Sword and Sorcery and Martial Arts

Chapter 240 Accident
Rhodes woke up early the next morning. He planned to go back to the castle to have a look at the illegitimate child's matter earlier. After making arrangements, he would go to Qingliu City in the southwest across the river. trip.

He needs to go to that city to talk to those merchants and persuade them to trade with him.

After thinking about it, only he and Gilbert can do it, and Baron and Hamer are not very reliable in doing this kind of thing.And he can't replace Gilbert to study cement, so he can only do this matter himself.

There are probably not many nobles like him in the whole continent who have to go to other cities to negotiate with merchants, which is really a bit miserable.

After Rhodes finished washing, he took a few guards and escorted the illegitimate son of the nobleman to the square of the town.

He didn't intend to send all the guards recruited by the illegitimate son of the nobleman to work as coolies. He hadn't formed his own army yet, so he asked those guards who hadn't done any bad things to stay and help him and continue to maintain the law and order of the town.

The residents of the town got up very early, and rushed to the square after hearing that the illegitimate son of the nobleman was going to be hanged.

The two guards pushed the illegitimate son who was constantly insulting everyone loudly to the gallows and tied him with a rope. The bastard is now completely insane and can't even speak a complete sentence.

The gallows was set up by the town residents themselves, and Rhodes didn't even order it.

"Execute!" Rhode ordered loudly.

Two guards pushed back the platform under the Bastard.

The illegitimate child was suspended in the air by the rope, he kept struggling, his face gradually turned from red to purple, and he stopped moving after a while.

"Find a place to burn him!" Rhodes ordered to the surrounding guards.

They nodded and started to move.

Afterwards, Rhodes returned to that house, arranged tasks with Baron who had just woken up, and gave Hamer the incomplete "Woodworking Classics" and the design drawing of the paper mill, and wrote down the raw materials and methods for making cement on a sheet of paper. The animal skin was given to Gilbert.

"Thank you for your hard work." Rhodes said to them with a hint of apology.

They rushed all the way to his territory, and they were asked to do this and that before resting for a few days, Rhodes felt a little embarrassed.

"It's okay, I also want to see if the alchemy item you gave me is as magical as you said." Gilbert shook his head.

"You are too polite. You also said that we are helping you as friends. Why are you being polite? This is the first time I have seen such an interesting woodworking invention." Hamer looked at The blueprint in "Carpentry Classics" said, "It's the first time I've grown up to know that there are still cars in this world that can dig soil and sow seeds at the same time."

Rhodes was a little moved when he heard their words, "Let's go back to the castle together first and then start."

"I won't go back with you." Hammer sat on the bench and continued to study "Carpentry Classics" seriously. He was deeply attracted by the contents of this book.

Rhodes nodded, and then he, Baron, and Gilbert went outside the house, mounted their horses and ran towards the castle.

The castle is just to the west of the town, and after about 10 minutes, they arrived at the castle.

Rhodes stopped his horse in front of the castle gate, and a group of soldiers in iron armor stood in front of the castle gate, which looked a bit like those worn by imperial soldiers.

"What's going on? Why are there still people here?" Gilbert asked suspiciously.

"I don't know, I'll go over and have a look. If there is a battle later, you should protect yourself." Rhode rode forward after speaking.

"My lord, you are here." A soldier said respectfully after seeing the badge on Rhodes' chest.

"Who are you?" Rhodes asked suspiciously.

"It is the king who asked us to come here to help you. Someone will tell you the specific situation after you enter the castle." The soldier replied.

Rhodes used the mage ball, and after careful detection with mental power, there were also many Nord soldiers wearing imperial armor in the castle, as well as some people dressed as servants, but no ambush was found.

But one room was so blurry that he couldn't detect it clearly.

"Let's go in first." Rhodes turned his head and said to Baron who had leaned over just now.

He didn't relax his vigilance, although he didn't expect that anyone would set this trap specifically for him. There were not many people who had grudges against him, and most of them died.

Marquis Eric and Duke Elvis of the Roman Empire are impossible, their hands cannot reach here.As for Baron Corbett of Wild Boar Castle, it is even more impossible. He does not have this strength. Even if he spends all his money and hires these soldiers to perform such a scene, he cannot be threatened. Ordinary soldiers cannot even hurt him.

The only thing to worry about is the presence in that room.

Rhodes handed over the horse to a servant dressed as a groom, and then walked into the castle with Baron.

This castle is not big, with only two floors. The long table in the castle hall is barely enough for a hundred people to eat at the same time, which is smaller than those castles that Rhodes has been to before.

But he doesn't care about it, it's useless if it's too big, but it's troublesome to maintain.

After Rhodes entered the castle, a middle-aged man with neatly combed hair came over.

"My lord, the chief scholar is waiting for you in the upstairs room." The middle-aged man said.

Rhodes was a little surprised. He didn't even know the chief scholar of the Nord Kingdom. Although Rhodes is an earl now, his status is lower than that of the chief scholar.

Even the king of the Nord Kingdom needs to maintain respect when facing the chief maester.

"Go, they have no malicious intentions." Baron said to Rhodes who was in a daze.

Rhodes came back to his senses and began to look for the stairs to go upstairs.

"My lord, the stairs are here." The middle-aged man said again, "Let me show you the way."

Rhodes nodded, and followed the middle-aged man up the stairs to the second floor of the castle. They stopped in front of the room that Rhodes hadn't detected clearly before.

"I won't go in with you." The middle-aged man knocked on the door for Rhodes.

The door opened automatically, and Rhodes walked in, and found that he had seen the people in the room before.

It was the old man who helped him make flags and badges. He turned around and didn't look at Rhodes. Maybe he was too old and his cloudy eyes were completely blind.

"Find a seat." The old man said after closing the door with magic.

Rhodes pulled a chair over and sat on it.

"The king asked me to help you for a while, so that you don't know anything and make many mistakes. He also asked me to bring you a hundred Nord soldiers, some servants and a hundred thousand gold coins." The old man said...

(End of this chapter)