52. That kills the gods
Avalanche!
There are still a few people high avalanche!
Or the avalanche that just blocked the only flat road from Ustok Castle to the village!
Even the avalanche from which White was at the center of the catastrophe was able to escape!
With all these strings attached, even the staunch atheist Ron had to lament the luck of the darkness, in Karl's words, the blessing of the gods of the empire.
If this is a DND board game running group game, then it is obvious that the DM who controls this game has released them to the sea, so that their foundations are not yet solid, and the emerging forces that are not strong and strong have the possibility of further surviving and even opening a way out!
How do you say that?
The development of a person must of course depend on one's own struggle, but it must also take into account the course of history.
This is the course of history!
Putting his attention back to the present, Ron calmed down his excitement a little, but suddenly a thousand words were blocked in his throat, and he couldn't spit out a word because his lips and teeth couldn't stop trembling.
Trying to control his facial muscles and no longer twitching, he finally regained the function of human speech again, but at the cost of Ron's face once again becoming like the Tibetan fox, his eyes were misty and deep, and he seemed to be paralyzed and expressionless, but if he looked closely, he seemed to see the ever-changing emotions in it.
"Good!"
Absolutely!
Arthur and Ron tacitly glanced at each other, both reading the same message from each other's eyes.
They were worried about whether they would face the pressure of fighting on the east and west sides at the same time, and the legion itself would not have enough numbers, and if they were to be pulled like this, the troops would be even more stretched.
But now, according to White, the road to the village of Ustok is blocked by avalanches, and it will take at least a month or two until the snow melts enough to pass through the army, right? This is enough time for them to free up their hands to clean up the foresters entrenched in the forest on the west side, so as not to threaten the rear when the main force of the legion is not in the village of Ustock.
But...... Problems also follow!
The joy on his face had not yet dissipated, and the sadness climbed up Ron's brow again, making Ron suddenly change from an expressionless Tibetan fox to a worried Tibetan fox.
"Commander, although this matter is important and urgent, it cannot be considered serious." Quickly figuring out what Ron was worried about, Arthur took a step in the bewildered expressions of the rest of the rest and calmly spoke, "Isn't the answer right in front of us?" ”
"Also... Is. Yes, as Arthur had said, the answer was right in front of them, and after figuring out the joints, Ron's expression soothed again as his thoughts suddenly cleared.
However, this made several other people feel inexplicable, especially White, who had just returned, he did not know that Arthur had been hiding himself before, nor did he know that there was news about the people of the forest who had just appeared in front of everyone, listening to the conversation between the two people without any logical connection, only thinking that he had drunk too much and missed some key content.
White looked at Carl, a man who had always had prestige in the past, but after Carl found himself stared at by White, he also looked at White blankly, White had no choice but to look at John again, as for Sadie, forget it, the whole time absent-mindedly kept teasing her axe.
And the last hope of the audience John finally lived up to White's hope, although this Mao Duo Jushi was not able to keep up with the two bigwigs in the first time, but he was able to catch up with the slow beat, "In this case, we should wipe out the people of the forest and not let anyone go." In a month or two after the snow melts, the legion's food reserves will inevitably run out, and it will definitely be too late for the next round of food harvest, so we must eat someone else's! ”
An avalanche blocked the road from Ustok Castle to the village and vice versa! This also means that the Northern Boar Legion cannot take the initiative to obtain food and grass from Sturgiapoye, and under normal circumstances, if they do not take a huge risk to take that rugged mountain road to reach the outside world, they should collapse in starvation!
But now, there is a "granary" that has popped up on its own! Ron, how could they let it go?
"I don't know if you've noticed, but what does it mean that these forest people just burned down our logging yard and didn't attack the village of Ustok further?"
"It means they fear our strength!" Karl asserted, "And the power of our gods!" ”
"Even if Carl is right, the forest people already existed before we arrived, but as long as they don't enter the forest, the villagers will still be safe with them." John went on to explain to the uninformed, "You know, food is scarce in winter, and we all know very well that we can do anything when we are hungry. ”
Ron bowed slightly, which he unconditionally agreed, when he saw a fat mouse crawling in the dungeon, and almost without thinking about it, he just took it in his mouth.
"So this group of forest people must have a lot of food in their hands! So that they will not come hungry and loot the village of Ustok! ”
"That's true." Ron nodded his head again and again, and waited until John had finished his sentence before he resumed the conversation he had just interrupted by White's return, "Whether it's to pay tribute to the burning of the lumberyard, or to keep the village of Ustok from worrying, or just to keep the people fed, we all have a reason to send troops." ”
"But before I send out the troops, I have a few things that I have to explain clearly."
"In my opinion, the so-called forest people were actually just a group of poor people fleeing from the beginning."
Ron remembers very well that with the collapse of the Calradian Empire, the Principality of Sturgia lost this strong external pressure, and the conservatives at home finally did not have to give the commoners the treatment they had received before, and the conservatives resumed the traditional serfdom system on a large scale in the territory, which caused a large number of civilians who were unwilling to become slaves to flee to the deserted wilderness, and these people merged with the original unwilling to be governed by Boyer, and developed the forest in the form of slash-and-burn farming.
But it is clear that for the sake of their own survival, the poor people who started out have been transformed into butchers who can take the lives of others at any time, feasting on the cold arrows they shoot from the woods whenever anyone dares to share their forests.
However, although in Ron's eyes, the people of the forest are like this, but in the eyes of ordinary Stegias, these people are inspired warriors who are protected by the gods of nature, so that even if their lives and property are threatened, they do not dare to resist the people.
Feudal superstition kills people!
With a sigh in his heart, Ron continued to speak in a firm tone, "Go back to the camp and tell our soldiers, those Apocalyptic Warriors, are just a community of fugitives, slaves, bandits, and robbers, just like us, they are all flesh and blood, and if they are killed, they will die!" So that they have nothing to fear, and they need not be afraid! ”
"And what if?"
Sadie was slightly stunned, although she was not afraid of death, but the legends that had always been ingrained in her mind, according to legend, those divine revelations... The forest people can't be killed at all, even if they are mortally wounded, they can replace the heart of the tree spirit with the help of the forest witch, so as to become stronger, "What if there is really a god to help them?" ”
"If there really is a god." Ron snorted, his eyes full of disdain and mockery, "Then I'll kill the gods for you!" ”