"So, Barol is indeed dead?"

Nicole put down the silver coffee cup carved with the moon pattern, and lifted her beautiful face, her green eyes reflecting Lilia's confused and guilty look. She wore a plain white simple tunic dress, her chestnut hair was draped over her shoulders, her shapely and slender legs were folded under the hem of the skirt, and she leaned lazily against the balcony rattan chair.

In Lilia's eyes, Nicole's facial features are obviously still as delicate and delicate as before, but the aggressive heroism between the eyebrows is already restrained, and the whole person has a soft and natural charm, the spring sun shines on her body, and the fair and moist skin reflects a hazy faint halo, if there is nothing, like the fairy in the lake in the legendary story.

Victor, Caligula, and Nelson leave the Centaur Hills, and House Randall has another Extraordinary Knight.

Only a transcendent knight is qualified to protect the interests of the Randall family, Lilia's heart suddenly calmed down a lot, she exhaled lightly, lowered her head and said: "He hid a knife in the gap of his boots, which was smeared with highly toxic drugs, and when the guards were not paying attention, he stabbed himself in the heart and neck with a knife, and in a few breaths, he died, and the guards of the dungeon did not have time to rescue him...... It was all my fault, I thought Barol wasn't really a prisoner, and the dungeon guards didn't change his clothes and search him. ”

Nicole shook her head with a smile, raised her hand and motioned for Lilia to sit down and speak, and asked, "Victor won't let us ask about mercury, I have almost no impression of Balor, how much do you know about him?"

Lilia pondered for a moment and replied, "I worked with Barol for a few years at the beginning of Randall's development, and he was a knowledgeable man among his followers, and he knew more about the ways of the nobility. At that time, His Royal Highness Randall often asked Barol for advice and treated him as a member of his staff. Later, the family formed a mercury agent, and Barol rarely appeared in Randall. ”

Nicole raised an eyebrow and asked, "So, you and Barol aren't familiar with each other?"

"Yes, I'm not familiar with him. Lilia nodded and said calmly: "But Barol gives me the impression of being cunning and sinister, he once used the trick of feigning his death to deceive the sheriff of Blackcastle, but he was dug up by His Highness and joined the Randall family." I don't believe that Barol is a fierce and reckless man, and I suspect that the 'Barol' I saw was his double deadman. ”

"Balor is proficient in the art of disguise, and few people in Pinghu Town are familiar with his physical features. However, he has several adopted sons and daughters in Randall, Sheriff Munk, Mercury Agents Mia, Feige, Spider, and scholars Paul and Funia. Paul, favored by His Highness, had been freed from mercury, so I left the rest of the people to identify the body. ”

Nicole's face showed appreciation, and she asked with interest, "Oh, what do they say?"

Lilia pursed her lips and shook her head, "None of them can confirm Baror's identity...... I've put them under house arrest. ”

Nicole sighed, shook her head and smiled, "Sister Lilia, you've been tricked." ”

"The agents of Rose Manor will spend a few years imitating a person's physical features, and old scars and conspicuous black hemorrhoids can be artificially created...... Presumably, Balor also has such a ability. I'm afraid you're going to make it difficult for them to let those men identify their adoptive fathers. They all said that they could not confirm whether the body was Barol or not, and that there were two things: first, they really could not identify Baror's double, and second, they did not report it. ”

Lilia nodded repeatedly, it was precisely because of such doubts that she put several of Balor's adopted sons and daughters under house arrest.

Nicole changed her words and said with a smile: "You don't really think that spies treat adopted sons and daughters like adoptive parents of vassal families, do you? Their adopted sons and daughters are merely tools at their disposal. By the time Barol adopted Munch, Mia, Feige, Spider, and Red Wolf, he had lost his original owner, like a lost dog. He joins Victor and joins the Randall family, and his former subordinates will not be trusted by him. ”

What Nicole meant was that Munch and the others couldn't identify Barrol's stand-in, and they didn't know anything about it.

The secret agents and dead soldiers cultivated by the big family are all selected children under the age of four, trained since childhood, and used secret drugs and secret methods to ban their fertility, improve their physical fitness and intelligence level, and also make them have no love and will not have emotional entanglements with outsiders, so as to reduce the risk of losing control.

The resources spent on cultivating the Spy Dead are simply not affordable for ordinary people, and Barol's original master died at the hands of NeoWest, who lost his master and wandered all day in fear, having neither the resources nor the motivation to train a real Spy Deadman. The street children he adopted in Blackcastle were, at best, the helpers he needed to fight the gang.

Monkey, Feige, Mia, Red Wolf, and Spider are five people who can't get Barroll's approval because they have the physical and emotional needs of normal people. In fact, Barol is indeed using the family of his adopted son and daughter to coerce them into doing things for him.

On the other hand, Barol is not a lord noble, so why should a villain leader in Blackcastle make people die for him?

Nicole's inference is entirely valid.

Barol plays the trick of feigning his death to get out, leaving as few clues as possible, preferably no clues.

In this case, the substitute killed himself in the dungeon, how can he get the news?

The relationship between the sheriff of Pinghu and Barol is not a secret, and Lady Lilia puts the sheriff monkey and several mercury spy bosses under house arrest, and Barol naturally knows that things have changed.

The old spy had already been prepared, he was now absconding in makeup, and he didn't know which corner to dig into, and it was almost impossible to dig him out by normal means.

Lilia's pretty face turned pale, her hands were twisted together, as the chief steward of Randall, her wisdom and vision were beyond the past, but she was put on the side by the unknown Barol, which made her frustrated and angry, and said through gritted teeth: "Barol faked his death and got out, it was a rebellion." ”

Ordinary aristocrats are always affected by emotions and desires, and Nicole doesn't find it strange that Lilia is now annoyed and angry, forgetting her business.

Nicole resonated with 32 elemental positions, was promoted to a high-level silver knight, and her life level had made a qualitative leap, and she looked at problems from an unusual perspective, and now she could understand Lady Sylvia's intention to bypass her and appoint Lilia to deal with the affairs of the mountain people.

The family relationship and family relationship of the lord couple are entangled with each other, and it is difficult to distinguish clearly. In ordinary families, it is common for husband and wife to quarrel and fight, but the lord couple cannot let the contradictions surface like ordinary couples, which will cause cracks in the family from the inside, attract external pretenders, and cause varying degrees of losses.

In other words, the quarrel between the lord and his wife needs to be buffered, foreshadowed, and tactful, and their henchmen often become the objects of each other's anger.

The quarrel between the Transcendent Lord and his wife was even worse, and this time Victor ran away from home quietly, Sylvia was very angry, and turned her head to attack his precious mountain stronghold. The quarrel between the Divine Knight and the Raging Wind Sword Saint actually involved the fate of more than 100,000 people, and someone would definitely die because of it.

Nicole was supposed to be a buffer between Sylvia and Victor, but Sylvia thought she had a chance to be promoted to the Golden Knight, so she used Lilia as a punching bag.

The Raging Wind Sword Saint is favored by the power of fate, and if he has a dislike for Nicole, it will not have an impact on Nicole's impact on the gold realm, but it will have a very negative impact.

Lilia is not a high-ranking knight noblewoman, but she has no worries about this. Victor returns to the family to learn what happened, and may punish Lilia, but with his gentle personality of caring for old love, and Nelson and Nicole interceding, it will be fine after a while.

Lady Sylvia was well-intentioned, and Nicole was grateful, and somewhat sorry for Lilia, and decided to give her some advice, and said gently, "Sister Lilia, as you can see with your own eyes, Barol is indeed dead. ”

Facing Lilia's confused gaze, she said with a shallow smile: "Your Highness has extraordinary wisdom, and he can think of anything we can think of." The mountain strongholds controlled by the family are all over the kingdoms, and the three kingdoms south of the Wharton Grassland are fine, but the mountain strongholds of the Sassan Empire and the Suss Kingdom are really beyond the reach of the whip, even if they are summoned from Randall, it will take several months...... If the Great Lord finds out about the relationship between the mountain stronghold and the Randall family, we resolutely refuse to admit it, and they can't do anything about it. However, those mountain hunters have fallen into their pockets, and His Highness has invested resources and the fruits of his hard work have been picked by others, so how can it be done?"

"The mountain strongholds of the Sassan Empire and the Seuss Kingdom are too far away from us, and even if we want to withdraw all the mountain strongholds, it is not only very difficult, but also very easy to show ourselves. ”

"Balor's fake death is actually His Highness's separation of some mercury spies and mountain strongholds from the family sequence, allowing them to dive deeper......."

Nicole guessed right, what Victor really coveted was the coastline of the Eastern Alliance, and at present, the Sassan Empire and the Neville Kingdom occupied the old land of the Centaur Kingdom north of the Boulder Mountains, and the northern lords and churches organized a large number of displaced people to settle down in the Pioneer Leader, and offered generous conditions to encourage mercenary groups and rangers to go to the Pioneer Territory to deal with the endless orc gangs.

Now, the human kingdom is in the period of the most frequent movement of people, which provides excellent external conditions for the armed forces of the mountain strongholds to move to the Eastern Alliance.

According to Victor's arrangement, Balor scattered and reorganized the mountain strongholds in the Sassanid Empire, disguised as small and medium-sized mercenary groups, and led from the north to the east along the Boulder Mountains, and then turned south through the Death Gate of the Neville Kingdom, trying to enter the territory of the Seuss Kingdom through the Neville Mountains, and finally arrived at the Eastern Alliance to establish a stable force.

As for the Seuss Kingdom's mountain strongholds, it is even more convenient to infiltrate the Eastern Alliance, they belong to the forerunners of the eastward expansion plan, and are responsible for receiving follow-up personnel.

As early as a few years ago, Victor had formulated a plan for the eastward expansion, because it was during the Orc War, and the Northern Pioneer would not see the general environment of personnel flow, and Victor himself was not sure. The plan was always a plan, and Victor did not mention the eastward expansion plan involving more than 10,000 people to anyone except for Barol, the implementer.

This time, Sylvia's mountain stronghold was opened, and Lilia's conversation with Balor triggered the plan for the eastward expansion.

Balor's fake death is indeed to sever the relationship between the mountain people's stronghold and the Randall family, and even if the mountain hunters' private migration operations are seen, they will not be wiped out by the northern lords, let alone involve the Randall family. Otherwise, the lords and the church would be able to associate Victor's ambitions for the Eastern Alliance.

The strategy of access to the sea is a secret of the Centaur Hills, and Nicole will never confide the truth to Lilia, she only says: "Balor has experience in opening up mountain strongholds, and he and some mercury spies are lurking outside, and Victor will be able to use them in the future." ”

"As for whether Barol is a rebel......."

Nicole paused and sneered: "Hmph, he relies on the elite guards cultivated by His Highness, I would like to know, how can he betray his family in order to save his life? Looking at the entire human realm, who else is more worthy of Baror's allegiance than our Highness?"

"Honey, you're not losing to Balor, you're losing to Victor. ”

Hearing this, Lilia's depressed mood suddenly brightened, and the emotions of honor and pride filled her heart, and she said with crooked eyebrows: "So that's the case." ”

Nicole smiled and nodded, and commanded, "You let it go, and withdraw all the mountain hunters you control back to Randall, they are the warriors trained by Victor and our mercenary soldiers." ”

Lilia stood up, pinched her skirt and curtsied, "As you wish, honorable Lady Randall." ”

"Oh, by the way, bring back the bears from the Ghost Forest Pioneer Point, they also belong to the Randall family...... The church is doing its best to help the Sarsanians recruit the outcast mercenary group, and the bear group is now very famous, and I still can't rest assured that they will stay outside. Nicole stopped Lilia, frowned, and shook her head slightly.

Lilia smiled confidently: "Sister Nicole, please rest assured, Uncle Barrett has been in charge of the bear group for so many years, and he will definitely be able to bring the bear group back intact." ”

Lilia and Nicole probably never dreamed that Princess Roland August and the eldest lady of the Nachtigarh family were also in the bear group......