"This is my fiancé's house, why can't I be there?"

——Isa Sandria walked gracefully into the back garden of Igor's mansion, reached out and took off the white velvet coat she was wearing, casually hung it on the fence of the back garden, and then approached the lord with a smile.

come over.

The horses in Shuangmaple Ridge retreated with a clear conscience:

Obviously, everyone has reached a certain consensus in their hearts: Don't get too close to the Countess of Stigmata, otherwise you will become unfortunate...

However, since Xia Houyan was still lying in the hammock, he obviously couldn't retreat.

So, Isa Sandria walked straight to the hammock, then pressed the hem of her skirt with one hand and held the lord's neck with the other. She bent her slender waist and sat down on the hammock next to her fiancé.

Although the weather was getting colder, the countess of Stigmata was still wearing a tight-fitting hip-hugging long skirt with thin material under her coat.

So a certain unscrupulous lord didn't know where to put his hands and eyes.

Only Caterina's eyes fixed on Isa Sandria became more and more dangerous.

Isa, who was leaning on the lord's chest, stared back without flinching.

It is at this tense moment that Victor Lowry, the chief mage of the Igor family, can prove to everyone that he has been able to survive for so many years in a world full of malice because of his true skills:

Because the master suddenly seemed to remember something and exclaimed:

"Oh, Chris, it seems our game of Marne isn't over yet! I even had an advantage at that time!"

Chris Mann angrily protests:

"Why! I still have two spy cards in my hand that I haven't played yet!"

"Then I still have your wealthy businessman in my hand!" Master Laurie said righteously, "No, we must decide the outcome of this game of Horse and En! We can't let you run away like this!"

"Who is afraid of whom?" Chris, as a young man, is quite energetic.

Knight Commander Cousins ​​even cheered up: "As the number one poker player in Eagle's Rest back then, I want to see which of you can win!"

So the Wuyangyang group of Frost Maple Ridge scum, led by Master Laurie and Chris, all ran away to play cards, leaving the tense lord and two noble ladies in the back garden...

Catalina and Isa seemed not to notice this group of people shouting, and still stared at each other pointedly.

In the end, it was Catalina who spoke with a cold face:

"Countess Sandria, we will be leaving to return to the territory soon. I hope you will take good care of your health in the imperial capital..."

"Why are you so anxious!" Isa chuckled and arched her head towards her fiancé's chest, "At least we have to wait until all the competitions of the 'St. Augustus Day' are over! You left so early, Elliot

He must not be able to let me go!"

Catalina's cold eyes glanced at the Lord's face.

Official Xiahou knew that whatever he said at this time was wrong, so he simply continued to pretend to be dumb. Under the pressure from his sister, Yalian stopped his dishonest palm for a moment.

Catalina stared at Isa Sandria for a moment, then suddenly shook her head and sighed. Her pitiful eyes seemed to be blaming herself, why did she uncharacteristically confront a little girl like Isa Sandria?

I lost my identity in vain;

Then, Miss Igor relaxed her expression and said softly:

"Forget it, Isa, just stay with Elliot for a while these days. I'll ask Mr. Black to clean up a guest room for you. If you want, you can live in Elliot's bedroom... You young people

I love to play by nature, so before we return to the wasteland and Elliot is not married yet, I should let you enjoy the short and wonderful time now..."

After listening to Catalina's words, Isa Sandria had a smile on her face at first, but her smile immediately froze:

What does "while Elliot is not married yet" mean?

What is a "short-term good time"?

Hey, hey, hey! This lady, I am Elliot’s fiancée!

Even if he gets married, he should marry me!

I should be the one who continues to sleep with him, right?

Why do you think it’s as if I’ve had a clear relationship with Shuang Maple Ridge in the past few days?!

What has become of me, Miss Ben?

"Lord Frost Maple Ridge's temporary lover while he was in the imperial capital"?!

Seeing that Isa was tending to jump out of the hammock to settle accounts with Catalina, Xia Houyan had quick eyes and quick hands, stretched out his arms to wrap around Isa's slender waist, and held the angry girl in his arms.

"Let me go!" Isa struggled a little, but with little strength.

Katerina looked at her brother angrily.

"Be honest!" The lord finally couldn't help it anymore, "What's going on with you two? Can't you not quarrel when we meet?!"

"Ask her about this!" The two girls pointed at each other at the same time.

At this moment, Xia Houyan has begun to miss the happy life in Shuangmaple Ridge very much: compared with the obedient maids and elf slaves, the noble ladies of the empire are really not easy to deal with!

However, in order to maintain his dignity as a lord, he still said loudly:

"Calm down! The elites of the empire have just been attacked by orcs and suffered heavy casualties. A noble earl of the empire has become a mole. Do you still have the guts to quarrel here?!"

Isa and Catalina looked at the Lord at the same time, with stunned expressions.

Of course, they did not realize their mistakes and were heartbroken;

Simply because, why didn't they see before that the Lord of Shuangmangling was such an upright person who cared about the country?

"I'm serious!" Xia Houyan saw the teasing looks of these two girls, and felt even more excited. "Do you know that when I followed Duke Rivera in the Crown District to investigate the deadwood forest issue these days,

What did the Duke say to me?"

These words sounded serious. Catalina was stunned and asked:

"What did you say?"

Even Isa sat up a little straighter, no longer lying in her fiancé's arms like a piece of soft mud.

Xia Houyan rubbed his eyebrows and said:

"Duke Rivera told me that the war in the East... may be even more dire than we currently know."

Katarina and Isa looked at each other.

Long before the opening of the "St. Augustus Day", Archduke Rosario fought against the orcs in the east, and the news of his defeat had already caused uproar in the city. Even the old imperial vendors selling snacks at the city gate knew about it;

In fact, including the rounding up of spies by the city defense army and the ambush of the imperial elite Kemal Kemal's manor, to a large extent, it may even be a chain reaction caused by the failure of the war in the east. If the war is still in a stalemate, the Eastern Federation may not have the luxury to do so.

The tentacles reached into the core area of ​​​​the empire's rule.

But now Catalina and Isa think about it carefully. Regarding the specific situation of the war in the east, there is really no official news from the imperial capital. The entire imperial court and the imperial military are very secretive about the situation in the east - rumors on the streets.

Although there are quite a few, they are obviously not enough to be accepted.

The Duke of Sanshui Bay, Jose Rivera, can basically be regarded as the leading nobleman in the empire along with the Grand Duke of Rosario. Although Duke Rivera does not control the entire empire like the Grand Duke of Rosario,

Eastern Army, but because it sits on Sanshui Bay, the economic lifeline of the empire, Duke Rivera's status and influence in the imperial political circles cannot be underestimated.

Such a person must know information that ordinary nobles cannot have access to!

Seeing that these two girls had calmed down, Xia Houyan secretly breathed a sigh of relief and lowered his voice:

"According to Duke Rivera, more than a month ago, the Imperial Eastern Army suffered what was probably its biggest defeat on the front line since the war began! Not only was the 'War Front' completely lost, but the entire Eastern Army was driven back by federal forces.

Three hundred miles away, the defense line is being reorganized in the area of ​​'Burning Crystal Canyon' - in other words, the war will soon reach the territory of the Stardust Protectorate and approach Yongri City!"

Isa opened her mouth, but she didn't know what to say.

Yongri City is the empire's most important town in the east. Ever since it was lent to the Elf Stardust Protectorate to serve as its capital, this ancient human city has become a megacity where two ethnic groups live together.

The logistics hub of the front line.

It actually doesn’t matter that Grand Duke Rosario suffered a defeat. Victory and defeat are commonplace for military strategists! But this defeat lasted for hundreds of miles, and Yongri City was about to be exposed to the blades of the orc wolf cavalry. This

But it’s so unlike the brave and capable Eastern Army!

And the words of Duke Rivera that Xia Houyan relayed next were like a bombshell:

"The Duke also told me that even Grand Duke Rosario himself was injured by an arrow during the retreat and is still bedridden - I dare not tell Eldridge about this, for fear that he would

I impulsively want to return to the Eastern Territory to avenge the Grand Duke..."

"No." Catalina smiled bitterly, "A person as lazy as Commander Ai should not do such a thing..."

"It won't be the best. The Eastern Territory is in chaos now." Xia Houyan sighed, "Have you noticed that Master Begrade and the others have been so busy these days that they even sent me a maid?

Didn’t show up in person? The home base of their Stardust Protectorate is in Yongri City. Belgrade and the Elf Ambassador Enrique Frostblade must have known that the situation in the East was not good... Duke Rivera said,

Now the Imperial Military and the Imperial Court are suppressing intelligence from the East, and they must at least wait until the end of St. Augustus' Day before making it public to avoid causing trouble..."

"Then... can the Eastern Army still withstand it?" Catalina asked carefully.

"You have to withstand it even if you can't." Xia Houyan gritted his teeth and said, "The Burning Crystal Canyon and the Yongri Mountains are the empire's last barrier in the east. Once they are broken through, the imperial capital may be okay, but the entire eastern plain will be at the mercy of wolves.

The cavalry galloped and ravaged... Fortunately, the terrain of the Yongri Mountains is complex, so the Eastern Army should be able to hold on for a while, waiting for support from the Central Army and the Northern Army."

"Why did the orcs suddenly become so powerful?" Isa frowned.
Chapter completed!