Unknown Knight

Chapter 371 The Behemoth Awakens

This winter, Aix had a very relaxing time, mainly spending time with his wife and children. When he felt like it, he also organized several fishing and winter hunting activities for his people when the snow stopped.

In addition, he would hold some private parties at night from time to time, and have fun with his wives in secret caves. His life was carefree, colorful and extremely fulfilling.

Compared to the bloody days of the past few years, he really wanted to stay in the territory like this and live out his life in leisure and ease.

But there is a saying that goes, "The tree wants to be still but the wind does not stop." His rise made him make too many enemies, and while he accumulated huge wealth, he unknowingly put himself at the center of the storm.

This year is an unusually warm winter. After several severe snowstorms, there is less and less heavy snowfall in the territory and the weather is gradually getting warmer. Various information is smoothly transmitted to the territory from the news network throughout the continent through the sled improved by the Technical Design Institute, and finally gathered on his desk.

More and more news shows that King Yarogelk has been very active recently, living up to his reputation as a political master. His Majesty is using all available means to connect with all the enemies of Aix, even including the Dark Cult that was once spurned and rejected by the entire continent.

While Aix is ​​spending the winter comfortably in his old lair, they have not been idle for a moment. Now, with Yarogerk as the leader, Aix's enemies near and far have connected together and are plotting against Aix through secret letters, private gatherings, and even banquets.

However, as soon as Aix returned this time, he cleaned up the territory inside and outside. Not only did he clean out all the spies who had infiltrated the territory, he also removed the nearby thorn Fort Sageche. Now the dangerous places in his territory are guarded by soldiers, and the unimportant places are surrounded by vast snowfields without even a decent road. The cost of marching is too high, and there is really no good way to plan an attack on him for the time being.

It would have been fine if he didn't know, but now that Aix has gotten the news, with his current personality and strength, he will never tolerate anyone plotting against him like this, and he will not sit idly by and wait for death.

However, there are big and small grudges, and there are deep and shallow hatreds. Among his many enemies, he always picks one to practice with first. While taking revenge, he also declares his majesty to the surrounding wolves.

The so-called hatred of having one's wife stolen from one's wife and the hatred of having one's family destroyed are hatreds that a person cannot avoid. They are also the biggest hatreds that should be resolved as a priority. Among Aix's many enemies, only Eden and Aileyen, father and son, meet these two points.

Aix and his territory are very mobile. After the goal is clear, the entire territory quickly begins to turn over, stretch its muscles, and sharpen its claws like a giant beast waking up from hibernation. All kinds of war actions are vigorously carried out on the snow-covered land.

This made the enemies around who smelled the scent become nervous, and they began to send spies to the territory continuously, even spending a lot of money to get information.

For a moment, spring seemed to have arrived early in the entire territory. Caravans from all over the continent, regardless of the cold and snow, gathered in the territory like black snakes on a white field.

Thanks to their unremitting efforts, not only did the entire territory no longer fear the severe cold and wake up from hibernation ahead of time, but news about the territory also spread like wildfire. According to reliable sources: Axboye is preparing supplies and the entire army is stepping up training. As soon as the ice and snow melt and the weather warms up, he will lead the army to attack Tiha City and Talboliya.

It is said that Aix had a hatred for Eden and his illegitimate son Aileyen over stealing his wife and destroying his family. This hatred is irreconcilable and must be avenged at any time. It is a deep hatred that is irreconcilable.

There is also a legend that Iden's illegitimate son Airen, who was so greedy for the beauty of Aix's wife, instigated his father to launch a war against the Kingdom of Swadia, just to take the opportunity to break into Aix's territory, Talboliya, and seize his beautiful wife.

As a result, this despicable father and son took advantage of Aix's absence from the territory and led the army to launch a surprise attack on the Tarbollia Castle in Aix. This led to the scene where Aix led his troops to challenge the enemy outside the city, and Aix gained another title from then on: the City Shaker.

Many people who witnessed the incident know the general idea of ​​it. In the Nordic Kingdom's Tiha, the city of Sagos, and the city of Suno in the Swadian Kingdom, stories about Aix's heroic deeds are still circulating. However, these legends have been greatly distorted due to rumors.

Among the people in these places, there are more than a dozen versions of this incident. In the most outrageous version, Aix actually became an extremely brave and lonely hero. In order to rescue his beautiful wife, he took up his sword and killed his way through the entire city of Tiha alone. However, the enemy had more people and more power, so he had to retreat because he was exhausted.

Recently, I don't know when it started, but some bard made this incident into a poem, which was sung and circulated in many taverns, making the trouble in Aix's family known to everyone, as if to remind everyone that this matter is not over yet!

If these poems were just legendary stories, Aix's enemies would just treat them as jokes. Although Aix is ​​now a great lord with power comparable to that of a country, his territory is too far away from the city of Tiha in Eden, and it is unwise to send troops on a long expedition.

However, Eden's spies who had infiltrated the city of Sagos recently reported that Aix had sent people to deliver letters to King Ragnar several times, and the content was to discuss with him about using the city as a passage to attack the city of Tiha.

For this purpose, Aix even spared no expense and sent the caravan to deliver several batches of supplies and treasures to Ragnar's palace. The naive king was very excited and was thinking with his confidants about what kind of conditions would be more favorable.

Little did he know that one of his trusted aides had already been bribed by the Lord of Iden, who wrote a secret letter and told Iden everything Ragnar had discussed word for word.

After reading the secret letter, Lord Eden felt as if he was facing a formidable enemy. Although Aix's territory was some distance away from his lair, this old thief had always been paying attention to Aix's affairs over the years. Even behind several events that were unfavorable to Aix, there was his secret support and promotion.

After all, it was he who took the initiative to harm Aix. It would have been fine if Aix had become an unknown person from then on, but he did not expect that he could thrive in this bitter and cold land. The current strength and population of the territory far surpassed his. From his narrow perspective of right and wrong, the hatred between the two could not be resolved, and Aix would sooner or later lead his troops to attack.

In order not to sit still and wait for death, Iden mobilized public opinion, saying that X was the enemy of all Nords, hoping to use this to morally blackmail King Ragnar, so that King Ragnar would not dare to agree to X's request to borrow the road, or even turn around to support him.

On the one hand, he wrote to several enemies of Aix, such as Yarogerk, and repeatedly emphasized to them the truth that the lips and teeth are cold, saying that now is the time to join forces to get rid of this great threat.

At the same time, he was not vague and ordered all his Yars to arm and mobilize all the Nords under his command who were able to fight, and to organize the indigenous serfs of Calradia in the territory and send them to the city of Tiha in batches to perform labor to build city defenses and manufacture city defense equipment and weapons.