Unknown Knight

Robert's plan was nothing special. Due to the disturbance caused by many nobles in recent days, the wooden floor of the main castle had fallen into disrepair and some places had minor damage. He thought of this plan when he was ordered to repair the damage.

Now Robert is the head carpenter of Castle Loma. His two apprentices are not only trained by him, but also spies who have infiltrated the territory. They obey his orders completely. Therefore, although he has no decision-making power in the construction of the castle, he has absolute authority to speak.

So he gave advice to the steward on his good terms, telling him that the wooden floor of the main castle was in disrepair and there was a great risk of collapse. If it was not thoroughly repaired, the nobles attending the banquet might be injured. He then gave the steward a piece of discarded wood from the floor to replace it. This piece of deliberately selected wood was covered with worm holes, and some parts would break into sawdust with the slightest force. His advice was very convincing.

The steward did not dare to neglect the situation and took the piece of wood to report to Villanboye. Soon the stingy Villanboye agreed to Robert's suggestion, but asked him not to spend too much, as long as he could maintain the surface looking good and not hurt the nobles attending the banquet. As for a complete renovation, it would involve a huge sum of money. Villanboye meant that if they could make do with it, they should just use it first, and there was no need to go to great lengths.

Robert agreed reluctantly on the surface, but he was secretly delighted in his heart. This was enough. With Villanboye's consent, he could implement his plan openly under the pretext of repairing the floor.

Years of carpentry experience have made Robert very clear about the characteristics of wood and familiar with the important parts and load-bearing areas of wooden buildings. Although the wooden floor of the main castle is far from collapsing, Robert only needs to do some subtle adjustments during the repair and secretly destroy the load-bearing wooden beams in some important areas to complete the job.

In order to prevent the floor from collapsing prematurely, Robert installed several fixed wooden rafters at these important locations. As long as the rafters were there, the floor would not collapse prematurely. He could remove these rafters before the gentlemen's banquet began.

When the spies from Tiha City brought back the exciting news that day, the entire Roma Castle became lively. There would definitely be people at the banquet tonight, and Robert knew that his time had come.

To ensure that everything went smoothly, he first secretly sent two apprentices out of the city, one to report to Helusburg and the other to return to Kudan City to report. He himself chose to stay, carrying a basket of carpentry tools, saying that he was ordered to conduct a final inspection of the floor of the banquet hall before the banquet.

Robert had been in Castle Loma for more than a year. He had a good relationship with the steward. Not only was he popular, but he was also well-connected. Basically, everyone inside and outside knew him. After hearing his reason for entering the main castle, the guard let him in without any doubt.

He carried the tool basket and hammered along the way, secretly pulling out the pre-installed wooden rafters one by one, leaving only the two most important load-bearing rafters, and then hid in a windowless servant's room on the second floor.

The servants were so busy that they had no time to go back to their rooms to rest. He could hide in there for a while without being discovered. So, at night, when the lords upstairs finished eating and drinking and began the second half of singing and dancing, he would just pull out the last two rafters.

The risk of doing so was very high, as he himself might be implicated if he made the slightest mistake. However, in order to ensure the smooth implementation of the plan, he did not pull out all the rafters and flee immediately, but chose to stay.

Because Robert himself was also unsure. Although according to his experience, the floor should collapse after all if all the rafters were pulled out, he was not a senior engineer in the technological age after all. Without precise calculations, some things were hard to say. What if the floor did not collapse after the rafters were pulled out, or collapsed before the lords reached the third floor, wouldn't all the previous efforts be wasted? So he gritted his teeth and decided to take the risk and stay.

After nightfall, Robert looked up and stared at the floor on the third floor above his head without blinking. In the darkness, he held his breath and felt it with his heart. It seemed as if his entire soul had penetrated into the wooden floor of the third floor, feeling every beam, every bend and every nail of the wooden floor.

At this time, all the lords on the third floor should have arrived and had almost finished eating and drinking. The musicians had already begun to change the music into a cheerful rhythm. The excited young lords had already started to dance with "oh oh" in their mouths, and some loose places were shedding dirt. Robert knew it was time and he could not wait any longer.

He came to a window sill on the second floor and tied the rope prepared in advance under the tool basket. He had scouting in advance and found that although there was a steep cliff under the window sill with many uneven rocks, it was very dangerous, but with his amazing arm strength, it was not a problem for him to climb down along the rope.

Then, amid the surprised looks of the servants on the way, he quickly came to the last two wooden rafters, knocked them down with the wooden hammer in his hand, and ran back to the window sill quickly. However, he did not immediately grab the rope, turn over and jump out of the window to escape, but looked up at the wooden floor on the third floor.

At this moment, Robert's heart was shrinking, and all the strength in his body seemed to be lost. He froze there. His strange behavior surprised the two servants in the corridor, and they also stopped and looked up.

At this moment, there was a loud "crack" sound, accompanied by screams from upstairs. The wooden floor in the center began to crack first, and a beam of light from the hall on the third floor shone down and hit Robert in the face.

This beam of light seemed to be a holy light with divine power, which made Robert's tense heart relax. The strength returned to his body at once. He gasped with excitement, grabbed the rope on the windowsill without hesitation, and turned over to go down.

Just as he climbed out of the windowsill and his feet hadn't yet firmly pressed against the stones on the wall, he felt the wall shaking. Accompanied by a hoarse scream, the wooden floor on the third floor collapsed completely.

Then, the wooden floor of the third floor, along with the dead and dying things on it, smashed heavily onto the wooden floor of the second floor. The tampered wooden floor of the second floor could not bear it and fell to the first floor with a loud bang. Then there was another loud bang, and then with a "bang", everything on the three floors fell into the manure pit in the basement.

Hearing this last "boom", Robert's heart was completely relieved. After his feet firmly stepped on the ground, he stretched out over the edge of the cliff, and then slid easily along the rope to the ground outside the castle.

After landing and walking a few steps, he couldn't help but look back up, as if admiring the most outstanding work of his life. He nodded with satisfaction, then turned and left.

In the darkness of the night, his limping figure did not look the least bit embarrassed. His tall and short body revealed a tangible aura, making him look like a majestic giant, which made people feel awe.

From then on, Aix lost a skilled carpenter and gained a mysterious lame lord. His past was very mysterious and only a few people in the entire territory knew about it. People only knew that the lord's exclusive title was - the Noble Killer! !