"Now that the beast is dead, let's go. ”

The north wind was howling around him, and the sky was getting darker, and Lawrence, the forest ranger, couldn't help but urge his companions.

They had been chasing this beast in the forest for two days and two nights, and it was not the hunter's spear and sword that finally killed the beast, but a creature that was even more ferocious than this beast—werewolves.

"Peel it, we should report this to your lordship. ”

Walter, another scout horseman, took a look at the bloodstained beast lying in the snow and said calmly.

As a seasoned Scout Cavalry, Walter was no less than Lawrence the Ranger in dealing with these strange beasts. They are old partners, working together under the Lord of Blackhammer Keep.

It's not the first time they've left the town where humans gather and gone to the vast forest to collect information about alien beasts. But this year, judging by various phenomena, the scale of the alien beast seems to be larger than ever. It is also for this reason that their boss attaches great importance to this matter and sends them deep into the forest to investigate the situation.

"Callas's alien beasts have never been haunted so often, and more importantly, judging by the scars on the corpses, most of them are from werewolves and claws and beastmen's axes. ”

"The increase in the number of alien beasts, and the increase in the number of mutilated corpses, only proves one thing—the number of bloodthirsty werewolves and beastmen has also increased. ”

They dragged the bloodied fur back, talking as they went. In Lawrence, the forest ranger, the number of alien beasts has not increased, but the number of beasts and werewolves has increased, and these low-level alien beasts will be constantly driven out, which will create the illusion that the number of alien beasts has increased.

If so, the situation is even more bleak.

As he spoke, they hurried through the dense forest and headed south. Overhead, the moon was white and cold, like a ghost. It casts that white glow on the ground. In the past, hunters and rangers in the past were very fond of the white moon in the sky, so that even at night, it would not be too dark. But now, the moon overhead is slowly rounding. In the North, the moon is not a good thing, it means that the time for werewolves, beastmen, and various beasts to haunt is getting closer.

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North, Blackhammer Castle.

By the time Rhodes learned that the beast had arrived outside the city, it was already three days later. Cavalry Walter and Ranger Lawrence worked hard to hand the collected hides to Lord Rod, who knew that this winter would be even more difficult than ever. Whether it is the increase in the size of the alien beasts, or the gathering of beastmen and werewolves, it is not good news for Blackhammer Castle.

He thanked the two warriors who had gone deep into the forest with a slightly commendatory remark, then instructed his men to prepare them with food and hot water, and went straight into his office to study the broken corpse samples.

The tattered and deteriorated fur, the dim firelight, the rough and simple office, everything, made Rod's mind go back to the past. Three months ago, he was not the lord of this place, and he didn't even belong to this world. He's just an honest worker on Earth, a copywriter. By chance, he came to this world - the medieval warhammer. It's a world of beasts and darkness. Humans are arguably one of the weakest races in this world. Even a powerful empire can only rely on firearms to survive in this dangerous continent of blood.

What Rhodes crossed was a small local lord. The town guards an ancestral castle, Blackhammer Castle.

The history of Blackhammer Fort dates back to far, far past. The castle existed as early as the time of Magnus the Pious. It has a history of more than two hundred years so far.

In that year, Northern Chaos organized the third invasion of the Old World world. Magnus, the commander of the Empire, led the Old World Alliance and the Chaos Legion in a three-day and three-night battle in Kislev, finally defeating the Chaos Army. Since then, the scattered Chaos soldiers have scattered across the northern kingdom of Kislev and gradually withdrawn from the kingdom of ice and snow.

In order to resist the re-invasion of the chaotic forces and barbarian forces in the north, the Ice Queen and the Empire joined hands to build a series of towns and fortresses in the north, south of the Black Forest, and divided the knights who had military achievements in the war at that time, and came to the north to establish a base.

And Rod's ancestors were such "lucky" knights of the kingdom.

Blackhammer Fort is located at the northernmost tip of the Kingdom of Kislev, with the endless Talon Sea to the west and snowy forests and savannahs to the east. It can be said that it is better not to be sealed to such a place where birds don't poop. Rod couldn't imagine how his ancestors, whom he had never met, had come from scratch in this impoverished land. Fortunately, after several generations, it has become a small town, and in the middle of the town is the magnificent castle that everyone can see - Black Hammer Castle.

It is said that it took a full twenty-five years of construction for the castle to be completed. The entire castle is built on top of a spa. In winter, the hot water from the ground generates a constant stream of heat, which carries the warm current to all corners of the castle. So, even in the cold winter months, Rhodes doesn't feel too cold inside the house.

As for the forest beasts that Rhodes was dealing with and was worried about, they were the products left behind after the Chaos invasion back then. These demons, clad in heavy armor and with evil fire burning on their bodies, polluted all the lands they passed through after their defeat. Cast a terrible gray over the earth.

In the forests polluted by the winds of chaos, many plants and animals have mutated. For example, a wild deer grows a third horn and becomes irritable and aggressive, or a beautiful sunflower becomes a terrible man-eating flower, and a wild dog grows a second head and becomes a monster like a hellhound. These are the products left behind by the Chaos invasion, and they are also what Rhodes' men call strange beasts.

Blackhammer Fort is located on the edge of the kingdom of Kislev, surrounded by beastmen, werewolves, and alien beasts, and the town is often attacked by these evil creatures, if hunters or travelers have no news for three days, most of them will be used as food by beastmen and alien beasts. However, precisely because it is located on the edge of the kingdom, it has almost become a three-way zone, and the lords have a high degree of autonomy, and the disadvantage is that they do not receive reinforcements from the capital all year round. It is up to the local lords to find a way to solve the problem of the plague of alien beasts on their own.

Rhodes was reborn in such an era, and there was no other choice. Although the situation is a little worse, but fortunately, there is a relatively complete territory and a team of loyal ministers.