Chapter 105 Crazy Woman
The main castle of Changhe Town is actually the deepest inner city of the city, close to the calm lake surface in the middle reaches of Tongtian River.
The inner city has a separate gate and a high inner wall, which encloses a large square.
At the innermost end of the square is the main building of the castle.
The tall main building is backed by the Changhe Lake, and its walls are connected to the inner city wall.
Even if the outer wall of Changhe Town was captured, this inner city would still be equivalent to a complete fortress.
This is also the norm for various developed towns in the eastern region of the Kingdom of Sarleon. They are all based on the initial small castle and are continuously expanded layer by layer.
Overall, the inner city of Changhe Town looks like a luxurious courtyard with a large square. The main building has five floors, and the flag of Duke Elfwan is hung on the roof.
It is still the residence of Lady Bella, the widow of Duke Elfvan.
The guards in the inner city did not stop Amy. After all, some people knew the little princess of Godric's family, and they did not dare to point weapons at her.
But an old steward and a group of servants respectfully stopped at the city gate.
It was normal not to let anyone in. In fact, during this period of time, there probably wasn't any ignorant noble who would come to 'visit' Ms. Bella.
Everyone is a fool, and no one dares to interfere in the affairs between the two dukes.
But Amy is just an eighteen-year-old girl. It is normal for her to come and visit a pregnant noble woman. Just treat her as a child who doesn't understand politics.
After all, many young nobles would do whatever they wanted in the name of 'knowing nothing'...
Amy is not sure what is going on with Lady Bella. Is she controlled by the Duke of Alma? Or is there some other deal?
But Amy must go in, she can take refuge here. The more dangerous the place, the safer it is, that's what the teacher said.
Fawcett would certainly not be stupid enough to use knives and guns in the inner fort.
"Is Madam Bella going into labor soon? I'm here to visit her."
Amy motioned for the old housekeeper to make way.
"Madam is only seven months pregnant, it's still too early for her to give birth, and she's been taking care of the baby lately, so she won't see anyone..."
The old butler was smiling and polite, but he didn't move a step.
It is indeed not convenient to entertain guests while being seven months pregnant. If they were ordinary nobles, they would have turned around and left by now.
But Amy had nowhere to go. Fothergill was probably following her. It would not be appropriate to let Klose and the others take action directly, as it would give people a chance to criticize her.
"I came all the way here to visit you, and you're stopping me from seeing you? This isn't appropriate!"
Amy glanced at the old housekeeper with an unfriendly look.
The old housekeeper smiled professionally and said firmly, "Madam said she won't see anyone. Sorry, Miss Amy."
After saying that, he leaned closer and said, "Please leave here. Grand Duke Alma won't allow it..."
"Snapped!"
Before the old man could finish his words, he was slapped to the ground.
Amy swung her hand and slapped him, wearing a deerskin glove... She had never slapped anyone in the face before, but she had wanted to do so for a long time.
"No one would stop me from entering the palace! I didn't expect there would be such blind people in this little place! Get out!"
Amy had seen many dandy boys behave like this, but this was her first time trying it herself, and she acted pretty well.
But it must be said that this approach was very effective - the old butler was on the ground, covering his face with his hands while picking up his teeth, while Amy walked straight into the square with her head held high and headed towards the main building of the castle.
The servants looked at each other and tried to stop them, but were pushed away by Klose and his men.
There were many soldiers in the square and on the inner city walls, but they could not see the situation inside the city gate. As a result, Amy led her men into the square of the inner city in such a swagger.
The servants were a little overwhelmed. They had never seen any noble who would completely ignore the two ducal families of Alma and Elfwan.
Anyone who dares to barge in like this is obviously a naughty princess with a bad temper, and no one wants to offend her.
The Great Swordsmen of Mettenheim were not originally allowed to enter the main building, so they could only stay in the square and wait.
However, after Amy slapped her, Klose, along with a group of tough men, protected Amy and strode towards the gate of the main building of the castle.
The servants were still hesitating, not knowing whether they should stop it.
By this time, Fotherg had caught up.
But when he saw Amy and her men approaching the main building from afar, he suddenly stopped and did not continue chasing them, nor did he even ask anyone to stop Amy.
He seemed to be hesitating about something.
But then, he actually gathered all the soldiers in the square, ordered everyone to leave the inner city square, retreat outside the castle wall, and close the castle gate.
The gates of the inner city were closed.
Amy looked back. Was Fawcett planning to lock himself in here?
That works too.
Anyway, so many people on the streets of Changhe Town saw him, and those merchants were very familiar with Mai Xiangling. If he and the people from Meitengheim didn't go out, someone would find out soon.
The main building was closed and there was no one guarding the door.
It seems that the main building has been closed since we entered the square?
If you think about it carefully, those soldiers seemed to be far away from the main building, either on the walls of the inner city or on the outskirts of the square.
In this situation, it doesn't feel like they are guarding the main building, but rather defending against this building?
That's right, maybe they have to be careful about Lady Bella escaping...
Amy thought.
Now that there was no one in the square, Amy had no scruples and let the Mettenheim people break in directly.
A group of people entered the main building.
The hall inside the door was very spacious, and there were many maids inside.
Seeing a group of strong men carrying big swords coming in, they wisely did not shout or scream, but shrank to the side, apparently they were very experienced in this kind of thing.
Amy shook her head and smiled, these people certainly had experience, the so-called 'rebels' before might have come in and killed Elfwan's entire family in the same way.
"Where's Lady Bella?"
Amy drew her sword and pointed it at a maid.
"My wife is upstairs... on the top floor."
The maid was quite cooperative and squatted down actively, holding her head with her hands.
Amy was a little surprised - the group of people had trained these maids very well, are they so sensible?
But before she could go upstairs, a group of people came down from upstairs.
It was a team of more than a dozen female soldiers wearing exquisite leather armor, carrying guns and axes and holding foreign daggers in their hands. They looked like they might be the guards in the main building.
This building seems to be full of women, even the soldiers are women?
The Mettenheim warriors stepped forward with their swords in hand, ready for battle, but the female soldiers did not attack.
The leader was a tall woman wearing a strange steel light helmet that only revealed her eyes and mouth. She was wearing gorgeous leather armor and boots.
The leather armor only protected the vital parts, leaving the fair skin of the neck and arms completely exposed.
She stood on the stairs and looked down at Amy: "So beautiful... Wow... Such a perfect virgin..."
She is smiling.
The lips were extremely red, and against the snow-white chin, they looked even eerily beautiful.
The woman walked down the stairs slowly and came to Amy. "Do you want eternal beauty and power? My little beauty... hehe..."
This woman was at least 1.9 meters tall, almost as tall as Klose, and looked like a giant in front of Amy.
Klose stepped in front of her and pointed his sword at the strange woman.
But this tall woman completely ignored the greatsword and the strong man in front of her, and kept staring at Amy behind Klose. The corners of her mouth exposed outside the light helmet curved even more, and she even licked her lips lightly with her tongue.
It was obviously a teasing tone.
What's the meaning?
Amy was a little scared. She originally planned to kidnap Mrs. Bella, but she didn't expect to meet a pervert!
Amy stepped back and drew her sword, "Who are you? Where's Lady Bella?"
"Madam is pregnant with God's messenger...hahaha..."
As the woman approached, Amy suddenly felt dizzy and her whole body seemed to be a little weak.
"poisonous!"
At this time, Klose shouted, then took out a handful of grass from his body and wiped it on his face, then attacked the woman with a big sword.
All the people of Mettenheim also took action. Ten great swords flashed and swung under the crystal chandeliers in the castle hall, creating a huge curtain of light.
The only one who didn't take action was Summer. He stuffed a handful of grass foam into Amy's hand : "This is Artemisia annua, put it in your mouth!"
Then he stood by Amy with a sword to protect her.
Ever since Klose and the others were knocked out by Lisadiran with the Snake Heart Stone, they have been carrying Artemisia annua powder with them. Now that they felt something was a little abnormal, they used it immediately.
Artemisia cross itself is a common herb that can detoxify many types of toxins. Because of its very pungent smell, it can also be used to sober up or induce vomiting.
Although it is not known whether this strange woman used the snake heart stone, after applying a handful of Artemisia annua, Klose immediately became energetic. Anyway, it is indeed effective.
"Hmm? Found it? Fall down!"
The woman, still smiling, took off a leather round shield that looked like the shield style of the southern desert tribes.
Holding the shield in one hand and blocking left and right, he was able to block the full force attack of Klose's two-handed sword.
However, after a few rounds, Klose did not fall down, but became more and more energetic.
The woman finally stopped laughing. She realized that her poison had no effect at all. She pulled out a war hammer from behind and started to deal with Klose seriously.
What was unexpected was that the woman's skills were unexpectedly strong.
In her hand was a strange one-handed hammer with a two-winged hammer head.
But the hammer face is large and flat, unlike the mace commonly used by knights. It looks more like a carpenter's hammer with an extended handle and carved patterns.
In theory, this kind of wide, flat hammer-shaped blunt weapon is not easy to penetrate armor, and it is also relatively bulky.
But in the woman's hands, it was extremely flexible, and even deformed Klose's plate armor with one strike.
Although Klose also retaliated by using the length of his sword to chop the woman's shoulder armor, he was knocked back by the hammer and had no strength left, so the woman's shoulder armor was not even cut.
This woman is not only able to match Klose in strength, but her skills are also no worse than Klose's!
This is also the strongest enemy that Klose has encountered so far, except for the Lord.
The heavy sword was swung again, and Klose used all his strength to fight with the woman.
But she was the only woman so strong. The female soldiers with guns and axes were no match for the other great swordsmen, and several of them were killed or injured soon.
Seeing how powerful these tough guys were, the woman blocked Klose's attacks while looking for Amy.
But Amy had already cleverly retreated to the corner behind the hunks, holding a crossbow in her hand. Her teacher, who was good at kidnapping, had said that if you were not good at fighting, you should not stay in a place where you could be easily caught.
And Summer never left Amy's side.
The Mettenheim people quickly killed most of the female soldiers, but those female soldiers seemed very crazy. The only four or five left were still charging and seemed to have no fear of death at all.
The woman finally realized she was no match for these strong men - after another successful block, her shield was shattered.
She nimbly rolled out of the battle circle and ran upstairs.
"What great warriors you are! You can become servants of God!"
Her voice came down as she ran to the upper floor.
"heresy?!"
Amy realized that her so-called God might not be a good thing: "Kloser, catch up with her!"
When she gave the order, Klose had actually already caught up with her.
The tough guys quickly cleared out the remaining female soldiers and surrounded Amy as they chased upstairs.
All the female soldiers who fought with guns and axes fought to death. No one surrendered, no one was afraid, and no one even spoke.
The maids downstairs were trembling with fear, and no one dared to stand up.
"Find her out!"
Amy ordered the strong men to search floor by floor, and finally, they found the woman on the top floor.
By the way, I also found Mrs. Bella.
They were in a room.
Amy had met Mrs. Bella a year ago and recognized her appearance. In her impression, Mrs. Bella was just a slightly radical middle-aged woman.
But what Amy saw now was a somewhat weird... crazy woman?
She did not find Lady Bella in the castle owner's bedroom, but in an indescribably strange room.
The room was filled with many sculptures, each of which was as tall as a person and seemed to be some kind of strange god.
Or a demon.
These were probably all the work of Mrs. Bella, as she was still holding a knife and carving a piece of wood.
Every sculpture in the room looks similar, a weird female figure with goat horns on its head.
But all the sculptures had no faces and seemed to be covered in blood, looking weird and terrifying.
Lady Bella herself did not appear to be pregnant, at least not with a large belly.
But her body was covered with small wounds.
The wounds were shallow and small, but countless wounds had made her skin broken like fish scales.
Mrs. Bella's next move let Amy know the source of those small wounds.
"I swear on my blood... I beg you to come..."
Mrs. Nella was carving wood with a carving knife, which suddenly pierced her arm. A few drops of blood came out of the carving knife, and then she continued carving.
The blood left streaks of bright red on the wood carving as the carving knife moved.
Amy shuddered, and all the hair on her body stood up.
Even Klose clenched the sword in his hand, his nervousness evident on his face.
Such pain is almost equivalent to being skinned alive!
Or cut yourself with your own hands!
This is absolutely not something that ordinary people can endure.
But Ms. Bella seemed to feel nothing. She kept her head down and carved the wood, muttering something in her mouth.
Seems crazy?
"Mrs. Bella?"
Amy called out, but received no response.
The tall woman had been standing in the room saying something. She didn't seem panicked when she saw Amy and her men chasing after her and blocking her in the room.
She ignored Amy and looked at Mrs. Bella seriously, still with a smile on her face.
"...That's the carrier of the goddess that the prophet mentioned. See? That's the perfect carrier... Hahaha..."
The woman laughed more and more crazily: "Only a noble and beautiful virgin... can make the goddess descend! Bring the hero of Pendor!"
Mrs. Bella finally responded and turned to look at Amy. Her lifeless eyes gradually became bright.
One could even say that his eyes were sparkling.
"Amy...Princess! That's right...Princess can do it!...Hero of Pendor..."
Amy shuddered. Are these two crazy people?
I didn't expect this. I had originally planned to kidnap Mrs. Bella to get away, but now it seems these two lunatics are difficult to deal with!
"Catch them first!"
Amy waved her hand, and Klose led the men towards the woman.
Because they were concerned about the woman's superb skills, they just surrounded her slowly.
The tall woman was pushed to the corner of the room. She smiled again, looked at Klose and said, "Perfect warriors... Goddess Erida will love you..."
Then he threw the hammer in his hand towards Klose.
Klose chopped the hammer aside with a sword, then rushed over to catch the person, but there seemed to be a secret door flipped up on the wall behind the woman.
The woman just disappeared!
"Catch up with her!"
The tough guys naturally also saw the flipped wooden board. Klose rushed over and smashed the secret door with a sword, but there was no room behind the door.
After the door was broken, the river breeze blew in and blew the wood chips all over the room.
There was nothing outside the door, and there was Tongtian River below!
Klose almost fell headfirst.
This is the room at the edge of the castle. Outside the wall is the flat and wide lake behind Changhe Town.
Looking down, there were huge ripples on the water. The woman had obviously jumped directly into the lake from a height of five stories. Now she was nowhere to be seen. She was probably swimming underwater.
The people of Mettenheim can actually swim, but the heavy armor on their bodies does not allow them to jump into the river... otherwise they would not have fallen into the sea and fainted.
Now there was no way to pursue, and Klose retreated.
Mrs. Bella was still staring at Amy and muttering to herself.
The carving knife in her hand was obviously not a weapon. The old woman in her fifties, with wounds all over her body, looked harmless - except that she was obviously mentally ill.
It's best not to use force against a madman...
"Mrs. Bella, what happened to you? Since you still recognize me, why don't you tell me what happened first? Maybe I can help you?"
Amy planned to find out the situation first. At least for now, it seemed that she should be able to communicate.
Mrs. Bella didn't say anything, but she smiled, and her eyes became more and more weird.
At the end, he actually laughed wildly: "Hahaha... I get it... I get it!"
After shouting a few times, she actually stabbed herself in the chest with a knife!
"Damn it! Stop her!"
Amy was about to collapse, and curse words came out of her mouth. What kind of people are these...
She could now understand why the lord would occasionally swear involuntarily.
It’s really impossible to deal with lunatics and fools!
