Eternal Winter Kingdom, Snow Castle.

"Your Excellency, Your Excellency, Your Excellency...... The Grey Keep army, retreat!" all the nobles focused their eyes on him as one of the guards rushed into the castle hall to announce the latest news.

"Are you sure?" said Count Marveyn, slapping the armrest of his seat, and stood up sharply.

"It's true, more than one spy said that," the guard nodded hurriedly, "Someone saw their camp empty overnight and discarded a lot of rations!"

"The gang finally ...... Fuck off!" the Count burst out laughing, and his mood was suddenly relieved. A month ago, the Grey Castle people suddenly appeared in the four harbor cities of Eternal Winter and expanded at a breakneck pace. Uncompromising, they accepted neither surrender nor tribute, and almost wiped out the population everywhere they went, a plague-like barbarism that was simply more terrible than the Church—at least the latter could communicate.

And the reason of the Grey Castle people is also extremely absurd, saying that the red moon will bring calamity, and they must leave as soon as possible before that. This land is the inheritance left to him by my grandfather's grandfather, and no one can easily take it away, not even the Church, nor the Grey Keep!

"Your Excellency," complimented an aged scholar, "the so-called full moon and lack of moon, dark moon and red moon are just a celestial phenomenon that will appear regularly every once in a while. They want to believe that this is a bad omen and that it is their business, and as long as you hold this place, they will be able to do nothing with you. ”

"That's right, the cliffs around Snow Castle are your biggest asset. ”

"If the Grey Castle people are willing to negotiate, we are not unable to make concessions. ”

"The church was also aggressive at the beginning, and in the end, didn't it still make you a bishop?"

Others chimed in.

Count Marvein's confidence became more and more calm, and he looked at the strange celestial phenomena hanging high in the air outside the window, and his heart had long since lost his initial fear, and even gave birth to a trace of appreciation. If it weren't for this mutation three days ago, the Grey Castle people would have pushed the front line to the middle line of the Eternal Winter Kingdom in a little more than a month, and Snow Castle would inevitably be affected.

Although I heard that the barbarians rarely took the initiative to attack the cities of the nobles, as long as they did not interfere with their actions, they would ignore them, but the wanton plundering of the population was tantamount to infringing on the property of the nobles, and there was no reason to let it go.

If the other party really swept away the surrounding areas of the city, wouldn't they suffer when it came to the evil moon?

Indeed, as the vassals said, the city itself was his greatest asset—it was located directly north of the royal capital, nestled in a cliff. The surrounding subsidence is extremely deep, forming a natural "land island", the widest part of the fissure is as many as several miles, and the narrowest part is also about ten zhang, which can only be passed by rope bridges. The area in the center of the chasm is large enough to house several cities.

It was precisely because the ancestors saw that this place was easy to defend and difficult to attack, so they built the lord's castle on the "isolated island". This was also proven by the fact that the castle had never been conquered since its foundation, and although the Church of Hermes had swept through the entire Winter in a very short period of time, it was only thwarted in its attempt to attack the castle that it sent an emissary to negotiate with him, claiming that as long as he was loyal to the church, he would continue to rule the place. In the Earl's opinion, this is the way of normal people.

It was precisely because of this that he kept silent, thinking of asking for a good price from the other party.

But the conditions of Wimbledon's propaganda are simply unacceptable.

The Earl of Marvein was not worried about the Grey Castle and the devil as they called it, and there was nothing more reliable to defend it than the Cliffs. However, the city also needs supplies from the surrounding towns, and even if the underground of Snow Castle is full of warehouses full of supplies that can last until the day when the enemy gives up, once the population is completely taken captive, the resources consumed will never be recovered.

Luckily, they were scared by the Red Moon.

"Mr. Sack, what should I do next?" said Marvein, looking at the old scholar.

"Hehehe, of course it's the initiative. The latter touched his long beard and said.

The earl's face suddenly froze, defending Snow Castle and going out to find trouble with the other party are two different things, if there is no such natural danger, he will not dare to compete with the king of the Gray Castle with ten dares.

"Don't be afraid, I'm not talking about the Grey Castle people, but the territories they have plundered - think about it, the spies' report mentions that the enemy is numerous and scattered, and a squad is only about a hundred people, what can such a few people take with them?"

Ma Weien's eyes lit up, "What do you mean......"

The old scholar smiled and nodded, "The captives must have left a lot of things behind, and we should be able to pick up a leak if we follow the route of the Grey Castle people along the way." ”

For example, food is extremely inconvenient to transport......

The more he thought about it, the more excited he became, he summoned his chief knight, and was about to give an order, when another guard suddenly rushed into the hall, "Great, great...... Outside the city, a devil ......"

"What devil?" the Count glared at him in displeasure, "even you believe the nonsense of the Greykeepers?"

"Forgiveness, forgiveness of sins...... My lord, but it's ......," the guard said in a bitter voice, "but it's not human!"

No...... Mankind?

Everyone couldn't help but look at each other.

Marvien's heart also jumped, but as a lord, he had to be extremely calm.

"In that case, take me to see it," said the Count, with a deliberate grimace at restlessness, "I would like to see what the hell-dwelling creatures are like." ”

......

That being said, by the time he reached the city walls, he had already changed into the best quality armor, as well as the largest Divine Punishment Stone. More than a dozen guards hugged him, and the heavy standing shield erected a "shield wall" around him.

However, the moment he saw the other party, Count Marvion couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, this time his subordinates were not mistaken, the so-called "devil" was indeed only one.

It stood neither at the narrowest point of the chasm nor the weak point of the wall, but simply on a raised rock pillar, probably slightly higher than the head of the wall, and a little further on, the bottomless abyss. The patrolling knight had already instructed his servants to set up their crossbow beds, and their wound crossbow arrows were pointed straight at the target.

After looking carefully for a while, Ma Weien found that the other party did not look like a human, although it also had hands and feet, its body was much taller than ordinary people, and its skin was blue, and he could see bulging meridians and blood vessels. The most obvious difference is the length of the tentacles that grow on its cheeks, jaws, and elbows—earthworm-like disgusting things that slowly wriggle and make people feel hairy to watch.

To his bewilderment, the devil was now closing his eyes, as if he were asleep, and he did not feel the threat at all.

Was this monster really attracted by the Red Moon......? That was just a way for the Greykeepers to terrorize the ignorant villagers, and the Earl thought to himself, no matter where it came from, it didn't have anything to do with the rumored apocalypse, but instead he had to order his men to pull the lever bar, and the guy would be shot with a crossbow arrow.

Thinking of this, Mavien took a deep breath and shouted, "Listen, ugly and filthy monster! I am the Lord of Snow Castle, Mavien Cassel! You have violated my territory, if you want to survive, kneel down and submit to me is your only choice, otherwise the abyss of ice under your feet is your burial place!"

He did not think that the other party could understand what he was saying, and this righteous statement was not so much a warning to the devil as a demonstration of the bravery and fearlessness of a lord to his men on the wall.

Since the Greykeepers believe that this is the Demon of Hell, if he can scare away or kill one, it will definitely greatly increase his reputation.

"I don't have the patience to wait too long, now give you the last five breaths to make a choice - five, four!"

As he spoke, Marveen gestured to the knight to prepare to shoot.

"Three ......"

The devil suddenly opened his eyes and shouted—"Enough!"

Its sound rolled over the castle like thunder, causing the ice edges to fall from the edge of the walls, and its roar echoed from the top of the mountains. For a moment, Ma Weien only felt as if the ground was shaking, and his ears were buzzing. He was so shocked that he subconsciously took two steps back and sat on the ground.