Harvey still remembers the first time he inserted the dagger into his opponent's body, women must be more ruthless and accurate in order to live well in the underground world, so when necessary, they often hide their inner weaknesses deeply, Arold is Harvey's first man who has had a skin-to-skin relationship, and the first man always has a special meaning for any woman, but Harvey knows his identity very well, her background is stained with a big nobleman like Arold, and there is no romantic ending at all, The two were in different classes, and now Arold had entered the ranks of the middle aristocracy, and only by marrying the ancient Herman family could he complete the transformation into a real nobleman, and Harvey thought that he could not bring trouble to Arold at this time.

Along the way, the two were speechless, their horses entered the Mason Castle, and the guards guarding the city gate were yawning, but suddenly saw the palace minister of the Duchy of Mason entering the castle from the outside, and hurriedly straightened his waist and clenched the halberd in his hand, only to feel a gust of wind passing by them, and then turned around to find that Arold had rushed in with the mount under his crotch.

"Miya-sama." Sean was baffled by the fact that one of the attendants, Sean, the Assassin apprentice who had taken Rudolph's place, was still there because he had received another bizarre order from the Assassin Guild to protect Arrod, the target he was supposed to assassinate, much to Sean's inexplicability, but in order to appease and reward him for completing his new mission in time, Sean learned that he had been promoted to a full-fledged member of the low-ranking Assassin Guild. It was good news that the Assassin Guild had its own gratuity share and status.

"Harvey, I'll do everything I entrust to you." Arold jumped off his mount, turned his head to Harvey, and hurried into the tower, where he was met by Ron, the anxious knight of the Inner Palace.

"Miya-sama, where have you been? Why not bring a guard. Ron said anxiously and a little angrily, although he had just hanged Rudolph, who was known as the assassin, but anyone who really knew the inside story knew that it was just a scapegoat, and the real assassin had not yet been caught. Arold, on the other hand, went out to the castle in the early morning without any escort. In Ron's opinion, it was simply a suicidal act.

"Don't worry, I'm fine." With the greatest killer weapon of the era in his arms, Arrod's heart was much lighter, and he walked up the stone steps and through the corridor into his room. Sue Ron himself to take a break. Send the knights of the inner palace to guard the door of the house. And he closed the door strongly.

Arold looked around his room, a large wooden bed near the south side of the room, and a set of wooden cabinets and furniture next to it. Across the window was his wooden writing table and a thick high-backed wooden chair, which seemed to be unable to hide the poison/medicine in his arms, and at this moment he suddenly remembered that there was a stone brick that was a little loose at the corner between the floor and the wall, so he immediately stepped forward and buckled it with his fingers, and found that the stone brick was indeed loose because of age.

"Kang, Kang~~." Arold hurriedly found the short sword from his equipment, grasped the short sword and gently pried it around the stone, after a while, the stone bricks were finally pried up by the short sword, the castle building structure is mostly masonry, the stonemasons carved the stones in the stone yard into regular squares, and then the workers moved to the construction site and gradually built up, the masonry is usually filled with white lime, because the humid climate of Europa will loosen these masonry over time, and there will be gaps between the stone bricks.

"Whew." Arold wiped his face with his sleeve, looked at the stone bricks that had been pried up, took out the small bag in his arms and put it in, and then put the stone bricks back on, in order to cover up the abnormality here, Arold also carefully spread the moisture-proof hay spread on the floor of the room evenly on the stone bricks.

"Ping-pong, ping-pong." Just as Arold had finished doing this, there was a knock at the door, and Arold walked over and opened the door to his room, where he saw a retinue of Duke Abel waiting for him.

"Your Excellency, Lord of Abel would like to ask you to discuss the matter." When Duke Abel's retinue saw Arold come out, he hurriedly took a step back and bowed to the most powerful nobleman in the Duchy of Mason at this time.

"Oh? Lord Abel came to me. Arold thought about it, thinking that it was the Duke of Abel who wanted to discuss the allegiance ceremony with him, don't forget that in addition to his status as a palace minister, Arold is also the Earl of Mecklenburg, although in the eyes of some stubborn nobles, Arold is just the ruler of a border barbarian, but after all, he is also an important vassal, and he needs to re-establish a new allegiance contract at the succession ceremony of Duke Ebel.

But when Arold followed the herald's retinue to the courtyard, Arold was surprised to see two people standing in the pavilion of the courtyard, one of whom was of course the Duke of Abel, but the other was to Arold's surprise, and it turned out to be his nemesis, Count Lauzitz.

"Oh, my friend, Arrod, our palace minister." Seeing Arold coming over, Duke Abel smiled and opened his arms, stepped forward a few steps forward to give Arold a bear hug, and Arold also hurriedly symbolically hugged Duke Arold who was very interested.

"Lord Duke, I didn't know that you and Lord Count Lauzitz were discussing something important, it seems that your retinue must have misremembered something? So let me retire and come back to you later. Arold looked at Count Lautz, who had a cloudy smile on his face, and said to Duke Abel with a slight bend.

"Oh no, my friend, you're not mistaken, but I came to you at this time." Duke Abel stood between Arold and Count Lauzitz, and he said with a bold smile as usual, as if it were a dinner party between friends, but the tense atmosphere between Arold and Count Lauzitz did not diminish at all, and the atmosphere in the courtyard at this time was really very strange.

"Hmph." In the cloister of the courtyard, Ron, the knight of Arrod's inner house, rested his hand on the hilt of his sword, and opposite him was the knight of the inner palace of Count Lauzitz, who also looked like he was facing a great enemy.

Duke Abel also seemed to sense that something was wrong with the atmosphere, but the soon-to-be-appointed Duke Mason gave him a lot of confidence, and he believed that he could control these two nobles with real power, so he stretched out his hand and patted it, and with the crisp applause of his hands, four court maids came over, one of them held a wine jug, and the other three held wine glasses, and when they came to the gazebo, the maids put the three wine glasses in front of Duke Able, Arold and Count Lauzitz, The maid with the flask picked up the flask and filled her glass with red wine.

"I know that we have all had unpleasant experiences in the past, but now, as your new monarch, I hope that the Duchy of Mason under my rule will be a country where lords live in harmony and prosper, so I hope that a grievance will end in this pavilion, come and drink this cup with friends, and let us enter a new era under the witness of the Lord." The Duke of Abel raised his glass and said loudly to Arold and Count Lauzitz, his expression was full of majesty, and his words were earnest, and his gentle voice could make anyone who heard it fall for him, but it was a pity that Arold and Count Lauzitz in the pavilion were not among them, and the two sides were political enemies who had fought openly and secretly, how could they drink and talk here.

"Dear Count Lauzitz, as ordered by our common sovereign, Lord Duke Ebel, we really need not continue to dwell on past grievances, I fully agree with Lord Duke Ebel's proposal, let us live in peace." A smile appeared on Arrod's suddenly tense face, and he stretched out his hand to hold the glass, and said to Count Lauzitz.

"Ah, worthy of being our palace minister, your heart is broader than the earth." Seeing Arrod's kindness first, the Duke of Abel shouted with joy, and even the Count of Rauzitz had a puzzled look for a moment, but soon the Count of Rauzitz thought that he could not give the Duke of Abel the impression that he was narrow-minded and would repay it, so he hurriedly raised his glass, and the three of them drank the wine in the cup together.

Seeing that he had successfully mediated the conflict between two important vassals under his mediation, Duke Abel felt a special sense of accomplishment, he couldn't help but look at the two vassals in front of him, and at the same time felt the great aura of the duke's title, and now in the entire Duchy of Mason, he, Abel is the supreme ruler, whether it is a nobleman or a commoner, will prostrate at his feet.

However, Arold used his wine glass to hide the murderous intent in his eyes, and the reason why he courted Count Lauzitz was completely to fake his motive for not killing Count Lauzitz, and Count Lauzitz was also thinking in his heart how to make the Vikings attack Arold's territory and mobilize Arold's army so that he could carry out a real palace coup d'état.

However, there was a commotion in the Duchy of Franconia outside the Duchy of Mason, and the initiator of the letter was the Count of Rauzitz, who originally planned to let his messenger send a letter asking the Duke of Franconia to support him as a duke, but I don't know why the courier was lost on the way and delayed for a long time, until Arold returned to the Duchy of Mason with his troops to break the conspiracy of the Count of Lauzitz, and the messenger set foot on the land of the Duchy of Franconia. (To be continued......)