"They asked me about the details of the battle, and they wanted to know what the vampires looked like, how many they were, and how strong they were. ”

In front of Caroline, Rhodes said calmly.

"And you told them?"

"Well, I told them all. ”

"You should have reservations, these vampires are not a good thing. ”

Caroline pursed her lips with a depressed expression. She would love to write a letter directly to the Snow Queen that there are vampires in this team, but she had sworn to Rod not to tell a third person about it. And, as Rhodes analyzed, the people were sent by the Ice Queen, didn't the Queen herself know that the two noble youths were vampires?Or did the Queen really not know? She would rather choose to believe the latter, but it was not a choice question, in case their queen really ......

Caroline didn't dare to think any further, the complexity of the matter was beyond her imagination and cognition. So, now she can only trust Rod. Investigate this before vampires can cause more harm.

"This information is not important, just let them know, and, even if we don't say it, they will go to the group of Kasa soldiers and ask for questions. It's impossible to hide. ”

Sitting in a rough leather chair, Rhodes replied calmly.

"So what do they know about this? Wasn't it their own kind that attacked us that day......?

Caroline then asked, and the look of confusion on the witch's face could be seen, apparently the rumors of Errengrad, the invasion of the beastmen and the official inaction of Kislev, and the current vampire infiltration of the barracks had made Caroline suspicious of her queen. But as a Frost Witch, deep down, she still didn't want these speculations to be true.

"Maybe not. ”

Rhodes returned.

"How?"

Caroline asked curiously.

"In fact, the vampires are also divided into several different factions, they have their own families and heritages, their own armies and banners, and the ones we met before are probably the vampires of the Streiger family. This is a family of vampires full of tragedy, they were once glorious, but then hunted down by various other vampire families, wandering around the world for many years, hiding from enemies, and because of this, they can only hide underground or in terrifying and eerie caves, to avoid hunting, in the long life of refuge, many of the vampires of this family can only feed on all kinds of dark creatures, bats, rats have become their main recipe. It is conceivable that the long-term consumption of the blood of these creatures will have an irreversible effect, that is, their bodies will mutate and become indistinguishable from wild beasts...... I suspect that it was the vampire of this family who attacked us before. And the two people sent by the queen should be vampires from another family. ”

Rod analyzed. In fact, this is something I've analyzed countless times before.

"Are they enemies of each other?"

Caroline asked.

"Yes, but not quite. These monsters hide in the dark, and little is known about their stories. I also heard it from an old scholar, and there are no books to record it all. ”

Sometimes, Rhodes said, lying is a matter of desperation.

"So, it can be simply understood that the group of vampires that attacked us and the two vampires around Cohen are different factions?"

Caroline asked. Her mind wasn't that complicated, she just wanted to know yes or no. And Rod also gave her the exact answer -

"Well, that's how it works. ”

"That'...... Wait, I need to sort out my thinking. ”

Caroline returned, rubbing her temples with her cold, slender fingers, and what had happened in the intervening period was so strange that she couldn't sort out the intricacies behind it for a moment.

"I'll help you figure it out, it's actually very simple. We know that there are four forces that are entangled: first, the rebels of Erlengrad, second, the army of the Ice Queen, third, the vampires of House Streig, and fourth, the vampire family of another force that we know of hiding within the legion. The relationship between the four forces is as follows: on the surface, the rebels of Errengrad and the legions of the Ice Queen are facing off. Secretly, the vampires of House Streiger are facing off against the vampires of another family. So, the struggle on the surface is a struggle between the rebels and the queen, and secretly there is a struggle between two vampire families. ”

Rod took Caroline's finger away and whispered.

The Frost Witch nodded incomprehensibly, a confused expression still on her face. Despite Rod's well-founded analysis, she still doesn't want to believe that the Ice Queen is the mastermind behind this. How could the wise Queen of Kislev have an affair with a vampire?

And Rhodes still has some things to say, in fact, the current situation is far more than the battle of the four sides, as far as Rhodes knows, two months ago, there were Moorish people in the city of Erlengrad, and at the same time, there were also witch hunters from the Empire...... With the addition of these two forces, the current situation is actually a six-party scuffle...... The followers of the Grim Reaper Moore will never submit to any worldly regime and oppression, and the witch hunters are a fanatical organization that comes from the empire and does not owe allegiance to any king or duke of Kislev...... These six forces are fighting in this land, a real era of chaos......

......

"The king of beasts, the king of beasts is coming......"

In the final winter, Yeskovich staggered through deep snow to Erlengrad to join the bear-god oracle. To the outside world, this is a crazy old man, he is in rags, he smells of leather all over his body, and he sings loudly as he walks. The pedestrians along the road all gave way to him, afraid that the madman would do something crazy.

But Yeskovich knew that he was not crazy at all, he just didn't care about the eyes of others, and in his opinion, the oracle was more important than anything else, and he had to do it to the best of his ability. If anyone dares to stop him from completing this task, he will tear him apart mercilessly, and in the eyes of the shaman Ersun, all people are the same, whether you are a noble king or a lowly pauper, all are children of the gods......

Overhead, a lone eagle soared in the gloomy gray sky, making a burst of eagle chirps. Through the vision of the goshawk, Yeskovich saw - a long way ahead, the forest disappeared in front of it, and in its place was a vast grassland, and beyond this grassland, the city of Erlengrad was not far away. With the help of the goshawk's body and eyes, he could see the vast grasslands beneath the sky, and the winding paths clinged to this ancient land like ground snakes......