Slughof Fortress is a subordinate city of Osdrosk Fortress, located in the northernmost part of the entire northern province of Kislev, is the bridgehead of Kislev against the invasion of trolls, where 50,000 regular troops and 70,000 inhabitants are stationed here all year round, including the surrounding villages and militias, the population of the entire Slavkhof is nearly 200,000, thanks to the frost forests beyond the border, which is an important source of precious animal skins and bear mounts, which has given rise to various professions, guards, merchants, hunters, adventurers, scavengers. One of the most representative professions of scavengers, they enter the forest after getting the news, look for the unfortunate victims, and then take the equipment from them and sell it back, of course, there are also people who will pay a high price for them to bring back the corpse along with the equipment, some skilled and bold scavengers even dare to pick up leaks when they learn that there is a war on the other side of the forest, not only to detect information and make money, but the objects brought back by the troll soldiers are all valuable and marketable, such as weapons, armor, and even teeth, troll heads, It's an exotic and peculiar thing that makes people in big cities go crazy for their money.

At this moment, in Slughof Castle, Duke Andrei of the Northern Province was chatting happily with the lord of Slughof Fortress and his men enjoying the warmth brought by the brazier around them, drinking wine and eating meat. At this moment, the main door of the hall was pushed open, and the cold wind mixed with snowflakes poured in instantly, making all the people sitting inside involuntarily tighten their necklines.

"Your Lord! Enemies in the Frost Forest! The soldier waved back, and a frightened and trembling young man was pushed in, the door was closed by the guards, and the hall was once again warm.

Andre wiped his mouth and got up to pick up a glass of wine and walked to the young man, "I'm Andrei, Duke of the North, drink a little, and then tell me everything you know, if you let me know you're lying to me, I'll cut off your head and feed it to the giant bear." Andrei seems to be very calm, but his heart has long been flustered, it has been three months since the empire officially reached the supreme alliance with the dwarves, during which the orcs are still surrounding the arsenal fort, launching siege battles every day, anyone can see that this is the empire and the dwarves are training with them, King Dimitri Zaev of Kislev originally wanted to take this opportunity to unite the green-skinned orcs and reduce the strength of the empire and the dwarves, but the cunning Grimg has always only taken things and did nothing, and gave five times of material and equipment support, I hope they cooperate with the actions of Kislev's army, and every time they agree well, but every time they fail to make an appointment, which makes Dimitri very angry, but there is nothing to do with these green skins separated by several mountains.

For the situation of Kislev's troops stationed outside the Great Wall of the Empire, the Empire also carried out diplomacy at the first time, and shared the news of the Chaos Invasion to Dimitri completely, hoping that the two sides could cooperate, but Dimitri rejected it with righteous words as a rumor that the Empire wanted to rule the continent, but since that day, the whole Kislev has also entered a state of combat readiness, on the grounds of preventing the invasion and annexation of the Empire, of course, this is a reason for the people, and internally, like the orders received by Andrei are completely different.

King Kislev's decree: From now on, all cities bordering the north and the far north will officially enter a state of readiness, and 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, and all the original militia will enter the regular army sequence, and it is forbidden to trade in weapons, armor, metals, war horses and other important military resources.

King Dimitri Zaev is not stupid, it's just that Kislev feels like it's a common thing for the invasion of Nosca, the Chaos tribe and the trolls, even if it's the invasion of the unified Far North, Kislev has experienced more than one time in his history, but it's not that he has been beaten back, the people of Kislev don't believe in other countries for a long time, as a country bordering the Far North, they block the invasion all year round, but other countries not only don't help, sometimes they will stab them in the back, As a result, whenever there is so-called confidential information, seeking cooperation and the like, the kings of Kislev will carefully consider it, and they will not trust it directly without 100% certainty, which will make Kislev and other human countries on the continent go further and further away. So much so that it has become the kind now, you beat yours, I look at mine, I will go up and plunder it if I have the opportunity, and I will applaud and eat a melon if I don't have the opportunity. There is no one you can't cooperate with, and there is no ally you trust absolutely, and if you come up with enough benefits to make me happy, you can say what you are going to do. The supremacy of interests became an important principle of Kislev's diplomacy, otherwise the Norscans would not have been provided with ships to raid Aldolph.

Andrei, as a duke stationed on the border all the year round, of course understood the meaning of this secret order, so he immediately forcibly took most of the people in the surrounding villages into the fortress, and personally went to Slughof to sit in the town, and at the same time issued the hunter mission of the Frost Forest, which is to monitor every move in the forest at the minimum cost, but there has been no valuable information for a month, which reassures Andrei, so he plans to set off early tomorrow morning and return to the Osdrosk fortress, A detailed report was written and sent to the king, but the plan was probably about to run aground.

After the young man took Andrei's wine, he poured it directly into his mouth, and even if he was choked, he forced himself to cough loudly after drinking, the people of Kislev love to drink like dwarves, after all, one-third of the land is in perennial ice and snow, and drinking more is to fight the cold.

"Lord Duke, I swear! I swear with the lives of my whole family that what I say is true......" The young man burst into tears as he spoke, and for a moment he was a little choked and speechless.

Andrei frowned and looked at the soldier who came with him, and the soldier immediately said, "Lord Duke, we found him on the outskirts of Kasi Village, covered in blood, but without scars, we surveyed the camp, although the camp was seriously damaged, but no blood stains and corpses were found, in order to verify what he said, we explored a distance of five hundred meters into the frost forest, but found nothing, not even the body of the giant bear he said, so we locked him up in Kasi Village that day, but early the next morning, We received the news that many people were missing, and most of them were the hunters who had entered the Frost Forest, and he was the only one in the team......." The soldier did not continue, but took out a crumpled piece of paper with names written on it, and handed it to Andrei with both hands. Read the latest chapters, stay tuned