A Month Later...

A month passed, the tension was still high and King Askild had lost a few men due to starvation, the hunting parties he sent to scavenge for food rarely returned.

And when they did, they were injured or near death, it was clear what Vestfold's strategy was.

Askild had to stop mutiny because with hunger, they slowly lost their sanity and with the little they did have to eat, the commanders were prioritized, followed by the workers helping Hagen build his inventions. Erik, however, strived in such an environment as he had no problems eating human flesh.

This was something that everyone frowned upon as they viewed it as dishonoring their fallen brothers but Erik did not care nor could anyone stop him so they could only murmur among themselves.

Tyr looked emancipated, he had lost weight not because he was not being fed but because the screams and cries of the people that died in that village still rang in his head.