St. Droyens Fortress is a military fortress built during the reign of King Lane.

In the beginning, the scale of this fortress was not large, it was just the most conventional standard fortress, and the strength of the defense has always been a flaw of this fortress. This flaw was exploited by the Millennium Covenant Empire in the war when the Millennial Covenant Empire invaded the Ryan Kingdom, and it became the most direct and straightforward breakthrough.

So when the shield of Lane, known as the "holy wall". After Roald settled in this fortress and became the supreme commander of the fortress, the expansion, repair, and improvement of the fortress became a top priority. These clandestine efforts continued for nearly a decade before the St. Droyens Fortress was finally transformed into a true Imperial fortress - a minimum Imperial fortress, but much stronger in terms of defense than it had been at the beginning.

Asuna's childhood was spent in the ten years when the fortress was expanded, repaired, and perfected, and finally cultivated her current character and abilities.

It can be said that the Holy Wall Roald. G. Evans is the true enlightener of Asuna.

If there were no later stories, Asuna would have become the next owner of the fortress - the entire Evans family had moved away from the extravagant royal capital and into this bitter cold land. Although it has not been publicly stated in Lane, in fact, it is clear to all the nobles that the authority of the Frontier Duke is extremely strong, and no one can challenge the Frontier Duke's position except for the Sword of Lane, let alone force Evans away from the fortress.

Therefore, the consciousness that whoever takes over as the patriarch of the Evans family is the new master of this fortress is also rooted in the minds of all the nobles of Lane.

But fate always likes to play a joke on people.

So Asuna left here when she became an adult, and relied on her own efforts to lay a foundation that was bigger than Evans - the first grand duke in the history of the Evans family to obtain the right to establish an independent state. Continue along this route, as long as Asuna's descendants work hard enough, plus a little luck and timing. Then the Evans family is also an emerging royal family on the Miracle Continent.

Since Asuna became the Grand Duke of Garrod, she has been the object of worship of countless women in the entire Ryan aristocratic circle, and it is the object of admiration of countless men, and of course, the object of envy of many noble families. Even the Evans family's relationship with Asuna, which had been at odds with Asuna since she built the fortress of Tonys, has finally loosened a little - for Asuna, she finally doesn't have to sneak in touch with her father.

But it's like the old saying.

"Fate always likes to joke".

Now. Asuna became a prisoner of the Ryan Kingdom, and was even charged with "poisoning the former king, plotting to murder His Royal Highness Adams, assassinating Prince Arlan, manipulating Princess Fursis, setting up the Ryan royal family, plotting to seize the Ryan Kingdom" and many other crimes.

As a result, the former Grand Duchess has now become a lowly person who is spurned by everyone, and the people of the Kingdom of Lane have even raised a very loud voice to demand the conquest of the Duchy of Garrod - among them, of course, there are some nobles who fanned the flames. In this case, the Evans family naturally cleared up their relationship for the first time, announcing that they had already been with Asuna. G. Evans has nothing to do with it.

If it weren't for Sean's immediate action after receiving the news of Asuna's accident, and the news of the collapse of the Peace Council is no longer an April Fool's Day rumor joke, otherwise I'm afraid that Lane's army would have been fighting with Simi stationed in the Duchy of Garrod at this moment.

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Roald. G. Evans. Today's patriarch of the Evans family is also the rising of the Evans family.

For the sake of the entire Evans family, Roald has put in more effort than anyone can imagine - many people only know that he was already a field earl when he became the patriarch of the Evans family, but they don't know how big the gap between the field nobility and the powerful nobility is in the aristocratic circle, let alone how difficult it is to climb from earl to marquis. If it weren't for Roald's amazing talent and hard work when he was young, he would not have been transferred to the fortress of St. Drowans, and he would not have become a powerful marquis.

As for the current duke. In fact, it doesn't mean much.

Because at that time, the Kingdom of Ryan had not yet been upgraded, and it was still a principality under the thousand-year Covenant Empire. So the title can only reach the marquis at most. But in terms of merit, this Shield of Lane was in fact able to become a duke long ago - his merits could not be lower than his own daughter in any way, but for some special reason, he achieved the reputation of Archduchess Asuna.

Roald is now over fifty years old, but in fact he does not look very old at all. On the contrary, perhaps because of his better maintenance, he looks more like a mature man in his thirties and less than forty. Of course, the powerful vitality fluctuations that emanated from his body were also another powerful proof that he was able to maintain his youth—this was a person who had already stepped into the realm of the Holy Realm.

As long as nothing happens, it won't be a problem to protect the entire Evans family for hundreds of years.

But only a few people have found out, since Asuna's arrest. Roald's temples turned slightly white, and his brow remained tightly locked.

At this time, in the corridor on the second floor of the mansion, Roald walked side by side with a middle-aged man who looked about seven points similar.

Judging from his appearance, it is guessed that this middle-aged man should be Roald's heir.

The two seemed to be discussing something, and from time to time they could see the middle-aged man next to Roald with a dissatisfied look on his face. But the difference is that even in the face of Roald, the middle-aged man did not show respect, but kept arguing with reason, which made Roald's expression quickly show dissatisfaction.

Some of the maids who were cleaning next to them had already retreated when they saw the father and son from a distance.

Although they could not hear clearly, they also knew that these words were not something they could hear.

In the Evans family's homestead, all servants are trained in advance and are evaluated before being admitted. Therefore, they all know very well what their top priority needs to be dealt with under what circumstances, and there will never be any people who have too many words and ears. However, it is precisely because of this that the Evans family has largely cultivated a culture of discussion and debate whenever and wherever they are. It doesn't even matter whether these topics are classified or not.

Soon, father and son were outside the door, and the discussion between the two continued, but when Roald reached out to the doorknob, his voice suddenly stopped.

The son, who was standing on the sidelines, immediately realized the problem. But he didn't stop talking, and seemed to be still talking.

However, Roald shook his head: "It's useless, the other party has already discovered us." ”

With that, the door has been opened.

The interior of the room is very simple, except for the bookshelves and stacked books, there is hardly any superfluous things, and even the tables and chairs are only a few sheets, obviously this is a small study of a more private nature. Because all the books in the study have obvious traces of use, and many of them are even handwritten and worn-out ancient books. And it can be seen that the people who read the books clearly cherish these books.

At the round table in the room sat a young man with black hair, who looked at a manuscript as if no one was around, and seemed to be attracted by the story inside, not noticing the entry of Roald and his son. Occasionally, the young man could be seen reaching for the teacup next to him, and then taking a sip, and Roald could tell at a glance that the teacup contained his private collection of dragon head fruit tea.

This person. Naturally, it was Sean who had secretly infiltrated the fortress of St. Droyen.

"Who are you!" Roald's son took a step forward, his eyes as sharp as an eagle.

Roald glanced at his son. He didn't speak, but his gaze at Sean became solemn. He didn't dare to say that his fortress defense layout was impregnable, but at least it was worthy of the word "strict", especially in the area where his mansion was located, in addition to the multi-line cross patrol covering the whole area, almost every monitoring point had at least three dark sentinels to form a cross surveillance perspective.

But that's it. The fact that someone was so quietly invaded made Roald feel a chill down his spine.

He had already recognized the other person's identity.

Grand Duke of the Void Principality, Sean. Connelly.

Roald also knew that his son had actually recognized the other person's identity, just as the other party had already spotted them standing outside the door while sitting in the room. But his son still had to ask for the identity of the other party. It seems that this will allow you to gain momentum.

Thinking of this, Roald shook his head helplessly: his son is still not as bold and courageous as his daughter after all. He stretched out his hand to stop his son's further questioning, which in a situation like this would have no effect but to appear childish.

"If I had known that the Grand Duke of the Void was visiting, I would definitely go out of the city to greet him." Roald smiled heartily.

At this moment, although the Kingdom of Ryan and the Void Duchy are already at odds - even if Sean has no scruples about directly letting the army approach the Tonis Fortress, at least the two sides have not officially torn their faces in a diplomatic arena for now, so the two sides can still be regarded as "their own people". Especially with Sean's status as the Grand Duke, he is half a level higher than the Duke of Roald, so it is natural for Roald to speak politely first.

"It doesn't matter." Sean closed the book, then looked up at Roald, with a deep smile on his face, "This is the eldest son of His Excellency the Duke, he is really young and promising." ”

"Haha, it's still not as good as Your Excellency the Grand Duke." Roald smiled modestly, "You must know that you are a few years younger than my son, but you are already the Grand Duke of a country, and he is only a fictitious viscount now." ”

"Well, the sharpness is there, but the courage is still lacking." Sean glanced at Roald's eldest son, Asuna's brother, and smiled, "If you polish it well, the Evans family will not decline, if not go further in his hands." ”

"What did you say!" Hearing Sean's such blunt criticism, Roald's eldest son was immediately furious.

"What kind of attitude do you have!" Roald shouted angrily.

"Father, now that the Void Principality has sent troops to attack, this is already a betrayal, you don't need to be so polite." Roald's eldest son did not have the slightest fear, but retorted, "What's more, this person has infiltrated our mansion, who knows if the other party is the Grand Duke of the Void." We don't even know each other's intentions......"

"I'm here for Asuna. G. Evans came to the matter. Sean glanced at the young man, but only glanced at Roald before turning his gaze back to Roald and interrupting him.

And Roald, who has read it from Sean's eyes, does not put his son in his eyes. It can even be said that at this moment, in Sean's eyes, his son is no longer worried, in addition to having a young and vigorous spirit, he doesn't know how to be flexible at all, let alone understand the rules of communication in the aristocratic circle, to put it simply, he can only be a nobleman guarding the border, once he goes to a place like the royal capital, I am afraid that he will be eaten to the point that there is no scum left.

"Asuna? She's not from our Evans family anymore, she'......"

"Stand down." Roald finally reveals the majesty of the Evans patriarch.

"Father's ......"

"I'll tell you to step down." Roald said in a deep voice, his attitude having become noticeably tougher, "I am now commanding you as the patriarch of the Evans family, not your father. …… Until you officially become the patriarch of House Evans, don't forget what you should be doing now. ”

Gritting his teeth, the middle-aged man, who was seven points similar to Roald, finally nodded silently, and then turned to leave.

"I'll make you laugh, Grand Duke Sean."

"This is the next patriarch who is ready to replace Asuna to take over the Evans family?" Sean laughed, but the content of his words was not the slightest polite, "Are you preparing to completely break away from the royal capital aristocratic circle, or do you want to completely bury the Evans family?" ”

Roald fell silent and did not answer Sean's question.

However, Sean didn't seem to really intend to ask for the result, and after seeing Roald silent, Sean spoke again: "He doesn't seem to be convinced by you." ”

"Athos will not convince anyone but himself." Roald shook his head, "I know his flaws, but he's the best person to succeed the Evans family other than Asuna. Only he can let the Evans family continue to live here on the border and grow up without worries. …… If I have to answer, then the next generation of Evans family will completely abandon the royal capital aristocracy. ”

Sean glanced at the closed door and whispered, "He doesn't look like an obedient person. ”

"Indeed." Roald nodded.

"Aren't you worried that this will take down your fortress forces?" Sean laughed.

Roald didn't open his mouth to answer the question, but just smiled at Sean, which let Sean know that Roald obviously wanted to test his strength. If you want to go deeper, Sean can certainly understand the other party's approach, after all, after sneaking directly into the other party's base camp, like entering the back garden of no man's land, if he was so invaded by someone like this, Sean may not be able to sit and chat so quietly.

"Tungsten Ramo, I'm sorry for you." Sean said, "It's good to teach a little lesson, don't go overboard." ”

"Do as you command, my lord." Tungsten Ramo bowed to Sean.

At this time, Roald found out that there was a person standing behind Sean all along, but neither he nor his son Athos actually found out! And what's even more incredible is that with the departure of Tungsten Ramo, there was a huge black and silver wolf that suddenly stood up, which made Roald have some illusions: Is this really in his own study?

"Alright, let's get down to business." Sean said with a smile as he pulled Roald's attention back.

"Ahem."

Roald coughed lightly to hide his embarrassment, he glanced at the old man who left with the giant wolf, his eyes were extremely complicated, just now he couldn't feel the strength of the other party at all, which obviously proved that the strength of the other party was definitely above himself.

However, this embarrassment quickly disappeared, and after reining in his thoughts, he looked at Sean and said, "I know your intentions." (To be continued.) )

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