Rhodes eventually secured the support of Lord Varel of Heidelberg, and fifty heavily armed infantrymen would set off for Blackhammer in a day's time. Help the people there defend the castle. As long as you hold the castle while the evil moon comes, it won't be a big problem. The threat of beasts and werewolves would not spread to the south, and Heidelberg would be safe.

However, this did not meet Rod's requirements, or did not live up to his expectations. Fifty castle guards, for Heidelberg, were a third of its strength, but for the Beastmen, it was only an appetizer at best. The castle is the strongest backing, but no one knows whether the beastmen will create new siege weapons.

Once there is a siege ladder or siege rope, the two hundred guards of the Black Hammer Fort are simply decorations, and on the city walls, they cannot fight these beasts of infinite strength.

Rod's next target is the Ring, which, like Blackhammer and Heidelberg, is a northern castle that belongs to Baron Aubrey. From the map, the Ring City is located in a triangle with Blackhammer and Heidelberg, and is at the forefront of the defense against the northern beastmen, werewolves, and various evil creatures.

It's just that like the lord of Heidelberg, Baron Aubrey, like Valell, is also an unenterprising second-generation official...... His territory was larger than that of Rhodes and Varel combined, with mines, pastures, and a large wooded area. The strength is also the strongest of the three. The beastmen still pose a certain threat to it, and werewolves are hardly on the radar of the Lord of the Ring. But if he can get his support, this year's Evil Moon, Black Hammer Fort will hardly have a problem defending the city.

Rhodes knew that this last journey was very important, because there were only these three castles in the north near the Sea of Talon, and further east were the endless savannahs, where there were no human fortresses or towns, it was a wilderness area, and it would take a long distance to the east before plains and human towns appeared.

Beasts and werewolves don't cross the savannah, and the food-scarce heath is a nightmare for them, and they may starve to death halfway through. They look for places where humans or livestock gather. Therefore, for Rod, whether he can win the support of Aubrey, the Lord of the Ring, is very important.

Leaving Heidelberg, Rhodes was accompanied by a female companion, Caroline, the girl who had been standing beside Lord Varel in the room.

It wasn't until this guy came up and reported his name that Rhodes knew that this blonde girl with a temperament was the daughter of Lord Varell. At the same time, she is also a Frost Witch.

Unlike other witches, Caroline is one of the lucky ones in the witch team. At the age of thirteen, she was gifted with ice magic and was summoned to the Ice Witch's Academy of Magic for formal study and training.

Generally speaking, once a witch among the commoners enters the capital, the highest school of the Ice Queen, she will not have the opportunity to return to her biological parents in this life. News of them will vanish, replaced by a new name given to them by the Queen or the Headmaster of the Academy of Magic.

Upon completion, they will have a new identity of their own, the Frost Witches. These girls were either summoned to the royal palace to serve as the Snow Queen's personal bodyguards, or they were sent to the homes of various nobles to become mistresses or wives of officials of all ranks, assisting them in ruling the kingdom.

Caroline was lucky, as she was originally from an aristocratic background. Although Variel's territory is small and weak, he is still a local lord no matter what, and his daughter, naturally not a commoner, after completing her studies, she avoided becoming the mistress of other nobles and was sent to the frontier to assist her father.

Rhodes had an impression of Varel before, but he had no impression of her family, and he didn't know that she had a daughter......

When they met for the second time, the girl had already put away her previous arrogance, because it was not his father's decision to go out with Rod, but the curiosity of the adolescent girl. She came out secretly, and Rod persuaded her to go back, but to no avail. I can only take her all the way east to the Ring. In order to avoid misunderstandings, Rhodes asked her to write a letter back to her father, telling her that she had done so voluntarily so as not to arouse Varell's suspicions......

The Frost Witch is a unique team in the Warhammer world, mostly only in Kislev, due to the special properties of ice magic.

Powerful ice magic requires extreme cold weather to cast, and the colder the climate, the more powerful it becomes. Ice magic is at its strongest in the coldest months of winter, and wanes in the warmer summers. In regions close to the equator, ice magic is almost ineffective...... Located at the northern tip of the Old World, Kislev has a cold climate that provides a source for the use of ice magic.

It is precisely because of the special attribute of ice magic that the Frost Witch who manipulates ice magic is generally not a normal person. Their bodies are subject to changes due to years of exposure to ice magic. The most obvious is that the body temperature of the witches will drop, and their bodies will become cold and smooth, and the Frost Witch Apprentices will not change significantly in this regard, while the bodies of those high-level wizards will become as cold as ice.

Caroline belongs to the third-order wizards, that is, the witch apprentices who have just graduated. The changes in her body are not obvious, and outside, she can still see a clear white fog in her breathing, which proves that her body temperature is still higher than the outdoor environment, that is, a few degrees lower than ordinary people.

But that's not what Rhodes cares about, what Rhodes cares about is her combat effectiveness, in other words, her ability to protect herself. After all, this is in the wild, although the road to the Ring City is not too dangerous, but once he encounters a group of werewolves or beastmen, then, Rod can be a little unbearable, not that he can't defeat these scattered beasts and werewolves, but he can't protect everyone, one more companion, sometimes an extra burden.

Fortunately, Caroline's strength doesn't seem to be too weak, and according to her own words, as long as she has enough time, it won't be a problem to take out a dozen beastmen. But the premise is that someone must be by her side to protect her, after all, the Frost Witches are mostly weak maidens, and when they are close to the beasts, they can't cast spells well. Before you finish reading the strip, the enemy may come down with an axe...... Therefore, the Frost Witch usually hides behind and casts spells after the battle. Rhodes knew that there was a kind of battle mage in the Empire that wanted to cast spells in melee combat like dried tofu, but Caroline clearly didn't belong to that type.