Rhodes finally obtained the support of Lord Varrel of Heidelberg. Fifty fully armed infantry will set off one day later to Blackhammer Castle to help the people there defend the castle. As long as the castle is defended when the blood moon comes, the problem will be solved.
Not big. The threat of beasts and werewolves will not spread to the southern region, and Heidelberg will be safe.
However, this did not satisfy Rhodes' requirements, or it could not meet his inner expectations. For Heidelberg, fifty castle guards were one-third of its strength, but for the Beastmen, it was at most
It's just an appetizer. The castle is the strongest backing, but no one is sure whether the beastmen will create new siege weapons.
Once there are siege ladders or siege ropes, the two hundred guards of Blackhammer Castle are simply decorations. On the city wall, they are unable to fight against these powerful beasts.
Rhodes' next target is Iron Ring City. Like Black Hammer Castle and Heidelberg, this is a northern castle belonging to Baron Aubrey. From the map, Iron Ring City and Black Hammer Castle and Heidelberg are exactly in the same area.
The Triangle is the front line against northern beastmen, werewolves and all kinds of evil creatures.
It's just that like Lord Varrel of Heidelberg, Baron Aubrey is also a second-generation official who doesn't want to make progress... His territory is larger than Rhodes and Varrel combined, and there are mines, pastures and...
A large forest area. It is also the strongest among the three. Beastmen still pose a certain threat to it, and werewolves are almost not within the scope of the Iron Ring City lord's consideration. But if his support can be obtained, this year's blood
In this month, Blackhammer Castle has almost no problem of defending the city.
Rhodes knew that this last journey was very important, because there were only these three castles in the north near the Sea of Claws, and further east was the endless prairie. There were no human fortresses or towns there, and they were wilderness areas.
After trekking a long distance to the east, plains and human towns will appear.
Beasts and werewolves will not cross the prairie. Wasteland areas with scarce food are a nightmare for them. They may starve to death halfway through. They will look for places where humans or livestock gather. Therefore, for Rhodes,
He said that it was crucial to win the support of Iron Ring City Lord Aubrey.
When leaving Heidelberg, Rhodes gained a female companion—Caroline, the girl who was standing next to Lord Varrel in the room before.
It wasn't until this guy came up and announced his name that Rhodes realized that this elegant girl with blond hair and blue eyes was the daughter of Lord Valere. At the same time, she was also a Frost Witch.
Unlike other witches, Caroline is considered a lucky one among the witches. She awakened her ice magic talent when she was thirteen years old and was called to the Ice Witch's Magic Academy to receive formal study and training.
Generally speaking, once witches among civilians enter the capital, the highest school of the Snow Queen, they will have no chance to return to their biological parents in this life. Their news will disappear and be replaced by the queen or the principal of the magic academy.
New names for them.
After completing their studies, they will have their own brand-new identities - Frost Witches. These girls will either be called into the palace to become the personal bodyguards of the Snow Queen, or they will be assigned to the homes of various nobles to become the mistresses or wives of officials at all levels, assisting them.
They rule this kingdom.
Caroline is lucky, because she was born into a noble family. Although Varrel has a small territory and is weak, he is still a local lord, and his daughter is naturally not a commoner.
After becoming a woman, she avoided the fate of becoming the mistress of other nobles and was sent to the frontier to assist her father.
Rhodes had an impression of Valere before, but he had no impression of her family, let alone that she had a daughter...
When they met for the second time, the girl had already put away her previous arrogance, because it was not her father's decision to go out with Rhodes, but the curiosity of this adolescent girl. She came out secretly, and Rhodes persuaded her to go back.
, but it had no effect. He could only take her all the way east to Iron Ring City. In order to avoid misunderstandings, Rhodes asked her to write a letter back to her father, telling her father that she was voluntary, so as not to cause trouble to Wari.
My suspicion...
The Frost Witches can be regarded as a special team in the Warhammer world. They are basically only found in Kislev. This is due to the special properties of ice magic.
Powerful ice magic requires extremely cold weather to be cast. The colder the climate, the stronger its power. In the coldest winter, the power of ice magic is at its strongest, while in warm summer, its power will weaken.
.In areas close to the equator, ice magic is almost ineffective... Kislev is located at the northern end of the Old World and has a cold climate, which provides a source for the use of ice magic.
It is precisely because of the special properties of ice magic that frost witches who manipulate ice magic are generally not normal people. Their bodies will change due to long-term exposure to ice magic. The most obvious is that the witch's body temperature will drop.
, their bodies will become cold and smooth. The changes in this aspect of the frost witch apprentices are not obvious, while the bodies of those high-level wizards will become as cold as ice.
Caroline is a third-level wizard, that is, a newly graduated witch apprentice. The changes in her body are not obvious yet. Outdoors, you can still see obvious white mist in her breathing, which proves that her body temperature is still higher than the outdoor environment.
It's just a few degrees lower than ordinary people.
But this is not what Rhodes cares about. What he cares about is her combat effectiveness, in other words, her ability to protect herself. After all, this is in the wild. Although the road to the Iron Ring City is not too dangerous, once
If he encounters a group of werewolves or beastmen again, it will be a bit overwhelming for Rhodes. It is not that he cannot defeat these wandering beastmen and werewolves, but that he cannot protect everyone. One more companion, and sometimes one more serving.
burden.
Fortunately, Caroline's strength does not seem to be too weak. According to her own words, as long as there is enough time, it is not a problem to kill a dozen beastmen. But the premise is that someone must be around to protect her. After all, the Frost Witch
Most of them are weak girls who cannot cast spells well when being approached by wild beasts. Before they finish reading the reading, the enemy may come down with an axe... Therefore, Frost Witch usually hides after a battle.
The one who casts spells later. Rhodes knew that there was a kind of battle mage in the empire who cast spells in close combat like dry tofu, but Caroline obviously did not belong to this type.