"It is the legitimacy of the right to rule, my lord, although the Duke of Mason gave you the title of Count of Mecklenburg, but don't forget that the Duke inherits the rights of the matrilineal side, but the Slavs pay attention to the legitimacy of the right from the patriline, if the current head of Mecklenburg is willing to recognize the legitimacy of your ruling power, then you have an unshakable authority in Mecklenburg among the Slavs, and you are recognized as the Count of Mecklenburg, which is extremely beneficial to you and your descendants in the future, and it is better for him to live than to die." Julian said to Arrod, glancing at the pitiful leader of Mecklenburg, who was curled up on the ground.

"Alive?" Arold pursed his lips and squinted at the dog-like leader of Mecklenburg, his eyes narrowed and he walked in front of Augsge, the leader of Mecklenburg, and patted Augsg on the shoulder with his hand.

"Whew." Augsg was like a frightened little beast, but Arold's actions made him understand the other party's kindness, and it seemed that his life was saved.

Shirley asked him how many girls there were. Arrod's skin smiled and said to the priestess Shirley.

"There were more than a hundred, but the priests of Lomwa chose thirty for blood sacrifices, and then more than twenty died, and some were killed in trying to escape and being captured, and now there are only forty, but rest assured, Lord Count, we can catch more, and those lowly peasants have hidden their daughters, and the soldiers will surely find them." Augsg said flatteringly to Arrod.

"Well, no. Go to hell and apologize to these sixty-odd girls. Arod listened to Shirley's simultaneous translation, and a coldness appeared in his eyes, and he grabbed the hair on the back of Augsig's head and pulled it back violently, and said sharply.

"Woo~~." Augsg let out a scream, a sharp sword came out of his chest, the tip of the sword pierced his lungs, making Augsge's throat cough sound, blood clots continued to spurt out of his mouth, and suddenly Arold turned the hilt of the sword violently, grinding Augsig's internal organs.

"Lord Count." Julian was shocked to see Arold suddenly pierce Augsig with his sword in the back. In every sense of the word. It was also very advantageous to leave this wasteful Mecklenburg chieftain, but I didn't expect Arold to kill him if he said to kill.

"Hey, there's no treasure now." Even John Berg muttered helplessly, he was still very interested in the treasure that Augsg said. There is no way, as a mercenary, it is a professional ethic to always put money first.

"Hmph. It's for justice. Arold drew his sword and kicked the body of the Mecklenburg chief to the ground with his foot. Then he rubbed his sword on his body before he put it back in its scabbard.

The corpse of the leader of Mecklenburg lay on the cold ground, and Shirley sighed softly. In the past, the chieftain, who was dressed in the fine clothes of the Slavic aristocracy and had the authority of life and death in Mecklenburg, was now lying there naked and undignified, with his eyes wide open and an unwilling look, so that Shirley stepped forward and took off her fur and put it on the body of the leader of Mecklenburg.

"According to the pattern of the chief of Mecklenburg, who is so greedy for life and afraid of death, such people usually take their belongings with them, or hide them not far from themselves, so that we can find them." Arold thought for a moment and said to the others.

"Good idea." Julian and John Berg agreed, and they searched the deepest rooms of the dungeon with a torch in one hand and a sword in the other, while Shirley went over to the maiden who was being dragged by the leader of Augsig, trying to help her with the herbs she had brought.

"Not here."

"Not here." Julian and John Berg looked around, and the room wasn't really large, but it was an illusion in the dimness, with nothing but a pile of strange ritual items and bones.

"It's really strange, so where did Augsg come out of just now?" Arold stood beside a stone pillar near the wall, and he asked the others suspiciously, for he had indeed seen Augsg come out of here just now, but it was only a dark wall.

"Lord Earl, maybe we missed something, ah, Lord Earl, be careful~~~~." Julian was also a little puzzled, but at this moment, from the dark wall beside Arrod, a man in a black cloak appeared beside Arrod, and raised a sharp dagger, directly stabbing Arold's body, and Julian and Johnberg were in the opposite corner, they didn't have time to run to Arold's side, Shirley, who was squatting on the ground, raised her arms to cover her mouth and screamed in horror.

"Ahh Arold was also stunned by this sudden change, his head broke out in a cold sweat, his right hand was clenched on the hilt of the sword, but the sword did not have time to be drawn, and he could only watch the blue dagger stab at his chest.

"Whoosh~~~~~."

"Poof." Suddenly, there was a sound of breaking the air, and the man in the black cloak rolled over and fell to the ground, everything happened so suddenly that Arold didn't even have time to retract his twisted body, and the man in the black cloak got the body and sat on the ground.

"Your Excellency, Earl, you have nothing to do." Julian and Johnberg hurried to Arold's side, and when Johnberg flipped the black-cloaked man over with his sword, he saw a knife stuck in the corpse's left eye, and it was this knife that saved Arold's life.

"What's going on?" Julian looked at the corpse suspiciously, and the flying knife on the corpse's eyes, there should be no one else here except them, who saved Arrod.

"Which direction, from which direction the throwing knives came." Arold stretched out his right hand to point to the doorway, and he said to Johnberg.

"I'll take a look, Julian keeps earl." John Berg limped to the door, and when he kicked open the wooden door, he seemed to see a gray cloak disappear around the corner of the passage, and when he caught up again, he could no longer see anything, and had to give up and return to Arold.

The attempt to assassinate Arold was the priest who presided over the feast of the gods, this chaotic priest has been cunning hiding in the dark wall, taking advantage of the time when Arold and Julian and others relaxed their vigilance, only rushed out of the dark wall to assassinate Arold, and sure enough, he was caught off guard, if it was not for the rescue of the mysterious person, Arold would definitely die on the spot, according to Shirley, the venom on the dagger was forged, quenched into it with the venom of the forest poison snake, as long as it touched the skin, it would kill people on the spot.

"By the way, Miss Shirley, there's something called dragon's blood in your religion, what the hell is that?" After Arold used the dragon's blood elixir on the leader of Upton, he became almost superhuman and very concerned, if the Slavs all used this medicine, not too much, as long as a small army, Arold could only return with a feather.

"Dragon's blood is the secret medicine of the Chaos Sect, but as far as I know, it is actually just a poisonous mushroom from Northern Europe mixed with a lot of rare metal powder from the crater, do you know the volcano?" Shirley explained to Arrhode.

"Zhilu Dao is a mountain formed by the heat of the ground gathering and erupting magma." Arold said disapprovingly, this kind of thing is known to any child who has gone to school in the 21st century, but he forgot that this is the Middle Ages.

"You, why do you know the Tao, this is knowledge that only the holy texts of the Lomwa religion can record, and few people can understand it." Shirley's beautiful green eyes widened, and she looked at Arrod incredulously, this young Germanic nobleman really had too many mysteries.

"Oh, ha, in fact, this is what I heard from others a long time ago." Arold hurriedly made up nonsense.

"Hmm, really?" Shirley was still very puzzled, but she couldn't figure out what other reason there was besides this reason, maybe someone had seen such a thing as a volcano in addition to the holy scriptures of the Lomwa religion.

"So are there a lot of these dragon blood potions?" Arold then asked himself the questions that mattered most.

"Not much, on the one hand, the poisonous mushrooms used are very scarce, it is said to be extinct, on the other hand, the process of collecting metal powder at the crater is very complicated, and this medicine can only temporarily stimulate the potential of human life within half a day, and when the time is up, the person who drinks the medicine will immediately die." Shirley explained to Arrhode.

"I see." Arold was a little relieved when he heard this, but he decided to make a killer weapon by his side in the future, as long as there were dragon blood potions and assassins, he couldn't let his guard down, otherwise he would be the self-righteous traverser who was lying here today.

Indeed a lot of belongings were found in the dark walls of the dungeon, artifacts made of gold and silver, as well as some precious swords and armor, and if these treasures were roughly calculated to be converted into silver, at least ten thousand could be obtained, and this unexpected gain made Arold feel much better when he was attacked. The captured Slavic maidens were also released from the dungeon, and Arold thoughtfully ordered a lot of cloth and clothing to be brought from the castle storehouse to the naked maidens, and the Slavic peasants who had rescued their wives and daughters inside and outside the castle cheered with joy.

"Whew~~." At the top of the castle tower, the tricolor diagonal striped flag, which symbolized the Augsg family, the chieftain of Mecklenburg, was thrown from above and fluttered down on the muddy ground, and passers-by spat at the flag, while a black heraldic flag with a lion holding a book was hung above the castle tower. (To be continued......)

PS: There are so few monthly passes, although the monthly pass list has nothing to do with me, but can it look better?