In the darkness of the night, a troop of cavalry passed through the gates of Hylanza and entered the snow-capped mountains.

Karl led ten squads of the supporting squadron, with a total of sixty knights, as an advance army, and rushed to Grenfell Manor.

During this time, Karl had been quietly investigating Baron Grenfell, and he had four squads squatting outside the manor day and night to monitor the movements inside. The four squads of watchmen rotate every week, and to this day, the knights of the support group are still outside Grenfell Manor.

And Sauron. Aldington will lead the Guards Battalion Knights to Grenfell Manor tomorrow at noon.

This collective feat can be said to be at the fingertips of the knights of the support group.

Karl ignored Surdak's exhausted body and dragged him together, just to get him this feat.

The two rode side by side on the mountain road, and Surdak told Karl about his encounter with the Dark Mage, and Surdak said, "...... When I woke up, I found myself lying on my stomach behind the magic handle, and the black mage was flying at night on the magic handle, and I didn't notice that I woke up, so I took the opportunity to pull out the dagger and give it to him in the black mage's vest, and we fell off the magic handle......"

"You brought Darcy back safely, too?" Carl hears Darcy. Christie's news excitedly grabbed the reins, and the two front hooves of the Guborai horse under him jerked up, standing in place, and let out a neigh. He excitedly said to Surdak: "When Mrs. Christie saw me this morning, she cried to me that her niece Darcy was snatched away by the dark magicians of the Dark Magic Order, and asked me to do more investigation, and our support group set out tonight overnight to investigate the clues of the Dark Arts Retreat as soon as possible. ”

Then Karl complained about Surdak's luck, and said to Surdak with some envy: "Sometimes I have to admire your courage and luck, just imagine that in the dark night, a black mage flew rapidly in the sky, and you killed him directly without knowing whether he was alive or dead, and he fell from the air without being injured!" ”

Surdak smiled, knocked the shield on his arm hard, and said, "It's good that my dwarven chain shield was hanging from a fir tree at the time, so you didn't see these scratches on my face?" ”

"Nope!" Karl stopped where he was and looked at Surdak's face seriously. His face was covered in messy stubble.

The two rode forward a few more paces before Karl said, "Anyway, Archon Christie owes you a favor this time." ”

Surdak touched the soft mane of the Guborai horse and asked Karl, "By the way, how did you find my horse?" ”

Karl told Surdak: "Later someone found your horse in an alley, and we took it back to the guard barracks, and as for this craftsman's sword, you left it in the Knight Academy, but fortunately everyone present at that time fell into a deep sleep, and there were many people lying at the door of the Swordsman Academy?" When the Guards Battalion Knights and the Magic Guild Law Enforcement Regiment entered? Your Craftsman's Sword has not been picked up yet. ”

After Carl finished speaking, he began to urge the knights who were left behind, urging them to keep up with the group? Until you see Jasper at the back of the line? Only then did he instruct him, "Captain Jasper, are you guarding behind and urging the knights who have stragged behind to follow?" The mountain road at night was originally difficult to walk, but I didn't expect to catch up with this snow. ”

"Don't worry, right? Got me in the back? No one is guaranteed to be missing. Jasper lifted the helmet visor to reveal a gloomy and heroic face. Although the two of them are considered competitors, when the support group has an operation, everything must be done according to the rules? At this time? Everyone is absolutely unanimous in their outlook.

It was already completely dark, and the knights of the party lit torches, and a long fire dragon lined up the mountain path.

At this moment, the knight who was walking in the front suddenly stopped, and the entire squadron of reinforcements stopped on the mountain road, and Karl led Surdak to the front of the team from the side.

Carl was riding on horseback? While explaining to Surdak, "This search of Grenfell Manor is a joint operation of the guard battalion and the Magic Guild Law Enforcement Corps? We're going to meet up with the arrogant guys from the Enforcement Corps and head to Grenfell Manor. ”

From afar, you can see three magicians in magic robes waiting at the fork in the road? With a straight face, he looked very unhappy......

See Carl on horseback? Rushing up from behind? The magician in the middle of the intersection raised his chin high? With an impatient face, he said to Karl: "Karl, your guard battalion is still as slow as ever, we have been waiting for you here for a while, you may never understand how precious a magician's time is, before leaving, I was still doing an academic study in the laboratory of the Magic Guild, and you actually made me wait for you here for two quarters of an hour." ”

Karl rode up to the young magician, looked at him condescendingly, and said to him with a kind look on his face, "Lance, long time no see, it seems that he has been looking good lately. ”

The magician named Lance did not ride a magic handle, but tied three horses to a big tree on the side of the road, and when he saw the knights of the guard battalion rushing over, the three magicians also turned over and got on their horses one after another, and Lance was still chattering with Karl and said: "Our law enforcement regiment is running around every day for the remnants of the Dark Arts Order, if your guard battalion had such a move earlier, the situation in Highlandsa City would definitely not have rotted to this extent." ”

Karl glanced at Lance and said, "Now is not the time to talk about this, Lance, instead of wasting time here, you should hurry up and hurry, and maybe find some clues in Grenfell Manor." ”

Hearing Karl say this, the young magician Lance just let out a soft snort in a nasal voice and stopped talking.

Karl smiled and nodded slightly to the two magicians beside Lance, said a simple hello, and said, "This snow is really not coming at the right time. ”

Lance was obviously just trying to vent with Carl, but now he didn't want to say another word, and only said to his two companions, "Hmph, let's go." ”

The two magicians looked at each other, smiling apologetically awkward at Karl.

Karl lagged behind and whispered to Surdak: "I have known Lance since childhood, this guy has become a bit arrogant and rude since the awakening of the magician, everyone is usually used to his way of speaking, he is currently a member of the law enforcement team of the Magic Guild of Highlanza City......"

The reinforcement group led by Carl opened the way in front, protecting the three magicians in the middle, and the group rushed to Grenfell Manor overnight.

The first half of the mountain road, just the same road that the hunter Agra walked during the day, when Surdak was sitting in the carriage, now almost the same way back, Surdak is very familiar with this road, but halfway through, Karl led the knights to another mountain road, and finally at midnight, nearly forty knights of the support squadron and three magicians of the law enforcement regiment rushed to Grenfell Manor, and the other three squads of the support squadron guarding outside the manor converged.

In the camp about two kilometers away from Grenfell Manor, Karl set up a temporary camp here, in addition to Carl and the three magicians of the law enforcement team, the ten squad leaders of the support squadron and Surdak were also crammed into this not too big tent, the cold wind blew in, blowing the charcoal brazier inside the tent 'poof' loud, and the temperature inside the tent was not much higher than outside.

The metal armor on the knights was covered with a layer of pale hoarfrost, and everyone surrounded Carl in the middle, and Carl didn't have much nonsense, and directly spread a detailed map of Grenfell Manor on the ground, which detailed the layout of various buildings inside and outside the manor and the manor guards, the map was drawn very neatly, and the handwriting on it was also very beautiful, it looked more like it was made by a woman.

Surdak knew that Mrs. Christie had gone to Grenfell Manor a few days ago to find out the truth here, and thought to himself that maybe Carl's pillow man contributed such a detailed map of the manor, anyway, it was enough to prove that Carl was fully prepared for this operation.

Karl said to everyone with a serious face: "Recently, after a series of investigations by us, there is a lot of evidence that the bandit group that ransacked Breg Manor, Auchinleck Manor, and Hoyle Manor is hiding in Grenfell Manor, and now we have obtained the authorization of the Council of Highlandza, as long as we wait until noon tomorrow, Sauron. Viscount Aldington will be leading a large force of the guard battalion to arrive, and we will conduct a full search of the manor at that time. ”

Only then did Surdak know that it was only to prevent any emergencies at Grenfell Manor tonight, so he rushed over to strengthen the guard force one step earlier, and the real action would be carried out tomorrow.

Karl glanced around with a cold face and said in a deep voice: "Now what we have to do is to block all the roads here, and the magicians of the law enforcement group will cooperate with us to block the sky." ”

The magicians led by Lance stood up and nodded implicitly to the captains of the guard battalion, in the eyes of the knights, these stinky magicians have a dead face wherever they go, which is very unpleasant, but I have to admit that their existence greatly guarantees the safety of the knights in the support squadron.

The young magician Lance took out a magic treasure chest from his magic waist bag, opened the lid of the box, and inside was a whole box of special magic flares, he distributed these magic flares to the team leaders, and advised: "If there is any situation that cannot be solved, launch the magic flare to ask for reinforcements, and my side will send people to support according to the situation." ”

"These magic flares can only be used in critical situations, and once used, we are completely exposed to the eyes of our opponents. Now I'm going to set up the guard mission. Karl instructed the ten squad leaders: "Attention squads, the first, third, and fourth squads are responsible for blocking the gate of Grenfell Manor, pay attention to keeping it hidden, try not to let the people in the manor notice, you must intercept all messengers, whether they enter from the outside or come out of the manor, give us control." ”

Then, he looked at Jasper again, and paused before saying, "Captain Jasper, you are responsible for leading the five or six squads to guard the west side of Grenfell Manor, and notice that there is a side door and a path leading to the vineyards. ”

Jasper exhaled white air in his mouth, nodded to Carl and said, "Okay, I'll pay extra attention." ”

……

The support squadron made very careful arrangements, and on such a cold and snowy night, sixty knights were guarding outside the Grenfell Manor, and it was not until the next morning that the vanguard of the guard battalion came one after another. Captain Aldington led three hundred knights of the guard battalion to stop in front of the gate outside the manor, and Grenfell Manor was able to understand the movement outside, the gate of the manor was closed, and as if facing a great enemy, the lookout platform behind the gate of the manor was crowded with archers.

The guard battalion dispatched nearly 300 guards battalion knights this time, and Carl took sixty knights from the support group to enter the manor as the main executor to search.

Sauron. Captain Aldington, wearing a set of elaborate constructed armor, stood in front of the gate of Grenfell Manor, next to the squadron leaders who had rushed over with him, and it was said that there were fifteen magicians from the Law Enforcement Corps with him this time, but they did not appear at the moment.

A group of people came out of the manor, led by a dignified-looking noblewoman, and there were several young people standing behind her, both men and women, all wearing gorgeous aristocratic costumes, and their appearance was somewhat similar to this noblewoman, it should be the children of this noblewoman, Surdak guessed that she should be the mistress of Grenfell Manor, and now Baron Grenfell has been secretly controlled in Highlandsa City, and the principal of the manor is naturally this Lady Grenfell.

"Guys, it's an extremely rude act for you to break into Grenfell Manor like this!" Lady Grenfell stared at Viscount Sauron and the group of knights behind him with a frosty face, and said in a fierce voice.

Viscount Sauron didn't speak, but Carl on the side took two steps forward, took out a parchment scroll in his hand, unfolded it in front of Mrs. Grenfell, and said: "Madam, we have obtained a search warrant signed by the council, and we have evidence that there is a robber group of the three major noble manor robbers hidden in your manor, and after the unanimous decision of the Hylantha Council, the guard battalion has the right to search your manor, please cooperate accordingly." ”

"This is a big joke, how can Grenfell Manor hide the bandits, this is a slander against the Grenfell family, I will write to Archduke Newman to expose all kinds of unreasonable actions of your guard battalion in Highlandsa City." Mrs. Grenfell's face turned pale with anger, but she retorted with no weakness.

It was a little cold outside the manor, and several teenagers and children who came out of the manor in aristocratic clothes in a hurry were shivering with cold, and some even had snot running down.