Unless it's time to sleep, Roderick always wears armor, a habit that has been maintained since he became captain.

Life as a fortress defender is boring, except for training and sleeping, they take shifts guarding the walls, but in any case, it's much better than when they were in Winterfall.

Roderick did not arrange himself to go to the city walls today, but came to the training ground.

Here came 1,000 recruits.

Many of them, except for their age, are not fit to enter the army.

But someone is better than nothing, not to mention that everyone grows up slowly.

In the past, at every meeting, Mr. Wald, Miss Sophia, and even Miss Coral would greet the main person.

He also wants people, but he doesn't have those people who are thick-skinned and don't know how to speak, and being able to do his best to keep the current manpower is already his greatest ability.

However, it was clear that the Lord had always known his difficulties, and after the summer harvest in July, all the peasants in Winterfell were redistributed, and he was immediately sent 1,000 recruits. Roderick could even recognize some of the familiar faces among them, after all, Winterfell was that big.

Training recruits is a long process, just opening the bow and releasing arrows, without more than three months, don't think about going to the city wall, and getting on it is just a waste of arrows.

What's more, the defenders of the fortress are not only skilled in archery.

Historically, countless bloody lessons have taught them that walls are not always reliable, that even if they are not commonly used in hand-to-hand combat, they must never be abandoned, and that a hundred times of luck cannot be exchanged for the destruction of a whole army after one bad luck.

For this reason, the defenders of the fortress will often deliberately let a handful of orcs climb the walls after ensuring victory, or actively pursue them, so that each soldier will have the experience of fighting these strong greenskins head-on, even if at the occasional cost.

Tulum has been at peace for more than a dozen years, and most of the soldiers have no actual battlefield experience. Therefore, these fortress defenders, who are desperately fighting almost every day, are undoubtedly the most combat-ready troops.

Roderick watched the training for a while, asked a squad leader to take over, and then turned and walked towards the castle.

……

Inside the study.

"How's the recruits?"

Colin flipped through Wald's report yesterday on the official opening of the Alchemy Workshop's furnace.

"Very good, my lord, that's how we all came here." Roderick was more accustomed to standing because of his armor.

"It's a good word, but joining so many recruits at one time is estimated to be unique in the history of the defenders of the fortress." Colin laughed.

"Yes."

Roderick hesitated for a moment and asked, "My lord, are you unwell?" ”

From the moment he entered the room, Roderick found that the lord's face was not very good, and there was a sense of embarrassment that he had just fought with someone, although it was not obvious, but Roderick, who had rich combat experience, was keenly aware of it.

"No, I'm fine." Colin smiled, "You go get busy." ”

"Yes."

When Roderick was gone, Colin leaned back in his chair.

The power of the modified Wind Core Collider was obviously a bit unexpected, and although it had been done many live experiments, there were still accidents when it was really his turn.

Teleportation has been a coveted skill for humans since they had the concept of space magic.

And Colin thinks he's one step closer to that goal.

Essentially, Teleportation is still a spell skill that strictly follows the three laws of sorcery: it requires the mage to cast the spell himself; Mental drain; Have a unique and repeatable spell model.

However, when it comes to casting spells, the mage has little precedent to help.

It's been almost two years since Colin first cast space magic.

Although last night's spell failed, he was a lot more relieved, because at least the path was not wrong, and he even faintly saw the end.

He really wanted to try it a few more times, but unfortunately, every time the wind nuclear collider was started, the materials consumed were in the hundreds of gold francs, especially since it was difficult for him to buy materials if he had money now.

……

……

It's been 10 months since Colin arrived at the fortress.

In the past 10 months, Winterfell has been turned upside down.

But Colin doesn't have much to worry about himself, except for providing technical support in some key places, he basically relies on his subordinates to do the work.

For the arrangement of the peasants, he only put forward a subjective principle, and the specific division of land was still done by Sophia.

Sophia divided all the land into two parts.

As before, some of them were distributed to the peasants to grow their own crops, and the grain was handed over in proportion to each year, and the fortress provided special seeds for free, as well as agricultural tools and related agricultural training, after all, the way of planting is very different from before.

Sophia summoned a group of peasants to plant for the fort - these peasants were more like workers on the farm, with a fixed salary and a year-end harvest reward, and Sophia arranged the work of each day.

This has always been Sophia's vision.

On the one hand, the fortress must directly control a piece of land sufficient to feed the entire population of Twilight City, and prevent the poor harvest of the peasants from causing a food crisis; On the other hand, the research and development of new crop seeds also requires land and manpower.

Colin didn't ask too much of what was going on in these areas, as long as it wasn't too out of line, he was free to play with his subordinates.

He liked the steady rise of the current development, and at this pace, in a few years, Colin was confident that Winterfell would be as prosperous as Thunder City.

this day.

As usual, he worked out the specifics of the next teleportation spell in his study.

There was a knock on the door, and the High Magician, Lady Madeleine, entered.

"My lord, there is ...... Guests visiting. ”

"Guest?" Colin looked up in confusion.

There will be guests in the fortress?

What guest would need Madeleine to report in person?

He looked at Madeleine, only to find that the latter's eyes were just as puzzled as he was.

Colin felt as if something unusual had happened, but since Lady Madeleine had calmly approached him to inform him, it should not be any dangerous guest.

"Invite him to the study."

It didn't take long.

Madeleine walks into the study with a lady who is a head taller than her.

When Colin saw it, he was also stunned on the spot.

The lady was slender and fair-skinned with a hint of green, dressed in delicate and luxurious leather armor, but most of her skin was bare, and she looked sensual and charming, with long green hair reaching to her waist and a garland of branches on her head.

The most striking thing is the narrow corners of her eyes, and her vertical and pointed ears.