rise of empire total war

Chapter 59 Ready to Return
In the end, the three of Sophia were found by Richard.

The cause of the incident was that Toby insisted on going back to the ground to check the situation. Sophia and Marlowe couldn't help him. They could only watch him crawl back along the tunnel with the captured iron sword. Toby was searched the moment he emerged. The feudal knight found out. Fortunately, he called out his identity in time, otherwise there would be a tragedy where the head fell in the next second.

After understanding the ins and outs of the incident, Richard sighed helplessly. He could only be thankful that Sophia hadn't suffered any harm, and thank Marlowe who appeared like a timely rain.

"Mr. Marlowe." Richard looked at Marlowe with a straight face, "Thank you for your helping hand, and I would like to offer you a gift to express my gratitude."

"It's just a matter of little effort." Marlowe waved his hand, just about to say no, but Richard's next sentence blocked his mouth.

"I am willing to grant you the status of a knight and give you Bihaqi Village under Luwen City as your fiefdom."

"hiss--"

Marlowe gasped. He looked at Richard in shock. He didn't expect that the noble boy in front of him would make himself a knight if he disagreed with him.

"Richard, how could you do this? I want him to be my guard knight." At this moment, Sophia suddenly interrupted with dissatisfaction. Regardless of the stains on her face, she stood in front of Richard and said : "I was rescued by him, he should become my guard knight."

"..."

Richard opened his mouth, but still had no words to refute, he could only take a step back as if by default, and stopped speaking.And Sophia turned to look at Marlowe, and asked, "Marlowe, are you willing to be my guard knight and fight for the royal family from now on, dedicating your loyalty and life?"

"I..." Marlowe opened his mouth slightly, hesitated for a second or two, then nodded, knelt on the ground, and said, "Your Highness, I am willing to be your guard knight, loyal to the royal family, and dedicate my life."

"Okay." Sophia nodded in satisfaction, "When I get back to Ravana, I'll go and explain to my father..."

Speaking of her father, Sophia suddenly paused, as if remembering the quarrel with her father before she left, she lowered her head with a depressed expression.

Richard watched her change, and had some guesses in his heart. He reached out and patted Sophia on the shoulder, pulled her behind him, and then ordered to the surrounding soldiers: "Move here, destroy all buildings , to prevent other forces from occupying this place."

……

On the way back to Leuven City, Richard asked why Marlowe appeared in the thief's lair. In fact, this question appeared at the first sight of him, but he didn't ask the question on the spot because of Sophia's presence.

In the face of Richard's inquiry, Marlowe hesitated for a while before telling his own experience.

Before that, Marlowe was just a very ordinary caravan guard. The caravan he worked for was ambushed by the Lavis Bandit when passing through this area. was brought back.

Marlowe was imprisoned in a temporary prison together with several companions. Out of his longing for freedom, he thought about escaping all the time. Finally, on the fourth day after being caught, he found a road hidden in the thick Taking advantage of the time when his companion was asleep, he sneaked into the tunnel under the wooden planks covered by thick straw.

It's not that he doesn't want to call other people, it's just that the probability of being discovered if multiple people act together will greatly increase.

This escape made him discover a new continent—under the lair, there is actually a tunnel extending in all directions. This tunnel almost covers the entire lair, but the embarrassing thing is that none of them lead to the outside!
So Marlowe can only hide in the dark tunnel like a gopher, living on the food he sneaks out and steals from time to time.

Listening to Marlowe's experience, Richard was full of doubts besides emotion: why there is a tunnel network under the Lavis Bandit's lair; and why no one has discovered the existence of this tunnel, at least The fact that Marlowe remained undiscovered suffices to say that no one noticed the tunnel during this time.

However, these questions will not be answered after all, because the leader of the Lavis bandits has died under the sword of the knight, and his kingdom has also been burned by the fire.

……

After returning to Luwen City, Richard found a better room in the city lord's mansion to accommodate Sophia, and then returned to the study.

In the study, Governor Maximilian had been waiting for a long time, and he held not only measures on how to manage the health of the city, but also a plan for the formation of the security team.

In order to avoid what happened to Princess Sophia from happening again, Richard decided to focus on forming a security team first. He took the scroll written in German, opened it, and began to read it carefully.

Maximilian's plan can only be said to be quite satisfactory. Before the system opened up the recruitment of arms, he was limited by certain restrictions and could only recruit local Ramirez people to form a temporary security team. High, I can barely cope with it for a while.

Maximilian's plan is to first recruit 300 local people into the security team, and then equip them after military training. After a few months, they can officially go into battle—of course, this battle only refers to the battle with thieves , Letting them fight existences with higher combat power than thieves is simply suicidal.

His plan cost a total of [-] Morse coins, which seemed more appropriate to Richard, so he made a decision immediately after considering it, and agreed to Maximilian's plan.

After that, he looked at another scroll. The method of how to deal with health problems was also quite satisfactory, with nothing outstanding or wrong.Richard gave it a cursory glance before agreeing, leaving him to his own devices.

After dealing with Maximilian's affairs, Richard went to the window and stretched himself, but he was thinking about returning to Nuremberg.It has been almost a month or two since he left Nuremberg, and he doesn't know what his old nest has developed.

Speaking of which, the refugees who agreed with Lawrence in Ravana City should have been sent to Cuban Island. If Richard does not go back to deal with the problem of resettling them, the refugees are likely to become a factor that endangers his rule. .

Therefore, Richard is going to return to Cuban Island with the feudal knights after dealing with the matter at hand in the next few days.

As for the two princesses, Stephanie and Sophia, he was already prepared to be haunted.

(End of this chapter)