After assigning everything to Hyer, Krober continued to read the second page of Grand Duchess Veronica's letter.

The second page of the letter did not contain anything important. It mainly described what the writer saw and heard along the way, as well as the general situation of the war between the Emerald Kingdom and the Mountain Copper Kingdom.

Veronica's letter was full of pessimism. She believed that there was little chance that the Emerald Kingdom would win the war.

However, she attributed all the reasons for this to Edwin Bronze Wrath, and clearly stated on the first page that this man coveted the land and wealth of the Golden Duchy.

On the second page, Veronica also subtly reminded Krober to be on guard against enemies from the north.

Where is the north of the Golden Duchy?

That happens to be Duke Edwin's territory!

Before going on the expedition, Veronica was indeed wary of her northern neighbor.

But ever since Edwin took away most of the territory's combat power to join the war, she believed that the Dukedom of Edwin in the north would no longer pose a threat.

Coupled with the false information and letter for help deliberately released by Edwin at that time, Veronica chose to lead the army to support the Emerald Kingdom.

As for the third page, it contains some of the inner thoughts written by Veronica and Krober.

Ever since the last birthday party, the relationship between Kroeber and Veronica has obviously become a little more ambiguous.

Both parties also enjoyed this ambiguous atmosphere.

So Veronica wrote some common conversation topics between couples on the third page.

(Well... I know you don't like reading it, and it would be too watery, so I won't write it.)

After reading Grand Duchess Veronica's handwritten letter, Krober picked up another letter.

The envelope was sealed with a dark purple ink paste, engraved with a pattern of a blooming rose.

This is another letter from Kuroba Island.

After opening the envelope, Kroeber read it briefly.

"What? Christina's missing?"

Krober looked at the letter in his hand with a look of astonishment.

He took a look at the signature and found it was definitely Mr. Foster's autograph.

Christina was his third sister and one of the few relatives who treated him well when he was in Deepwater Territory.

When the Klar family was captured and thrown into the dungeon by Marquis Daniel, Krober spent a large sum of money to redeem Christina from the dungeon.

The ransom was a copper coin, which was paid on the spot by Mr. Foster.

Originally, Foster planned to take Christina back to Black Feather Island, but Christina insisted on returning to the manor where she used to live.

Foster had no choice but to arrange for several soldiers to protect Christina closely while he left first.

As for what happened afterwards, Foster himself was not clear. He only knew that after Christina and her group packed up their things at the manor, they didn't know where they went.

Even those soldiers disappeared without a trace.

No one is seen alive, and no body is seen after death.

After learning about this, the Moonlight Mushroom family mobilized the guards in the territory to search the manor.

Finally, in the basement of the manor, they found the bodies of the soldiers who were responsible for protecting Christina.

Their arms and torsos were extensively damaged, with visible burn marks on their bodies.

The guards deduced that they were attacked by a person above the level of a formal knight who possessed fire-attributed fighting spirit.

These soldiers were elite soldiers brought by Foster from the territory, and they had the strength of apprentice knights.

This is already very powerful for ordinary bandits and ordinary people, but it is just an ant for formal knights or even great knights.

"A regular knight acting as a robber? The power behind this must be quite powerful!"

Although a formal knight is just a small soldier in the Kingdom War, he is already rare in the vast and sparsely populated Golden Duchy.

On average, a barony the size of a county town has only a few official knights, which shows that official knights still have a certain social status.

It has been a while since Krober opened up new territories and was promoted to Viscount, and the news of his promotion to Earth Knight has spread throughout the Golden Duchy.

However, there are very few official knights who voluntarily join Krober, and the only noble family that truly joins Krober is the Jacaranda family.

This was something that Krober had asked for from his grandfather.

"The fact that you chose Christina specifically means you were following my lead. The fact that you didn't dare to attack when Old Master Foster was present shows that you're no stronger than the Great Knight."

"From this point of view, this must be the work of spies from a certain force."

Kroeber is no longer the same person he was when he first started out.

He had learned to look beneath the surface of things, and this incident was clearly a conspiracy against him.

Christina came from an ordinary baron family. She was poor and weak, and her status in the family was not high.

What's more, the oat family has disappeared in the long river of history and has no value in itself.

Then the only value she had left was her identity, that she was the biological sister of Krober Bauhinia Rose.

“Interesting, they kidnapped my sister and didn’t send me a ransom note. It seems they’re not looking for money?

Since it has nothing to do with money, it is a political struggle.

Oh, I remember now, it’s a little crab!”

Krober suddenly remembered the unlucky family that he had cheated out of 200,000 gold coins. Krober, who was having a headache because of the lack of money in his territory, couldn't help but sigh.

“There are still many good people in this world!”