After leaving Lard Street, Duren rushed outside Earl Clyde's mansion without stopping.
As a result, I saw a group of people gathered there from a distance. They were basically small nobles in the city and their attendants, filling half of the street.
Edward II died unexpectedly, and his eldest son Garth was about to succeed him as emperor of the empire. At this time, the nobles in the entire royal capital were thinking about how to get closer to the new emperor.
For example, those big families could go directly to show their kindness to Gars himself, but more small nobles, those barons, and knights were not qualified to see Gars at all, so they turned their attention to the people around the new emperor.
Garth's swordsmanship teacher is obviously a good candidate.
When the new emperor is crowned, Clyde will almost certainly be entrusted with important tasks.
Earl Clyde's wife Sade was currently in the front hall entertaining those who came to visit. She took the gift list from the butler's hand and looked at the items listed on it. The smile on her face became brighter.
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The Wendell family is not a little-known family. They have a history of nearly two thousand years, even older than the Vespasian family.
However, no matter how prominent a family is, there will be times when it declines. By Clyde's generation, the situation was already very serious.
Although the family still looks glamorous on the surface, in fact it has widened the gap with those real wealthy families, and has been overtaken by the rising upstarts.
Fortunately, Clyde was excellent in swordsmanship and was invited to become the swordsmanship teacher of the eldest prince Garth. However, this job only sounds good, and in terms of real power, it is probably not as good as a small captain of the garrison.
But everything is different now. Once Gars is successfully crowned, the Wendell family will skyrocket thanks to the relationship between Creed and Gars.
Sade sneered in her heart. She had always remembered the ladies and ladies who had given her a blank look in the past. She would settle the scores one by one in the future.
Just when Sade was thinking this, she saw a guard hurried in from outside and reported something to the housekeeper.
There was a look of surprise on the butler's face.
Sade said, "What's the matter, Franz?"
"There is a new guest outside, madam. He said he wants to see Lord Claude."
"Clyde can't be seen by anyone who wants to see him now." Sade said proudly, "How many gifts has he brought?"
"He didn't bring anything."
"Then what else is there to say? Why don't we just drive away such an rude guy?" Sade snorted coldly.
However, before she finished speaking, the man had already walked in from outside.
"I'm sorry, I came in a hurry this time, and I didn't have time to bring gifts. I'll ask someone to make up for it later, but I came to see your husband on very important business."
Sade couldn't help being surprised when she saw the appearance of the person coming.
"Sir Durham!"
"Mrs. Sade."
"Aren't you supposed to be investigating the murderer of His Majesty's assassin? Why do you have time to come here?"
"As I said before, I want to have a chat with Sir Clyde."
"Why? My husband didn't show up at the tournament on the day His Majesty was assassinated."
"I know that he was drinking at the Stag Tavern to soothe his sorrows. Madam, I don't mean any harm, I just want to ask your husband a few questions, which may be of great help to me in catching the murderer."
"But Claude is not at home now," the countess said, her eyes alert.
"where is he?"
"I don't know, Your Majesty... the eldest prince Garth trusts Claude very much. He has a lot of things to do, so he asked Claide to help him deal with it."
"King's Landing Tower, Sir Creed is in King's Landing Tower now, and is he still with Prince Garth?" Duren frowned.
"My husband did go to King's Landing Tower, but I can't guarantee whether he is still there now, and I can't get involved in men's affairs."
"Okay, thank you."
After hearing this, Du Lun didn't want to waste any more time here, but he paused again when he went out, pointing to a marble sculpture in the yard.
"I don't know if Sir Clyde is a follower of the wind god Papagani."
"Clyde is not, he is simply interested in these stones. He has collected many of these sculptures, different gods and heroes, but the same thing is that they are all made by masters, perfect works of art, which also means
They are very expensive."
The captain of the royal guard said nothing more, nodded, and continued to walk out.
Wherever they passed, the crowds stayed away from each other, as if they were avoiding the plague.
Although less than half a day had passed, with the assassination of Edward II, the fate of many people changed on this day.
If the most popular people in the royal capital now are Prince Gars and his cronies, then the least popular person is probably Duren.
Although there is no such thing as one emperor and one courtier on the Bratis continent, when power changes, few of the former emperor's close associates can be reused.
Moreover, Duren bears unshirkable responsibility for Edward's death, and he himself has vowed to give up his status as a noble and leave the royal capital.
In other words, the once-high-ranking captain of the Imperial Guard is not far away from completely losing power.
That's all. The key is that he is still investigating the death of Edward II. No one wants to get involved in this matter at this time, and they want to stay as far away from him as possible.
Duren could feel the disgust and alienation surrounding him. He left Earl Clyde's mansion without saying a word and mounted his war horse.
The captain of the royal guard hurried forward and rode for about two streets when he met a young man dressed as a civilian. The latter picked up a fist-sized stone from the ground and suddenly threw it at him.
Du Lun's reaction was very quick. Before the stone landed on his armor, he had already drawn his sword in his hand and cut the stone in half with one strike.
But when he looked up again, he saw the young man quickly disappearing into an alley.
Because the alley was very narrow, the captain of the royal guard decided to dismount and chase him.
His speed and physical strength were undoubtedly higher than that of the thin boy, but the latter was more familiar with this place than he was.
So Du Lun couldn't catch him for a while, and the two of them chased and escaped. After a while, Du Lun took the initiative to stop.
But when the young man saw that he was no longer chasing him, he actually stopped running and just made faces at him in front of him.
Du Lun wasn't angry either, he just said, "Okay, there's no one here anymore, please ask the people behind you to come out."
The young man looked confused as if he didn't understand what he said.
Then he saw that Du Lun had drawn his sword in his hand and stood quietly waiting.
This chapter has been completed!