People in the Middle Ages, draw cards to get promoted

Chapter 1 The Habsburgs
On the arena, the black mane fluttered in the wind.

The iron hooves stepped on the soft grass, kicking up large swathes of dirt.

A knight wearing a barrel helmet with only a slit in his eyes as an observation port, wearing chain mail and a black burqa, riding on a black Nisaan war horse from Gaul, facing a standard-bearer The scarecrow at the target charged.

The heavy white beech lance was clamped under his armpit, forming a standard right-angled triangle with his arm and body.

This posture can provide a stable fulcrum for the lance, and it is also a charge tactic that almost all knights must master in today's world.

The lance in his hand is of solid structure, thin at the front and thick at the back, and is extremely bulky. It is widely used in knightly tournaments, but it is easily broken due to its brittle texture.

The first round of charge.

The lance hit accurately, and the metal spear tip pierced through the scarecrow's chest, and the powerful impact lifted the entire scarecrow into the air.

The knight held the scarecrow in his arms, waved it across the air, and shook it off.

Immediately, he discarded the heavy lance and galloped on horseback. When passing by the weapon rack beside him, he nimbly drew two short spears from it.

When turning the horse's head to charge again, the knight held the gun in his back, raised it above his head, inserted it from top to bottom, and nailed it precisely to the neck of a scarecrow.

This is often the weak point of the enemy's armor.

The horse swept across the wide arena, and the knight drew out another short spear with his backhand, pierced his whole body with force, and threw it fiercely.

But unfortunately, this one failed to hit.

The short spear stuck in the mud beside the scarecrow.

Lothar took off the heavy barrel helmet on top of his head, revealing a heroic young face.

He put the barrel helmet on the round table in the arena, raised the clay pot filled with clean water and poured it vigorously, only then forcibly suppressed the heat caused by the strenuous exercise just now.

He looked at the attribute panel in front of him and wiped the sweat from his temples, feeling a little relieved.

After a week of rehabilitation training, he managed to improve his strength and stamina a bit.

And fully adapted to the original owner of this body, after years of knight training, the fighting skills honed.

Whether it is the commonly used light and heavy lances, short spears, shields, half-handed swords, or the relatively unpopular one-handed hammers, flails, and hand axes, he can use them proficiently.

As a full-time combat knight, he is fully qualified, but it is a pity that he has not yet been canonized.

Lothar is a time traveler.

In his previous life, he was the boss of a game company. When he was working overtime with his employees to make games at night, he unfortunately died suddenly and traveled to this era.

It replaced Lothar von Habsburg, the second son of the German nobleman who fell unconscious after falling off his horse and hitting a stone during a training session.

After he woke up, he thought that what he traveled through was the Middle Ages recorded in history, known as the Dark Ages.

But after thoroughly merging the memories of the original owner, he realized that this place is definitely not the same as the Middle Ages known in his previous life.

For example, Henry von Hohenstaufen, the emperor of the Germanian Empire in the north, hired a witch as a royal advisor last winter, and recruited tens of thousands of serfs, gathered in Augsburg, Swabia, To build a high tower exclusively for witches, invite witches from all over the world to settle in.

This is not outrageous, the king of Albion, the famous Richard the Lionheart, actually married a witch as his wife and served as the finance minister of the entire kingdom.

This was simply impossible to happen in the previous life, the Middle Ages when religious authority was supreme.

In this world, the relationship between witches and the church does not seem to be as tense as in the previous life—at least on the surface.

Name: Lothar von Habsburg
Title: none
Occupation: Noble

Affiliated forces: Great Germania Empire, Earl of Argau (Lower Burgundy, not the Duchy of Burgundy).

Retinue: None
Strength: 9 (the average attribute of a normal adult male is 5)

Agility: 7
Stamina: 8
Stamina: 8
Mental Power: 10
Talent: Being human in two lifetimes (you, who have fused two souls, are born with double the mental power of ordinary people, and the upper limit of mental power is permanently +5).

Skills: none

The name of the system is: "Yesterday's Giant Ship Tower Defense System", which originated from a counterfeit tower defense game that he was fighting with the lights on for days without sleep before crossing, and urgently needed to be perfected and released.

The content of the game is not new. To put it bluntly, it is to summon various hero characters by drawing cards, defend and strengthen one's own territory, in order to resist waves of enemy attacks.

But the problem is that this game has territory at the beginning!

And Lothar now, not to mention the territory, doesn't even have a short title, so there is no way to activate the system at all.

So so far, he has not been able to draw any card.

After training, Lothar returned to his castle room.

With the help of the maid, he took off his burqa and chain mail, changed into a light linen shirt, and went straight to the tower of the castle.

This castle is called "Eagle Castle", transliterated as "Habsburg", which is also the source of their family name.

In Gaul and Germany, prefixes such as "Germany" and "Fon" were used respectively, before the surname, meaning "from", representing the origin of nobles with fiefdoms.

"Eagle Fort" is a strong mountain castle with dangerous terrain. If there are sufficient food reserves, it will be difficult to break through even with thousands of troops.

Lothar stroked the protrusions on the wall and felt the cool breeze in the mountains, feeling a little emotional.

In previous lives, even working-class people could live in air-conditioned rooms that are warm in winter and cool in summer, with soft mattresses and 24-hour running water.

But in this era, even the nobles are far from happy.

Especially for the Germanic nobles who were more martial and used to living in castles rather than country manors, the living environment was even worse.

damp and dark.

Rats, fleas.

It's commonplace.

After all, in this era, the military significance of castles is far greater than the residential significance, and the first consideration is always sturdiness rather than comfort.

From under the tower, there was the sound of heavy footsteps.

The sergeant wearing a spine helmet and a blouse said in a low voice: "Master Lothar, the master invites you to go over, it's time for lunch."

"Well, I see."

Lothar nodded, and followed him straight to the main hall of the castle.

These sergeants in Eagle Fort are all full-time soldiers, unlike the peasants and soldiers who are called up during wartime and usually work in the fields, they are all professional soldiers, and there are only a hundred or so people in Eagle Fort.

During the war, they will form the core of the army with the knights under the earl, which is equivalent to the "personal soldiers" of the Eastern General.

Walking into the main hall of the castle, the most eye-catching thing is the end of the stone vault, the three coats of arms hanging on the gray wall with a tapestry.

On the left is the coat of arms with three black lions on a yellow background, in the middle is a coat of arms with a black single-headed eagle on a yellow background, and on the right is a coat of arms with a red leaping lion on a yellow background.

The former represents the emperor of the Great Germania Empire to which Lothar's father, Count Werner, is loyal, and the Hohenstaufen family to which Henry VI belongs; the middle represents the Great Germanian Empire; the one on the far right is Lothar Belonging to the Habsburg family.

On the long strip table under the coat of arms, the maids have already filled the dishes.

Lothar's father, Count Werner, has already sat down with his elder brother Otto. As for his mother, Ms. Elise, she died of illness a year ago.

Seeing Lothar, Count Werner nodded slightly, signaling him to take a seat with his eyes.

This is an unsmiling man.

With his high cheekbones, sunken eye sockets, long brown hair and beard, and a deep scar on his cheek, he was far from handsome in appearance.

But his sons, whether it is the eldest son Otto or the second son Lothar, are all handsome.

Seeing him take his seat, Count Werner raised his hand in front of him, and made a sign of the cross from top to bottom, from left to right.

"Thank you, Father, for giving us food, and I ask you to give food to those who are poor and needy. In the name of the Father, Amen."

After reading the prayer, Count Werner signaled for the two to move.

Today's dishes are quite rich. The main course is goat meat stewed with carrots and potatoes. The side dishes include roast quail, fruit pie and a basket of white bread made with fine wheat flour.

The tableware is made of silver with fine patterns on it. It is said that it was one of the trophies that Count Werner brought back from the Crusades when he was young. In addition, it is simply impossible to make up a set of silver tableware for daily use.

ps: 1. The world view in this book is superficial, some characters, families and countries have prototypes, but don’t do any research, for example, Count Werner was a character in the early eleventh century, and this era obviously did not have barrel helmets, the emperor of the Holy Roman Empire Not the Hohenstaufen family either, but the Salian family.

I want to emphasize: this book is a fantasy category, not a history channel!

ps: 2: As we all know, there were three Burgundies in the Middle Ages. Lower Burgundy, where Habsburg is located, is not Burgundy in Gaul, but is located in Switzerland today.

ps: 3: Most of the characters in this book omit the "Christian name".

(End of this chapter)