Chapter 60 Frost Bite Disaster

rebels...

Annan vaguely remembered that there seemed to be such a thing.

A spell that can replace the necessity of the Winter Clan... This is indeed very fatal.

Even if this curse is destroyed later, the concept of "The Winter Clan is not completely necessary" has already taken root in people's hearts.

Archduke Ivan said slowly:

"By the time we realized that Vladimir might have betrayed Winter, he had already manipulated a third of the military Frost Beast's memory, changing the highest authority from me to 'he'.

"Fortunately, it was discovered in time, and Bella turned herself in and claimed to be guilty and meritorious... We used her information to clear the interior of the Hand of Winter.

"A total of 31 betrayers were found, and 17 of them have fled. Although the number is not large, they have quietly stole a lot of materials with the authority of the Hand of Winter."

In other words, they have been planning for a long time.

Under the introduction of his father, Annan slowly sorted out what happened six years ago:

At that time, after the rotman received the bet, he did not know what the price was paid by Vladimir, or he had already colluded with the rotman - he escaped from the Winter Principality with the power of the rotman and sneaked underground.

And the Principality of Winter immediately controlled all of Vladimir's students.

But even so, there are still fish that slip through the net...

That was Vladimir's disciple Thoronic, who had not passed the wolf kiss ceremony and had long since left Frostwhisper.

Annan still remembers the name.

In the nightmare of the wolf kiss, he had seen this man...

Thoronic was a shy young man with light brown hair, fair skin and freckles. The cheeks are very thin, and even the cheeks are sunken directly inward.

His parents were murderers, so no one wanted to teach him swordsmanship. In the end Vladimir picked him up, raised him and led him on the path of transcendence.

"—The teacher is my benefactor! For the sake of the teacher, I don't even have to die!"

Thoronic's sonorous zealous words,

It seems that it still remains in Annan's ears.

"Solonic relied on Vladimir's authority and took the hand of winter who had defected to organize a rebel army called the 'Icebreaker'.

"They claim...we Winters have no human feelings, so the laws are harsh, inhumane, always sacrificing others but never self, which cannot be convincing.

"—Since the fundamental reason for the cold winter clan to be the grand duke is that the blood of cold winter can freely control the frost beast, and the frost beast is an irresistible military force. So as long as you use other means to control the frost beast, you can become the grand duke. People don't have to be the Winter Clan."

When Ivan said this, he sneered: "The winter is still too long.

"The younger generation, born in winter and longer than winter, has forgotten their old grandmothers."

"Then?"

"After that, they made a lot of promises locally and got the support of some local nobles."

But it just so happens that Ivan Winter is the most recognized and capable Grand Duke in the past two hundred years. His charisma made most people reluctant to participate in the rebellion.

Sacrifice is real.

As a result, there are not many open opponents of the rebels.

"More people are watching. They hope that the rebels can make us 'sacrifice less and lighter'."

Everyone hopes that they are not victims.

within reason.

And after that, there was a three-year rebellion.

The spell that can control the frost beast allows the icebreaker to recruit soldiers at almost no cost outside the small enchantment... It is also possible to collect a large number of cubs through the underground world and release them into the blizzard to artificially create the frost beast.

Ordinary soldiers cannot resist the attack of the Frost Beast group, except for the First Army Corps, which trains with the Frost Beast.

Although the number of rebels is not large, they only launch frost beasts from a distance to attack towns that do not support them, mainly to wipe out the troops that come to support them. Real rebels hardly ever move, so it's hard to deal with.

Only the Winter Clan, the Hand of Winter, the clergy of the old grandmother and the First Legion with the Frost Beast mounts can effectively fight against the Frost Beast.

"In the beginning, their strategy was very successful... As the number of towns they attacked increased, because they couldn't wait for reinforcements, or the reinforcements couldn't resist the frost beast, and the number of people who were dissatisfied with us gradually increased."

Archduke Ivan said slowly: "At this time, your brother, 'Iron-blooded' Dmitri... At Bella's suggestion, he came up with a plan.

"The Icebreaker Army has many Frost Beasts and few people. They are mindlessly hoarding the number of Frost Beasts, but our Frost Beasts have soldiers from the First Legion and criminals to feed them, but they don't have enough people.

"Then the number of military strikes can be further reduced. Then more and more frost beasts, because of not killing soldiers and lack of food, gradually become out of control... The hungry frost beasts finally slaughtered the first town to get food. After that, the situation reversed immediately.

"The Icebreaker Army lost the support of all marginal towns and local nobles almost immediately - the controlled frost beasts are just weapons, but the uncontrolled frost beasts are natural disasters. The natural disasters can only be governed by the power of the duchy... From this point on In other words, Bella's strategy was immediate.

"But a large number of hungry frost beasts could not be controlled, greedy predation caused more frost beasts to lose their food source and go crazy, and finally formed a natural disaster called 'frost bite disaster' like an avalanche."

Natural disasters overshadowed rebellions.

At this time, Bella, who had made up for her deeds, showed her special strength - werewolves would not be attacked by frost beasts in the first place, so werewolves were very efficient in killing mad frost beasts... As long as ordinary people were used as bait, mad frost beasts would Will turn a blind eye to werewolf attacks.

Therefore, Winter's Hand tried to recruit a group of werewolves and trained them as "Windrunners" to go to various places to kill and eliminate excess mad frost beasts.

- The effect is actually good.

So in order to fight against the Frostbite disaster, the Duchy of Winter absorbed more werewolves into the army and the Hand of Winter. At this time, the Icebreaker Army has been gradually forgotten by people... They can only control ordinary frost beasts, and the newly born frost beasts will quickly go crazy.

Finally, Maria Winter, who successfully inherited the power of the Storm Lady.

She used the power of the Tower of Storms to detect the whole area of ​​Winter, and used the power of the Great Barrier to kill the frost beasts on a large scale. The disaster finally ended.

And by the way, I found the Icebreaker Army and completed the counter-insurgency.

"But Thoronic, the leader, is gone.

"After Maria increased her detection efforts and surveillance range, although Thoronic was not found, she unexpectedly discovered... Bella and some of the werewolves recruited into the Hand of Winter were still secretly sending messages to the outside world.

"The person who received the news this time is no longer Vladimir who escaped from the Principality of Winter and entered the underground world.

"It's a careerist named [Professor Wolf] Frederick."

In other words, she betrayed the Principality of Winter for the second time.

If nothing else...the strategy she gave back then was the strategy given by "Professor Wolf" to improve the status of the werewolf.

In other words, it may also be their conspiracy to destroy the Frost Bite disaster that is at least five times more than the Icebreaker Army.

"...This is also the cause of the 'Second Great Purge', all werewolves were purged from the Hand of Winter and secretly executed."

After Ivan finished speaking, he looked at Annan and said calmly: "Bella fled outside for several years, and was found and killed by Maria two months ago.

"But Annan, you have to know... this is not over yet."

Vladimir who sneaked underground, Thoronic who disappeared inexplicably, and Professor Wolf who didn't know what to do...

Annan nodded slowly.

"I understand."

That's why Dmitri has completely lost trust in her, and even in the werewolf...

--I understand.