"It's really unlucky, I guess it's going to change. ”

Guard Van Bernard sighed, helplessly watching the lights of White Oak Town gradually light up.

I really envy the ordinary people who are already sitting by the fireplace and roasting the fire, he thought. Recently, the weather has been getting colder and colder, and the air around me is dull and humid, making people feel uncomfortable all over, and when I look up, the sky is gray, and it seems that a heavy rain is brewing.

The lord's mansion of White Oak Town was not built in this wilderness from the beginning, and the Flasker family was a great nobleman who had ruled this area for generations, but the original castle was near the coastline, just because the Earl liked the feeling of standing on a high place and seeing everything, so he rebuilt his residence on a high ground, although this place can have an unobstructed view of the general situation in the territory, but here it is difficult for these guards to stand guard, especially when it is about to winter, the cold wind blows and can seep into people's bones.

Recently, he felt more and more that he had been abandoned by the goddess of fate.

The most disturbing thing to my heart was that the Earl ordered a dinner party to be prepared for a distinguished guest, but it seemed that it was rude to have too many guards near the mansion, and many of them were sent to the town to maintain law and order.

He also didn't know the etiquette between these nobles, but the result of this order was that the other guard who usually stood guard with him was probably patrolling the town, so to speak, but there was no activity on the street in such a ghost weather, and those guys were probably in a warm tavern at the moment, whistling while watching the ****'s wonderful dance, and drunk like mud.

"Alas...... Miss Fina, it would be nice if I could say a few words to you. ”

Van Bernard took out a portrait from his bosom and looked at it with intoxication, as if his soul had been redeemed.

In the picture is a gentle woman wearing a black and white maid costume, smiling with her hands folded on her waist, although she looks like a beauty who has captivated the country and the city, but from the two fluffy pink ears on her forehead and the tail derived from the thighs, you can still distinguish the characteristics of the fox orc.

Fina Shirea, the head maid of the Earl's Mansion, is also a half-orc of the Kitsune Clan.

He had bought it from another guard, and it cost him two silver coins, almost half a month's worth of wine.

Miss Fina would always send supplies to everyone when they were most tired, gently and equally to everyone, and with words of encouragement, Van Bernard remembered the quiet and warm smile of the other party, as bright and tolerant as the moonlight in the dark night, soothing everyone's tiredness. In fact, not only him, but the other party can be said to be the spiritual pillar of all the young men in the Earl's Mansion.

Recalling this empathetic head maid, Van Bernard also sighed at her background.

Although they don't have to go to war when they meet, humans and orcs have never been objects of friendship and harmony, let alone existence like half-orcs, which are like curses, creatures born after the union of humans and orcs. In fact, even if you don't rule out the very few interracial couples who truly love each other, considering the relationship and history between the two races, most orcs are actually the product of the legacy of the war, such as-

Slave girls kept in captivity by nobles, as well as trophies from orcs raiding other countries, can often be heard in the stories of bards.

Neither inheriting the physical abilities of orcs, nor the excellent ability to cooperate and learn like humans, and even having a shorter lifespan, is often regarded as an ominous symbol, and is ostracized wherever it goes.

According to another old butler of the Earl's Mansion, Miss Fina was originally the "goods" that Lord Lamar had bought from a slave trader, and although she was not fully developed due to her age at that time, she was already a complete beauty embryo, and the Earl paid the price of dozens of gold coins, which could buy dozens of strong coolies.

But Miss Fina was not locked in her room like the other slaves, and soon became the head maid of the mansion.

The exact details of Van Bernard are not known, but it is said that Miss Fina earned a large amount of gold coins for the Count, and as time progressed, she gained more and more authority, and her status in the mansion was even much higher than that of the Earl's most trusted knight, Andre.

The only thing to his regret was that as Miss Fina became more and more beautiful, she went in and out of the Count's room more and more often......

It's really good that the cabbage has been arched by pigs, he thought, but he can't do anything about it.

"Damn God, and the bastard Max, who left me and everyone to go for a drink. ”

After spitting on the ground in this way, Van Bernard found that on the only road leading from the mansion to the town, two figures were walking towards him, and the other was very fast, and when he came back to his senses, he had already appeared in front of him.

"Stop, ahead is the Earl's private domain. Sorry, but if it's an adventurer who goes the wrong way, go back the way you came!"

Van Bernard was shocked, and immediately raised the weapon in his hand and asked.

Hell, do these people teleport? By the light from the mansion behind him, he could see each other clearly—two strangers wrapped in armor and unable to see their appearances, which only adventurers would be dressed like this in the whole of White Oak Town.

Although this has become much less common since the Earl executed a few thieves who dared to sneak into the mansion some time ago, there are still occasional adventurers from other places who can't see the way, and the armor of the two of them shimmers in the moonlight, even if he doesn't know much about the forging and price of armor, he can tell that it is not an ordinary bargain that can be bought at a blacksmith shop.

One of them also carried a huge two-handed greatsword behind him, and he noticed that with every step the other party took, the dirt under his feet would sink into half a point, which was enough to prove its terrifying weight, this kind of weapon required a lot of physical strength to lift, let alone wield it at will, even if it was in the hands of the fighting spirit, the several knights hired by the earl might not be able to use it. Thinking of the terrifyingly fast speed of the other party just now, Van Bernard thought to himself, I am afraid that he heard the rumors of the S-class guild mission, and the powerful adventurers who rushed over from the royal capital and even other countries.

A character of this level can't afford to provoke himself at all, so he can only respectfully ask the other party to go back.

"I....... Ahem, the old man received an invitation to the dinner. ”

Ai Xiuyin pursed his lips and quickly changed his mouth fetish, pretending to be someone else is really not used to it.

"Go tell your master that the old man has arrived," after considering his words, he handed out the token sent by the earl's knights, "besides, behind is the old man's retinue, I believe the earl will not mind." ”