Yveta had wanted to ask the Hearthstone Great Witch what exactly her apprentice had done to cause the death of Ambrose, the Great Viscount.
Especially since she had spent all that time trying to persuade him to enter Ambrose City and find her awful apprentice.
She was really trying to make him take the blame.
Yveta even suspected that, in the end, the Hearthstone Great Witch might tell the Ambrose City Council that she and her apprentice had been acting under the orders of some demon god... perhaps him.
And honestly, that was entirely possible.
But before Yveta could ask her about it,
Leili and Black Wolf, along with the three knights including Griffin, had already returned to the castle with a large number of villagers from nearby villages.
It was already the middle of the night.
But they had also brought two rather unpleasant pieces of news.
The first was that the Children of the Forest had attacked three villages belonging directly to the barons near the castle, setting fire to the crops in the fields and the wooden houses in the villages.
The second was that the foothills beneath the hill where the castle stood were teeming with the armies of the Children of the Forest.
Standing atop the castle wall, Yveta looked at the Children of the Forest's army camped not far away.
Judging by the size of their formation, they had at least ten thousand troops.
They had a huge force of centaurs, numbering at least two thousand.
There were also Minotaurs, bare of armor but built like solid muscle, with thighs like tree trunks. Minotaurs were naturally suited to serve as heavy infantry.
There were probably around three thousand of them.
There were also ogres, Treant Person troops, and a small number of snake-women.
Their