The dazzling bright emerald spots dazed the eyes of everyone present, but only Svanreji felt inexplicably relieved.

Sure enough, the next second, the blond knight appeared, wielding a glittering rune sword. Lann's light blond hair, dark golden eyes, griffin armor and cloak, and the sword of the Lake Girl were all highly recognizable personal symbols. Although the Nilfgaardians had never seen him before, they were more familiar with him than anyone else.

"It's Lannister! The Lion of Cintra!" The sharp-eyed soldiers in the Nilfgaard team reacted immediately.

They were ecstatic: "Kill him, and the gates of the North will be completely opened to us. The North will no longer have the power to resist the great Majesty Emhyr!"

Lann paused for a moment and quickly scanned the situation on the field. The Nilfgaardians actually appeared in Skellige?

Thoughts collided in his mind, but Lann's reaction was extremely fast. After seeing the soldiers of the islands and the Black Sun warriors fighting together, he rushed into the enemy's formation without hesitation. His figure shuttled into the enemy's team like lightning, and the dazzling rune sword kept spinning around his body.

【Whirling Sword Dance】!

The golden arc of light brought about a bloody gush, and the Skellige soldiers who were confronting the Nilfgaardians only felt a flash before their eyes, and the enemy who had just been shouting at them at the top of his lungs suddenly fell down.

However, before Lann could continue to display his prowess in the crowd, he suddenly felt his hairs stand on end and heard a startling "whoosh" sound of breaking wind in his ears.

When he looked up, he saw a huge rock passing over his head.

"Catapult?!"

It is not just an ordinary catapult. Judging from the size of the stone bullets and the speed of the throwing, it is definitely the top-level catapult of the Nilfgaard Empire!

When Lann saw that there were not many Nilfgaardian soldiers, he thought they were just harassment troops or reconnaissance teams. But now even such large siege equipment has come out. Could it be that the Nilfgaardians are going to launch a general attack on Skellige? How did they sneak a large army ashore without making any noise?

"Lan, be careful of the catapults! They attack without caring about their own people and are fearless of death!" Svanrigi shouted hurriedly.

Lann glanced at the half-collapsed Torgeir Castle, and then looked in the direction where the stone bullets were coming from. From afar, he could see the reflection of the metal color in the sun, and the dust raised by the mechanical arm when the stone bullets were released.

The location was easy to find, but the distance was not close. The Nilfgaardians chose a hillside with a commanding position, more than 400 steps away from Lan and his men.

Thoughts flashed through his mind, and Lann decisively activated the [Teleport] skill again. Seven bright spots appeared out of thin air, and six of them quickly went out, revealing the four demon hunters, the druid Fetov, and Lann's own mount Black Wind.

Mounting on Black Wind, Lann pulled the reins and steed the excited horse towards the catapult. The rest of the people were responsible for supporting Svanrigi against the Nilfgaardians.

The seven bright spots represented seven combat units. For a melee involving hundreds of people, such a small number of people should not have played a big role, but the extra large bright spot that had not yet gone out attracted everyone's attention.

No, it's not attractive - because people's eyes cannot avoid this huge light.

A giant with bluish-white skin over ten meters tall appeared in the horrified eyes of the Nilfgaardians and Skelligers. He looked around and casually uprooted a tree on the roadside that two people could hug, and extended it into a giant stick over ten meters long in a wave of energy that made the witchers' badges tremble.

He brandished his huge stick and roared to the sky: "My God!"

"Ice Giant!" Svanregi screamed, "Why are you here? Lan, aren't you..."

Before the young man and other island soldiers who didn't know the situation could get ready, they saw the ice giant turn his back to them and rush into the enemy camp under the rain of arrows shot by the screaming Nilfgaardians. The bluish-white back was like a wall at this moment, which actually gave people a sense of security.

Svanreji and the guards around him were stunned. For a moment, it seemed that there was no need for them to join the battle.

Fetov calmly chanted a spell behind everyone, and the portal opened immediately. First, Yennefer, who exuded the scent of cloves and gooseberries, came out. Then the sorceress chanted again, cooperating with the druid to open the portal, teleporting Lann's servants and other soldiers who were still in the archipelago back as much as possible.

The witchers followed the Frost Giant, trying to draw their swords and kill the enemy, but they found that the speed at which they approached the enemy could not keep up with the speed at which the Frost Giant could kill the enemy.

Only Ged was uneasy at this moment, because he saw the collapsed castle.

"Svanrigi, where is Thorgeir? Where is he?"

Svanregi took a deep breath and pointed to the ruins of the castle. "He was trapped under the city wall during the first round of catapult attacks... Wait, Mr. Gede!"

Before Svanrej finished speaking, the bear-faction witcher rushed to the ruins of the castle. The Nilfgaardian troops stood between them, but Ged's body was covered with a hard golden shield, and the Nilfgaardian swords could only cause ripples on it; on the other hand, the steel sword in Ged's hand was powerful and could easily tear apart the enemy's armor.

He was anxious for his lord and his best friend, and at this moment he truly burst out with the strength of a legendary demon hunter who could slay a dragon alone. He actually surpassed the ice giant in front of him, and broke through the army formation under the intensive attacks of the Black Sun soldiers, and came to the edge of the ruins of Torgeir Castle.

"Torgeer..." Gerd looked at the guards buried under the rubble. Not long ago, he and some of them sang loudly at the banquet. For a moment, he was in a trance and forgot that he was on the battlefield.

"Ged, be careful!"

A scream suddenly came from behind the Bear-style Demon Hunter, and then he felt the vision above his head suddenly darken.

A new round of stone bullets hurled by catapults pressed towards the castle, determined to turn the building into a real ruin.

The ice giant suddenly jumped up, swinging a wooden stick that was more than ten meters long, hitting the stone bullet like hitting a baseball. The next second, the wooden stick and the rock shattered in mid-air, and the ice giant's body lost its balance in mid-air due to the huge impact force, and fell heavily to the ground, crushing several Nilfgaard soldiers to death.

The Nilfgaardian soldiers surrounded them like ants and swung their swords to attack, but their palms went numb and their weapons bounced away. They only felt that they were hitting leather-covered stones. On the other hand, the ice giant was completely enraged by the impact of the stone bullets and the Nilfgaardian sneak attack. He got up and swung his fists to beat the soldiers into a pulp.

The ice giant only blocked one stone bullet.

More shadows shattered the remaining walls and supports of the castle, finally causing the huge building to collapse completely amid a shaking.

Gede was still among them. Everyone only saw a protective shield of Quinn's seal being propped up, and then the golden light shattered.

…

On the hillside not far away, the Nilfgaardians controlled the catapults and threw a total of three rounds of stone bombs, and then stopped.

They still had plenty of ammunition, but no one was thinking of attacking at the moment. Everyone was stunned by what they saw and forgot to continue fighting.

"Ice Giants..." The bearded officer in charge of commanding the front of the team had read a lot of books about the archipelago for the purpose of gathering intelligence before coming to Skellige, and he knew the legend about the Frost Giants.

"A Skellige man... no, it's the Lion of Cintra!" The bearded officer couldn't help but tremble all over. "He actually obtained this level of power and can drive this prehistoric monster. If the giant appears on the battlefield..."

The officer was sweating uncontrollably as he spoke. Then, with red eyes, he loudly ordered his subordinates, "Keep firing the catapults! Ignore the pirates' castle, aim at the ice giant! We must kill this monster here!"

The soldiers wearing Black Sun armor were busy preparing to reload their ammunition again.

However, the next second, a golden light flashed before their eyes, and then a long sword drew an arc and occupied all their sight.

While the Nilfgaardians were stunned, Black Wind had already carried Lann to the Nilfgaardian position and brought them within the range of Lann's [Flash] skill.

"It's the Lannisters!"

Lann's appearance was unexpected to everyone. In their intelligence, Lann had never used this skill. As for the description of Lann's combat power, Nilfgaard's intelligence was still stuck at the time when he just became a demon hunter.

The number of Nilfgaardians was small, only about 30 people, just enough to operate the catapults. This number of human soldiers was not a problem for Lann, who had just become a demon hunter, and they were not a threat now.

The Lion of Cintra rushed into the crowd, waving a sword. The golden blade brought up a bloody wind and pressed down on the hastily formed formation of the Nilfgaardians like a piece of rotten wood.

No piece of armor could block his sword, and no weapon could hurt him at all; and every time someone tried to escape, they could only see a flash of golden light in the corner of the eye, and then the lion appeared behind the deserter.

The bearded officer drew out his sword and shouted to encourage himself, trying to parry the enemy's weapon. However, before the long sword with runes flashing on it even touched him, it seemed as if an invisible blade extended from it, easily chopping the officer's weapon into pieces, as if it was no more difficult than breaking a branch.

Blood flowed from his broken neck, and the bearded officer was surprised to find that he was still alive. The lion of Cintra put the weapon on his neck, and although the invisible blade still hurt him, it did not take his life.

"Lannister... you are indeed as brave and incomparable as the intelligence said. No wonder the guys on the front line have not been able to take Cintra so far." The bearded officer couldn't control the soreness in his throat and the trembling of his thighs, but he still tried his best to maintain his demeanor. His hands reached for his lower back, where a dagger was tied.

He didn't know when all the Nilfgaardians here had died and he was the only one left. As an officer, and Lannister hadn't killed him yet, the bearded man knew what was waiting for him next.

[The sun is above.] He thought to himself, [I must not leak any information about the empire.]

The bearded officer closed his eyes and made up his mind. He was about to attack with a dagger to force Lann to kill him. But when he opened his eyes again, he only saw a left palm emitting white light.

[Axis Seal: Charm]

"Your name... Never mind. I'm not interested." Lann shook his head and changed the question, "How many of you are there? How did you sneak into Little Skellig Island?"

The officer who had just made up his mind to keep the secret now spoke without hesitation, "We have a total of 143 warriors this time. We accidentally encountered soldiers from the Principality of the Curved Coast on the sea. They knew the situation of Little Skellig Island very well, so they took us in."

When Lan heard the name of the Principality of the Arc Coast, he frowned, and then he remembered that it was the political conflict that forced Gede to run to Skellige.

They pursued Gede relentlessly, but according to previous intelligence, these soldiers who came from the mainland had already alerted the Tursek family guards who were on martial law across the island when they were trying to assassinate Gede in the tavern, so half of them were killed and fled.

During this process, the Arc Coast team became somewhat familiar with Little Skellige, so it makes sense that they knew of some secret passages that helped the Nilfgaardians land.

"What about the people from the Principality of the Arc Coast?"

“Kill them all.”

Lann chuckled, that made sense.

“You dare come to Skellige with only a hundred men. What is Emhyr’s plan?”

"We originally wanted to bring more soldiers, but we had to reduce the number of soldiers in order to transport the catapults." The bearded officer said in a daze, "and this was not the plan of His Majesty the Emperor."

Lann couldn't help but raise an eyebrow when he heard this. These soldiers actually acted on their own.

The words of this bearded officer revealed a lot of information.

The Nilfgaard Empire was very similar to a powerful empire called "Rome" in Lann's previous life, and some of their political systems were quite similar to each other.

The highest political institution of the Nilfgaard Empire is called the "Nilfgaard Senate", or simply the "Senate". At the beginning of the establishment of the empire, the Senate and its members had supreme power. But after Emperor Emhyr came to power, his iron-blooded tactics shocked the empire. He then continued to launch wars and won repeatedly, and the power of the entire empire gradually concentrated in the hands of Emhyr personally, forming the emperor's centralized power.

Today, when Nilfgaard has unified the entire south and begun to sweep across the north, the Senate is almost non-existent. This is why the internal conflicts of the empire have intensified.

In addition, there were many conflicts between the new nobles and the old nobles, and conflicts between the emperor's arbitrary rule and the big families in the empire. The current expansion and strength of the empire were almost all caused by Emhyr's accession to the throne. Although it was strong, it was still short-lived and had an unstable foundation, which led to undercurrents and hidden dangers.

However, all of this was usually covered up by Emhyr's constantly refreshing achievements on the front line. No one dared to disobey the emperor in general, but there were still many small actions in private.

As Emhyr led his soldiers to expand the territory and gain prestige on the front lines, the people in the Senate were naturally unwilling to sit and wait for death. But what could unite people more than the benefits brought by war?

The answer is - revenge.

The Skelligers once plundered Nilfgaard, the "City of the Golden Tower" before it became an empire. Many nobles and high-ranking officials today were witnesses of this. The Senate attempted to use the act of revenge against the Skelligers to gain the friendship of these nobles and officials and enhance its own reputation.

At the same time, in the eyes of the elders, fighting Skellige was in line with Emhyr's strategy of sweeping the North, with no disadvantages. When everything was settled, Emhyr could only hold his nose and acknowledge everyone's credit.

“I can see why your Senate is so overwhelmed by Emhyr.” Lann shook his head. “So your numbers are so small, and you are not really planning to march on Skellige, but merely arranging an ‘assassination’, right?”

"Yes."

"Then I feel a little relieved." Lann let out a long sigh, "Thank you for bringing me valuable information. The internal discord in the empire is really great news for me."

The effect of the Axis Seal had been lifted at this time, and the bearded officer retreated repeatedly as if he had just woken up from a dream, and the expression on his face became terrified.

"What did I just say? No... Lannister! What have you done to me?!"

"Not much, but enough." Lann raised his sword and approached the bearded officer who was retreating step by step.

"You, you hypnotized me and made me reveal all the information... You can also summon an ice giant, an absolute killer on the battlefield... What kind of vicious magic is this! Lannister, have you become a warlock... No, you are something more terrifying than a warlock!"

The bearded officer's eyes were filled with fear at this moment. He stared at Lann's sword, no longer having the courage to face death as before: "No, I can't die. You have become so scary. I must bring your information back... I want to tell everyone that Lannister has..."

The sword flashed towards him, and no matter how brave and skilled the officer was in fighting with a sword, he could not avoid the sword that was as fast as light. However, the expected death did not come, but instead, he felt severe pain in all four of his limbs at the same time, and his body fell to the ground involuntarily.

"You have no chance to bring the information back to Nilfgaard. You must die here."

Lann said expressionlessly: "But not now. Don't worry, your death will be of great value - although this value is only to me."