While in Shoushi one day the innkeeper mentioned a rumor about a Skeletons inhabiting a castle nearby.  Lacking anything better to do for the moment I decided to wander off and investigate. Not being a native of Shoushi I am not an expert on it's geography, but I did recall in the past once visiting a castle somewhat to the NE during an earlier quest. In my younger days I would have rushed off in a race to get there but age and intelligence has mellowed my outlook.

Instead of blindly racing to the NE I too my time and traveled over to the Aimaru Plains Cottages Settelement portal and thus started my trip with a shorter run.

But along the way I spotted a rumor that looked interesting.  But that is an adventure for another day, and another time.

It wasn't long before I came upon the castle surrounded by skeletons wielding swords.  Once inside it didn't take long to discover the location of the head skeleton, Baron Nnuvillus.   As the castle is small, just the gate tower and one building.

Thus the fight was short, and soon I was looting my reward from the Baron's corpse

Ag

Note: the crown is on a 7 day pick up timer and needs a lore of 100 to wield.