Mount and Blade

Jodah made a ruthless move. Even the "Shadow Hand Clan" who served the Grant royal family had infiltrated. If he controlled the royal family, what else would Grant not lose?

Is it the fortress called "Dragon's Nest"? Or the general named Gurenberudo?

It seems that the extinction of the royal family did not discourage Grant. Instead, the most prestigious Gurenberudo was most likely to be supported by the people as king. Whether it was under the recommendation of General Kirstin or the blessing of the witches of the "Fire Palace", the flaming hair would undoubtedly make the Grant citizens who believed in the northern gods willing to bow down.

Such a situation was not what Jodah originally wanted to see. He also heard that He Kun had traveled to the mainland for a period of time when he was young and was deeply attracted by the teachings of the King's Hall and the prosperity of the mainland. However, Grant's deep-rooted beliefs and tough customs seemed incompatible with the mainland.

Moreover, from various strategic perspectives, the behavior of this Grand Duke Grant is very bizarre... I'm afraid he doesn't care about his people at all.

After thinking about it, Green had a clear outline in his mind, that is... as long as he persuaded Grand Duke Grant to join Judah, he could break the deadlock.

The premise is that the value of this condition is attractive enough.

Gurenbeluo must have been so successful over the years that he shocked the master, not to mention that he has the blood of the pure sea bear clan, which is something that any king would be afraid of.

When Green's thoughts were over, the scramble and restlessness in other cages also ended, and a strong smell of blood quickly spread in the corridor.

It was obvious that the children in other cages had killed each other. The children who shared a room with Green were immediately frightened and trembled, and two of them wet their pants directly. For a while, the whole cage was filled with a smell of urine, causing other children to stay away from them in disgust.

Although they were also afraid, they were still strong and cowardly. This kind of cowardly behavior was really contemptible.

Green spent the first day here safely. The children were silent because of their high tension. The whole corridor was unusually quiet. They didn't know the difference between day and night, but most of them fell asleep slowly.

The next day, the guards of the Shadow Hand Clan had returned here to continue patrolling. Their footsteps were light and silent, and they moved the bodies of the dead children with indifferent eyes. The torches cast swaying shadows in the dark. These shadow hands were all tattooed with complex patterns.

Whenever the guards passed a certain cell, they would stop and carefully observe the children inside. These children were likely to be the ones they chose.

After a long time, they saw that they still distributed food according to yesterday's configuration. The children immediately scrambled for it like wolves, even worse than yesterday.

Green couldn't expose his ability to change food at will. Such an ability would only be considered heresy and would cause a lot of unnecessary trouble.

But... you can't just starve.

Out of his thirst for survival, Green couldn't hold back any more. He hadn't taken a single drop of water for the whole day. His body felt tired and weak because he didn't get any nutrients, and his mood became a little manic.

Shadow Hand...

They wanted to let these children kill each other and then pick out the best seedlings, right?

On the third day, Green had to join the children's melee. Although he didn't want to do such a thing, his body was so honest that he just wanted to do his best to survive.

He drank the soup that was only half a bowl left after being robbed. It tasted a bit sour, but it was the only source of drinking water. A whole piece of smoked fish was taken away by him. With the strength and strong body of an ordinary knight, it was easy for him to beat a group of children.

But obviously, because there were too many people fighting, Green's face was also bruised, his eyes were a little blue, and his nose was bleeding. But obviously, the group of children had been beaten so badly that they dared not come forward to snatch food again.

"Your share."

Green gave Hanks a small piece of smoked fish, which made the other hungry children jealous. However, Hanks had dizziness because he had not drunk water for a long time, and the other children also had pale faces and chapped lips.

"...Thank you, but I seem to be dying, you eat it." Hanks' throat was hoarse, and he didn't even have the strength to raise his hand to refuse.

In the past two days, Hanks told Green a lot of stories about this island in this dark and narrow cage. It was a story about the fire dragon, which was well known to every child in Grant.

Once upon a time, there was a violent dragon raging on the island. In order to stop the evil dragon from continuing to cause trouble, the princess was offered to the dragon as a sacrifice. A young man from a certain tribe challenged the dragon alone, but unfortunately the dragon was too powerful. At this time, all the people on the island were inspired by the young man's spirit, and they gathered together to shoot down the evil fire dragon on the highest mountain on the island and buried it deep underground.

Later, the huge volcano on Grant Island was formed. It is said that the reason why the island occasionally spews lava and shakes is because the fire dragon is still struggling angrily underground to climb to the surface.

There is also the unique culture of the rich northern ocean hunting people. For example, the distant ancestors once lived on the islands in the more distant Arctic Ocean. The land there could not be cultivated, and they could only rely on the extremely short spring for hunting.

They are born with red hair, brave and aggressive by nature, and have strong self-esteem. Every summer, they would take a small raft to hunt whales in the turbulent sea. The leading whaler would hold a very long spear to pierce the body of the whale and continue the war of attrition with the whale for several hours.

Even today, fishermen occasionally go to sea to hunt whales as usual on Grant Island. Unfortunately, since the defeat of Grant's navy, few whaling ships have returned, and few fishing boats have gone to catch whales.

Looking at Hanks, who has been with him for a long time, Green felt very uncomfortable and decided to grab the bowl of soup tomorrow. His eyes, which were slightly bloodshot, were like a ferocious wolf.

"Tomorrow's soup belongs to me, otherwise I will kill all of you."

Green's threatening words are self-evident, but there are obviously still blind guys who are not convinced.

"...Why?"

An equally tall boy was becoming irritable and angry because of hunger, and his eyes looking at Green were also red like a crazy hungry wolf.

"...What a big tone, damn Jodah people." Groups of children stood up from the ground. Yes, as the people of Grant Island, although they did not inherit the fiery hair color of their ancestors, they inherited a strong sense of self-esteem.

They hated Jodah people. They had been influenced by them since they were young. Even beggars knew that it was Jodah people who made Grant poorer and starving.

Angry and hungry, they were now as frenzied as a group of hungry and ferocious beasts, especially when the word Jodah was mentioned. It was a national hatred that was about to be engraved into their bones.

...The conflict in the cage was about to break out.