Dear Broom Knight.

Chapter 376 Daisy with 'ordinary' talent
There were not as many beauties in the castle of the minor nobles as the legend said.

Pretty girls have to be nurtured. How could it be so easy for a woman who is naturally beautiful and remains stunning no matter how she is treated?
Even the famous Xi Shi, the woman who washed silk, was not born into a poor family!

At least she didn't need to work in the fields, and she had enough to eat and clothes to wear.

Even if a small nobleman has little money, he would not keep a group of ordinary girls in his castle who he doesn't know what they will be like when they grow up.

Moreover, if he could afford it, he wouldn't care about the money he spent on supporting a lover.

As for forcing all talented girls to be under one's control, that's just a dream!
Unlike other worlds where lords control all affairs of the territory, the small nobles who do not have the money to build the awakening array of their own territory can only accept the fate of the good seedlings in their territory being cleared out by the superiors.

For talented and good-looking girls from ordinary families, even the dumbest parents would know where to send them for better value. Even if they don't care about their future, they still have to consider who can give more money.

As for setting up an awakening magic circle to control the territory by oneself, it is basically impossible.

Apart from using more generous treatment to attract talents, other means can only be done in secret.

But if you do it secretly, there is always the possibility of being overturned.

Even a guy as disgusting as Count Gezar, didn't he mainly target his own family members, and the people who were sacrificed were all of Gezar's bloodline!

If there is internal strife among the nobles, no one will care if some insignificant people disappear.

Anyway, it is their family's own future that is being ruined.

But civilians can't.

Although the nobles in this world have considerable control over their subjects, the first object of loyalty of the common people is always His Majesty the King.

The lord's subjects belong to him, but his subjects must be shared with the king...taxes prove everything.

Therefore, other people in the territory might not be living that well, but it’s definitely not too bad, and any dirty tricks would only happen occasionally.

Otherwise, the magic circle would definitely expose his abnormality... Those who have awakened their talents are all recorded.

It is basically impossible for these people to remain silent for the next few decades.

Even if the Noble Firm received bribes to cover up the incident, it would only last for a year or two at most.

The ten-year self-examination is written into the core of these magic arrays, and no one can change it.

The control of all these magic arrays lies in the capital, under the joint supervision of the royal palace and the aristocratic office.

The part that the nobles can control is actually connected to the part of the magic circle controlled by the palace.

It’s just that ordinary kings have no way to open that part of the chain.

But the kings still have the final means of mutual destruction.

However, to do so would be tantamount to completely stripping the royal bloodline of its control over the country. Unless they were desperate, not many people would be so cruel.

This is how the balance of the icefield royal family is achieved... Although the king and his princes are not treated very well, the royal family members live well.

In order to initiate the means of mutual destruction, the approval of more than 70% of all royal family members must be obtained.

Therefore, the relationship between the nobility and the royal family is one of mutual rise and fall and mutual restraint.

It can also be considered a relative balance.

Moreover, it has indeed ensured that the royal family's ruling power will remain unchanged for tens of thousands of years.

This is no easy task.

This forced the lesser nobles to have enough respect for their wives who came with dowries.

So there will definitely be some lovers who are just barely acceptable, but they definitely cannot be brought to formal social occasions.

It's not okay not to take it out at all.

The nobles' serious social circles cannot be separated from the background of women... Some things cannot be directly confronted head-on. It is important to let people first test whether the other party is willing to cooperate.

Such things can only be done by a formal lover with a professional rank, but definitely not by an ordinary maid in the castle.

After weighing the pros and cons, the young nobles who don't want to make any trouble and are already quite old can only choose to marry girls from knights or high-level professionals' families who don't have good talents, have barely enough status, and whose parents are relatively cruel and only care about benefits and don't care about their daughters' happiness.

Moreover, they have to be very young, at least not over 16 years old, and many of the girls in it are not even over 12 years old.

After all, once they were chosen by a minor noble family, they would need some time to "cultivate" these girls' dependence on their husband's family.

This kind of marriage is no different from a one-time transaction.

No matter how a girl is treated in her husband's family, including not being allowed to have children or even encountering some bad things, her parents' family will no longer care.

However, the small lords in the North knew very well that the Tollers were indeed cruel and ruthless, but Lady Yagris was likely to care very much about what happened to Valeera.

Therefore, in a banquet like that where one was almost selling one's daughter, no small noble would go to see Valeera.

The Tollers were not actually unaware of this.

They had to take Valeera to such a dirty place, firstly, to show that they had no intention of using Valeera to climb up the social ladder. After all, if they were willing to accept such a family, then young nobles who thought they could pass the test of Lady Yagris and were willing to pay some price would naturally come to them.

The other was to strike a blow to Valeera's self-esteem and confidence.

Even if the husband chosen for Valera later was poor in all aspects, he would at least not be worse than the men she met at these banquets.

If Valeera had enough brains and a soft heart, she might be grateful to her parents for letting her get married like a human being.

Valeera also paid a great price to struggle out of the web woven by the Tollers, which was more sinister and sticky than a spider web.

Therefore, she would never give up the freedom and power that she had worked so hard to obtain just because of the pursuit of a relatively good man.

However, not every girl can see through these traps and live out her true self.

Some girls try to regard those parties as their lifeline, thinking that they are a stepping stone to a better life.

Therefore, when they realized that Valeera would live better than them, they became extremely jealous of her. Some girls with professional ranks even wanted to attack Valeera in secret.

Daisy was the most obvious one among them, and she even actually did it.

However, they were stopped by the Tollers, who valued Valeira as an unsold commodity, and used a little trick to get the father and daughter out of the North.

If it weren't for the fact that the bard was not of a relatively high level and had a lot of, ah... silent backing, even though he had a lot of troubles behind him, the angry Toller couple could have killed them directly.

After telling Charles about this girl, Valera was still a little puzzled: “Daisy’s father, as I remember, was a bard who got into big trouble in the capital. How did he send Daisy to Princess Rosalind?
This princess is not the kind of poor forgotten little thing!
No matter how many secrets the people around her have... they must have been carefully checked.

Daisy, obviously, has not changed her appearance.

It is impossible for her father to only bring her to the banquet in the North."

"Is that man a court bard?" Charles asked softly.

"Probably." Valera nodded.

"Then her mother must be someone extraordinary, at least someone who could send her illegitimate daughter to the palace as a servant." Charles answered quickly, "The bard is probably gone, so Daisy returned to her mother's family before she reached adulthood.

Well, as long as they are under 16 years old and don't want to be in the direct bloodline of the nobility, the nobility can add their own surnames to some children who are talented and do have their own bloodline.

This is usually a way out for the illegitimate children born to some unrecognized lovers.

However, the prerequisite is that she must be very talented, so the maternal family is willing to accept her even though they know the past.

Sister Valera, do you still remember her talent back then?"

Valera nodded in a trance... In this regard, Charles, who had been hanging out with those playboys for years, was indeed quicker than her.

It's not that she doesn't know about these rumors, but, perhaps because of the shadow of the past, Valeera is rather averse to them.

Then she shook her head violently again: “With Daisy’s talent, she should be at the intermediate level of an apprentice when she is 12 years old.

It's passable, but that's it.

Not to mention Cheska and Taylor, even the knights on Mal's side are more talented than her."

The most talented knights in Lowry's territory are actually the guards around Taylor.

The ones from Mal and Komlan are of average quality, but they are relatively consistent.

The Guards are more focused on personal development.

Mal and his people tend to be more collectivist and obedient.

This is normal. The more talented and capable a person is, the less he or she likes to live a life that is lost in the crowd.

They like to be unique, preferably one of a kind.

It would be a torment for both sides to let them live among those who are not very talented and whose characters are too simple.

The knights with better talents in Mal and Comlan all yearn for collective life and are willing to wait for other companions to catch up with their knights.

The competitive type are basically around Taylor.

At least Taylor can hold it down.

Charles looked at his sister, pointed at the image and said, "But it doesn't seem to be the same as your memory~ this Daisy."

In the crystal window, Daisy, looking arrogant, raised her fist towards Sophia who was arguing with her, and a deep blue light flashed by.

This is the kind of magic power that only a level 10 knight can possess, although it is only the beginning.

"Cheska hasn't even gone this far." Charles added dimly.

In their family, it is the youngest, Taylor, who has begun to shine.

(End of this chapter)