Lord: Marry the villain's daughter at the beginning?

Countless flames shot up into the sky, turning the night sky red.

Several crossbow arrows with hooks were shot at the fleeing carriage, but they were all blocked by an invisible force.

"It's really difficult."

Several nobles on the distant hillside were using eagle-eye skills to observe everything happening on the road.

"Don't worry. After all, the other party is the ruler of the North. It is normal for him to have some hidden cards."

"But if they continue like this, it will be dawn soon. This is too much. They have been running for almost a whole night."

The demon beside him opened his pocket watch and retorted, "Four hours to be exact."

"Four hours! Four whole hours!"

The nobleman who spoke at the beginning said anxiously, "Do you know what will happen if we let old Lars return to his Winterhold? He will immediately know that his beloved grandson was attacked by us. He will find out that we are not only cooperating with the royal family, but are even in cahoots with you guys."

"In fact, Archduke Lars already knows it now."

The demon looked at the elite demon cavalry who were following closely behind the human cavalry in the distance.

"And you, a human, are quite self-aware. Attacking your own nephew and then attacking your own father is indeed enough to be called a snake and a rat, but we demons are different. We demons are much more noble than you, so don't describe us as a nest of snakes and rats."

"Humph!"

The noble snorted coldly and continued:

"If you let him get away, you might be fine, but I'll die!"

The demon said calmly, "That's right. You will die without a burial place. Once Grand Duke Lars returns to his residence, he can use his great prestige to immediately beat you back to your original form after occupying his nephew's territory. Now we can only launch an attack at the same time and wipe out your father and your nephews and nieces together to ensure that you are the only remaining heirs of the Lars family."

"Do you know why you shouldn't send more people?"

"I told you not to rush. You know that your Lars family is rich in professional knights. Each of them is as tough as a turtle. It's not that easy to chew them. Isn't it because of this that we chose to wait here?"

The demons looked at the carriage guarded by a team of knights, and felt that humans were really rich. Over the past four hours, no less than ten mithril-grade magic items had been used on the carriage, and orichalcum-grade ones were thrown out like they were free. Even though an extremely long interception army had been deployed and countless traps and magic items had been prepared, the carriage still managed to escape to this place.

During the period, the opponent even used a crystal-level magic prop to silence all the magic in an entire area, which almost allowed the opponent to escape.

Fortunately, the opponent did not have any space-related magic props, and the shadow system was not what the Lars family was good at, otherwise the people on the hillside would not have been so bold as to kill a grand duke of a kingdom.

Archduke Lars was panting heavily in the carriage. The best thing to do now was to carry Ruby, ride the best warhorse, and charge out with an elite team.

But that would mean abandoning the carriage's defensive magic and most of its magical items.

Grand Duke Lars had tried it once before when using crystal-level magic items. He sent out a team of elite knights to try to break through, but the opponent was so well prepared that even the most elite team of knights found it difficult to break through the encirclement.

The other party was coming with great force, and Grand Duke Lars had no confidence that he could lead Ruby out of the encirclement. After all, the other party had also used crystal-level magic items, and most importantly, it seemed that the other party did not intend to leave any survivors.

Seeing the kingdom's magic army and the green-skinned demons fighting together, even if Grand Duke Lars was as thick-skinned as Lena, he could understand what was happening.

What disappointed Grand Duke Lars the most was that he saw many knights using Lars' battle formation in the melee.

There was a high probability that Sean's territory had been lost. Although he was mentally prepared, at this moment, Grand Duke Lars truly became decadent and turned into an ordinary old man in his seventies.

"How far is it to Winterhold?"

Grand Duke Lars maintained his knightly stance to resist the stray arrows, and at the same time asked the butler who was driving the carriage.

Of course, this question is actually meaningless. Grand Duke Lars had just walked out of the Gran Fortress, which is the boundary between the central area and the northern border, when it was attacked. Even if he rode at full speed for a whole night, it would be impossible to reach Winterhold.

The reason why Archduke Lars asked this question was more because he wanted him to give up.

"I'm afraid it's too late, my Lord."

The heavy breathing could be clearly heard even under the crossbows and magic. Looking at Ruby shivering in the carriage, Grand Duke Lars seemed to have made up his mind.

"Grandpa, am I going to be arrested again?"

Ruby hugged her teddy bear stuffed animal tightly and huddled in the corner of the huge carriage.

"After you go out, you have to listen to the housekeeper's words, okay?"

Grand Duke Lars caressed his youngest granddaughter with loving care.

Four hours of fierce fighting made Archduke Lars extremely tired, his hair was disheveled and his whole body looked smaller.

At this time, Grand Duke Lars is no longer the powerful lord of the North, but more like an old man in his twilight years.

The old man picked up his little granddaughter and hid her in his robe. Then he calmly walked to the carriage and mounted another warhorse that was pulling the carriage.

"Sebastian, how many years have we known each other?"

"It seems to be fifty years, sir. Or fifty-two years. I can't remember."

During the conversation, the robes waved, and Ruby appeared in the old butler's arms without knowing when, and only a teddy bear was left under Grand Duke Lars' robes.

"I should go teach my rebellious sons a lesson. You take Ruby and go west to seek refuge with the elves. Do you understand?"

Decades of tacit understanding immediately made the old butler understand the Grand Duke's thoughts, and he nodded silently.

The two men immediately cut the lasso of the carriage at the same time, and squeezed their legs together, swung the reins, and squeezed the last bit of strength out of the horses under their crotch.

"Lars' warriors, charge with me!"

Following this roar, the knights, whose armor had turned from pure white to somewhat charred black, immediately raised their weapons and shouted, "For the North!"

The enchantment systems on the weapons and armor began to work at their limit, and for a moment the light was so bright that it was hard to open one's eyes.

It was at this time that the old butler took out a piece of cloth as thin as a cicada's wing and draped it over himself.

The Lars family is indeed not good at shadow magic, but they still have some shadow magic props. However, this Breathless Cloth does not have any magical effect of making people disappear on the spot. It can only reduce the breath and eliminate the sense of existence. If it is used on someone who has been targeted, it will have no effect.

But now, Grand Duke Lars, holding a teddy bear doll, led the knights in a desperate charge, and no one noticed that an old butler took the real Ruby and disappeared quietly among the knights.

"The old guy has started to break out! Just as we expected, he has started to break out in the direction of Winterhold!"

The nobles on the hillside clapped their hands excitedly.

In this situation, there is only a glimmer of hope if you reach the range of Winterburg, so the normal idea is to use all your strength to break out in the direction of Winterburg. Once you break out of the encirclement and get in touch with Winterburg, the situation will be reversed.

This encirclement and suppression was also designed based on this idea.

But no one would have thought that Grand Duke Lars would let Ruby flee to the west. In order to help Ruby escape, Grand Duke Lars even left some important magic props to the old butler, so that this breakout was not actually an all-out breakout.

This is a tacit admission that the entire northern territory has fallen and that their attempt to break out will fail.

Everything must be considered in the worst-case scenario. This was the last lesson Grand Duke Lars taught his rebellious sons.