The witch thought I am a Demon God

Ivita handed over the task of delivering the letter of challenge to Blanton.

But in fact, this task is not difficult to do.

Because all he had to do was stand on the city wall, nail the sheepskin to the arrow, and then shoot the iron arrow into the empty space below the city wall.

When the time comes, the children of the own forest will pick it up.

The reason why Ivita gave this task to Blanton was to give him a way to vent.

Because Blanton's family has been slaughtered by the children of the forest.

Iveta couldn't be more happy to do such a small thing that can win people's hearts by just following the trend.

Sure enough, after Blanton finished doing this, he spent the rest of the day in high spirits and felt that he had let out a bad breath.

He even went to the study and took the initiative to find Ivita, telling him how happy he felt that he personally issued a challenge to the Children of the Forest on behalf of Baron Moro.

After he left the study, Iveta knocked on the table and murmured to herself. Sure enough, when people are together, what people are more likely to remember is not the words they said to you, but the mood they felt when they were with you.

I see Brenton is in a good mood. That's good, I didn't even spend a penny of extra money.

Only by knowing how to be frugal can you be a good lord.

Only those who know how to spend money can make money.

Ivita said belatedly: That's not right. A gray goose feather arrow from the barony is worth three pennies! I still spent three pennies. What do you think, Hearthstone Witch?

The Great Witch of Hearthstone smiled awkwardly. Your Majesty, you are right.

The old witch has been silently observing Ivita's behavioral logic. The more she observes, the more frightened she becomes.

She is not afraid that the devil does not understand people's hearts, but she is afraid that the devil understands people's hearts too well.

Judging from the familiarity with which Ivita has won over people's hearts, the Great Witch of Hearthstone guessed that this was not the first time Ivita had come into contact with humans.

Otherwise, he is not a human being at all, why can he understand people's hearts so well.

Even to a very scary degree.

It was almost as if Ivita had always been a human being.

But the Witch knew that the Daemons of the Warp would never empathize with humans.

She believed that all of Ivita's human emotions were something he could fake to confuse humans.

This is very scary.

But in this way, when can she escape from the devil!

The Great Witch of Hearthstone thought of her beloved disciple again. She had to find a scapegoat quickly.

After a while, Black Wolf came to the study and reported the current food situation in the castle.

Regarding food, they don't have to worry about it for the time being, because there is a lot of food stored in the cellar of the Moro Baron Castle.

As for water sources, there is also a two-hundred-meter-deep well behind the castle.

But the convenience of weapons is not optimistic.

Forget about the others, but there are only more than 2,100 arrows left in the arsenal.

It seems that after the dryads replaced Baron Moro, they repeatedly found excuses to transport weapons outside. Now that I think about it, they are probably sent to the children of the forest army in the suburbs.

It seems like the Children of the Forest are not short of food, but they seem to be short of weapons.

Ivita pondered. There aren't many armors in the castle. Even if there are, they are cotton and cloth armors that are not even leather armors.

So, I guess even if the Children of the Forest now have enough bows and arrows, their armor coverage is still very problematic.

Hei Lang said: This is also normal. As for food, you may also be able to collect some wild fruits and wild beasts in the mountains as a substitute for wheat.

However, if you want to increase the armor coverage of the army, you need a vast hinterland to support industry and commerce, and there must be enough farmland and farmers to support blacksmiths, cobblers and other craftsmen.

This requires strong town markets and developed agricultural civilization, but...

Children of the forest, there is no such condition.

Ivita nodded. We need to strengthen the city defense, and this task is best suited for the Hearthstone Witch. You go and check whether there are any loopholes in our city defense.

The old witch is a very insecure person.

That's why she doesn't trust the people around her, and even if she has the slightest suspicion, she will harm the people around her.

People with this personality trait are very suitable for checking whether there are any loopholes in the city defense.

Because it involves her own safety, she will definitely work harder to prevent any loopholes in the city's defense.

The old witch said: Your Majesty, I need your permission to mobilize fifty adult laborers to dig trenches in front of the city wall.

Although Ivita was confused, she nodded.

The old witch felt a little happy for Ivita's trust, and the demon god agreed without even asking the reason.

But she still had to explain it out of politeness. Whenever you attack a city, that's the only way to attack it.

Without large-scale siege machinery, we can only siege and assassinate high-level officials in the city and create chaos. With large-scale siege machinery, we can directly attack the city wall.

The castle in Baron Moro is too small. It lacks a moat and outer walls, and there are not enough towers to support defense. If the Children of the Forest really have large siege equipment, it will be a big problem.

So, we should dig pits and ravines outside the city wall and fill them with wooden spikes. This can not only prevent the opponent from pushing over large siege equipment, but also effectively prevent the opponent's cavalry troops.

The old witch said: In addition, our castle is located halfway up the hillside, which is condescending, and there is no shortage of food and water.

In this case, even if the opponent has ten times more troops than us, they will never be able to capture such a castle.

Ivita secretly marveled in her heart, she is indeed an old witch. In terms of Gou's ability, no one can compare with you.

The old witch thought for a while and continued: Ah, the Children of the Forest's army may have a few tree people. If necessary, we will have a team to fill the ravines with torches to prevent the tree people from approaching the city wall.

The tree men are a great threat to the low walls of the fortress of Barony Moro.

Fortunately, this is a mountain and the rock is hard. We are not afraid of tree people destroying the foundation of the castle.

These are basic city defense techniques.

Black Wolf seemed to know the witch for the first time. I didn't expect you witches to know this. I'm sorry.

The old witch sneered. Ordinary witches don't understand. But I am the guardian of Hearthstone Castle. When I was the guardian of Hearthstone Castle, I learned city defense techniques by the way. But let me tell you, this shabby Sanwu Castle is really useless. The method is compared with Hearthstone.

The moat of Hearthstone Castle is a spectacular river of flames. It was the flames of hell fire that my teacher's teacher stole from hell, and then added special magic to it, and it became a hotbed of alien flames that burns life.

Speaking of Hearthstone Castle, the old witch was stunned again.

She didn't know why, but she kept thinking of Hearthstone.

Ivita said to Black Wolf: Black Wolf, you and Rayleigh bring reliable people and let the villagers from the three villages near the castle evacuate into our castle in batches in an orderly manner.

It's up to you to decide how to divide the batches into batches and how many people are at a time.

Black Wolf said: Okay, Your Highness.

After everyone left, Ivita sat on a chair and rotated the ring of desire on her little finger. Hopefully it will reduce the number of deaths.

War kills people, and he is not stupid enough to have the mentality of not letting anyone die.

If a person does something that he cannot do at all, he will only fail.

That night, the letter of challenge that Branton shot outside the city disappeared. It must have been picked up by the children of the forest.

I don’t know how the children of the forest will react after reading it.

And Ivita got another news, which was barely good news for him, but bad news for Brenton——

Knight Tavel died, four of the six knights who followed him died, and more than fifty guards all died in the battle. Only eleven of the more than two hundred serf soldiers escaped.

I heard that it was because when they were chasing the dryad troops, they encountered an ambush from the centaurs and snake troops.

The other side dispatched thousands of soldiers and at least eight official sacrifices. In addition, some of the knights who drank the wine given by the tree spirits were instigated by the tree spirits to rebel with the sap of the ancient tree. This led to the almost total destruction of the group.

This news was expected by Iveta, so he was not too surprised.

However, he only then learned from the mouths of the two surviving knights that what the tree spirits added to the drinks was the sap of ancient trees.

On the contrary, Blanton felt very sad and angry, and some of his elders died.

But he knew that this could not be blamed on Ivita. Ivita had tried her best. It was Knight Tavel who insisted on going his own way and killed the troops who followed him.

Blanton could only place this hatred on the children of the forest.

That night, the two knights who had narrowly escaped death, plus a knight who had been watching and did not follow Tavel out of the castle, came to the study on the second floor of the castle.

Behind them were seven knight attendants.

A group of people broke into the study, startling Blanton, who thought they were going to rebel.

Ivita sat calmly on the chair, as if he had not seen these knights wearing neat armor and carrying sharp knight swords. He seemed to have forgotten that he was just a wizard apprentice.

The three formal knights suddenly drew their knight swords and then raised them sharply above their heads.

Blanton screamed. What are you doing! I voluntarily gave the territory to Ivita.

The knights glanced at Blanton indifferently, then they plunged their swords into the floor, and then all knelt down to Ivita.

So... you want to pay your allegiance to me? Ivita looked at them calmly. It's just, what if...I don't want to?

The knights looked at the young Ivita and secretly marveled in their hearts. Is he really just an ordinary explorer with such magnanimity?

This kind of magnanimity is far beyond the reach of Blanton, the son of the Baron.

It was also something that none of the former Baron Morrow had.

The knights even have a feeling that they are just the first stop for the eagle to spread its wings. Next, the eagle will go to a higher and bigger stage.

And even if they only accompany the eagle for a short journey, it will be a legendary story for them.

Please, Lord Ivita, consider the lives of tens of thousands of people in the Baron and accept our allegiance. A knight said: The Baron is now very dangerous and urgently needs a good leader. We can no longer be divided. .”

Tavel is dead, the Baron is dead, and everyone who can lead us is dead.

We must be loyal to you so that we can continue to resist!

Ivita was silent.

This is the benefit that Tavel's death brought to him.

Although cruel, this is reality.