Industrial Cthulhu, starting from the island lord

Chapter 471 There's something wrong with this map.

"How's it going? Have you found Isaac yet?"

Gwen paced back and forth, somewhat agitated.

The battle didn't take too long, since the resistance forces outnumbered the opposing side and had little trouble controlling Sladedinburgh. After beheading a few nobles, the locals seemed less hostile towards the resistance.

But Isaac has disappeared.

Gwen spent a lot of time contacting Isaac's men, the Ash Alliance members who had been stationed in Sladedinburgh in advance.

But they only received orders from Isaac to open the city gates and cooperate; after the battle began, no one saw him again.

"Could they have gone back to camp?" Several resistance fighters scratched their heads, somewhat uncertainly.

"Impossible. There should be no one left at the camp. I sent people to evacuate the camp before I left for here. They should be here soon."

As soon as Gwen finished speaking, Grisha ran in from outside, slightly out of breath, and said to Gwen:

"Gwen, everyone from the camp has come over!"

The group quickly stopped what they were doing and headed towards the outer wall of the castle.

As soon as Gwen reached the city gate, she saw a long line slowly walking towards her from a distance.

A rider was talking to someone at the city gate when he saw Gwen and waved happily.
"Gwen, we're here!"

Gwen recognized him; Reed was a brave hunter and one of the first to learn to ride a horse, though he had been wounded in battle and was recuperating at camp.

"How did it go, Reed? Was the journey smooth?"

"It's alright." Reed smiled shyly. "We encountered a small group of winter wolves, but we outnumbered them and had weapons. They harassed us for a while and were almost surrounded, so they retreated."

Gwen nodded; these people had set off from their camp in the forest the night before.

At that time, Gwen was determined to capture Sladedinburgh, so she notified the camp in advance so that they could set off overnight.

Gwen's side had fewer people, while the main force was at the camp. Although the Winter Wolf Riders were hard to beat on the plains, their numbers couldn't be too far behind.

If the entire resistance forces were to be mobilized, Winter Wolf would need to gather a large force to defeat them.

This is why the alpha wolf gathered winter wolves from three towns before daring to plan an attack on the forest.

This time, the resistance fighters encountered only a small squad of about ten Winter Wolves. Winter Wolves were not armed with heavy machine guns, so they were no match for hundreds or thousands of resistance fighters.

As for their return to report the news, which led to the arrival of the main force.
This is why Gwen informed them in advance, allowing the resistance to leave under cover of night.

The large force brought by those winter wolves is probably arriving soon, but the resistance army has also reached Sladedinburgh.

"Hurry up and go in. Don't worry about those winter wolves. If they want to attack the city, let them try!"

After Gwen finished speaking, the surrounding resistance fighters cheered. Taking advantage of the fact that no one was paying attention, Gwen quietly pulled Rick aside and whispered, "Rick, have you seen Isaac? Did you run into him on the way?"

Rick was taken aback: "Wasn't he always with you? What, he went to camp?"

Gwen frowned, shook her head, and sighed: "I haven't seen him since the start of the battle, and I don't know where he went."

“Isaac? I see him.” A voice suddenly sounded beside her. Gwen quickly turned around and looked down at the boy who spoke.

“Grisha? Where did you see him?” “On the city wall.” Grisha pointed to the city wall not far from the gate. “I saw him climb over the wall and leave, with a woman following behind him.”

"Leave by scaling the city walls?" Gwen's voice tightened as she realized something. "Tell me the details quickly. Is he being hunted down?"

Isaac was injured in previous battles, so it would be troublesome if he encountered another powerful enemy.
"Hmm, I didn't see it clearly. The two left too quickly. It looked like they were fighting."

"What does that woman look like?"

"Red hair, very red, like blood. Not very tall, shorter than you. There seemed to be bandages wrapped around his waist."

"It's that woman!" Gwen immediately perked up. Wasn't this the person she had injured in Grizzly Town?

This was her first time fighting a superhuman, and she had actually won; she wanted to show off.

"Then there's no problem. That woman is very weak; she's no match for Mr. Isaac!"

Gwen patted her chest and breathed a sigh of relief.

"But why did Lord Isaac leave halfway through?"

Gwen paused, hesitated for a moment, and then said hesitantly, "Don't worry about it. Mr. Isaac must have his reasons for doing this."

"Nini, how should we divide up our tasks this time?"

"Una, you're in charge of finding the resistance forces, Finier, you're in charge of gathering intelligence, and I'll be in charge of drawing maps."

"Then, who will be in charge of the fighting?"

"Fight? Do you need to take up a person for that? You can just use one hand to pull the trigger."

Nini impatiently swayed her snake tail, then suddenly stopped and carefully poked her head out of the water.

"This should be the area."

She looked around. The water was quite cold, and there were still some ice crystals on the riverbank. The trees on both sides had sprouted new buds, and occasionally some small animals would peek out from the woods.

"Is this the North? It's so cold!"

The banshees were tropical snakes, fish, and tropical people, and Castel's climate was also hot; this was the first time the group had come to the cold North.

Nowadays, there are no more floating ice floes at sea, but they can still be seen occasionally in rivers. This is because seawater has a lower freezing point than freshwater.

Having swum all the way from the sea, and despite it being their first time in the North with only a rough map to rely on, the banshees did not get lost.

The banshees' innate ability to sense water veins allows them to never lose their sense of direction in the water, which is why they were able to make their way here smoothly.

"Let's go check out the camp first." Nini took out the map again and carefully began to examine it.

"Hmm, can you find the location of this camp?"

The three female demons huddled together and began studying the map.

They were the first banshees to arrive, and they knew virtually nothing about the North. The map they used was obtained from the prince and, after being corrected by Nora multiple times, its accuracy was not particularly high.

Therefore, they even needed to find the resistance camp first.
Moreover, they are banshees who bring bad news, so it's practically impossible for them to find out anything about anyone. If they actually went to a town, they would probably be chased away, and might even attract the attention of the church.

We need to find a camp quickly. There are so many resistance fighters, it shouldn't be hard to find one, right?
(End of this chapter)