The main castle of Long River Town is actually the deepest inner city in the city, close to the gentle lake in the middle reaches of the Tongtian River.
The inner city has a separate city gate and high inner walls, which enclose a wide square.
The innermost part of the square is the main building of the castle.
The tall main building is backed by Long River Lake, and the wall of the main building is connected with the inner city wall.
Even if the outer city wall of Long River Town is captured, the inner city is still equivalent to a complete fortress.
This is also the normal situation in various pioneering towns in the eastern region of the Lionheart Kingdom. They are all based on the original small castle and continuously expanded layer by layer.
Overall, the inner city of Long River Town looks like a luxurious courtyard house with a large square. The main building has five floors, and the Duke Elfwan flag hangs on the roof.
This is still the residence of Madam Bella, the widow of Duke Elfwan.
The guards in the inner city did not stop Amy. After all, someone in Godric's family knew little Princess, and they did not dare to use weapons against her.
But an old housekeeper and a bunch of attendants "respectfully" stopped at the city gate.
It's normal not to let people in. In fact, during this period, probably no indifferent noble would come to 'visit' Ms. Bella.
No one is a fool, and no one dares to interfere in the matter between the two dukes.
But Amy is just an eighteen-year-old girl. It is normal for her to come to visit a pregnant woman from a noble family. Just treat her as a child who does not understand politics.
After all, many young nobles will do mischief in the name of "knowing nothing"...
Amy is not sure what is going on with Madam Bella. Is it controlled by Duke Alma? Or is it some other transaction?
But Amy must go in, you can take refuge here. The more dangerous the place, the safer it is, this is what the teacher said.
Forster will definitely not be stupid enough to use knives or guns in the inner castle.
"Madam Bella is about to give birth, right? I'm here to visit her."
Amy signaled the old housekeeper to give way.
"My wife is only seven months pregnant, so it's still early for her to give birth. Moreover, she has been raising a baby recently and hasn't seen anyone..."
The old butler smiled brightly and was extremely polite, but he didn't move a step.
It is indeed not convenient to entertain guests when you are seven months pregnant. If you were an ordinary noble, you would have turned around and left by now.
But Amy has nowhere to go, and Forster is probably following behind. It would be inappropriate for Kloze and the others to take action directly, as they would be following the truth.
"I came all the way here to visit, and you actually stopped me from seeing me? Isn't this inappropriate?"
Amy glanced at the old housekeeper with an unkind look.
The old housekeeper had a professional smile and a very firm attitude, "Madam said, no one will be seen. Sorry, Miss Amy."
After saying that, he came over with an old face. "Please leave here, Grand Duke Alma won't allow it..."
"Crack!"
Before the old man could finish speaking, he was slapped and knocked to the ground.
Amy slapped her with rounded hands and wore deerskin gloves... She had never slapped anyone in the face, but she had wanted to do it for a long time.
"No one will stop me even when I enter the palace! I didn't expect that there would be people in this little shabby place who don't open their eyes! Get out of here!"
Amy has seen this kind of playboy behavior a lot, but this is the first time she has tried it on her own, so she can pretend to be quite similar.
But I have to say that this approach was very effective - the old housekeeper covered his face on the ground and picked up his teeth, Amy walked directly into the square with his head held high and walked towards the main building of the castle.
The attendants looked at each other and tried to stop him, but were knocked away by Kloze.
There were many soldiers inside the square and on the walls of the inner city, but they could not see what was going on inside the city gate. As a result, Amy led people into the square of the inner city in such a swagger.
The attendants were a little at a loss. They had never seen any nobleman completely ignore the two ducal families Alma and Elfwan.
Anyone who dares to break in like this is obviously a naughty Princess with a bad temper. No one wants to get into trouble.
Meitengheim Great Swordsman was originally not allowed to enter the main building, so logically they could only stay in the square and wait.
However, after Amy slapped him, Kloze led a group of strong men to protect Amy and strode towards the gate of the main building of the castle.
The attendants were still hesitating, not sure whether they should stop him or not.
At this time Forster had already chased in.
But when he saw Amy leading people to the door of the main building from a distance, he suddenly stopped and did not continue to chase, nor even asked people to stop Amy.
He seemed to be hesitating about something.
But then, he actually asked all the soldiers in the square to gather, asked everyone to exit the inner city square, retreated outside the castle wall, and closed the castle gate.
The door to the inner city was closed.
Amy looked back, Forster planned to lock himself here?
That's okay too.
Anyway, so many people on the Long River Town street have seen me. Those merchants are very familiar with Wheat Fragrance Territory. If I and Meitengheim people never go out, someone will know about it soon.
The door to the main building was closed, and there was no one guarding the door.
It seems that the main building has been closed since entering the square?
If you think about it carefully, those soldiers seem to be far away from the main building, either on the walls of the inner city or on the outside of the square.
In this situation, it doesn't feel like I'm guarding the main building, but it feels like I'm guarding this building?
That's right, they probably have to prevent Madam Bella from escaping...
Amy thought.
Now that there was no one in the square, Amy had no worries and let Meitengheim people break in directly.
A group of people entered the main building.
The hall inside the door is very spacious, and there are many maids inside.
Seeing a group of strong men carrying big swords coming in, they wisely did not yell, but shrank aside one after another. They seemed to be very experienced in this kind of thing.
Amy shook his head and smiled. Of course these people have experience. Those so-called "rebellious" people before may have come in and killed Elfwan's family in this way.
"Where is Madam Bella?"
Amy drew his sword and pointed it at a maid.
"Madam is upstairs... on the top floor."
The maid was very cooperative and squatted down proactively, still holding her head in her hands.
Amy was a little surprised - the previous group of people trained these maids very well, are they so sensible?
But before she could go upstairs, a group of people came down from upstairs.
It was a group of female soldiers wearing exquisite leather armor, a dozen of them, carrying spears and axes on their backs, and holding foreign daggers in their hands. They looked like they might be the escort in the main building.
This building seems to be full of women, even the soldiers are women?
Meitengheim The strong men came forward with big swords and stood ready, but the female soldiers did not attack.
The leader was a tall woman, wearing a strange lightweight steel helmet, with only her eyes and mouth exposed. The leather armor and boots on her body were very gorgeous.
The leather armor only protected his vitals, leaving the fair skin of his neck and arms exposed.
She stood on the stairs and looked down at Amy: "It's so beautiful... Tsk... What a perfect virgin..."
She is laughing.
Those lips are extremely red, and against the snow-white chin, they even look eerily beautiful.
After the woman finished speaking, she slowly walked down the stairs and walked to Amy: "Do you want eternal beauty and strength? Little beauty... hehehe..."
This woman is at least 1.9 meters tall, about the same height as Kloze. She looks like a giantess in front of Amy.
Kloze stepped in front of her, pointing his sword at this weird woman.
But this tall woman completely ignored the big sword and the strong man in front of her, and kept staring at Amy behind Kloze. The corners of her mouth exposed outside the light helmet curved even more, and she even lightly touched her lips with her tongue.
It's obviously a teasing tone.
What does it mean?
Amy is a little hairy. She originally planned to kidnap Madam Bella, but she didn't expect to meet a pervert!
Amy took a step back and drew his sword. "Who are you? Where is Madam Bella?"
"The lady is giving birth to the messenger of God... hahaha..."
As the woman approached, Amy suddenly felt dizzy and his whole body seemed a little weak.
"Toxic!"
Kloze screamed at this time, then took out a handful of grass foam from his body and wiped it on his face, then attacked the woman with a big sword.
All Meitengheim people also took action, and ten great swords flashed under the crystal lamp in the castle hall, creating a huge light curtain.
The only one who didn't take any action was Sammer. He stuffed a handful of grass foam into Amy's hand. "This is Artemisia cruciata, hold it in your mouth!"
Then hold a sword beside Amy to protect him.
Ever since Kloze and others were fascinated by Risadiran using Snake Heart Stone last time, they have been carrying Artemisia cruciferus powder with them. Now that they felt something was a little abnormal, they immediately used it.
Crosswort itself is a common herb that can detoxify many kinds of toxins. Because the smell is very pungent, it can also be used to sober up or induce vomiting.
Although I don't know if this weird woman is using Snake Heart Stone, but after applying a handful of crosswort, Kloze immediately became energetic. Anyway, it is indeed effective.
"Huh? Found it? Fall down!"
The woman still smiled and took off a round shield, which looked like the shield of a southern desert tribe.
Holding the shield with one hand and blocking left and right, he was able to block the full attack of Kloze's two-handed sword.
However, after a few rounds, Kloze did not fall down, but became more energetic as he fought.
The woman finally stopped laughing. She realized that her poison had no effect at all, so she pulled out a war hammer from behind and dealt with Kloze seriously.
What is unexpected is that the woman's skills are unexpectedly strong.
In her hand was a strange one-handed hammer with two flying-wing-like hammer heads.
However, the hammer surface is large and flat. It is not like the mace commonly used by ordinary knights, but more like a carpenter's hand hammer with an extended handle and carved patterns.
It stands to reason that this kind of broad, flat hammer-faced blunt instrument is not easy to break armor, and it is also relatively bulky.
But in that woman's hands, it was so flexible that it even deformed Kloze's plate armor with one blow.
Although Kloze also retaliated, relying on the length of the sword to hit the woman's shoulder armor, but after being knocked back by the hammer, without exerting any strength, the woman's shoulder armor was not even slashed.
Not only can this woman rival Kloze in strength, but her skills are no worse than Kloze!
This is also the strongest enemy Kloze has encountered so far, except for the lord.
The heavy sword was swung again, and Kloze used all his strength to fight with the woman.
But such a strong woman was just her. Those female soldiers with spears and axes were no match for the other Great Swordsmans, and several were killed or injured in a short time.
Seeing how tough these tough men were, the woman blocked Kloze's attack while looking for traces of Amy.
But Amy had already smartly retreated to the corner behind the tough men, holding a crossbow in his hand - his teacher who was good at kidnapping said that if you are not good at it, don't stay where you can be easily caught...
And Sammer has never left Amy's side.
Meitengheim people quickly killed most of the female soldiers, but those female soldiers seemed to be very crazy. The remaining four or five were still rushing to kill, feeling completely unafraid of death.
The woman finally realized that she couldn't deal with these tough men - after another successful block, her shield was chopped into pieces.
She flexibly rolled out of the battle circle and ran upstairs.
"What a warrior! You can become servants of God!"
When she ran to the upper floor, her voice came down.
"Heresy?!"
Amy realized that her so-called god might not be a good thing, "Kloze, catch up with her!"
Kloze was actually chasing after her when she gave the order.
The tough men quickly cleared away the remaining female soldiers and chased Amy upstairs.
Those female soldiers who fought with spears and axes all fought to the death. No one surrendered, no one was afraid, and no one even spoke.
The maids downstairs were all trembling, and no one dared to get up.
"Find her out!"
Amy assigned the tough men to search layer by layer, and finally found the woman on the top floor.
By the way, I also found Madam Bella.
They are in the same room.
A year ago, Amy had met Madam Bella and recognized her appearance. In his impression, Madam Bella was just a slightly extreme middle-aged woman.
But what Amy saw now was a somewhat strange... female madman?
She didn't find Madam Bella in the castle owner's bedroom, but in an indescribably weird room.
The room is filled with many sculptures, each one is as tall as a person and seems to be some kind of strange god.
Or a demon.
These are probably the works of Madam Bella, because she is still holding a knife and carving a piece of wood.
Every sculpture in the room looks similar, a weird female figure with goat horns on its head.
But all the sculptures have no faces, and they all seem to be stained with blood, making them look weird and terrifying.
Madam Bella herself does not look pregnant, at least her belly is not big.
But there were tiny wounds all over her body.
The wounds were very shallow and small, but the countless wounds had broken her skin into pieces like fish scales.
And Madam Bella's next action let Amy know the source of those small wounds.
"I swear by my blood... I pray for your coming..."
The carving knife in Madam Nera's hand that was carving wood suddenly pierced his arm. A few drops of blood came out from the carving knife, and he continued carving.
The blood followed the movement of the carving knife, leaving streaks of bright red streaks on the wood carving.
Amy shuddered, and all the hairs on his body stood up.
Even Kloze clenched the sword in his hand, his nervousness palpable.
Such pain is almost equivalent to being beheaded alive!
Or cut yourself with your own hands!
This is definitely not something ordinary people can endure.
But Ms. Bella didn't seem to feel anything. She kept lowering her head and carving the wood, muttering something in her mouth.
Seems crazy?
"Madam Bella?"
Amy called out, but got no response.
The tall woman had been standing in the room saying something. She didn't seem to be panicked when she saw Amy leading people to chase her and block her in the room.
She ignored Amy at all, but looked at Madam Bella seriously, with a smile still on her lips.
"... That is the carrier of Goddess that the prophet said. Did you see it? It is the perfect carrier... Hahaha..."
The woman laughed more and more crazily, "Only a noble and beautiful virgin... she can bring Goddess to come! Bring the hero of Pandor!"
Madam Bella finally reacted and turned to look at Amy. His originally dull eyes gradually became brighter.
It can even be said that his eyes are gleaming.
"Amy...Princess! That's right...Princess can definitely do it!... The hero of Pendor..."
Amy shuddered, are these two lunatics?
Unexpectedly, I originally planned to kidnap Madam Bella and escape, but now it seems that these two lunatics are not easy to deal with!
"Catch them first!"
Amy waved his hand, and Kloze led the tough men towards the woman.
Worrying about the woman's superb skills, they just slowly surrounded her.
The tall woman was forced to the corner of the room step by step. She smiled again, looked at Kloze and said, "Perfect warrior...Goddess Eredar will pamper you..."
Then he threw the hammer in his hand towards Kloze.
Kloze slashed the hammer aside with his sword, then charged forward with the intention of arresting someone, but there seemed to be a secret door flipped over on the wall behind the woman.
That woman simply disappeared!
"Go after her!"
Naturally, the tough men also saw the overturned wooden board. Kloze rushed over and smashed the secret door with a sword, but there was no room behind the door.
After the door was chopped into pieces, the river wind came in and blew the wood chips in the room everywhere.
The door is actually empty. Below is Tongtian River!
Kloze almost fell down.
This is the room at the edge of the castle. Outside that wall is the gentle and wide lake behind Long River Town.
Looking down, there were huge ripples on the water. The woman had obviously jumped directly into the lake from a height of five stories. She could no longer see anyone, so she was probably snorkeling.
Meitengheim people can actually swim, but the heavy armor on their bodies does not allow them to jump into the river... otherwise they would not have fallen into a coma before falling into the sea.
There was no way to pursue him now, and Kloze retreated.
Madam Bella, on the other hand, was still staring straight at Amy, mumbling something.
The carving knife in her hand is obviously not much of a weapon. The woman in her fifties, with wounds all over her body, does not look threatening - except for her obvious mental disorder.
When dealing with madmen, it's best not to use force...
"Madam Bella, what's wrong with you? Since you still recognize me, why not tell me what's going on first, maybe I can help you?"
Amy plans to ask clearly about the situation first, at least for now it seems that she should be able to communicate.
Madam Bella didn't speak, but he smiled and his eyes became more and more weird.
At the end, he burst into laughter. "Hahaha... I know... I know!"
After shouting a few times, she stabbed herself in the chest with a knife!
"What the hell! Stop her!"
Amy almost collapsed, blurting out dirty words, who the hell are these people...
She can now understand why the lord occasionally swears involuntarily.
It's really impossible to deal with lunatics and fools!