Chapter 19: One moonlit night (2)
Count Rodon had a headache.
There were over dozens of reasons causing his distress, but the elements currently giving him the worst headache were—
"Dear! We need to address this! How could they touch our child and yet that man still isn't dismissed? You must demand the knight order to punish him!"
His wife, who had pampered their youngest son far too much, was screaming for the knight to be punished. Raised as a daughter of a wealthy marquis family, she had no understanding of politics and was spouting foolish words. Did she truly not understand what it meant to challenge the White Silver Lion or to confront the knight order?
...In hindsight, perhaps he should have listened to his late mother’s advice when she warned him against marrying for beauty alone.
But his wife’s nagging could be tuned out; he could deal with it later. The more pressing problems were—
"There will be no threat to his life. Knights have exceptionally strong vitality, after all. However, it will take at least a year for him to recover... unless you can obtain fresh troll blood with 80% purity."
The fact that the recovery of the vice-commander, who should soon be leading the estate’s knight order, was so slow was another major concern. The Paulette family was a family of knights, and it was a daily occurrence for freelance knights or mercenaries seeking fame to challenge them to duels. Accepting these challenges was a matter of pride for the family.
And now, one of the estate’s key knights had been incapacitated. Worse yet, it was the knight hailed as the champion of their territory.
It was only natural for Count Rodon to feel weighed down by frustration.
‘Troll blood? Where on earth am I supposed to find that?’
While it was said that 80% purity troll blood would speed up the recovery, obtaining such blood was nearly impossible. Trolls rarely emerged from the deep forests, and even if one successfully hunted a troll, its blood would coagulate or spoil immediately upon death, making it hard to collect even 30% pure blood.