Chapter 151: Plunder, Plunder! And the Traces of the New God

Snow Fox City, the political and administrative center of Snow Fox Territory, had its walls wet from being washed by rain.

In the central castle, the Snow Fox Countess was reading the intelligence indifferently.

The situation in the territory is not satisfactory.

Due to the previous strategic failure and having to face the coalition of nobles of the Frost Moon Kingdom who rushed over to try to save face, the Snow Fox Countess suffered heavy losses. Her originally pretty face was cut with several wounds by the eyeless sword as she led the charge.

In order to prevent subsequent looting groups from running rampant in the territory, she chose to summon the armies of her vassal states to confront the army of the unknown viscount of the Crescent Territory.

Now, during the period of gathering troops, we can only allow this looting group of more than 200 people to run rampant in the territory.

Although the Snow Fox Countess did not completely fail to try to fight back.

But it was only effective the first time. Relying on the familiarity with the geography, they successfully made the looting group suffer a little loss.

I never found another opportunity after that.

The tactic that most of the nobles in this world know is to command or personally lead the knights to charge.

The Snow Fox Countess was an exception. If necessary, she didn't mind using tactics that other nobles would have despised in the past, such as ambushes.

Now, as the world began to be filled with bloody conflicts of all sizes, many nobles had realized that their methods were no longer effective, but their long-term tactical habits made them unsure of how to change their strategies.

But the looting group on the opposite side was much more cunning than she had imagined.

Her army would always be discovered first. If they didn't have enough people, they would be surrounded and strangled. If they had too many people, they would not be able to catch up with the cavalry.

This was very tricky, but fortunately the only successful ambush did slow down the actions of the looting group.

The habits of this looting group are completely different from those of other looting groups.

The Snow Fox Countess gritted her teeth and glanced at the military report again.

If it was just normal looting, the Snow Fox Countess could totally accept it. After all, for the nobles, looting was a habit. When friendly forces came to support, they would loot, not to mention when the enemy came to raid.

In a sense, the Snow Fox Countess's collection of taxes in her own territory is also a form of plunder. At least without military support, those untouchables would definitely not be willing to pay taxes.

But this raiding group called the Brown Moon Deer Raiding Group does not simply rob, but takes everything.

It was really hard for the Snow Fox Countess to describe this kind of plundering behavior. In short, these looting knights had no bottom line. When they arrived at a place, they would take people, money, livestock, food, seeds, and even wall panels. If they had the spare capacity, they would take away all the wall panels.

Oh, and there was soil. What the Snow Fox Countess found most difficult to understand was that it looked like a lot of soil had been dug away in some places.

When the Snow Fox Countess's soldiers went over to check, all that was left was an empty space, as if there had never been a village here.

Only ruins remain, because if the looters had enough time, they would have knocked down the houses and let the livestock trample the fields flat.

In short, there will definitely be no more output in the areas that this looting group has passed through in the short term.

In the suburbs far away from Snow Fox City where the Countess was, Taner was supervising the logistics of transporting things back to Crescent Territory, and his knights were looking at him in shock.

As noble knights, they were naturally very good at looting, but their way of looting was just to rob some coins, and at most some food and livestock.

Originally they were very satisfied with their level of looting, at least it was very efficient.

It was not until they saw Taner's order to loot, to tear down houses, trample farmland, and plunder people that they understood after careful consideration.

But what the hell is digging the soil?

Tanner could only pretend to be profound. The other things were written in the "Reference", and Rand also explained the meaning of them, which was to maximize the weakening of the enemy's war potential.

Moreover, the hideout, especially the Crescent Collision, really lacked everything.

So there was nothing wrong with just grabbing some places. Taner's looting group also brought a lot of logistics. These logistics usually followed the main force from a distance on packhorses. Taner's order to them was to just abandon the baggage and run if they encountered an attack. The task of grabbing the baggage would be completed by the looting group.

But Taner didn't know why they had to rob the soil. This was Rand's order, and he didn't give any explanation. It just meant that if it didn't affect the strategy of the looting group, they could take some soil back from each place.

Although the knights under his command did not understand the reason for the land grabbing, those who took notes still took notes, and those who could not write recalled repeatedly, trying to remember it with their brains.

If they didn't understand it at all, they might not dare to follow it casually. But now, they understand part of it and think it makes sense. Then the part they don't understand obviously also has a great role. It doesn't matter if they don't understand it. Just write it down first.

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In the royal city on the other side, the energy ball in Ellie's hand shot out and stuck to the thief who was wearing a tights.

She shouted in a clear girlish voice: "Mr. Thief, if you run again, it will explode."

The thief who had originally flown onto the roof beside the road looked at the dark red magic energy ball on his body.

He suddenly stopped moving. This was a magical secret that was difficult for him to understand.

In this world, the composition of magic is very primitive. Most magicians only know one magic in their life, that is the exploding magic ball. These magicians are specially trained for use in wars.

If the mages of a mage group cast an explosive magic ball together, it would have an effect similar to the mortar in Rand's previous life.

This is a very powerful means of warfare.

Some mages with good talents may be qualified to learn other spells. For example, during the civil war in the Frost Moon Kingdom, the team of senior professionals that attacked Elsa, the mages in that team knew how to use Slow and Silence.

Mastering three spells already makes one a very powerful wizard. The level of magic in this world is still at a rather primitive stage, and it is very difficult to master, let alone proficient in it. Perhaps most wizards will not be able to master even one spell in their entire life.

If you want to pursue the secrets of magic, talent, financial resources, and luck are all essential.

To this day, the types of spells in the world are still pitifully few, so few that they can all be recorded in a small booklet.

Therefore, the mages in this world are not difficult to deal with. After all, when you think about the fact that there are only a few spells that the opponent can use, without the unknown and mystery, it will not be difficult to deal with them.

But what kind of spell is the sticky explosive magic ball? Did the great wizards of the Wizard Association come up with a new spell that has not yet been announced?

This thief was also a high-level professional, and he had lived for a very long time and had never stopped paying attention to new news from the outside world, but he had never heard of such a thing.

He looked at the ball of magic energy stuck to his body and could clearly feel the violent magic energy being restrained and sticking tightly to his body, making him not dare to doubt the power of this thing at all.

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He stopped.

The carriage also stopped, with the royal guards on horseback following behind.

Since Ellie has been promoted to the highest position and is protected by the personal guards, Olenna had a rare day off today and did not go out with her, but stayed in the mansion.

The guards are all knights in brown armor and red cloaks.

All eyes were turned to the skinny thief standing on the roof.

In fact, they wanted to see Ellie, who was half leaning out of the carriage, with her hair fluttering in the rare cool night breeze of summer.

It looked like he was no longer a high-level professional, but from such a distance, it was impossible to judge the specific situation.

The White King's sister is indeed a genius. They were excited at the thought of working under the White King's sister.

However, it seems that they don’t have the opportunity to show themselves now. Their strength is not weak, but dealing with a single highly mobile enemy is indeed not their forte.

The thief with a dark red magic energy ball stuck on his body jumped down from the roof.

Slowly walked towards the carriage where Rand was.

Just as he got closer, a faint green light flashed under the hood and suddenly accelerated.

The long dagger in his hand stabbed Ellie in the carriage.

Ellie was a little surprised that the thief was so reckless, but she was responsible for Rand's safety at the moment, so she naturally made all the preparations.

The slowing spell that had been prepared long ago made the thief's movements, which were not very fast in Ellie's eyes, become easy for Rand to see.

To be honest, ever since Ellie saw Elsa's walking in the void, she thinks other thieves are just trash and not worth worrying about.

Ellie handed the staff in her left hand to Rand, asking him to keep it for a while, then walked up to the thief and tapped him with her fingertips.

The dark red magic energy ball stuck on the thief began to flow and turned into dozens of ultra-small magic energy balls. Then, under Ellie's control, several small energy balls exploded and blew off the thief's weapon.

Then the thief's elbows and knees were blown off.

But what puzzled Ellie was that there was no blood or muscle fragments scattered around.

On the contrary, there are quite a few bone fragments.

Ellie soon understood the reason and turned back to Rand and said, "It's a skeleton."

"Ah?" Rand got off the carriage and took a closer look.

It was true. The thief wrapped in black cloth was a skeleton. However, compared to those common weak skeletons, the bones of this skeleton appeared very strong, and there were some things that looked like alchemical structures, replacing the function of muscles.

Rand stroked his chin, looked at it, and asked, "Is it the Scourge Cult?"

The green soul fire in the gray-white eye sockets of the skeleton shook. Their actions had been very secretive up to this point, so how did Viscount Rand discover them?

Rand looked at the skeleton that didn't answer, and suddenly found a problem. He turned to Ellie and asked, "Can't skeletons talk?"

Ellie pondered for a moment: "In theory, skeletons do not have organs that can make sounds, but high-level undead should be able to use magic energy and some alchemical structure composite simulations to make sounds."

(End of this chapter)