The damp earth on the ground smelled of goat droppings, but Orn lay on the ground and did not dare to move, and above his head were clumps of weeds, which obscured his figure, and suddenly a group of horsemen rode away from Orn's side, galloping and shouting, followed by some sergeants with spears, they seemed to be looking for something, but just as they were about to search for Orn's hiding place, the cavalry in the woods seemed to have found something, They turned back to greet the sergeants, who gave up their search to poke the grass with their spears and turned to move closer to the cavalry.

"Let's take this opportunity and let's go." Crawling next to Orne is the blood dagger Harvey, the leader of the beautiful women of the villainous guild in the town of Masonburg, who is also covered in mud and dirty at this time, holding her famous long dagger in her hand, after escaping from the sewage canal of Mason town, the people of Count Lauzitz are still chasing and killing along the road, and gradually there are fewer and fewer people around Harvey, and only Harvey himself and Orn are left behind.

"I, I'm not leaving." Orne sat panting on the ground, complaining about his bad luck, for for days he had been hungry and thirsty, and had eaten nothing but sour and astringent wild fruit from the grass by the roadside, and he did not know what Harvey had done to offend the powerful Count Lausitz, but he had led himself on the way to escape.

"Shut up, get up and follow me." Harvey's hair was covered with withered grass, her face was much haggard, and the leather armor on her body was torn in many places, she looked like a down-and-out mercenary, but her eyes were still full of murderous energy, and the blood dagger Harvey thought about it countless times in her mind. The reason why Count Lauzitz suddenly took a cruel attack on the villain's guild, but there was still no clue, which made the resentment in her heart accumulate more and more, since she became famous, when had she suffered such a big loss, watching her men being killed by Count Lauzitz's private soldiers one by one, but she was helpless, which made her swear to make Count Lauzitz pay for his blood debt.

"No, let me go, I'm just a blacksmith who has no ability to resist, and these things have nothing to do with me. They're just dealing with the villains. Orn was wearing a piece of clothing that he had stolen from a farmer's house on his way away. The clothes don't fit, but it's better than wearing stinky, sticky clothes. At this time, Orn decided that Count Lauzitz was dealing with Harvey and her villains, so he couldn't help but resent Harvey.

"Shut up, do you think Count Lautz is going to kill us all. If only to deal with the Guild of Villains. There is no need to kill everyone. Do you think there are no taxes we pay in Masonburg? Now it looks like no one who has anything to do with it will end well. Unlike the simple blacksmith Orn, Harvey was a man who grew up living in sin, and the sordid deeds of the nobles were not unknown to her. Family vendettas, conflicts of interest, and even attacks on their own relatives, the nobles leave all the dirty work they don't want to do to the villainous guild, and now Count Lauzitz has only one explanation for this kind of eradication, that is, he doesn't want one of his plans to be known, that is, he is doing it without Duke Mason and the rest of Mason's court.

"Am I going to be killed?" Orn looked at Harvey in surprise, he simply thought that as long as he told Count Lautz's people that he was just a kidnapped meat ticket, it was simply unfortunate that the passers-by involved had nothing to do with the whole thing, so that Count Lauz's people would let him go.

"If you don't get up again, you'll die at my hands at once." The beautiful Harvey narrowed her eyes, swept the long dagger in her hand, and said to Orn in a fierce tone, several days of fugitive life, hunger and thirst, and the smell of dirt made her patience at the limit, in fact, she knew very well that with such a burden as Orn, the way to escape was more uncertain, but Harvey needed the protection and reward of Arrod, Earl of Mecklenburg, which made her have nothing to do, and when she finished speaking to Orn in a threatening tone, the blacksmith had to think about his own life, Got up and stumbled after Harvey, fleeing to a more remote location.

The Count of Lauzitz wore a purple wide-brimmed soft hat, with a few beautiful bird feathers stuck in the hat as always, a large placket on his body, white mink fur wrapped around the collar and the edges of the corners, a precious gold pendant around his neck, and an emerald and ruby ring on almost every finger like a sausage, and he stood by the window of the Masonburg tower and looked out at the busy crowd in Masonburg, and he liked the feeling of looking down on other people, which brought him a sense of natural noble superiority. Behind Count Lauzitz stood several of his right-hand men.

The room on the third floor of the tower is the guest room of the Duke of Mason to entertain visiting vassals, which is decorated with exquisite wool tapestries from Florence, and the tapestries are also depicted with the pattern of knights killing dragons, and there are groups of cabinets and furniture painted in the living room, from which it can be seen that the Duke of Mason attached great importance to his nephew, Count Lauz, who was also a vassal, even in the war with the Duke of Saxony, Count Lauz's mistakes disappointed the Duke for a time, But soon Count Lauzitz used his rhetoric and money to regain the Duke's trust.

"Has Sir Able noticed what we're doing?" Count Lauzitz turned and addressed his advisers.

"You have been appointed by the Duke as the Military Governor, so our actions are necessary to maintain the order of the town of Fort Mason, and this is within your purview for a very valid reason, and should not be brought to the attention of Sir Ebel." A tall and thin adviser reported to Count Lauzitz, who was in charge of espionage in Count Lauzett's court.

"Also, Sir Abel has recently been appointed Treasurer by Lord Lord Mason, and he is busy clearing the Duke's debts, so he has no time to pay attention to other movements." At this meeting, which consisted of members of the court of Count Lauzitz, stood a gray-robed monk with a birthmark on his face.

"Very well, Abbot Robert, if the secret passage you provided is feasible, then I will definitely help you take the monastery back when the matter is completed." The fat on Count Lauz's face shook a few times, Robert came to Count Lauzitz a few months ago, at first Count Lauzitz did not take the abbot who lost his domain in his eyes, but Robert brought him an old document of the map of the underground drainage channels of Fort Mason, which also had the marks of the Roman Empire, on which there was a schematic diagram of the early drainage system of Fort Mason, in which a passage to the interior of the castle was clearly drawn, This attracted the attention of Count Lautz.

"I look around the castle every day, and I see that this drainage channel has not been changed since it was built, and the entrance to the passage is where the villain's guild is located, and the exit of the passage is in the courtyard of the castle, but now it is closed by a wall." Robert had to help Count Lauzitz with all his might in order to regain what belonged to him, and he walked around the castle as a monk without being noticed, and all he did was a verbal promise from Count Lauszitz.

"It doesn't matter, as long as there is such a passage in our hands, we can send someone to break through the wall at any time." Count Lauzitz was not worried about this, as long as there was a tunnel that could lead to the interior of the castle at any time, he could let his men infiltrate the castle and control the whole of Masonburg if necessary.

"When are we going to do it?" Robert asked eagerly, but Count Lautzitz smiled, waved his hand and did not answer Robert's question, after all, Robert is not his most core member, there are some things he doesn't need to know, Robert immediately felt a little abrupt, smiled awkwardly and took a step back.

"Alright, my dear friends, now you can step back and do your own thing, and our honor and success will depend on you." Count Lauzitz clapped his hands and asked Robert and the others to retreat, and when Robert and the others exited the house, the door of the chamber of the room opened, and Grover, the eldest of the three Boar brothers, walked out.

"Lord Count." Grover bowed respectfully to Count Lautz, his already small stature even smaller.

"Has the goods arrived from the Italian city-states?" At this time, Count Lauzitz's face was full of gloomy expression, and his eyes narrowed into a slit, from which a cold cold light seemed to seep out.

"Yes, the most honorable Earl, from which family has One-Hand already purchased what we need." Grover's body trembled at the mention of the family in the Italian city-state, and even a cruel and ferocious person like him would be terrified of that family.

"Well, the money must be paid off, don't offend that family easily, we just made a deal." The Earl of Lautzitz bent down and muffled his voice, whispering in Grover's ear, whispering in the palace of Fort Mason.

Sir Able has been busy lately with almost no rest time, after being appointed by his father, the Duke of Mason, as the treasurer of the Duchy of Mason, in order to pay the various debts of the Duke of Mason's war against the Duke of Saxony, completely occupying all his time, he was followed by several attendants holding a large pile of papers, and handed him the volume of documents that Sir Able needed at any time, and at this moment a crisp voice stopped Sir Ebel. (To be continued......)