The city of Petra.

It was closer to the port of Ella, and Baron Argonne received the news of the robbery of Eleanor of Longidoc no later than Lothar, who had a letter from Baron Fulk himself.

"Lady Eleanor is a very pious and charming lady, and I have had a relationship with her at the banquet at Calleburg, and I should not sit idly by and watch her be plundered by the infidels."

"Yes, my lord, Zahn Aladdin is a greedy man like a jackal, and I have heard that he has persecuted Christians on a large scale in his territory, robbed them of their fields, and occupied their houses, and it is too dangerous for Lady Eleanor to fall into his hands."

Knights, you say a word to me, and you want to persuade Baron Argonne to send troops.

The baron pondered for a moment, then said in a deep voice, "We should indeed do this, but the Earl has sent a letter claiming that he will send troops against Zahn, but he has not called us into battle, which shows that the Earl is confident that he will defeat the enemy alone. ”

The knights looked at each other.

"But I heard that the relationship between the Count of Lothar and Lord Renard is not harmonious, will he do it on purpose?"

"Shut up."

Baron Argonne said in a deep voice: "Lord Count is an upright knight, he is at odds with the Amalric brothers, and on the battlefield, he will risk his life to rescue the two of them, you should not speculate on him with such dark thoughts. ”

While on the battlefield, Lothar decided to return to the rescue of the fallen knights, including the Amalric brothers, who were known to be at odds with him.

This event earned him a great deal of prestige, which was why the Lord of Lothar did not meet with a backlash.

"I'm sorry, my lord, I shouldn't have speculated so much about Count Lothar, but although Count Lothar is a brilliant general, he doesn't have a large army, and if he doesn't recruit us to help, can he really win against the heretics?"

Baron Argonne pondered for a moment, shook his head, and said, "If it's just a field battle, I still have confidence in Lord Earl, but if it's a siege battle."

He didn't go any further.

The disparity in the strength of the two sides is somewhat wide.

In addition to owning Alain and Port Ella, Zahn Aladdin was also a brother to the lord of Aqabawilaye, and the two had a very good relationship and were allied with each other.

The two sides will be able to come up with at least 2,000 standing troops.

One of the knights guessed, "Lord Earl, maybe you just want to fight a small battle with Zahn, and if you win, you will exchange the prisoner for Lady Eleanor." ”

"That's right, Lord Lothar's hussars are more elite than the pagan Mamluks, and they come and go like the wind, and if I were Lord Lothar, I would have been able to force him to surrender as long as I plundered a few villages of Zahn in succession."

Baron Argonne also thought that this was reasonable: "May the Father bless the Count of Lothar to succeed in victory, and if he is in danger, we will find the right time to send troops to his rescue." ”

To be sure, Baron Argonne was reluctant to respond to Lothar's call-up order, after all, he was not the one who had taken his fiancée captive.

He had a bad relationship with Renard, who had interfered in Petra's succession.

It was only after considering the mood of the knights under his command that he had to make an attitude of wanting to rescue Eleanor.

This is also the attitude of many lords in the territory.

It was not such a major event as an invasion by foreign enemies that they were reluctant to send their own troops.

…

And at this time, Reynard of Caleborg.

He was pacing back and forth in the castle with anger on his face.

After this year, he will be fifty years old, and the reason why he is anxious to marry a new wife shortly after the death of Lady Stephanie is to get an heir sooner.

Otherwise, if he dies, the territory will return to his former wife's kinsmen.

"Damn it!"

"If I am still the Earl of Transjordan, if I hadn't lost a large number of knights and soldiers in the battle with Saladin, how dare a small character like Zahn offend me so much?"

Renard cursed in the hall of the lords.

Once upon a time, he was the uncrowned king of the entire Dead Sea.

Zahn Aladdin, who was really a small character worth mentioning to him, now rode on his head and disgraced him.

At this moment, a knight walked into the hall: "My lord, lord of Hebron, Lothar has sent troops. ”

The knight carefully considered his words, not daring to address Lothar as a count.

"Lothar has sent troops?"

There was a hint of shame on Renard's face: "Damn, he wants to save Eleanor, as if all the vassals have proved that he also has the ability to protect the vassals?" ”

"This is my right and duty, he has just become an earl, and he can't wait to assert his authority?"

His loud roar echoed through the empty hall.

The knight bowed his head, not daring to reply.

Since Lady Stephanie's death, Renard has become a bit neurotic.

Soon, the anger on Renard's face turned into a sneer: "Okay, let him send troops, he has more than a hundred elites under his command, can he still fight any decent victory?" ”

"Pass the order, call all the knights and soldiers, and we will prove to everyone that Transjordan is still me Renard who has the final say after the thief Lothar has lost the battle!"

The knight said in a deep voice, "Yes, my lord! ”

…

Port Ella.

Sparse white sails anchored in the harbor.

From the castle here, you can see the vast sea in the distance.

A messenger hurried in to give the news.

Zahn Aladdin sneered: "Good come, this Frankish lord, who once defeated Zahir and Adil, is so famous that even the king of Saladin has to retreat because of his bravery. ”

"If I defeat him, I will surely gain fame and prestige."

"At that time, I will go north with my brothers to connect Aqaba with the Sinai Peninsula, and the kingdom of the Franks will be completely surrounded by us, and the entire Zoroastrian world will worship me as a hero!"

Zahn Aladdin has no doubt that he will emerge victorious.

He didn't even think to ask his brother to send troops to help, because he had already heard that the new earl's strength was very average.

The Mamluk guards under his command, although not as good as those local governors, are also an extremely elite force.

The superiority in numbers, coupled with the fact that the enemy came from afar.

Zahn Aladdin couldn't help but laugh and said, "Ha, I can't figure out how I can lose?" What even King Saladin has not been able to accomplish is about to begin with me! ”

It's getting late.

In the dark night, the hall of the Lord of Hebron seemed to be covered with a layer of silver frost in the moonlight.

Poof—

Bursts of white smoke rose in a curling stream.

In one of the castle's secret rooms.

Fringira was holding a green glass test tube and pouring the solution into the cauldron, which dripped, emitting puffs of white smoke as it fell onto the cauldron on the fire.

She's trying to concoct a potion with a strong corrosiveness, called an acid bomb.

Bang –

The cauldron suddenly cracked.

The solution inside splattered out.

Flynn hurriedly transformed into a bat and hid on the roof.

The unbridled liquid was like a poisonous aqua that could engulf the human body, rapidly eroding the ground.

"It shouldn't be."

Fringira, transformed into a bat, shouted, "My lord, can you help me see what is wrong with the program?" After it is deployed, it should tend to stabilize! ”

Frigila's talent is a blood magic mastery.

And not a Blood Magic Master.

In some formations and alchemy, although she has inheritance, her mastery is very average.

Lothar pinched her nose and walked into the house.

I felt a sour smell on my face, and hurriedly closed the door again: "Fryne, you asked me to ask the wrong person, my blood magic is inherited from you, you will, I don't necessarily, you are not good at alchemy, I don't know anything, you should ask Curles." ”

Dressed in a tuxedo dress, Cools appeared behind Lothar like a ghost, startling Lothar.

"Coors, can you stop being so elusive?"

Curs smiled and said, "I'm sorry, my lord, I just wanted to get to the scene as soon as possible, so I used the 'Shadow Jump' ability. ”

"However, if you ask me, it is better to ask you, because I can almost say that I know nothing about any blood magic except for the 'Blood Shadow'."

He pushed open the door and said softly, "Miss, go out quickly, here, I will clean up." ”

Fringilla hurriedly flew out and said with a gloomy face, "Today must be bad luck that caused Miss Ben's experiments to have problems one after another. ”

The corners of Curles' mouth curled slightly, revealing a somewhat kind smile.

This smiling tiger, although he usually always has a polite smile, can only see his true smile when facing Fringira.

"Miss, is there a possibility. I'm just saying one possibility, and I don't mean to offend you - you don't include alchemy in your talent for blood magic. Have you forgotten how you blew up an ancient castle in the first place, causing the Ancestors to be furious and forbid you to study all magical potions? ”

Fringilla's face darkened: "This is all the black history of decades ago, don't mention it again, besides, the acid bomb is just a very ordinary magic potion, and the destructive power is not so great." ”

Lothar's face darkened: "Flynn, didn't you say that you had studied alchemy before?" ”

If he knew that Fringira had such a glorious record, he would never dare to agree to Fryn's request to open an alchemy laboratory in the castle.

The castle in Hebron is still very elegantly decorated, and Renard has invested a lot of money before.

It would be ridiculous if it was blown up because of Frigila's research on alchemy.

(End of chapter)