"Your Majesty, you have to make the decision for us. That Gervais of the Jones family has clearly assigned an attack route, but now he runs on our route to rob our castle!"

"Yes! Your Majesty, our Larkin family was robbed of three castles by Gervais!"

"My Kirwan family was robbed of a castle!"

"I……"

At this time, the main army of the Principality of Jean and the troops of the minor vassals had merged and were stationed fifty miles away from Maiye City.

The king summoned the eight earls to come to the tent to discuss matters, but before the meeting began, a famous earl entered the tent and immediately began to loudly criticize Gervais, telling the "tragic" experiences of his vassals.

King Lawrence also watched in silence as several earls spat. Finally, after they finished speaking, King Lawrence sat upright slightly.

"Where are Count Alice and Viscount Gervais now?"

In fact, the accusations made by several earls had long been aroused. Except for a few earls whose team had not suffered a "murderous attack", the rest of the earl families had been more or less tricked.

"Your Majesty, Gervais has not returned yet. I am also sending people to look for traces of Gervais!"

Even though Alice was usually a cold goddess, she felt her cheeks were slightly hot at this moment. Alice felt that the Earl's accusations were probably done by Gervais.

"Not back yet?"

King Lawrence frowned slightly. Now all the vassals of the eight earls have arrived here to meet. Why did Gervase not come back? The king really didn't know this at first.

"Is Gervais afraid of coming back because he is worried about what happened?"

If those castles are really the masterpieces of Gervais, then he has more than a dozen noble heirs in his hands.

Therefore, the king felt that Gervase was temporarily hiding because he was worried about being attacked by other earls.

"Count Alice, what do you think of the accusations made by the earls against Gervais?"

However, even if the Gervais people were not present, several earls had already raised objections, so King Lawrence still had to take care of their feelings.

"Your Majesty, I think what the earls are saying is nonsense. The total number of Gervais's troops is less than 200."

"And there are thousands of people in the ranks of these earl vassals. How can it be possible for Gervais's more than 200 people to be faster than them, and also rob the castle that belongs to them?"

Although she was basically certain in her heart that Gervais had done what they were accusing her of, Alice would certainly not admit it on the surface.

If he admits it, Gervais will not only face punishment from the king, but those noble heirs will definitely be returned to these earl families for free.

"Earl Alice, you are wrong to say that! When my vassals rushed to those castles, although there was no one in the castle, they also captured a lot of castle servants in the nearby woods. Those castle servants

They all confessed that a man named Viscount Gervais took their lord’s heir away!”

"That is, my vassals also captured a few castle servants, and they also said that Gervais took away their lord's heirs!"

As soon as Alice's words of denial came out, several earls stopped and immediately objected.

Especially Avery, who only had five castles on the Larkin family's offensive route, but now he had three castles taken away by Gervais for no reason.

After his vassals came back, they cried to him that the Southern Expedition had been started for so long and there was nothing gained in the first place. They finally managed to capture some small castles to get some oil and water, but now most of them were taken away by Gervais.

Those descendants of the nobles are walking gold coins. Half of these walking gold coins were taken away by Gervais. Thousands of them could not get anything at all.

"Avery, I'm afraid you are old and confused. Serfs and civilians cannot be witnesses against nobles. And you said that the castle servants you arrested were castle servants. I also said that our Welton family arrested thousands of people.

Where is the castle footman!"

"Do you have any nobles or descendants of nobles as witnesses? If not, then stop talking! Who knows if you want to frame the Jones family! If you want to cause trouble for Alice, ask me first if I will answer!"

Seeing that Ever and others unanimously accused Alice, the Lord of the North finally spoke out. His steel-sharp beard trembled, and he directly began to criticize the sky, the earth, and the air.

"Guster, we are now seeking an explanation from the Jones family, and it has nothing to do with your Welton family!"

"Okay, stop arguing!"

Seeing that a new round of quarrel was about to start below, King Lawrence patted the handrail to stop everyone, and then asked Avery and others solemnly.

"Okay, Avery! Do you families have any evidence to prove that Gervais robbed the castle on your route?"

"No! Your Majesty!"

Avery's face looked a little ugly, but as the Lord of the North said, the witnesses in his hands were all male servants and did not have noble status. Without noble status, it would be impossible to use them to testify against another noble.

"Okay, since there is no evidence, let's put this matter on hold for now. I will send someone to investigate later! We have more important things to discuss now."

"Yes, Your Majesty!"

"Yes, Your Majesty!"

Seeing that King Lawrence looked a little unhappy, Avery and the others had no choice but to respond.

"The actions of the Principality of Alban this time were beyond our expectations. They actually sent the remaining Thunder Knights to attack the vassals' team, causing us huge losses!"

"My direct vassal team totaled more than 3,700 people, but they were directly annihilated by the Thunder Knights."

"In addition, more than ten vassal nobles of the Charles family were killed by the Thunder Knights!"

The king's face was also a little ugly. More than 3,000 vassal troops were wiped out. This was also a heavy blow to the Jean family, which meant that hundreds of minor nobles died in the battle.

As for Nemio, he didn't say a word after entering the meeting tent, and his face was gloomy. The king and other counts thought that Nemio was heartbroken because of the loss of more than ten vassals.

No one knows yet that the Charles family not only lost more than a dozen vassals, but also the general of his knights died there, and it was probably not at the hands of the Thunder Knights.

The king said that these vassals of the Charles family died at the hands of the Thunder Knights, but that was what Nemio said when he reported it.

"We will definitely avenge this blood feud with the Thunder Knights, but there is a more important thing right now, that is, the fiancée of my eldest son Derek was kidnapped by the Thunder Knights!"

"If I want to rescue Caroline, I think I can only exchange hostages with the other party, so I hope to exchange Caroline with the noble heirs in your hands!"

King Lawrence spoke very skillfully. He only said that Caroline was the fiancée of the eldest prince, and did not mention the Lord of the North, because the Lord of the North had a hot temper and had some conflicts with these earls. If the Lord of the North was mentioned, it would probably

The opposite happened.

After the king's words fell, the several earls below were all watching, and did not express their opinions immediately, as if they were waiting for something.

The king was not surprised and continued after a pause.

"But don't worry, everyone, if the hostage you captured is really used in exchange for Derek's fiancée, I will reward you with gold coins or other items of equal value!"

Hostages are considered spoils of war and need to be distributed by the king, but these hostages will not be handed over to the king until the war is over by the vassals.

Because the ransom for each noble hostage is different, after the war, these count families will also participate in the hostage exchange negotiations to ensure that they know the ransom amount of their hostages.

"Yes, everything is up to your Majesty!"

The king's words were so straightforward that none of the several earls below would be disrespectful and responded respectfully.

"Well, very good, then let's talk about the future war..."

Next, the king and several earls began to discuss the next war plan. This meeting lasted for an hour and a half, and Alice returned to her camp after an hour and a half.

"Nadine, is there any news about Gervais?"

After returning to the camp, Alice immediately called Nadine, the commander-in-chief of the Knights of the Rose, for questioning.

"Sir, there is no news about Viscount Gervais yet. I have sent people to search every Earl's family route, but found nothing!"

Nadine replied respectfully.

"Okay, leave a hundred people to continue searching for news about Gervais on these routes. We will head towards Maiye City tomorrow morning!"

Alice nodded slightly disappointedly, gave Nadine instructions and quickly entered her tent.

"Gervis, where have you been! Don't let anything happen to you!"

Alice took out the monocular telescope given to him by Gervais. This monocular telescope was the only official gift Gervais gave her besides the Warcraft crystal, so Alice now values ​​this monocular telescope very much.

I usually carry it with me.

…

Gervais didn't know what was going on in the Jean Principality's camp fifty miles away. At this moment, his team had arrived less than five miles away from Maiye City.
Chapter completed!