The sound of the rumbling wheels had gone away, and Lorist stood at the window of the bedroom on the fourth floor, looking at the streets and alleys that were gradually shrouded in darkness, silent.
"My lord..." Tagle's voice came from behind him.
"What do you think?" Lorist didn't turn around.
"My lord, this Earl of Churchwick didn't tell the whole truth. He said that he got news about our Norton family from the Business Alliance and went to the Haneyabad Islands to see the head pyramid. This part should be true, so he That’s why I’m so scared. The fact that the coalition forces of the four principalities in the central region sent troops to Federica’s capital to confront the Second Highness is probably half-truth and half-truth. The results of the battle and the fact that the Second Highness could not be found should also be true. He is lying.
My lord, I stand behind his side, I can see clearly, every time he is nervous, the left hand below will grab his pants tightly, I found that the moment he is nervous is exactly when you asked him about the four principalities in the middle of the country What is the agreement with the business alliance? When he answered, he was holding his pants tightly with his left hand, and you were on the opposite side of him, so the line of sight was blocked and you didn't see it...
Also, in the end, he said that he came to Windbury King City to participate in and meet the Knights Tournament held by the Grand Duke Fessabrun. At that time, his left hand was also tightly clutching his pants. I feel very strange, why would he lie about such a trivial matter? Maybe he knew that you came to propose marriage to the Feisabrun family, and his goal was also Princess Silvia, so he lied because he was afraid of you. Hehe, my lord, you have an opponent..."
Tagle laughed gloatingly, he knew that Lorist would not be angry because of such a trivial matter.
"Speaking of Princess Sylvia, do you know why she left Windbury in a hurry and rushed back to the family territory?" Lorist asked without looking back.
"I don't know, my lord." Tager replied: "Through several guards of the Grand Duke Feisabrun, we found out that Princess Silvia had a little dispute with the Grand Duke when she left seven days ago. It is said that she asked the Grand Duke to stop The Grand Duke refused to hold this knight tournament. Princess Sylvia cried and went to the queen, and then had a big fight with the queen, and then brought her guards and her godmother Sandy The great swordsman hurried to the Eastern Wasteland Province. In the past two days, His Royal Highness has sent three groups of messengers to ask the princess to come back, but so far there has been no reply... "
Lorist rubbed his chin: "Could it be that something happened to the old lair of the Duke of Feisabrun in the Eastern Wasteland Province? No, if something happened, then the old fox, the Duke of Feisabrun, should be the first to worry. He's still staying in Wangcheng to prepare for the knight tournament two days later, so it's obviously not a big deal..."
"Sorry, my lord, it's my fault that our intelligence investigators can't enter Donghuang Province," Tager said.
"It's none of your business. The Eastern Wilderness Province is the territory of the Feisabrun family, and there is no big city like Windbury City. There is no way to prevent the flow of people very strictly. You go on Let's see, use the time of holding the conference for the next month to see if we can select a few of the guards around the grand duke to bribe them, and let them become the nails buried by our family around the grand duke... "
"Yes, my lord, I will do my best."
"Also, look up the nobles from the four principalities in the middle, I always feel that their purpose of coming is not as simple as that of Princess Sylvia..."
"Yes, my lord."
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"What did you say?" Lorist was stunned.
"Yes, my lord, the little prince and the great swordsman of the Principality of Forondo ran away with their more than a thousand guards at midnight last night, and brought them to the four-horse carriage that was going to propose to Princess Sylvia All the presents were thrown away. Grand Duke Feisabrun said that anyway, they haven’t asked for marriage, so these gifts will be used as compensation for your victory in the duel yesterday, and they are ordering people to tidy up and load them into the carriage, and they will be delivered soon.”
Tagle stood in front of Lorist and said with a wry smile: "My lord, we originally planned to attack the little prince's attendants and entourage. The Earls of Dalek came here in light clothes, and their entourage was no more than three or four people, and all of them were taciturn and vigilant, and they didn't go out to visit taverns at night, so we couldn't get any information from them.
The little prince brought more than a thousand guards, among which there were nearly a hundred of his entourage and servants, and it was easiest to get news from these people. After pouring down three cups of horse piss and then irritating them with words, they will even tell about the fact that they peeked at his old mother taking a bath when they were young... Unfortunately, my lord, you scared them yesterday. The Earl of Churchwick must have told them about our Norton The family is powerful, so they escaped overnight... "
"Uh..." Lorist said with a headache, "Forget it, anyway, the knight tournament will take a month. During this time, I will slowly get in touch with the two earls' followers, and maybe someone will leak a word Yes, we will understand the purpose of the two earls, let fate."
At around ten o'clock in the morning, the Grand Duke Fessabrun brought four carriages to Anna's hotel, and laughed loudly as Lorist greeted him: "My lord, you really surprised me, I never thought you would A kingdom perished. It is truly remarkable."
Lorist was very modest: "Thank you, Your Royal Highness, that is actually just a pirate's lair. It claims to be a kingdom, but which country on the mainland has recognized them? Everyone knows that if they hadn't invaded my I'm too lazy to deal with them in the family territory. If it's His Royal Highness, maybe you don't have to go all out like me, and you can kill them with just a corps. The real hero is a surprise attack and capture of Jinchuan like His Royal Highness feat."
It was obvious that Lorist's words touched Grand Duke Sabron's pride, his mouth parted and he smiled like a chrysanthemum: "Hehe, you are not bad, you are really good, the more I look at you now, the more I appreciate you, you are not frivolous when you are young, Martial arts are extraordinary, good, good, good."
It took three good words for Grand Duke Feisabrun to remember the purpose of his visit: "By the way, Lord Norton..."
"His Royal Highness, you are an elder, so just call me Locke. Calling me Earl is too natural." Lorist stopped Grand Duke Fessabrun from speaking.
"Okay, then I'll call you Locke. That's the thing, didn't you win the duel yesterday? Originally, Prince Doc was supposed to pay you a ransom, but last night he suddenly received a letter and wanted to return immediately To the Principality of Forendo. The situation was urgent and he had no choice but to rush all night. Before leaving, he entrusted me to hand over these properties to you as his ransom, and apologized to you."
Grand Duke Feisabrun was talking nonsense in a serious manner, and Lorist stood beside him and nodded solemnly to express his appreciation. This is a compliment to His Royal Highness for living up to the entrustment and Little Prince Doc for sticking to his promise to deliver the ransom. In fact, both of them knew that these belongings were gifts that Prince Doc used to propose to Princess Sylvia, but they were thrown away in a hurry, and then were used by Grand Duke Feisabrun as a gift. A ransom for victory in a duel.
What was strange to Lorist at this moment was why the Grand Duke Feisabrun wanted to stand up for Little Prince Doc? According to Tagle's report, the little prince Doc and the great swordsman left without saying goodbye in the middle of the night yesterday, and left in a hurry. The Grand Duke of Feisabrun only found out that they had run away in the morning. It is said that the Grand Duke scolded cowards and cowards several times in front of his guards. The gift of the four-horse carriage should have been specially left by the little prince Doc, perhaps as compensation to the Feisabrun family, but more likely, he hoped to use the Grand Duke's hand to deliver these gifts to Sylvia.
But why did Grand Duke Feisabrun decide to transfer these gifts to himself in a blink of an eye? This can be said to be wiping the ass of the little prince Doc. Why would the Grand Duke do this for no reason? He can take these gifts as his own. As for the bad reputation of the little prince Doc who is greedy for life, afraid of death, not keeping his promise and not paying the duel ransom, it has nothing to do with him. He can just stand by and watch the fun like he did at the banquet yesterday! Could it be that the Feisabrun family has something to ask for the Duchy of Forendo? That's impossible. On the contrary, it should be the Principality of Forendor begging the Grand Duke Fesabrun...
Lorist was pondering in his heart, but a kind smile appeared on his face: "I didn't expect the little prince Doc to be so loyal to the honor of the nobility, he is indeed the prince of the Duchy of Forondo. In fact, he can send an attendant to say hello." That’s fine, you can pay the ransom at any time, why bother His Royal Highness to make a special trip.”
Grand Duke Feisabrun's face twitched, remembering that at the banquet yesterday, after Lorist and the others left, Earl Churchwick told everyone that the Norton family had destroyed the Kingdom of Chaneabad last year, and even killed almost everyone in the kingdom, except Twenty to thirty thousand young women, and the rest, old and young, were all chopped up, and then a pyramid of human heads with a height of tens of meters was built with more than two hundred thousand heads.
At that time, everyone was stunned and suspected that Earl Churchwick was lying. The Earl of Churchwick swears and tells everyone that this is true, and he has also seen the pyramid of heads. Even after seeing that horrible thing, he was seriously ill for several days when he came back. As soon as he closed his eyes, it seemed that the pyramid of human heads appeared in front of him, and all the heads on it were grinning and screaming at him. So when he saw Lorist today, he thought of that terrible pyramid of human heads. How cruel would it take for a person to order such a thing to be built! This is the real reason why he trembled in front of Lord Norton...
If the Earl of Churchwick hadn't come over early in the morning to tell me about the little Prince Doc's escape overnight, and asked me to do so so as not to make you feel suspicious, and finally intervened to disrupt everyone's plot, why did I come here to fight for that? What kind of ass is that shitty little Prince Doc wiping his ass! Isn't it because you are afraid that your Norton family will send troops to interfere
Grand Duke Feisabrun patted Lorist's shoulder lightly: "It's okay, why are you being so polite? I'm a landlord now, and everyone came to cheer for the Feisabrun family, so naturally I have to solve some small troubles for everyone It’s nothing more than a little effort, the conference will open the day after tomorrow. Tomorrow I will hold a banquet and invite all the nobles in the royal city to attend. I also wish the conference a complete success. Locke, you all have to come…”
"Of course, His Royal Highness has orders, so I will go naturally."
"Okay, it's a deal, I'll send someone to lead you there tomorrow." Grand Duke Feisabrun said with a smile.
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After the banquet on the second day, the knight tournament was officially held on the third day.
It's just that Lorist was a bit bored, because he found that he couldn't finish the game, he could kill a gold three-star knight with one move, and then he went off to find those silver-ranked and gold-ranked knights as opponents. thick. Especially after Grand Duke Fesabrunn concealed his request that he didn't want to see Lorist end, Lorist readily agreed, and then sent his men to participate in the knight tournament.
The Knights Tournament held by the Grand Duke Fesabrun is still the same old style, archery, swordsmanship and duel on horseback. There is no distinction between gold and silver battle qi levels in archery and horse battles, and they can be mixed. As for swordsmanship, there are silver ranks and gold ranks. In the end, those who win silver swordsmanship are free to challenge the gold rank swordsmanship winners. Of course, they don't have to challenge.
That's why Lorist felt a toothache when he saw Reddy in the silver ranks knocking out all the opponents one by one with his sword. Isn't this pretending to be a pig and eating a tiger? None of the gold one and two star ranks are Reddy's opponents. Not to mention the challengers of these silver ranks...
Not to mention archery, Jost has the claws alone, and he has only performed half of his unique skills. More than half of the archers present put down their arrows and are going to try their luck in other competitions. There are people like Jost in archery. The pervert is here, so don't show yourself with these two hands...
So the immediate duel became the most lively and intense competition event in this conference. Except for those silver guards, Pat was the first to be eliminated as the captain, and Baron Shaheen and Baron Felim were both in the ninth company. Win, has entered the next round. El is still resting on the sidelines and has won six consecutive victories. As long as he wins three more opponents, he can enter the next round.
The rules of the knightly duel in the knight tournament are similar to the duel. The participating knights must have a knight badge, a mount, a knight armor, a spear or lance, and a long sword or other short weapons. , Only after passing the inspection can you register. If you lose in the last game, the equipment and mounts of this body must be handed over to the winning opponent, or a corresponding ransom should be paid to the opponent. After losing the game, if you are not convinced and have a lot of money around you, you can sign up for the competition again...
The most miserable one at the moment is a bodyguard named Roger under Lorist. This kid is a two-star silver star. He lost all four times in the game. The opponent paid the ransom, and the equipment was valued at 100 gold fords by the appraiser at the venue. Now he already owes his family 350 gold fords...
Lorist was very angry. He insisted on playing even though he knew he was invincible. Isn't this giving money to others? So he ordered those who had lost once not to play again.
"How many of our guards lost money?" Lorist asked.
Pat was embarrassed: "One hundred and four, forty one..."
"What?" Lorist was taken aback, "Why are there so many people..."
"My lord, that's the thing," Pat lowered his head and explained, "Except for a dozen or so unlucky guards, all the one hundred and forty-one guards win first and then lose. We all, all lost money…”
Good day, Lorist understands, his guard first defeated an opponent, but the opponent's equipment was only worth thirty or forty gold fords, and then the guard lost, the ransom he had to pay was one hundred gold fords...
Lorist is so angry, it's no wonder that as soon as his bodyguards come on stage, there are always so many bloody opponents to challenge immediately, even a few gold-rank knights have the cheek to ignore the default rule that only silver knights challenge gold knights. Come over and challenge your silver guards. If you dare to treat your guards as human-shaped cash cows, one is a hundred gold dollars...
"Those who want to play in the future are not allowed to wear the family's standard equipment!" Lorist could only order like this.
"My lord." Tagle appeared in front of Lorist: "We found that the subordinates of Grand Duke Fesabrunn are vigorously recruiting those knights who have lost all their equipment and gold coins in an immediate duel."
"Huh?" Lorist was a little puzzled. A knight's tournament like this is also the best place for some nobles to recruit family knights, but everyone only recruited those knights who performed better, and the Grand Duke Fessabrun recruited those who lost What happened to the unlucky guy
"Have you found out why?"
"It is said that they are not recruited as family knights, but recruited to join the army of the Feisabrun family. If they perform well and serve five years, they still have the opportunity to become knights of the Feisabrun family." Tagle replied.
This should be recruitment, not family knights. Lorist didn't care much: "What happened to the two earls of the four central duchies?"
"My lord, Earl Dalek of the Principality of Sabaji participated in the immediate duel. He has won nine consecutive victories and is waiting for the next round. Earl Churchwick of the Principality of Handra did not end, but only cheered for Earl Dalek. Their performance It's normal, and no private actions were found. In addition, the messenger sent by the Grand Duke Feisabrun to the Eastern Wilderness Province has returned. It is said that Princess Silvia refused to come back. The Grand Duke got angry and smashed a gold cup... "
"There is also bad news, my lord."
"explain!"
"Don't you think the figure and movements of the golden knight in the competition are familiar? My lord. Your regiment commander, Lord Tiger Ross, left his post again and sneaked into the King City of Windbury to participate in this knight's tournament. For fear You noticed that he was wearing the knight armor he prepared himself. If it wasn't for the brazenly branding the golden tiger logo on his armor, we might not have noticed that he lived in the square with those wandering knights. In the next tent…”
"My, my god!" Lorist gritted his teeth: "When I go back to the hotel at night, I want to see this guy who is showing off his power on the court appear in front of me!"
"Yes, my lord."
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