In the south of Hufflepuff Territory, there is a forest covering an area of dozens of square kilometers, and this small forest does not breed any strange magical creatures, but it is just a very common ordinary forest. During the day, Hufflepuff lumberjacks would go in and stock up on firewood for the winter.

A dilapidated logging hut sits alone next to the path into the forest, which is long deserted in the evening. After all, once the sun goes down, even if there are no magical creatures, the beasts that infest the forest are a great threat to the Hufflepuff Lords of the Cold Weapon Age.

"Da! Da! Da! ”

The sound of horses' hooves sounded at the end of the path, and a mysterious man with a gray hood covering his face turned over and dismounted, and entered the dilapidated hut, where a strange night wind blew the branches of the surrounding trees, making a "rustle!" Voice.

"Rasmussen! That's what you call foolproof! ”

There was a heavy anger in the Hooded Mystery's tone.

As his voice sounded, in an instant, the top of the dilapidated hut began to emit a miserable green light. The oil lamp, lit with slime blood, flickered violently. The dark necromancer, with a bumpy nose and a black corpse spot, revealed his body in the faint green light.

"Ferex, watch your tone!"

"You haven't been officially ordained a baron in advance! Are you ready to turn your face and not recognize people? ”

"Don't forget, our transactions are all recorded on the Shadow Stone, and once it leaks out, hum, we'll all be finished!"

Ferex woke up violently, and the one on the other side was not the scum mercenaries in the usual underground mercenary union, but an out-and-out dark necromancer who abandoned human nature.

This is not something he can command at will

The old gray-robed old man in front of him, the black corpse spots on his face, were all corpse poison left behind by too many corpse experiments and too late to clean up.

Ferex slowed his tone.

"Master Rasmussen, you promised that the Corrupting Demon would attack in the morning, and in the afternoon, little Edward would become a dysfunctional person (in the Celestial Empire's parlance, a vegetative person) who would only sleep in his bed."

"But last night! That little bastard who only hides behind his sister every day, ate the thing you said called corrupting the demon spirit, and it didn't work at all, and at the luncheon just now, he appeared in the restaurant of the Baron's Castle and pointed fingers at Lao Tzu! ”

Listening to Ferex's angry complaints, Mage Rasmussen was not annoyed by the failure of the plot. The Hufflepuff family has been inherited for more than 1,300 years, although it is said that in the past 100 years, the power on the surface has been declining, but if there is no bottom, he himself will not believe it, there are some means to prevent dark potions, which is completely understandable.

Of course, he didn't know that in fact, his methods had succeeded, but the final result was usurped by a time-traveler from another world.

"Don't worry, Ferex, soft doesn't work, then ...... The hoarse voice deliberately dragged out the pitch.

"Come hard!"

"You are an official knight, I am a full mage, and when the scorching sun rises tomorrow at the very top of the English islands, it will be the day of little Edward's death!"

"This ・・・・・"

Ferex hesitated slightly, before the arrival of the envoy from the royal capital, after all, there were only three days, if he still wanted to be a baron, there was no other way at the moment, so he could only agree to do so.

"Well, I hope everything goes well!"

After discussing the details of tomorrow's arrangements with the dark mage in detail, Ferex flashed out of the cabin.

Ferex on his horse was in a stirring mood. On the surface, he is one of the three captains of the Baron's inner castle, but secretly, he is actually the illegitimate son of the old Hufflepuff Baron. During the old baron's lifetime, Ferex was dedicated to his duties, and his status as an illegitimate child also made Ferex trusted and reused.

When the old baron was in good health, if this kind of life continued, Ferex would never dare to kill Edward, the old baron's sister-in-law.

As a powerful warrior old baron who broke through the rank of great knight by himself, even though he was seriously injured in the epic demon disaster battle ten years ago, his strength has declined. However, its powerful fighting aura perception still probed every move in the Baron's Castle all the time.

Unexpectedly, when the old baron was conquering a fish-man tribe that often attacked fishermen along the coast of Hufflepuff Territory, around the small tribe of dozens of people, there was a red coral fish-man shaman that only appeared in a million-level tribe! Not to mention, the red reef fishman shaman also had four scarred merman warriors on his side, equivalent to official knights.

The sudden appearance of the Red Coral Shaman, which is equivalent to the same rank as the Great Knight, and the merman warrior surprised the old baron.

After a hard battle, although he was victorious in the end, the captain of the knightly rank guard who accompanied the expedition to the other two territories was killed on the spot, leaving only the wounded old baron, dragging his half-crippled body and Ferex with dozens of remnants of the defeated army to return to the Baron Castle.

The old baron died late that night.

The emissary of the kingdom and the verifier of the noble council have just set off from the royal capital of the Kingdom of Wales, and it will take several days for Edward's genius mage sister to return to the realm from the mage organization where she is located.

And in the past few days, when fighting with the fishmen, the old baron deliberately sheltered, although injured but still retained the strength of the knightly rank, is the most powerful person in the entire territory.

And this is giving Ferex great ambitions. If Edward had an accident in the past few days, the Hufflepuff family would have been in chaos.

If he claims that the old baron's last words to him mention that he is also a member of the Hufflepuff family, and applies to the Council of Nobles for bloodline verification. According to the laws of the kingdom, even if the male blood of the nobility of the territory is illegal, if there is an accident between the previous lord and his designated heir, it will be recognized, and thus have the right of formal inheritance.

If the plan succeeds, he will be able to go from a small captain of the guard to one of the few fiefdom lords in the kingdom!

Just as Ferex rode on his horse, on the way back to the Baron's Castle, he was full of ambition and imagined ascending to the position of the coveted Baron.

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In the Baronial Castle, Edward stood in front of the window, pensive.

Just now, the main god reminded him that when he entered this world for the first time through the law port and scanned this area, he found that the only personal guard captain "Philex" in the territory had emotional fluctuations on him were completely different from the emotions generated by other servants and maids!

The captain of the guard, who was officially a knight, not only did not have a fluctuation of respect and awe, but had many negative emotions mixed with greed and jealousy.

This is not the mood that a loyal aristocratic retainer should have.

After luncheon, after hearing the news that Ferex had hurried out on horseback, Edward went to the old baron's richly decorated study. On the wall of the study hangs a one-man tall bronze mirror.

This large rectangular magic mirror was forged by the head of the Hufflepuff family for the third generation, and at that time, the Hufflepuff family was still a famous duke family.

This is a magical item specially used to monitor the territory, although it has no attack power, but its magical ability of void insight is extremely powerful.

Edward pressed the ancient family crest ring on the middle finger of his left hand against the handle of the magic mirror.

With the ring pressed in, guided by Edward's mind, the Magic Mirror locked on to the position of the most powerful person in the realm.

Soon, in the mirror of the magic mirror, there was a scene of conversation between the captain of the guard and the dark necromancer.

"A knight, a mage. These are all official professionals who are evaluated as first-order among the main gods. ”

A sneer tugged at the corner of Edward's mouth.

Walking to the window of the study, Edward subconsciously stroked the ring of the patriarch of the Hufflepuff family on his left index finger.