Just a week after the jungle encounter, the entire Black Forest, all the way down to the Troll Mountains, was telling the story of Rhodes killing the Manticore alone.

The story starts with the group hunt at the beginning, the lord gets lost, and singles out the manticore, to the later son of the brave, who enters the forest alone and tears the manticore...... Various versions spread among the Norsca border tribes at breakneck speed.

The White Bear Lord, the King of the White Bear, the Forest Beastmaster, the Manticore Lion Slayer, and various titles also followed. At the same time, more and more Norscans began to join Rhodes' hunting squad, which grew from twenty-five to fifty, and admirers continued to pour in.

They come from all over the world, with all kinds of weapons, all kinds of accents, and they come from different places, but they have one goal: to follow the true God's chosen people. A week later, the number had grown to more than eighty.

Rhodes took them in and reorganized the ranks into a true army of marauders. Eighty or so Norscan warriors, seemingly small in number, but of superior quality, these northern marauders were stronger, more endurance and explosive than the human soldiers of the south, and at the same time, more skilled in combat. A people who fight death every day, their warriors have spent almost all their time in battle since childhood, and the combat skills trained in actual combat are always more practical and powerful than the skills they have been trained.

They have a clear division of labor and outstanding combat effectiveness. He has a strong physique and a determination to defy death.

At the same time, they are so bloodthirsty, worship the strong, and savage killing. But they are unusually united, because they have a man who tears the manticore lion with his bare hands as the leader.

They are fiercer than the most ferocious beasts, they are terrible hunters and warriors, they are storms, they are great waves, they sweep through the forest like a black crow, leaving behind the corpses of animals. for their lords to enjoy. Because he is in their eyes, the son of the god of war.

Inside and outside the forest, the visibility of this force is growing.

At the same time, the logging team from Blackhammer began to harvest in the forest, and bundles of high-quality timber were loaded onto ships and transported to the open sea, where the old captain Roberts transported the goods to various towns and ports of the empire for sale. In exchange for the supplies and gold needed for Blackhammer Fort.

In the forest, Rhodes took the opportunity to order someone to make a cape of manticore lion skin and drape it on his body as a symbol of status and status. Wherever they went, they saw the manticore's skin, and the Norscans knew that their leader was coming. It almost became a banner, and wherever it went, morale was greatly boosted.

Once a nightmare for humanity, the vast Dark Forest is now an important source of income for Blackhammer. Its trees are almost cut down, and the forests are home to a wide variety of animals, enough for the Norsca hunting party to hunt back and forth, collecting meat and all kinds of precious furs.

Timber and furs, yes, in addition to the mines, are two important sources of trade. With gold, all kinds of work can be carried out more quickly, such as the construction of roads, the maintenance of castles, and even the construction of new walls. As the universal currency of the Old World Human Empire, its use can be described as supernatural......

Rhodes had already planned the expansion of the entire Blackhammer Fortress, the town needed to be protected, and simple walls had to be built to give the populace a sense of security. At the same time, you can try to build a forging room, recruit skilled blacksmiths to craft weapons, and train new people along the way.

The price of raw materials is always lower than that of finished products, and the Black Hammer Fort is rich in iron ore resources, and you can make a profit by selling iron ore, but if you forge your own weapons, you can get rid of the embarrassment of being controlled by others, and at the same time, the price of armor and weapons is much higher than ore. Of course, at present, these industries are still in the conceptual stage. But Rod guessed it should be soon......

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The night sky in the Black Forest is beautiful, starry and beautiful, and if you forget the brutal living conditions, it's actually a beautiful place.

At night, Rod carried the huge two-handed sword on his back and walked up to the high ground, overlooking his camp. The sporadic fires had become more concentrated and brighter, and a procession of nearly 100 people gathered in the clearing of the forest, singing and drinking. The smell of food was rising from the fire, wine jars were everywhere, and everyone except the people standing guard had fallen into a carnival in the night.

From them, Rhodes saw - hope. Hopefully this is a real start.

At the same time, the part of the bite by the manticore two weeks ago has basically healed, and Rod clearly remembers his tragic situation at that time, the skin and flesh on his back were bitten and rotten, his right hand was almost scrapped, the skin was bitten, the wound was deep and the bone was visible, and at the same time, the bone was also bitten. Elsewhere, the thigh was pierced, the calf was torn off a layer of skin, and a manticore's broken tooth remained in the flesh...... If it weren't for the simple medical techniques and painkillers that these Norscans used to remove their broken teeth, the broken teeth would still be in their bodies today......

However, nothing could stop Rhodes from recovering at an astonishing speed. The high fever subsided on the same day, the skin began to heal on the third day, the bones began to grow new callus on the fourth day, the fingers could be used flexibly on the fifth day, and the scars began to disappear on the seventh day......

The Norsca warriors watched in amazement as their leader went from being badly wounded to healing, and the recovery process was shockingly fast. Therefore, he is even more worshipped, and in the eyes of the Norscans, he is the true leader, the son of God, and only the son of God has such a powerful ability to recover.

And to Rod's surprise, those parts that had been bitten by the manticore seemed to have become stronger and stronger after healing. The bone of the right hand that had been bitten off was now restored, but it was stronger than before, almost to the point of catching the blade with his bare hands.

Of course, that's an ordinary weapon, but if it's some special weapon, like a dwarven rune weapon, that's a different story.

But no matter what, it is a fact that after each recovery, the body is stronger than the previous one.