In a forest very far away from Rizlan Castle, a dozen people in armor walked, their armor did not fit very well, and it could be seen that they were not so easy and skilled to use, some stumbled, most of these armor had sword marks on their bodies.

"Chief, are we really not going back?" A young man couldn't help it, and walked a few steps to catch up, and the leader asked eagerly.

"Go back? Where to go? The leader bowed his head, his expression completely obscured by his visor, and no one could see his joy or sorrow.

"Melendi!"

"Merendi? How dare you think about it? The leader laughed to himself, for since he had left there, he knew he would never have a chance to go back.

"Why, we still have brothers there, and we still have a lot of assets." The young man couldn't understand the chief's decision.

The leader opened his mouth to say something, but the next moment he closed tightly, his eyes sharpened, and he stared around vigilantly.

"Maybe I don't have to answer you, boy, some people are here who are more willing to answer you." The leader smiled coldly and slowly pulled his long sword from his waist.

"Sonorous!"

The old men behind him who had been following him for a long time also learned his movements and drew their swords one by one.

The young man was stunned, but the next moment his eyes widened, and he saw a large number of people suddenly surrounded by him, led by more than a dozen knights, their whole bodies were covered in silver-white armor, and there was no sign on their bodies, and they didn't know which noble knight it was.

"We haven't failed yet, Count Dortmund jumped into the river, he is most likely dead, we did what you asked!" The leader's hand gripping the hilt of his sword trembled, and he clenched his teeth and shouted to the knights, his voice hoarse.

"No, you've failed, the latest news, the Count of Dortmund has not only returned alive, but is also engaged to the princess of the Duke of Rizland's family." The knight at the head interrupted him without hesitation.

The leader's pupils shrank slightly, as if in disbelief.

"Do it!" The knights didn't seem to want to say anything more to them, but didn't hesitate to attack them.

"Kill!"

It was a massacre of all kinds, and it didn't take long for the shouting to cease here, and not even a few of the knights were wounded, but the group of men was already dead, and the leader was left alone, and it wasn't long before he would fall, and he was surrounded by five or six men, and he didn't have the strength to do it anymore.

"I just want to know if we can survive if we complete the commission this time......" The leader leaned his sword and kept himself from falling.

He asked questions in a soft voice, as if he were asking himself.

Then you looked at him coldly, and I don't know how long it took, before you said softly, "May you return to the arms of the Lord." ”

The leader slowly raised his head and looked at the sky, the moon was very beautiful tonight, the sky was cloudless and full of stars, if he could, he really wanted to lie down on the grass and sleep comfortably.

"Let's do it." The leader said lightly, he doesn't want to resist anymore, he can't resist anymore, he doesn't plan to commit suicide, and those who commit suicide can't go to heaven.

"Poof......

He struggled a few times, and finally collapsed weakly in a pool of blood.

"Sir, what are we going to do next?" An infantryman approached and asked.

"Put a fire, put a fire big enough, and burn all these corpses for me, leaving no trace." The knight didn't even look at him, and turned away on his horse.

The flames in the sky were burning, and the raging fire ignited not only these things, but also all the trees, flowers and plants in the forest, and when the people who lived in the vicinity found out, it was too late to save them, and the raging fire could only hope for God to appear and make it stop.

After the fire, there was no trace left here, only speculation about the origin of the fire.

……

Karl was not in a hurry to leave Rizlandburg, and he passed orders to the Templars through the men in black to come here to protect his return to Dortmund, and it would take some time for the Knights Templars to get here. After experiencing such an incident, Carl is now very uneasy, for fear that something will happen on the road, accidents, if there is any more this time, it may not be as lucky as the last time.

And he happened to take advantage of this time to get along with Natalie for a while, although the second is a human being, but in the face of this kind of thing, he is pure like a virgin, after all, the other party is the object of marriage to him, and there is a fundamental difference from the previous lover.

To Karl's surprise, it took less than ten days for Boris to lead the Templars to feel Fort Rizland.

"It's great that you're okay, Lord Earl!" Boris knelt down on one knee in front of Karl, and after learning what Karl had experienced, he broke out in a cold sweat, and then heard that Karl had gone to gather them, and he kept the journey to the shortest, and there was very little rest in between, so that he could get here in such a short time.

"Nothing has happened in Dortmund these days when I'm away, right?" Seeing Boris, Karl couldn't help but ask. After all, what happened to him had a great impact, and I don't know if there is some chain incident.

"At the beginning, when the news of your whereabouts was unknown, there was indeed some turmoil in the territory, those lowly and despicable merchants did not know where to get the news, and they were unwilling to stay in our territory, as if they were worried that war would break out here, and some small nobles in our territory were also ready to move, but fortunately, Lord Kevin suppressed everything, and then the news of your survival came back on track." Boris thought for a moment and replied.

Karl nodded, he was not surprised by this result at all, as a great nobleman, he had a very big shortcoming, so far he did not have any heirs or heirs!

For a nobleman and a family, this is simply a matter of life and death, after all, the absence of an heir means that when the great nobleman encounters an accident, the territory may be inherited by nobles from other places, or will face the nobles who want to forcibly annex here, which will lead to the outbreak of war, even if the rest of the family comes to inherit here, he will be questioned because of his lack of prestige and low legitimacy, resulting in chaos in the territory.

"Anything else?" Karl asked again.

"Something else ......" Boris muttered for a moment, suddenly remembering something.

"Not long after you left, a strange group of merchants came to Dortmund, claiming to be from the Constantine Empire, and saying that they had your permission to come." Speaking of which, Boris glanced at Karl, intentionally or unintentionally.

"Merchants of the Constantine Empire? Not...... I have the impression that when you say this, I did come across a group of merchants from the Constantine Empire, and I bought some good luxury goods from them, but unfortunately those damn guys not only made me lose so many important men, but also took all those luxury goods with me. Karl said through gritted teeth.

"But even though they're from the Constantine Empire, why do you call them the strangest merchants?"

"Because when those guys came, they were not trading at all, I couldn't understand what they were trying to do, they seemed to be haunting the place where His Excellency Konstantin opened a court, at first I thought they were also interested in our law, but later I found that it seemed that he was waiting for His Excellency Konstantin, and after I told His Excellency Konstantin about this, I observed that his expression changed drastically, and he never appeared in court again during that time, and he seemed to have shut himself up in the castle, Mr. Kevin had approached him, but he wouldn't say anything. After a few more days, the group of businessmen seemed to have gotten what they wanted and left Dortmund without hesitation. ”

Boris didn't notice that Karl's face was already a little wrong, but he covered it up well.

"Okay, I've got it all, it's all over, Kevin is doing well, I know he's trustworthy, you take your people down for a day of rest first, and when you're rested, we'll go back." Karl said with a wave of his hand.

"Lord Earl, we can go at any time!" Boris hurriedly said.

"Let you go to rest, you must recuperate and have enough spirit, otherwise if a battle really breaks out on the road, then you are not energetic, do you plan to take off the armor on your body directly and give it to the other party?" Karl rebuked mercilessly.

"Yes!" Boris looked embarrassed, nodded and hurriedly left.

Karl sighed, just now he suddenly remembered a piece of information that Teresa had given him a long time ago, Constantine seemed to be from the Constantine Empire......

His instincts told him that there must be some connection between the two, that the merchant that night had deceived him, and at that time he naively thought that the other party just wanted to know his laws, and now that he thought about it, how could a man from the Constantine Empire be interested in the laws of these barbarians, after all, those people are very arrogant, they think they have the most perfect laws, and of course many times their systems and laws are also worthy of their pride.

"It seems that there has to be a truth about this." Karl pondered, when it came to the Constantine Empire, he didn't dare to take it lightly.

But he didn't really want to force Konstantin, and for a while he was in a dilemma.