Working Prophet.

Now that the decision had been made, the Mistress gave the order to attack the large army that surrounded Irkand.

After a day and night of fierce fighting, Ilkander and his [-] soldiers and horses soon couldn't hold on, and could only retreat into the castle to defend.

Ilkander wiped the blood off his face, looked at the densely packed enemy army outside, and obviously knew that it was impossible to win this battle.

Besides, there is still a giant dragon on the opposite side that has not been dispatched.

Ilkand regretted a little at this time, not leading the remaining cavalry to break out just now.

He originally had some hopes for the Second Sons League. Claudio heard that he was good at fighting and that he still had 5000 people under his command, so he wanted him to join him.

But I don't know if the envoys of the Second Sons didn't have time to go to Ilea's place, or the talks between them broke down. In short, it seems that the new Lord of the Western Region doesn't intend to let him go.

Ilkander sent all his guards to guard the gate. He is now sitting in the banquet hall on the second floor of the castle, and two maids are cleaning the wound on his arm.

Ilkander looked around and saw that Vanessa and Blanco, the mother and son, were shivering in the corner at the moment. Hugo's face was also very ugly, and his eyes were wandering around. He couldn't help it. Let out a light hum.

Hugo looked up at him when he heard his snort, and said in horror, "Lord Ilkander, what should we do now?"

"What should I do? Can't you see that we are dead?" Ilkander said lightly.

"But I don't want to die yet." Hugo cried sadly.

Ilkander said disdainfully, "That's why you became a traitor."

"Aren't you a traitor too? You even killed your prince with your own hands. Why are you always a traitor? The traitor calls me!" Hugo said angrily.

He was a little afraid of Ilkander at first, but seeing that the big guys were going to die together, he was not so afraid anymore.

Ilkander said disdainfully, "I'm different from you, I'm not..." However, he stopped suddenly in the middle of speaking, as if he felt that it was pointless to argue about such things now.

Hearing the banging on the door outside, Hugo slumped back on the chair like the eggplant beaten by Frost, hugging his head.

Ilkander ignored him and waited for the maid to finish bandaging, then stood up and walked to the mother and son in the corner.

Seeing this, Vanessa quickly blocked her son behind her, "Master Ilkander, we have already followed what you said, what else do you want to do?"

Ilkander took out a note from his arms and threw it to Vanessa.

The latter picked up the note, opened it and glanced at it, his face changed.

"Where did you... this thing come from?"

Ilkander did not answer, but said, "You should be glad that this note fell into my hands, the servant you sent to deliver the letter was bought by Herodotus long ago.

"If I hadn't stopped and killed him, your son might have survived. After all, he was still useful to Herodotus. As for you, you are dead now."

Vanessa's face was pale, "Herodotus approached our mother and son and said that he could help us take back the green field. I believed him at first, but later found out that he just wanted to use us to deal with Ilea and Arias family.

"I told him that I wanted to terminate the cooperation, but he refused to let us leave at all, and even sent someone to put us under house arrest. I secretly sent someone to send a message to Ilea, hoping that she or the Prophet Merlin could rescue us."

"Don't worry, you will be saved soon." Ilkander said.

As soon as he finished speaking, Hugo suddenly sat up from the chair, then pulled out the saber from his waist, and walked towards this side.

Seeing this, Ilkander frowned and said, "What are you doing?"

"Find us a way to survive." Hugo said with his eyes shining, he grabbed Vanei's hair, and lifted her from the ground despite the latter's screams.

"She is Ilea's stepmother, and that kid is Ilea's younger brother. The two of us will use them as hostages. If the outsiders don't withdraw their troops, we will kill them."

Hugo became more and more excited as he spoke, but his voice stopped abruptly the next moment.

Covering his throat, he looked at Ilkander in disbelief.

The latter inserted the dagger that was still bleeding back into his waist, and said without changing his face, "I have endured you for a long time, if you hadn't colluded with those dwarves, I wouldn't have become a traitor now."

After Ilkander finished speaking, Hugo's body fell backwards. Ilkander did not look at the corpse in the pool of blood, but turned his gaze back to Vanessa who was still in shock.

"You don't need to thank me. I originally kept you as a bargaining chip in negotiations."

Vanessa smiled bitterly, "The relationship between my stepdaughter and I is not good. We had already fallen out when we competed for the head of the Arias family. My son and I may not be as useful as you think. "

Ilkander waved his hand, pointed at Blanco and said, "In any case, the blood of the Arias family is also flowing on this child. Based on what you know about your stepdaughter, you think she will bear to see it." Let Blanco die in front of her?"

Vanessa was silent.

Ilkand said, "Don't worry, my request this time is not too much. She will agree."

Vanessa sighed, "My son and I will cooperate with you."

"Very good." Ilkander said with satisfaction.

After a while, the castle door that was still closed was suddenly opened.

The soldiers besieging outside were stunned for a moment, and before they rushed in, Ilkander had already walked out from inside.

Behind him were Vanessa and Blanco.

Ilkand spoke loudly, "Where is Sir Ilea? I want to see Sir Ilea!"

The leading knight snorted, "I don't need Lady Ilea to deal with you traitors, we are enough."

"Then please take me to see Lord Ilea." Ilkander said, "I am willing to give up resistance and hand over Lord Ilea's younger brother and stepmother."

The knight frowned. He had indeed received an order to capture Vanessa and Blanco alive as much as possible.

So he said, "Call the people out first."

"Then you agree to my request?"

"Captives are not entitled to make demands."

"I killed the Marquis of Cullen for a reason." Ilkander said, "Actually, this is the order of the Marquis of Cullen. You take me to see Sir Ilea, and I will explain everything to her."

The knight looked hesitant, as if he was still thinking about his words, but at this moment the crowd behind him separated automatically.

A silver-haired figure walked out of it.

He asked Ilkander, "Do you remember Gero?"

Ilkander frowned and thought for a moment, "Jello, this name sounds familiar, as if he entered the Dragon's Back Mountain Range with us back then."

"He is my son, my only son." The silver-haired old man said, "And you killed him."

"I will challenge you to a duel until one of you and I lies down and cannot stand up again. If you win, my men will take you to Ser Ilea. Will you accept my duel? "