Blackeye Castle is more than fifty miles from Grenville, so it would take a whole day to walk there. Now that Dipu had forgotten all about his heroic exploits, his children's affections, and so on, he wanted to rush to Blackeye Castle as soon as possible to see the territory he owned.

But the truth always gives people a big blow. Although Dipu had imagined the Black-Eyed Castle in a dilapidated way, the reality was far beyond his imagination.

When they crossed the junction of the territories and entered the black-eyed collar, they felt only two words - desolation.

It was not a desolation like no one inhabited, but a desolation like the extinction of birds and beasts. Some of the cleared land along the roadside has been cracked, and the occasional small village has been abandoned. The tall trees are basically dead, and only a few weeds are struggling tenaciously in the field.

And this desolate land is very flat. In the distance, it was an earthy yellow. Dipu believed that if a man stayed in this place for a long time, he would definitely go crazy. That kind of loneliness between heaven and earth is by no means something that ordinary people can endure.

Fortunately, from a distance, in the middle of this flat, earthy yellow, there is a small hill with a hundred blades high. The color of the hillside and the nearby land was black, as if a great black eye had opened in the earth, and Dip was sure that the name of the castle and the collar of the black eye came from.

To be honest, seeing the hillside from afar, Dipu was still slightly excited. Because the Black-Eyed Castle was built on this hillside.

But when they approached, words could no longer describe their disappointment, for there were only two words here - broken.

The Black-Eyed Castle was indeed built on that hillside, and since the castle was built of large black stones, it was not much dilapidated in the distance. And under the illumination of the sunset, it also looks a little "majestic". Of course, this "majestic" is also contrasted with the "small" of the small hillside.

And at the bottom of that hillside, there is a small town. The size of the town is not small, especially since it is surrounded by a wall, so it is not an exaggeration to call it a small town. Outside the fence, there are hundreds of acres of cultivated farmland. It seems that this is the last remaining farmland of the black-eyed collar.

But when they approached, they saw that the wall was in tatters. Not to mention cracking and collapsing. Many of the collapsed gaps were even just roughly plugged with wooden planks, not even filled with some loess. Some even opened their mouths like that. It looks like a wasteland. Not even a wild dog can prevent that!

What's even more chilling is that the whole town seems lifeless. From a distance, it seems that no one lives in the town at all.

And when they were still three or four miles away from the castle of Black-Eyed, they heard a hurried sound of horses' hooves behind them, and a horse passed them at a rapid speed, and only the rider on the horse looked at them curiously, but did not come to say hello, but rushed into the town in such a hurry. But the rider seemed to be like an arrow shot into the darkness, and in an instant he was swallowed up by the town.

The surroundings were still lifeless, and even Dipu felt that the rider just now seemed to be a hallucination.

Ritter quietly listened to Pete's report next to him, his face full of thought, and he didn't say a word.

Ritter has found himself unlucky lately, as he has unfortunately won the "mega jackpot"

Since the previous Black-Eyed Castle had no lord, but the outpost of Grenville City could not be vacant, according to the agreement, the various mercenary groups in the west of the Tello Kingdom would take turns to defend this dilapidated Black-Eyed Castle.

And in the semi-annual lottery, Rhett's Tiger mercenary group unfortunately "won". Then in the internal lottery of the Tiger Mercenary Group, Ritter won this "super jackpot", so he could only lead the deputy squadron leader Pete and the fifty mercenaries of his squadron to this black-eyed castle.

Since there is no remuneration for such an obligation, and the Tiger Mercenary Group only gives the lowest salary to the squadron in this half a year, they can only sigh that they are unlucky and live a hard life for half a year.

In fact, it is not very accurate to say that it is all hard times. Because the bandits of the Orc Kingdom and the Sunset Plains are short of iron and salt, as long as they can trade with them, they will have some income.

However, the bulk trade in iron and salt was on the Redwoods' side. And in order to control the orc kingdom and the bandits, the Tello kingdom also strictly controlled the trade of such goods, so the Black-Eyed Castle can only make a small fuss at most, selling iron pots, kitchen knives, and selling a few pounds of salt, and this income is far less than the income of being a mercenary. But at the very least, it's a make-up.

But when Ritter heard a few days ago that there would be a new lord in Black-Eyed Castle, he was so angry that he almost bit off his tongue and spurted blood. Now, even the last bit of extra money is gone. No matter what, it is impossible to do this kind of petty smuggling under the nose of the new lord. Wouldn't the new lord do it himself for the kind of unskilled selling iron pots and selling salt?

So the other day, Ritter asked Pete to take a few people to Grenville City, and stayed there for the pretext of purchasing supplies, to inquire about the situation of the new lord, and to see if there was any loophole to exploit.

However, just now, Pete hurried back to the Black-Eyed Castle. He told Sù that the new lord was a magician, but his reputation as a "waste" had spread throughout Grenwell. Especially since the new lord is very young, not even twenty, and it is conceivable that this is a hairy young man who doesn't know anything.

As soon as he heard the news, Ritter's half-dead heart suddenly came to life. Maybe this new lord is easy to deceive? Even if he can't be deceived, are his fifty brothers vegetarians? Shaking his muscles can scare him! Although that "waste" magician is the new lord, who is in charge of the black-eyed lord? Not necessarily.

But what to do? Ritter couldn't make up his mind for a while. After all, Pete had already met the magician and his followers on the way, and they were about to enter Blackeye. But one thing is certain, the dismount must be given, it is nothing more than the difference in Cheng dù. And it depends on whether the new lord knows each other or not.