Tim of Balan got up much earlier than usual today.

He is not one of those unseen country knights, he is the nephew of Count Eyvindel's mother's mother's nephew, and has followed the Count to the battlefield five times - not the kind of armed brawls with neighbors over land, serfs and prey, but real battlefields, where he has fought Orcs, even Imperials, and seen the ones that can chew through steel, the horror of the starving monsters that escaped the blockade of the Black City on the northern border to enter, and their bloody and bizarre faces. In Krsna local, he considers himself to be a character who has seen a lot of things.

However, what happened yesterday still shook him to the core.

The Count and Countess went crazy.

At first it was just a rumor among the servants biting each other's ears, and then they all saw it with their own eyes, during dinner.

Bain of Enx, April of Scadiwish, Farmer of Antko, they all saw it.

The count's domain had about two hundred inhabitants, half of whom were serfs, generally free men as well as those who were not even serfs. It was protected by six knights under the Count.

A standard knight's domain is five serfs' share of land, but in practice, there are poor knights with only one family's land and rich knights with twenty-four families' land in excellent conditions. The size of the territory of the knights in the Earl of Aiwendel's territory was about the same as the standard.

Because they had taken an oath to be a vassal, and because the lord needed the status of the gatekeepers of the motherland, and because they could get some benefits from time to time by being closer to the lord's table, the knights spent most of their time in the count's castle.

So they can almost at first, find the Count and Countess abnormal.

They are crazy, or more simply, they have become idiots.

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Yesterday they were fine.

Tim of Balan began to wonder what kind of effect this incident would have on himself.

A crazy lord and wife, is it some kind of magical malignant curse? Was it the work of a cleric who had passed through here some time ago? I heard that if you read the holy book backwards, you can do some incredible things.

It's not a wise idea to rashly go and denounce it. These high-powered clerics serve God with their bodies and have divine patronage, and as long as they press an oath on the holy book with one hand they can deny the general accusation against them, and at that time they will probably come into close contact with the gallows because of false accusations.

Besides, there is no evidence that the clergy did it, they generally travel this way either by the will of God or to complete the task assigned by the venerable bishop.

Take a step back and think, what does this matter have to do with yourself?

Tim of Balan knew that there had been crazy kings and crazy queens, no matter how much harm they caused to their kingdom, as long as they did not touch the interests of the majority of the noble class and the Church, they could sit well on the throne to spend their remaining years clean, buried in the royal family cemetery or in the church, sleeping with the ancestors and the saints.

The Eyvindels were nobles, which means they had many powerful relatives. Not serfs who could be dragged off to be hanged for not kneeling in time or forgetting to bow once.

Once a nun of royal origin, because of dissatisfaction with the rules of the convent and led the attack on the convent under the patronage of the bishop, beat the abbess in public, the final punishment was only to repent in front of the bishop.

Then, as noblemen, Mr. and Mrs. Aiwendel could continue to be counts and countesses, even if they beat up the clergy sent by the bishop in public.

They could continue to be the lords of Krsna, the masters of the land.

Tim of Balaam must still continue to be loyal to them.

Understanding this, the next line of reasoning was easy to follow.

"If their madness does not interfere with the reward that House Aiwendel once promised me, I will continue to serve according to my oath. But if their madness makes them think they can withhold my allegiance in proportion, then I will take my son to my own uncle in Forde, where there is a threat from the orcs and a need for men and swords, and he knows what I can do, and he will take me in."

Tim of Balaam made his decision in this way.

He showed up at the breakfast table on time.

It seems that the other knights also made the same decision.

The ones who were late, instead, were the Count and his wife.

Both of them came to the breakfast table with their eyes dull and with their little daughter, Para, Para-Ewendel.