Ivan lying on the ground. Baruch looked at Miss Hoyle with a look of despair, like a fish lying on the sand, its mouth opening and closing weakly, but unable to make any sound.

Bernard. Marquis Christie stepped out of the crowd and looked around the scene coldly, and Miss Hoyle walked briskly over to Bernard.

The chief guard of the castle guard, who was beside the Marquis Bernard, glanced at Miss Hoyle guiltily, and he could not escape the blame for this assassination in the castle, so he turned his head to look at Ivan. When Baruch was in power, he wanted to cut off his head with a sword.

Darcy. Christie squeezed out of the crowd, and she hurried to Miss Hoyle's side, whispering softly to Miss Hoyle while carefully checking Miss Hoyle's body for any injuries, and Miss Hoyle, although a little embarrassed, did not hurt anything.

Seeing that Miss Hoyle was not injured, Darcy exhaled slightly.

She turned her head to look at Surdak again, only to see that Surdak's arms and calves were almost stained red with blood, and he was sitting on the bench next to him and unfastened the buckle of the leather bracers, without the slightest appearance of an injured person, with a calm expression as if the injured person was not him at all, and the action of wrapping the wound was also quite skillful, and after the bandaging was completed, he could also knot the bandage with one hand.

The castle guard will be Ivan. Baruch escorted him to the Marquis Bernard and made him kneel on one knee.

Marquis Bernard looked at the young nobleman, his brows furrowed slightly, and before Bernard could speak, a middle-aged aristocratic couple squeezed out of the crowd, they looked at Ivan with panicked and frightened eyes, and the noble lady pounced on Ivan first and cried, she shouted: "Oh my God! Ivan, my child! What's wrong with you? ”

She tried to push away the castle guards on the side, but the guards in black iron armor were unmoved, and the spear did not leave Ivan. Baruch's body.

The lady could only get as close to Ivan as possible. Baruch asked in his ear, "Who is so vicious, who is trying to harm you, tell me quickly." ”

Baron Baruch, who was standing on the sidelines, was also staring intently at Ivan, and they wanted to hear his son defend himself.

Ivan. Baruch was so blank that Miss Hoyle fell over the shoulder, and he didn't want to speak, but looked at the lady with a blank expression.

Just in Ivan. When Baruch hesitated slightly, one of the castle guards next to him said, "We see Ivan. The Knight of Baruch was with members of the Dark Magic Cult and attempted to kidnap Miss Hoyle......"

“…… That's impossible! Madame Baruch's questioning voice was sharp and poignant, and she rose from the ground and looked at the nobles who were watching all around. She knew that once the charge of colluding with the Dark Arts Hermitage was charged to her son, the person who came forward to interrogate Ivan would be the magicians in the law enforcement group of the Magic Union, and those magicians would not open up to Ivan because he was from a noble family.

Mrs. Baruch stared at Miss Hoyle, wanting to see something hidden in her eyes, she tried to get close to Miss Hoyle, and said word by word: "Ivan, how could he kidnap Miss Hoyle, the most unlikely person in this world to kidnap Miss Hoyle is Ivan!" ”

She hoped that Miss Hoyle would also come forward and speak fairly, but Miss Hoyle kept avoiding her gaze.

It was normal for young people to quarrel with each other, this was the thought in Madame Baruch's heart, and he did not think that his son had any connection with the Dark Arts Retreat.

Mrs. Baruch gave Surdak a suspicious look, and she thought that Surdak might be caught between her son Ivan. The third person between Baruch and Miss Hoyle, and then she immediately made up her brain, and the fight just now could be Ivan. In the scene of the duel between Baruch and Surdak, it is very likely that Surdak was stabbed in the arm and calf by his son, and was beaten to the point of being powerless. Baruch was wounded, so Miss Hoyle avoided her questioning gaze.

The Madame Baruch also wanted to ask Miss Hoyle, who was a little aggressive.

Seeing that Miss Hoyle would still be questioned at this time, Darcy. Christie was even more furious, and she unceremoniously pushed Mrs. Baruch away.

The young Ivan did not understand the good intentions of his mother, Madame Baruch, who was so frightened that his pants were wet with several spears pointed by the castle guards, and his whole body trembled like a sieve under the escort of the castle guards, and the last bit of courage was lost when he saw the cold-eyed Marquis Bernard.

"They believe in the Lord of the Devil, they forced me to join them, they asked me to sign a pact with the Devil, and if I don't want them, they will force me......" Ivan . Baruch muttered as if in repentance, and with just these two words, Ivan. The Knights of Baruch colluded with the Dark Arts Hermitage to assassinate them.

The surrounding group of onlookers were also in an uproar at the moment, and no one expected Ivan. Baruch was so bold that he sneaked into Christie's Castle with members of the Dark Arts Order.

The nobles thought the same as Madame Baruch, and since Ivan and Miss Hoyle were in a relationship, it meant that Ivan. Baruch is the one who has the least reason to kidnap Miss Hoyle, as long as he works a little harder, he is very likely to get everything about Miss Hoyle, so naturally there is no reason to risk taking Miss Hoyle at such a time.

But what everyone couldn't figure out was that the unthinkable happened, and the matter was revealed.

"Alright, that's enough! Hurry up and put an end to this farce. The knight of Baruch took away. The Marquis Bernard instructed the castle guard to go down, and asked the Baruch couple to rest in the castle's guest rooms for the time being, and until the matter was clarified, the Baruch couple probably had no chance to leave Christie's castle.

Miss Hoyle wiped the cold tears from her face with her sleeve, and under the gaze of many onlookers, Darcy . Christie accompanied her into the castle.

"Margaret, you take Surdak to take care of the wound." Marquis Bernard glanced at the blood-stained Surdak and instructed Mrs. Christie.

At this time, Karl and Llewellyn had the opportunity to get close to Surdak and ask him what had just happened, and Surdak didn't know where to start for a while, should he still tell the indescribable thing that he accidentally saw in the viewing pavilion? If you don't talk about it, it will involve this Ivan again. Knight of Baruch.

Mrs. Christie takes Surdak into a room to re-examine and bandage his wounds, Surdak has been in the state of a blessed body because of the black curse on his body, so his body recovery ability is comparable to that of an orc, and the scab heals quickly from the wounds.

……

In the lavish Château Christie rooms, the entire floor is covered with soft velvet carpets, crystal chandeliers hang from the ceiling overhead, the walls are covered with ornate wallpaper, the large bed in the center of the room can accommodate at least ten people side by side, and the rooms have separate living rooms, cloakrooms, washrooms and servants' rooms, and there are special maids waiting in the servants' rooms, basically on call.

Carl also remained in the room. When there were no outsiders, he and Mrs. Christie sat casually on a sofa, opposite Llewellyn and Miss Brenda, who had come in, and they concluded that after this incident, the ball would be more boring.

"I'm a little confused, Ivan. Why did Baruch wait to kidnap Hoyle at the ball, and what was his reason for doing so? ”

Karl asked, sitting on the couch as Surdak put on the salamander skin leggings again.

Surdak was thinking about whether he was going to the leather shop tomorrow to repair this set of salamander leather armor, and as soon as he put it on, someone poked out two holes, which made Surdak feel speechless for a while.

"Maybe I know a little bit about that." Mrs. Christie said to the people in the room.

All eyes fell on Mrs. Christie.

She knocked off Karl's hand around her waist and sat down again before she said:

"I think it's probably because of ...... As long as Hoyle leaves the castle, there are guards around him at all times, but when he is in the castle, it is not convenient for the guards to follow him closely, or they believe that the castle is absolutely safe, so Hoyle's guards are lax, and it is not easy for those assassins to sneak into the castle, so they will sneak into the castle while the ball party, wanting to take the opportunity to create chaos and kidnap Hoyle. ”

Carr agreed with Mrs. Christie's conjecture, saying, "I think Ivan. Baruch is probably the same as Vic, just a peripheral member of the development of the Dark Arts Retreat, but what is Ivan's identity in the Dark Arts Retreat is no longer a matter of the guard battalion, and it won't be long before the Magic Union Law Enforcement Team will come over. ”

"Ivan deliberately approached Hoyle in order to find out her secrets, and those assassins wanted to kidnap Hoyle, but also to know her secrets. I wonder what they learned from Hoyle in all their efforts to get close to her. Baron Llewellyn chimed in.

Karl patted his forehead in annoyance, and said, "This matter may only be known to Baron Grenfell......

Then he added: "The death notice signed by the city of Bednar has been handed down, and Baron Grenfell will be guillotined tomorrow, and it seems that the knight in costume, who is closest to him, has disappeared for some reason......"

"Dead!" Surdak said in his heart.

……

The ball at Christie's castle had come to an end in a hurry, and after all these things had happened, the guests were not in the mood to continue dancing, and left the Marquis Christie's estate in a carriage, and the tax collector of Bird stood in the crowd, and he looked up at the castle, where the golden castle was still the brightest pearl of the night in the city of Highlandza.

Someone kept greeting him: "Bird tax officer, long time no see!" ”

The Bird tax officer smiled very forcefully, but fortunately it was night, and no one paid much attention to the expression on his face.

"Hello, Hans!" The Bird tax collector said to the strong knights in the crowd, a little absent-minded.

He wanted to re-enter Christie's Castle again, but it was obviously not a good time, Miss Hoyle's tearful face made the Bird tax collector feel that he should find a way to give her some comfort, but unfortunately before he could see Hoyle, the castle ball was over.

He decisively declined a widow's invitation to eat cookies in the evening, and considered preparing a delicate gift to be handed over to Miss Hoyle.

As he thought, he went to an uncle outside the castle and untied the reins from the tree, where the donkey shivered in the cold wind, and the tax collector put the quilt back on the donkey's back, and staggered to his house.

If you marry Miss Hoyle, you will own an entire mountain and a half-deserted manor, and if Miss Hoyle doesn't mind, she will also receive the title of viscount, which is the dream of almost all the down-and-out single nobles in the city of Highland, even the Bird Tax Collector.

……

Carl concluded that the Magic Guild Enforcement Corps would intervene and take over the matter, but Surdak didn't expect the Magic Guild's magicians to come so quickly.

On the third floor of the second-year dormitory building of the Knight Academy, Surdak was curled up under the quilt and fell asleep.

It was a little cold in the house in the morning, Surdak was a little reluctant to crawl out of the warm bed, the tingling in his arm was gone, and with it was a little itchy wound, which every wounded person had to go through to heal.

The blood hole caused by the black curse on the right leg was only the last bit that was not completely healed, and the patio door was slammed open, which frightened Surdak and hurriedly sat up from the bed with the quilt, and the cold wind poured into the room from outside the terrace door, taking away the last bit of temperature in the room, and a beam of sunlight shone into the dormitory from the outside, Surdak squinted and saw a magician riding a magic handle parked on the terrace.

When Lance casually threw the magic handle on the terrace and walked in, his face was dusty, and his face was still covered with frost and snow.

"Why are you here?" Surdak sat on the bed and asked Lance.

Lance walked into Surdak's dormitory, poured himself a glass of water and drank it dry, and then said to Surdak: "Sameya is dead, she was targeted by the magicians of the Magic Guild Law Enforcement Corps, and in the process of escaping, she was burned to death by a large fireball. ”

Surdak looked at Lance with some dumbfounded.

"Christie Castle last night...... Are you there too? Surdak asked.

"How is that possible!" Lance said with a tired face, and then said with a tired face: "The above summoned all the magicians who went out on a mission overnight, and in order to completely eliminate the remnants of the Black Arts Hermitage this time, all the magicians who were operating near the city of Highlandsa were summoned back......"

“……”

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