On the jousting field, black horsehair fluttered in the wind.

Iron hooves trampled on the soft grass and kicked up large patches of dirt.

Wearing a barrel helmet with only a slit in his eyes as a viewing port, the knight wears chain mail and a black burqa, riding on a black Nisaan horse from Gaul, charging at a scarecrow that acts as a target.

The heavy white beech wood riding spear was clamped under his armpit, forming a standard right-angled triangle with the arms and body.

This posture provides a stable fulcrum for the mounted spear, and it is also a rifle charge tactic that almost all knights must master in today's world.

The cavalry spear in his hand was a solid structure, thin in the front and thick in the back, extremely bulky, and was widely used in knightly tournaments, but due to its brittle texture, it was easy to break.

First Charge.

The rifle hit accurately, and the metal tip of the spear pierced through the scarecrow's chest, and the powerful impact sent the entire scarecrow flying into the air.

The knight shook the scarecrow off with a swing in the air.

Then he discarded his heavy cavalry and galloped on his horse, drawing two short spears from them with great dexterity as he passed by the weapon rack beside him.

As he turned his horse's head to charge, the knight held his gun in his backhand, raised it above his head, and plunged it from top to bottom, nailing it precisely to the neck of a scarecrow.

This is often the weak point of the enemy's armor.

The horse swept across the wide arena, and the knight drew another short spear with his backhand, piercing it all over his body and throwing it fiercely.

But unfortunately, this one didn't hit.

The spear was stuck in the dirt next to the scarecrow.

Lothar took off the heavy barrel helmet on top of his head, revealing a handsome young face.

He casually placed the barrel helmet on the round table on the martial arts field, lifted the clay pot filled with water, and poured it violently, only then did he forcibly suppress the heat caused by the vigorous exercise just now.

He looked at the attribute panel in front of him and wiped the sweat from his sideburns, a little relieved.

After a week of rehabilitation, he managed to improve his strength and stamina a little.

And fully adapted to the original owner of this body, after years of knightly training, the combat skills that have been trained.

Whether it is the commonly used light and heavy cavalry spear, short spear, shield, hand half sword, or the less popular one-handed hammer, flail, hand axe, he can use it skillfully.

As a full-time combat knight, he is fully qualified, but unfortunately he has not been canonized for the time being.

Lothar is a traverser.

In his previous life, he was the owner of a game company, and while working overtime with his employees at night to make a game, he unfortunately died suddenly and traveled to this era.

Replaced the second son of a Germanic nobleman who fell off his horse and fell unconscious after hitting a stone during a training session - Lothar von Habsburg.

When he awoke, he thought he had traveled through the Middle Ages, known as the Dark Ages.

But after completely merging the memories of the original owner, he realized that this place was definitely not the same thing as the Middle Ages as he knew it in his previous life.

For example, Henry von Hohenstaufen, the emperor of the Germania Empire in the north, hired a witch as a royal advisor last winter, and recruited tens of thousands of serfs to gather in Augsburg in Swabia to build a tower for witches and invite witches from all over the world to station.

This is not outrageous, the king of Albion, the famous Richard the Lionheart, actually married a witch as his wife and served as the chancellor of the exchequer of the entire kingdom.

This was simply not possible in the Middle Ages, when the clergy was supreme.

In this world, the relationship between witches and the church does not seem to be as tense as in previous lives—at least on the surface.

Name: Lothar von Habsburg

Title: None

Occupation: Aristocracy

Affiliations: Greater Germania Empire, County of Allgäu (Lower Burgundy, Non-Duchy of Burgundy).

Hu Cong: None

Strength: 9 (5 for normal adult males)

Dexterity: 7

Stamina: 8

Endurance: 8

Mental Power: 10

Talents: Two lives as a human (you who have fused two souls, you are born with twice as much mental power as ordinary people, and the upper limit of mental power is permanently +5).

Skill: None

The name of the system is called: "Yesterday's Giant Ship Tower Defense System", which originated from a copycat tower defense game that needs to be perfected and released before he crossed.

The content of the game is not new, to put it bluntly, it is to summon a variety of heroes through card drawing, defend and strengthen their territory to resist waves of enemy attacks.

But the problem is that this game starts with territory!

And Lothar now, not to mention the territory, doesn't even have an empty title, and there is no way to activate the system at all.

So far, he hasn't been able to draw a single card.

After the training, Lothar returned to the castle's rooms.

With the help of the maid, he took off his burqa and chain mail, changed into a light linen shirt, and went straight to the tower of the castle.

The castle was called the "Eagle Castle", transliterated as "Habsburg", and is also the source of their family name.

In Gaul and Germania, the prefixes "De" and "Feng" were used respectively, and the surname was preceded by the surname, meaning "from", representing the aristocratic origin of the fiefdom.

The "Eagle Castle" is a fortified mountain castle with a difficult terrain, and if there is enough food reserves, it will be difficult for even thousands of troops to break through.

Lothar stroked the bulges on the battlement wall, blowing the cool mountain breeze, and sighed with some emotion.

In previous lives, even working-class people could live in air-conditioned rooms that were warm in winter and cool in summer, with soft mattresses and running water 24 hours a day.

And in this era, even the aristocracy is far from being happy.

In particular, the Germanic nobles, who were more martial and used to living in castles rather than country estates, lived in a harsh environment.

Damp, gloomy.

Rats, fleas.

Commonplace.

After all, castles were much more military than residential, and the first consideration was always solidity rather than comfort.

Under the tower, heavy footsteps could be heard.

The sergeant wearing a spine helmet and a smock said in a low voice, "Young Master Lothar, my lord, please come over, it's time for lunch." ”

"yes, I see."

Lothar nodded, and followed him straight to the main hall of the castle.

These sergeants in Eagle Fort are all off-duty soldiers, unlike the peasant soldiers who are only conscripted in wartime and usually work in the fields, they are all professional soldiers, and there are only more than 100 people in the entire Eagle Castle.

In wartime, they will form the core of the army with the knights under the command of the Count, which is equivalent to the "personal soldiers" of the Eastern General.

Walking into the hall of the main building of the castle, the most striking thing is the end of the stone vault, the gray wall with a tapestry hanging, the three coats of arms hanging.

On the left is the three-black lion coat of arms on a yellow background, in the middle is a black single-headed eagle coat of arms on a yellow background, and on the right is a red lion on a yellow background.

The former represents the family of Hohenstaufen, to whom Henry VI belonged, to whom Lothar's father, Count Werner, was loyal to the Great Germanian Emperor; In the middle represents the Greater Germania Empire; On the far right is the Habsburg family, to which Lothar belongs.

On the long striped table under the coat of arms, the maid was already filled with dishes.

Lothar's father, the Count of Werner, had already taken a seat with his brother Otto, and his mother, Lady Elise, had died a year earlier.

Seeing Lothar, Count Werner bowed slightly, and motioned for him to take a seat with his eyes.

This is a man who does not smile.

With high cheekbones, deep-sunken eye sockets, long brown hair and beard, and a deep scar on his cheek, he was far from handsome in appearance.

But his sons, whether it was the eldest son Otto or the second son Lothar, were all good-looking.

Seeing him seated, Count Werner raised his hand in front of him and drew a cross from top to bottom, from left to right.

"Thank you Heavenly Father for giving us food, and for giving food to those who are poor and needy, in the name of the Father, Amen."

After the prayer was recited, the Count of Werner motioned for the two to move.

Today's menu is quite extensive, with the main course of goat stewed carrots and potatoes, accompanied by grilled quail, fruit pie and a basket of white bread made with fine wheat flour.

The cutlery is silver, with fine patterns on it, and is said to have been one of the trophies that the Count of Werner brought back when he was a young man and went to the Crusades... Otherwise, it would be impossible to put together a set of silver cutlery for daily use in the remote area of Aargau alone, which is reserved for a banquet and used as a backup.

ps: 1. The worldview of this book is empty, and some of the characters, families and countries have prototypes, but there is no evidence, for example, the Count of Werner is a character in the early 11th century, and it is obvious that there is no barrel helmet in this era, and the emperors of the Holy Roman Empire are not the Hohenstaufens, but the Sallian family.

To emphasize: this book is a fantasy category, not a history channel!

PS: 2: It is known that there were three Burgundy in the Middle Ages, and Lower Burgundy, where the Habsburgs were located, was not the Burgundy of Gaul, but was located on the territory of present-day Switzerland.

PS:3: The vast majority of characters in this book omit "Christian names".