscount Orell's residence is on the west, and the study is naturally there, so there is still a journey from the training ground to the study.

But despite this, Arthur and Joseph just walked forward silently, without saying even a word in the middle.

Viscount Olir is withdrawn and likes quietness and order.

Therefore, there are not many servants in the manor, and everyone performs their own duties. There is no one who does nothing, and the manor is large and scattered, even fewer people will be there.

On the way, they would occasionally encounter some servants, but they all just saluted Arthur from afar, and did not dare to get close at all. Even if they were greeting, they would only make moves without making any sound.

Everything in the manor is like putting a black and white silent film, dark, boring, dead silent.

But Arthur was used to this, but he was expressionless and ignored the greetings of others.

Although he is still young, he may be influenced by his father or because of his bloodline inheritance. Many times he seems less close to human nature.

Arthur is also very calm and steady in his daily behavior and thoughtfulness. He doesn't look like a child who is only five or six years old, so he often ignores his real age.

In this way, Arthur and Joseph walked for a long time before finally reaching the residence of Viscount Orell.

This is a gray-white building, shaped like a Gothic architectural model from medieval Europe. It is built very tall and sharp, giving people a deep and depressing feeling.

Arthur kept walking and walked straight into the pointed arch in the center of the gray building.

Outside the arch stood two strong knights holding long swords. Both of them were wearing heavy armor, shaped like sculptures, and did not move at all, even if Arthur passed by.

After entering, Arthur walked through a long and tall corridor, with exquisite relief carved above both sides of the corridor, and the walls on both sides were covered with colorful murals.

Arthur winds up the end of the corridor with a precious carpet staircase. After three steps, he walks into a corridor and stops in front of the door of the second room.

Almost as soon as he stopped, the door in front of him seemed to have eyes, and opened automatically with a click. Arthur walked straight into the room without any hesitation and closed the door, while the butler Joseph stayed outside the door.

After entering the room, Arthur glanced at the entire room from the corner of his eye and found that there was no one behind the door. His father, Viscount Orell, was sitting inside the room, in front of the desk far from the door, looking carefully at something, as if he knew nothing about his arrival.

The decoration of the study room has changed the luxurious style of the entire building, making it look very simple and simple, without any extra decorations, so it is clear at a glance.

There were no extra people in the room except Viscount.

So, how do the doors automatically open?

Arthur could not figure it out, so he could only suppress the doubts in his heart, quickly walked to the desk, and respectfully bowed to Viscount Oliver.

"Father."

Orell is over forty years old, but he looks quite young and very handsome.

Because of the rare light, his face looked too fair, with blonde hair and blue eyes, deep and three-dimensional facial features, tall and strong body, and a mature sense of vicissitudes. No matter how you look at it, he is a very charming man.

He wore a black noble dress with a longer hem, white gloves, and pursed his lips and did not speak, giving people a sense of extreme sinism and strength.

When Arthur saluted, Orell had already stopped the movements in his hand and looked up at him. He had never had any expression. A strange and stiff smile appeared on his extremely handsome face.

Arthur didn't care about this, but felt very warm. He knew his father's love for him very clearly, and Viscount Orell never concealed it.

"Arthur, my dear son, you are here."

Viscount Orell smiled and greeted kindly: "How are you doing recently?"

"I'm fine, father." Arthur replied without hesitation, and expressed his doubts well without making any unnecessary concealment. "But is there anything important to ask me to come to the study?"

Upon hearing this, Viscount Orell curled his smile and looked serious. He asked without answering, "Arthur, do you know the history of our family?"

"Of course." Arthur also became serious when he saw this and replied without hesitation, "It is recorded in the history of the clan that Hughes Moro, the first patriarch of the Moro family, was an extremely powerful knight. He came to Alexander alone, a place where resources were rich, but monsters occupied, killed the monsters occupying it, and established the city of Alexander. Charles II, the king of the Kingdom of Harlan, was inspired by his achievements and awarded him the title of viscount. He was the first city lord of Alexander, the ancestor of the Moro family at the very origin..."

"Did you ever wonder where Hughes Moro came from?"

Viscount Orell interrupted Arthur's statement and raised questions.

Arthur was silent for a moment, then shook his head, indicating that he didn't know.

He also had doubts in his heart, but what he was confused about was not the origin of the illusory first clan leader, because this was a thousand years ago, very far away from now, and there is no record in the clan history, so it is normal for him not to know.

What really puzzled him was that Viscount Orell's attitude towards the first patriarch directly called him by his name without any respect.

Although Viscount Orell has a weird personality and temper, he is not a person without awe. Moreover, he has always been proud of his noble bloodline and family reputation, so he should not be so arrogant and rude to the founder of the family.

"Have you ever thought about how powerful a knight was to easily solve the almost countless monsters entrenched in Alexander, and forced the king to surrender, recognize his legal status, and grant him such a wealthy Alexander as a fief?"

Viscount Orell continued to ask without a pause.

Arthur was silent. He had thought about this issue when he read family history before.

The monster is extremely powerful and difficult to deal with. Otherwise, with Alexander's wealth, humans would not allow it to be occupied by monsters.

The weakest monster is also comparable to the quasi-knight, only a little worse than the formal knight, and most monsters are not inferior to the formal knight. Among them, the powerful ones, even the Great Knight, dare not snatch their edge.

Fortunately, the number of monsters is limited, and the location of survival and activity is almost fixed. There are other food sources besides humans, so humans can occupy most of the land by relying on their own numbers.

Despite this, humans dared not invade the places where monsters gathered. This was the case before the city of Alexandria and its territory.

Hughes Moro, the first patriarch of the Moro family, was able to eliminate the monster group and build a city on it. Its strength is imagined.

But the problem is that the Great Knight is already the limit that human strength can reach. Even if Hughes Moro is a top-level strongman at the peak of the Great Knight, it is impossible for him to solve all the monster groups by his own strength.

It is important to know that the gathering of monsters reaches a certain number, and there must be some terrifying monsters. If you want to deal with such an existence, let alone a big knight, even a group of big knights are hanging. When the top predators command the monster group, their power is not as simple as one plus one.

When Arthur read this before, he was puzzled, but he only thought that this was the Spring and Autumn style of history. In fact, the first patriarch must have helpers, such as an extremely elite and powerful knight army. However, in order to highlight the strength of the patriarch and give it a strong heroic epic color, he described it in this way, so he didn't think much about it.

But is there something else that has been hidden when I heard my father’s question and the extremely clear statement of “one person” in family history?

In other words, in terms of the richness of the area where Alexandria is located in the top three in the Kingdom of Harem, the king could not easily grant it to an outsider. Even if it was because of him that this land truly belonged to the kingdom, at most it would be rewarded in other aspects or fiefs and titles from other places.

Arthur frowned, and the more he thought about it, the more something was wrong.

He felt that the statement his father had said before, "to force the king to surrender" seemed extremely suitable in such a situation, and it seemed that this was the case.

If all this is true, it is almost unimaginable how inhumane force the first patriarch Hughes Moro had.

Viscount Orell stood up, walked to the window, reached out and pulled open the heavy curtains, letting the sunlight shine in, then sat back on his seat, sighed, and said to himself:

"Your grandfather passed away when your mother was pregnant with you, so you had never seen your grandfather," he said, pausing, "If you have seen him, you will find that your grandfather looks exactly like the portrait of the first patriarch."

Arthur's pupils shrank in vain when he heard this.

Viscount Orell gave Arthur no room for thinking or asking questions, and still continued to speak on his own:

"It's not just your grandfather, but the previous patriarchs of the Moro family before me, all looked exactly the same."
To be continued...