Astartes of the Bear School

Chapter 1406 Chapter 1378. Knights

Geralt left Highhill Hold right after breakfast, without even riding his carrot.

This hill is not big or small, but if you want to ensure covert operation and tracking, there is no need to ride a horse.

The white wolf had tied a hairband, two Valyrian steel swords on his back, and wore high wolf school armor. On the armor's hanging points, a row of alchemical bombs shook and collided.

There were more than a dozen test tubes of various potions inserted on the leather strap slung across his shoulder.

There was murderous intent in his eyes.

After all, if it is really as Lan En feels, and so many troubles are connected now, Geralt dare not imagine who wants to use Ciri for what!
But whether he dared to imagine it or not, he was now going to take action for Ciri.

The little girl was so small once, like a hamster, and seemed like a burden. If anyone dared to make a move on her now, the white wolf would knock out a few teeth of that person even if it meant death!

To track down a group of people hiding in the mountains, even a small one, could take days, even weeks.

On the island of Thaned, the School of Sorceresses is still preparing for various matters, including issuing notices to some sorcerers who live in seclusion and are obsessed with research.

Although there are those power-playing and power-hungry sorcerers jumping around in the courts of the northern countries, there are also many who do not engage in this kind of thing.

They have to find the person first and then notify them.

The Supreme Council of Warlocks and the Guild of Talents and Crafts were spellcaster management organizations established in the Novigrad Alliance when the first human warlocks appeared.

These two organizations are going to hold a meeting, and everyone, except for warlocks who have never been in touch with northern human society, must know about it.

In order to establish his authority as a manager, [Pure White] Rafad, who refused to recognize the two organizations, was beaten to death even though he had become the Regent Grand Mage of Temeria at the time and was almost crowned king because of his prestige in mediating the war.

And until today, no one, whether it is the warlock group or the mortal group, dares to deny the management authority of these two organizations over the northern warlock group.

This management authority was actually blasted out by magic.

It's normal for them to take so long to prepare for the summit meeting.

But the basic meeting time is set for two weeks later and will not change.

And here in Gaoqiu Castle, basically as long as Stuart's mutation is completed, it proves that the supporting support of [Big Eater Vitality] for [Green Grass Trial] can greatly increase the success rate.

Then let a few more people start to mutate at once. Two weeks should be enough.

Two weeks later, Lan, Triss, and Geralt would rush to Aretusa to attend, or at least watch, the great meeting of the warlocks.

"Everything is stuck in two weeks. Fine."

The young witcher looked out the stone window of the tower at the jagged hills and lush vegetation.

"Let me see who is going to take action and what they want to do!"
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In the hidden place of the hill where Gaoqiu Castle was located, a group of people were scattered around.

"Shitty mutant castle!"

The man in the iron glove was holding a file and, with a sharp sound, was filing the small shield hanging on the chest of the knight's armor.

The spots of light cast between the shadows of the trees illuminated the flying metal powder and the original symbol on the small shield that was gradually losing its shape.

——It was a white rose blooming on a red background.

"Foltest would rather give this castle to a lowly mutant than to a loyal and brave human knight! It's ridiculous!"

Originally, this small shield placed on the chest of the armor could be replaced by simply disassembling it. It was a job that a follower could do, and there was no need to file off the original small shield emblem.

Apparently, the knight had forgotten to bring a replacement shield emblem, so he had no choice but to file the intact one away.

"Don't let your anger get to your head, Knight Falwick." Another knight, who was obviously older, said as he took a puff of his pipe while sitting on a tree stump.

He looked much more sophisticated, without any markings on his body that could prove his identity.

"The anger here is better used to chop off the heads of the mutant knights. As for our king, do you know where he is now? He seems to have been running around for months. Who knows what he is doing."

"Hmph, as a king, he is so erratic. I really don't know how he can be king. But it's not surprising. After he announced that he would marry his sister and got her pregnant, I'm not surprised that he did such immoral, stupid and blind things."

The old knight was reminded, "Be careful what you say. The bastard you mentioned is now sitting on the princess's seat. The one who caused all this is a mutant named Geralt."

The old knight roared twice in his throat, tilted his head and spat, then smiled indifferently.

"Well, now that everyone is here, what else should we be careful about?"

"We are all honorable knights who fought bravely to restore order! We have long trusted each other!"

"Now there is a mutant who has become famous. He has a shameless armed force under his command called the Knights. The Eternal Flame will not forgive this evil that betrays humanity!" "Today there is a Knights led by a mutant. What? Later in the parliament, we have to sit at the same table with a group of guys who kneel to mutants? Humans have to salute mutants?!"

"This is the human world! It is the world our ancestors worked hard to snatch from those despicable and inferior non-human races and monsters with swords! Now those monsters are wishful thinking and want to take it back!"

The old knight puffed on his pipe, but his expression was as cold and hard as if he was tearing the flesh of some inhuman race.

"So here we are!" Falwick, who had polished the shield on his chest, said in a deep voice, "My brothers have put aside all their contradictions and are now going to overthrow the evil castle occupied by mutants!"

"And once we accomplish this feat, we will prove to all the kingdoms in the North that the Knights of Mutants are just lowly trash after all!"

"Then, we will be able to openly raise the flag of the White Rose! Even if we have to bear legal responsibility and go to the war court, it will be worth it!"

The rumbling of wheels and the hard roars of the riders made this place look like a big construction site.

The mountain where Gaoqiu Fort is located is not big, but it stretches eastward and is the largest and most continuous forest wetland in the Weiren area.

This ancient and humid forest has been growing here before humans arrived on this world, and because the terrain is remote and rugged, the soil is wet and muddy.

In addition, the Velen area is sparsely populated, so it has not been subject to large-scale logging and development by intelligent life until now.

It is completely original.

One by one, thick logs were transported here and then distributed to five locations on the hill to be processed and forged by the knights stationed there.

Not to mention that those bastards who surrendered to the mutants didn't notice them, even if they discovered that there were people like them on this hill, what would it matter?
Did they think they could rely on the castle that belonged to humans to fight an advantageous defense battle?
dream!

The Knights of the White Rose had already figured it out long ago. High Hill Castle had all the supplies from Temeria, which were supplied to the Knights of Embers in full accordance with the specifications of their own knightly orders.

However, due to the remoteness and ruggedness of the terrain, and the implicit joint efforts of the White Rose Knights and many like-minded knightly orders in the Templar Council, the city defense equipment was directly converted into monthly salaries and paid out.

And those ridiculous mutant knights didn't even realize that something was wrong and just took the gold coins directly.

This was tantamount to direct approval, so for the next two years, when the council of the temple saw that no one raised any objections, they just continued to do so.

Until now, there has been no large-scale equipment on the human castle.

But here, the siege equipment is almost completed!
According to the planned construction period, it will only take more than a week. Just more than a week.

The knights, who had received intelligence support from the Knights Templar and fully understood the internal structure of this small mountain area and the castle on the high hill, looked through the mountains and forests with vicious eyes and accurately looked at the location of the castle.

"Why do we have to wait for more than a week?" A knight who was taking time to chew a piece of bread asked in confusion, "They have no equipment. Can't we just make two machines and kill them all? Do we have to finish everything according to the plan?"

"This is a requirement of the Knights Templar. You don't want to do it? I don't want to do it either! Go talk to your superiors!"

The bread-eating knight who was rebuked said angrily: "Isn't it the king who is urging us? I heard that the royal messenger has come to our garrison several times, saying that we should quickly gather at the Yaruga River to change defenses and train soldiers."

"What did the captain say?"

Like an old farmer, the knight who was squatting and eating bread smiled, but that smile did not have any of the simplicity or cunning of an old farmer. The corners of his mouth with bread crumbs were full of malice!

"The captain said that it will take time to gather the knights. Haha!"

"It's a pity that we can't gather together openly and raze this defiled castle to the ground! Otherwise, with the money and resources sponsored by the church alone, we can mobilize the poor good people in this barren land to work together to eliminate the pollution that sticks to the human territory."

"That's enough for now." The old knight stuffed another wad of tobacco into his pipe and smiled. "Five hundred men against sixty. Although it's a siege, we're using weapons against those without. Haha, I'm going to pile up their bodies and make a big bonfire!"

As he spoke, the old knight raised his pipe above his head and said in a respectful manner: "May the eternal fire protect us!"

"And the captain!" The knight who was chewing the bread choked twice, but still quickly added, "Thank you for guiding us, captain!"

"If we didn't have the leader, we wouldn't have as many people and connections as we do now."

He smiled naively, but the knights around him, who were either working or sorting their equipment during their rest time, had different expressions.

Some agreed, some were vaguely disdainful.

Rudolf Valaris, current leader of the Knights of the White Rose.

It was also under his leadership that the Knights Templar, which once symbolized honor, character and nobility, became a place where even the son of a shoemaker or the apprentice of a tailor could enter as long as they paid a bag full of gold coins.

During this period, many people who were rich but had no status put on knight's cloaks and hung the shield of the Order of the White Rose.

Some people in the Knights Templar were critical of this, but when the money they paid became the fees for hiring prostitutes, the knights stopped saying anything.

After all, when a man is sleeping with a prostitute, his mind is often very simple.

(End of this chapter)