Claudius agreed to get married but he said that only after going on one last expedition. And he chose to join one that he knew would last for years.
It was to buy time for himself and be able to implement his plans.
And two years later, he returned to their dukedom as a blind man still riddled with a lot of injuries to the point that people could call him a cripple.
After all, he threw himself on the most dangerous expedition that the king had ever issued. They traveled by sea to explore an uninhabited island near Liberia.
But it was an island that was the source of dangerous monsters that attack Liberia quite often.
It was the home of monsters so the level of the risks was uncertain because all the previous groups sent there before most often didn't return alive or had few survivors.
When they went there, it was indeed filled with a lot of dangerous monsters. However, the land was fertile and blessed. It could be a good resource for the kingdom.
