The guarding knight did not stop her, but gave a slight salute and tapped the armor on his chest with his fist.
"Miss Eleanor, the Duke is waiting for you inside."
"Do you recognize me?" Eleanor was a little surprised.
"I met you six years ago." The knight replied humbly, and then looked forward again without moving his gaze.
Eleanor sighed and continued walking inside.
When the patrolling knights on the road saw her, some saluted solemnly, while others looked confused, but they quickly followed their companions and bowed.
Arriving in front of the temporary headquarters, the two knights guarding the door nodded to him and then opened the tent door.
"Please come in." The voice of the Duke of Carinthia came from inside.
Eleanor stepped in and said with a forced smile: "Your Majesty the Duke..."
"Miss Eleanor." The Duke of Carinthia was signing a document, "Please sit down."
Eleanor was silent for a moment, then sat down in front of him.
"Your brother is coming this way," the Duke of Carinthia said.
Eleanor was slightly startled when she heard this and smiled bitterly.
"There is no need for polite words. After all, your father and I are familiar with each other." The Duke of Carinthia put down the document and raised his eyes, "Why did you run away from home?"
Eleanor:………………
"Half a year ago, after you left without saying goodbye, your Weisbach family searched the entire territory." The Duke of Carinthia said calmly, "Not only Bavaria, but also Carinthia, Lombardy, and Burgundy.
, Franconia... The envoys sent by your father have traveled almost everywhere that is close to your family's fiefdom. Everyone knows that the second daughter of the Weisbach family ran away from home, leaving only an inexplicable letter.
letter."
Eleanor was so ashamed that she almost wanted to dig a hole in the ground and crawl into it.
"In short, since you are here, you don't want to go anywhere until your brother Ludwig comes to pick you up." The Duke of Carinthia said.
Eleanor raised her head: "But there are changes in the town ahead..."
"That is the job of mercenaries and knight vassals." The Duke of Carinthia frowned and said, "In our Principality of Carinthia, we have never had the custom of letting noble ladies go to the battlefield."
"I am not a noble lady!" Eleanor argued hastily, "I am also a mercenary! A mercenary from the Blue Sword Mercenary Group!"
"If you keep talking, there will be no mercenary group like the Blue Sword in the world." The Duke of Carinthia said indifferently.
Eleanor bowed her head and said nothing.
"Think about it from the standpoint of your father and brother, is the daughter of the Weisbach family going to be a mercenary?" The Duke of Carinthia let out a low laugh, whether it was emotion or ridicule, "Even if you run away from home, even if you become a painter,
Musicians...it's okay to do some well-educated work to make a living. What kind of dirty profession is a mercenary? It licks blood at the edge of a knife, has no honor, and will do anything for money."
"You have misunderstood our mercenary group." Eleanor said slowly.
"You can talk to your brother about this." The Duke of Carinthia patted the table, "Robert?"
A knight walked in from the door: "Your Majesty the Duke."
"Take Miss Eleanor to stay in the inner camp, and then go to Liferach to find some daughters of local nobles to accompany her. They must have good reputations, clean family backgrounds, and dignified looks." Duke Carinthia ordered, "
We cannot neglect the people of Weisbach."
"Yes." Robert nodded solemnly.
Eleanor remained silent and followed Robert to the noble camp.
All the vassals, cabinet and related family members of the Duke of Carinthia lived here. Robert summoned a few clever palace attendants and asked them to pack out the innermost tent.
Ten minutes later, Eleanor walked into the luxurious tent, which had a comfortable bedroom decorated with velvet and carpets. In the center was a large wooden bed, covered with thick soft mattresses and quilts.
.
Looking back, Robert was already standing at the door outside the tent, as if he planned to guard her here.
Eleanor sighed and lowered the curtains on both sides.
Then she sat on the edge of the bed and whispered:
"Mia."
Mia's upper body emerged from the shadow at her feet and asked: "How is it? Have you finished confirming?"
"Confirmation completed." Eleanor nodded, then activated her spirituality and teleported to Hearth Island.
Mia returned to the shadow world again, and then slipped into Robert's shadow through the gap under the door curtain.
Robert, the loyal knight, crossed his arms and looked straight ahead.
What no one noticed was that the shadow he cast on the ground slowly stretched, followed the root of the tent to the back of the tent, and then stretched out through the gap in the wooden fence of the camp.
After upgrading to "Shadow II", Mia can freely manipulate the changes in nearby shadows and truly "dissolve" her body in the shadows.
As long as there is a shadow the size of a fingernail anywhere, she can hide in the corresponding shadow realm and will not be limited by the size of her body.
As soon as the shadow stretched out from the gap, Mia jumped out of the shadow, and then Shi Shiran left.
The deformed shadow immediately bounced back to Robert's feet like a stretched rubber band.
In Hearth Island, as soon as Eleanor teleported in, Nora, who had been waiting for a long time, came to greet her.
"How is it?" she asked with concern.
"It's confirmed that the Duke of Carinthia has informed my family." Eleanor sighed.
Nora also smiled bitterly.
Just a few hours ago, Eleanor confessed to her and Mia that she actually ran away from home.
The Franks' family values were much more conservative than those of the Solomons. Daughters of minor nobles might be able to go out to do business and study, while those from large noble families basically stayed at home and were taught by specialized private tutors.
After reaching adulthood, they either marry other nobles or enter a monastery to "serve God" and "study the truth."
Eleanor is different from other girls. She neither wants to get married nor engage in scientific research. Instead, she has a soft spot for inheriting a fief and becoming a knight lord.
So after a quarrel with her father one day, she took some money she had saved privately and slipped out of the castle with the outgoing team.
As for how she slipped out, Eleanor didn't say much. In short, she spent some time in Cyrus and Asia Minor, and after spending all her money, she came to Constantinople to make a living.
Finally, I met Ask.
The reason why I chose to run away from home was that on the one hand I didn't want to stay at home and let my father arrange my life, and on the other hand I wanted to find opportunities to prove myself.
Now that she has become a Level 4 transcendent, her combat prowess is far superior to ordinary people, so even her old-fashioned father must be impressed by her, right?
Meeting the Duke of Carinthia this time was purely an accident. But now that it was confirmed that the Duke had informed her family, the plan for a showdown with her family needed to be advanced.
She wants to convince her father to become a new transcendent.
It would be best if her father was willing to recognize her transformation and independence and agree to let her inherit the fiefdom.
If she doesn't want to, the worst she can do is run away from home again. Anyway, with the help of Fire Island and Mia, Eleanor doesn't worry about her father's method of trapping her.