"Chief Rurik, shall we continue the pursuit?"

An elderly man stood up from his seat, looked at Rurik's face, and said seriously.

In the dim light, only a few candles provided the light source, which was enough to make people see the surroundings clearly in such a small space.

Rurik sat at the top of the seat, his hands on the table propping his chin up, his eyes slightly lowered so that he couldn't see the look in his eyes, and he was silent for a moment in the face of the old man who stood up to ask but used an aggressive tone.

"Chief Rurik, keep the pursuit, the warriors will not survive. ”

Seeing that Rurik didn't say anything to retort, another old man got up from his seat and chimed in.

These two old men have a high status in the tribe, and they have also made indelible contributions to the tribe when they were young, so even in the face of Rurik, who is strong and has always been strong, they dare to have the confidence to make such a question.

"If you can't survive, you have to survive, and we must carry out the orders of Lord Death. ”

Sneering twice in his heart, Rurik said quietly in an unhurried tone.

When this sentence came out, he clearly saw that in the corner, a trace of inexplicable expression flashed on a man's face.

"Of course we have to carry out the orders of Lord Death and go after the druids, but the warriors of the tribe are tired, and if we continue like this, there will be non-combat attrition. ”

The old man still persuaded without giving up, these old men who had fought for the tribe all their lives sincerely put the interests of the tribe first, so they dared to stand up and question the order of death.

Yes, death orders, and at the time of fierce fighting in the Scandinavian region of Upland, the flames of war on this side of the Rus steppe did not tend to be extinguished.

In this land, the power of death is overwhelming, and the assembled druids and the druid elders who have reached legendary strength are easily defeated by death no matter how much they bully or less.

Evenly matched?No, the druids' methods did not leave any injuries on Death's body, perhaps it was Death who took it seriously and showed real strength, or maybe it was the previous injury that made Death find an effective way to deal with the druids.

The defeated druids did not gather together again, but dispersed and moved as small units, after all, there was only one person in death, and only one target could be selected to pursue at the same time.

You can only choose one target to pursue, and that target is to choose those powerful legendary druids, and death is just as the druids predicted.

However, making such a choice does not mean that death will spare the other druids, and those druids will continue to harass the various tribes in the land, affecting logistics and transportation.

As a result, Death gave an order to a powerful tribe like the Novgorodians to clear out the Druid squad, of course, if you don't complete this order, ignore this order, don't care about this order, and Death doesn't have the energy and time to pay attention to this, but if you wait until Athila leads the army back, and is settled by the Autumn Queen like the orcs once did, don't cry and cry out for injustice.

In this context, as long as there is reason in the mind, everyone knows what to do and what kind of choices should be made.

The people of this land are not able to resist the power of Attila, and the stupid people, the people who do not measure themselves, have been reduced to the bones of the grassland in the previous chaos, and the remaining survivors are more or less clever.

Pursuing the scattered druid forces is the task that death has given to the tribes, and perhaps in death's opinion, the tribes that even these chaotic enemies cannot solve should not continue to live in the Rus steppe and waste the rich resources here.

The Novgorodians, who had received the death order, quickly gathered and began to search for the traces of the druids in pursuit, but Rurik, who had fought with the druids, did not carelessly gather not only the warriors, but also the ordinary people who were gathered by him.

Rurik proved to have made the right choice, and the tribes that only sent warriors in pursuit soon tasted the consequences, as the druids' squad attacked their tribe, slaughtering the tribe with little warrior protection, and burning everything to ashes with a single fire.

The druids hated the humans who lived in the steppes of Rus, and these relatives who had Scandinavian blood in their bodies, but who were subservient to Attila and stood on the opposite side of the Scandinavians, were traitors who deserved to be killed and killed like leaves swept away by the autumn wind, and did not give them a chance to live again in the spring breeze.

Heavy losses, really heavy losses, clans destroyed, relatives killed, soldiers who lost their homes are frantically looking for the traces of the druids, but on such a snowstorm, to find the traces of the druids is tantamount to finding a needle in a haystack.

Not only did they not find the druids, but they were also attacked by other monsters in the deep mountains and snowy forests because of their inner anger, and those beasts would not be polite to those who broke into their territory.

The steadiness of the Novgorodians and the foresight of Rurik allowed them to successfully stabilize in the attack of the druids, but the steadiness was not without its shortcomings, and the old and weak women and children in the army also affected the speed of the march and the combat effectiveness of the army.

In order to protect the safety of the camp and protect the old and weak women and children in the tribe, these warriors have not had much rest, even if they adopt a rotation system, in the face of the attacks of druids and various beasts, they defend very hard, how long they can hold out, and how long their bodies and wills will collapse, the warriors themselves are not sure.

It is for this reason that the two old men will give advice to Rurik in such a meeting, and adopt such a coercive mode, because in this way, even if there is any dissatisfaction with death at that time, all the responsibility can be shifted to them, and the lives of the two old men with extremely high status can be exchanged for the continuation of the tribe.

Rurik knew this, but he couldn't do it, and even if it could get the tribe through it, his prestige would be hit hard by the time the two old men died.

Moreover, it is not the best choice to adopt such a method, the lessons of the orcs are still there, and the liquidation that swept the entire Attila Empire is still vivid.

Rurik didn't believe that Attila and the knights would be deceived by such clumsy acting, and they liked to nip all possibilities in the bud simply and rudely.

"Well, needless to say, we are the people of the Attila Empire, and we should also carry out the orders of the Attila Empire, not to mention that those druids are shameless people who destroy our homeland, let them continue to wreak havoc in the Rus' steppe, and will turn our home into a desert land. ”

Rurik looked serious, saying words that even he wouldn't believe, and looked like a loyal believer in Attila, giving everything he had.

Seeing that Rurik's attitude was so resolute, the two old men did not continue to persuade him, no matter what, the other party was the chief of this tribe, and they only had the right to suggest to him, but not to decide.

The upper echelons of the tribe rushed out, and the cold wind blew in through the crack in the doorway, blowing out the usual candles in the tent, making the light even more dim.

"Rurik? So loyal to Attila doesn't look like it at all. ”

A girl's voice suddenly appeared inside the tent, and strange fluctuations echoed in the tent along the sound, without any transmission to the world outside the tent.

"Huh, Alice?"

Rurik, who was thinking with his head down, looked up, a faint hint of joy flashing across his face, and looked around to see the figure of the black girl.

"It's me, Rurik, I didn't expect you to remember my voice. ”

Alice's voice was unfazed, not at all surprised by the revelation of her identity.

"Tell me what the situation has been like during this time, what happened to those druids, and where is death now?"

Without going around in circles or saying those speculative words, Alice got straight to the point and asked Rurik straight to the point.

She had entered the tent early and had heard some arguments between them, and although it was only a few words, it was enough for Alice to speculate a lot of things and information.

"How's it going? Didn't you just hear that?"

Rurik and Alice didn't have much contact, but even a few contacts allowed Rurik to know her a little bit about her at a superficial level, he didn't believe that there was such a coincidence in the world, and when there was only one person left in the tent, Alice happened to appear.

"As for the druids, we have only found a group of druids so far, and they escaped in the end, but it was their revenge afterwards that made us anxious. ”

Rurik sighed, the pursuit should have been successful in the end, but because the druids had targeted the old and weak women and children in the army, there was a hole in the siege network.

After escaping the encirclement, the druids began to attack the Novgorodians at intervals, either while the Novgorodians were having dinner or at dawn.

There was no way, in order to protect the old, weak, sick and disabled in the army, and in order to prevent the situation of attacking the east and the west, and diverting the tiger from the mountains, the Novgorodians did not dare to go out in pursuit at all.

As for the method of forming a team with high-end combat power to completely solve the problem, they have also adopted it, but the end result is that when facing the caster, they can only be beaten passively.

Rurik didn't answer the last question of where death was, he knew it was one thing, but it was another thing to tell Alice in front of him, even if he believed that it was just him and Alice in the tent, and that the sound of their conversation would not reach the ears of the others.

Alice was keenly aware of Rurik's inner entanglement, she smiled, and said in a shocking voice.

"Tell me where he is, and I'll kill him. ”

It's like crushing an ant's bland tone, but it involves a strong man who can make the mortals of the entire north feel fear in their hearts, and it involves a key person who can change the situation of the entire northern continent.

Rurik gasped, and he felt that at that moment, the blood all over his body was moving towards his brain, leaving his brain in a state of confusion all of a sudden.

Yes, in a dazed state, he heard Alice's words very clearly, he heard every word very clearly, and he understood the meaning of these words together, but it was precisely because he knew that it was not an illusion that he was so surprised and incredulous.

After half a ring, he came back to his senses, slightly restrained the thoughts in his brain, forced the tremor in his voice, and slowly spoke.

"Are you planning to go to war with the Attila Empire, are you ready for war?"

"Of course, after killing the dead, when the news reaches the ears of Atila, the winter in the north will come to an end, and the Baltic Empire after the sea thaws is not something that the Atila army can defeat. ”

Alice has the confidence that this is not a data on paper, but a fact that no matter how you try to simulate it, it is extremely difficult to fail.

"Besides, if the Attila army wants to attack my Baltic Empire, they will have to ask the Scandinavians if they will agree, and they will ask you people in the Rus' steppes if they will say yes. ”

The Scandinavians would not have been able to agree, and if the Attera retreated in haste, they would be met by the Scandinavians following behind.

As for the various peoples of the Rus steppe, they will be affected by the death of the knights, and will be sacrificed by Attila and several other knights to calm their anger, or tribute, after all, after Alice killed the death, the whole world will not claim that the death was at her hands, which means that those druids and the tribes of the Rus steppe will become the first suspects to be suspected.

Therefore, when the knight died on the Rus steppe, the various races here, no matter what kind of hatred and contradictions there were, needed to be put aside for the time being.

They need to think about whether they should abandon this fertile land and pasture and choose to migrate and escape from the range of the Atila army, or whether they should raise the banner and rebel against the Atila in order to fight for the very small chance of survival.

"What a despicable conspiracy, Miss Alice. ”

Rurik gritted his teeth and said, he did not doubt that Alice had the ability to kill death, because from various rumors, Alice had the strength to compete with Attila.

Besides, when Alice appeared in front of Rurik, he had no choice but to tell Alice the traces of death, to tie the Novgorodians to the chariots of the Baltic Empire, or to be killed by Alice here, along with the secret she had just told him.