[Chapter 202 The Threat from the Orcs]

David returned to Winter Town with the souvenir given to him by Captain America Steve, and then put the small box containing the Mind Gem into the drawer of his desk.

Before closing the drawer, David thought that maybe in the future Steve would also throw the other gems to him, so should he bring Loki to visit his drawer?

Thinking about this, David returned to the bedroom and fell asleep…

After drinking a lot of alcoholic beverages, David did not have any hangover or inability to get out of bed. He even got up earlier than usual.

Standing on the roof of Castle Glamorgan, David watched the morning sun slowly rise from the horizon, dyeing the brand new Winter Town with a layer of brilliant colors.

Of course, this is just David’s opinion. For the town he built himself, he would have some special feelings in his heart from time to time.

“Get up so early today?”

David was still looking at this city that belonged to him, but he also noticed someone approaching behind him and knew who it was.

“Are you not used to sleeping?”

“No, I live very comfortably here. On the contrary, I will feel uncomfortable in Sparta.” Helen walked to David’s side, stood on the edge of the roof with him, and looked at the south of Winter Town, where there were the most buildings at this time.

As the sun gradually rose, Winter Town gradually became lively, and more and more houses began to light up.

“Electric lights, running water, and all kinds of electrical appliances.” Helen saw many things in Winter Town that she could not even dream of before, and felt what a truly comfortable life was.

In comparison, the days she had lived in Sparta were not much different from those of wild beasts!

Because of this huge difference, she was even more reluctant to leave Winter Town and hoped that she could live here forever.

Becoming David’s wife is naturally the biggest goal; even if she can’t succeed, she hopes that she can stay here, and hopes to grow tea in Sparta and bring a group of servants to make Glamorgan Castle lively, all of which are efforts made to achieve the goal.

In addition to these, when she heard that David wanted to expand the soldiers in Winter Town, she also wanted to provide some help.

“Soldiers?”

“Yes.” Helen said that Sparta was not short of strong and excellent middle-aged men, and these were excellent sources of soldiers: “If you need them, I can bring some over.”

Helen said that these Spartan soldiers were strong and hardworking, and they were not demanding, and they were not as expensive as David’s Winter Knights.

“It is indeed an option.” David wanted to refuse, but then he thought that training a second-line legion seemed to be nothing.

With the development of Winter Town, more and more areas need to be defended, and a large number of manpower is indeed needed.

And these Spartans, who were originally soldiers, are easier to train into elites than civilians.

In addition, David can see that Helen has some selfish motives.

Train a group of soldiers. These soldiers are Spartans, and they are naturally closer to Helen, the Spartan princess, and will become Helen’s biggest supporter in Winter Town.

In addition, these Spartan soldiers can also contribute to Sparta after returning home, and pass on what they have learned from Winter Town to the people in Sparta.

If some mysterious power can be passed back to Sparta, it can also make Sparta a more powerful country!

But these are all small matters, and have no impact on David.

“We do need people. Since you have this idea, bring some Spartans over!” David instructed. Because the equipment that Medivh made to learn the Brunnian common language has only been produced a few extra times, Helen can bring them over slowly one by one.

Let them learn the Brunnian common language first, and then bring new people over.

“I know how to do it!” Helen thought about it, and then asked how many people would be appropriate to bring?

“Bring a hundred people first!”

A hundred Spartan soldiers can first build the framework of this Spartan Legion. If there is a need for expansion later, these hundred people will be the foundation.

“Sparta… Phase I?”

This word suddenly popped up in his mind. David, who was originally thinking about whether to train these Spartans into heavy soldiers, began to have a different picture in his mind.

From ancient soldiers wearing heavy infantry armor, he became paratroopers wearing mobile armor.

“It seems quite interesting.”

When the time comes, three hundred hell paratroopers will be airdropped directly to the enemy’s hometown. That scene must be spectacular!

Because Helen had led him astray, David did not continue to sit on the rooftop and chatted with his friends while walking to the office to start his work today.

According to David’s prediction, in the next period of time, he would wait quietly and be careful to prevent trouble from the surrounding villages.

However, things would not always develop according to the expected routine.

With the arrival of late autumn, David keenly discovered that the population growth rate of Winter Town had become much faster, and soon exceeded one thousand people.

At first, he thought that the surrounding villages and towns had begun to take action. After asking Eva and Weatherby Swan, he learned that there seemed to be a problem in Snowfield Castle. The farmers, soldiers, and craftsmen in the surrounding villages and towns who originally belonged to the nobles of Iron Tree Castle were all withdrawn from Snowfield Castle.

The rest were free farmers from all over the Kingdom of Tilan, which was equivalent to being abandoned by the villages they originally joined.

Except for a few people who felt that they had monopolized a large area of farmland and decided to stay where they were, the remaining free farmers all ran to Winter Town.

In other words, after much thought and more than half a year of time, these farmers who were finally intercepted finally came to Winter Town.

However, compared with the farmers who first came to Winter Town, these people had nothing, and they would not receive the various preferential treatments that those people had received earlier: free housing, sufficient food, and ownership of farmland as long as they reclaimed it, etc.

Now those who came to Winter Town need to borrow money from Winter Town or the Lord to ensure that they can survive this winter smoothly.

At the same time, in order to earn enough living expenses, they can only choose to work for the original residents of Winter Town.

The arrival of these people also perfectly filled the original vacancies of Winter Town, allowing the shops in Winter Town to start operating.

“So… now there are only Winter Town and Snowfield Castle left in the entire northern plains?” Arcee

flew over the entire northern plains again, confirmed the situation of the surrounding villages and towns, and then reported to David.

“And Frost Town.”

“…”

David felt speechless for a while. He was careful and prepared, and even started to prepare to tinker with Sparta I to expand the number of troops.

As a result, before he started to exert his strength, all the surrounding forces were finished! Although there

were still some people left in some villages, the situation was similar to David’s original single-handed defense of the pioneering camp, and it was not a village at all.

“These guys… are even more vulnerable than I expected!”

David curled his lips and asked about the situation of Snowfield Castle.

They actually pulled all the forces from the northern plains together. Is the situation in Snowfort so bad?

“It’s not that the situation in Snowfort is bad. Snowfort has not been attacked by orcs yet.” The person

who reported was not Arcee, but Vanessa Van Cleef, who had set out with Arcee, got off the plane in Snowfort, and after carefully inquiring about the news, she took Arcee back again.

“All the villages east of Snowfort have fallen, including the two towns closest to Snowfort that were built on the scale of towns.”

The problem of orcs was considered when these two towns were built, so a lot of resources were invested from the beginning to build semi-military facilities to serve as the outer outposts of Snowfort.

As a result, they were easily broken and occupied by the orcs, which made Snowfort realize that the threat of orcs was greater than expected, which is why they reacted so violently.

“The forces behind those villages realized that if Snowfort was breached by the orcs, their villages would not be able to resist. For various reasons, they concentrated all their forces to defend Snowfort first.”

Vanessa told all the information she had heard, including that Snowfort was reinforcing the city walls and rushing to make more weapons.

The 1,000 soldiers who were originally auxiliary troops have also been armed, and Snowfort has mobilized all the forces it can use.

“Are the orcs so strong?”

David carefully recalled the encounter with the orcs. It seems that the human soldiers in this world did not suffer too much in the battle with the orcs?

Considering the number of reinforcements sent by Iron Tree Castle before, Snowfort was still so nervous. How many orcs were there?

“This is the image I took.”

Arcee, who looks like a human, is a Cybertronian after all. Her eyes shot out light, and then David and the few people in charge of military affairs in Winter Town saw the holographic image “taken” by Arcee.

“There are at least 3,000 orcs!” Floyd looked at the aerial images released by Arcee, and the dense orcs on the “ground”, and felt his scalp tingling.

“This is part of it. I also saw several smaller orc troops scattered all over the plains east of Snowforest.” As Arcee explained, the holographic images kept switching: “Some of them are heading towards Frost Town.”

“…”

Gareth and Floyd were silent, and Klausa frowned at the number, but when they looked at the lord, they found that Baron Glamorgan was very calm.

It seemed that this lord did not take this astonishing number of orcs seriously.

In fact, David was thinking at this time, should he help a little? After all, if Snowforest was really lost, his own Winter Town would have to face these orcs directly.

If he helped, the main battlefield would be on someone else’s territory, and he would not feel bad even if he was beaten into mud!

(End of this chapter)