Bernard Keeping Things Hidden?

"By the way, where is Stella?" Bernard finally spoke up and asked the others.

Of course, it was not that he had not cared enough to ask about Stella earlier.

Rather, on the way here, they had already encountered that group of wounded rangers and learned that Stella was safe and sound, and that she had followed Nalant to investigate the mountains on both sides.

He had also sent dozens of Tulip cavalrymen up the mountains to search for her.

Only now, upon hearing the words of these young heirs, did he learn that Stella was nearby.

"Count, Miss Stella is over there!" Just then, a Tulip vassal spoke, pointing toward the foot of the mountain.

Everyone looked in the indicated direction and indeed spotted Stella at the foot of the mountain, seven or eight hundred meters away.

Of course, in the next instant, everyone's attention was drawn to the large group of warhorses in blue caparisons beside her.

At the sight of those blue-caparisoned warhorses, both the king and the counts were taken aback.

"Your Majesty, when the Northern Principality cavalry fled just now, the Tulip Family took away all the warhorses belonging to the direct cavalry!" Tony spoke up at this moment.

Earlier, they had been too caught up in the joy of surviving, their heads still spinning, to think of fighting over the spoils.

But once they belatedly remembered the horses, they discovered that the ordinary warhorses around them were no longer worth much, while the direct cavalry's warhorses had already been gathered up and taken away by Nalant and the others.

Thus, he could only nurse his envy, jealousy, and resentment in secret. Stepping forward now, he very much hoped to stir up some trouble.

Although the king's expression did not change upon hearing Tony's words,