In fact, after this period of contact, Grace and Houde are far smarter than they appear.

Rudy thought they were just rookies transferred from the patrol team below.

Moreover, after coming to the Knights, Grace and Houde's abilities were not outstanding, which further confirmed Rudy's opinion of them.

But as time passed and his understanding deepened, Rudy found that he had underestimated their abilities and backgrounds.

Although the two of them were young and had clean resumes and backgrounds, Rudy soon discovered that there were many things hidden in their resumes.

For example, Grace was a member of the covert operations unit of the West Rand Provincial Patrol.

Although the members of this covert action force are not very powerful, they are the elite of the patrol team. They have undergone special training and are good at spying and assassination. They are an important force for the kingdom to target low-level officials and local non-aristocratic powerful people.

Grace comes from this kind of department and can be considered an experienced person.

The unfamiliarity and clumsiness he showed when he first joined the Knights were obviously fake.

The other is Hou De. Although this guy does not have the special background and manager like Grace, his abilities are quite extraordinary.

On the surface, Houd's extraordinary ability is very inconspicuous. It is the ability to give unlimited ammunition to long-range weapons, so he also uses two automatic repeating crossbows.

But Rudy unexpectedly discovered through Crow Black that Houd's ability was far more than that.

He also possesses the ability to convert certain items into bombs.

For example, seemingly unrelated things such as potatoes, stones, and darts can turn into bombs as powerful as grenades in just a few seconds after he holds them.

Rudy was still wondering before why Captain Omar Sil specially transferred these two people to the seventh team for training.

Since he was about to leave Glinton City and knew that they were the leaders of Omar Sil, Rudy didn't pay much attention to Grace and Houd.

But in the past few days, Rudy found that there was something wrong with their emotions.

Especially Hou De, who is usually a young man with a petty expression, has been looking sad these past two days, with fierce anger in his eyes.

If that was all, Rudy wouldn't care too much about them.

They are all Captain Omasir’s people anyway, so let them do whatever they want.

But things seem to be different this time.

The day after Rudy discovered the abnormality, Hou De suddenly disappeared.

Although their presence in the Knights is not strong, there is no special situation. Grace and Houd both go to and from get off work on time. There is no doubt about this.

Especially Hou De, who is more active than Grace.

Rudy was vaguely aware of what was happening.

But he didn't intend to meddle in other people's business. Since the other party didn't ask him for help, they didn't have such a close relationship in private.

But that afternoon, near Oak Manor, Rudy discovered Hou De.

Ever since Ms. Eve disappeared, Rudy asked Black to station crows here for long-term surveillance.

If there is any disturbance, it will be reported to him immediately.

Although later inspection revealed that the magic core of the giant oak tree had mysteriously disappeared, Rudy always believed that the oak tree had some extraordinary significance to the Hal sect.

It was impossible for them to abandon it, and sooner or later they would return to Oak Manor.

Only this time, Rudy did not wait for the Hal sect, but waited for Houde to sneak into the manor.

The current Oak Manor is in a semi-abandoned state. Only people will come to do a rough cleaning every once in a while. Most of the time, there are only a few elderly watchmen guarding this huge manor.

At this time, the four watchmen guarding the manor had already fallen asleep.

After Hou De sneaked into the manor, he first met a mysterious woman wearing a hooded robe.

All this was seen by Blake, who arrived immediately, and Rudy also saw everything in real time through Blake's vision.

When Rudy saw the mysterious woman, he said "Huh" and felt that she looked familiar.

"Korkina! It's Mrs. Korkina!"

When the woman lifted her hood and exposed the lower half of her face, Rudy finally recognized her.

This hooded woman is none other than Mrs. Korkina who escaped from Glinton City in embarrassment!

Unexpectedly, this woman came back quietly and secretly met with Hou De, a new member of the Knights. Is there any conspiracy in this?

Rudy immediately became alert.

But what surprised Rudy even more.

Just when Mrs. Korkina and Houd were talking in a low voice, suddenly, a crossbow arrow shot through the air.

At the critical moment, Mrs. Korkina suddenly reacted in reverse, waving her hand to create a white arc of light, knocking away the sneak attack crossbow arrow, and at the same time shouted: "No!"

Hou De also reacted very quickly and instantly discovered the direction of the crossbow arrows, turned over and hid behind the bunker.

On the contrary, Mrs. Korkina, who blocked the crossbow arrow, was half a beat too slow.

Following the design of the first crossbow arrow, followed by the launch of a series of repeating crossbows, at least ten archers holding enchanted repeating crossbows surrounded the place.

However, Mrs. Korkina and Houd hid behind a pillar and did not panic.

Especially Hou De, who very calmly drew out two repeating crossbows, raised his hand and fired two crossbow arrows.

"Bang bang!"

The sound of two bow strings shaking the air was heard, followed by a scream of "ah". An enemy crossbowman with two crossbow arrows stuck in his head fell down with the cry.

Hou De's expression remained normal, he didn't even glance at it, he was already aiming at the next target.

There were two more rapid "bang bangs".

Another enemy was hit by an arrow and fell to the ground...

Hou De's shots were extremely fast, not at all like the rookie he usually showed.

Even Mrs. Korkina was outmatched. After Houd killed two enemies, Mrs. Korkina started to take action.

It is conceivable that if Mrs. Korkina and Hou De were to confront each other, they would definitely be at a disadvantage by now.

"Unexpectedly, this guy usually looks the same." Rudy complained in his heart and ordered Blake to go around and see if there were any other enemies.

If it were just the dozen or so ambush archers, they should be unable to do anything to Houde and Mrs. Korkina.

As for the secret meeting between Hou De and Mrs. Korkina here, Rudy did not plan to pursue it further. It would be enough to report it directly to Captain Omasil.
Chapter completed!