Relying on their own advantages, they quickly opened up a situation on the mainland, and it was from that time that the Aragonese nobility had existed.

However, because of the world of difference with the natives, the Aragonese nobles have always been excluded and despised by other nobles.

When the baroness was young, she followed her father to the imperial capital, but was bullied by other noble children, saying that she had cheeks on her neck and could breathe in the water, and pressed her into the sea.

Seeing the unevenness, little Heine stepped forward to beat away the mischievous boys and save the Damesse.

The Baroness has always been grateful for this, but due to her status, she does not often interact with the Campbells.

So today's behavior can be understood as a reward for gratitude.

"And where did the queen find out about Cecil and the Campbell's army?" Twelve folded his hands and meditated.

Sebastian took the first step to sort out the whole thing: "Your Excellency, there are only a few people who know that Lord Cecil is the Emperor of Cass, me, Shaw, Dean, and Brown, who do you think is most likely to leak the secret?" ”

Twelve repeated the names of several people: "Shaw and you are only loyal to the Campbell family, and will not leak secrets, Dean is the youngest son of the Wittels, and leaking secrets will not do him any good, as for Brown-"

"So, Brown is most likely?"

"No, we've missed a guy who's more likely to leak than Brown." Thinking of Brown, Twelve thought of Todd, who was in charge of the Order's escort.

"Todd!"

Dean and Brown led the men to rest in the nearest town to the imperial capital.

"As soon as it is dawn, we can leave for the city." Dean said as he ate a roasted bunny leg around the campfire.

Brown nodded and took a sip of the inferior red wine in his hand: "Yes, I can finally go home and have a good rest, and I can also have a drink to relax." ”

Although Brown is only the captain of an ordinary knight order, he is also a child of a small aristocratic family, and he has suffered all kinds of hardships along the way, and what he especially misses is the wine and food in the imperial capital.

Dean laughed at him: "Haha, you know how to eat, when we go back, we will have to report to His Highness, maybe we will have to be responsible for organizing Todd's trial, you don't want to be lazy and throw everything to me." ”

Just as the two were drinking and chatting, there was an earth-shattering sound not far away.

With the sound, the two of them only felt that the mountains were shaking, and a knight not far away ran over and said, "Oh no, the gunpowder we transported has exploded!" ”

In order to prevent the gunpowder they were carrying from spontaneously combusting, Dean and Brown had been following Twelve's instructions not to live in the town, but to camp close to it.

They always thought that Her Royal Highness the Imperial Concubine was making a big fuss, but they didn't expect it to really blow up.

By the time Dean and Brown arrived, the fire had been extinguished, and the place where the gunpowder was stored was pitch black, with two wounded men lying on the periphery.

Dean stepped forward to look at the wounded and asked the soldiers stationed there, "What the hell is going on?" Isn't there someone watching it all the time? ”

The soldier said innocently: "We don't know, we were fine before the shift change, but not long after the shift change, we didn't even walk back to our camp tent, and the tent where the explosives were stored exploded!" All the explosives are gone! ”

Brown will have the members of the Order carry the wounded to the town on stretchers to heal, and he came to Dean's side and said, "I'm afraid this matter is not simple, we have come all the way, and it is not for nothing that it is dry and easy to catch fire, but at this time something happened, someone must have mixed in." ”

Dean was silent for a long time, then suddenly remembered something and raised his head: "Oh no! Todd! ”

The two of them hurried to the tent where Todd was kept.

But before they could get there, they saw the soldiers who had fallen at the door of the tent.

Dean crouched down and turned him over, only to see that he still had a dagger stuck in his body, and the man was no longer breathing.

Brown lifted the curtains, and all that was left of the empty wooden cell was an iron handcuff, and Todd was long gone. Brown turned and came out, intending to order someone to chase him.

Dean stopped him: "It's too late to chase now, they must have premeditated, and the top priority is to pass the news back to the imperial capital and let His Highness know!" ”

As soon as the two of them combined, they planned to let Dean rush back to the imperial capital with fifty people from the elite team first, and Brown would be responsible for bringing the rest back, and the wounded would be left in the town first, and two people would be sent to take care of them.

Dean didn't dare to delay the time, so he rode off with the people.

As soon as he arrived at the city gates, Todd had already taken refuge in the Royal Church under the cover of the Bishop.

Inside the Bishop's House of the Royal Church.

"Thank you, Bishop, for the rescue!" Todd was in a mess, these days, the Knights only tried to keep him alive and didn't give him much food, because he was really hateful, and because he wanted to prevent escape.

The bishop was a little disgusted with Todd in front of him, squinted his eyes and said from a distance: "Lord Todd is polite, you are a distinguished guest of the Kas Empire, and our Royal Highness the Empress still needs you to help her eradicate dissidents." ”

Todd naturally knew who the Bishop was talking about, and he said with a look of resentment: "Don't worry, Bishop, I have a long-standing feud with the Campbell family, and I will definitely help with this." ”

"Then you can rest well, and then I will have clean clothes and food brought over." The bishop finished and left.

Todd lay down on the bed and sighed, "Ah, finally let me escape, Campbell woman, wait and see, I'm going to make your death ugly!" ”

After the Lady of Aragon was gone, Dean returned.

Seeing him out of breath on the road, Twelve knew that something should have happened: "Did Todd run away?" ”

Dean was stunned: "How did His Highness know so quickly?!" ”

Twelve said, "You don't have to know how I know, did the man who came to take Todd leave any message?" ”

Dean looked ashamed, and Twelve confessed two things to him, transporting gunpowder and escorting Todd, but both things were smashed: "The enemy detonated the gunpowder to attract our attention, and took this opportunity to kill the soldier guarding Todd and take him away, which was the dagger stuck in the sacrificial soldier." ”

After saying that, Dean took out the bloodstained dagger from his bosom and handed it to Twelve.

She looked at the dagger and said, "Bury the deceased well, and give his family a sum of gold." ”

Twelve felt ironic, she went with fifteen hundred men to conquer the Cass Empire, and none of them were damaged, but when she returned, one of them died at the hands of her own people.

The warriors always had the spirit of preferring a horse leather shroud to a sloppy life, and if this matter was put on her, she would lose her life for such a disgusting fly as Todd, she would also feel aggrieved.

Therefore, she has to give someone an explanation.