"Father, let me go! I am your personal guard. I must inform you at this time."

Alec had only taken two steps, but he was caught by Bernard. He couldn't get away for a while, and Alec began to become anxious.

"I'll go! In addition to the fact that you only have four trained guards here, the most important thing now is that you help Lord Gervais defend the castle!"

Bernard patted the back of Alec's hand, his eyes filled with relief but also some complexity.

Alec's ability to leave the castle to inform Gervais regardless of danger shows that Alec has grown up and is responsible. However, it is precisely because of Alec's responsibility regardless of danger that Bernard, as a father, feels

Worry, no father would want his son to be in danger.

"But……"

"There is no but, helping Lord Gervais to defend the castle is your most correct choice now. No matter what happens, do not open the city gate or leave the castle until Lord Gervais comes back!"

"I'm going now, otherwise I won't be able to outrun the pirates if they come over!"

Although Alec has great strength, facing the hidden Bernard, he is like a chicken facing an eagle, with no power to resist.

With Bernard's gentle push, Alec was pushed aside. Before he could stop him, Bernard had already slid down the rope Thomas had just tied.

"Father, be careful!"

Alec looked at Bernard going away on the city wall with complicated emotions, and shouted.

Bernard in the distance just turned around and smiled, and waved to Alec with the long sword in his hand!

"My sword!"

Only then did Alec realize that his mithril sword had been taken away by Bernard for some unknown reason!

…

"Boss, there's someone over there who ran out of the castle!"

Bernard was hoisted down from the castle with the help of a rope and was immediately discovered by the pirates.

"He must have gone to report the news. Gervais must not be in the castle!"

Wright also saw Bernard's figure. Instead of being anxious, he felt relieved.

When the group of people came to the underground of the castle and looked upward, they all felt a sense of powerlessness in their hearts when facing the towering castle.

"Benny, take a good look to see if Gervais is there. If not, we will rush to the beach as quickly as possible!"

"Boss, wait until I walk in and take a look!"

Benny responded and slowly walked closer to the castle.

Whoosh whoosh!

Just when Benny came closer and stared carefully, the people on the city wall shot arrows at Benny. Although many of the arrows were horribly accurate, they also shocked Benny.

, especially the feathers of the arrow shot by Alec, which passed right next to Benny.

"Boss, I haven't seen Gervais, and it seems that there aren't many guards wearing helmets on the city wall, only two or three!"

Benny wiped the cold sweat from his forehead. He didn't expect that arrow to shoot so far, and he almost had to confess here.

"Very good! Everyone go to the beach. As long as we catch Gervais, everything in the castle will be ours!"

Without further delay, Wright waved his arm and led his men towards the seaside.

"Haha! Don't fight with me, I want the maid in the castle!"

"I want to sleep in the noble lord's bedroom!"

"I want……"

…

"What a hell today! Are these pirates here to tease me?"

The longer Gervais waited, the more depressed he became. He never imagined that at this moment, his escape route would have been cut off by the pirates.

After all, Gervais didn't believe that two to three hundred pirates would dare to plot against him despite his preconceptions.

"Sir, why don't you go back first? If there is any change among the pirates, I will send someone back to notify you!"

Laurie saw Gervais scolding constantly from the side, so he suggested considerately.

"No, sir, I will fight them here today. If they are brave enough, they can wait here until dark and see how I deal with them!"

Gervais rejected the suggestion of returning without success. Since the pirates were parked there, Gervais now only hoped to wait until dark, and then take advantage of the night to take more than 20 people to board the ship in the dark.

I can get the big ship that I coveted.

"Audry, send someone back to ask the castle to send some food. We all had dinner here!"

"Yes, sir!"

Audry listened to the order and immediately sent a guard to unload the horses from the carriage, and then rushed towards the castle.

"Ugh! This full body armor is a bit boring to wear. Come on! Take it off for me first!"

Having made up his mind to wait, Gervais simply sat on a rock nearby, preparing to let his guards remove his armor. He estimated that these pirates would not dare to go ashore now. Anyway, I would see him then.

It's not too late to wear it again when the pirates make any changes.

"Yes! Sir"

"My lord! My lord!"

But before the guards could take action, two guards on horseback hurriedly appeared on the road not far away.

One of them was the guard who had just left to deliver Gervais' order, while the other was sent by Thomas to inform Gervais about the pirate invasion of Coastal Town.

"What happened?"

Gervais recognized him at a glance as one of the guards of the Space Courtyard. He had given a few special instructions when he was holding the unicorn in the morning. But now he saw him running towards him in a hurry, and he immediately knew what had happened in the castle.

It was such a big deal that Gervais felt a little bit in his heart.

"Those five pirate ships are so abnormal. Could it be that they were trying to lure the tiger away from the mountain? Something happened to the castle, right?"

Sure enough, the next moment the guard ran and shouted: "Sir! There are many pirates on the Dry Leaf River Avenue, and they are heading towards Binhai Town and the castle!"

"Holy shit, your sister actually managed to lure the tiger away from the mountain!"

Gervais's whole body was in a bad state. Without yelling, he, a dignified time traveler, was actually tricked by someone using thirty-six tactics!

"How is the situation over there in Binhai Town? How many pirates are there?"

Gervais stood up and quickly came to the guard who reported the news, and asked eagerly.

"Sir, Butler Thomas asked me to report. The situation is urgent. He just said that there are a lot of pirates and they will arrive at Binhai Town soon. Sir Thomas has arranged for the serfs to evacuate to the southwest border!"

The guard who reported the news immediately reported what he knew to Gervais.

"Ick, Audry! Everyone return to the castle with me immediately!"

"Laurie, you continue to monitor the movement of the pirate ship here. If there are pirates disembarking and there are many of them, you don't have to fight hard. Just hide and follow them. If they attack our rear, you can give us an early warning!

"

"Yes, sir!"

"Yes, sir!"

Gervais didn't know how many pirates there were. Now that the pirates had used the method to divert the tiger away from the mountain, Gervais was not sure whether they would attack from both front and rear, so he had to leave Laurie and others to pay attention to the rear.

"Everyone aboard! Get ready for battle!"

Following the order, Gervais and his party headed towards the castle in a hurry.

More than half an hour later, Gervais' team finally met Bernard who came to report the news.

"Bernard, why are you here? How is the town and the castle?"

When he saw Bernard coming in a hurry, Gervais quickly turned over and dismounted. Seeing that there were no signs of fighting on his body, Gervais breathed a sigh of relief.

After all, Alec didn't follow, and Bernard didn't fight, so the situation at the castle should be pretty stable for now.

"Sir, the pirates have arrived below the castle, and I'm here to tell you!"

Bernard ran for more than half an hour, without blushing or out of breath, and came to Gervais and whispered: "There are eight or nine hundred pirates, with ten titled knights, one of whom is a silver intermediate knight.

Three are low-level silver knights, and the others are bronze knights!"

"What, aren't there only two or three hundred people who plundered other territories? How come the number of people who came to my place more than tripled, and there were even four Silver Knights? Could it be that some lord couldn't pretend to be good?"

Gervais suddenly felt bad. He felt like he was being targeted by the glory boss. Every time he faced an enemy, he was abnormally stronger than others, whether it was pirates or orcs.

"That's not clear, but Lord Gervais, I advise you to take your people and withdraw from the Storm Territory. The origins of so many pirate gangs with knight titles must be unusual, and they are probably here for you!

"

"retreat?"

"Ding! The pirates are carnivaling in your territory, and your people are trembling. As a lord, you need to use your blood to defend your majesty!"

"System mission: Defeat the pirates who invade your territory and protect the security of your territory!"

"Task reward: 10 energy points!"

Okay, you can just forget about the retreat. How could such an important thing not be systematically involved?

Of course, even if there is no mission issued by the system, Gervais is not prepared to retreat. Not to mention that the defense of his castle is empty and it is very likely to be invaded by pirates. If he escapes, what face will he have in the Jones territory in the future?

He himself can't pass this test.

More importantly, most of the grapevines are planted in Coastal Town. If the pirates are allowed to take them away, the wine production in other territories will probably be greater than that in his Storm Territory.

He had just ordered the transplanting of grape vines and the eradication of saplings a few days ago, which meant that within a few years, apart from the grape vines planted in the castle and by the serfs, it was basically impossible to find many more in the wild.

Stealing people's wealth is a life-or-death affair. Gervais felt that although he was weaker, there was no way he would be driven out of the territory by the pirates before they even faced him.
Chapter completed!