Act22 "Baldhead" Fred
The sunlight shines through the diamond-shaped windows, and the halls of the inner fort are so bright that you can even see countless specks of dust floating - there is only silence around until the hard soles of the young man's boots rub against the wooden chairs and make a "squeak" sound.
"Potter Sr., tell me what's going on."
The young man's expression was serious, and he habitually raised his head slightly as he spoke—as the angle swayed, the people around him saw only a dazzling light coming from above his head.
If Gross had remained here, he would have recognized the young man. Fred Wolfe, the eldest son of Count Savaren Wolff, the first heir to the earldom, a student of the court swordsman Olzog, and the chief knight of the Iron Sword Knights directly under the royal family. In the game, players refer to him as "Bald Brother", and of course, at the age of twenty-five, he still has a little hair on top of his head that is stubbornly resisting.
The title of "bald brother" is not worthy of the name for the time being.
And he's known not only for his chic looks, but also for his lingering romance with the royal princess Samantha – a story that refutes the absurdity that a hairless man doesn't deserve the favor of a goddess.
He was now standing in Lord Bennett's castle, two sharp eyes staring at Old Potter in front of him, like a sword unsheathed, stabbing the humble middle-aged man even more terrifyingly.
Old Potter knew very well that Young Master Fred never liked to be hidden or lied in front of him - although there was a proverb among the nobles of the kingdom that "a vassal is not a vassal of His Majesty", Lord Bennett himself never declared independence from the earl's family, and in the strict sense of the word, the Lord was still a member of the Wolf family, and Old Porter was naturally a servant of the Wolf family.
He opened his mouth, and at last, in a state of unease, he could tell the story of the previous day in a fit and start—the young man's eyebrows rose higher and higher, and after a moment they eased again, and his fingers unconsciously slid to the hilt of the sword, but now it was released.
"Two groups of people in succession? The latter gang also helped you defeat the previous one? Interesting. ”
Fred Wolfe seemed to have a slight smile on his face, he lowered the boot that was on the chair, and sat down - "Is the loss of property in the castle confirmed?" ”
He asked.
"No, nothing to lose, except for some books in the master's study."
Old Potter replied honestly.
"Is that really the case? Old Porter. ”
The robbers stormed the castle and in the end only robbed some books. It sounded as unbelievable as Diel's skeleton secretly taking holy water, and Fred was stunned for a moment, and he snapped his fingers, "Take me to see it." ”
"Yes, Master Fred."
Following the hurried footsteps of Old Porter, the two soon came to the study on the second floor, which was usually sorted out and cleaned by Lord Bennett, so he still had some impressions of the books in the bookcase.
"Travelogues, records of mainland customs, and two martial arts manuals, a total of 15 books."
Standing in front of the bookcase, Old Potter took a closer look at the results and replied to the young man beside him.
"Are you sure they're a gang of robbers and not some/bard?"
"The one at the head is a mountain man."
"Mountain people?!"
In the realm of the Elantrets, the mountain people are almost synonymous with rudeness, lack of culture, illiterate letters, and so on - if two nobles have a deep conflict with each other, sometimes one nobleman will use a malicious sarcasm on the other: "Your ancestors may have come from the ...... of the mountain people", and if the other party is unwilling to swallow his anger, a white handkerchief will be thrown out, and a duel over honor will ensu.
Mountain people who like to read? Will they be able to read the written word?
Fred felt that this was an unhumorous joke, but when the facts were in front of him, he couldn't help but believe it - "Anything else, really no loss?" Still skeptical, he tried to determine if it was just a hand-to-hand gesture.
"Everything else is there, weapons, crossbows, armor and so on, the lord took them all with him when he set off."
"I know, Knight Bennett has already met with my father."
Fred Wolfe had met Lord Cullen Bennett five days earlier in the former garden of the Lord's Mansion in the city of Norgo, and had spoken for a while - for whom he had always reverently addressed him as "Uncle Bennett", who had been a knight under his father's command since he had memories as a child.
Over the years, a knight who has been loyal. Later, he was ordered to guard the castle in front of him.
He hadn't seen the old knight for seven years, because of his education and training in the royal capital—Fred remembered that when he saw the wrinkled, droopy old face with brown age spots, he didn't even dare to confirm that it was the Bennett knight he was familiar with.
The once pleasant uncle always had some delicious snacks every time he came to the City Lord's Mansion - Count Wolf Savaren Wolf was strict with his children, and although they were not short of Rael, sweets and the like rarely had a chance to flow into the City Lord's Mansion. But every time the knight stuffed him with a handful of candy from his bosom, his father only smiled faintly.
Unfortunately, after many years, the former knight has grown old - Lord Karen Bennett came to Tarun City this time to complete the formalities of handing over to his father. It is said that his youngest son, Fira, had bought a manor near Karthas and that he planned to go over and start his old age.
The father had already made the castle and the two nearby villages a fief of the knight of Bennett and bestowed the title of lord - the old knight did not seem to care about this, and still insisted on his own ideas.
Maybe the death of his eldest son, Kevin, in the "War of the Fog Pines" is a big thrill!
In a matter of moments, Fred had a lot of things in mind. He sighed, then turned and left the study, returning to the hall downstairs—this time he had been commissioned by his father to temporarily take over the castle on the edge of the Kingfisher Forest.
After Fred made the announcement to the servants and guards in the castle, the light infantry who had followed him disarmed and began to tidy up and tidy up their rooms in the inner fort - standing in the castle, he looked at the green mountains in the distance, his eyes flowing with thoughtfulness.
"Robbers? Mountain people? Book? ”
He noticed that something interesting had happened to him in his life.