What's been going on in Northland lately......

Obviously.

Alice Stun stood quietly in the palace chamber in the depths of the lord's castle and looked down at what she saw, her thin shoulders on her daily skirt and fluffy shawl to protect her from the cold, and her eyes opened under the blonde hair dyed by the blood of the orthodox nobles of the Holm people, and the look in her pupils was like two frost-frozen knives that solidified a coldness that blended with sadness and anger.

Her gaze fell on the floor at her feet, and what was on it was a white stretcher that was all too clear to be seen, covered with a tattered linen cloth that accentuated the silhouette of a human figure, and under the linen lay a body that had undoubtedly died.

As for the body in front of her, she was told that the Count of Northland was dead.

Her brother, Kevin Stune, died......

And presented the evidence of so.

And the day of the evidence was in the early hours of yesterday morning, the envoy of the old Sir Wilkens, the Earl of Silver Shield Castle, led a team composed of several followers and guards to visit Helmet City overnight, and secretly sent the body on the stretcher into the lord's castle in the city and handed it over to her, and then the messenger representing the old Earl of Silver Shield Castle told her the truth, saying that this was the body that the old Earl sent people to the scene to search for after hearing about the landslide on the Shield Horn Cliff.

Although the face of the deceased had been destroyed by mud and hard stones to the point that it was impossible to distinguish the appearance, the clothes of the corpse were determined to be the clothes worn by the young paladin count during the imperial capital for a few days, and the characteristics of height, body shape, skin color, hair color and other characteristics also matched exactly with it, and the soldiers of the Silver Shield Fort who arrived after the disaster searched for the noble seal of the Northland Earldom.

The noble seals of the lords of the Golden Que Ying Empire are designed in the shape of bells with round bottoms and vertical handles, and the seals contain the anti-counterfeiting enchantment uniformly attached by the Royal Mage Academy.

Sir Dewilkens, the messenger of the Silver Shield Castle, expressed his regret and condolences to Alice, and confessed that the Holy Sword could not be searched for with the remains, and that the Great Sword of the Enemy Destroyer, known as the Holy Avenger, may have been lost with the life of the bearer in an accident.

Genuinely and superficially, Alice thanked the Silver Shield Castle Emissaries for secretly sending the bodies that night, and let them stay overnight in the castle's guest rooms, and the next morning—that is, early this morning in the timeline—to escort them back from the city the way they came.

The body sent by the Silver Shield Fort had slept in the secret room of this castle for almost a day.

Alice's gaze rested on the corpse's face. The severely disfigured face was no longer recognizable, but the two eyes in her eye sockets were as cold as ice, as if they were still trying to see something from them, and the focus of this gaze was drawn three seconds later by the sound of footsteps coming from behind—

"Ms. Alice."

"Chief Scambed, it's still a little time before dinner, and you should now sit in the regent's office and work on official documents, instead of coming to this place to find me." Alice turned her face to the side and looked at the elderly man who appeared at the door of the secret room at this moment with a blank expression, "But since you are here, there must be something more important than daily government affairs?" ”

Scambed was very tall, a nobleman of orthodox Holm, with white skin, blue eyes, and faded gray hair, about 190 centimeters like a slave knight, like a straight coat hanger, supporting a set of black winter clothes with a velvet cape, and his broad shoulders and thick waist and legs made this old man with all white hair look like a well-dressed and standing bear.

He stopped to meet Alice's sideways gaze, his hands under the long sleeves behind his back, and his bear-like tall figure tended to give people a natural sense of coercion, but this sense of majestic oppression was diluted by the wrinkles on his face and a kind smile.

When you look at him, you will suddenly no longer think that this is a terrible old bear, but that the person standing in front of you is a polite old gentleman, and you can notice that he has neatly groomed gray hair, a pair of round-framed glasses with presbyopia on the bridge of his nose, and not only has a kind face, but also knows how to be polite and measured in his words.

Therefore, Scambed refers to Alice as "lady" - he knows that the lord's sister has the ability to serve as an auxiliary government and magic that can be said to be enviable, but this young genius also has some character flaws, simply put, he has strong and sensitive self-esteem, and his temper is not bad, but it is also a bit too stereotyped, and his obviously beautiful face is as serious as a playing card, and the two titles "Miss Alice" and "Miss Alice" are even frivolous and respectful to her.

The old steward of the Northland court chose to treat her more respectfully in words, and then tapped his forehead, and then replied to the little lady's question: "Naturally, ma'am. This was reported to me by Knight Togarth a few minutes ago, and he told me that Knight of Urs and Reverend Thea were still alive. ”

"What?" Alice's half-brow raised slightly.

"And they're all back." The old manager smiled and finished the next sentence.

……

However, after entering the city, the four Thorn Squads, led by young men, did not go directly to the Earl's Castle, but took steps towards another block in the city at the suggestion of Togas, preparing to find a tavern to rest first.

Urs vaguely sensed that something big must have happened in Helmet City, but Toga didn't seem to want to say anything about it, but only told himself that the lord was very busy during this time, and he had to stay up all night to deal with the daily political documents before he could approve them, and the matter of receiving everyone would have to wait until tomorrow morning at the earliest.

Thogas is not a knight who is particularly good at lying, and when he says something against his will, his eyes will unconsciously glance to the side.

Urs and Thea were familiar with this civilian knight who had climbed out of the mountain village by virtue of his military exploits, so they saw through his lie when they were interrogated under the city gate, and after thinking about it, they tacitly did not expose it on the spot, and chose to go to the city first to say goodbye to the merchants before saying anything else.

"Is it because he wants to cover up something that Toga is lying about? Or is it... What was instructed or warned against him behind the scenes? Walking down the streets of the city with Thea, Belllis, and Dorothy, Urs lifted his right hand to his chin every moment as if he had an obsessive-compulsive disorder, and his brain, even if it was not as good at analysis and thinking as the wise men of history, could not help but want to dig into the strangeness, and always felt that something was not quite right in the event......

Not......

Speaking of what is not quite right, it is not only the lies of Thogas's poor acting that are not quite right.

He walked down the street for a while, and unconsciously noticed that some kind of incongruous atmosphere had been following everyone hauntingly, and there seemed to be a few citizens around him who looked at everyone with strange eyes, especially the leader himself.

Urs frowned, his normal brown pupils looked left and right at the source of these sights, and the people on both sides of the street seemed to finally be unable to bear to look sideways to his side after a while:

"Thea." (https:)

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