An hour later.

Eleanor stood in front of the gates of the duke's camp.

The knight of the guard did not stop her, but only saluted slightly, striking the armor on his chest with his fist.

"Miss Eleanor, the Duke is waiting for you inside."

"Do you recognize me?" Eleanor was a little surprised.

"I met you six years ago." The knight replied humbly, and then looked ahead again, unscanning.

Eleanor sighed and continued inside.

The patrol knights on the road saw her, some of them saluted solemnly, others looked confused, but they quickly bowed down with their companions.

Coming to the temporary headquarters, the two knights guarding the door nodded at him and immediately lifted the curtain of the tent.

"Please come in." The voice of the Duke of Carinthia was heard inside.

Eleanor stepped in and smiled reluctantly, "Lord Duke......"

"Miss Eleanor." The Duke of Carinthia was signing a document with his name, "You may be seated. ”

Eleanor was silent, and sat down in the seat in front of him.

"Your brother is coming this way." Duke Carinthia said.

Eleanor was slightly stunned and smiled bitterly.

"Excuse me from polite words, after all, I know your father well." The Duke of Carinthia put the papers down and raised his gaze, "Why did you run away from home?" ”

Elinor:..................

"Half a year ago, after you didn't say goodbye, you Weissbach family turned over the entire territory." The Duke of Carinthia said lightly, "Not only Bavaria, but also Carinthia, Lombardy, Burgundy, Franconia...... Everywhere your fiefdom is next to your fiefdom, your father has sent emissaries almost everywhere, and everyone knows that the second daughter of the Weissbach family has run away from home, leaving only an inexplicable letter. ”

Eleanor was so embarrassed that she wanted to dig a hole in the ground and get into it.

"Anyway, since you're here, don't go anywhere until your brother Ludwig comes to pick you up." Duke Carinthia said.

Eleanor looked up, "But the mutation in the town ahead ......"

"That's the work of mercenaries and knightly vassals." The Duke of Carinthia frowned and said, "I, the Duchy of Carinthia, have never had the custom of letting noble ladies go to battle. ”

"I'm not a noble lady!" Eleanor hurriedly argued, "I'm a mercenary too!" Mercenaries of the Azure Sword Mercenary Group! ”

"If you keep talking, there won't be a mercenary group like the Azure Sword in the world." Duke Carinthia said indifferently.

Eleanor bowed her head and said nothing.

"Think from the standpoint of your father and brother, the daughter of the Weissbach family, as a mercenary?" The Duke of Carinthia let out a low chuckle, not knowing whether it was emotion or mockery, "Even if you run away from home, even if you become a painter or musician...... It's good to do some kind of work to earn a living. Mercenary: What kind of dirty profession is that? Licking blood from the knife, having no honor, doing anything for money. ”

"You have a misunderstanding about our mercenary group." Eleanor said slowly.

"You can keep it with your brother." The Duke of Carinthia tapped the table, "Robert? ”

A knight walked in outside the door: "Lord Duke." ”

"Take Miss Eleanor to the inner camp and stay there, and then go to Riffirach to find some daughters of local nobles to accompany her, who must have a good reputation, an innocent family background, and a dignified appearance." The Duke of Carinthia commanded, "Don't snub the Weissbachers. ”

"Yes." Robert nodded solemnly.

Eleanor was silent and followed Robert to the noble camp.

It was inhabited by the vassals, cabinets and families of the Duke of Carinthia. Robert summoned a few clever court attendants and told them to pack up the innermost tent.

Ten minutes later, Eleanor was in the glamping tent, which was furnished with a comfortable bedroom made of velvet and carpet, with a large wooden bed in the center covered with a thick fluffy mattress and quilt.

Turning around, Robert was already standing in the doorway outside the tent, as if he was going to guard her here.

Eleanor sighed and lowered the curtains that were tied to either side.

Then she sat down on the edge of the bed and whispered:

"Mia."

Mia emerged from the shadow at her feet and asked, "How's it going?" Is it confirmed? ”

"It's confirmed." Eleanor nodded, and then began her spirituality, teleporting to the Hearth Island.

Mia returned to the shadows, and slipped into Robert's shadow through the gap under the curtain.

Robert, a dutiful knight, crossed his arms and looked ahead without squinting.

What no one noticed was that his shadow on the ground slowly stretched out, looping around the base of the tent to the back of the tent, and then sticking out through the gap in the camp's wooden fence.

After upgrading to Shadow II, Mia is now free to manipulate the changes in nearby shadows, as well as truly "dissolve" her body into the shadows.

As long as there was a shadow the size of a fingernail anywhere, she could hide in the corresponding shadow realm without being limited by the size of her body.

As soon as the shadow came out of the gap, Mia jumped out of the shadow, and then Shi Shiran left.

And the deformed shadow immediately bounced back to Robert's feet like an elongated rubber band.

In the Fire Island, Eleanor had just teleported in, and Nora, who had been waiting for her, greeted her.

"How?" She asked with concern.

"It's been confirmed, the Duke of Carinthia has informed my family." Eleanor sighed.

Nora also smiled wryly.

Just a few hours earlier, Eleanor had confessed to her and Mia that she had run away from home.

The Frankish family concept was much more conservative than that of the Solomons, and the daughters of the minor nobles might be able to go out to do business and study, while the families of the big nobles basically stayed at home and were taught by special private tutors.

When he became an adult, he either married other nobles, or went to the monastery to "serve God" and "study the truth".

Eleanor, unlike other girls, does not want to marry just like that, nor does she like to engage in scientific research, but has a soft spot for inheriting a fief and becoming a knight lord.

So one day, after arguing with her father, she took some money she had saved up privately and slipped out of the castle in the procession.

As for how she slipped out, Eleanor didn't say much. In short, she spent some time in Syrius and Asia Minor, and after spending all the money on her body, she came to Constantinople to make a living.

Finally, he met Asker.

The reason why I chose to run away from home is that I don't want to stay at home and let my father arrange my life, and on the other hand, I want to find an opportunity to prove myself.

Now that she's a Lv.4 transcendent, she's far beyond ordinary people in terms of combat strength, so presumably even such an old-fashioned father would be impressed by her, right?

This encounter with the Duke of Carinthia was purely an accident. However, since it was confirmed that the Duke had informed her family, the plan for a showdown with the family needed to be advanced.

She wants to convince her father to take on the role of the new transcendent.

It would be best if her father was willing to acknowledge her metamorphosis and independence, and agreed to let her inherit the fiefdom.

If she doesn't want to, then it's a big deal that she runs away again. Anyway, with the help of Hearthoisle and Mia, Eleanor wasn't worried about her father's way to trap her.