Chapter 108

"Sneeze --!"

The hat wrapped in the blanket sneezed hard and squatted shivering by the fireplace with a bowl of hot soup in his hand.

The hat who had just returned to the castle from the outer shack was reporting his findings to the dark haired wizard.

"Are you really sure?"

Lauren's eyes narrowed slightly, as if he were lost in thought: "I mean, it's not just some rumors and troublemakers, but someone behind his back?"

"It's absolutely true." it seems that the other party is doubting himself. The hat quickly defended: "you have to believe me. I'm definitely not telling a lie!"

"That night, after the granary caught fire for half a day, it has spread all over the outside! People everywhere are talking about the shortage of food in the castle. There are all kinds of things. If someone didn't do it deliberately, the news wouldn't spread so fast."

"Isn't it because I halved the relief bread and potatoes?"

"My wizard master, you must not have received relief food." the hat sighed like an adult and replied with a bitter smile: "in this weather, it is good for those poor people to eat. Who is picky about how much?"

"Of course, there are picky people everywhere, but certainly not many. But if it were not organized, this kind of resistance would never have become a climate, let alone become what it is now."

"And you may not know that every time the castle guards on patrol leave, a group of guys will sneak into the shack and agitate the elderly and the only young people everywhere; not only that, I also heard that even many castle guards are rumouring that there is no food in the granary!"

"Are even the guards spreading rumors?"

"It's not just that. The guys who sneak in seem to be ready. Anyone who joins them will give a dagger and some potatoes." the hat took out a handful from his pocket and handed it to Loren: "I got it from another guy."

Lauren took it and looked at it carefully. The dagger is so rough that it is even covered with rust - but it can be used as a weapon anyway.

"How many daggers are there?" Loren asked. "How many people have they attracted?"

"I don't know, but there must be hundreds." the hat flat mouth: "although the cover is very good, I can still see at a glance that it doesn't look like I've been hungry!"

Loren fell into a deep meditation. It takes a lot of money to distribute food and weapons, incite and win over refugees, and even buy the guards of the castle.

Behind these people can only be the Seine family and their henchmen - only they can have such sufficient financial resources in the whole Shenlin castle and do all this behind their backs.

Loren had expected that the castle guards would be bought off. After all, these people were originally soldiers of the Seine family. It was only because the count of shenlinbao changed people that they turned to be loyal to ruven Fred. It was normal to be attracted.

On the contrary, those soldiers recruited from refugees have even higher credibility and loyalty, but I'm afraid they can only be used as guards. If you really let them stick to the castle, the result will be disappointing.

The rebellious castle guards, bewitched refugees, plus the Seine family and their trusted private soldiers... The wall of Shenlin castle can never stop so many enemies. I'm afraid it can only last less than a day with only a small number of guards and guard knights.

Even this is Loren's most optimistic estimate.

Of course, if it really evolves to that step, it is the problem of the open rebellion of the nobles of shenlinbao. Duke lottel will certainly not let them go - even if they are just for their own small life, these nobles will not be stupid to this step.

They will certainly mobilize their own private soldiers, but the number will never be very large. The only real worry is the refugees and the bought castle guards.

Even so, there are too many enemies. Just relying on a castle can't last long. Sir Aaron will have at least ten days to return to shenlinbao, and the Seine family will certainly not wait until the tenth day.

They'll do it in ten days!

Before that, he must solve the shortage of manpower as soon as possible - the knights in the castle can protect the castle from the front, but the enemy will certainly instigate several guards to sneak attacks, or even open the side door to release the rioting refugees, and then take advantage of the chaos to kill Reuven Fred.

If it was a raid, Loren might be good at it, but this time he wanted to protect the count. There were so few hands in front of him that he couldn't take care of it everywhere by himself.

As for the little wizard... She's lucky enough to protect herself, Loren. I'm afraid I'll have to be distracted at that time. Considering ayin's safety, I can't spare my hand and take this opportunity to catch Barry senna and his confidants hiding behind!

What on earth should we do... Let Asriel do it again?

No, the granary can also be explained as that he was prepared, but if a group of nobles were attacked by vampires in his home... Even if there is only a slight possibility, he and Ayn will be chased by the church.

Asriel can only be a helpless choice and his last card. Now what they need is conventional strength, reinforcements that can appear in public.

The contemplative black haired wizard didn't say a word, and the hat hiding by the fireplace didn't dare to say a word. He drank the hot soup quietly. There was only the sound of firewood crackling in the fire in the room.

There was a knock on the door outside the room. A panting guard Knight came in and handed a letter to the black haired Wizard: "Lord Loren Turin, this is from the ancient wood forest border tower. It didn't arrive until this afternoon!"

"Hard work." nodding Loren took the envelope from each other. After Sir Aaron left, Loren temporarily took over the post of military director and became the nominal head of the whole count's defense.

Although it is too wonderful for a wizard to hold this position, those nobles would have been in trouble in peacetime. But now everyone's attention is focused on the cold and the count's reform. Naturally, no one will pay attention to these unimportant little things.

More importantly, there are far fewer people monitoring Loren in this castle than those monitoring ruwen. The well-informed young count naturally handed over power to him, which can also ensure that the news will not leak.

After opening it, he just glanced at it. The dark pupil immediately contracted. Loren, who changed his expression, immediately looked at the guard Knight: "when is this?"

"Yesterday," the knight of the guard quickly replied, "they have been waiting all night, but they didn't directly enter the count because of the agreement, otherwise the news would have been sent last night."

"Immediately tell the guards of the border tower to arrange a meeting - I'll leave tomorrow morning and let these distinguished guests wait patiently for another night."

"Yes, Lord Loren Turin!" the knight of the guard immediately turned and left, even forgetting to close the door of the room because of his hurry.

The gallant hat quickly stood up and closed the door. He looked curiously at Lauren with a smile on his mouth: "er... What happened?"

"Er... Don't tell me if it's too important!" immediately realized his talkative hat and quickly waved his hand: "I'm just curious. I don't really want to inquire!"

"This is really a secret, and you can't let others know." Lauren smiled a little playfully and looked up at the boy's flustered appearance: "but you're not 'someone else', you're a 'hat', so of course I can tell you."

"A group of elves appeared from the direction of the ancient wood forest. They seemed to be the messengers of the ancient wood forest settlement and came to the Principality of lottel for help."

"Elf..." I haven't seen what kind of hat the elf looks like in my life. I just sighed: "but why are you so happy?"

"That's because they are the reinforcements I've been looking for for for a long time."

Smiling Loren said something without beginning or ending under the confused gaze of his hat.