Throne of the North.

Chapter 409: Perseverance, the Response of the Gods
Behind Viscount Hogg, there was also an army of 10,000 people. This was the army assembled in Yinchuan County. They had previously defended the border between Leiyun County and Beifeng County, which was the original Red Wing Plain, but there were not many werewolves there.

"These people are not enough. Viscount Hogg doesn't think that with just these few people, we can defend against the werewolves, right?"

After Ryan finished speaking, Viscount Hogg smiled awkwardly. There was nothing he could do. The nobles of Yinchuan County were unwilling to send more people to join the army. They were a little afraid that werewolves would cross the previous provinces and appear in Yinchuan County.

"We need to prepare at least 30,000 people. Yinchuan County is a big county. It doesn't make sense to have only so few people."

The current population of Yinchuan County is definitely around 300,000 or 400,000. If it were any other war, this number of 10,000 would have been enough. However, the current war is not an ordinary one. The survival of Beifeng Province is at stake, and the 10,000 soldiers of Yinchuan County would seem to be insincere.

"Baron Ryan, Yinchuan County no longer has any more people available to serve as soldiers."

"Who is he?"

Ryan looked at the young man who spoke and asked Viscount Hogg.

"The successor of Baron Zaka, the future baron."

As soon as Viscount Hogg finished speaking, Ryan swung the sword in his hand. As his teeth chattered, liquid flowed under his clothes, his long hair turned short, and his black hair fell to the ground. All the nobles around him looked fearful.

"Ask your father to send three times as many soldiers, or I will send you to the front of the battlefield, and you will be the first one the werewolves encounter."

Ryan's cold voice echoed in the same place, and Viscount Hogg looked a little embarrassed.

"Baron Ryan, Lord Winter is the commander of this war. This is the order of His Majesty."

Ryan thought about it, then nodded and said:

"Okay then. I will write to Count Winter, but before that, when the werewolves attack, I will send him to the front trench to fight the werewolves."

"Isn't this the glory of a noble who inherits the title? Your ancestors also gained dignity and honor through blood and war, right?"

The Yinchuan County army was also assigned to dig trenches. Two hours later, Viscount Hogg found Ryan.

"I have already written back to ask the nobles for support. Zaka has returned to Yinchuan County. He seems to be afraid that you will really send him to the battlefield."

"He can't go to the battlefield?"

Ryan looked at Viscount Hogg, who seemed to think Ryan would not do that.

"When Baron Zaka came to the Northern Wind Province thirty years ago, he brought a lot of wealth with him. He sold his estate in the south. He was a person who was easily satisfied, so he did not have high requirements for his offspring. As long as they could inherit his territory completely and become a master, that was enough for him."

Viscount Hogg said helplessly. He certainly didn't think Ryan would really send the heirs of the nobility to the battlefield. Moreover, most of the nobles only had the strength of knights but were unable to fight.

"Yinchuan County really doesn't have that many people left. In the letter I wrote, I asked the nobles to send out another 10,000 coalition troops. This is the limit of Yinchuan County."

Viscount Hogg said truthfully that the North Wind Province had experienced many wars, and although it seemed that Yinchuan County had not suffered any losses many times, the actual heartache was only known to the nobles themselves.

"enough."

Ryan didn't say much, just having someone there was enough.

"How are you going to fight this war?"

Viscount Hogg asked. He had no idea about the war against werewolves. The nobles of the North Wind Province were probably frightened by the war that started from the Xiangshan Plain Fortress. The werewolves were more terrifying than the orcs in the past. This strength was reflected in all aspects, especially now that even the two earls were blocked at their doorstep and fighting against the werewolves.

"Are not you just saw it?"

Ryan pointed to the front. The trenches and ditches on the ground were his preparations for war.

"I saw that you asked them to pray for the blessing of light. Your army believed that there was warm sunshine and food on the other side."

"Don't they know what that place is?"

Viscount Hogg was very curious.

"You know what? Some of them are from the north of Thundercloud County, but they don't know that their home is in the direction I mentioned. And whether they understand it or not, it actually doesn't make sense."

"They have long lost their way in life. Praying to the gods is the only option I give them."

"Compared to the walking dead, they have more hope."

"The hope of living."

Viscount Hogg thought for a long time, and finally said:
"You are indeed a devil who controls people's hearts."

"I am not a devil, on the contrary, I am an angel."

"The devil brings neither victory nor hope, but pain and despair."

Ryan thought about it and felt that the description of "angel" was somewhat problematic, because gods and angels really exist in this world.

"But even if that's the case, it can't defend against a werewolf's attack, right?"

"The Xiangshan Plain Fortress was much stronger than the trenches in front of it, but it was unable to withstand the werewolf attack."

Of course Ryan knew that the trenches had limited defenses, and his goal was only to delay the werewolves and let them see that their offensive steps had been blocked.

"Werewolves are tall, but it is difficult for them to launch effective attacks on humans in the trenches. This is the most important thing."

"Since humans are inferior to werewolves, why not make this disadvantage a disadvantage for both sides?"

Viscount Hogg was himself an excellent military noble, but he still couldn't help but hesitate.

"But what if the werewolves ignore your trenches?"

"Will not."

Ryan was not quite sure before, but now he said with certainty that the war made him see the nature of werewolves more clearly.

They are orcs, even if they are cunning and have human-like intelligence, they are still orcs.

"why?"

Viscount Hogg asked, curious.

The Viscount Ryan.

"When you were in Red Wing Plains, did werewolves launch a large-scale attack on you?"

No, the answer is no, otherwise Viscount Hogg would not have arrived at the main battlefield so easily.

"Werewolves hunt humans. To be more precise, they want to kill the humans who rule the Northern Wind Province. In other words, the rulers of humans in this land are the nobles."

"Rather than slaughtering humans, they want to kill the king of this land and take over the position of 'king'."

"The werewolves are not plundering the Northern Province, but they want to occupy the Northern Province. The orcs are invading human lands in an all-round way. They are no longer satisfied with the environment in the north."

"I want the warmer lands of the south."

Viscount Hogg was a little frightened. It was too scary that werewolves replaced the nobles to rule humans.

"Will the violent elephants and dragon corps of the Wing Canyon really not appear?"

Ryan shook his head and sneered.

"They appeared in the Blazing Snow and Twilight provinces, but they could not appear in the Northern Wind Province."

"The reason why we haven't left Wing Canyon yet is because His Majesty the Emperor is worried that the North Wind Province cannot stop the invasion of the orcs, and he wants to protect the eastern territory of the empire."

Wing Canyon is the only fortress in the east of the empire. Of course, it must be as solid as a mountain. Otherwise, if Wing Canyon is defeated, more than ten provinces of the empire will be affected.

Especially now, the coalition of nobles is supporting the chaotic provinces in the north of the empire.

At sunset, the werewolves launched an attack again. A powerful werewolf took advantage of the night and cunningly attacked Thundercloud Mountain. It wanted to kill the human "king" on the mountain and then defeat all human resistance.

This is the werewolf of the sanctuary, powerful and terrifying. The wolf howl in the dark has terrifying power. When his cruel eyes looked towards the top of the mountain, Ryan also looked at him.

"Found you." In an instant, powerful knights rushed out, their rich blood transformed into gorgeous fighting skills, showing off in the dark night, and rushing towards the hideous black shadow.

"Weak human."

The werewolf made a low, sarcastic remark. He felt that these humans were not strong enough, lacking speed and strength, so he rushed out.

The moment Brand was blown away, a shadow flew out from Brand's body and appeared in front of the werewolf. The shadow turned into a giant crystal python, opening its bloody mouth and swallowing the werewolf.

The werewolf roared angrily. He was actually deceived. However, he still reacted quickly and turned into a gust of wind and rushed towards the giant python.

The sharp claws tore open the crystal python's skin, but this was a life activated by shadows and alchemy. It had no sense of pain, only an infinite desire to attack. In the process of biting, the werewolf was finally injured.

He turned into a vicious wolf, bared his teeth at the crystal python, and then as if sensing something, he quickly ran towards the distance.

Behind him, metal flowed from several directions and chased the werewolf. In front of him, sharp metals gathered into huge hands and grabbed the werewolf. The werewolf quickly changed direction and saw Rose with a metal arm.

"Let me see if your body can be replaced with metal."

Rose's low murmurs were like the devil's whispers, and the werewolf went mad and rushed towards the human angrily, transforming into a werewolf halfway. The bloodthirsty killing intent made its claws bathed in bloody light, and even the air was torn by its claws, but after the metal arm was raised, it firmly grasped the werewolf's claws.

Then, thin needle-like metal tubes pierced the hair and skin of the werewolf's arms and injected some liquid into the werewolf's blood.

It was visibly apparent that the werewolf from the Holy Land was being defeated. His strength was disappearing, and even his bones were becoming brittle. With the sound of a metal arm's mechanism, the entire arm was removed.

Blood gushed out from the fracture and the werewolf howled, but even more terrifying was the liquid that had been circulating in his blood. That was the toxin that Rose had extracted from the metal during this period, an extraordinary method that she had developed specifically for the werewolves.

The werewolf spat out large mouthfuls of blood, and the blood had a strong smell of rust. Even as the fragments of internal organs were spit out, these fragments of flesh and blood were actually turning into rotten metal rust bit by bit.

The shadow above was darker than the night. The crystal python's bloody mouth bit down, crushing the werewolf.

Dawn gradually arrived, and the trenches on the battlefield were flooded. Humans kept coming out of them, and werewolves also rushed out from them, bathed in blood, and continued to kill the humans around them.

The war did not end with the arrival of daylight. The werewolves seemed to have realized that their idea of ​​launching an attack during the night when humans were not used to it did not make much sense, so they decided to make daylight a time for the battlefield.

Under the illumination of the light, the werewolves' absolute suppression of humans on the battlefield finally frightened more and more humans. After all, the painful wails caused by the flying flesh and broken bones were too shocking to the eyes and brain.

Morale was collapsing. Seeing this, Ryan had to order the knights to attack and use the power of the knights to clear out the areas where there were a large number of werewolves.

"Send out all the knights."

On Thundercloud Mountain, Ryan ordered the nobles to leave at most one knight with them.

The nobles obeyed, but not completely. They were afraid that a werewolf would crawl up from an unexpected place and behead them.

But eventually, more knights appeared on the battlefield below. When ordinary knights faced werewolves, they only had equal combat power. Only then did they discover that the knights of the Stag Legion of the Frozen Territory seemed to be stronger than they had imagined.

They can charge on warhorses, or dismount and wield their knight's swords to chop and cut off werewolves' heads. When they have time, they can take off their beast bows and accurately hit werewolves in the distance. Even under the impact of shields, their strength is stronger than that of werewolves. When the knight's sword is restrained, it is also beautiful to let the sharp dagger pierce the werewolf's heart naturally.

Almighty, this is how everyone describes the Bucks Knights in their hearts. Every step they take and every attack they make is perfect.

The combination of these subtle conditions resulted in the fact that although they were all knights, they were able to kill werewolves.

There were no climaxes or troughs. The killing on the battlefield was ordinary, chaotic, and fierce. It lasted until dusk, when the exhausted werewolves finally retreated once again.

"It won't last much longer."

Viscount Hogg found Ryan again. No matter whether it was Ryan's army or the armies of Yinchuan County and Leiyun County, they could not hold on for a few times.

If the werewolves continue to attack like this for a few more days, their defense line will collapse, and the trenches dug by Ryan will not be able to help them resist the werewolves' attack like a fortress.

For the first time, Ryan was unable to answer Viscount Hogg's question. He was waiting. Are werewolves really that patient? Won't they become irritable?

"They're not real wolves."

Egil brought the werewolf's body to Ryan and handed it to Rose. Ryan was a little surprised because this werewolf was quite powerful.

"They are orcs, not wolves. If you wanted them to be angry, you have achieved your goal."

Egil pried open the werewolf's eyes, and the bright red bloodshot inside was jumping, representing madness and tyranny.

……

Werewolves have the same hunting methods as wolf packs, but as the saying goes, as long as you can survive, any means must be adapted to local conditions. The hunting methods of wolf packs are changed in werewolves, according to the changes made by werewolves.

Werewolves are a type of orcs, and they can also become manic.

Just like the orcs in the north of Xiangshan Plain Fortress who were forced by the Silver Moon Court and unable to enter the North Wind Province at this moment, they have already been killing each other frantically to relieve their emotions in this way.

The werewolves lasted longer, they were more rational, but they also had their limits.

Ouch——

The ferocious werewolves were surrounded in front of their mad attacks. Finally, accompanied by tragic howls and desperate cries, the cracks in the castle turned into huge gaps.

Beifeng County.

The Silvermoon Werewolf King Hati looked at the werewolf running towards him.

"King, we have breached a castle of human nobles. The nobles inside said that a human earl is leading them."

"That's where you attack."

The werewolves lowered their heads. Their king's attack had not been able to capture the territory of this great human noble for so long. There was only one way to get up to the castle hidden in the mountains. Many werewolves had died but there was still no progress. They did not expect that the opponent was a great noble among humans.

"Humans have become so powerful..."

Hati was whispering in a low voice. He was a little angry. The werewolves' attack on humans a hundred years ago could easily break through the human empire and reach the human lands further south.

Only the entire human race combined can fight against these powerful orcs.

However, the orcs at that time did not cherish it, otherwise they would be enjoying the warm land in the south now.

So much has changed in a hundred years. Hati had found out not long ago that the royal families who were attacking several other fortresses of the human empire had encountered terrible resistance and counterattacks. A powerful legion had emerged among humans and could even kill the warriors of their royal court.

Those orc royal families might fail and be driven back to the north by human counterattack.

"Never allow..."

Hati suppressed his roar. He wanted to occupy the land of humans. This was the promise of the gods, yes... the gods.

This war was guided by the gods.

No orc knows why, but they carry out the will of their gods.

"We will definitely win. Only gods can fight against them. As for this human empire, they have expelled the Church. No gods will help them."

"We will be victorious, right, nobles of humanity?"

Hati looked at the war ahead and prepared to summon all the werewolves to assemble.

"Let the orcs behind the fortress attack other human territories and gather all the werewolves here. Damn the Earl and Draco clans for not being able to defeat another human defense line. It seems that we really need to change a group of bloodline clans."

Hati's eyes flickered, and then turned cruel.

"I will kill the 'king' of mankind in this land. There can only be one king in this land, and that is me."

Hati suddenly raised his head. He saw the stars twinkling and felt the call of the gods.

At the same time, in the trenches of Thundercloud County, many soldiers who regarded the gods as their last hope were also praying, and the invisible light of faith floated towards the unknown depths of heaven.

The sun seemed to become a little hotter.

(End of this chapter)