After the young man organized a wave of defensive counterattacks, Louis quickly saw Silin panting as she ran up the city wall.

Although the beasts had not yet reached the city wall, the young man immediately broke away from the beast entangling him and leapt to her side:

"It's dangerous here, you should go to the beacon tower."

Then he turned to the soldiers on the city wall and said:

"Focus on defense, and protect the lady."

After speaking, he jumped off the city wall and joined the encirclement attack on the beasts.

Lady Silin nervously watched the young man leap into the beast horde and uttered a word that made Louis freeze in an instant:

"Rudelson!"

He felt his mind buzz, almost thinking he had misheard.

With his mind blank, he watched the young lord who had already left, his thoughts as tangled as a mess that could not be unraveled.

Is Silin's husband Ruerlson?

Is this a coincidence?

Or...

No!

No matter how you look at it, this cannot be a coincidence.

The timing matches.

The period when Mad King Rudelson was active was precisely 100 years ago.

The time when Lady Silin became renowned was also 100 years ago.

This timeline is too precise.

Moreover, it's well known that Rudelson was a rare necromancer not seen in a millennium.

And just now Rudelson used bone spears to travel.

All of this aligns with the image of the Mad King in his memory.

But this is not the most important thing.

As the lord of Byron Territory, the Rudelson family should have immense prestige locally.

Lady Silin, as Rudelson's fiancée, could not possibly be unknown locally.

The locals know of Silin's former residence but do not know the owner's identity, and this is the biggest issue.

This indicates that the original lord of Byron Territory has been systematically erased from public knowledge.

To accomplish such a clean cover-up in the Ense Empire, it could only involve the royal family.

Considering that the original lord of Byron Territory was Rudelson...

In this way, everything starts to make sense.

He slapped his forehead and said:

"Actually, I should have noticed something unusual much earlier."

The creation background of the painting "Snow Country Border" was originally Lady Silin watching her husband fight on the city wall and then painting the pale city walls of Byron Territory.

He initially thought that Lady Silin's husband was a noble knight participating in the defense.

But there was a detail hidden there that he had never thought about.

Lady Silin depicted most of the city wall.

Reportedly, the painting originally contained scenes of warriors fighting on the battlefield.

Given the painting's size, you couldn't see the people clearly in it.

If Lady Silin were merely a wife longing for her husband, she would have depicted her husband's valiant presence on the battlefield.

But Lady Silin depicted a vast portion of the city wall.

This indicates that in her eyes, this long city wall was equivalent to her husband.

Or rather...

Guarding the entire city wall was her husband's mission.

Such subtle thoughts would have been hard for Louis to deduce if he hadn't known that the young man was Rudelson.

On the city wall, a soldier said to Silin:

"Miss, come this way."

"Don't worry, milord is our city's pride."

Louis looked below.

Rudelson was fighting fiercely with the beasts besieging the city.

He didn't even use a magic staff, summoning a swath of bone spikes with a wave of his hand, cutting through the field like mowing grass.

Until he faced the massive Minotaur Chief.

A soldier sighed and said:

"That's the most troublesome monster that appeared recently, its strength far exceeds that of our regular soldiers."

"It's so formidable, we can't even harm it."

"And its regenerative ability is astounding, even milord couldn't kill it in one blow."

On the city wall, Silin watched the scene quietly. Suddenly, it seemed as if she remembered something and took out a small notebook from her backpack.

She picked up a pencil and quickly sketched, looking at the monsters below.

On the battlefield below, soldiers and beasts fought fiercely.

On the beacon tower above, the young lady was drawing with her pen.

When it was all over, Rudelson checked on the soldiers' condition below.

The soldiers who had focused on defense finally took a breath and turned their attention to Silin beside them:

"Miss, let's take you to see milord, huh? M-miss?"

Silin had already run down from the city wall and out of the city gate.

She arrived breathlessly at Rudelson's side.

Rudelson was talking with the soldiers at the time.

"Are there any injured?"

"A few soldiers have minor injuries."

Hearing footsteps, Rudelson turned his head towards the city gate:

"Silin, why aren't you staying up there? Why did you run here?"

Silin retrieved a handkerchief from her bag and gently wiped the blood off his cheek.

Seeing Silin's worried gaze, Rudelson's expression softened considerably.

"Alright, I'm fine now."

He reached out and grabbed Silin's wrist.

After a moment, he frowned and said:

"Silin... why are your hands so cold? Did you just throw the shawl away up there?"

The knights beside him widened their eyes in surprise.

Clearly, they had never seen Rudelson concern himself with a woman in such a way.

Or rather... show such concern.

Silin looked up weakly and said:

"I didn't feel cold at all!"

Rudelson frowned while searching:

"Here, a gift for you."

He placed a necklace made from the sturdy bones of a monster around the young lady's neck.

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