"Damn, these bastards are having a barbecue party here! It's so fucking fragrant, is it beef or pork that is roasted? Isabel, who was lying behind the door, swallowed, sniffing the smell of roast meat in the air and searching the courtyard with her eyes.

Soon, she noticed that there seemed to be a large crowd gathered on the left side of the small hall door, in the south corner of the courtyard. However, due to the limited angle, she could not see what the people were doing. However, it should be possible to guess that the group of people gathered there for the purpose of roasting meat.

At this time, she heard a mature man with a higher voice say, "Big brother, it seems that there is not enough wood. ”

"Well, go move two more chairs." A thick-voiced man commanded.

"Where are these people going to move chairs?" Isabel retreated to the side of the wooden door on the left side of the chapel and pondered. But when she saw the dozen or so high-backed chairs left in the small auditorium, she figured it out.

"Don't be busy yet, wait for the others to find this place before deciding." Isabel made up her mind to stay behind the door and stay motionless.

Soon, a rush of footsteps came from outside the door, "Squeak...!" The two wooden doors of the small hall were pushed open in both directions. Although Isabel couldn't see who had entered, hiding in the darkness behind the door, the sound of footsteps told her that only one man had entered the small hall.

The man walked out of the small hall with a chair in his left and right hands, and then closed the two wooden doors. Isabel emerged from the darkness behind the door, leaning on the door and peering into the courtyard outside the door. When she looked at a wooden door in the lower left corner opposite the courtyard, she noticed that the same pair of eyes were peering into the courtyard.

William, who was kneeling on one leg and peeping through the crack in the door, also noticed her, and whispered to the guards hiding beside him, "Brothers, I seem to see Your Excellency." ”

One of the guards hurriedly asked, "Where is Your Excellency?" ”

"Behind two wooden doors across the courtyard."

"Well, it seems that Your Excellency has found this square as well."

William stood up, stared at the diagonal pair of eyes across the door, nodded twice behind the door, then turned around and came to the cloister to call the second team to his side, "You three stay here, I'll go find Your Excellency." ”

After the three of them agreed, one of the guards asked again, "If the people inside come to the corridor, kill or not?" ”

"Don't kill women and children. If you do it with other people, don't let the people in the courtyard find you. ”

"Okay, that's all."

"Also, you must hold on to this place and don't let these people escape."

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After leaving the cloister briskly, William Parr returned to the main hall with regard to where Isabel was, and ran to the south wing room. Following the route Isabel had taken, they found each other in the small hall. The two of them left the wooden door of the small hall and walked to the distance to discuss, "William, the people of the second team are well arranged. Now, go back at once and bring all the rest to the main hall. ”

"Yes, Your Excellency." William agreed and asked, "Your Excellency, the third squad and Fast have not yet arrived. ”

"I'm sure they'll find this courtyard, so go ahead."

Previously, on Isabel's orders, enter Fast at an entrance to the south of the altar, and walk south through a narrow passage to an east-west corridor. The third team, which had searched from the east, met Fast in the hallway after passing through a complex of buildings.

In this way, Fast and the other four searched towards the west side of the corridor. When they followed the corridor to a room where the monks were resting and sleeping, they found a courtyard with a large number of people gathered behind another door. The four of them deliberated and returned the way they came, and when they entered the main hall, they found William and the rest of the dozen or so guards already waiting there.

At this time, the two returned to the small hall and found Isabel. Seeing that everyone had arrived, Isabel began to lay out the battle plan, "William, you take four people to the corridor to meet the people there. After seeing my gestures, you can start moving. ”

After William had agreed to leave, she instructed Fas, "Take seven men to the room where the monks sleep, and wait there." As soon as you see William's men enter the courtyard, you and your people enter the courtyard as well. ”

After the two of them took some of the guards to their respective waiting locations, only four guards were left in the main hall, including the young John Neville. When John arrived at the chapel with three guards, Isabel asked them to join her.

In a short time, three teams were deployed in the three directions of the cloister, the chapel, and the monk's sleeping quarter, ready to attack. Isabel glanced at John beside her, "Are you ready?" ”

Young John nodded, "The longbow, dagger, and battle axe are all ready, ready to wait for your orders." ”

"Very good, you must be careful after the battle starts, don't accidentally injure your own people."

"Understood, godmother."

Isabel said a few more words to the other two guards, and then came behind the two wooden doors of the small hall. When she spotted William Parr waiting there from the direction of the cloister, she smiled and put a three-fingered archery glove on her right hand, and reached out to push open the wooden door of the small hall.

The man who gathered in the courtyard to barbecue a leg of beef was indeed a group of northern thieves and outlaws who had robbed a lot of food and money in the nearby village of Soli. When they discovered that the abandoned Fountain Monastery was a good hiding place, they occupied the monastery as their home base for a long time.

When Isabel, who was holding a custom-made longbow in her left hand, walked into the courtyard unhurriedly, everyone present looked at her with amazement. When she focuses on the thieves who are barbecuing the beef leg, the thieves also spot her. The thick-voiced man held a lump of bloodshot beef with the dagger in his hand, and stared at her coldly while chewing, "Who are you?" ”

Isabel smiled lightly, looked at some of the homeless people gathered on the west and southwest sides of the courtyard, and then looked at him and said, "I'm a hurryer, and I just want to rest here for a while and eat something." However, I was attracted by the smell of barbecue. ”

The man looked up and down the longbow in her hand, the short sword at her waist, a dagger with an exposed handle inserted in the riding boot of her right leg, the quiver on her back and the cuirass on her body, and shook her head while eating beef, "A woman who goes out alone carries so many weapons?!" I don't believe you're someone passing through here. ”

Isabel stood more than twenty paces away from the thieves and smiled faintly, "So, who do you think I am?" ”