Trap (Three Chapters Combined)

"Wizard Abel, good news! We found the residence you wanted!" Viscount Ebenezer called loudly from outside.

Abel found it strange. Viscount Ebenezer was a nobleman with an inherited legacy, so how could he act so discourteously?

He assumed the viscount was simply too eager to befriend him, causing this lapse in noble decorum, and paid it no mind.

"Viscount Ebenezer, thank you very much. When can I see the residence?" Abel did not want to impose on others. It was inconvenient even to set up a Magic Gathering Array here, so he asked.

"If you're free now, we can leave immediately!" Viscount Ebenezer said with a smile.

"Then I'm sorry for the trouble!" Abel bowed in thanks.

However, as he bowed, he failed to see the viscount's gloomy gaze.

It was the same carriage. Abel and Viscount Ebenezer sat inside as it began moving. Abel soon noticed that not a single Minotaur guard was following beside it, which puzzled him.

Previously, he had noticed that Viscount Ebenezer always took Minotaur guards with him whenever he went out. Could it be that the viscount trusted Abel's strength?

"Viscount Ebenezer, where is the house?" Abel asked oddly, looking in the carriage's direction.

Although Abel was unfamiliar with Angnew City, he recognized the direction of the carriage and the city gate ahead. They were leaving the city.

"Wizard Abel, your luck is excellent! One of our barons happens to be transferring ownership of his castle, so I immediately thought of you!" Viscount Ebenezer said with a smile.

Abel froze. He did not know about castles on the Central Continent, but on the Holy Continent, buying one was practically impossible.

A castle was the foundation of a family. Even when a family declined, it would first sell its houses in the city. A castle