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There was no castle on the rocky wall, just a stake in front of the castle gate.
Albrecht walks into the castle, and the resistant spot runs down a big hole like a crater.
I carved a crude rock wall into a staircase, and there were ladders everywhere. I dug a hole around the wall like an ant hole.
Albrecht remembers the Dwarf settlement in the Sky Mountains. With no room for milk, Albrecht widens his gaze and finds hidden Goblins.
“Queek!”
“Gaaaah!”
Most were young Goblins or female Goblins. Female Goblins were breast-feeding, and young Goblins vary from infants to people's calves.
Illudia sprinkles light. The little green devils collapsed like they always did.
Albrecht raises his eyesight and walks through the tunnels. Repetitive, simple work continues, and the young Goblins die.
The mother Goblins hold their children in their arms and the golden envoy shudders, without mercy. The place where the messenger passed away was filled with heavy silence.
"Can you mortals live without cruelty? Man's endless greed and twisted desire are the most terrifying things in the world. Why are you so afraid of us? It's really funny...... ’
I don't know why I'm thinking of dying Vampires now, but didn't Goblins eat human children, too?
Albrecounting what the Goblins did, Albrecounting what Albrecht was trying to do. But the more I massacred, the more twisted I felt.
The young Goblins were too numerous to count, and it seemed like they could kill all day long.
Whether Albrecht was human or cruel, I quickly came up with an idea. Once you've stopped the massacre, you head back outside and try to gather the warriors.
No need to go far, the warriors are already coming to Albrecht, avoiding the fiery flames.
Albrecht gives orders to the warriors.
“Bring back the young Goblins alive. Then, cover this hole halfway with a cloth, burn it to the rubble lying underneath the pit. ”
The instructed warriors take the spiral staircase down. Some go into the cave to catch the young Goblins, and some continue down the stairs to the floor.
Orcs and human corpses rot on the ground, piling up like mountains. It seemed like I was throwing all the leftovers away.
He sprinkles an entire tar and throws a torch. The corpses burn, smelling all sorts of nasty smells. The dense smoke quickly fills the tunnel.
“Gaaaah!”
“Queek!”
The young Goblins who were captured by the warriors cried loudly.
Boom, boom!
You hear the building collapse by the massive fire that has consumed the town.
The young Goblins cried loudly and cried out as the flames set the whole village on fire, and the Goblin Citadel, or the city, created a section of hell.
Until recently, Goblins who had enslaved Humans were experiencing hell because the situation had been completely reversed.
As the young Goblins cried, the female Goblins who knew they were going to die came out. I ran to the warriors and tried to take their cubs, but there was nothing I could do.
Without wielding your weapon, you kick it down the pit. You chased out the Goblins hiding until the end of the haze. The warriors draw their northern sword and kill it with all their might.
Dozens, hundreds, thousands, more young Goblins and female Goblins continue to die, and warriors alternate and continue to kill.
Female Goblins no longer appear to be coming out, and the warriors simply snap the young Goblins' necks or slash them with their swords, then hurl them down indifferently.
Albrecht walks away from the scene of the massacre. Albrecht walks between the blazing flames.
The burning flame clears the way for Albrecht like a servant. Albrecht suddenly remembered the words of an anthropologist on Earth.
Humans have survived by exterminating their rivals. In modern times, when rivals disappeared, animal conservation and conservation were considered important values, but this side of the world still had surviving rivals.
It was an age when rivals would have to be handed a lot of blood and eliminated, which would not have been recorded in history. There is no compromise. There is only annihilation.
The town was on fire for an entire day. If it were autumn or winter, it would have spread to nearby forests, but now the dense forests are still holding much moisture.
Albrecht first summoned 20,000 troops and encamped them in a fiery village as a kind of crossroads. It was not possible to pass through the forest at once.
“Your Majesty! You must go to the castle! ”
Albrecht climbs to Linderhorn, where he recovers, and tours the village on fire. A soldier comes from the castle and shouts.
“What's going on? ”
“Treasures piled up like a mountain! I've never seen anything like it in my life! What a pile! What a pile! ”
The soldier acted rashly even though he was reporting to the Emperor. Probably as surprised as that.
Albrecht drives quickly to the castle. Then I saw people filling the cave and repairing the castle.
“This way.”
Herolf, who was near the big hole, said. Albrecht steps off his horse and follows him back down to the Goblin habitat.
Under the stairs, soldiers are holding torches, and Hrrolf steps down into a cave on a wall for a long time.
Walking along a crooked path like an ant's den, a large door emerges, with an open door and a heap of treasure inside.
The soldiers guarding the treasure room are frozen, staring blankly at the flashing treasures by the torch's light.
Albrecht approached, in fact, mostly junk like copper or copper.
But there were many real treasures among them: rubies, sapphires, emeralds, gold coins and silver coins.
“What a surprise. Where did the Goblins get all this? ”
Albrecht was more curious than greedy for the treasure itself.
I also remembered that the Dwarves were transformed during the Great War of Dragons and a Goblin was born.
Furthermore, I remembered that when the Goblin King used magic, the emerald on the skull and the staff glowed.
Albrecht swings his staff around, but no magic comes out.
I was thinking, maybe it's similar to something the dwarves used to use.
I don't know if the dwarf knowledge remains, but it seems like the Goblins have a habit of gathering something shiny.
“Move them outside and put them in groups. ”
Albrecht simply instructs, then steps out of the cave again.
Once word spread about the Goblin City's treasure pile, adventurers and mercenaries from all over the world started coming to Albrecht's encampment.
Albrecht immediately revised his strategy. Because when I think about it, the Orcs were not a single force, and it was not something I would finish with a short-term struggle.
There were no frontiers, let alone frontiers, and no enemies. Then it was first to stabilize and communicate the area.
Albrecht has organized dozens of units to scout the area, not 20,000 troops.
Along with the local aristocrats or people of Akaten, he decided to wager on the road while clearing the surrounding forest.
Scouting the area revealed something really surprising. There are many Goblin cities besides here.
The Akaten Forest, as an unknown territory, no one knew how big it was, and perhaps as wide as the whole of Veles, or more.
In addition to the Goblin cities, there were areas where wildlings lived and some Orc tribes.
Albrecht took out a Goblin city with his warriors and rangers, and expanded his realm by killing Goblins fleeing to capture them.
Every time I raided a Goblin city, treasures poured out from everywhere, and all the treasures were used as military funds.
However, the area outside my mind was not stable. If you wipe out the Goblins, other monsters, such as Orcs and Werewolves, come back for more.
Moreover, powerful monsters such as Gandhi Trolls, Lint Invocation, and Guardians of the Forest appeared, and it was not possible to dominate the area from the area Albrecht had used as a crossroads.
Every time Albrecht tightens one of the monsters, the Akaten Forest seems to autonomously act on its own.
The ecosystem is already firmly in place, and Albrecht can't break it.
Even Goblins are not completely extinct, but they have gathered together to form a force. I felt that there would be no end to this.
Albrecht summons the commanders from the castle he used to be his beacon. I lived in a temporary hut with Rosamund because it was not resistant, but the interior was quite spacious.
Randolph, Hermann, Zigmunt and other commanders were seated. Albrecht sat up and looked around at them and said,
“First, I want to break through the forest and hit the base camp in Poitou. What do the balls think?" ”
Even as Albrecht asked, the commanders didn't say much. It was because I had never been in a war like this, and I had nothing to say to Katabuta. The enemy was at war.
It's impossible to kill all the monsters here, and as I've seen so far, other monsters are only prevalent.
Zigmunt glances at Albrecht, who is deep in thought, and says,
“Your Grace, with all due respect, why don't you bite down the army? It is a day's walk across the Loire River. I haven't been out of here for two weeks, but I can't get to Puatu for three days. This is like a swamp. It only consumes supplies and troops, and nothing is gained. It is thought that it is in our best interest not to intervene in the Akaiten, bordering the Loire River. ”
It was about a jigmunt, so I thought it would be a big deal. Albrecht had no choice but to answer Zigmund's question. Because he was right.
Maintaining 20,000 troops cost a fortune. No matter how much the Goblins gained, it was only a penny compared to the cost of maintaining an army.
The Empire had the strength to sustain 20,000 troops, but Albrecht must have gained something in the end of the war.
However, this architect was different. I was just pouring in money, no matter what Sigmund said.
Albrecht is unable to answer, and he is merely lost in thought. Randolph takes Zigmunt's word in place of Albrecht.
“How can I go back here? I don't understand that stopping the Orc Sub-Dong is like taking down all the lords of Akiten, but there's nothing to gain. ”
Sigmund looks at Randolph and calmly says,
“What comes out of taking down the lords? The king will only put money back into feeding them. It will take 10, maybe 30, years for us to collect taxes from the lords here. ”
Randolph frowns.
“Don, don't you ever stop? Expanding the realm of the empire. It's worth more than money. ”
Sigmund stares at Randolph and shuts up. After being ignorant and sleeping, the values were too different.
Herman clasped his arms and clasped his mouth, and Harold, Eugene, and Wilhelm were the same.
In fact, it was only Albrecht, Zigmunt and Randolph that were able to discuss the grand strategy.
The rest were tactical, and Hermann was good at keeping things tight, but passive in maneuvering an army.
Albrecht sneaks out his hand to Jurgen. Then Eugene pulls out the pipe cigarette from his arms.
As Albrecht pressed the tobacco leaf and started smoking the pipe, Herman, Randolph and other commanders started smoking cigarettes out of their arms.
Quickly, I smoked a nightmare and started filling the hut.
“Randolph's right. It's not about reporting money. But I can't ignore what Duke Zigmunt said. So we have to end this war quickly. We can't just hang out with monsters forever. That's why we're breaking through the forest so quickly. We'll leave 10,000 troops behind, so take care of Duke Sigmund and secure the supply corridor. In the meantime, I'll wipe out the Orcs as soon as I can and be back. ”
Sigmund looks at Albrecht and says,
“If you wipe it out, what specifically do you say? ”
“To the Kur Strait in the south. We're throwing Orcs overboard. Haha.”
Albrecht's words astonish Zigmund. As well as Zigmunt, Randolph was surprised.
In fact, I was joking about throwing Orcs into the sea, and I wanted to establish human territory by using it as a precaution.
Beyond the straits anyway, the forest was more densely occupied than here, so it was beyond the capabilities of the Empire. It's not that humans don't live there either, but Albrecht decides to let go.
However, Albrecht's plan had one major problem. Randolph doesn't want to argue with Albrecht's plan, but he's still worried.
“It's too far away. We won't be able to get supplies. ”
What Randolph said was that Albrecht's plan was to escape the toll point. Albrecht shakes his head, smoking heavily.
“If we don't do this now, we won't have a chance. As time goes on, the more monsters will settle here. We must decide now. Once you get out of the woods, you'll be able to ride a horse for real, so you'll be breathless. It's okay."
Randolph still looks worried. Zigmunt bows silently and thinks.
Albrecht seems to have lost his will and is considering guarding the supply lines.
Albrecht looks at the map of the operation on the table and breathes only smoke. The Operation Map was modestly detailed by modifying the existing map.
The forest was marked with a red X, all of which were Goblin cities destroyed by Albrecht. If there is a problem, the fact that you destroyed it is not human territory.
I pushed the monsters away once more, but I didn't know when they would come back from deeper into the forest.
It was an operation with a time limit that had to end before the monsters came back. No one knew what the time limit was.
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