Located northeast of Munich, Linz was an important city on the upper Danube River and was a key point of trade between the Holy Roman Empire and the Bulgarian and Byzantine Empires before the Crusades. After the start of the Crusades, many bankrupt yeoman farmers from the northern part of the Holy Roman Empire also crossed the pass through Linz into Byzantium.

With the Crusades, a large number of nobles also gathered around Linz, and they also wanted to use such wars to their advantage. Of course, some nobles succeeded, and some nobles failed. Those failed nobles sometimes have some bad rumors, such as the ghost castle, which is the so-called deformation of bad luck contagion. If you buy a castle of a failed noble, you will also fail. Arguments such as these have left some abandoned castles and nearby territories untouched for a long time, and the successful nobles do not want to be infected by bad luck, and the new nobles do not want to start their future path from a loser's castle. Eventually, these little castles that no one cares about become even more eerie and empty.

Recently, rumors have spread that a large number of monsters are beginning to appear in a castle left behind by some dilapidated aristocracy in the southwest of the city. At first it was just some strange noises, but then someone could see terrible creatures flying around above this castle in the distance. After that, there were also some strange people coming in and out of the castle, all of which added a lot of eerie air to this place, which is only a few decades old and is more like a three-story manor.

Later, the lord of Linz had to send his own army to the "haunted" castle to find out, but after seeing a dozen griffons eating fresh beef there. The knights and soldiers of these armies ran faster than their horses.

A family or nobleman with terrible strength. Come without telling me. Right next to Linz. This news was even more terrifying for the lord of Linz, who wanted to expel the family from Linz, but his soldiers now trembled when they heard the name of Talrant Castle, or the name of Tarrant Manor, where the griffons stayed. Even the lord relied on the most, and even the captain of the knights, with whom his daughter and wife had fornications, did not dare to lead the soldiers to expel the other party. No matter how strong the human race is, it will not terrify the knight captain who has been quietly thrown into the dungeon by the Lord of Linz. But that legendary creature is enough to make any soldier lose his fighting spirit.

The lord of Linz, Count Sakov, was almost 60 years old, and in the Middle Ages, where the average life expectancy was less than 35 years, the age of the counts could not but be said to be a miracle. Especially in the face of all kinds of dangers, it is not easy to live to this age. In an era when the old order was being overthrown and the new order had not yet been established as a result of the Crusades, nobility was a high-risk profession.

Especially the kind of big nobles who have actual territory and actual subjects, they will not die quietly in their own beds more often than not. Most of them will die from various kinds of dumping. Some of these pours come from outside, but more often from within the family. A noble count is no better alive in the dark than a mouse.

He needs to guard against everything, from his wife, his daughters, his sons who have inheritance, sons who have no inheritance but are equally greedy, his own brothers and sisters, etc., etc., etc.

In the famous Grimm fairy tale, a princess can still feel a few broad beans on the bed board even through ten layers of eiderdown quilts, and even feels that these broad beans are "like mountain peaks", so that she can't sleep peacefully. It's not because this princess has become an awakened person and can have such a high reflexes, but because these nobles have a more direct experience and feeling of danger, so that any bit of abnormality will be sensed by them and quickly amplified.

In front of Count Sakov, his third wife, the fourth daughter of a marquis from Saxony, Meella, was anxiously walking around. She seemed to be anxious about the sudden occurrence of such a thing in the county, and there was no false element of anxiety in Countess Meera's face, but what she was anxious about, Sakov, who was sitting in the armchair, knew a little. Although he had long known about his restless, thirty-year-old wife's affair with the Knight Captain, Sakov had learned more about it last night in the dungeon, after amputating half of the Knight Captain's knee. His wife's constant desire to kill him and then seize Linz was a complete first for Sakov. And his two daughters were actually involved, which made him feel even more shocked.

It is precisely because the knight captain knows too many things that his disappearance will definitely have a huge impact on these women.

They will be flustered, nervous, and afraid. They don't know what to do until they find the captain of the knights, and as time goes on, they become more and more agitated until they can't stand the pressure anymore and either take risks or betray each other. Slander each other in front of the earl, snitch each other, and then make yourself safe for the time being by doing so.

The Earl likes this kind of thing, he has lived for a long time, and naturally knows that there are some things that must be done immediately, and some things that can watch the opponent mess up. These three stupid women were no match for him, but the look at their ugliness made the Count happy. After knowing that his wife and daughter were all crazy about a knight with golden hair, there was no time when the count felt a greater sense of revenge than now. The knight captain was young and had a good face, but that was all there was to it, would the Count let a powerful knight be the captain of the knights, and then let the captain mess around the castle? Such a simple truth could only be understood by the three women who were blinded by Mammon and Asmodeus.

They thought they could control everything, but they didn't know that the knight captain who had sworn was just a showmanship after all. Even a few griffons can scare this knight captain out of his mind, and it will be too early for another ten years to really let this knight captain do something to the earl.

Now it is good, Count Sakov watched the "show" of his wife, for such a woman the Count no longer had any element of affection, including for his two daughters. Once the griffon's affairs are settled, the three women end up in the dungeon with the person they fancy for the rest of their lives. It's the best choice, isn't it? They chose the person they liked, and even made a false oath, so the earl magnanimously made their oath come true, such kindness, I am afraid that the other nobles will be moved to wipe their tears when they hear about it.

As for flesh and blood, who can prove that his two brown-haired, daughters born to his second wife, are his flesh and blood? At least the Count was not brown-haired, and while combing his already silver-gray hair, he looked at Meella and said, "That's just a griffin, don't be alarmed, the Emperor has such an army." The griffons had no interest in humans, not just for food, but also for wealth. To be honest, I'd rather have such a group of griffons in Linz, knowing that the safety of Linz has been getting worse and worse lately. The presence of such griffons was enough to make the barbarians from Byzantium a little more behaving. “

Madame Meela turned her head to look at her husband, and the more time passed, the more disgusted she became with the old immortal. Coming out of the marquis's house, she wanted a county and, at worst, a count's mother, not an earl's widow. If Sakov dies, Meela may not get anything, and Linz will eventually go to Sakov's son, and no matter how he ranks, it will not be Meaira's turn, especially if Meela has no heirs. This disgust eventually led her to decide to take it upon herself to get everything she needed, but it made no sense to say it now, and Mera was more worried about whether the damned knight captain had ever said everything.

Mayira had already been able to guess that the missing knight captain might be at her feet, deep in the dungeons of this castle. She could also guess that the captain of the knights who entered the dungeon would tell everything. However, luck made her have to appear here, in front of Count Sakov. On the one hand, it seems that she is not so weak-minded, and on the other hand, she also wants to spy on some news from Sakov. Unfortunately, Sakov doesn't seem to care about the disappearance of the Knight Captain, and on the other hand, he doesn't seem to know anything about Meaira's plans. This contradiction made Meella a little confused, and she walked around the study, not knowing for a moment what was good for her, and not hearing what Sakov had just said.

When Sakov finished speaking, Meela realized that her husband seemed to be talking about griffins. However, she is from Saxony, which is the northern part of the Holy Roman Empire, where the phrase griffin does not appear at all. So, she only knew that Sakov was talking about something, but she didn't know what it was.

At this moment, outside the door of the study, the butler knocked softly. After receiving Sakov's permission, the equally gray-haired butler pushed open the door, bowed slightly at the door, and said, "Sir, someone is visiting." ”

Sakov was stunned for a moment and said: "Don't tell me those lengthy titles, tell me in the simplest way, who is it?" ”

"From the east, ruler of the Hillaire Mountains, Parin. Mr. Fabio. ”

"Where are the Hillaire Mountains?"

"I don't know Master Ludao, but this gentleman said that among the mountains he owns, he has the highest mountain in the world." (To be continued......)