When Rhodes returns from the bleak crypt to join Caroline and then head to Crypt Whisper, it has become a real battlefield.

The regular army of Kislev is besieging the castle, which is shrouded in darkness. A full force of 4,000 men besieged the Cipher Castle, and according to what Rhodes knew about the castle before, there would be no more than 2,000 people living in the town and the castle. It's just one thousand five or six, excluding the people who escaped on the night of the cataclysm, even if the vampire lord resurrects all the corpses inside, the total number of undead soldiers will be about a thousand.

An army of 4,000 men surrounded the castle of only 1,000 men, where is this siege? It is almost ready for a massacre...... After talking with the commander-in-chief of the legion, Rhodes learned the reason - after the fall of the Secret Word Castle, the Ice Queen learned the news here, and in a fit of rage, she transferred half of her legion out and rushed to the south to destroy the city. The vampire lord must be in there anyway......

Caterina's huge reaction gave Rod a reason to be suspicious, and, it should be said, eight or nine are not far from ten. That is, the personal guards that the queen rewarded her with before were her henchmen and capable men. Only then would she be so furious about the situation here.

You must know that the Secret Word Fort is not a big castle, and its strategic value and economic status are not high, at best, it is the southern version of the Black Hammer Fort. The queen doesn't have to fight for such a small castle.

Troops of four thousand people...... That's not more than the number of permanent troops in the peacetime capital of Kislev...... It's easy to see why Caterina is so furious. You know, the trigger for the eventual uprising of the Erengrad Rebellion was the death of the Frost Witch named Afra, one of the Ice Queen's right-hand men.

"Lord Rod, your deeds have spread in Kislev, and we all know that you are a true hero who is willing to risk your life to go to the vampire's lair in order to hunt down the vampires and ensure the safety of the people. Her Majesty already knows about this, and we have been ordered to come here to exterminate the vampires. You know, until the end of the Erlengrad rebellion, the people of the capital cannot be threatened. ”

The general who commanded this legion, Admiral Vinos, respectfully told Rhodes about the situation at the front. Although some of the battle conditions at the front can be heard one after another in the past two months, it is still incomplete, and the information obtained from this front-line general is undoubtedly the most accurate.

Rhodes was only a little secretly happy, and according to Vinos, the soldiers who escaped from the battle in the dungeon of Fort Cipher reported to the Ice Queen the situation of the day, so that the queen could clearly understand the situation of the day...... After all, Pirno didn't kill himself, everyone saw that the tomahawk was originally aimed at the vampire, but the vampire was too fast, and ordinary people were no match at all...... And Pirno himself tried to save him before he died, and he never abandoned him...... This is also obvious to all. It was also because of that battle that the threat of Strieg's vampires finally attracted Caterina's attention...... Rhodes probably also won the queen's trust by Pirneau's own actions before his death......

"That's what we should do – pledge allegiance to the Queen. ”

Rhodes politely arrived.

"By the way, what's going on in the battle ahead? I've been preoccupied with hunting down vampires for a while, and I'm afraid I'm going to lose touch with the big army. My men?"

Rhodes asked. Number Seven

"The warriors of Blackhammer are very brave......," Venos replied simply.

"As for the war...... he paused, and continued, "the war is scorching on land, but Her Majesty the Queen of the Sea has assembled a large fleet large enough to blockade the port of Erlengrad. ”

"A huge fleet?"

Rod asked curiously. You know, Kislev never had a large-scale regular navy, and ninety percent of the country's ships and gunboats were concentrated in Erlengrad, so the rebels would be so arrogant, because the siege could not be encircled at all without a navy, and supplies would be constantly brought in from the sea. Rhodes was curious about how Catalina managed to assemble a large fleet at sea in such a short period of time, knowing that with the productivity of the medieval world, it would take at least two years to build a fleet, not including crew training. And it has only been about half a year since the Erlengrad rebellion, and in half a year, Caterina has built a fleet?

"Yes, the fleet is already heading for the port of Erlengrad, and it is estimated that it will be confronted by this time with the rebel fleet in Kislev Bay. ”

Venos replied.

Rhodes didn't ask any more questions about this question, Venos was just an officer, and he couldn't know much about the Ice Queen, and even if he did, the Queen wouldn't let him say it. Caterina's style of doing things Rod still knows, this female tsar will always know the details of others, and she will not allow others to inquire about her details. If he really knew what she ordered, he probably wouldn't have walked out of her territory alive.

"May this rebellion end soon. Rod said perfunctorily.

"Hmm...... I'm going to attack the city at dawn tomorrow, Lord Rhodes, look?"

Vinos asked respectfully. Judging by his respectful movements, Rhodes knew that Caterina's attitude towards him had indeed changed. Because this army was originally under the control of Venos, and yet, in the matter of siege, he respected his attitude so much. If he was a duke, a nobleman, or something like that, it would not be surprising that Venos was so so. And he is actually just the lord of a small castle in the north, at most, plus the identity of the Chosen One. Venos could have decided on his own military actions and did not need to be so.

Luckily, it seems that no one knows about his own capture of the Soulbound Dagger. By mistake, Pirno died, and the raid on the tomb was only involving himself, the witch hunters, the dwarves, and the shamans. Among the three comrades-in-arms, except for the witch hunter, who is a newcomer, the other two can definitely be trusted. However, Diego and the Kislev faction have no interests entangled, and they came to this ice kingdom purely to hunt down those dark monsters. So, it is certain that he will not reveal the secret either.

"Yes, but it doesn't really mean much if it's not dawn, some vampires are afraid of the sun, but not every vampire is afraid of the sun. Even if you expose a lord-level vampire to the sun, it still won't have much effect on it. They just don't like it. Just like we humans don't like dirty environments, but if we have to stay, we should stay, the inhabitants of Cipher Castle used to hang garlic in their houses to ward off vampires, but it didn't work, they want to kill you, a few garlic are useless, the same goes for sunlight, stakes, silver weapons, it may be useful against low-level vampires, be careful with vampire lords, don't expect them to be afraid of us during the day, I fought with them. ”

Rhodes added. Of course, this is just a supplement, this battle is actually inevitable, and the key question is only how to minimize the battle damage. After all, there are at least a thousand or so undead and ghouls in the city as well.