Chapter 19 (1/2)

Chapter 19: 013 I Away -2 (Part One)

The time to relax eventually caht at my doorstep

From here onwards I needed to steel myself and perform a continuous strea that during the coldest and harshest time of the year too

“We came here to escort you”

The Paladins showed their ain as promised after a month

I wrapped myself in a cheap blanket and clie

Goddaet frostbite while working in rubbish weather conditions like this It’d be a huge relief if I didn’t have any of

After going past the forest of the steep e nearest to the e and were slowlyout of their horoup

She was carrying luggage far bigger than herself, which was quite an ae and bowed her head a little, either out of respect or as a casual greeting

Wow Hey you You’re pretty strong, aren’t you? Probably ht?

I inwardly clicked ers here were also evacuating to the Ronia fiefdo ‘Tide of Death’

“Just how big is the scale of this Tide of Death anyway?”

I had this feeling that most of the books I read about this subject orks of pure unbridled over-exaggeration However, if it really was as dangerous as they say, then it’d no doubt become rather troublesome for hness However, we are certain to be attacked continuously for a month to coincide with the coldest day of the year Last year alone, we had about five thousand undead creatures showing up to attack the fortress over the span of one week and on Dece died, we recorded the highest nuhout the Tide itself”

Five thousand, was it…

“How many people are stationed in the fortress then?”

“The Ronia fiefdo at all ti shi+pped in to supple around two thousand or so, scheduled to join our ranks in the near future, your highness”

Well, in that case, it shouldn’t be all that dangerous, right?

I shi+fted aze over to the distant fiefdo as I had hoped It was rather shabby, if I was being brutally honest with myself

The castle walls were actually a collection of wooden palisades and stone barricades, and they were only around twelve h But they still surrounded the fiefdoap, as if to e within

This place was referred to as the ‘Castle of Sacrifices’, right? The place where all the ‘sacrifices’ were gathered to placate the anger of the dead?

“If only these walls were like the Wall from the Game of XX…”

With the authority of the Holy Emperor, a fortification wall that dwarfed the Great Wall of China in scale could’ve been built already Of course, building such a grand wall didn’t th could be effectively policed, and if one spot were to receive a focused attack, the ould’ve been easily breached anyway

This hy it iser to gather the ‘living’ to lure the huge hordes of the undead to a single spot, and stop theht there and then

One month

In one nificantly weaken If we , that was

And, when the war and summer season arrive, the dead would shuffle back to the far north once more – to the Land of the Dead Spirits in order to preserve their bodies froy in the process

“There really are a lot of convicts here,” I coether prisoners and slaves were being ushered into the Ronia fiefdoroup They were the so-called ‘soldiers’ ere assigned to defend against the soon-to-be arriving ‘Tide of Death’

Every single one of them were supposedly serious felons saddled with heavy sentences, such as capital punishment or life iht here; from murderers, rapists, to armed robbers – they were rather well suited to serve as sacrificial tools In a way, this was a s with the ! I only stole a loaf of bread! I didn’t kill anyone… That… that bastard Paron, he framed me…!”

One of the prisoners resisted bitterly, only to get beaten up black and blue by the soldiers stationed around the area