Chapter 404: Norwegian Forests, Norwegian Snow
If the concession of the will of the forest was beyond Siegel's expectations, then the defeat of the elves was expected by him, without the support of the forest, and without the identity of the children of the forest, these elves were a group of ignorant children with sharp weapons, who did not even know how to use the weapons in their hands.
The elves retreated in a panic, not fast, because they still had to take care of the wounded in the team, they were not an uncivilized barbarian race like the gnolls, although the level of civilization was not high, but the concept of companionship was still possessed.
However, Siegel did not choose to pursue, he ordered his subordinates to start counting losses, taking care of the wounded, repairing the carriage and supplies damaged in the battle, Siegel knew that this one was still not a victory, the main force of the elves still existed, and it had not yet reached the stage of breaking the muscles and bones.
On the other hand, in his army, the centaur team has been wiped out, without the help of the scouts, he has become blind and deaf in this forest, and the loss of ordinary soldiers and the destruction of siege equipment have also made him lose the ability to kill the elves.
Siegel knew that even if he led his army to find the elven tribal village, he was not sure that he would be able to defeat the other side easily, and he could not accept the loss of storming the elven village, and the berserkers and frost giants in the army were the strongest cornerstone of his ability to unify the whole of Scandinavia.
If Berserker and Frost Giant lose too much in the war against these elves, then the rest of the battle will cause him a lot of trouble, even if the opponents are a bunch of idiots and fools.
What's more, Siegel has not forgotten that Scandinavia still has foreign enemies, the woman who ravaged the entire North, and North Hydrake and Jutland Alice, who have become hostile to the Goths.
The latter, in particular, always had a faint smile on his mind every time he thought of the beautiful girl, which always gave Siegel a terrible premonition.
Shaking his head, Siegel didn't think about these future problems, what he needed to think about now was the aftermath of the army, the elves' archery skills were powerful, so that his berserkers suffered a lot, in addition to the hundreds of people who died on the spot, there were more than two hundred waiting for him to deal with.
After fierce battles, fighting with all their might against the legendary shamans and druids, who have not been given time to rest, they are now bandaging the wounded and brewing potions for healing.
Fortunately, after the previous battle to eliminate Siegel's brother, a large amount of medical supplies for treatment were collected in the opponent's territory, which were originally prepared for the battle with Ballusinge, and now they are cheaper than Siegel.
However, before that, Siegel also needs to arrange for some people to patrol the neighborhood to prevent the elves from returning and launching a surprise attack while they are resting.
The Centaur forces had been wiped out, and the ordinary warriors had suffered heavy losses from the fall of the city walls, so the task of keeping watch could only fall on the berserkers who had not been injured in the previous battle.
The berserkers who had just come down from the battlefield were covered in dried blood, and the hair on their heads was sticky because of the blood, and their bodies were covered with the stench of sweat and blood mixed together.
They were in groups of five, each group was about three hundred meters away, and if they encountered a situation, they only needed a roar to get the support of their companions, these berserkers had the experience of spending the night alone in the forest, and they knew how to deal with the beasts of the forest.
Well, if it's just an ordinary brown bear, a black bear, a forest wolf, and other beasts, if you encounter these berserkers, it will only become a meal after the other party's battle, and the strength level of the two sides is not on the same level at all.
Later, Siegel asked some berserkers to start cleaning up the battlefield, recovering all the weapons that could still be used on the battlefield, especially the throwing axes that used metal, even if they were damaged.
The bastard woman of North Sea Drake blocked the North Sea, and even the goblin merchant ships with Jutland credentials were sunk by her without hesitation, on the grounds that the goblins on the ships wanted to sell weapons to Derek's enemies.
Drake's enemy, in Scandinavia, Drake's biggest enemy is not himself, since the two sides met, both Drake and Siegel have not looked at each other well, plus both sides are the overlords and kings of one side, this little unpleasantness has developed into hostility and conflict between the two forces.
There was no way to obtain iron weapons from Jutland, from goblins, and with Scandinavia's backward cast iron technology, the weapons created were very fragile and rusty.
In addition, Scandinavian weaponry is also limited by the scarcity of blacksmiths and backward mining technology, and the dangerous pits devour the corpses of countless slaves every year, and these corpses often turn into undead in a short time in the cave pits where negative energy is easy to gather, which makes mining more difficult, and makes the lords and kings with rich mineral resources helpless.
So now if Siegel wants to get good weapons, he can only trade with those dwarves, and he must exchange a large amount of materials from the dwarves for sharp weapons, of course, expensive things are not without benefits.
Because of the perennial trading with the dwarves, the dwarves earned enviable wealth, and Siegel also had some friendship with the dwarves, so this is why the dwarves' precious siege equipment appeared in the siegel army.
In addition, Siegel also ordered some druids to try their best to help some seriously injured people who had not been taken away by the defeated elves, and these seriously injured people could not let them die, in Siegel's eyes, these were very precious bargaining chips for negotiation.
This battle gave Siegel a glimpse of the power of the elves, and let him know that it was very unrealistic and undesirable to want to destroy the other party without paying a heavy price on the opponent's home field.
Moreover, in Siegel's view, war has always been a continuation of politics, and since he cannot achieve what he wants to achieve through violence, it is not impossible to put down the weapons in his hand and communicate in a different way.
In the battle just now, although he did not wait for the rabbit according to the original plan and completely buried the main force of the elves on the edge of this swamp, it also gave the other party a glimpse of the power of the Gothic Kingdom.
Siegel believed that these simple, stubborn, conservative and stupid elves would surely descend the ladder he handed him and become his unifying power for all of Scandinavia.
Of course, Siegel didn't forget the biggest contributor to this victory tonight, and he arranged for the best druids in the army to give the frost giants the best treatment possible.
At the same time, he also had the cooks in the army select the best of the prey that the centaurs hunted for half a day, and cook it into delicious food to feed the hungry bellies of the frost giants who had just started fighting.
It's a consolation and reward, but it's also a precautionary measure, and Siegel doesn't want to see his army eaten by the Frost Giants as a post-exercise dessert after a battle.
He knew that if it weren't for the fact that the gods he believed in had an absolutely indisobedient authority among these frost giants, these guys would never obey his orders.
Because the Frost Giant has always had a tradition of cannibalism, it is undoubtedly very difficult and insulting to get a Frost Giant to obey the orders of the ingredients in his eyes.
As the sunlight poured through the cracks in the leaves, dispelling the darkness in the forest, the Gothic army completed the task of cleaning up the battlefield and resting, and as Siegel had expected, the conservative and stubborn elves did not make a second raid.
After a night of treatment and recuperation, most of the wounded were stabilized, and a small number of people who could not be saved were also liberated, and their bodies would be turned to ashes in the flames, in order to prevent the appearance of the plague, after all, the strong body of the berserker has not yet made them perverted to the point of ignoring the disease.
The elves who had also been healed also replied to the elves a little, cursing loudly in Elven language that the Scandinavians could not understand, and if it weren't for the druids tying them up with tenacious rattan, it would have become a difficult thing to treat them.
The matter of Siegel and the elves has temporarily reached halftime, and his energy will be involved in this forest for a long time after that, and Alice will definitely not let go of such a good opportunity.
After the White Bear tribe came into contact with Sigourney who was confined to the Gothic Palace, they made a verbal pact to deal with Siegel together, and obtained a lot of information about Siegel from Sigourn.
Alice threw herself into making trouble for Siegel, which was usually handled by her, because the few people she could trust in the force she had built now had matters to deal with and couldn't spare their hands.
Skaha is busy in Jutland, chanting Alice's name every day, Semiramis is busy dealing with the newly established undersea city, and Kir in Schleswig is at a critical juncture.
When Alice leaves the White Bear tribe, she leaves a magic item for the White Bears to allow them to contact her, as well as a space storage that contains enough weapons and armor for the White Bears to face a war.
Alice is now walking in the Norwegian forest, which is home to a large number of uncivilized savage creatures, such as the trolls who attacked Alice when she was a student, the ogres who included everything in her diet if they could digest it, and the werewolves who roam the forests in groups and maintain loose family structures.
This is a savage land where the fire of civilization cannot shine, and the land here is expounding the law of the jungle all the time, all creatures are struggling to survive for a mouthful of water and a meal, and they have to deal with not only hunters other than themselves, but also need to face an extremely cruel environment.
Of course, Alice came here to look for those guys who were not even extremely difficult to communicate, if she encountered trolls and ogres, she believed that it would be faster and more effective than using words to communicate with a fireball spell.
Alice came here in search of a druid village, which was obtained from the hands of Sigoay, the princess of Barusenga, who had the most druids in the whole of Scandinavia, Sigourney had many news of the druids hidden in the dense forests of the mountains.
Now Alice is looking for one of the druids, different from the ordinary forest druids, and only in the perennially cold Norwegian mountain forests, there will be such druids.
Druids, this is a collective term for the group of spellcasters who believe in the will of nature, and there are many factions within them, such as the forest druids who believe in the will of the forest, the ocean druids who are immersed in the vastness of the ocean, the vast desert druids who believe in the desert, the swamp druids who live in the swamp and silt, and the snow mountain druids who are extremely withdrawn and like to live in isolated snowy mountains.
Alice came here to find these snow-capped druids, the main purpose was to bring the news of the destruction of Barusenger and the devastation of the forest druids of Scandinavia, and the secondary goal was to communicate with these rare snow-capped druids, hoping to get some inspiration and creativity from their spells.
Unlike forest druids, who can control plants to attack and turn into wolves, bears, deer, and eagles, Alice's mind records that snowy mountain druids can transform into snow monsters with thick fur, mammoths of war that roam the battlefield, and even the powerful ones can turn into full-grown white dragons.
This is something that Alice has encountered druids can't do, no matter how weak the white dragon is in the dragon clan, it is a member of the pure-blood dragon clan, and the snow mountain druid who can turn into a white dragon must have some secrets about the white dragon, which is an irresistible temptation for Alice, who has always wanted to create an undead dragon army.
Alice didn't choose to walk this time, but used her magic to fly in mid-air, in this mountain, in this forest, even now that the main plane has entered the summer, the ground is still covered with thick snow, and underneath this snow, there are many predators hidden.
In addition, Alice's inappropriate human scent also attracts the predators of this forest, especially some of them who have reached the level of legend, and Alice does not want to focus on them.
Especially those white dragons who like to prey on humanoid creatures, after entering the mountain range, Alice doesn't want to provoke them, because I don't know how many white dragons live in this mountain range, and I don't know how many old guys who have reached the level of ancient dragons in them.
In someone else's lair, the necessary low-key Alice still needs to be maintained...... Well, at least every time Alice is called Calamity, she wants to keep a low profile
This time, it should be an exception, right......?