433.Chapter 431 430 When the Eye of the Wolf God Pursues the Hunt

Chapter 431 430.Eye of the Wolf God – Hour of Chase and Hunting
As dawn arrived, the warriors of the Riptide Knights were still fighting in the great land near the town of Marlow, and even though all the Jackal Warlocks had been eliminated, the battle was far from being over.

The undead who have lost their controllers roam the ruins of the town, and any scent from the living makes them go berserk.

Worse still, these undead began to aimlessly advance beyond the ruins of Malo Town after converging into an army, perhaps lured by the presence of the living in the nearest village, but in any case, the battlefield under the sunlight not only didn’t calm down, but instead became more intense.

“O Holy Light, give me strength! Purify this filthy bone!”

Uncle Ferdin, who had been busy all night, was still full of energy, and when he saw another army of undead skeletons rushing out from the ruins, this guy pounced on them with a wail with his warhammer.

Followed by several Riptide Knights, they rushed forward to fight fearlessly with those skeletons and smashed them into a pile of bone slag a few minutes later.

These skeleton soldiers awakened from the cemetery were vulnerable.

As long as they could overcome their fear of the undead, even new recruits could easily crush them, but the difficulty of the battle did not lie in these guys who had no quality advantage, but in the elite skeleton army brought by the jackal warlocks that was currently entrenched in the ruins of the town.

Those guys would not be a casual enemy to deal with.

But if we don’t finish them off and let them roam around in the ruins, the Underworld aura they carry will make this land that suffered last night never have any peace to speak of.

“This is a heroic five-player book size anyways, and if we spare a few more piles of material, I guess we can make a ten-player book out of it.”

Resting in a makeshift position, Master of Arcana Marin nibbled on dry food while bragging to a few of his brothers beside him who were new to the game:
“That’s how this damn game makes copies, each copy is born with the story plot advancing very naturally shaped, I reckon that in the last few days the forums will probably have the development team’s introduction to this copy.

You guys see!
I didn’t lie to you guys, did I?
All said that there is fun in this game, a moment after getting off the line hurry to pull people, pull your original team of people over, everyone together to share the great ah.”

“Uh-huh.”

Several new RP party recruits who only entered the game last week nodded their heads frantically, the memories and excitement of last night’s battle still remained in their minds making them recall the bravery and fearlessness they showed last night with a giggle on their weapons even when they were resting.

This expression fell into the eyes of Ms. Bicki, who was inspecting the position, and made her more and more dissatisfied.

The performance of these recruits last night was too bad!
There was even a bad situation where they broke their legs because they fell off their horses when charging with the wrong posture, so it seems that their training over the past period of time has not been enough!

Extra training!

They must be trained more!

“Knight Valander’s impartation was correct, to grow a boy into a true cavalryman, they must be subjected to severe testing and refining of both body and mind to do so.”

Miss Becky, who hadn’t slept all night but was still full of energy, crossed her arms and complained to Knight Livin beside her:

“It seems I was still too gentle with them before, I must be more severe afterward.”

“Uh, miss, there’s something I don’t know if I should say.”

Raven Knight whispered with some hesitation:

“Based on my observation over the past period of time, the tougher you are to them the more excited they get, there have even been extreme cases of them actively committing mistakes and being chastised by you, and they are really after you. However, I feel that this kind of pursuit and enthusiasm doesn’t just come from their desire and pursuit of the knight’s way.

They always look at you with strange eyes.”

“Huh? Have they?”

Bikki instantly exclaimed, crossing her arms over her chest as she feigned alarm:

“Are they plotting against me? It can’t be, can it? They’re such weaklings, even if ten of them came together they’d be taken out one by one with my fists, right?”

“Uh, well, I shouldn’t have said that to you.”

Livian covered her face in pain.

But then she turned her head to the area behind her position, where a group of “refugees” were being escorted out of the unsafe area.

Those poor people were the survivors of the battle between the Knights of the Riptide and the vampires in the vicinity of the battlefield, all of them were staring blankly, their bodies were trembling, and some of them were lying on the ground, bawling their eyes out.

The miserable sight made the local garrison resting in their position somewhat intolerant, yet no one was there to stop the Riptide Knights from taking these innocents away.

Especially those Pioneer Legion soldiers who survived last night’s deadly fight, their original 540 men were left with less than 90 at the end of the battle, which would just want to have a good night’s sleep on the position after Lady Water’s healing.

To be honest, if the Riptide Knights hadn’t come to their aid in time, these last 90 people wouldn’t have survived.

With the intensity of last night’s attack by the jackal warlock and the skeleton army, if there was no one to stop them, I’m afraid that the scope of this disaster would definitely expand to the surrounding villages and towns at dawn today, and that would mean an even more unbearable disastrous result.

“I don’t like the way they’re handling this, Raven.”

Miss Becky gripped the hilt of her sword at her waist as she spoke in a hushed voice:

“That nasty-bodied Lady Water . . who has the face of an angel but has taken perfect advantage of this disaster like a demon, I can’t argue with her reasoning but I know that she definitely had a better way to end this but she chose to let the disaster advance.

They are not good people!”

“Well, from the perspective of the Goldfinch Kingdom, one of these guys is a bad guy.”

Raven Knight nodded, but then she changed her words and said:
“But from Transylvania’s point of view, the decision of Lady Water and her companions last night was perfect, they strengthened Transylvania and Fort Riptide in this way, if I were Governor Murphy, not only would I not blame but instead, I would have rewarded them fiercely.

It was an act of loyalty.

What’s more, you yourself have said that you can offer no moral argument against the decisions of the Water Ladies, which speaks volumes about their first-rate intelligence and how well they know how to use it.

Ah, such a frighteningly ‘cunning’ intelligence is a real pain in the ass, especially if they are going to be enemies in the future.

But having said that, I must ask you a question that I have not been able to confirm so far.”

Leaven looked back at Bikki as she said seriously:

“You must tell me, if there is a war in the future between the Goldfinch Kingdom and Transylvania, which side will you be on?”

“It’s not certain if Transylvania will survive the Black Plague.”

Ms. Bikki bristled:
“Wouldn’t it be a bit too forward of you to ask this question, Livin?”

“No, they will definitely be able to exist under the grind of the Black Calamity, I’m already sure of that, if Transylvania is all gone, then this Black Calamity will also destroy the remaining continents without a doubt.”

Raven Knight said very stubbornly:

“If you are avoiding this question, then I want you to seriously consider it from now on.

The conflict between the two sides won’t disappear just because they fight side by side.

There will come a day when the two sides will be on opposite sides, and at that time, your special status will bring you a problem that you cannot escape.

You must choose a side.

Will you follow your grandfather and fight for the restoration of Transylvania?

Or will you follow the teachings of the Way of the Knight and face your friends and family on the battlefield in the colors of your homeland?
Alas, I now realize that it was not a good idea to let you come to Transylvania, especially when you have already found your life’s work here!
Uh-huh?
Colonel Fraser has arrived, would you like to meet him?”

“Gee whiz, no go!”

With a petulant twist of her head, Becky kicked the dozing Riptide Knights recruits next to her a few times and strutted towards the edge of the battlefield with these few strange players who were more excited because they were kicked by the blonde knight.

Without looking back, she waved her hand at Riven and said:

“I appoint you as an emissary of the great Riptide Knight Bikki, my dear Livin, please inform my feeble fiancé of my outstanding performance last night.

I suspect he will realize that I have declared war on him in the realm of ‘war’ just as Miriam has crushed him on the level of ‘domination’, and that my poor Fraser will have to walk a little faster to keep up with me and Miriam.

He may be tired, and perhaps giving up from now on would be a good choice?”
—
“Between last night and now, the Knights of the Riptide have organized three transports of innocents to Fort Riptide, and over 800 people have been sent into Transylvania in the last six hours alone.

They will begin their lives anew on the Andromeda Hills as Lords of Fort Riptide, and the current head of the Knights of the Riptide, Monsignor Tepal, has made assurances in the name of the Order to those who have lost their homes.

The Knights of the Riptide would be committed to assisting the Kingdom of the Golden Sparrow in dealing with the undead scourge near the town of Marlowe and would allow these refugees to re-select whether or not to return to their homeland after the undead catastrophe was over.

It must be said that his handling of this matter was quite decent, and even Colonel Fraser, who rushed to the scene, was unable to place any more restrictions on it.” In the Blood Vulture Cloister, Mrs. Adele was reporting to Murphy about last night’s situation.

In fact, there was no need for Mrs. Adele’s report, because from the beginning to the end of last night’s events, there was Revernor’s vision to provide Murphy with the power to “eat and watch” the whole time.

The vampire lord’s expression is quite subtle.

To Mrs. Adele, it looked like her master was more or less lost in thought, but in reality, Murphy was thinking about something else:

“If I remember correctly, this is probably the first time that the first random event was decided and executed by the small players without me and the other NPCs interfering in the whole process, right?”

Murphy mused in his mind:
“Although Hogg’s act of bringing the Jackal Warlocks into the trap had my instructions, I was the one who didn’t intervene the entire time afterward, and they were able to handle things with such subtlety and perfection. Not only did they reflect the Transylvanian’s duty on a humanitarian level, but they also gained benefits for themselves and Transylvania in the process of moving things forward.

Most importantly, they earned us a wave of face in front of the arrogant Short Man Marshal.

They are growing fast and can indeed hold their own.”

Thinking about this, Murphy nodded as he looked at Adele and asked:
“Then, with your predictions, how much population can the Riptide Knights bring in before the problem of the undead in Marlow Town is solved?”

“This depends on the situation.”

Adele answered very cautiously:
“In the absence of interference, with the clan members already spreading the undead threat to their surroundings, all the settlements near Marlow Town can be our source of manpower, the most perfect scenario could be to admit 40-60,000 people into Fort Riptide, and this size of manpower would allow Fort Riptide to achieve the most rapid development.

However Marshal Loren will certainly not allow us to plunder his manpower so easily.

My guess is that he will intervene in this without even making more moves, in extreme cases just informing the population of the Black Plague would be enough to scare most of the residents.

Therefore, I am pessimistic about the final outcome of this matter.

Perhaps around 10,000 people is the maximum the Riptide Knights can get out of this event, however, considering that the Riptide Knights currently only has around three hundred of its official members counting the locals, this give-and-take efficiency ratio is still staggering.

I feel that you may not need to pay extra attention to the growth of the Knights of the Riptide after this.

They have proven with their actions that they are talented at the operational and management level, and the rapid growth of Fort Riptide is already something that can be expected.”

“Well, your analysis makes sense.”

Murphy nodded with satisfaction.

Although Adele was very humble, in reality, this intelligence officer’s growth rate in terms of thinking and action was no less than Maxim’s, who was out in the open, and since Adele had already completed her report, Murphy was no longer concerned about this “small matter” that happened on the border between Transylvania and East Prussia. “Small matter”.

Although it indirectly affected the living environment of tens of thousands of people and will continue to cause subsequent interference in the vicinity of the town of Marlowe, however, in the context of the current environment, this is really a small matter.

Murphy stood up.

He walked over to the wall with his hands behind his back looking at the map hanging on it, after a few seconds he asked:
“Has the Phantom Intelligence Bureau’s tracking and cleanup operation of the Dusk remnants that may exist in the Kavhoka region begun?”

“Not yet.”

Adele replied:

“Mr. Turner’s last contact with us was three hours ago, and he had already led the warriors of the Shadowfiend faction to arrive in the city of Bernie, where the Snegov clan is located, and had successfully hooked up with the Thorn Clan’s organization in the area.

With Mr. Turner’s operational efficiency and style of action, I believe that results will be returned soon.

However, as you instructed, we informed Archduchess Shani of the ‘Twilight’ information we currently have through Count Andre, but we still haven’t been able to get a reply from her.

Is there a need to rush it?”

“No, there is no need.”

Murphy stared at the Kahovka region on the map, which was neighboring Transylvania, as he whispered:

“Though I have not known Archduke Shani long, and I do not know much about her personally, I believe she is wise enough to recognize the threatening nature of the Twilight and make the necessary moves.

To be honest, given the Thorn Clan’s pattern of action under midnight, I’m not so sure that Shani knew nothing about Dusk before.

My guess is that her understanding of the organization may be a bit more profound than ours.

Yet she has never revealed her learning in this area, so I have reason to guess that perhaps Archduke Shani may also be a member of the Dusk.”

“That’s a frightening guess! My Lord.”

Lady Adele retorted, shaking her head:

“If she really is a member of the Twilight, then Venerable Lord Paying would not have allowed Archduke Shani to control the Thorn Clan for so many years.”

“I also only said that it’s a guess well, this time is actually an opportunity.”

Murphy looked back at Adele and said softly:
“Test her! If she still follows the Midnight Path in this regard and is at odds with Dusk, then we will have one more strong and powerful ally on the battlefield against Dusk.

However, if she assists the Snegov family in hindering the actions of Turner and the Shadow Trail Faction, then we will have enough reason to ask His Holiness Pa Ying to ‘clean up the mole’.

You see, no matter what the outcome is, we have nothing to lose.”

“Your plan is good, but I don’t think that with Archduke Shani’s mode of operation, she would leave such an obvious loophole for us to discover.”

Adele sighed:

“Our intelligence organization is far from Clan Thorn in both size and quality, and we can’t even contact the Thieves’ Guild, of which Clan Thorn is a founding member.

Archduke Shani has the entire continent’s underground intelligence interactions in her hands, what a terrifying power.

But on the flip side, if the Thieves Guild has been corrupted by the Dusk, then the situation between Archduke Shani and the Thorn Clan at this point can become delicate.”

“Well, that’s exactly what I want to see!”

Murphy narrowed his eyes and said:
“As of now, there are also factions within the Dusk, the ‘Source’ is related to death psychic energy, while the group of grave robbers who ran away to Transylvania to do their work are related to the Thieves’ Guild.

These are supposed to be different operations that belong to two levels, yet they have intersected in Transylvania.

We can’t fight with two fists, Adele, and while the Blood Vulture Clan is pursuing matters related to the ‘Source’, we must have an ally to help us fend off entanglements from the other Twilight factions.

Since Archduke Shani has made an alliance of holy blood with Tris, she must shoulder her duties, and it is not even about her own wishes, as long as Venerable Lord Paying is still around, she must do so!

Wait patiently.

I’m sure Turner’s actions will lead to more breakthroughs for us.”
—
“Archduke Thorn?”

In an ancient mansion in the city of Berne, the capital of the Kavhoka region, Iron Fist Turner, who had just finished praying to the God of the North Wind in preparation for his action, stepped out of his room, only to be greeted by the sight of the uninvited Lady Shani, who stood in the doorway with her hands behind her back, viewing a fresco on the wall.

Turner, who obviously recognized the vampire archduke, asked in a wary and puzzled manner:

“Why would a person of your stature appear here in person?”

“Did you think I wanted to come? Lord Turner.”

Shani responded with great irritation:

“But Murphy and Tris sent you to my territory and deliberately gave me a test message, putting me in an awkward position. Now in order to prove my innocence to Venerable Lord Paying, who is standing behind them, I had to put aside all the matters at hand to rush here to assist you in overthrowing a gangster family that I don’t know what to do with.

What a disgusting contingency.”

Archduke Thorn turned around, displeasure and helplessness written in her eyes as she said:

“Let us settle this matter as quickly as possible, so that you may return to Transylvania with news of your victory, and tell Tris and Murphy that their actions have undermined Clan Thorn’s long pursuit of Dusk . What a hell!

They Transylvanian barbarians never learn to keep their heads down!”

Ps:

Plus 3+25 tomorrow!
(End of chapter)