Duke Abel closed the inner city of the castle, and the commoners outside the castle knew nothing about it, and on the surface it was calm, who would have thought that a storm that was about to change the political pattern in the Duchy of Mason was about to strike, and Baron Valk's ears were full of his son's screams, and he regretted in his tears that he had obeyed the words of Count Lauzitz, and as a result, father and son fell to such a point.

"Hasn't Sir Andrew confessed yet?" In the Duke of Abel's room, Arrod waited patiently, the floor was covered with hay to keep it from moisture, the fireplace was blazing, and a court guard reported to them the progress of the torture of Sir Andrew, but it was not going well, the proud sir was a tough man.

"Don't be anxious about Arrod, no one can not tell the truth under the torture of the jailers." The Duke of Abel seemed to be in a good mood and comforted Arrod.

"We've got to get the incriminating evidence of Count Lauzitz, you know, if not Dylan. Matt revealed to me the news that Count Lauzitz had brought soldiers and weapons into the castle, and now that he might have succeeded in a palace coup, this man is too dangerous. Arold knew that the Duke of Abel was a standard son of a great nobleman, and although he was approachable and kind-hearted, he inevitably had some self-esteem and pompousness, and now that his political enemies had not yet been eliminated, the new Duke was full of thoughts that it would be more appropriate to wear that dress during the ceremony of succession to the title.

"A coup d'état? Rest assured, as long as I legally inherit the title of duke, Count Lautz must owe allegiance to me. I will have the right to mobilize his army, and I will order him to dismiss his own soldiers. Duke Abel said proudly, but Arold may have seen too much of the court fighting scenes of the Celestial Empire, and he doesn't believe that there is a peaceful solution in the political struggle, since ancient times, around the power who is not a river of blood to ascend to the throne, it seems that Duke Abel is unreliable, and can only strengthen the surveillance of Count Lauzitz by himself.

While Sir Andrew was undergoing the various punishments of the jailers, the Earl of Lauzitz urgently summoned his advisers and several of his henchmen, and they crowded into the room of the Earl of Lausitz and frowned at each other, while the inner city was closed and cordoned off. They have completely lost contact with the outside. What was even more terrifying was that there were Arold's soldiers inside and outside the castle, and wherever they went, they felt the watchful gaze.

"Brother Robert, what else do you have in mind now?" Count Lausitz walked up to Brother Robert and said loudly to him, the situation was already a little angry.

"Lord Earl. Why did you give the poisoned sword to Baron Valker? This is simply stuffing the evidence into Arrod's hands. If things succeeded, they could have eliminated the enemy, but I didn't expect Arold's reaction to be so fast. Brother Robert said with some gloom that Count Lauzitz had not consulted with Baron Valk at all when he handed over the poisoned sword. Now something had happened to blame him, which annoyed the monk a little.

"My friend, I know it's a bit reckless, but at the time I thought it was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity." Count Lauzitz sat down on the wooden chair with his head down, and said with a fist banging on his head.

"Lord Earl, let's take a few armed servants and now enter Arrod's room and kill him for your own sake." A knight of the Inner House under Count Lauzitz said to him, holding the sword at his waist.

"No, it's too risky, not to mention the knights of the inner palace around Arrod, even his brother Yve, you can't get past the level, if you are caught again, your identity alone is enough to give Arold a reason to arrest the earl." Brother Robert scolded dissatisfiedly, and Count Rauzitz, who had wanted to praise his loyal subordinates, also sank when he heard this, isn't it a disservice?

Everyone in the room fell silent, Brother Robert frowned, clasped his hands tightly together, his mind carefully analyzed the pros and cons, the master who provided him with shelter, Count Lauzitz, planned, and the others, including Count Lauzitz, looked at him nervously, for fear of interrupting Brother Robert's train of thought, after a long time, Brother Robert finally raised his head, and when he saw the longing eyes in the room, including Count Lauzitz, his vanity was greatly satisfied.

"I remember that the one-eyed man next to Jeff once arranged for an assassin to assassinate Arrod, is that true?" Brother Robert suddenly asked a question that didn't make sense, and Count Lautz was a little surprised, but replied anyway.

"Yes, do you mean to let the assassin kill Arrod? It can't be, if he could, he wouldn't have done it, and he wouldn't have let me risk giving the poisoned sword to Baron Valker. Count Lausitz shook his head and said to Brother Robert.

"No, I want the assassin to change the target of the assassination, and I must kill Baron Valker's father and son in the dungeon." Brother Robert stretched out his right thumb and slashed it between his throats, with a fierce look in his eyes, and said that Baron Valk's father and son were the key to solving the problem at this time, and without their confessions, in order to stabilize and maintain the authority of the new duke, Arold would not dare to order the arrest of a vassal.

"Good way, as long as Baron Valk's father and son die, what can they do to me." Count Lauzitz jumped up from his seat with great joy when he heard this, he was not too stupid to think of this joint, but he was so flustered that he almost forgot the connection between these things.

"There are two other things we must complete, first of all, we must find out who leaked the news that you gave the poisoned sword to Baron Valk, which means that we must first find out the traitors among us." Brother Robert stretched out two fingers of his right hand and said to Count Lautzitz.

"You're saying there are traitors between us?" Count Lautz said in surprise, but soon came back to his senses, Arrod's response to this incident was too fast, as if he was ready to step into a trap, and he was still in the dark and unaware, stupidly waiting for someone to reach out and grab his wrist, thinking of this, his gaze became as cold as a snake, and his eyes looked at the henchmen in this room one by one, The meeting with Baron Valk and the gift of swords in the town outside the castle seem to be known only to these henchmen, could they be the ones who betrayed themselves?

In the evening, the afterglow of the setting sun gradually disappeared on the horizon little by little, and the guards in the castle followed the rules of standing guard in shifts, alternating with each other to have dinner, at this time, if anyone is interested, they will find that during this period of time, there will be a slight gap in the castle's defense, but this gap is not enough for the enemies outside to discover, but it is enough for those who are hidden in the castle.

A figure appeared in the back corner of the wing of the main tower, the thick walls of which were already covered with green moss, and the man dressed as a servant walked there and picked up a stone from the ground, on which was painted a strange and zigzag symbol, and when he was finished, the man turned his face sideways and looked around, if anyone saw it, he only had one eye, and when he was sure that there was no one, he immediately walked away quickly.

"Hey, hurry up and wash the harness and get ready, and the chain mail of the palace minister should be put in a wooden basin with sand, and stirred and cleaned with a wooden stick." Less than five minutes after the one-eyed man left here, several men dressed as attendants passed by with harnesses and tubs, and this was a relatively close road to Arrod's room, so the servants often went to work in the laundry room from here, and these attendants were not even fifteen or sixteen years old, but most of them came from low-ranking aristocratic families, and of course there were also commoners.

"Hey, Sean, you lazy guy, do you want to be lazy again?" A noble kid with a watermelon head looked dissatisfiedly at the young man who was holding a heavy chain mail and stopped at the wall with a demented look, and shouted at him.

"Oh, I'll do it." Sean stopped because he was attracted by the symbols on the walls, as a member of the Assassins' Guild, even an apprentice could recognize these strange and imperceptible symbols, and when he saw the symbols on them, he was very surprised that it was a mission to change his assassination target.

"You slacker, I really don't know why the great palace minister will take you in, even if you buy a donkey, you are more diligent than you." The retinue born from the son of a nobleman, scolded Sean non-stop, and sneered from time to time, and Sean lowered his head and was silent, looking submissive, in order to complete the task he had to endure the whole bitter guy, but now as long as he completed a new task, he didn't have to put up with this hateful guy, he had long wanted to cut the throat of this noble kid, or tear his mouth with a dagger, this idea appeared in his mind more than once.

When he was done with a chore, Sean immediately returned to the room he had assigned to the servants in the side building, he cautiously concealed the door, and then turned over his wooden bed covered with straw, tied a leather bag with a rope under the wooden bed, and stuck it tightly under the bed board, even if a person was lying on the ground, he couldn't find the bag that was suspended in the air, Sean took out the leather bag, and gently stroked his fingers on the leather bag, and a familiar feeling returned to him, At this moment, there was a murderous aura that did not belong to his own age. (To be continued......)