Annan vaguely remembered that there seemed to be such a thing.
A spell that can replace the necessity of the Winter family... This is indeed very fatal.
Even if this curse was later destroyed, the concept that "the Winter clan is not completely necessary" has already taken root in people's hearts.
Grand Duke Ivan said slowly:
"When we realized that Vladimir might have betrayed Winter, he had already tampered with the memories of one-third of the military frost beasts, changing the highest authority from me to 'him'.
"Fortunately, it was discovered in time, and Bella turned herself in, claiming to be guilty and meritorious service... We used her information to purge the Hand of Winter.
"A total of thirty-one betrayers have been found, and seventeen of them have fled. Although the number is not large, they have quietly stolen a lot of materials relying on the authority of the Hand of Winter."
In other words, they had planned it for a long time.
With his father's introduction, Annan slowly figured out what happened six years ago:
After Fufu collected the bet, he didn't know what price Vladimir paid, or he had already colluded with Fufu - he escaped from the Principality of Winter with Fufu's power and went underground.
The Principality of Winter immediately took control of all Vladimir's students.
But even so, there are still fish that slip through the net in the end...
That was Vladimir’s disciple Solonik who had not passed the Wolf Kiss Ceremony and had already left Frostwhisper Province.
Annan still remembers this name.
In the nightmare of Wolf Kiss, he had seen this person...
Solonik is a shy young man with light brown hair, fair skin, and freckles on his face. His cheeks are so thin that they are even sunken inward.
His parents were both murderers, so no one was willing to teach him swordsmanship. Finally, Vladimir picked him up, raised him and led him to the path of transcendence.
"——The teacher is my benefactor! For the sake of the teacher, I will even risk my life!"
Solonik's sonorous and passionate words seemed to still linger in Annan's ears.
"Relying on Vladimir's authority, Solonik organized a rebel army called the 'Icebreaker Army' with the defecting Hands of Winter.
"They claim that... we, the Winter Clan, have no human emotions, so the laws are strict and inhumane. We always sacrifice others but never ourselves. This is unconvincing to the public.
"——Since the fundamental reason why the Winter clan serves as the Grand Duke is that the blood of Winter can freely control the frost beasts, and the frost beasts are a military force that is difficult to resist. Then as long as other means are used to control the frost beasts, one can become the Grand Duke's
People don’t have to be of the Winter clan.”
When Ivan said this, he sneered: "Winter is still too long.
"The younger generation, who were born in winter and have lived longer than winter, have forgotten their old grandmothers."
"And after that?"
"After that, they made a lot of promises locally and got the support of some local nobles."
But it just so happened that Ivan Winter was the most recognized and capable Grand Duke in the past two hundred years. His charisma made most people unwilling to participate in the rebellion.
Expendability is real.
Therefore, there are not many public opponents of the rebels.
"More people are waiting and watching. They hope that through the rebels, we can make 'fewer and lighter sacrifices'."
Everyone hopes that they are not the victims.
It makes sense.
After that, there was a three-year rebellion.
The spell that can control frost beasts allows the Icebreaker Army to recruit soldiers outside the small barrier at almost no cost... It can also collect a large number of cubs through the underground world and release them into the blizzard to artificially create frost beasts.
Except for the first legion that trained with the frost beasts, ordinary soldiers could not resist the attack of the frost beast swarm.
Although the number of rebels is not large, they only launch frost beasts from a distance to attack towns that do not support them, mainly to annihilate the troops who come to support them. The real rebels almost never set off, so they are difficult to deal with.
Only the Winter Clan, the Hand of Winter, Grandmother's Priests and the First Legion with Frost Beast mounts can effectively fight against the Frost Beast.
"At the beginning, their strategy was very successful... As the number of towns they attacked increased, because they could not wait for reinforcements, or the reinforcements were unable to resist the frost beasts, the number of people who were dissatisfied with us gradually increased."
Grand Duke Ivan said slowly: "At this time, your brother, 'Iron-Blooded' Dmitri... proposed a strategy based on Bella's suggestion.
"After all, the Icebreaker Army has many frost beasts but few people. They are hoarding the number of frost beasts without thinking, but our frost beasts have soldiers from the first legion and criminals come to feed them, but they don't have enough people.
"Then the number of army sorties can be further reduced. Then more and more frost beasts gradually become out of control because they did not kill soldiers and lacked food... The hungry frost beasts finally slaughtered the first town to obtain food.
After that, the situation immediately reversed.
"The Icebreaker Army almost immediately lost the support of all edge towns and local nobles - controlled frost beasts are just weapons, but out-of-control frost beasts are natural disasters. Natural disasters can only be managed by the power of the principality... From this point on
Speaking of which, Bella's plan had immediate results.
"But the large number of hungry frost beasts could not be controlled. The greedy predation caused more frost beasts to lose their food source and go crazy. Finally, like an avalanche, a natural disaster called the 'Frost Bite Disaster' was formed."
The natural disaster overshadowed the rebellion.
At this time, Bella, who had made amends, revealed her special power - werewolves will not be attacked by frost beasts first, so werewolves are very efficient in hunting crazy frost beasts... As long as ordinary people are used as bait, the crazy frost beasts will
Will turn a blind eye to werewolf attacks.
Therefore, the Hand of Winter tried to recruit a group of werewolves and trained them into "Windrunners" to go to various places to kill and eliminate excess crazy frost beasts.
——The effect is actually good.
So in order to fight against the frostbite disaster, the Principality of Winter absorbed more werewolves into the army and the Hand of Winter. At this time, the Icebreaker Army had been gradually forgotten by people... They could only control ordinary frost beasts, and at this time the new
Frost beasts born will quickly go crazy.
Finally, Maria Winter successfully inherited the power of the Storm Daughter.
She used the power of the Storm Tower to detect the entire winter territory, and used the power of the Great Barrier to kill frost beasts on a large scale. Finally, she ended the natural disaster.
And by the way, they found the icebreaker army and completed the counterinsurgency.
"But Solonik, the leader, is missing.
"After Maria increased the detection intensity and surveillance scope, although Solonik was not found, she unexpectedly discovered that...Bella and some of the werewolves recruited into the Hand of Winter were still secretly sending messages to the outside world.
"The person who received the news this time is no longer Vladimir, who escaped from the Principality of Winter and entered the underground world.
"But a careerist named [Professor Wolf] Frederick."
In other words, she betrayed the Principality of Winter for the second time.
If nothing else... the strategies she gave back then were the strategies given by "Professor Wolf" to improve the status of werewolves.
In other words, it may also be their conspiracy to destroy the frostbite disaster that is at least five times greater than that of the Icebreaker Army.
"...This is the cause of the 'Second Purge'. All werewolves were removed from the Hand of Winter and executed secretly."
After Ivan finished speaking, he looked at Annan and said calmly: "Bella fled for several years and was found and killed by Maria two months ago.
"But Annan, you have to know...this matter is not over yet."
Vladimir who sneaked into the underground, Solonik who disappeared inexplicably, and Professor Wolf who didn’t know what to do...
Annan nodded slowly.
"I see."
Is that why Dmitri completely lost trust in her and even werewolves...