After the report on Tear Knight's second Blood Moon Season spread, its results stunned everyone.
The major defense lines began to stir. Ironthorn Defense Line, Tear Knight Defense Line's neighbor, was the first to send a formal request for a visit.
Bishop Severin led the visiting delegation.
He had served on the Eternal Night Wall for nearly forty years. In his early years, he had guarded a frontline Sacred Flame Altar; later, he had spent many years coordinating military supplies and handling local Church affairs.
Over the years, Church business had taken him to several defense lines. He knew the circumstances of their legions and defenses well, and he had personally commanded troops in Tear Knight City.
Ironthorn Defense Line had sent him to see whether the figures were real.
In the first year, just over forty-nine thousand had died. They could still say that the young governor, Shien, had been lucky and happened to face a calm Blood Moon Season in his first year.
But the Beast Tide had been fiercer in the second year, while deaths had fallen again to just over forty-one thousand. Luck could no longer explain it.
What Severin truly wanted to see was what Tear Knight had done to achieve those results.
If it depended on unique terrain, Ironthorn had no reason to learn from it. If it depended on vast resources from the Holy City, it would be hard to replicate.
But if Tear Knight had truly found a way other defense lines could copy to reduce casualties, Ironthorn had to find
out.
The delegation entered Tear Knight with that purpose in mind.
Before Severin had even seen Tear Knight City, however, he noticed how different Tear Knight Defense Line was from the others.
On the third day after their carriage entered Tear