Your war hammer is too fake

By then, as long as Jianqi gets involved, An Jiyue feels that she might be able to experience the same treatment that Sultan Jafar received back then... The only difference is that Sultan Jafar would be defeated, but she would win.

"If Egwen wants to play with a large fleet, she needs to take over Bretonnia to have enough resources to support her to do so; if Ayue and I want to play with a large fleet, we can only suffer Ah San and curse the Dragon Emperor," An Jiyue said as she peeled a fig and found that the flesh had rotted and deteriorated, "...it would be great if you had a magic refrigerator here."

"We can't help it. All this food, wine, fruit, etc., were brought all the way from Ka-Sabai. The wine is easy to deal with, and it's good enough if we can pick out some edible fruits," said Big Bone, motioning a skeleton slave to get some more food. "In a place like the Badlands, even clean water is hard to find."

"I'm not complaining," the governor shook his head. "Conquering India requires seizing the opportunity, and the same is true for dealing with the war in the South. Do you know why I didn't go directly to Tal-O-Qur, but came to you first?"

"You need me to recruit an army to help you in Ka-Sabai? No, Morgan has no shortage of land forces, and this kind of thing can be discussed in the group, no need to meet face to face." Atum touched his bony chin with his shriveled palm, and his beard tied up with cloth and gold hoops swayed slightly with this movement. "Let me think... you need to directly transfer some units from my army? Tell me, what do you like?"

"Actually, it's not me, it's Morgan," An Jiyue said, "How many carrion vultures do you have now? I'll take them all away."

"What? Morgan actually needs this thing? Is the Falcon Cavalry no longer useful, or is the Giant Eagle no longer able to lift the sword?"

"She is planning to send the carrion vultures to Kamikaze with bombs!" An Jiyue covered her forehead and said, "After all, the undead can be resurrected at almost no cost... She feels that the existing aerial combat power is still not enough."

"Okay, take them all with you when you leave," Atum nodded, "Do you need me to borrow some more from the old man and Khalida?"

"Good idea, but Morgan doesn't have that much alchemical explosives," An Jiyue said, standing up. "I'm leaving first. Bye."

……

Note 1: This is a large island, south of Nebon. It is worth mentioning that there is a high-elf colony, Tower-of-The-Rising-Sun, sandwiched between the Nebon Islands and the Elytis Islands.

Chapter 458: Not an easy task

Sky Shield Castle, in the mountains at the edge of the southern world.

As a large air force base + shipyard next to Plateau Castle, SkyShield Castle is still under intense construction. The dwarves who strive for perfection attach great importance to this project. The Plateau Castle Engineer Guild has mobilized for this purpose. One-third of the guild's senior engineers are stationed at the construction site to direct and supervise every detail of the construction work.

Although the project is not yet completed, many functions are already in normal use. Since the air force base of the Zhemu Royal Court is still at the drawing stage, when the first batch of two Eclipse-class frigates plus a Meko Vigilant arrived in the Southland via root teleportation across thousands of miles, they were naturally arranged to the Sky Shield Fortress, including the subsequent Shenzhou Fleet, which also settled in this dwarf base.

The Zhemu Royal Court is still in a state of evolution from a workshop to a factory... well, sparks are flying everywhere. Before the Kaldorei officially set up their own business, they had already developed the prototype of the magic industry, at least all the pre-technologies were almost complete; however, just as the Industrial Revolution was not a success just by building a steam engine, the practical application of the steam engine was the landmark event of the Industrial Revolution, and as a result, many people mistakenly equated "building a steam engine" with "the Industrial Revolution."

Like An's Zhendan, Kaldorei is moving towards the industrial age. Once successful, it will be a transformation like a soaring into the sky. However, this great undertaking of seizing the fortune of heaven and earth has never been associated with words like "simple" and "easy". Even if the Lords of the Holy Scriptures can use their absolute power to suppress all interest groups and prevent any internal forces from hindering the advancement of industrialization, this work is still full of countless difficulties in the process of implementation.

Apart from other things, it is not an easy task to make a group of people who have never seen industrialized mass production understand the difference between a workshop and a factory - as long as you are willing to spend money, it is not difficult to build a factory. But if you want to make this factory operate according to the model of industrial civilization, the effort required is not something that some humanoid creatures who recite the Bible of Marxism-Leninism all day long and only know how to shout slogans when encountering problems can imagine.

With the help of the Five Elements magic of the Zhendan alchemists, a series of factories were quickly built near Juhui Port, which was scheduled to be an industrial center, and the required equipment was either homemade or ordered from Xuanshui or Marienburg, and they were all in place. However, let alone complex high-tech products such as the Eclipse, the Kaldorei only just figured out how to make the fully enclosed combat armor designed by An Jiyue until now, when Morgan personally took charge.

The "making" mentioned here is not the traditional manual workshop model of a few craftsmen hammering and hammering, but mass production in factories relying on machines and equipment. If it is the former, the blacksmiths of Kaldorei can make the same product as long as they get the design, but the production capacity is "slightly" lower. It takes a blacksmith and his apprentice about half a year to make a set of new armor...

The home port of the flying fleet requires a lot of supporting facilities to maintain normal operation, which is why the Fortress of Kewang has never been equipped with flying ships. The current situation of the Zhemu Royal Court is that it is a bit difficult to understand the pile of "supporting facilities" as a prerequisite, not to mention the air force base.

Finally, after internal coordination in the chat group, the fleet of the Zhemu Royal Court temporarily used the Sky Shield Fort as its home port until its own air base was built and put into use. This created a rather funny scene -

Gaoyuanbao has a base but no fleet, while Zhemuwangting has a fleet but no base.

"So how long will it take for the Hammer-class to be put into use?" An Jiyue put her hands on her hips, with the Corpse Vultures standing in a neat line on the floor behind her: "The four subsequent Eclipse-class ships, the ones with the fastest progress, have already started outfitting."

Tianhe Shipyard originally received a total of six Eclipse-class frigates orders, and the first two had already been delivered and even participated in combat operations and achieved a lot of results. Because the progress of its own shipbuilding industry was not ideal, more than one of Morgan's courtiers suggested that she place additional orders, after all, six frigates were really not enough.

In fact, it was not only the Kaldorei, but Dustan had always had plans to build his own flying fleet. The reason why it was not implemented was, on the one hand, because the Akendorf Autonomous Region did not have an urgent need for this, and on the other hand, because the production shifts at the Tianhe Shipyard had long been fully booked, and there was really no production capacity to earn this extra money.

Although the Border Prince Territory is "rich in talent and beauty", it is not an exaggeration to call it Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, but there is really no enemy that can only be dealt with by flying warships. In most cases, the combination of Lothern Sea Guard + Arion Plunderer is enough to wipe out the so-called "princes" and "granddukes". Occasionally, if we encounter a tough guy, it is nothing more than letting the Silver Helmets take a walk. The external threats faced by the Akendorff Autonomous Region are mainly various things that jump out from the surrounding mountains.

"Master Grim assured me that the first Hammer-class frigate will be delivered in January next year (Note 1)," the person who answered her was Barrel's cheap son, Prince Ragnar Barelson. "In fact, Master Grim has already started the design work of the Anvil-class cruiser. The further improvement of the Hammer-class will be taken over by other engineers. Master Grim is only responsible for supervising their work and ensuring that all design improvements and optimizations are in line with his ideas."

"That means it will take another half a year. For a work made by a dwarf, this speed is really unbelievably fast." An Jiyue nodded. She was just asking casually. As a hammer man, the girl knew very well how troublesome it was for dwarf engineers to invent a new thing, and how long the process could take.

"In fact, there has been a heated debate within the Engineers Guild..." Ragnar scratched the back of his head, "Even many radical young engineers believe that the development speed of the Hammer-class weapon is a bit too fast for such a complex weapon. However, the Ancestral Council expressed a kind of, uh, 'cautious support' for this."

"The ancestor who should have been more stubborn turned out to be unexpectedly open-minded. The recasting ceremony is indeed magical," An Jiyue shrugged. "That's right. If there were no supporters, Grim would not have gone to work on cruisers." After a pause, the governor said, "But I haven't received any commission to design new naval guns. Grim wouldn't use the Hammer-class 90mm projectile gun as the main gun for the cruiser, right? Or has he mastered the projectile gun technology and can develop it independently?"

"I heard it's a problem with the keel," Ragnar thought for a moment and said, "I'm not an engineer, so I don't really understand the specific technical details... Master Grim said he wanted to build a big ship."

Hearing the word "keel", An Jiyue immediately understood. The stress state of an airship when sailing is completely different from that of a surface ship, so the keel of an airship is under the horizontal deck, instead of being placed on the bottom of the ship like a surface ship. This brings great inconvenience to the arrangement of the gun mount: if the main gun is placed on the central axis of the hull, the shell hoist cannot be set under the gun position because of the obstruction of the keel, and it is quite troublesome to take the shells.

However, this is not the biggest trouble. The biggest trouble is that with the current level of materials science of the Lords of the Holy Scripture, unless materials and enchantments are piled up, the maximum size of the airship can only be about two thousand tons. If it is larger, the keel will not be able to bear it.

An Jiyue's cruiser plan was also stuck at the keel. The upper limit of 180 tons was really not enough. The ideal first-generation cruiser in the Jiedushi's mind should be around tons, equipped with four single-barrel mm projectile guns, and the overall design emphasized artillery combat capabilities, especially the ability to effectively damage large air units.

There was no other way. First there was the floating city of Fuzrek, and then the Chaos Nest’s plague-spreading ark appeared. The medium-caliber rapid-fire cannon that the girl had originally conceived to wash the deck could only be thrown into the trash can... It was easy to replace the gun mounting plan, and it was not difficult for An Jiuyue to design a new type of naval gun. The only problem with the keel really gave her a headache.

An Jiyue originally wanted to ask Grimm if he had any ideas for solving this problem, so that she could refer to it. But before she asked, the strong intuition brought by psychic power made the girl look up and look at the entrance of this empty hall.

Morgan arrived, surrounded by a group of followers.

……

Note 1: The times mentioned in this book are all based on the Imperial calendar. In fact, the dwarves and elves have their own calendars, but I won’t bother with such meaningless things here.

The author says:

Author's words: I have paronychia on my left big toe; my index and middle fingers on my right hand were scratched by broken bones when I was cleaning ribs, but fortunately the wound was not deep.

Answering the reader's "Always Glowing":

The points are naturally settled to Atum. It doesn't matter what you use to kill the enemy, what matters is whoever kills the enemy gets the points.

Chapter 459 Conversation

In a small room in SkyShield Castle.

"What is the current status of the fleet?" An Jiyue asked, holding a teacup in hand.

"Not very good. Mainly because the ship you and Egwene sent is in poor condition after continuous fighting." Morgan also held a teacup in both hands. Both she and An Jiyue had cups filled with water. "No shield is a fatal problem. Although the system units are immune to corruption, they are not immune to toxins and diseases... The only good news is that at least we only need to take preventive measures. Nurgle can't infect our people out of thin air."

Chaos corruption is unreasonable, and Nurgle corruption is the most disgusting: even if you wear a fully sealed triple-protection suit with an oxygen tank, the plague spread by the Nurgle faction can still infect you regardless of protective measures. Whether it is the Middle Ages or 40K, the only thing that can truly suppress the Nurgle plague is divine power, or the authority of a professional god.

When clearing out the first three hatchery pools, although the Sky Fleet did its best to take various protective measures, it was still unable to completely block the Chaos Hive's all-pervasive biochemical attacks - the plague was still a problem, as most of the plagues from the Nurgle faction were mixed with Nurgle's divine power, and this type of plague was regarded as a form of Nurgle's corruption, to which the system units happened to be immune; as for ordinary plagues, all they had to do was strictly implement disinfection measures.

However, the various highly toxic substances derived from the power of plague are another matter. Although they are not as good as the Slaanesh faction, which specializes in this field, the Nurgle faction can also use poison. Moreover, the Brood, as a Zerg, are good at biotechnology. They are also experts in playing with poisons. After being corrupted by Nurgle, they have gone a step further.

The two Eclipse-class ships with shields were fine, as the shields provided defense without blind spots; however, the warships of the Shenzhou Fleet and the Meko Vigilants sent by Westland were attacked by Nurgle Winged Bees with highly toxic spores in almost every battle, which was simply impossible to defend against. Although the casualties in each battle did not seem to be many at first glance, the cumulative result was that the Shenzhou Fleet had already suffered a quarter of its personnel loss, and the personnel of some warships had almost been completely replaced.

The Chaos Hive, who win by numbers, lack the ability to damage the warships themselves, so they choose to gradually disintegrate the combat effectiveness of the Sky Fleet by killing personnel. It doesn't matter how ugly the exchange ratio is, as long as they can achieve the exchange ratio.

"There's really nothing we can do about this. We're just racing against time," An Jiyue pondered. "The size of the Plague Ark is too exaggerated, and there are so many of them. Even if only one successfully hatches, it will be a difficult test for our fleet."

Through several raids, the Lords of the Holy Scriptures obtained some basic information about the Plague Ark. First, the shape of this thing is roughly similar to a spindle, with bristles, horns, scars and herpes all over the green dead skin, and the overall length is more than 300 meters, almost the same size as a Nimitz-class ship.

Once the three-eyed incubation pool is severely damaged, the incubated Ark will immediately turn into a pool of sticky and smelly water. The Lords of the Holy Scriptures do not know the specific internal structure of this thing, nor do they know its combat methods. However, even if you only look at the size of this thing, you can understand that its combat power is absolutely terrifying.

Secondly, there were too many of them! There were seven surface incubation pools, each with three incubating Plague Arks, totaling 21. Even though more than half of them had been destroyed, the remaining three pools still weighed heavily on the minds of everyone who knew about it.

"There are two main problems now. First, the warships can hold on, but some of the personnel can't," Morgan raised a finger. "My Eclipse class is fine, but your warships are at a disadvantage without shields. As long as you go into battle, there will be casualties... I asked your men, and they said that the Shenzhou fleet doesn't have many reserve personnel."

"Secondly," Morgan raised his second finger, "our fleet lacks the firepower to deal with such a large unit. The research and development of phase torpedoes is more difficult than my worst assumption. How can a small 75mm water tube hit a monster as big as Nimitz? Besides, Nurgle's things have always been known for their resistance to attack."

"Isn't the power of the 180mm tracking rocket enough?" asked the Jiedushi with a frown.

"It will be intercepted," King Evergreen said succinctly. "By the way, didn't you read the recent battle report? When the fleet was attacking the second hatchery, it encountered a new unit that we temporarily call 'pufferfish'. That thing has a wingspan similar to that of a giant eagle. In normal state, its body is very thin and it flies very fast. This thing will actively meet the tracking rocket and then instantly expand into a big balloon. Once the tracking rocket hits this thing, it will be wrapped up."

During the conversation, a plump dwarf cook brought a silver plate that was larger than the lid of a camping pot, piled with all kinds of food. She smiled at the two Lords of the Holy Scriptures in a friendly manner, and then Prince Ragnar, who was also present. Morgan nodded slightly to the other party, then took a piece of cooked bone-in ham from the plate.

"As long as it's wrapped in this damn thing, the guidance head of the tracking rocket will be ineffective," said the gray-haired Kaldorei girl, biting a piece of ham. "Although the rocket itself can still fly and detonate normally, it's useless if it can't hit the target."

"I've been studying the cruiser recently, and the NATO founding meeting will be held in a few months." The governor frowned even more tightly, "What is the principle of its interference?"

"The 'pufferfish' contains a small amount of obsidian powder. According to the analysis results, it is mixed with other things to enhance the effect of obsidian," the Evergreen King munched on the ham. The saltiness of the dwarf ham was just right, and carefully proportioned spices were added during the marinating process. The taste was far better than any other marinated meat she had eaten before the time travel. "You know, there may be nothing else in the South, but there are really a lot of gold mines and obsidian."

Obsidian, a strange mineral with magical power, naturally has the special effect of suppressing magic. For example, the duel hall of the Imperial School of Magic is built with this material to prevent the magic duels of mages from causing uncontrollable consequences. By the way, this mineral is extremely precious. In addition to volcanoes, only Lustria and Nanland have large-scale obsidian veins.

A tracking rocket is essentially a mechanical beast, and mechanical beasts are ultimately magical devices.

After hearing Morgan's answer, An Jiyue also took a piece of ham from the plate, but did not eat it immediately: "The Ark of the Plague will definitely not go out alone. Considering its size, it would be very easy for it to bring some 'carrier-based aircraft' with it."

"Yeah. The 75mm water pipes can't hit them, and the tracking rockets will be intercepted. As for the light spears? The damage is not as good as the live ammunition fired by the projectile cannon." Morgan put down the bones he had just gnawed and took a leg of lamb from the huge dinner plate. "We can still think of a way to deal with the personnel problem, but what if the firepower is not enough? I think we have to prepare for the worst. Once the Plague Ark is launched, we have almost no way to deal with it except for high-powered spells."

"Let's talk about phase torpedoes," An Jiyue said, "What difficulties did you encounter in research and development?"

Although the Eclipse-class frigate is mainly equipped with energy weapons, it actually has live ammunition - Morgan has set up four 600mm launch tubes on the bow of the Eclipse-class ship, but unfortunately the matching phase torpedoes have not been successfully developed. This weapon is just as its name suggests. After being launched, the torpedo will temporarily enter the shallow subspace, sail for a distance and then leave. The macro-level performance is that the torpedo will teleport to the target's face after being launched.

The various subsystems and technologies required for this thing are not difficult for Morgan, the [Mechanical Prophet]. The only thing is how to make the torpedo leave the subspace at the right time and in the right place, which is much more difficult than all the other parts combined.

"Besides the fact that the guidance system is really not working, what other difficulties could there be?" King Changqing bit a piece of lamb leg unhappily, "Now I understand why legion-level space teleportation is the patent of the Magic Toad."

"Hmm... I have an idea. You can let the falcon cavalry carry specially made enchanted arrows. The arrows are actually positioning beacons," An Jiyue thought for a moment and said, "As long as the arrows successfully hit the target, can't they guide the phase torpedoes?"

"That's interesting. I'll try it when I get back... What's wrong?"

Across the dining table, An Jiyue suddenly stood up and stared at the floor under everyone's feet.

"Just now, I felt something very interesting," An Jiuyue shook her head, "Let's stop the technical exchange here for now. I'll leave those rotten birds to you." As he spoke, An Jiuyue summoned the Holy Book of War and operated it a few times.

"Don't let it come to a point where we have to rely on the kamikaze attacks of these carrion vultures to turn the tables. That would be ridiculous." Morgan also summoned his own war codex and took over the command of the system unit transferred by An Jiuyue.

"I'm going to the underground world first. I'll come to help you after I'm done with this." An Jiyue waved her hand and led Jin Zhifan out of the room. However, she turned back after just a few steps.

"Give me some buns," she pointed to the plate on the table, "I haven't eaten dwarven food for a long time. I kind of miss the taste."

The author says:

Author's words: No, I have to ask my mom for a leave and get back to my normal schedule, or I will really become a nocturnal creature...

Answer to reader "book friend 1659590858":

In the example you gave of the Battle of Plateau Castle in Book 1, the points were given to the dwarves.

Chapter 460: Unexpected Gains

Deep in the Grey Mountains, Drachenfels Castle.

The Green Knight was wearing a newly crafted full-body armor, his face hidden behind a golden mask. He stood there, the Blade of Sorrow in his hand emitting a green glow: "It's all over, Drachenfels."

"Surrender," the Unifier's voice said with a strange echo, "and you will be judged."

Opposite the Green Knight, the Eternal One in red robes sat on his throne, looking at the founding king of Bretonnia with contempt. The monster named Drachenfels was a true Ancient One, and Drachenfels had already walked this world long before the Ancient Saints visited this world in their silver spaceships.

Drachenfels was a human being. He had survived for a very long time by taking the vitality of others. Apart from the Dragon Emperor, the Moon Queen, and a few gods, he was the oldest being in this world, even older than the first magic toad priest, Lord Kroka.

He built a castle named after him in the Gray Mountains, and used it as a base to do all kinds of bad things all day long: As a very pure villain, Drachenfels did evil because he wanted to, that's all. He never had any "lofty ideals", and wanton destruction and torturing others were the biggest hobbies of this old monster.

For Drachenfels, doing evil is both a means and an end in itself.

——Until this scourge had provoked her without knowing whether to live or die, Egwene had never considered sending anyone to deal with this guy. In terms of the actual situation of Warhammer, although Drachenfels was an evil villain, his destructive power was completely incomparable to his peers, and the Lords of the Holy Scripture had more dangerous enemies to deal with. Even though she knew that this guy's lair was in the Gray Mountains, the Knight Princess still completely ignored him for a while.

However, Egwene didn't want to deal with Drachenfels, who was quite interested in the lands under her rule. He noticed that the Westers were vigorously opening up the wilderness, establishing new settlements and building roads to connect them. The Immortal, who was bored recently, sent his army to attack several newly built villages near the Grey Mountains.

The first few operations went smoothly, and Drachenfels's army brought back thousands of prisoners for his "fun". However, when they attacked the fourth target, they ran into the Green Knight who was sent to investigate the matter. It was an unfair battle, with only 600 greenskins having to face a lone Green Knight, and the final result was naturally no suspense. The lone Green Knight crushed the greenskins and obtained intelligence about the enemy.

Drachenfels, who stayed in the castle and wantonly ravaged the captives, did not wait for his army, but instead waited for two teams of Ai's Holy Grail Knights who came on transport boats, as well as the Green Knight and Sir Almalik who led the team. Before Fuzrek regained his body and got rid of his undead identity, Sir Almalik, the "Undead Killer", could not stay in Marienburg for the time being, because the aura against undead he gained when he became a Holy Grail Knight would harm his new colleague.

The fire wizard who was traveling with the team cast a spell to blow open the castle gate, and then the Holy Grail Knights who dismounted shouted "For our Lord!" and rushed in. Whether it was demons, undead or greenskins, they couldn't even slow down a little in front of the 26 Ai Holy Grails. Especially Sir Almarik, he could turn the undead into scattered skeletons just by getting close to them, and annihilated more than half of the undead in the castle without swinging a sword.

As for the demons, after seeing their opponents clearly, only the demons of Khorne chose to stay and fight. The others all fled. Those who couldn't escape killed each other. After all, rolling back to the Chaos Realm and waiting for resurrection was obviously much better than a complete death.

In the end, the battle only lasted a short time before it ended. The Holy Grail Knights wiped out the resistance with great efficiency, and then the Green Knight ordered everyone to follow Sir Almarik to the dungeon to rescue the captives, while he himself brought the Flame Mage who was sent to help to the deepest hall of the castle and came to Drachenfels.

Faced with the Green Knight's purely procedural surrender, the Immortals applauded.

"I know who you are," Drachenfels's head was covered in a golden helmet. No one knew what kind of face was underneath the helmet. "Your weapon has exposed your identity."

"Surrender," the Green Knight said without replying, "I won't say it a third time."

"How sad," Drachenfels said. "It seems that the rumor is true. An elf bitch named Lilith murdered your goddess, and you have served that bitch faithfully for two centuries. Tell me, what is it like to be an elf? I heard that Lilith had many lovers, both gods and mortals. Perhaps you are one of them?"

The Immortal knew he couldn't win, but he didn't feel the slightest fear. He was an Immortal, and resurrection from the dead was just a common occurrence for him. When Sigma was still a mortal, Drachenfels was killed by Sigma once, but several years later, the Immortal was able to come out and cause trouble again.

Just as Drachenfels was about to continue his taunting, he opened his mouth but no sound came out, only blood foam overflowed from the corner of his mouth. He lowered his head, and the blade of the Blade of Sorrow, which was emitting a green glow, pierced his chest, and the blood-stained tip of the sword emerged from behind the backrest of the throne.

The Green Knight drew his sword. As he turned to walk back, the accompanying Fire Mage chanted a short spell, and a blazing flame enveloped Drachenfels' body.

"In the name of my Lord and the Outer Gods," the Archmage said, "this day the Eternal meets his destined death."

Relying on his immortality, Drachenfels had been defeated countless times, and escaped death countless times. Unfortunately, this time was an exception, because the Green Knight and the people he brought were all system units.

"Why doesn't he use his magic?" asked the Green Knight.

"Although I am not as powerful as him, I can still hinder him from casting spells or remind you when he tries to cast a spell secretly," replied the great wizard whose hair and beard were flaming orange, "and he knows this too."

The Green Knight nodded first, then looked towards the entrance of the hall. The Archmage followed his gaze and saw Sir Almalik hurried over with a sword slung over his shoulder: "Sir Green, we have made some... rather unusual discoveries in the dungeon, I think you'd better go and see for yourself."

Since the Green Knight joined the gang, in order to facilitate his activities and keep it secret, Egwene used official power to forge his identity and gave him the pseudonym "Sir Green". In order to prevent anyone from letting the secret slip, Knight Ji specifically emphasized that even in situations where everyone is a member of the gang, this pseudonym must be used when addressing the Green Knight.

"Lead the way." said the Green Knight.

The three of them walked through the corridor and went down the spiral staircase. After a while, they arrived at the entrance of the dungeon. Since many people were always imprisoned, the dungeon of Drachenfels Castle was huge. It was divided into three floors from top to bottom. The outer part of the first floor was where the jailers lived. When the three of them walked in, a few Holy Grail Knights stood aside to be on guard, while others were busy treating the wounds of the rescued captives.

"We arrived not too late," Ser Almarik said, "most of the civilians we took are still alive... just alive. We also found some people who were captured earlier, but they are very few in number."

Seeing the Green Knight and his men, the civilians, who still had wounds from torture, saluted them. The Westers were better off, and the few Bretonnian civilians almost knelt down and kissed the ground they had walked on.