Dark city

6. Clan

When he saw Yashan from afar, Richard realized that his father was a real big man.

With a population of more than 100,000 people, Yashan is located on the Yuanwang Peninsula, the city is built in the shape of the peninsula, the highest in the northwest, and extends in an arc to the south to the star-dotted archipelago of the Apennine Sea. Outside the city, the vast plains are full of fertile land, and the wide river Lane runs through the city and empties into the Apennine Sea, providing an inexhaustible source of water for the endless fertile fields.

There is a hill in the city of Ahsan, and the world-famous Black Rose Castle is built on top of it. It is a majestic and sprawling complex that could easily accommodate more than 3,000 warriors, and the towers that stand tall at each corner even place large permanent trebuchets that overlook the city beneath their feet. However, since the construction of the Black Rose Castle, the trebuchets have never been used passively. Although there were enemies who attacked the city of Ashan, their footsteps reached the walls of Asan at most, and then they were routed.

The castle is a weapon of defense, and the Black Rose Castle has reached the extreme in design, looking at the composite fortress-type building with the fortress within the fortress as the core, the wooden shooting platform that can reach the top of the city wall or arrow tower at any time, the passage through the city gate like a tunnel, and the depth of ten meters has set up a full five layers of extremely strong gates, and there are many arrangements that cannot be directly seen by the eye. When it was built, the Black Rose Castle claimed to require only a thousand qualified warriors to garrison it, making it almost impenetrable when well supplied.

Many travelers with different intentions have been to the city in various capacities, and when they see the monster that occupies the city's commanding heights, they have to agree with the almost crazy boasting of the designers of the Black Rose Castle. An unnamed aristocratic military strategist was invited to visit the castle, and when he returned, he conducted a sand table deduction of the defenses he saw, and concluded that even with a full army of 50,000 troops and heavy siege equipment, he would have to pay a heavy price to capture the castle.

It's just that she has never really been tested by the flames of war, because the previous owners of the castle did not like to defend, even if the troops were at an absolute disadvantage, they preferred to choose the boundless plains or deep mountains as the background, and destroy the enemy with sports warfare. And they always win in the end.

Even throughout the Holy Alliance, the madness of House Akmund is well known.

No one wants to fight a madman, not to mention that there will always be one or even several geniuses in this crazy family at some point. Duke Joseph of the Lennon Peninsula, once the greatest enemy of the Akmunds, once lamented that when madmen and geniuses are combined, the damage can be multiplied rather than simply added.

At the time of these words, Duke Joseph's main force of 20,000 had just been defeated by Akmund's 10,000 elite men in a long and brutal battle, with less than 2,000 men having fled. And the combat power under Joseph, who is known as the child of steel and iron, is by no means ordinary, and it is the first on the entire continent.

After hundreds of years of development, the members of the Akmund family now include two marquises and seven counts, viscounts and barons are not too many dogs, not much different, with a total territory of more than 100,000 square kilometers. The history of the Akmund family in the entire Holy Alliance is not very long, but its strength is definitely not weak, and it is one of the most important forces.

However, it is a little strange that if other families had so many local nobles, there should have been a duke, or even an archduke, a long time ago, but the Akmund family was only a marquis. You must know that the last thing the Akmund family lacks is force and power, they have both powerful magicians, high-level warriors, and more strange high-level professions, such as dragon vein warlocks, hell demon knights, shadow sacrifices, and so on. And the Norland continent is not peaceful, it can even be said that war is the norm, the human race occupies less than half of the continent's land, and is fighting with a large number of races to compete for living space.