A battle with less gunpowder is about to break out.
As the count's personal bodyguards, these twenty knights are all experienced in battles.
Among them are fourteen intermediate attendants, five senior attendants, and even an intermediate magic apprentice.
Three high-ranking attendants walked towards Thain in a posture of "pin".
They did not take out swords or other weapons, but instead pulled out a shining metallic rope from the saddle.
This is a hundred-refined steel rope made with a lot of money from the Earl's Palace. Although it is not a magic item, it relies on its hardness and toughness.
By stacking several ropes together, even those with strong mid-level monsters can be tied tightly.
The Earl originally did not intend to use violence, but it was obvious that this son, like him, had a rather stubborn personality.
Perhaps Thain needs to be locked up in the Earl's Castle for a period of time to make this resentful little guy accept this place again.
Moreover, the Earl was also very curious about where Thain had been over the years, including the accident nineteen years ago.
Although the count has not found anything clearly in recent years, there are some vague clues and flaws that seem to point to several other nobles within the Lycian Alliance and certain foreign forces.
The Grant family also has its own enemies.
Even if they are both in the wizarding world, or even in the Lycian Alliance, there are always some conflicts and disputes over interests.
Especially for a large family like the Grant family, which has been passed down for thousands of years, historical grudges will always make this family have some enemies, either openly or secretly.
With the upper echelons of the family as a deterrent and the relevant knights' hall organizations as coordination, these great nobles rarely completely break up with each other.
But private "petty fights" or conspiracies often occur.
Just letting a group of bandits in to attack Grant's holiday estate outside the city was nothing.
After all, it was just a six-year-old child who was kidnapped. There were dozens of heirs from many noble families.
It's not Earl Grant himself who died. As long as you handle things cleanly, you don't even know who did it. You can only say it is suspicion.
But suspicion does not lead to conviction.
Although Earl Grant has also consciously retaliated against several enemy families in recent years.
For example, several descendants of the great nobles of the Lycian Alliance died inexplicably on the border battlefield. They died at the hands of soldiers from the Kingdom of Western France and the Oak Empire.
As for why he appeared there to perform a mission and was surrounded by legions from the hostile kingdom, and the support from other legions from the Lycian Alliance happened to be a bit slow.
Don't know this.
It may be a matter of military deployment. After all, the Lycian League does not have a king and does not have a unified dispatch.
The quarrels between various nobles are very serious. Sometimes the nobles in power only have a slight dispute, and the opportunity to fight is fleeting.
This is one of the reasons why the Lycian Alliance's territory and total population clearly exceed those of the Kingdom of Western France, but it is at the bottom of the three human kingdoms in terms of strength.
Three high-ranking attendants took action, and Earl Grant thought it would be enough to capture Thane.
He was even thinking about how to communicate with his son and how to persuade him to stay.
As for the title of earl, it is not impossible to pass it on to Thain after twenty or thirty years.
The Grant family is powerful. As long as Thain's bloodline is pure, even if he is an ordinary person, he can definitely inherit the family.
As long as he can successfully give birth to offspring for the family.
The decades of life of an ordinary noble seem to be a long time, but in fact, for those beings above the first level, it is nothing at all.
Even first-level creatures can have a lifespan of nearly a thousand years, and it goes without saying that those creatures above first level can live for nearly a thousand years.
Perhaps for those high-level creatures, just in the blink of an eye, his low-level bloodlines were born one after another.
This is the alternation and reincarnation of life.
They are at extremely low levels and cannot see clearly the nature and truth of this world.
In just a few decades, they thought they had seen the entire world.
However, this is just the tip of the glacier in terms of the billions of true star realms.
Only when you reach level one or above can you truly "open your eyes and see the world."
While Earl Grant was still thinking, the battle in front of him was almost over.
The acid cane was so unexpected that Thain destroyed a senior attendant closest to him.
The other two senior attendants also discovered that Thain was not simple, but when they mentioned God again, Thain's flaming knife was basically ready.
This is an unfair battle.
On the one hand, the three senior attendants did not take out their weapons, and on the other hand, they did not expect that Thain would be so troublesome.
Faced with Thain's sudden outburst and crisp attack, the three of them were actually repelled by Thain alone.
Thane did not harm the lives of these three senior attendants, because he saw that the other party did not have much ill will towards him.
Including the senior attendant who was hit by the strong acid cane, only the metal armor on his thighs was melted, and he was injured and fell off his horse.
As long as it is treated promptly, it is not life-threatening.
In the air, the scorching sparks produced by the collision of the flame knife and the metal armor finally brought Earl Grant back to his senses.
Before the earl could say anything, the three senior attendants who had just been repelled by Thain pressed forward again.
This time, they took out their weapons and breathed out a faint fighting spirit.
Regardless of whether their legs were corroded by strong acid or their breastplates were shattered by flaming knives, these three senior attendants did not even let out a muffled groan.
He is worthy of being an earl's personal guard, worthy of being a strong soldier who has fought many battles.
These three senior servants are not weak even if they get the Black Magic Academy in Mensobra City.
The three senior attendants pressed forward again, making Thain's eyes narrow.
He was reflecting on whether he should have held back just now. If the acid cane had been shot at the senior attendant's head unexpectedly, it would have been possible to kill him instantly without the other party being prepared.
Including the other two senior attendants who didn't care about Thain at first, their injuries will definitely be more serious than they are now.
Just when Thain was reflecting on whether he had become a little soft-hearted, Earl Grant spoke.
"Advanced magic apprentice?"
"Hehehe, not bad! I didn't expect you to have reached this level, or did you inherit the excellent bloodline from your mother's side of the family?"
"Get out of my way, my son, let me take the exam myself!" Earl Grant waved his riding crop and said to the three senior attendants.
The three senior attendants in armor stepped back one after another, and quickly took out the wound medicine from the saddle of the horse to treat the injury.
Having experienced many years of war, they are already very familiar with this set of procedures for dealing with injuries.
Earl Grant was riding a tall horse. He did not dismount to fight, nor did he take out a sword or other weapons.
A riding crop is his weapon, and there is a faint purple flame emanating from the riding whip.