In the past seven months, not only Viscount Raul died, but the Count's health began to deteriorate from worse, and now he is lying on the hospital bed, panting weakly all day.

At the same time, there was also good news from Wella's side, after the two of them got married for more than nine months, Wella finally became pregnant with William's child.

William was a little overwhelmed by the sudden arrival of this little life, and in his previous life, he was just an otaku who didn't graduate from college.

He doesn't even have a girlfriend, let alone a child, how far away the child is to him, and even whether he can marry a girlfriend is a question, after all, he is just an otaku with no money and no power.

But now he was a nobleman, a well-known baron in the kingdom, and the most relied on vassal of the Count of Denlenburg, with more than 700 soldiers and more than 20 knights.

There are also more than 30,000 people who are loyal to him and support his rule, and all kinds of property in the territory, all of which show that he has successfully transformed from a silk otaku to a rich and handsome.

And with such strength, such a huge territory, and such a large number of people, as well as the allegiance of these knights, none of them need an heir to inherit, and the family and territory without an heir are undoubtedly rootless, and no one will be loyal with peace of mind.

At the beginning, the knights recruited all expressed their indifference to the lack of heirs to the territory, because they were just planning to live under William, after all, they didn't have much in common with William at that time, so even if William was destroyed tomorrow, they would not be particularly sad.

Although it is not easy to find, it is still incomparable to one's own life.

At that time, the only people who were worried about William's heir were Norwen and Urimu, and they were the two who really supported William.

Like Western Europe in the previous life, the inheritance law here is similar, the king can't give birth to a son, who cares about you, and the king's family is anxious about themselves.

After all, the king has no sons, nephews, and brothers, not to mention, the powerful nobles are also qualified and possible to become the new king.

Not only in Western Europe, but even on this continent, many kingdoms have changed hands, or dynasties have ended, all because of the heirs of the king's lineage.

But now, the situation is different, William has completely converted the knights through his interests and control, and the lords and soldiers have also become loyal to William because they have been brainwashed.

Therefore, after William's marriage for a few months without any news, the knights were a little worried, although they did not say it directly in front of William, but they must have begun to mutter in their hearts.

It was okay before William got married, William was still young after all, and he was not needed to fight directly on the battlefield many times.

So, they haven't shown it yet, but when it comes to getting married, William's spouse has already been decided, and if Wella can't have children, it will be a heavy blow to the territory.

At that time, even if William was unwilling, his vassals and knights would definitely force him to give up his marriage to Wella, marry other women, and give birth to a legitimate heir.

But now, all threats have vanished, and during this time Wella is also under some invisible pressures, which come from the chatter of the knights and the spread of the lords.

Even rumors of the baroness being unable to have children have begun to circulate in the territory, and although the spy organization has arrested more than a dozen people who spread the rumors, it still can't stop this rumor from spreading like the wind in the territory.

Fortunately, the rumors vanished in an instant, and all the rumors that were unfavorable to Wella were shattered by the news of her pregnancy.

William sat in the room, and on the chaise longue next to him was Wella, who was dressed in casual clothes, and her lower abdomen was only slightly raised, and the features of pregnancy were not particularly obvious.

William sat back on another chaise longue with a knight in his hand, but his attention was not on it.

From time to time, she poked her head over and naughtily leaned her ear against Wella's lower abdomen, as if trying to hear something from it.

Wella looked at William's childish appearance, looking a little helpless, completely forgetting how naïve and childish she was before.

The pregnancy is less than three months, how can any sound be heard, but after listening for a while, William still raised his head with a satisfied face, and then looked at Wella with a doting expression.

Time will not stop because of anyone, even if you have been in power, you still can't escape the sanction of time, and only in time can it be said that everyone is equal.

As the days went on, the impact of Viscount Raul's death on Denlenburg disappeared little by little, and Viscount Imojo's position gradually became secure.

However, he still has no intersection with William, and there is no contradiction for the time being.

The progress of the castle is also very rapid, and now the brick layer is fully laid, and the rammed earth structure of the innermost planks has reached a thickness of four meters.

William's plan was to be five meters thick and eight meters high, with an urn at the gate, arrow towers on the battlements, and the intersection of various firepower, all of which he designed on the drawings.

Including hoarding all kinds of materials and digging the basement, William has already planned, although the central main fortress has not been completed, only the outer layer of the city wall has been completed, but this progress still makes William very satisfied.

After all, this is a huge project, and it is quite good for more than 7,000 people to be able to increase the speed to this point, and there is no need for him to continue to be demanding.

The houses of the more than 7,000 inhabitants were all completed, and they were not adobe houses of grass and wood, but houses made of bricks and stones.

This type of house has three floors, each floor consists of eight rooms, and one house can accommodate twelve families, and seven thousand five hundred people are six hundred and twenty-five such houses.

This is not a small amount of work, but it is not as large as that of a castle, and the height of such houses is also very good, and if there is a large-scale enemy invasion, then these houses can be used as defensive structures on the perimeter.

When the time comes, the heavily trained Manders archers will use their advanced recurve bows to show their enemies what nightmares are on the rooftops of their houses.

And at this moment, the earl's summoning order suddenly came, this time it was not a battle order, and the purpose of the assembly was not clearly stated.

It was just that the nobles of Denlenburg had to arrive at Denlenburg before August 15th, and all the nobles, including William, were confused.

I don't know what kind of medicine the earl's gourd bought, and of course, there are many smart people among them who have seen the earl's order.