As the sun set, the Uman family army began to set up camp.
Piles of bonfires were lit, dispelling the darkness that gradually enveloped the land.
After night fell, a convoy bearing the logo of the Tulip Chamber of Commerce slowly entered the barracks.
Penny lifted the curtain of the car and asked a knight who was coming up, "Where is the Earl?"
The knight bowed slightly and replied, "Ms. Penny, please follow me."
Penny got out of the carriage immediately, and led by the knight to a tent in the center of the camp.
"Why are you here?" Earl Uman looked at Penny who walked in, slightly astonished.
Penny smiled sweetly: "Why? Are you not welcome?"
"That's not true. It's just that you're not in Eagle Falling City, so I'm always a little worried."
Penny took a few steps forward, gently helped Uman refill a cup of tea, and said, "Don't worry, there are still 30,000 troops guarding the city. Besides, isn't Walla there too?"
Earl Uman nodded: "Well, how is Walla's injury?"
"I've seen it myself, and there's nothing serious about it. It's just a matter of recuperating for a while."
While the two were talking, Viscount Lawrence walked in excitedly: "Father, I heard that mother is here?"
Earl Uman glared at his son and scolded, "Hush!"
Viscount Lawrence smiled indifferently: "Don't worry, father, I have dismissed all the guards outside the tent, and no one will hear."
Penny gave her son a doting look, and said with a smile, "It won't be long before Lawrence will be able to call me mother."
Earl Uman was a little helpless, but he couldn't take his wife's opinion any further. He nodded vaguely, and then asked, "You came to the barracks to find me this time, what's the matter?"
Penny gave the earl a white look, and said angrily, "I can't come to see you if I have nothing to do?"
As he spoke, he picked up the freshly poured tea and delivered it to Earl Uman.
Earl Uman took the teacup, but didn't drink it immediately, but looked at his lover with a smile: "Of course not. I just think that with your character, if it wasn't for something serious, I'm afraid you wouldn't have traveled so far to find me." .”
Penny glanced at the count, saw that he looked normal, and said, "There is indeed something wrong. I just learned the details of the peace agreement signed by Viscount Angelet with the Troll Empire."
As she said that, she handed a letter to the earl: "According to this agreement, over time, the Angelet family will inevitably rise and become the most powerful force in the northeastern part of the northern border. Therefore, my brother suggests that you Plan as early as possible to nip the threat in the bud."
Earl Uman took the letter and looked at it with a frown. The more he looked, the more frightened he became.
How badly did the trolls lose
Sign such a peace agreement
Before he could fully digest the information, Penny spoke again and said another even more explosive news: "Oh yes, there is one more thing. The Duke of St. Hilde is dead."
"What? Who's dead?"
Earl Uman stared wide-eyed, looking at his lover in disbelief.
At this moment, a silver light suddenly pierced Earl Uman's back.
Click!
However, Earl Uman seemed to have eyes behind him, and in an instant, he grabbed the attacker's wrist with a swift backhand.
The tent fell silent in an instant, only the letter slowly fell into the bonfire, and a ball of flames burst into flames.
Earl Uman slowly turned his head and looked at the attacker behind him, with an extremely complicated expression on his face, and an unbelievable pain in his tone: "Lawrence... you actually want to kill me?"
Viscount Lawrence obviously did not expect that Earl Uman would be able to pay attention to his back under such circumstances, and he didn't know what expression to put on his face for a while.
"Are you my son?" Earl Uman asked tremblingly.
At the same time, he overturned the teacup in his left hand, and let the tea in the cup drop to the ground, making an ear-piercing sizzling sound and even emitting bursts of green smoke.
The water is poisonous.
Earl Uman turned his head again and looked at Penny, but instead of questioning her about poisoning, he asked, "Is he my son?"
Penny's lips trembled rapidly, but instead of answering Earl Uman's question, she quickly recited the Elvish spell.
She is also a mage.
"You are courting death!"
Earl Uman let out a roar, kicked Viscount Lawrence away, and at the same time approached Penny with a stride, stretched out his hand to strangle her throat, and interrupted the spellcasting.
Viscount Lawrence fell to the ground and spat out a mouthful of blood, struggling to get up, and was about to draw his sword to charge again, but he heard a word out of Penny's throat:
"Walk!"
"Mother..." Viscount Lawrence looked confused.
"Get out!" Earl Uman stared back and roared.
Viscount Lawrence looked at the terrifying appearance of the other party, and suddenly ran out of the tent in fright.
"Is he my son?" Earl Uman was still struggling with this question, as if he would never stop unless he asked the question.
Penny patted Earl Uman's steel-like big hand choking her throat, indicating that she would not be able to answer in this way.
Earl Uman just let go, staring at his lover expressionlessly.
Penny gasped for breath a few times, and it took a while to recover.
Then, she didn't panic, looked at Earl Uman with a cold expression, and slowly uttered a word:
"no."
"Bitch!" Earl Uman's expression twisted instantly, his eyes seemed to swallow the woman in front of him alive, "He's the bitch of you and your brother, isn't he? Isn't he!"
Penny didn't answer, it was a tacit consent.
Earl Uman stretched out his hand and strangled Penny's throat again, as if he really wanted to strangle her to death.
Penny's eyes were fixed on Earl Uman, she did not beg for mercy, but instead revealed a kind of reckless provocation in her eyes.
It seems to be saying-you try to strangle me
After a confrontation for a while, Earl Uman finally let go of his hands.
The arrogance in Penny's eyes was even worse. While rubbing her neck that was pinched red, she said in a bewitching tone:
"Talos Uman, you should be honored to be a partner of the Santheon family. As long as you let me go, you will be the biggest contributor when my brother becomes the new Lord of the North."
Earl Uman looked at Penny blankly, and asked in a hoarse tone after a while, "Husband and wife for thirty years, so it turns out that you don't have any feelings for me at all."
A trace of disdain flashed in Penny's eyes: "Okay, Lord Earl, when did you become so sentimental?"
"Then why did you kill me this time? Could it be that your brother has made up his mind to adopt Lawrence as his adopted son?"
"Well, that's a reason. You don't object, do you?" Penny observed Earl Uman's face, as if she wanted to see something from it, "Don't you always feel that you owe Valla? After Lawrence changed his surname, you also You can officially make Valla the heir to the earl. Isn't this the best of both worlds?"
The corner of Earl Uman's mouth moved, and he pulled out a mocking smile: "Is there another reason?"
Penny's eyes flashed, as if hesitating.
But facing Earl Uman's sharp gaze, and thinking that he should also get news soon, he said frankly:
"Well, there is another reason. Didn't I tell you just now that the Duke of St. Hilde is dead? That was not a lie deliberately woven to divert your attention."
"So, the Duke of St. Hilde is really dead?" Earl Uman's eyes seemed to soften a little, and he could even see a touch of unconcealable joy in it.
"Yes." Penny raised her head triumphantly, "So, the St. Hilde family is over, and the St. Theon family will soon become the masters of the northern border. Don't make mistakes at this last moment. choose."
Earl Uman remained unmoved, and persistently asked: "Duke St. Hilde is dead, why do you want to kill me?"
Penny glared at the other party dissatisfied, as if she felt that she had regained control of the situation: "To kill a paladin, you must pay a price.
My elder brother paid for an eye, and your Uman family, of course, need to give something. "
Earl Uman's eyes trembled, and he asked in a concentrated voice: "What price did our Uman family pay?"
"Falling Eagle City."
"Falling Eagle City?"
"Yes. Falling Eagle City was sacrificed." Penny looked at Earl Uman, whose eyes suddenly became violent, and quickly persuaded, "Talos, don't get excited! Although the Uman family lost a city, but As long as you continue to be loyal to the Saint Theon family, we will definitely compensate you, and the compensation will be doubled!"
"Compensation?" Earl Uman suddenly became quiet, as if moved.
Penny looked at Earl Uman who had calmed down, and immediately breathed a sigh of relief, and quickly said, "I will let my brother canonize you as a marquis, how about it?"
Seeing that the other party didn't speak, Penny stuck her whole body up, stretched out her hand and drew circles on Earl Uman's chest, winking like silk and said:
"If you don't want that lowly illegitimate son of Valla to inherit the title, I can give you another child, how about it?"
Earl Uman looked at Penny in his arms expressionlessly, and said indifferently: "Warra is low? Hehe, he is the legitimate son born to Mrs. Su Duo and me! And what about Lawrence? He is just the incestuous child of you and your brother. Your bastard!"
Penny's face changed slightly, but she still suppressed her anger and said with a charming smile, "What do you know? What flows in Lawrence's body is the purest Santheon blood!"
Earl Uman's eyes became colder and colder: "Do you think that with the addition of the word 'Holy' in your surname, you can take other people as dogs for granted?"
Penny's charming smile froze on her face immediately, and her tone became tough: "Talos Uman, don't be ignorant..."
Click!
She only spoke half of her words, and Earl Uman twisted her neck.
Earl Uman looked at the corpse of the woman in his arms and taunted:
"It turns out that killing a descendant of a paladin family is no different from killing a mortal."
Boom!
Throwing the corpse on the ground casually, Earl Uman shouted loudly towards the outside of the tent: "Come on!"
After a while, a knight appeared in the tent and said respectfully:
"My lord, what are your orders?"
"Go and capture Lawrence Uman, life or death!"
"yes!"
(end of this chapter)