Astartes of the Bear School

Chapter 1461 1433. News of the war

The Ember Knights left with the [Big Eater Vitality] produced by Lan En in batches.

These potions will be taken to High Hill Castle by Stuart himself to complete the subsequent strengthening process of the Ember Knights.

After they escort these alchemy potions, they will go directly north to Novigrad to complete Lan En's mission: to execute all the members of the Eternal Fire who participated in this matter, and to clean up the dregs within the Dark Alley Gang.

After that, he turned to Aedirn in the east and participated in the internal work of the rebel army under Sakia.

After several tasks, each one is time-consuming and laborious, and it also consumes mental energy. Normally, it is not something that a mere knights can handle.

But the Ember Knights had no complaints or hesitation.

As always, they will never let down Lan En's expectations.

Lan En also gave them the utmost trust.

On Xianide Island, the traces of the battle and the mess of the fighting that night were all quickly cleaned up within a few days.

The originally relaxed and free-spirited college atmosphere was now solemn and silent.

People are talking about the war.

The news spread from Goth Velen's harbor to the entire city faster than the salty sea breeze.

On the night when Stuart and the others arrived, Lane heard that Nilfgaard's army had broken through the defense line in the upper reaches of the Yaruga River, which was jointly defended by Livia and Aedirn.

Undeclared war.

The Nilfgaardians' caliber is: the other side attacked them first, and they responded legitimately and reciprocally.

But anyone with a discerning eye can see that the Nilfgaardian forces gathered on the river section must be assembled at least two months in advance. If it were to be assembled secretly, the time would have to be doubled, taking at least four months.

So everyone said that the provocative Aedirn and Rivia soldiers were actually Nilfgaardians pretending to be in order to provoke a war.

But Lan En had already left Tisaya, the client at the Gastang Palace at the time, and the two of them talked in a hug.

The demon hunter knew that they were indeed soldiers from Aedirn and Rivia, but Emhyr's information should have been informed of the plans of the northern kings early on, so he just followed the trend.

"Spala and Skala, the two Livia fortresses were captured immediately. I heard that they had been prepared to hold on for several months, but due to pressure from the merchants and guilds in the city, they opened the city and surrendered. ”

"Because the Nilfgaardians said they would not sack towns as long as they gave up resistance and paid a ransom."

The poet who is best at inquiring about information and spreading news took a sip of warm red wine and rubbed his hands.

Walking around the pier and wandering around in today's sea breeze is indeed not an easy task.

"Did they keep their word?"

Lan En asked.

"Complied."

"Interesting." Lan En sneered.

"In today's age full of hatred and contempt, the door is opened with just a promise? I remember that craftsmen and merchants would never open the gate of the city wall, they would only help defend the city. Their own garrison was even built like a small castle Same, there are arrow towers and watchtowers.”

"Money knows no borders, Lann." Dandelion spread his hands. "As long as a merchant can make money, he doesn't care who the ruler is. The Nilfgaardians don't care who pays taxes. A dead merchant can earn If you can’t make money, you can’t pay taxes.”

"Let me guess." Lan En pinched his chin with his fingers, already constructing a situation map of the battlefield based on Dandelion's news.

"The one who broke through the defense line on the upper reaches of the Yaruga River should be Nilfgaard's eastern front. The commander is... Menno Kuhorn?"

"Amazing!" Dandelion looked at him in surprise, his mustache rising, "How did you know?"

Lan En smiled.

How does he know?

Because it is impossible for a slave-militarism empire to suddenly repent and be able to do anthropomorphic things because of a defeat two years ago.

But Nilfgaard's eastern front actually kept its promise not to loot or massacre.

That can only be the commander's problem.

And Menno Kuhorn was the only top commander left after Lann killed all the top commanders on the Sowden Mountain battlefield.

The only reason Lan En was allowed to let him go at that time was that he seemed to be one of the few rational people among the top brass of the Nilfgaardian military.

He knows that violence and carnage alone cannot win a war, and he knows the importance of politics and prestige, so he has been curbing the criminal tendencies of his legions.

But now it seems that Lan En's words have indeed been engraved in his heart.

"Okay, thank you, Dandelion." Lan En patted the poet on the shoulder, "Thank you for helping me get information before leaving."

"It's not a big deal, it's easy for me." The poet raised his eyebrows proudly, but declined.

"But...you really want me to send Geralt to Broklon? I heard that the tree spirits there kill people without blinking an eye!"

Lan En didn't say anything more, he just put a cloth bag containing New World crop seeds in Geralt's saddle bag.

Geralt himself lay drowsily on his horse.

"So looking at Geralt like this, will you not go, Dandelion?"

The poet opened his mouth, but in the end he puffed up his chest with a rather righteous expression, his expression was almost dramatic, and he mounted his little mare.

Geralt's most serious injuries were his legs and feet, but the most difficult to deal with was his brain.

Lan had already dealt with the problem with his legs and feet, and he just needed to rest.

Originally, Lan wanted to give him [Big Eater Vitality] or other restorative potions of the witcher.

But these things also need energy to be replenished into the body to bear the body's consumption. And Geralt is now concussed and dizzy and can't eat anything at all.

After thinking about it, I just sent him to a place with abundant vitality, and healed his injuries and rested at the same time.

As for where the vitality is the most abundant in this magical medieval world, the first choice is of course Brokilon, who has a friendship with the witcher and suppressed an ancient deer-headed spirit that has been to the New World.

By the way, Lan also wanted to ask the tree spirit queen Esna to try to see if she could better cultivate plants from the New World.

The portal opened, and the change in air pressure made people feel that there was a layer of air film in the ear canal.

Lann finally called Dandelion and confirmed something with him.

"Are you sure you remembered it correctly?" Lann's silver hair fluttered in the airflow of the portal. He asked seriously, "Dandelion, when you gave the swords to Ciri and Geralt, did you give her the dagger?"

"Of course! I'm sure! The dagger feels very comfortable to touch. I gave it to Ciri!"

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Dandelion shouted while pressing his hat in the airflow, and Lann nodded.

The [Blocking Dagger] strengthened by the [Blessing Gem] of the Fire World can almost be said to be a magic prop that continuously releases micro-restorative miracles under normal circumstances.

In addition, Ciri carried with her the small gift made by Berengar for her - a modified version of the hidden blade wrist guard.

Under normal circumstances, she should be fine.

Although he was confident in Ciri's safety because he had seen her as an adult, Lann still couldn't help but care about the girl.

The poet led the way into the portal, and he and Geralt would appear directly outside the Brokilon Forest.

In the following days, news of the war continued to come in. Even if there were no poets to inquire about intelligence at the dock, these news still seemed to have wings and spread everywhere.

Aedirn and Rivia had more than 15,000 soldiers and more than 3,000 knights, but they were quickly defeated by the Nilfgaardians, and at least one-third of the troops were besieged in Lyria.

The remaining soldiers kept retreating and retreating.

The Nilfgaardians seemed to be conducting a risk-free and fruitful hunt.

The prey was at hand, and the defeated soldiers and people could be used and sold as slaves, while the army had been disbanded and no one could protect them.

Later, news came that the free elves and the Nilfgaardian Light Cavalry Corps defeated the Governor of Aedirn in the Valley of Flowers.

Although it was previously speculated that the Scoia's Party was supported by the Nilfgaardians, this was the first time they officially stood together to carry out military operations.

It is rumored that the conquered Valley of Flowers will be granted to Francesca Findabe by the Emperor of Nilfgaard and become the kingdom of the elves.

In addition to the Eastern Front, news also began to arrive from the other two armies of the Nilfgaardians.

Their Western Coastal Front has directly broken through the Kingdom of Viden and is currently attacking Sidaris.

The Central Front also crossed the Yaruga River.

But unlike the Eastern Front led by Menno Kuhoon, they implemented a scorched earth policy.

The Nilfgaardian army burned everything and looted everything.

Foundries, huge furnaces, mixing furnaces, zinc foundries, wool mills, malt wine workshops

Military and livelihood, factory technology, equipment, and even products.

Food, cloth, and livestock in the warehouse.

Nilfgaard looted everything.

Demolish, then move away.

Emhyr's order was so simple.

He wanted everything that could enhance the country's strength to be transported back to Nilfgaard.

But they didn't care about the occupied areas at all. If they became the empire's territory in the future, what would the people there live on?

The so-called great empire, unified territory.

It sounds exciting, and even those who don't understand it well will regard it as a progress of civilization, but in essence it is just a trick of conquering and plundering colonies.

The Nilfgaardians only care about their core territories, and the rest of the occupied areas are not considered Nilfgaardians at all.

They are not qualified to talk about civilization integration.

In the following days, the unfavorable war situation in the north was rampant, and even the streets and alleys of Gos Velen seemed to suddenly realize that the war was so close to them.

And the Nilfgaardian army was so fierce, and now they had no magic to help them, how could they fight them?

And on a bright afternoon, a team of soldiers appeared at the gate of Aretusa.

It was a team of blue iron guards.

Foltest's personal guards.