In the Middle Ages, people drew cards to be promoted to nobility.

On the competition ground, black horse mane fluttered in the wind.

The iron hooves stepped on the soft grass, kicking up large amounts of soil.

The knight wears a barrel helmet with only a slit at his eye exposed as a viewing port. He wears chainmail and a black robe. He rides on a black Nyssaan war horse from Gaul, facing a body that serves as a symbol. The scarecrow charges at the target.

The heavy white beech lance was held under his arm, forming a standard right triangle with his arm and body.

This posture can provide a stable fulcrum for the lance. It is also a charging tactic with a lance that almost all knights in today's world must master.

The lance in his hand is of solid construction, thin at the front and thick at the back. It is extremely bulky and is widely used in knight tournaments. However, due to its brittle texture, it is easy to break.

First round charge.

The lance hit accurately, and the metal tip penetrated the scarecrow's chest. The powerful impact sent the entire scarecrow flying into the air.

The knight held up the scarecrow, waved it across the air, and shook it off.

Then he abandoned the heavy lance and galloped forward. When passing by the weapons rack on the side, he nimbly pulled out two short spears from it.

When turning the horse's head back to charge, the knight held the gun behind his back, raised it above his head, inserted it from top to bottom, and nailed it accurately to the neck of a scarecrow.

This is often the weak point of the enemy's armor.

The war horse swept across the vast arena. The knight drew another short spear with his backhand, pierced his body with force, and threw it fiercely.

But unfortunately, it failed to hit this time.

The short spear was stuck in the dirt next to the scarecrow.

Lothar took off the heavy bucket helmet on his head, revealing a heroic young face.

He casually placed the bucket helmet on the round table in the competition arena, raised the clay pot filled with water and drank heavily, thus suppressing the heat caused by the strenuous exercise just now.

He looked at the attribute panel in front of him, wiped the sweat dripping from his temples, and felt a little relieved.

After a week of rehabilitation training, he successfully improved his strength and stamina.

And he is completely adapted to the fighting skills developed by the original owner of this body after years of knight training.

Whether it is the commonly used light or heavy lances, short spears, shields, half-handed swords, or the less popular one-handed hammers, flails, or hand axes, he can use them skillfully.

As a full-time fighting knight, he is fully qualified, but unfortunately he has not been canonized yet.

Lothar is a time traveler.

In his previous life, he was the boss of a game company. While working overtime with his employees at night to make a game, he died suddenly and traveled to this era.

He replaced Lothar von Habsburg, the second son of a German nobleman who fell unconscious after his horse accidentally fell off his horse and hit a stone during a training session.

After he woke up, he thought he had traveled through the Middle Ages, which was recorded in history and was called the Dark Ages.

But after completely integrating the original owner's memories, he realized that this place was definitely not the same as the Middle Ages he knew in his previous life.

For example, Henry von Hohenstaufen, the emperor of the Germanic Empire in the north, hired a witch as a royal advisor last winter and recruited tens of thousands of serfs to gather in Augsburg, Swabia. We want to build a tower that is unique to witches and invite witches from all over the world to move in.

This is not outrageous. The King of Albion, the famous Lion-Hearted King Richard, actually married a witch as his wife and served as the finance minister of the entire kingdom.

This was simply impossible to happen in the Middle Ages when religious authority was supreme in previous lives.

In this world, the relationship between witches and the church does not seem to be as tense as in the previous life - at least on the surface.

Name: Lothar von Habsburg

Title: None

Occupation: Noble

Affiliated forces: Empire of Germania Magna, County of Allgäu (Lower Burgundy, not the Principality of Burgundy).

Retinue: none

Strength: 9 (the average attribute of a normal adult male is 5)

Agility: 7

Stamina: 8

Stamina: 8

Mental strength: 10

Talent: Two lives as a human being (you are a fusion of two souls, and you are born with twice as much mental power as an ordinary person, and the upper limit of your mental power is permanently +5).

Skills: None

The name of the system is: "Yesterday's Giant Ship Tower Defense System", which comes from the fact that before he traveled through time, he was burning the midnight oil and fighting hard for several days, trying to create a copycat tower defense game that needed to be perfected and released.

The content of the game is not new. To put it bluntly, you can summon various hero characters by drawing cards to defend and strengthen your territory to resist waves of enemy attacks.

But the problem is that this game is territorial at the beginning!

Now, Lothar doesn't even have an empty title, let alone a territory, and has no way to activate the system.

So so far, he has not been able to draw any card.

After the training, Lothar returned to his room in the castle.

With the help of the maid, he took off his robe and chainmail, changed into a light linen shirt, and went straight to the tower of the castle.

This castle is called "Eagle Castle", transliterated as "Habsburg", and is also the source of their family name.

In Gaul and Germany, prefixes such as "De" and "von" were used before the surname, which meant "from" and represented the noble origin of a fief.

"Eagle Castle" is a solid mountain castle with a dangerous terrain. If there are sufficient food reserves, it will be difficult to break through even a thousand troops.

Lothar stroked the bulges on the crenellated wall and felt a little emotional while blowing the cool breeze from the mountain.

In previous lives, even working-class people could live in air-conditioned rooms that were warm in winter and cool in summer, with soft mattresses and 24-hour running water.

In this era, even the nobles were far from happy.

Especially the German nobles who were more martial and accustomed to living in castles rather than country manor, the living environment was even worse.

Damp and dark.

Rats, fleas.

Commonplace.

After all, in this era, the military significance of a castle is far greater than its residential significance, and the first consideration is always sturdiness rather than comfort.

Under the tower, there was the sound of heavy footsteps.

The sergeant wearing a ridged helmet and a smock whispered: "Master Lothar, please come over. It's time to have lunch."

"Well, I understand."

Lothar nodded and followed him straight to the main hall of the castle.

These sergeants in Eagle Fort are all off-duty soldiers. Different from the peasant soldiers who are drafted during the war and usually work in the fields, they are all professional soldiers. There are only more than a hundred people in the entire Eagle Fort.

In wartime, they will form the core of the army together with the knights under the earl, equivalent to the "personal soldiers" of the Eastern general.

Walking into the hall of the main building of the castle, the most eye-catching thing is the three coats of arms hanging on the gray wall with a tapestry at the end of the stone arch dome.

On the left is the coat of arms of three black lions on a yellow background, in the middle is the coat of arms of a black single-headed eagle on a yellow background, and on the right is the coat of arms of a red leaping lion on a yellow background.

The former represents the Hohenstaufen family of the Germanic Empire to which Lothar's father, Count Werner, was loyal, Henry VI; the middle represents the Germanic Empire; and the one on the far right is Lothar. Habsburg family.

On the long table under the coat of arms, the maid has placed dishes.

Lothar's father, Count Werner, has already sat down with his brother Otto. As for his mother, Lady Elise, she died of illness a year ago.

Seeing Lothar, Count Werner nodded slightly and motioned for him to take a seat with his eyes.

This is an unsmiling man.

He has high cheekbones, deep-set eye sockets, long brown hair and beard, and a deep scar on his cheek. In appearance, he is far from handsome.

But his sons, whether it is the eldest son Otto or the second son Lothar, are all handsome.

Seeing him sit down, Count Werner raised his hand in front of him and made the sign of the cross from top to bottom and from left to right.

"Thank you Heavenly Father for giving us food, and please give food to those who are poor and needy. In the name of the Father, Amen."

After reciting the prayer, Count Werner motioned for the two of them to start.

Today's menu is quite rich. The main course is goat meat stewed with carrots and potatoes. Side dishes include roasted quail, fruit pie and a basket of white bread made with fine wheat flour.

The tableware is made of silver with fine patterns on it. It is said that it is one of the trophies brought back by Count Werner when he participated in the Crusades when he was young. Otherwise, just because of the remote area of ​​​​Aargau, I want to keep it as a backup when hosting a banquet. In addition, it is simply impossible to assemble a set of silver tableware for daily use.

ps: 1. The world view of this book is fictitious. Some characters, families and countries have prototypes, but no research is allowed. For example, Count Werner is a character from the early 11th century, and obviously there was no barrel helmet in this era. The emperor of the Holy Roman Empire Not the Hohenstaufen family, but the Sallian family.

It should be emphasized that this book is a fantasy category, not the History Channel!

ps: 2: As we all know, there were three Burgundy in the Middle Ages. Lower Burgundy, where Habsburg is located, was not the Burgundy of Gaul, but was located in today's Switzerland.

ps: 3: Most of the characters in this book omit their "christian names".