Chapter 325: Bread and Dagger (23)
The path to Senior Delphine’s bedroom was anything but easy. There were several reasons for this. The first and foremost was that the Yurdina Castle was simply too vast.
Though I had recently been on the road to success, I was still merely the second son of a countryside viscounty. In terms of connections, I only remembered associating with people of my own standing wherever I went.
Until now, the noble residences with the most grandeur I had seen were merely Manors.
HAving suddenly arrived at a ‘Castle,’ I needed time to adjust to its scale.
Such were the sad limitations of a low-ranking noble.
After all, I had never been invited by a high-ranking noble, not even once.
And then I received a letter from Senior Delphine. If I were to consider the usual order of things, it was as if I had skipped several steps.
The Yurdina family was the sole sovereign of the North. Moreover, being one of the five great noble families of the Empire, their authority was unmatched by other high-ranking nobles.
Naturally, the place where its master resided was bound to be large and magnificent.