"Lord Lord I don't know what I've been thinking lately, piling up such an earthen wall is useless for werewolves and beastmen, and a collective charge can break it. Even we can't believe in the role of these mounds, and isn't it fanciful to ask those civilians to believe in them?"

"You just do it, whoever made him our lord, this is an order, we can only do it......"

In the town outside Blackhammer, castle guards and a few miners are building a wall. However, in the eyes of the guards and workers, it was a useless little earthen wall. For beastmen who are nearly three meters tall and as strong as an ox, these earthen walls are hilarious. However, this was an order, and again they had to carry it out.

Early in the morning, after breakfast, Rhodes came to the town to inspect the progress of the construction of the city walls. Hundreds of castle guards and mine workers were sweating in the early morning mist. The earthen walls were not high and wide enough, but in a short period of time, Rhodes did not expect to be able to build any decent work.

Of course, it is not impossible to build a wall around the town. When Rhodes first arrived in this world, he searched his memories and found that neither Kislev, nor the Empire, nor the Kingdom of Bretonnia, further west on the continent, had developed cement, a cross-generational building material. And I have such a knowledge reserve. It's just that the time of crossing is not right, to prepare cement, and use this raw material for on-site wall building, with the manpower of Black Hammer Fort, it will take at least half a year. And now, the evil moon is coming, and obviously, he doesn't have that kind of time.

As for the mound wall, Rhodes also has his own plan, after the winter in the northern forest, the temperature is getting colder day by day, however, it has not yet reached freezing. Judging from the report of the scholar, a month later, a few days before the arrival of the evil moon, the temperature will drop below freezing.

At this time, the normal flow of water will freeze, and the water will be poured into these makeshift earthen walls, and when the temperature plummets at night, the walls will be frozen, and the combination of ice and earth will make the walls extremely strong. It's almost a wall of ice. It is said that the Snow Queen's palace is surrounded by a kilometre-long wall of ice, a characteristic of the northern kingdom of Kislev. Rhodes simply took advantage of the local climate and natural conditions.

After a brief greeting to the soldiers, Rhodes returned to the castle and began to have the servants put on the armor they had for their travel, the full-body chain mail. For a lord, no matter how poor he is, he still has weapons and equipment with him.

Although it does not have the ornate armor of the high-ranking generals and nobles of the kingdom, the protective ability of this chain mail is still acceptable, unpretentious, but durable and strong. What's more, it's ancestral...... Well, this armor has been worn by two Blackhammer Castle Lords, and he is the third......

Rhodes could imagine how much of the blood of beasts and alien beasts it had stained, but the weapon inheritance of this world was like this, and he had to follow the local customs.

And on this trip, the destination is very clear, that is, Heidelberg, a hundred miles away. As Lawrence the Ranger said before, if you want to keep civilians and keep them in the town, you must have walls and manpower. The problem of the city wall can be solved by the ice wall for the time being, but the problem of manpower cannot be created by Rhodes out of thin air.

Werewolves are already a race beyond which there is no way to save them, and they are so mad that it is almost impossible to expect them to turn back into humans. At least with my current ability, I can't do it. Therefore, the problem of human hands can only be counted on other humans.

The northern defense line of Kislev is a continuous line of castles and fortresses. Some of these forts were so large that they could hold thousands of soldiers and store food and water for more than three months.

Some were very small, like the Black Hammer Fort guarded by Rhodes, which was pitifully small, and could only accommodate a maximum of three hundred soldiers to guard. And because he was poor, he could only afford to hire a hundred soldiers. Together with the poor who were penniless, or in debt, and volunteered to stay and fight, the total number did not exceed two hundred.

That's all he has to offer. Although there were six or seven hundred inhabitants of the town, they were free people and could not be forcibly requisitioned unless ordered to do so by the queen. And in this wild place, counting on the queen, forget it...... So Rhodes had to find reinforcements on his own, and several small castles close to Blackhammer Fort became Rhodes' targets.

"Father's ......"

The chain mail is on his upper body, and the long sword is in his hand, just as he is about to leave. But I heard the screams of my youngest daughter, Dennis.

That's right, I also have a daughter...... Generally speaking, the traverser is a knife at the beginning, without any ties, and free to break into the world. However, Rod's crossing is not the same thing. I have a daughter...... His wife had died on a cold winter night three years earlier, leaving behind their five-year-old daughter, Dennis.

When Rhodes searched his memory, he found that in the past three years, the Lord of Black Hammer Castle had been dependent on his little daughter for his life. It is impossible to expect the daughter of another lord or the daughter of an earl to marry into this bitter cold land. So over the years, he has lived almost by himself.

Dennis is now eight years old and can run and play freely. In this winter castle, Rhodes did not ask his daughter to pay attention to etiquette and demeanor like everyone else, as long as she was happy, so as long as she did not leave the castle, the whole castle was her paradise. She can shuttle between the city walls and the cloisters at will, the soldiers are already familiar with her, the lord's daughter, everyone naturally does not dare to have any ideas, on the contrary, when little Dennis comes over, they will greet her kindly and play with her.

It can be said that over the years, Dennis has been living a carefree life in Blackhammer Castle, and the only time he feels bored is when the beastmen and werewolves besiege the city every winter, they can't directly attack the castle, and the defenders in the castle can't rush out, and it often takes a stalemate for a while, and these beastmen and werewolves will disperse and go south to look for humans or other animals to hunt for...... This is what the kingdom of Kislev repeats every year.

"Oh, my darling, why are you here?"

Seeing his daughter trotting over, Rod jumped off his horse and hugged little Lori. Kissing her face gently, the circle of stubble next to her mouth stung the white skin of her little daughter Dennis.

But Dennis liked the taste, she hugged her father, and asked with a little dissatisfaction-

"When are you coming back?"

"A week, or four or five days, baby, listen to Uncle Virgil while I'm away, and don't run around. The evil moon is coming, and the gates of the castle will be closed soon, so don't go to the town anymore, you know?"

Rod gently advised, like a pearl in the palm of his hand, and loved it with great care.

The knights and guards stood quietly, waiting for the father and daughter to leave before they set out on their way. The chief knight, Virgil, looked at each other even more, and the lord entrusted himself with the responsibility of guarding the castle and protecting his daughter, which was both an honor and a responsibility.

Before the crossing, Rhodes was a thirty-year-old uncle, and before he had time to experience being a parent, he came to this world in a hurry. Dennis was very attached to her father, looking at her innocent appearance, and for a moment, Rhodes had the illusion that he was the unborn baby on earth......