Otto looked at the half-collapsed Eagle Castle in front of him, compared it to the Eagle Castle in his mind yesterday, and was speechless.

Beside him, Bud, who was his personal guard and servant, kept apologizing and saying that the supervision was not effective.

Otto was distraught and squeezed his fist to signal the other party to shut up.

"Enough, it's not your problem, don't say so much useless. What about the casualties, and has the cause of the accident been found? ”

"This—" Bard muttered. More than 30 craftsmen died and more than 10 were injured, and as for the cause of the collapse of the castle, I am still investigating. ”

Otto shook his head, a little helpless, and the memories of Bard instantly appeared in his mind. This Bard was born in a civilian family, and was selected as a knight servant when he was very young, and fell in love with the original owner at first sight, and was selected to be trained as a personal guard, so he naturally did not say that he was loyal.

It's just that this ability to do things is indeed a bit weak.

Otto turned his head and looked at Wade to the side. Wade understood and nodded at him.

"Master Otto, I'll take someone to check it out myself."

"Hmm." Ottomo remained silent, and watched around the ruins of the castle, wondering what the cause was.

Seeing that Otto ignored him, Bard became more and more frightened, and his voice was crying.

"Young master, don't ignore me, it's all my fault, you can beat or scold me, don't drive me out. Young master, I know that you value this castle very much, and you specially begged the master to repair it for a long time, young master, I don't want to, obviously everything is fine, who knows suddenly, suddenly..."

As he spoke, seeing that Bud was about to cry, Otto turned his head and looked at the other party confidently, and found that the other party not only had dirt on his body, but also had faint blood stains on his left arm.

"Hurt?" Otto asked with a frown.

"I watched the castle fall before, and I wanted to go in and save people." Bard was still aggrieved.

"I've said it all, I don't blame you for this." Otto stretched out his hand and wanted to pat the other party's shoulder, but thinking of the other party's injury, he gently patted the other party instead. "Don't take risks next time, just repair the castle when it collapses, if you don't have it, who will protect me in the future." Okay, how old are you, why are you still in tears, if it spreads, you don't want to marry a daughter-in-law in your life. ”

"Young Master, you... You don't blame me? Bud winked.

"I don't blame you, good, go, castle first, take care of your injuries first." Otto felt like a child at the moment.

"Oh." Bard was a little reluctant, but he obediently left.

As soon as Bard left, Ginter walked over to Otto and whispered in his ear.

"Young master, the craftsmen have been controlled, according to their explanations, it seems that there is one less craftsman, and that craftsman has only appeared in the past few days.

Among the surrounding onlookers, I caught a few armed men, who claimed to be wandering knights passing by, you see how to deal with them. ”

"Let the craftsmen go, and find someone to treat the injured and give them some money. As for the fallen craftsmen—" Otto paused, swept away the few building materials left, and sighed. "Send the rest of the castle construction funds, they are all their own people, and they can't be chilled."

Gint was taken aback and hurriedly comforted. "Young master, this money is used to repair the castle, now that the castle has collapsed, it takes more money to rebuild it, how can it..."

Although Gint's words were not finished, the meaning was obvious.

Otto shook his head. "This money is not enough to build the castle, do you think Lady Kailin will give me money to continue repairing it? Naive!

If it falls, it will fall, anyway, I am not satisfied with the earth fort, and the stone fort will be repaired when the time comes. ”

When it comes to Otto and Lady Kaylin, Ginter can only be heard as if the earl's family affairs are not his turn to worry about a small bodyguard.

"Yes, young master." With that, Gint hurried away.

Sure enough, Otto's eyes became cold, and he guessed correctly, Lady Kailin really had a backhand. If I hadn't come with so many guards, I guess those wandering knights wouldn't have been caught obediently, but would have come to assassinate me.

Now it seems that his poor Eagle Castle is probably the work of that Lady Karin.

I don't know how much useful information those wandering knights can dig up if their mouths are tight.

"Master Otto." Wade took a piece of wood he had found from the ruins and walked over to Otto. "Look at this."

Otto took the wood and examined it carefully, a little unclear. In his previous life, he was only a reserve related to the lack of wood, and he couldn't see why.

"It's very ordinary wood, I don't see what's wrong, what's wrong." As he spoke, he handed it to the other party again.

"No, it's not any ordinary wood." Wade apparently didn't expect Otto to to know, and took the wood again and explained. "This kind of wood looks no different from ordinary wood, but it has actually been eaten by insects, and the inside is actually hollow, and it can't bear heavy objects at all."

As he spoke, a red glow erupted from Wade's hand and he sliced the wood open for Otto to take a closer look.

Now, Otto could see clearly that there were holes in the middle of the wood that had been densely bitten by moths or termites. What are the consequences of using this wood as a building material, he also knows very well when he has seen the tofu slag project in his previous life.

"So, something is wrong with the wood? Who is responsible for the sourcing of timber? Otto squinted, his expression unkind.

"It's not just this question." Wade casually threw the wood into the ruins on the side and said lightly. "According to my observations, if it were only due to the wood, the castle would not have collapsed in a short period of time, and there would have been damage from external forces."

"You mean?"

"There's a regular knight who has made a move."

Regular knights, talking about knights with extraordinary abilities, and the so-called knights are not the same concept, knights want to have extraordinary abilities, it is quite complicated to say, you need to go through the church and the lord's sealing, and then get the so-called "divine blessing", in order to have the opportunity to have extraordinary abilities, this ratio, about forty percent.

Even if Otto's father is an earl, excluding the knights of his vassals, there are less than twenty knights with extraordinary abilities under his command, which can be imagined how rare it is.

Therefore, having a regular knight to make a move, for Otto, felt that it was not a good thing, which meant that the power of the lady of Kailin was greater than he imagined.

"Keep this matter secret, don't tell anyone but me." Otto admonished.

"I see, young master." Wade's face remained calm.

"Captain Wade." Otto turned suddenly, stared into Wade's eyes, and asked softly. "Captain Wade, can I trust you?"

In the face of Otto's gaze, Wade's eyes were full of sincerity, and a smile appeared on his face.

"Master Otto, of course, I will always be loyal to the Alakhor family and defend the interests of the Alakhor family to the death."

"Okay, since that's the case, then I'll leave this matter to you......"