Volume 6 In the World Chapter 679 Falling (Part 1)
"Good friend, are you preparing to fight the orcs soon? Aren't you afraid of affecting the spring plowing?"
Jules, the Knight of the Holy Grail, picked up a wooden bowl filled with beef stew, prayed sincerely, and then ate the meat.
The life of the Holy Grail Knights is relatively poor. They need a lot of meat but often don't have enough money.
Therefore, the Knights of the Holy Grail tend to hunt for meat by themselves. For high-grade meat such as beef, Jules has few opportunities to eat it. All the money he earns is used for the construction of his territory.
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"Yes, this war may not be so easy." Grand Duke Gros nodded.
"Since you are fighting evil creatures, please let me help you again!"
Jules nodded seriously: "Justice is the nemesis of evil. Holy water blessed by our Lord can cause considerable damage to evil creatures. I have a lot of them in my territory, and I keep them all."
"I won't say anything else, Jules, let us fight side by side!"
The Grand Duke of Gross did not refuse, there was no need for such frivolity between them.
Outside the balcony, heavy snow fell from the sky, and dark clouds as thick as cotton wool covered every corner of the sky. Storm Fortress turned into a world covered in silver.
The buildings and streets in the fortress were piled with snow, many freedmen were clearing the snow, and groups of patrols walked on the town walls.
"Good friend, I have to say that the archer company has become quite good under the training of the high elves."
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Sure enough, under the training of the high elves, in just over a month, all the serfs of the Charles' Longbow Corps were able to load, aim, and shoot very skillfully.
After seeing it, Grand Duke Gros felt great. It was enough to have such combat effectiveness.
"My Baron, His Majesty Charles has sent someone to ask you if you need reinforcements?"
Archmage Nielas Ellan said softly: "He is worried that you may not have enough manpower here. Also, according to the reports from the scouts, the orcs are also preparing for war."
"Except for Charlie, what about other forces? Have they responded?"
Grand Duke Gros suddenly remembered something, and he asked with doubts.
"Based on the current situation...No, other countries and forces must have received intelligence that the orcs are gathering troops, but the only ones who responded are the Empire and Batoria. They are gathering troops, but there is no sign of recruiting all the people.
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Nielas Elan held the parchment in his hand: "There are no new orders from the empire at the moment. This is the information from three days ago."
Grand Duke Gros sighed. He probably knew why other countries and forces except the Empire and Batoria had not taken any concrete actions.
This is because Charr and Albrex have been at the forefront of resisting the orcs, and other countries have no idea how terrifying the orcs are.
It can even be said that they are eager to see the orcs sweep across the entire north and destroy Shire and Albrex.
Only Batoria will not stand idly by.
"My Grand Duke? How did you plan it?" Seeing that Grand Duke Gros didn't answer, Nielas Elan continued to ask.
"What do you think? Elan?" Grand Duke Grosz intended to test his chief archmage.
Nielas Elan lowered his head and thought for a moment:
"My Grand Duke, I feel that now is not the time to ask for reinforcements. You are already feared by the empire. You must be careful what you do."
"Well, very good, what we have to do now is to assemble the army and prepare for war, but we must also keep a low profile and don't follow the facts."
Grand Duke Gros nodded repeatedly: "Let's wait and see how our Majesty Charles or His Majesty the Knight King responds."
"Understood, my Grand Duke!"
As preparations for the war in the Principality of Shire progressed, the Grand Duke of Gros spared no effort in spending money, and the soldiers gradually put on breastplates and more sophisticated dwarven equipment.
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In addition to the Knights of the Silver Hand, ordinary knights and the Storm Legion, these conscripted freemen and serf armies have begun to become semi-professional.
In Grand Duke Gros's vision, the separation of soldiers and peasants is the first step to promote his military reform. However, he currently does not have the financial resources to support so many professional soldiers. What he has to do now is to make these soldiers semi-professional.
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Their occupation as soldiers will gradually become greater than their main job as serfs, which is mainly responsible for the training of the army, training two or three days a week, and farming the rest of the time.
Professional soldiers enjoyed better meals and higher status, and more importantly, Gross was a knight.
It now seems that only the belief in the Lady of the Lake is more suitable for the Principality of the Shire, because the Fairy of the Lake is a true god who does not ask for anything in return, and is also the only true god who helped the Shire during this orc crisis.
Through Jules as a communication channel, after a few days, the avatar of the Lake Fairy and the highest-ranking Archbishop Louise will come to the Principality of Charles, personally award the Holy Grail to the Grand Duke of Gros, and become the Holy Grail Knight of the goddess.
And because of the last expedition to the Kansas prairie, the fairy in the lake sent down her magical power and spread the word among the surviving warriors, making the people of the Shire full of gratitude and awe for this goddess.
A true god who can perform miracles is much better than the ruthless storm war god.
Unlike Batoria, the serfs in the Grand Duke's territory are extremely eager to offer their loyalty to the Lake Fairy.
Because in the knightly country of Batoria, serfs are prohibited from believing in the Lake Fairy, so if you want to attract the attention of the Lake Fairy, you must use some special means.
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But the serfs of the Shire are willing to believe that becoming a Holy Grail pilgrim or fighting alongside a Holy Grail knight is an effective method. Therefore, in order to have a better life and be favored by the goddess, countless people sign up to join the army.
The Grand Duke of Gros therefore encouraged the serfs to have pious beliefs.
Time passed quietly in preparation for the war. The orc army slowly but resolutely gathered. Under the powerful evil magic of the beast god's servants, the corpses on the grassland gradually revived.
The powerful undead attacked separately, seriously damaging the sentries along the way and the security force of the Principality of Shire.
Since then, there has been no human presence on the northern Kansas grasslands.
And just when the orc army was gathering more and more, a positive signal finally came from the Principality of Shire.
Louise, the Lake God Witch, left her tower and appeared with a team of Holy Grail Knights in the temporarily built Lake Fairy Cathedral in the Principality of Charles.
The Witch of the Lake God announced that the orcs are our common enemy, and all knights must destroy the evil, for the sake of the lady!
So, just as the snow melted in March of the following year, a war seemed inevitable.