Section 97 Eavesdropping
Beller stopped the horse.
In the distance, at the end of your vision, you can see a team of people staying on the road. It was a team of soldiers with distinctive armor and flying flags, and you could recognize it as a regular army at a glance.
"Mr. Beller, that's the Ryan army! What are they doing here?" Robin's eyes were sharp and recognized the other party's flag at a glance.
"I think... could it be... to welcome me?" Berel smiled slightly. He gestured to a guard beside him, who immediately rode his horse to meet him. Robin witnessed the guards approaching the team quickly and then turned around and ran back.
Nothing else is needed. Just seeing the guard's actions, Beller came to a conclusion.
"It seems that I am really welcome." Berel laughed. "That guy Leto looks really good at being a human being."
This is indeed a team that welcomes Berel, and Leto personally leads the team. Seeing Leto's kind and cheerful look in front of Berel, Robin felt relieved. He still remembered the first time he met Leto. At that time, Berel welcomed Leto's visit very politely as the acting governor of Mir City, while Leto treated Berel with a lukewarm and extremely arrogant attitude.
Having said that, no matter who is a master, he must admit his ability, no matter who is (at most, sooner or later) put down his airs and be polite to him. Although Robin has never seen Berel's heroic posture in commanding the army to gallop on the battlefield, the style of strategizing and winning a thousand miles he saw was more than anyone he knew.
In just one or two years, Robin learned far more than he had learned in the ten years of his noble academy.
"So, everything has been decided?" asked Beller.
"Of course, the magicians have reported the matters on the battlefield. Everything is indeed within General Belle's expectations. Damon, the elder of the Bin tribe, turned against him, directly led to the annihilation of the Bin tribe." Leto replied. He laughed happily. "It seems that the preparatory measures I prepared before did not work at all, and it was really a waste of time."
"Where is Kaidasa? I miss that guy quite a bit. He is stupid and greedy. There are not many people who can combine these two advantages."
"Haha, General, I'm afraid he's going to be disappointed. According to the news, the guy seemed to be captured in the end, and when he begged for mercy from the vampire, he was torn open his throat and drank blood."
Leto was very happy, and his joy was beyond words. Not only him, but the entourages and officials around him were like this. This was a very important victory for the Ryans. They completely eliminated their long-standing confidants without spending a single soldier. If they had known this, they would have knelt down and begged to send Sivania to the vampire, even if they had posted something else.
"God of General," suggested a nobleman who followed Leto, "Let's go quickly. The Duke has prepared a table of good dishes for you in his castle to welcome you, and congratulate you on your great success and successfully resolve the big trouble of the Bin clan."
The guest and the host and his party moved forward sideways in laughter and laughed at the stupidity of the Bin tribe while advancing towards the castle in the distance.
The banquet was really sumptuous. Although Robin was not qualified to go to the main table, he still enjoyed a very rich dish in the seat of entertaining servants. He used gravy, sausage, fish and bird meat pie to bulge his belly, and then leaned against the railing to watch the clown, bards and dancers' wonderful performances.
The most exciting performance in the whole audience was a dwarf's acrobatic. The dwarf, who was only half of Robin, actually stepped on the rolling empty buckets under his feet, throwing fifteen oranges in his hand without falling to the ground. This wonderful performance won the endless applause and generous rewards of the nobles on the court.
The last show of this banquet was a dancer wearing a veil and danced gracefully in the music. The dancer's movements were not fast, and his dancing posture was not difficult. It was far worse than that of a dwarf. But she had a kind of attraction that Robin could not explain clearly and could not curb. Looking at the woman's figure and teasing and exaggerating movements, he couldn't help but blush and beating his heart. Robin lowered his head and dared not look, but couldn't help but take a few glances.
The banquet and carnival lasted until dark. After a whole day of carnival, Robin was already very tired, but when he was lying in his room, he unexpectedly found that he couldn't sleep. He tossed and turned, and his mind was filled with several scenes, either the words Berel had said to him, the time in the military camp, and the graceful dancer today.
Robin got up. This was the method he learned a long time ago. If he had something to worry about, he would go out for a short walk. This has always been his magic weapon for every attempt.
Beller did not live next door to him, but was in a farther room that Robin didn't know. The reason for saying this is because Robin was visiting the castle for the first time and was very unfamiliar with it. Leto - whether intentionally or unintentionally - arranged his room from Beller very far apart.
Because he did not have a clear goal, he walked along the aisle casually. Robin remembered clearly that at the end of this journey there was the courtyard. This castle was not a military fortress, but a livable castle that showed off his owner's wealth and taste, so the courtyard was a large garden. When he passed by during the day, he actually saw several rare local flower varieties.
"What about vampire?" Such a sound suddenly appeared in a room on the side. The three words "vampire" immediately attracted Robin's attention. He couldn't help looking towards the room and happened to see a ray of light leaking out from the crack of the door.
It was too late at this time. Because of the daytime banquet and carnival, the hosts and guests in the castle were very tired. In addition to the anomaly that Robin could not sleep, there should be only a few sentries on duty who were still awake. It should be so. However, the lights revealed in the crack of the door and the voices just now showed that the people inside were not insomnia, but had something to discuss.
It's so late, what's the discussion? Robin stood on tiptoe curiously, walked over carefully, and listened to the door. At this time, everything was silent. Although the person talking was not loud, Robin at the door could hear it clearly.
"...The details are unknown. But according to the news brought by our eyeliner, it is obvious that there have been considerable losses, and the losses are all elite troops, not those useless zombies or the like."
"This is very reasonable...but he did not kill the Bin tribe to replenish his troops...Is there any special reason for this?"
The speaker's voice was very familiar. The next second Robin remembered who the speaker was - Leto, the owner of the castle, the prince and duke of the Kingdom of Ryan. And from the breathing and other small noises, it can be judged that there were more than one or two people in the room, but a meeting was held with a considerable number of people.
"... Based on his subsequent disposal of the Bin tribe, this may be his way of buying people's hearts... According to the information of our spies, Damon and several of his allies have indeed saved their tribe. They will migrate to the land reserved by the vampire as subjects and subordinates of the vampire."
"I thought the vampires would take this opportunity to kill all the Bin clans." Leto seemed to say casually.
"Sir, you're wrong about this. The vampires are not that crazy and unreasonable. The defenders who surrendered to him have survived. The mercenaries even turned to him for hiring." Someone replied.
"It seems...this is not easy to deal with...that vampire is cunning and powerful enough..." Leto's tone and content were completely opposite. His words seemed to be concerned about vampires, but his tone was full of arrogance and contempt for vampires.
"But if you can defeat the vampire and recover Sivania, you will become a great hero known to everyone in the country. At that time, no one will be able to raise objections about you... the two little dukes inheriting your different titles and territories."
By the way, Lord Beral said that Leto is the king's cousin or cousin? He is already a certain distance from the royal family in terms of bloodline. If his descendants do not have the title of "Prince". It should be noted that the title of "Prince" actually represents the right of inheritance. When the king does not have direct descendants to inherit the throne, "Prince" is the heir to the throne. Robin thought. It sounds like Leto is very ambitious. He hopes that one son will inherit the title of "Prince" on the one hand, and another son will inherit the title of duke.
"Actually, if you just stop like this..." I don't know who suggested. "Sweep away the Bin tribe at a small cost and solve the problems of our country's confidant. Your contribution is already great, and it is enough to keep it in history."
"Nonsense, victory is within reach, just like the fruit hanging from branches on the roadside. How can we stop at this time? Now the strategy of driving tigers and wolfs is successful, the Bin clan is destroyed, and the vampire's undead legion has also been hit hard. On the contrary, our army has been raising energy. This is a great fighter opportunity that is hard to come by for a thousand years..." Someone was motivating with the efforts of the lotus.
"I'm worried that His Majesty the King may not necessarily let the Duke serve as the commander of this battle." Another voice said. "This matter may be discussed for a long time."
Others spoke, but Robin didn't continue listening. He is now probably at the side door and back door of a conference room in a castle. He is holding a secret meeting, but he is lying here to eavesdrop. It would be a bad thing if someone discovered it. Although it would not cause any diplomatic storm, it would definitely make Lord Beral unable to get out of Taiwan.
Robin tiptoed and left the door. Now he found that there was actually more than one side door in the conference room, and there was another door in front. From this, he inferred that there were one or two doors on the other side of the room.
He accidentally walked a few steps towards the corner, but there was no door there, but a large window... Wait! What was that? Robin clearly saw a black shadow lying beside the window.
Robin rubbed his eyes hard, and then he recognized the identity of the black shadow lying on the window eavesdropping - although the light was dim, the familiarity accumulated by years of contact immediately told him the truth. It was Belle who eavesdropped there.
Why was Lord Bereal here? Robin didn't have time to think about it more and immediately walked towards Bereal.
He was moving too fast and did not deliberately conceal it, so although Beller was eavesdropping, he immediately noticed him.
"Robin?!" Beller exclaimed in a low voice.
"Sir, what are you doing here?"
"I, I'm so anxious and come out to find the toilet!" Belle took a few steps back, left the window, and retreated to a safe position. "Passing here... that's all. What's wrong, Robin, is there any problem?"
Sometimes Robin couldn't understand whether Belle was open-minded or shameless.
Chapter completed!