"Caroline, you don't want to participate in tomorrow's siege. Your injuries aren't healed yet......"

After discussing the siege strategy with Venos, Rhodes found Caroline. She looked tired, not much better. After all, it is impossible to recover from such a serious injury in two weeks. Rhodes remembers how much blood she had shed that day in that farmhouse...... Caroline's physique Rhodes knows, she is not a legendary wizard, and she does not have an extraordinary physique like herself, so she is lucky to be able to walk freely after two weeks with such a serious injury.

"It's not that day you asserted. ”

Caroline muttered.

"That's for your good ......"

"Burn a scar on my body, that's good for me?"

"No, you'll bleed dry. ”

"How's it going? It's not bleeding now, is it?"

Rod said, jokingly reaching for Caroline's abdomen.

"You can't just be honest and look around. Not a gentleman at all!"

Rod's half-stretched hand was slapped off loudly by Caroline, and she looked at Rod with a little anger. The old man in front of him was both warm and savage...... But I don't know why I don't always hate it...... She brushed the hair from her forehead and pretended to glare at Rod.

......

In the early hours of the next morning, huge catapults began to bombard the castle of Cipherword.

Since the town has completely fallen and there are no more living people, the army will not show mercy to the town's men, and the Ice Queen's meaning is so simple and clear, destroy all the undead in the city, find out the vampire lord and kill it.

The siege troops lined up in a neat phalanx and stood by at a safe distance outside the city. They were out of range of their crossbows, waiting for the catapults to smash through the walls before marching.

Rhodes and the commander of this army, Vinos, stood side by side, watching the battle ahead. Under the white sky, lit flints emanated from the Legion's position, carrying the trail of smoke billowing from the flue to the dilapidated Whispering Castle.

In less than an hour, the entire castle was transformed into a city of flames. According to Commander Vinos, the idea of burning the dead demons in the city before marching would minimize the number of enemies. 7 Q

This has also proved to be a wise approach. When the regular army legions outside the city entered the city in full order, the undead troops inside the city did not put up much resistance. A huge gap had been blasted open in the walls, and the number of undead soldiers with bows and crossbows was very small, only a few dozen, and they had just been resurrected two weeks ago, and they were originally the defenders of the Secret Word Fortress......

Sporadic arrows hit the neatly laid Keislif legion, causing little material damage to the legion. However, the ensuing battle into the city became somewhat resistant. Although a round of catapult bombardment destroyed half of the buildings and set the town on fire, the resistance of the undead forces in the town was stubborn.

Not every building in every alley was set on fire, and these small alleys became the main lurking spots for the undead.

Under the unified command of the vampires, a large number of zombies and ghouls pounced on the Kislev troops entering the city from all directions. On one side is the burning town, and on the other side are soldiers fighting everywhere. After entering the city, Rhodes realized why the vampire lord did not flee this time, and he probably did not expect that it was a regular army of 3,000 men attacking it. In other words, more than a thousand undead plus cellar dreaders and wolf bats can completely kill any human army that enters the city, you know, some castles have fewer than a few hundred permanent garrisons. Such a siege may have been something that the vampire lord had not expected, or perhaps it would have been too late to escape when it realized that the situation was not good. Or, he didn't want to run away at all...... Fleeing from Errengrad all the way to the Secret Whisper, crossing almost the entire Kislev...... If you escape, you can only enter the mountains on the edge of the world, which are the territory of the greenskins and dwarves, and it is better to die there than to go there......

Rhodes followed the large army all the way, and unlike the siege troops, Rhodes had only one goal in mind - the vampire lord. But Rhodes had to find it, because the situation was different from that day, when the vampire lurked in the shadows, not wanting to be discovered, and now, he had to be the commander of the army of the undead, directing his men to fight. It must be in a relatively conspicuous place.

Two dark shadows swept through the air, causing a small panic among the soldiers on the ground, however, after taking a closer look at their appearance, Rhodes didn't want to pay attention to them at all. Two bloodthirsty manta wolves. I've fought these creatures many times, and they're not a threat to me at all, let alone to this siege force armed with leather armor and crossbow arrows. The soldiers were afraid only because many of them had seen the creature for the first time.

"There's no need to fight them in the streets, find the vampire lord, kill him, and these undead will fall apart!"

In the chaotic streets of town, Rhodes grabbed the Legion commander Hanging Venos and shouted at him. The latter quickly understood, and ordered the elite units of the army to form a special assault team and march towards the castle.

A team of thirteen men armed with battering rams began to ram towards the castle gates. Although the rocks thrown by the previous catapult hit many buildings and the castle in the center of the town, they did not hit the castle gate so coincidentally, so the siege must still be "manual".

A swarm of undead bats harassed the siege force along the siege passage, however, the crossbowmen in the back provided good assistance to their companions in front, and the arrows came in unison, scattering the dark shadow. They gathered together again, only to be scattered again. After a few rounds, a bunch of completely dead black bats fell on the ground. Some were pierced through their bodies by crossbow arrows, some were nailed directly to the city gates, and some were only scratched by clusters of arrows, and were mended by melee soldiers when they landed......

Finally, with more than a dozen heavy blows in a row, the castle gate was smashed open.

Two large wooden doors collapsed, and the dust kicked up filled the passage at the entrance. From inside the castle, two bloodthirsty hunks rushed out, and they were two cellar dreaders...... The besieging forces were terrified by their massive size, muscular muscles, pus-covered skin and bloody fangs. Immediately after the two cellar dreaders rushed out, dozens of undead infantrymen. Rhodes saw their appearance clearly, and these resurrected undead soldiers were the reinforcements that Pirno had brought that day. Thirty Powel knights and a dozen Krem guards...... There is no doubt that these people have become an excellent source of soldiers for vampire lords after their deaths, and the combat power of a Krem guard is comparable to that of the Black Knight, and it will not take long for them to be resurrected, otherwise, it will be enough to defeat a hundred.

Rod couldn't help but secretly rejoice that the regular army of Kislev had arrived in such a timely manner, and the longer the time dragged on, the stronger the undead power in the Secret Word Fort became.

As in all previous battles, Bogur the Butcher rushed forward without looking, screaming with excitement no matter who his opponent was.

When he ran into these heavily armored undead infantrymen, he realized that he was dealing with an opponent worthy of battle. Bogur could only deal with two resurrected Krem guards at the same time, and any more would have been a little more than a little overwhelmed.

Rod, on the other hand, quickly weaved through the crowd, becoming more agile than ever, dodging a series of attacks by just moving around, chopping off the head of one undead soldier with an axe, flipping his wrist and smashing another with the hilt. And these undead soldiers were all Powel knights, the noble warriors of Kislev......

After a spin around the undead army, Rhodes was the first to break out of the encirclement.