Chapter 3: An Opportunity
Seeing Fred enter the room, Earl Wright slapped the table on the spot.
"Fred, who let you in, get me out!"
Seeing his angry father, Fred shrank his neck in fright and responded timidly.
"I heard about Claire and was worried about him, so I just... Just come and check it out! Father, this matter is really my idea, Claire is just following my orders, please don't be angry with him. Baron Linde: If they are dissatisfied, I will go and apologize to them. ”
"Get out!" Count Wright grimaced and pointed to the door. "Do you still have the heart to worry about others? You might as well worry about yourself.
After so many years, you have not advanced an inch in the realm of first-order magicians, and you have simply lost the face of the Morris family. Go back to your magic tower and give me a good practice! ”
"Father—" Fred opened his mouth to defend something, but said yes.
"Yes, Father. However, Claire is my friend and asks her father to help him. ”
"Friends?" An eerie smile appeared on Count Wright's face. "Good, you're good, Fred.
Get lost! Now get back to the Magic Tower for me, if you dare to take a step out of the Magic Tower before you reach the Second Order Magician, I'll break your legs. ”
This time, Fred didn't dare to say anything more, threw Claire a brotherly look, and left the room gloomily.
Claire, who witnessed all this, could only sigh in her heart, this third son of Earl Wright, a proper big fool.
The original owner supports Fred's choice, and the emotional factor is far more than the idea of fighting, after all, they are friends who grew up together, and no matter how stupid they are, they admit it.
Well, maybe it's not an exaggeration to say that the two of them are the sleeping dragons and phoenixes of these Three Rivers City.
When Fred left the room, Count Wright stared at Claire with a cold look in his eyes.
"Now, tell me the answer, whether it was your idea or Fred's."
At this time, Claire answered directly without hesitation.
"Lord Earl, I did this from Young Master Fred, and he didn't know about it. Now that the matter is exposed, I am willing to bear all the consequences. ”
"All the consequences?" Count Wright narrowed his eyes slightly, and his voice grew deeper. "Since it was your idea, why didn't you say it before, could it be that you think I'm so foolish?"
I don't know if you're fooling around, there's nothing to be afraid of, what I'm afraid of is that I don't know the other party's situation at all.
Now it seems that this Earl Wright still has brains, so it is better to be careful.
"Not really." Claire explained unhurriedly. "I didn't want to answer when the Earl asked me whose idea it was, because no matter what I said, the barons would not believe that it was my idea, and there was no difference between saying it and not saying it.
But now that Young Master Fred said that it was his idea, in order not to let him bear it for me, I can only tell the truth and clarify the young master's reputation.
Because Master Fred is also my friend! ”
"So, you care a lot about Fred's reputation?"
"If you care, why do you dare to do such a thing privately?"
"Friends? Are you two friends? ”
After listening to Claire's words, Count Wright's reaction was not ordinary, but he quickly calmed down.
"Claire, you also grew up watching me. I know very well what you and Fred are thinking, but you two are so young.
Well, since we're friends, I hope you two can keep your friendship going. ”
Count Wright shook his head and looked at Claire with pity.
"This matter is over, Linde, they won't be embarrassed for you on the surface. But you're just an ordinary knight with a second-order strength, and secretly, it's hard to say what they'll do. ”
"I understand."
"No, you don't understand." Count Wright walked up to Claire and patted him on the shoulder. "What I want to tell you is that if you don't have enough status and strength, you will always be trampled to death like ants in this world.
Now, for your father's sake, he worked hard for the Maurice family.
I'll give you a chance, a chance to make Linde and them not trouble you again, and even a chance to be on an equal footing with them, are you willing to accept it? ”
......
A knight hurried into a bustling house in the middle of the city.
"Lord Baron, Claire left the Earl's Court with two hundred soldiers out of the city."
Linde glanced in the direction outside the city and nodded.
"He's just a professional?"
"No, there are a few other professions, but they are all at the first and second order low level."
"Huh." Lind chuckled. "It's a pity for a handsome face. I accept this explanation! Go and tell the Earl that I agreed to my previous proposal, and I will persuade the others to do the same. ”
Claire didn't know what Lind was thinking, but what he did know was that the task of this trip must not be as easy as Count Wright said.
I believe you're a ghost, you're a bad old man, you're bad!
Remembering the conversation she had with Earl Wright, Claire wanted to laugh.
What age is it, is it still popular to pour chicken soup for people, and it is popular to draw cakes for people. In his previous life, his ears could afford to hear this kind of talk.
What Count Wright wanted him to do was to deceive and attack the enemy.
As for where the enemy came from?
Count Wright and the neighboring Count of Marcus had always had a tense relationship, and the two sides had been in a state of hostility for a long time. Just some time ago, the two men misfired, and a skirmish broke out.
After hundreds of years of grievances and feuds between the two families, Count Wright naturally refused to give up, and gathered all the barons and knights under his command to come to Trois-Rivières, the capital of the territory, to prepare for a large-scale attack on Count Marcus.
This is also the premise that Claire and Fred can use their beautiful male schemes, and the barons have dragged their families to Three Rivers City, otherwise according to the usual situation, most of the barons are in their respective territories, how can there be four beautiful ladies waiting for Claire to get it.
Count Wright's strategy is very simple, that is, to strike first and catch Count Marcus off guard.
As for Claire, the mission is to sneak attack one of the weakest barons under Count Marcas, whose strength is only at the level of a third-order knight, and fire the first shot of the entire war.
The quest seemed fine, but Claire always found it weird.
Claire's strength is only a second-order knight, and the second-order fights the third-order, well, I don't know where Count Wright got the courage to believe in Claire so much.
If he hadn't really given him two hundred elite soldiers, Claire would have suspected that this mission was to send him to his death.
Claire was cautious all the way to the mission, for fear of being ambushed.
Unexpectedly, everything went very smoothly, the baron, who was only at the level of a third-order knight, was completely defenseless against Count Wright's attack, and when Claire attacked his territory, the baron was even drinking and having fun.
The drunken third-order knight, with the cooperation of the elite army, was not difficult to take, and was finally beheaded by Claire.
After Claire completed the task easily, she didn't dare to delay and hurriedly returned to Trois-Rivières with her army. The journey went so smoothly, could it be that Count Wright was kind? Claire didn't know, but he knew it would be safe to return to Trois-Rivières.
Not long after leaving the territory of the drunken baron, Claire ran into an army belonging to Count Marcus head-on.
When it came to reinforcements, Claire expected it, but the army in front of her, which only numbered more than a hundred people, came so quickly and was so strong, which still made Claire a little difficult to accept.
"Damn! Isn't it so much, for such a big deal of me? ”