Just when the Thousand-Year Covenant Empire felt that the end of the world might have come, the Duchy of Lane suddenly fell into a state of joy.

The garrison of the thousand-year-old Allied Empire, located thirty miles outside the fortress of St. Droons, suddenly withdrew its troops without knowing what it was about. Although this was indeed good news, when they saw that a huge black barrier suddenly appeared in the area where the Thousand-Year Covenant Imperial garrison had been garrisoned, the soldiers of the St. Droyens Fortress were not necessarily happy, and many of their faces were even filled with a sense of sadness.

Especially since even thirty miles away, everyone in the fortress could feel an extremely uncomfortable strange feeling.

If there are members of the church here, then they must be able to find that this is the breath of the abyss, and this breath is extremely strong, and it is obvious that the creatures in the enchantment are definitely not small. But unfortunately, the St. Dronnes Fortress did not have any church personnel stationed, so they failed to find that there was an Abyss-Lord level archdemon planting flowers and grass to sleep in.

Anyway, his task was to drive away the people of the Millennium Covenant Empire, and then Andrew promised to give him thirty days of vacation.

Nkos always felt that thirty days of vacation was too comfortable, and he couldn't wait to show off to Bess because he knew that Beth was now trapped in one place and couldn't move. For Enkos, it was no different from lying in Andrew's coffin – a coffin with a little more scope, perhaps? Nkos thought it would be a good idea to run to the biggest edge of the bass's activity to exude a whiff of his own, and then get some barbecue there.

However, compared to the panic of the fortress of St. Droyens, the royal family of the Duchy of Lane was very happy.

Because not only the garrison of the Millennium Covenant Empire has withdrawn, but even the dragon knight who originally planned to go to Panda. Tuhlman also hurried back to the Empire. Although he did not greet the principality, but flew back directly on the dragon, which made the Grand Duke of the Principality a little unhappy, but at least after there was no haze shrouded by the thousand-year-old Covenant Empire, Grand Duke Lane was really happy.

Of course, it was also good news that he had heard that Baron Panda had gone to war with Count Tinchiin of Dabiang, and had won a good battle. The two territories that originally belonged to the kingdom of Dabion, the Yederbi and the Tinchiin are currently divided between the Baron of Panda and the Marquis of Tonys.

This is naturally a very long-term thing for Grand Duke Lane.

But for the other nobles in the principality, it was very annoying.

The reason is simple.

For the aristocracy, if they want to strengthen the family, then it is natural to fight foreign wars. Only in this way can military merits be obtained, and the family can be promoted again, so that the family can become more and more prosperous. However, now that the north of the Duchy of Lane is the territory of the trading capital, and the entire west to the south is the territory of the Millennium Covenant Empire, these two forces are obviously impossible to provoke. The only one to provoke is the kingdom of Dabion, located to the east.

However, it is necessary to go to the trouble of the kingdom of Dabion. Then you have to pass through the Tonis Fortress of the Marquis of Tonys. In the absence of formal excuses. Can they, the private soldiers of the nobility, be sent out? That's just making yourself uncomfortable.

At this time, many nobles began to resent Kia Suna, if it weren't for her insistence on returning all the occupied territories to the Kingdom of Dabiang a few years ago, how could they still be confined now, and there is no way to develop? So these conspiracy theorists guys, whether they are the new aristocratic group or the old aristocratic group. At this moment, they all felt that Asuna chose to return those territories because she was afraid that they would become stronger.

And now seeing that the pioneer knight who was under Asuna before, and now the territory he occupied is equivalent to a county, these people's hearts have become very uncomfortable.

How can it be nice for a baron to sit on a territory that is equivalent to an earl's domain?

They also heard. Asuna recruited a new pioneer knight, and this time it was even more excessive, and she directly used the county of Tinchiin as the development territory of this pioneer knight, and now no one in the Principality of Lane could sit still.

As a result, calls for a declaration of war on Dabion began to grow louder and louder in the country.

Sean doesn't know what to do, and now the Duchy of Lane is full of a kind of war fanaticism, you must know that this is not a plan in his script. Although Sean has changed many ideas since he came to this world, and he has gradually learned to do things like nobles, and he will also think about problems from the political perspective of aristocrats, but sometimes many things are still not considered, and some are too taken for granted.

In his mind, history would inevitably evolve according to the game's plot, so all he needed was to provoke a war, and then give Asuna an excuse to intervene, and then trigger a war between the two countries - in fact, the history of the game did evolve like this, but at the time, tens of thousands of players who played the role of provoking the war were piled up in the form of a pile of missions.

But in this real world, people have their own seven emotions and six desires, such as human hearts, human nature, desires, ambitions, etc., and only one of them sprouts, then it is very likely to evolve into a situation of prairie fire. Therefore, the real strategists in this world are all following the trend, and almost no one will do that contrarian thing, so the only thing Sean didn't consider was that his actions were actually building momentum.

And now that the momentum has been achieved, the call for war from the Principality of Lane is to follow the trend.

If Sean knew this, then he would definitely be more subtle and cautious, rather than so high-profile. Because once the Duchy of Lane takes the initiative to declare war and follow the trend, Sean will be able to gain too little benefit from it, and it can even be said that he will completely lose his dominant position in this war.

But Shaun doesn't know any of this.

He didn't even know that Andrew had already driven Tuhlman away for him, and he didn't know that because of Enkos's visit, the troops of the Millennium Covenant Empire were withdrawn from outside the fortress of St. Drons, which led to a new round of civil strife and coup d'état in the Millennium Covenant Empire.

Now Sean's only concern is when Sean will return.

And, how much he will bring with him when he returns.

……

It is a dilapidated forest manor house, located in a wooded area northeast of Tinchiin, just a half-day trip from the nearest town.

The estate was built by Domingo's grandparents.

The Hastings have also had two near-extinction crises. Especially the second time, the enemy attacked Tinchiinburg to wait for the rabbit, if it wasn't for the timely support of the allies at that time, the Hastings would have died in that war. So after that war, the fourth-generation head of the Hastings family secretly built this forest manor here, after all, the name of Tinchiinburg is too loud, and it is likely to be intercepted and killed by the enemy there, so since then, the resources in the territory have been secretly transported to this manor.

This place, only the true core members of the Hasteen family know about it, and even the Nugus family doesn't know that the Hasteen family has such a secret hiding place.

Now. An embarrassed young man broke into the manor.

He didn't go through the main entrance, but climbed through a wall.

He seemed to have no strength anymore, and fell to the ground after only climbing over the wall, unable to stand up, gasping for breath.

Suddenly. A long, diagonal thorn fell, and then rested on the young man's neck.

The young man turned his head in horror. It seems to be because the action is too big. Accidentally scratched by the long sword, blood flowed out of a small wound, and soon soaked the white shirt on his body.

"Thorn!"

When the middle-aged man with the sword saw the young man clearly, there was a look of surprise on his face, and he immediately put away his long sword and helped Seon up with a happy expression.

"Uncle Kerry!" Sain stood up suddenly. Then he threw himself into the arms of the middle-aged man, as if his tense nerves were finally relaxed, and tears suddenly flowed from Sain's eyes, "I...... I lost! I lost badly! They actually have a strong reinforcement army. The information given to us by the Nugus family is wrong, they actually have seven golden powerhouses! Mr. Laubert, he for the protection of ...... He...... He ......"

"Ugh." The middle-aged man sighed and patted Sein's back gently, "It's okay, it's going to be fine, our Hasteen family will never be defeated so easily!" ”

"By the way, what about my father?" Sein looked up and asked expectantly.

"Master Domingo......" The middle-aged man named Kerry looked embarrassed and didn't know how to speak.

"No!" Sein's face instantly became abnormal, and he took a few steps backwards one after another, "You lied to me!" You must be kidding me, aren't you! Father's ...... Father......"

Seemingly unwilling to believe this ending, Sean was about to rush towards the house, but was caught by Kerry.

"Let go of me!" Sain let out a roar, "I don't believe it! ”

"Sain! Calm down! Kerry let out a loud cry, his tone a little heavier, "Your father said when he was dying, you are the next head of the Hastings. You are now the head of the Hastings, and if you are like that, how do you lead the rest of our people to revenge? ”

Hearing Kerry's words, Sein's face turned miserable, and tears continued to flow from his eyes, but he pursed his lips tightly and did not say a word.

"Ugh." Seeing Sein's appearance, Kerry sighed, "Don't think about it so much, all the people who escaped from Hastings Manor that night have already gathered here." You can rest first, you've worked hard these days, we're very safe here, and they'll come back in the evening to discuss the next steps. ”

After being silent for a while, Sein lowered his head and said with a calm face, "Uncle Kerry, we ...... How many escaped? ”

"Alas, there are fifteen people who escaped, but now there are only nine left, including me and you." Kerry said with a sad face.

"That'...... What about the core members of the family? Sain asked.

The really most important members of a family are naturally the core members, the so-called lineage and those who are truly talented. The Hasting family is not particularly large, but it is not small, there are more than forty family members living in Hastings Manor, but there are only about a dozen people who can really count the core members. Hasting's disappearance, Avi. After the deaths of Hasting, Taylor, Turnch and others, the core members plummeted to within double digits.

"It's just me and Haika." Kerry whispered, "But now Heika is seriously injured and is resting in his room." ”

"Uncle Kerry, I will definitely avenge my family!" Sein suddenly spoke, "I will definitely avenge my father, and I will definitely revitalize the Hastings family!" ”

"I know it." Kerry nodded, "I'm sure you can do it too!" ”

"By the way, Uncle Kerry, I want to borrow something from you." Sain suddenly looked up and said.

"What ......"

Before Kerry could finish his words, he saw a sword light suddenly swing by, and then his head was already flying.

Soon, the human head fell from mid-air and rolled on the ground a few times, and his already dusty face instantly became dirtier, but his eyes still showed a bit of love.

Sein looked at Kerry's head, his eyes gradually became gloomy, although there were still tears on his face, but his body had already exuded an aura of indifference, which was infinitely close to the critical point of the next golden powerhouse: "That's Uncle Kerry, your head." ”

A moment later, Sein blew a whistle carrying a birdsong.

Soon, Northland barbarians began to enter through the walls outside the manor.

With a wave of Sein's hand at the buildings in front of him, two or three hundred steel-winged soldiers consciously divided into several teams and began to enter these buildings. After a while, angry shouts and fighting were heard from the buildings, but these voices did not last long before they turned into screams, and then the corpses were brought out of the buildings one by one by the Northland barbarians and placed in front of Theon.

There were eight corpses, including Kerry's headless corpse, but there were seven newly erected tombstones in the garden at the back of the manor, as reported by the Northland barbarians.

No more, no less, exactly fifteen people.

Sain quickly took the steel-winged soldiers and smashed open the door of a basement and entered a basement.

This basement is not much more spacious than the basement of the Black Swan Castle, and maybe even more spacious than that. At this moment, in this basement, there are all kinds of dazzling gold coins, jewelry, weapons, and even many precious and rare materials and drawings, but what really catches the eye is a set of armor placed in the middle of this basement.

Sain knew that this was the true heirloom of the Hasting family, a set of legendary-level armor!

In the same way, he also knew that the information that Domingo told him was obviously wrong, because the wealth in this basement was obviously more than one million, not to mention that set of legendary-level armor, just gold coins and various material resources were worth at least four or five million, which was obviously more than the heritage of an earl family, and it was not an exaggeration to say that it was even the heritage of a top-level marquis family.

A hint of cruelty flashed in Sein's eyes, and then he said in a deep voice: "Move all away!" ”

"Yes!"

All the Northland barbarians did not hesitate and immediately began to move.

Looking at the movements of these Northland barbarians, Sein's face was very calm, but his clenched fists, his nails had almost pierced into the flesh, and the blood had stained his fists red, and then continued to drip from his fingers.

"I will definitely avenge the Hastings!" (To be continued......)

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