Chapter 390 The Beginning of the Decisive Battle
After bidding farewell to Count Pascal, Etria headed for the Volga Province, the granary of the entire empire. The golden earth welcomed the most joyful moment of the year.

Taking advantage of Avril’s excuse, Etria visited some noble ladies and successfully obtained some grain transactions. However, there was no long-term transaction between the nobles and the Frozen Territory. Most of the grain in their hands had already been sold to a place. This transaction with the Frozen Territory was also deducted from the nobles’ own accumulated granaries.

On this golden land, every grain of food has been marked with its owner. It is very difficult for the Frozen Land Lord to snatch some of it from them.

But for now, Ryan’s urgent need has been solved. In the Frozen Territory, a large number of food trucks began to be transported to Ryan’s location, and he was madly increasing his troops.

“It will take some time for the rest of the food to be delivered.”

Etria returned to the Frozen Territory somewhat tired. She traveled very fast because the werewolves’ attacks became more intense during this period.

“The werewolves of the Garg clan seem to be under some pressure as well. Their leader has become a little irritable recently and is eager to break through our defenses.”

Ryan left the Winter City and went to the camp of the Violent War Bear Legion. He could hear Boggard’s loud roar from afar.

The camp was filled with the scent of active magic, which was the potion of life. In the last war between the canyon and the werewolves, both the Violent War Bear Legion and the werewolves were defeated. Fortunately, the arrival of the army led by Brand ended the war and allowed the armored bears to return to the camp.

However, Bogold was very angry about Brand’s appearance.

“If it weren’t for you, I would have killed that damn werewolf! He killed more than twenty of my brothers!”

When Bogold saw Brand next to Ryan, he lost his temper.

“If you start a war there, the Armored Bear Legion will suffer heavy casualties. Even if you can kill those 10,000 werewolves, your losses will be more than 60%, and more than 600 Armored Bear warriors will die.”

“So what! Bilki’s warriors will not fear death!”

Bogeld acted as if she was right until Ryan looked at her.

“I don’t want my extraordinary army to disappear so easily. I can bless the warriors, but an armored bear can’t grow up in a day.”

“If this extraordinary army suffers too much loss, you won’t have to be the leader anymore.”

Ryan said this rudely, and Bogeld opened his eyes wide, very unconvinced.

“Why, you want to fight me? You weren’t there at the time, and it really is a relief for you, the flag bearer.”

“But you are no match for me.”

Ryan waved his hand and said, Bogeld’s eyes widened, but he didn’t rush over in the end.

“No, I have to continue the attack with my army. Those damn werewolves have attacked us hundreds of times in the past few days.”

“Don’t worry.”

Ryan won’t agree, he’s still waiting.

“To our north, there are tens of thousands of werewolves. They are cunning and we only have one chance.”

After leaving the armored bear camp, Ryan went to the front line, where the military fortifications were being built. He heard countless werewolves roaring and howling. Unlike other places, here the sound of fighting between werewolves and human soldiers could be heard every minute. The workers who were building the defense lines were terrified because the soldiers could not completely protect them. There were always cunning werewolves rushing out from unknown corners to kill them.

“In accordance with your wishes, we have secretly stopped the construction of the fortress. The werewolves don’t know what we are doing.”

A lord came to Ryan. He was one of the wandering nobles in the Bilki world. Now he has become a lord and is in charge of the work here.

Looking at the metal stake rooted deep in the ground, Ryan tried but failed to pull it.

The alchemists fixed these metal stakes here. Deep in the earth, the metals are connected like rivers. Unless Ryan has the power to move mountains, he cannot shake these metal stakes.

“Whose foundation is eighty meters deep?”

Ryan smiled and nodded with satisfaction. After encouraging the soldiers here, he returned to Winter City.

“Forging metal chains is not easy, and most blacksmiths’ skills are not up to par.”

When Brock saw Ryan, he knew why the lord came. He took out an iron chain several dozen meters long from the blacksmith’s table. The iron chain was very thick, but Ryan wanted to use it to weave a big net.

“how much longer?”

Ryan asked, and Brock gave a time after thinking about it.

“It will take at least twenty days.”

“Twenty days… The soldiers in front can’t hold out for twenty days. In the past two days, the werewolves’ attacks have become more intense. They already know that the Black Goat People in Xiangshan Plain have been defeated. People are dying every day. Many soldiers died in less than a month from the time they became soldiers.”

After hearing Ryan’s words, Brock also fell silent.

“I will have the blacksmith work without rest for fifteen days. Within fifteen days, the things you want will be delivered to the location of the fortress.”

Ryan nodded. For fifteen days, his army would have to hunt werewolves on a battlefield with no fortifications for fifteen days.

Ryan didn’t know whether the army could hold on. The strength of the werewolves was obvious to all. The fighting power of a werewolf was not inferior to that of an apprentice knight who had been trained for several years. In other words, Ryan’s people came from different northern worlds, and they had not lost their previous fighting skills, so they were able to fight against the werewolves.

Otherwise, even with Ryan’s blessing, they would lose more than they win without mastering combat methods and vigilance.

The people that Ryan has blessed recently are almost all Fenrir’s people. They always have some advantages in fighting against werewolves, which greatly reduces the death rate of the army.

Fifteen days was the final deadline. When Ryan learned that the grain trucks from the south were on the way, he took out the stored grain from the frozen soil territory and continued to perform spiritual blessings.

To the north, on the battlefield.

The ferocious werewolves attacked the human army day and night. This was the method of Weiss, the leader of the ‘Gager’ clan. He wanted to devour the human army bit by bit so that the human soldiers would not get any rest time.

“Damn Black Goat People, if it weren’t for their incompetence, how could these humans have so many extra soldiers?!”

Weiss was extremely angry. Recently, the human defense had become stronger because there were many more soldiers. This made him extremely angry. He felt that this was because of the destruction of the Black Goat People on the other side, which led to the support of other human nobles’ armies here, making his attack unable to continue to be effective.

Otherwise, humanity would have been defeated long ago.

“Chief, why don’t we just charge into the human territory?”

The tall werewolf next to Weiss asked in confusion.

“Idiot, in human territory, houses are castles to stop us werewolves. Their soldiers can set traps in places like that.”

Weiss’s eyes showed wisdom.

“But if humans lose their knights and soldiers, they will lose all courage to resist. Even if we rush into their town, they will flee like prey and will no longer be able to resist our hunting.”

“As long as we kill their army and their nobles, humans will voluntarily become our food.”

“The most important thing is that this way we won’t lose too many of our people, especially the werewolves of ‘Gag’. If we lose too many, other clans will challenge us.”

“But if we can’t take over the human lands, the other clans will think that Garg has become weak.”

The tall werewolf bared his teeth, his ferocious eyes filled with murderous intent directed at those clans that dared to challenge Garg.

Tribes and bloodline clans are the social classes among werewolves. Under the Silver Moon Court, only powerful werewolves can get a higher status.

The Gag clan not only faces pressure from humans, but also from within the werewolf community. They know humans too well, perhaps because the werewolf civilization itself is too similar to that of humans.

“I will kill their leader.”

Weiss licked his lips. Werewolves are bloodthirsty, especially Weiss as the leader. Although he said so, the Tundra leader suddenly found that the number of attacking werewolves had increased. They attacked in the shadows of the day and killed in the darkness of the night. A large number of human soldiers died every day. As a last resort, Ryan ordered the abandonment of the narrow fortress defense line and let the army retreat outside the Winter City.

At this point in time, only five days had passed since the fifteen days Brock mentioned.

“Hahaha! The number of human knights has decreased. Humans are like this. When the army is not enough to guard all the land, they will retreat into their own shells.”

“Keep hunting those damned human knights and let them see how powerful werewolves are. The land in the south should belong to the strong werewolves!”

Vess roared with red eyes. He fought with Rose again, and they ended up parting on bad terms. However, as an orc’s instinct, failure made Vess’s bloodiness unable to be quelled.

He was waiting for the day when the sanctuary could no longer defend human territory, so he became increasingly extreme and let the werewolves attack humans from all directions.

Not only around Winter City, but also in the forests around Rhino Horn Mountain, a large number of werewolves appeared. As for the towns under Rhino Horn Mountain, they didn’t even have city walls. Every night, many families were terrified, listening to the killing, screams and collisions coming from the darkness outside, and could not sleep all night.

Ryan is still increasing the number of soldiers. The spiritual blessing allows him to train his soldiers at a speed that is unimaginable for any noble. However, the soldiers will no longer go to the battlefield every fifteen days. They do not have that much time. They endure intense hunger and start to leave Winter City and join the legion before their internal strength has reached its peak.

“Are you ready, my squire?”

Ryan looked at the young man in front of him, the soldier named Parker, excitedly. He had finally waited for this day. From a patrol soldier in a small town, he came step by step to the front of Baron Ryan and was about to become an honorable knight and a knight’s squire.

He had heard from the people of the Frozen Territory that Lord Baron Ryan had god-like means to make them powerful, and he had always had doubts, but now all his doubts were gone.

“I will give my life and my death to you.”

“On the honor of a knight, Parker will follow your wishes.”

Parker knelt on the ground, and Ryan’s blessing fell. In an instant, Parker heard the roar of a deer. He was shocked, and then he felt a powerful sense of power beginning to surge in his body.

However, what comes with it is an intense feeling of hunger. If he cannot relieve this hunger in a short period of time, his body will suffer permanent damage.

“Let’s go eat.”

Ryan said as Parker began to salute, no longer using the previous etiquette, but an etiquette unique to knights.

Ryan nodded. He had repeated these actions and words thousands of times. He didn’t know if the soldier in front of him could survive.

“My Lord Baron, the troops on the front line are about to collapse.”

Generals Harrington and Michaela at the front sent people back to report that werewolf attacks were becoming more and more frequent. The knights at the front would participate in three to six fights with werewolves every day, and their rest time was seriously insufficient.

As the defense line shrinks, they actually face more werewolves because the werewolves don’t need to extend the front line.

“Retreat back to Winter City.”

Ryan gave the order, and thousands of soldiers began to retreat towards Winter City, and this scene made the werewolf leader Weiss even more aggressive.

“Humanity is already in its death throes, kill them all!”

Winter City was once again attacked by tens of thousands of werewolves. With the help of trenches and low walls, humans kept the werewolves out. After this, they could no longer retreat, otherwise the 100,000 people in Winter City would die in the bloody mouths of the werewolves.

Every day, there would be violent werewolves rushing into Winter City, causing great chaos. For ordinary people, one werewolf could cause widespread panic. Fortunately, the city was constantly patrolled by knights and squires, and each of Gam’s people had a temper, so the werewolves that rushed in did not cause too many casualties.

In such a tense environment, Ryan took a group of people to leave Winter City. They quietly went to the locations of the fortress defense lines. There were many werewolves patrolling here, and they seemed to have regarded these human buildings as their own territory.

“Don’t let them find you.”

Ryan stopped the knight’s squire from killing some werewolves, used the houses to take care of Ryan’s living conditions, and then waited in the mountains with a group of people.

The sky has entered autumn, and the feeling is particularly strong in the North, because the night at this moment is as cold as winter. Frost has begun to condense in the bushes. When Ryan looked around in the morning, he could see that the leaves were stiff due to the dew and ice.

The world seemed to have entered winter all of a sudden. Ryan and these people waited for three days. At the dawn of the fourth day, he opened the door to the plane.

The plane gate here is wide open, which means that the plane gate that has been fixed in the Winter City is closed.

“Hurry, hurry, move all the chains out!”

Rushing in, there were also hundreds of people waiting inside. They were sorting out metal chains that were dozens or hundreds of meters long and transporting them out of the plane gate. At the same time, the knights’ servants had already killed the werewolves in the distance.

The arrows made the werewolves less agile, and the knight’s long sword fell, causing the werewolves to howl for the last time.

The metal stakes driven deep into the mountain were dug out, and iron chains were inserted and connected. Hundreds of people shuttled through the mountains and forests, carrying the iron chains to a distance amid the roars of the werewolves…

Winter City.

Brock stood on the city wall, and together with Brand, they looked out at the densely packed, bloodthirsty and ferocious werewolf army that was about to rush over.

“We have to fight them back.”

“The battle begins on a battlefield of our choosing.”

There are tens of thousands of werewolves outside the city of Winter, and there are only 6,300 army soldiers in the city, but they are now taking the initiative to attack and force the werewolves to the initial battlefield of both sides.

“Where are Mr. Rose and Archmage Luna?”

Brand asked. He did not think about whether this matter could succeed, but that it must succeed because Baron Ryan was still outside, the lord of this territory, and was not in a safe place.

“Archmage Luna is with the Baron, Mr. Rose, he will take action.”

Ouch——

The werewolves outside turned into strong wolves, running wildly on the land. In the sky of Winter City, the alchemist Rose appeared. He released a dark green gas into the air outside the city. After inhaling it, some werewolves became sluggish and a copper-rust-like substance grew in their hair.

“Damn Alchemist!”

The werewolf leader Weiss also appeared. He roared loudly and his claws fell on the ground. A force of gravity emerged and gathered all the dark green gas into one place, making it unable to affect more werewolf soldiers.

“Swallow the potion!”

Brand said loudly, and the soldiers in Winter City took out the magic potion they had received from the Baron a few days ago, opened the crystal bottle, and the blood-red liquid flowed down their throats to their limbs and bones.

The soldiers who had been relatively calm suddenly became furious. Their eyes became as wild as beasts, as if there was some terrible monster in their bodies devouring their will.

The Heart of the Hound is not a magic potion, but something created by the alchemist Rose according to the magic potions made by the life magicians. All the materials come from the worlds of Gam and Fenrir, which are extraordinary materials that grew on the earth after the godslaying war.

The wildness of the hounds drove the bodies of thousands of soldiers, and some fighters even turned into powerful monsters and let out deafening roars.

“attack!!!”

Brand had already arrived at the city gate. He swung his sword and shouted loudly that they did not need to defend in this war, but to attack until they drove the werewolf army back to their original location.

“Humanity can’t hold on any longer!”

When the werewolf leader Weiss saw the state of the human soldiers after taking the potion, he roared with excitement. He knew very well that taking extraordinary potions with side effects often meant that humans had to pay a huge price. It also meant that humans no longer had any more means and trump cards, and had to use extraordinary powers with side effects to enhance their combat effectiveness.

“Let the blood of Garg retreat. Human’s extraordinary potion is very harmful to their bodies. It won’t take too long. As long as the potion time is over, human soldiers will become weak two-legged beasts!”

Weiss ordered the Garg clan werewolves to retreat, but the other werewolves still attacked.

Outside the city of Winter City, thousands of human soldiers rushed out, but on the city walls, the people of Gam took the place of the soldiers and helped the war outside the city through the few means available.

　I will slow down the update today. I will update during the day. My mind is a little unclear.

　
(End of this chapter)