After returning to the Lazar region, Ryan only briefly inspected Amethyst City, which was designated as the capital, and then left for Iron Gate Castle.
Iron Gate Castle is located on the north bank of the upper reaches of the Skázadan River. It is also the only city built on the north bank of the Skázadan River. The city stands on the bank of the only ford in the upper reaches of the Skázadan River that can pass large-scale troops.
In the past years, the Dothraki who went south to rob would cross the river to the Raza Wilderness from here. And Ryan learned from the troops stationed here that some scout cavalry had recently begun to appear near the fortress.
Fortunately, with the existence of the belief network established by radio and rose crystal, Ryan can receive news from everywhere no matter where he is. It is obvious that the Dothraki do not know that the Lazarim have now established an efficient monitoring system along the river.
, within two months, sporadically 5,000 to 6,000 people crossed the river to rob, but after being lured deep into the enemy, the entire army was annihilated under the siege of mobile troops and gunboats on the river. No one could escape back to the north bank of the Skazhadan River.
.Now, this place has become a place shrouded in the fog of war to the Dothraki.
Naturally, they also realized that crossing the river in scattered batches was tantamount to death. According to the intelligence collected along the river, only extremely scattered Dothraki reconnaissance teams crossed the river in the past month, and they never left the river for more than twenty people at a time.
Kilometers. Although Dothraki teams were discovered several times, they had already crossed the river and escaped by the time the mobile troops arrived.
The area where the opponent's reconnaissance is most intensive now is the Iron Gate Fort area. However, under Ryan's order, the army will only shoot to disperse enemies who are too close, while the reciprocal reconnaissance missions are carried out by the alchemy birds flying in the sky.
According to the results of aerial reconnaissance, there are only a lot of elite reconnaissance troops near Iron Gate Fort. At least there are no large troops within a day's distance of the cavalry's rapid march.
In previous years, in addition to collecting tribute from several city-states, the Dorasque people came to the Lazar area to obtain slaves. However, it is impossible for them to remain unresponsive to such a big change this year, so now everyone can only wait for the enemy to appear in Iron Gate Fort.
Fortunately, the Lazar area is dominated by plains, and with the help of a large number of robots, the railway has been built to the other side of the river. This year's sudden burst of productivity has resulted in a bumper harvest of food and other products, which has given the 15,000 soldiers of Iron Gate Fort enough food.
Logistics forces can continue to wait here.
Especially when Rose Crystal spends the night at Iron Gate Castle every three days, it can be said that the morale here is very high. They organize to watch movies (mainly cartoons), competitive games and listen to the sermons of clergymen called Crystal Priests.
It also made a considerable contribution to maintaining morale. In this case, Ryan believed that his patience in waiting was much higher than that of the Dorasque people who had a large source of wealth cut off.
While waiting, news of the great changes that had taken place in this land also began to spread slowly. One month after Ryan took control of Iron Gate Castle, in October of the year 297 of the Aegon Calendar, a team of soldiers came from
The delegation from afar arrived at Iron Gate Castle.
There are only a dozen people in this mission. The leader is a man wearing a robe covered with beads, with dark purple-blue skin and blue-black lips. The person behind him is dressed similarly to him, with pale lips.
Skin and blue lips.
"Is this the Avatar?" Ryan thought impolitely. But when they walked into the hall, Ryan felt an extremely chaotic and weak magic reaction from them. At the same time, they still looked like strong men, but in the
They are old and withered in the perception of life magic.
"Hey, wizard?" He was very happy to see his colleagues in this world who were willing to communicate, even if these colleagues seemed to be in bad condition. After all, those who had attacked him before with very rough blood or shadow curses were easily angered.
Crushed to death by the rose crystal, Ryan can only gain some knowledge through torture of the soul.
After some simple exchanges, Ryan learned that the wizards of Qarth were led by their leader the Immortal. The Immortal claimed that they were scholars who came to find the true meaning of magic and came here to confirm the power of magic.
exist.
Ryan received them friendly and arranged for them to stay in the Crystal City first. After all, he had to direct the war recently and had no time for academic exchanges.
So after they left Iron Gate Castle and headed to the Crystal City the next day, Ryan put the matter behind him until he was woken up by a rose crystal while sleeping three days later.
Rose Crystal came here in such a hurry because the wizards who were guests did something very evil: they broke into the Crystal Palace at night, killed several priests and guards, and took them away as sacred objects to enshrine there.
Rose crystal resting box.
Because after becoming a god, even if they are parallel gods, the rose crystal has the ability to teleport to each other in their own temple. So she felt something was wrong and immediately teleported back to the crystal palace from the temple in Iron Gate Castle, just in time to block the group of murderers.
Bad guest.
Those wizards tried to use magic to resist, but fighting the god himself in the main temple of the god was a pure act of seeking death. Even though the rose crystal was a parallel import, they still easily killed the group of bandits. Afterwards, she tortured her soul
It was discovered that when these wizards visited the Crystal Temple, they discovered that the existence of the box could enhance the magic power of the wizards, so they wanted to take the box back to Qarth.
This incident made Rose Crystal very angry, especially since the wizards could obviously do no harm to the people in the temple. So she teleported back to Iron Gate Castle to discuss how to retaliate with Ryan.
After holding back their sleepiness and discussing until the sun rose, the two finally came up with a revenge plan. After saying goodbye early the next morning and preparing to teleport to the rose crystal on a merchant ship in Qarth through his own shrine, Ryan
Yawning, he returned to his bedroom and took a deep sleep.
A week later, when Lane was at work, she saw the little doll flying in excitedly. It seemed that she had gained a lot from her trip to Qarth. As the little doll was chattering excitedly, Lane finally figured out what she had done.
.
He used magic to blow up the Temple of the Immortal as soon as he arrived in Quels. However, under the temptation of mastering magic, all the wizards who stayed in the Temple of the Immortal became the licking dogs of the Rose Crystal. This week, the Rose Crystal
Collect all kinds of magic information there and train those wizards to become your own clergy.
Natural Rose Crystal did not forget to help Ryan obtain docks and shops for the new country in Qarth. With the help of wizards who gained supernatural powers, it was easy to take over the properties of the four previous slave city-states in Qarth.
Yes. After delivering the property to the caravan personnel, Rose Crystal returned to Iron Gate Castle with a lot of magic information.
In the following time, Ryan continued to deal with various things while studying the information written on leather, wooden boards, and even carved stones.
It wasn't until November that Ryan received news from merchants: Khal Drogo of Khalasar, the most powerful Dothraki, had gone to Pentos in the west to marry a wife, and he might not be able to return for a while.
Come.
This news made everyone feel a little depressed. Some commanders suggested that the alert level could be relaxed first. After all, both resource consumption and personnel fatigue speed are a bit high in this highest alert state. However, these suggestions were rejected by Ryan.
Because he felt that since the enemy was the most terrifying Kaa on the grassland, he must not be underestimated.
Sure enough, half a month later, alarms were sent from many outposts in the west: a cavalry team of about 100,000 people on the north bank of the river was heading east day and night, and it seemed that they were going to raid the Zala area.
The aerial reconnaissance of the Rose Crystal also proved this. The decisive battle between the two nations with hundreds of years of hatred is about to break out.