Harvey still remembers the feeling of inserting a dagger into his opponent's body for the first time. A woman must be more ruthless and accurate in order to survive in the underground world. Therefore, she must always hide the weak parts of her heart. Aroud is Harvey's first man who has ever had skin ties. The first man always has special significance for any woman. However, Harvey is very clear about her identity. Her background is stained with a big noble like Aroud. There is no romantic ending for him. The classes they are in were different. Now Aroud has entered the ranks of middle-class nobles. Only by marrying the ancient Hermann family can he complete the transformation of becoming a real big noble. Harvey believes that he cannot bring trouble to Aroud at this time. ()

The two of them were speechless along the way. Their horses entered Mason Castle. The guards guarding at the gate were yawning, but suddenly they saw the palace princess of Mason entering the castle from outside. They quickly stood up and straightened their backs and held the long halberd in their hands. They felt a gust of wind rushing past them. Then they turned around and found that Aruod had already rushed in with the mount under his crotch.

"Mr. Palace Master." A entourage immediately stepped forward and held the reins of the horse under Arod's crotch. The entourage was the assassin apprentice Sean who took over Rudolph's position. The reason why he was still here was because he received another bizarre order from the Assassin Guild to protect Arod, who was originally going to assassinate. This made Sean feel very puzzled. However, in order to appease and reward him to complete the new task in time, Sean learned that he had been promoted to a formal member of the lower-class Assassin Guild. Having his own share of remuneration and status in the Assassin Guild is a good news.

"Have, I'll do what I'll entrust you to do as soon as possible." Arod jumped off his mount, turned his head to say to Harvey, and hurried into the tower, facing Ron, a knight in the inner palace with an anxious face.

"Mr. Gong Xiang, where have you been? Why don't you bring your guards?" Ron said anxiously and angryly. Although Rudolph, who was called an assassin, those who really know the inside story know that it is just a scapegoat, and the real assassin has not yet been caught. Arod went out of the castle without any guards in the morning. In Ron's opinion, it was simply a suicide act.

"Don't worry, I'm fine." Aruodhuai felt much more relaxed with the biggest killer of this era. He walked up the stone steps and walked through the corridor and entered his room. He told Ron that he wanted to take a rest. He sent the knights of the inner palace to guard the door of the room. He closed the door firmly.

Aruod looked around his room. A solid and wide wooden bed was placed near the south side of the room, and a group of wooden cabinets and furniture was next to the wooden bed. In the window, he was his writing wooden table and a thick high-backed wooden chair. It seemed that he could not hide the poison/medicine in his arms. At this moment, he suddenly remembered that at the angle between the floor and the wall, a stone brick was a little loose, so he immediately stepped forward and buckled it with his fingers, and found that the stone brick was indeed loose due to his age.

"Kang, Kang~~." Aruod quickly found the dagger from his equipment, held the dagger tightly and gently pried around the bricks. After a while, the stone bricks were finally pried up by the dagger. Most of the building structure of the castle was bricks and stones. The stonemasons carved the stones in the stone yard into regular squares, and then moved the workers to the construction site to gradually build them up. The bricks and stones were usually filled with white lime, because the humid climate of Europa would make these bricks and stones loose after a long time, creating gaps between the stone bricks.

"Hu." Aruod used his sleeve to wipe his face, looked at the pried stone bricks, took out the small bag in his arms and put them in, and then put the stone bricks back on. In order to cover up the abnormalities here, Aruod also carefully scattered the moisture-proof hay on the floor of the room evenly on the stone bricks.

"Ping, ping." Just as Arod finished all this, a knock on the door sounded outside the door. Arod walked over and opened the door of his room and saw a Duke of Ebul waiting for him.

"Dear Palace Prime Minister, Duke Ebul asks you to discuss matters." Duke Ebul's entourage saw Arod coming out, quickly took a step back and bowed to the most powerful nobleman in the Principality of Mason at this time.

"Oh? Duke Ebul is looking for me." Arod thought for a while, thinking that Duke Ebul wanted to discuss the allegiance ceremony with him. Don't forget that in addition to being the palace prime minister, Arod is also an earl of Mecklenburg County. Although in the eyes of some stubborn nobles, Arod is just the ruler of the barbarians in the border area, he is also an important vassal after all, and he needs to re-establish a new allegiance contract at the inheritance ceremony of Duke Ebul.

But when Arud came to the courtyard with the envoy, Arud was surprised to see two people standing in the pavilion in the courtyard. One of them was of course Duke Eble, but the other was beyond Arud's expectations. It turned out to be his mortal enemy Earl Lauzits. Why did these two people who had never dealt with before be together? With such doubts, Arud stepped forward.

"Oh, my friend, Arud, our palace prime minister." Seeing Arud coming, Duke Ebul smiled and opened his arms, stepped forward a few steps and gave Arud a bear hug. Arud also quickly hugged Duke Ebul, who was very interested, symbolically.

"Duke, I don't know that you and Count Lauziz are discussing important matters. It seems that your entourage must have remembered something wrong? Therefore, let me take my leave first and come to visit you later." Arod looked at Count Lauziz with a gloomy smile on his face, and bent down to Duke Eble and said.

"Oh no, my friend, you are not wrong, but I came to you at this time." Duke Eble stood between Arod and Count Lauziz. He said with a generous smile as usual, as if it was as relaxed as a dinner between friends, but the tension between Arod and Count Lauziz did not weaken at all. The atmosphere in the courtyard at this time was really weird.

"Hmph." In the corridor of the courtyard, Arod's inner-house knight Ron held his hand on the hilt of his sword. Opposite him was the inner-house knight of Count Lauzits, and the other party looked like he was facing a great enemy.

Duke Eble also seemed to feel something was wrong with the atmosphere, but the upcoming Duke Mason made him feel confident that he could control the two nobles with real power, so he reached out and patted. With the crisp sound of his hands, four palace maids walked over, one of them holding a wine pot, and the other three were holding wine glasses. When they came to the pavilion, the maids placed three wine glasses in front of Duke Eble, Arod and Earl Lauziz, and the maid holding the wine pot picked up the wine pot and filled the wine glasses with the red wine.

"I know we have had unpleasant experiences in the past, but now as your new monarch, I hope that the Principality of Mason under my rule is a country where lords live in harmony and prosperity. Therefore, I hope to end all grudges in this pavilion. Come, friends drink this cup together, and let us enter a new era under the witness of the Lord." Duke Eble raised his wine glass and said loudly to Arod and Count Lauziz. His expression was full of majesty and his words were earnest. His gentle voice could make anyone who heard it. But unfortunately, Arod and Count Lauziz in the pavilion were not listed here. Both sides were political enemies who had been fighting openly and secretly. How could they drink and talk about it here?

"Dear Count Lauziz, as our common monarch, Duke Eble, we really don't need to continue to get entangled in the grudges of the past. I fully agree with the advice of Duke Eble, let us live in peace." Arod suddenly smiled on his tense face. He stretched out his hand and held the wine glass, held it up and said to Eble Eble.

"Ah, you are worthy of being our Palace Prime Minister. Your mind is wider than the earth." Seeing the kindness Arod expressed first, Duke Eble shouted happily. Even Earl Lauziz had a confused look in an instant, but soon Count Lauziz thought that he could not give Duke Eble the impression that he was narrow-minded and vindictive, so he quickly picked up the wine glass, and the three of them drank the fine wine in the cup together.

Seeing that he had successfully mediated the conflict between the two important vassals under his mediation, Duke Ebul felt particularly accomplished. He couldn't help but look at the two vassals in front of him, and at the same time felt the great halo of the duke's title. Now in the entire Mason Duke, he, Ebul, is the supreme ruler, and both nobles and civilians will crawl at his feet.

But Arod used a wine glass to cover up the murderous intent in his eyes. The reason he showed kindness to Count Lauziz was entirely to forge that he had no motivation to kill Count Lauziz. Count Lauziz was also thinking in his heart how to mobilize Arod's army after the Vikings attacked Arod's territory so as to facilitate his real court coup. In the pavilion, he seemed to be gentle and drizzle, but each had his own ulterior motives. No one could predict what would happen in the future in the Mason Duke.
Chapter completed!