The Kingdom of Winter, Snow Fort.

"Your excellency, count . . . the Grey-Fort army, retreat!"When a guard rushed into the castle hall and announced the latest news, all the nobles focused their eyes on him.

“Are you sure?”The Count of Marvin clapped the armrest of the seat and stood up.

"Indeed, more than one scout said so," said the guard, "someone saw with their own eyes that their camp had become empty overnight, and had discarded a lot of rations!"

“These guys are finally... fucked up!”The count could not help laughing, and his mood was suddenly loose.A month ago, the Grey Fort people suddenly appeared in the four seaport cities of Yongwin and expanded at a very fast rate.They were uncompromising, neither surrendering nor receiving tribute, and almost swept away the population everywhere they went, a plague-like barbarism that was almost more terrible than the Church—at least the latter was able to communicate.

The reason for the Grey Fort people is also extremely absurd, saying that the red moon will bring disaster, must leave as soon as possible before then.The Joke!This land is the inheritance left to him by his grandfather's grandfather, and no one can easily take it away, the church is like this, and so is the castle!

"Adults," said a bachelor of the old-fashioned dragon clock, "the so-called full moon lack of the moon, the dark moon red moon, are just a kind of celestial image, and will appear according to the law in the next period."They want to believe that this is an ominous sign for them, and that as long as the grown-ups occupy the place and do not move, they will do nothing for you.”

"Yes, the wall around the snow castle is your biggest expense."

“If the Greys are willing to negotiate, we will not be able to give in.”

"The church was also fierce at first, and finally did not seal you as a bishop?"

Others joined in.

Count Marvin's confidence grew more and more steady, and he looked out of his eyes on the strange vision of the sky, and his heart had long since lost his first fear, and even gave birth to a hint of appreciation.If it were not for this change three days ago, the Grey Fort people would have pushed the front line to the middle line of the Yongwinter Kingdom in more than a month, and the snow castle would have been inevitably affected.

Although I have heard that the barbarians rarely take the initiative to attack the aristocratic cities, as long as they do not interfere with their actions, they will ignore it, and the plundering of the population is tantamount to an infringement of the property of the nobles, and there is a reason to listen to it.

If the other party really sweeps the city around the air, will it not suffer when it comes to the evil moon?

Indeed, as the vassals say, the city itself is his greatest capital—it lies northward in the royal capital, in a wall.The four-week sinking is extremely deep, forming a natural "land island", with the widest gap of several miles, and the narrowest point is more than ten feet, which can only pass by the rope bridge.The area in the middle of the fissure is large enough to house several cities.

The ancestors were easy to defend and attack here, and built the castle on the "island".The fact is also proof that the snow castle has never been captured since its completion, and although the Helmes Church has swept the whole permander of winter in a very short period of time, it has only been frustrated when it tries to attack the snowy castle, and then sends messengers to negotiate with him, claiming that as long as loyalty to the church can continue to take charge of this place.In the eyes of the count, this is the normal practice of man.

It was with this that he kept silent and thought of getting a good price from the other side.

The conditions of what Wimbledon advertised were simply unacceptable.

The Count of Marvin was not worried that the Greys and the devil of their mouths had entered here, and that there was nothing more reliable than a cliff.But the city also needs the supply of surrounding towns, even if the snow bunker is full of warehouses full of materials, can support the day of the enemy to give up, but once the population is completely taken away, the resources spent can no longer be restored.

Fortunately, they were scared off by the red moon.

“Mr. Sack, what should I do next?”Marvin looked to the old scholar.

"Of course, take the initiative."The latter touched the long beard.

The count's face was suddenly frozen, and the trouble of defending the snow castle and going out to find each other was two different things, and if there was no such danger, he would not dare to contend with the king of the gray castle with ten of his courage.

"Don't be afraid, I'm not talking about the Greys, but the territories they've plundered -- think of it, the spies' reports mention that the enemy is many and scattered, and that a squad of only a hundred people are up and down, so what can a few people take away?"

Marvin’s eyes lit up, “You mean...”

The old scholar smiled and nodded, "The captives will surely leave a lot of things, we follow the route of the Grey Fort people along the way, should be able to pick up a leak."

For example, the very inconvenient food is very inconvenient to move...

The more Marvin thought about it, the more excited he brought in his chief knight, and as he was preparing to give the order, another aviour suddenly rushed into the hall, "big, adult... outside the city, a devil came..."

“What devil?”The count glared at him disapprovingly, "Even you believe the nonsense of the Greys?"

“Forgiveness, forgiveness... adults, but it...” The garrison voice said, “but it is not human!”

Not... human?

Everyone can’t stand up to each other.

Marvin also jumped in his heart, but as a lord, he had to be extremely calm.

"If that's the case, take me to see," said the count, uneasily, "I should like to see what the man who lives in hell looks like."

...

That being said, by the time he went up to the wall, he had changed into the best quality armor and the biggest stone of divine punishment.More than a dozen people gathered behind the guard, and a heavy shield erected a "shield wall" around him.

But when he saw each other at the moment, Count Marvin could not help but relax, this time his staff finally read wrong, the so-called "devil" is indeed only one person.

Its position is neither the narrowest of the cracks, nor the weak point of the wall, but simply standing on a raised rock column, the height is probably slightly higher than the head of the wall, and a little further forward, is the bottomless ice.The patrolman had commanded the bow from the cross-bow, and the stringed bow and arrow pointed straight to the target.

After a careful look for a moment, Marvin found that the other party did not look like a human being, although it also had both hands and feet, but the body was much taller than the average person, and the skin was blue, and you could see the meridian and blood vessels that were raised.The most obvious difference is the tentacles that grow on its cheeks, jaws and elbows – the disgusting things of earthworms that squirm slowly and look at the hair of people.

To his disquiet, the devil was closing his eyes at the moment, as if asleep, and completely unable to feel the breath of threat.

Was this monster really drawn by the Red Moon?No... it was just the saying that the Grey Fort people used to intimidate the ignorant villagers, and the count thought that no matter how it came, it could not be hooked with the rumored end, on the contrary, as long as he ordered his men to pull the lever, this guy would be shot cold by the arrows.

Thinking of this, Marvin took a deep breath and shouted, “Listen, ugly and dirty monster!”I am the Lord of the Snowy Fort, Marvin Casso!You have violated my territory, if you want to survive, kneeling to surrender to me is your only choice, otherwise the cold ice under your feet is the place where you are buried!”

He did not think that the other party could understand what he was saying, and this righteous statement was not so much a warning to the devil as it was a warning to the men of the wall to show the bravery and fearlessness of a lord.

Since the Greys think that this is the devil of hell, if he can scare away or kill one, he will inevitably greatly enhance his reputation.

"I don't have the patience to wait too long, now give you the last five breaths to choose - five or four!"

As he spoke, Marvin made a gesture to the knight to prepare to shoot.

“Three...”

The devil suddenly opened his eyes and shouted, “Enough is enough!”

Its sound like thunder generally over the snowy castle, the ice ridges below the wall fell, and the top of the mountains also sounded its fierce drink.For a moment, Marvin only felt as if the mountain were shaking, his ears buzzing.He took two steps back and sat on the ground as his ass.