...... Plans should be based on a solid foundation.

At least for the time being, it was impossible to assassinate the Viscount, so let's think about security first, Eddie thought.

The most important point of the previous fiasco was due to the appearance of a large number of lightly armed soldiers, where did this group of people come from? Warm Sun, whether it was the adventurers, they didn't notice it at all.

Last night's estimates suggest that at least three hundred soldiers were involved in the raid, which is not a small number.

In a settlement of the scale of Steelwood City, it is necessary to silently recruit five or six strong men...... Even twenty or thirty are not too much of a problem, but any more is bound to be noticeable;

If the Viscount secretly recruited three hundred people and has not been discovered, it means that Nuan Yang and the entire organization have almost no means of supervision...... This is unlikely.

So, where did they come from...... Could it be that they were recruited from other places? But this will also be discovered when they enter the city and enter the barracks...... Tsk, let's ask Nuan Yang again, and by the way, I'll tell her about the situation here.

Eddie then gave a general account of what he had seen to the warm sun.

“...... It's not unsurprising that people will report each other, but with the exception of Eclipse Moon, no one from the temple is involved in the event, so there shouldn't be a problem for the time being. "The message from the warm sun is quite calm,

"If you have enough strength, bring back some food when you go back to the temple, and I will reimburse the expenses. ”

"Unfortunately, I can't help with that. Eddie ended this rather awkward topic as soon as possible,

"I would like to ask, do you have any clue about the hundreds of people who suddenly rushed out last night, and have Viscount Coldcone ever mobilized a large number of soldiers lately?"

"No, I'm confused about that. "The way we get information about the movement of soldiers is by observing the steel fort and the barracks in the city, and if there are really a few hundred more people in the barracks, we can't be indifferent."

In the same way, if a nobleman from another place leads a soldier to the city of steel and wood, it will also be observed by us. ”

Not really. Add sighed, saying that he would continue his investigation for a while before returning to end the communication.

Did the soldiers from outside the city sneak back into the city?

There is a possibility. Add suddenly felt that this should be considered a breach, the wall was not too high, and it was feasible to pull a thick rope down and pull people up;

Then take advantage of the darkness and quietly return to the city from the inner staircase......

The more Eddie thought about it, the more he thought it was unlikely, and he could explain why the soldiers were too heavy when they climbed the walls without armor!

Then, let's use the optical analysis module to probe the situation outside the city, Eddie thought;

If the number of soldiers there was clearly less than three hundred, it would prove this idea - and it also meant that the attack was only the Viscount's plan, and that no other forces were involved.

The optical analysis module turned on, and Add's gaze looked through the residential area and the city walls in the direction of Gangmu Village.

During the period of resisting the beast tide, the situation in Gangmu Village was very different from peacetime, and there were almost no people in the residential area, even the soldiers would not live there;

The soldiers were stationed on wooden watchtowers built near the farms.

The farm is surrounded by a fence on the outside of which there is a watchtower about five or six meters high;

Although these towers are not very strong, they are strong enough to withstand the tide of beasts that are ready to attack the farmland, and under normal circumstances, bows, stones, and javelins are enough to destroy the beasts, and in times of emergency, there is a magic circle on the watchtower closer to the forest, so the safety of the farmland will not be a problem.

The soldiers stayed directly on the watchtowers - the monsters could not climb ladders and were safe, and the supplies were thrown directly from the walls and dispersed to the towers while the tide of beasts was relatively stable.

Add had inquired about some news related to the beast tide, and the situation here was different from that of Maple Town, which was a fairly dense group of monsters with a high-intensity attack in a short period of time, and the monsters here came in large numbers and stayed unhurriedly for a while, when they were almost wiped out by the soldiers, or they were full of food and drink, and then left;

This means that the duration of the Beast Tide is random.

We'll see what happens to the beast tide later, and now we're down to business, Eddie thought, and the soldiers are on the watchtower, so they're observing.

There were fifteen watchtowers in the village on the east side, and Eddie looked at them one by one

The first, twenty people, no problem.

The second, twenty people, no problem.

Third ......

The further back he looked, the more Eddie felt that his reasoning was wrong.

This grouped planning makes it difficult for "errors" to exist;

Soon he found out that the fifteen watchtowers were all twenty soldiers, which was exactly three hundred.

Of course, not all of the twenty soldiers were alive, in the battle with the monsters, these soldiers seemed to have paid a lot of losses, and the towers closer to the forest were more or less casualties, probably because there were too many monsters, and they had to leave the towers to the ground to intercept the monsters;

The remains of the soldiers were not abandoned, but they were not with the living soldiers - they were placed in the "warehouse" on the second floor of the watchtower.

...... Something is wrong. Add pondered, could it be that there were more monsters in the east, and that the soldiers who returned to the city were deployed from the north and west?

Eddie intends to use more causal points in order to get a thorough picture of the external situation;

Otherwise, there were other forces in the city supporting the Viscount, just as when he walked alone in the wilderness at night, there was always an eerie laugh behind him......

On the north side, three hundred people, one is not many.

On the west side, three hundred, no less than one.

There were no fields to the south;

Eddie begins to wonder where those people came from.

Although the casualties of the soldiers on the watchtower varied, the number was fine.

It seems that the soldiers did not enter the city from beginning to end...... Add grew uneasy.

Now that we've explored the situation outside the city, let's take a look at how long the beast tide will last, as can be seen from the number of monsters that are still active;

Eddie had observed that there were many corpses of monsters near the fence;

If you look closely, you can occasionally find one or two alive near the houses not far from the watchtower;

Judging from the way those monsters cowered, they probably wouldn't take the initiative to approach the fence;

Looking further into the village, the magical beasts that are active here are quite rare, and the little food that the villagers have not taken away has long been devoured by the magical beasts that have taken the lead, and there are very few magical beasts still staying here;

Add looked in the other two directions again, and it was pretty much the same.

Even though Add didn't know much about the beast tide, he was able to guess a fact that was even more detrimental to the current situation

The demonic beasts outside have been almost cleaned up.