Bold Idea

"Lucien was also from the Ancestral Era. He had originally been a Golden Guard of the Madeline family and died during a bandit raid on the manor."

Rose continued her introduction. The person she pointed to was a fierce-looking, burly man with knotted muscles all over his body, a matchlock musket on his back, and a long saber at his waist. The aura emanating from him was far stronger than that of the other ghosts.

The burly man was somewhat tense at that moment, clearly because of Tang Qi's identity as a "Furnace Witch."

Tang Qi did not mind and merely nodded at him.

Rose pointed to the other side again, introducing a golden-haired young man of extraordinary beauty dressed in Old Calendar-era noble attire. Suppressing a laugh, she said, "He's Brad. He used to be the Madeline family's neighbor. He dueled someone over one of my great-grandmothers, and then..."

The ghost called "Brad" showed no displeasure at having his embarrassing past exposed. On the contrary, he seemed rather proud as he bowed to them.

After that, Tang Qi met several more ghosts in turn, including Rubens, the Madeline family's Gardener, and Belon, who had been executed for having an affair with one of the Madeline family's ladies.

After a cursory look, Tang Qi discovered that Madeline Manor had gathered dozens of ghosts.

Although most of them were not particularly powerful, and only a handful possessed combat power at the Professional Level if placed outside.

Within Madeline Manor, however, these ghosts received certain boosts and blessings. Unless they encountered a Transcendent professional who was exceptionally effective against ghosts, other Transcendents would find it difficult to deal with them even if they broke into the manor.

Yet strangely, every one of these ghosts belonged to the orderly, good-aligned camp.

At most,