novelraw Chapter 351 Weird Disappearance
Chapter 351 Weird Disappearance
Chapter 351 Weird Disappearance
The Slughof Fortress is a subordinate city of the Ostrosk Fortress. It is located in the northernmost part of the entire Kislev Northern Province. Seventy thousand residents, counting the surrounding villages and militia organizations, the population of the entire Slughof is nearly 20, thanks to the Frost Forest outside the border, which is an important place of origin for precious animal furs and giant bear mounts , which gave birth to various occupations, guards, merchants, hunters, adventurers, and scavengers.Among them, scavengers are the most representative profession. They enter the forest after getting the news, looking for the unfortunate victims, and then take the equipment from them and sell them back. Of course, some people will ask them to bring back the corpse together with the equipment at a high price. Some highly skilled and courageous scavengers even dared to pick up the leaks when they learned that there was a war on the other side of the forest. Not only did the detection information have money to transfer, but the objects brought back by the troll soldiers were all good things with a price but no market. , such as weapons, armor, even teeth, and troll heads, such exotic and peculiar things will make people who come to gold panning in big cities spend crazy money to buy them.
At this moment, in Slughof Castle, Duke Andrei of the Northern Province is enjoying the warmth brought by the surrounding brazier with the lord of Slughof Fortress and his subordinates, drinking wine and eating meat happily. talking.At this moment, the main entrance of the hall was pushed open, and the cold wind mixed with snowflakes rushed in instantly, making all the people sitting inside tighten their necklines involuntarily.
"My lord! There are traces of the enemy in the Frost Forest!" The soldier said and waved back. A young man with a frightened face and trembling body was brought in. The gate was closed by the guards, and the hall was restored again. got warm.
Andre wiped his mouth, got up, picked up a glass of wine and came to the young man, "I am Andre, Duke of the North, drink a little, and then tell me everything you know, if you let me know that you are lying to me, I will Cut off your head and feed it to the giant bear." Andre looked calm, but his heart was already flustered. It has been three months since the empire formally reached the highest alliance with the dwarves. During this period, the orcs still surrounded the arsenal Fortress, launching siege battles every day, anyone can see that this is the empire and the dwarves are using them to train troops, King Dimitri Zayev of Kislev originally wanted to take this opportunity to unite with the green orcs, cut down Let’s look at the strength of the empire and the dwarves, but the cunning Grimgor has always taken things without doing anything. He has given supplies and equipment support five times, hoping that they will cooperate with the actions of Kislev’s army, and he will agree every time. All right, but every time he missed the appointment, this made Dimitri very angry, but there was nothing he could do about these green skins who were separated by several mountains.
Regarding the situation of Kislev stationing troops outside the Great Wall of the Empire, the Empire also conducted diplomacy immediately and shared the complete news of the Chaos invasion with Dimitri, hoping that the two sides could cooperate, but Dimitri was Terry righteously rejected the rumor that the empire wanted to rule the continent. However, from that day on, all of Kislev also entered a state of war readiness. The reason was to prevent the empire from invading and annexing. Of course, this was a threat to the people. The reasons, while internally, like the orders Andre received were completely different.
King Kislev's decree: From now on, all cities in the north and the extreme north will officially enter the state of preparation for war. All men over the age of 25 and under the age of 70 will immediately report to the army stations under the jurisdiction of the lords. All the original militia Entering the regular army sequence, it is forbidden to trade weapons, armor, metal, war horses and other important military resources.
King Dimitri Zaev is not stupid, but Kislev feels that the invasion of Norsca, Chaos tribes and trolls is a normal thing, even the invasion of the unified Far North, Kislev has experienced it more than once in its history, but it was not beaten back. People in Kislev have not believed in other countries for a long time. As a country bordering the Far North, they have blocked invasions all year round. However, other countries not only refused to help, but sometimes stabbed them in the back. This resulted in the Kislev kings carefully considering any so-called confidential information or seeking cooperation, and they were not [-]% sure. Giving distrust directly will make Kislev and other human nations on the continent further and further apart.So much so that it is now like this, you hit yours, I look at mine, if I have a chance, I will go up and plunder it, if I don't have a chance, I will applaud and eat a melon.There is no partner that I cannot cooperate with, and there is no ally that I absolutely trust. If you come up with enough benefits to make me tempted, just say what you want to do.The supremacy of interests has become an important principle of Kislev's diplomacy, otherwise the Norscans would not have provided ships to raid Altdorf back then.
As the Duke who has been stationed on the border all year round, Andre certainly understood the meaning of this secret order, so he immediately took most of the people from the surrounding villages into the fortress, and personally went to Slughof to sit in command. The Hunter mission of the Frost Forest was released, which is to monitor every move in the forest at the lowest cost, but there has been no valuable information for a month, which made Andre feel relieved, so he planned to start tomorrow morning Set off, go back to the fortress of Ostrosk, write a detailed report and send it to the king, but this plan may be shelved.
After taking Andre's drink, the young man directly poured it into his mouth. Even if he was choked, he suppressed the drink before coughing loudly. People in Kislev love to drink like dwarves. After all, three points One of the lands is in the perennial ice and snow, drinking more is to resist the cold.
"My lord duke, I swear! I swear on the lives of my whole family, everything I said is true." The young man burst into tears as he spoke, and was choked up for a while and couldn't speak.
Andre frowned and looked at the soldier who brought him. The soldier immediately said after seeing him, "Your Majesty the Duke, we found him on the outskirts of Cassi Village. He was covered in blood, but there were no injuries. We surveyed the camp. Although the camp was destroyed, It was serious, but no blood stains or corpses were found. In order to verify what he said, we explored 500 meters into the frost forest, but found nothing, not even the giant bear corpse he said, so that day we He was imprisoned in Cassi Village, but early the next morning, we received news of many missing people. Basically all of the missing people were a team of hunters who entered the Frost Forest, and he was the only one among the many teams." The soldier did not continue. Instead, he took out a crumpled piece of paper with names written on it and handed it to Andre with both hands.
(End of this chapter)