Landon looked at the scene around him and could not help feeling curious.
The once-wealthy-beyond-measure Bayard Family... Their treasury is in a place like this? Even this land has been remodeled into a park. Won't someone take the treasures before we get to them?
His ancestor seemed to have guessed what he was thinking and spoke in a pleasant yet stern voice. "I already told you: 'Territory is the treasure vault, and blood is the key'—
"Spill your blood upon this land, Landon. Recite your true name and open this treasure vault."
"—Yes."
Landon nodded solemnly.
He was actually filled with curiosity. Although he knew that with the Bayard ancestor here, this item would never be his to take, his father had died far too early and too suddenly. As a result, he had no idea how much status or substance the Bayard Family truly possessed. Now, he finally had the chance to witness it with his own eyes...
He looked around like a thief, checking whether anyone was spying on this place.
"Don't worry," Iver suddenly said. "I set up the Crowd Dispersal Ritual in advance and have been guarding the area until now."
For a moment, Iver found it hard to bear. Landon really did not look like a descendant of the Bayard Family at all.
"Okay..."
Landon sighed in relief, and even his back straightened.
He took a ritual dagger from his robes, cut open his palm, and scattered his blood over the grass.
"I, Landon Viennes von Bayard, in the name of the head of the Bayard Family, open the Bayard Family's treasure vault!"
His father had already died in the Demon Disaster.
Now, he was the head of the Bayard Family—the Baron Bayard of this generation.
...Although the New Herasul Empire no longer had barons.