I have been making use of the free time that I have gotten in the last week to begin my work on the remaining spells. I have completed almost all of the spells that could have given me an edge in the battlefield.

The three spells of the formation base have been completed. Then we have the water spear spell and the quiver spell to store it. After that I have completed two spells, which together work to form my ballista.

Before I know it, I have already completed seventy percent of the spells that I need to begin the work on the final spell. With that spell inscribed I should be more than be able to handle any number of troops that they throw at me. It should theoretically be able to handle any snowlord that they throw at us.

A class eight spell is more than powerful enough. I haven't been given much opportunity to play around with a class eight formation. (The most basic spell that my master uses is at the class six. Even those he has to use too carefully to ensure that it doesn't get destroyed in a moment. Sometimes his strength seems so far out of my reach.)

Each time that I have taken control of a class eight formation it is such a heady feeling. It feels like I am a god. It is an illusion I know, but there is no way that a snowlord can be stronger than a class eight formation.

I guess that I should speak about the remaining spells that are left for me to complete. There are three class nine spells left, of which I will speak about two. The last is related to my nasty surprise that I will leave for the damn snowlords.

The first spell is a certain spell known as “earth pack”. The spell allows for the earth to be compressed to absolute degrees. Much like the Iron skin though, it is a spell that takes time. With time the spell will be able to compress the earth in the ground.

It is supposed to strengthen the ground to ensure that when the copper bark does take root, it will be able to handle its own weight. Immediately it is not particularly useful though, other than stopping enemies from digging into the ground below us.

Even that is not particularly needed since the ground here is covered in so much snow. Other than that the ground under it is as hard as stone. It actually makes me wonder how exactly the dwarves have dug their mines into this land. Well, the dwarves and their bombs are almost legendary now.

Well, the second spell that I have to describe is the iron bubble. Well, how do I describe the iron bubble. It is a spell that is meant to supplement the iron skin spell. It doesn't provide me with any particular boost to the spell. The only thing it does is aurify the spell.

Well, aurification is hard to describe if you are not a body mage. Only those bastards need to make use of spells like this. Well, let's try my best. If the iron skin is at this moment like paint on the wall. Then with the iron bubble spell part of the iron skin is going to be well, like a bubble covering the fort.

The bubble is going to be useful, much later once it has been given a chance to grow. For now it does not have much use. It might be able to block a few arrows from the enemy and it will also have a bit of an isolating effect. That means it will reduce a bit of the ice mana in the region, not enough for it to have a significant effect though. (Unless I give it a couple years, which is becoming a statement I have used too many times.)

That leaves me with my final spell and the eighth class spell, neither of which I want to talk about at this moment. Now is not the time to waste a good surprise is it. At least, the gambles that I have been taking in the last couple of months have finally paid of.

Right now we have managed to survive anything that the enemy has thrown at us. Every troop that they have thrown at us we have managed to destroy. That has brought us at least a couple weeks of peace in which I will manage to complete my work. The hunt is going to end soon enough.

It has already gone longer than is usual. Even now I am sure that the nobles are returning to their home. Even with the end of the hunt, shamon thinks that the snowlords will not throw anymore troops at us. The man thinks that they have already wasted a majority of their troops that they must have reserved for the task of destroying temporary fortresses.

They usually do not tend to reserve a lot of troops for this task. They do not really need to. After all, what destroys a majority of the forts here is not the enemy. Instead it is the storms of this land.

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I have yet to see the legendary storms of this land, other than a few storms that shamon has called heavy winds. The storms have been quite easily manageable though the man claims that the storms are going to get more violent.

I personally think that the enemy won't be making any move this soon as well. I do not think this because the enemy has drained their resources like shamon does. Instead I think that the snowlords are sharpening their weapons looking for an opportunity to strike.

Regardless of how much I have tried to explain to the man about the seriousness of the threat he has refused to take it as seriously as he needs to. Regardless of this, the man has done his work. At the moment he has already drained most of his soldiers in this fight.

At the moment he has thirty soldiers, that are still able to keep fighting in this moment. These soldiers are not even enough to maintain vigil at one of the gates. That is why shamon has them focusing on protecting the injured soldiers.

The injured soldiers are the one that are having to face the worst of the situation at this moment. They all are suffering from the chill, though at varying levels. Other than the injured soldiers, another thing that the man is worried about is the southern gate.

That is because the weakness at the southern gate is something that I cannot fix right now. It took me all of my creativity to make the gate fall in the first place. spells like the iron skin tend to have runes in it that is used to describe the exact area in which the iron skin has to be applied.

Without it, it would be quite impossible for the iron skin to even function. Manipulating these runes should only be done at their creation to specify the structure of the entire building. This way, the iron skin can be applied at every wall, at every gate and at every hinge.

I have the ability to manipulate the runes that I have inscribed. It is very risky though, like trying to remove a card from a castle of cards. That is what I have done. To achieve my task I essentially made my formation stop applying the iron skin on the hinges of the southern gate. I could try and change the formations to make it go back to its usual state.

That is a risk that I do not want to take. You see, if the entire castle were to fall because I needed to return one card back to its position, well I don't even know how I would react. Maybe I would burn the entire thing down. All I know is that it would be nothing good.

Well, I think that shamon has understood that point by now. I can't really say if that is the case but the man has at least given up trying to convince me to repair the damage to the formation. He has taken to more mundane methods of reinforcing the southern gate.

A group of soldiers have been reinforcing that gate with everything that could be spared in the fort. I have seen old furnitures, new furnitures even be dismantled to shore up the gate. Old spears, old barrels, and everything that was there in the stores have already been broken apart, stitched together to reinforce that gate.

I honestly don't know how effective it is going to be but at the very least it should be able to do something. It really shows their ability to build as well, when their footsoldiers are able to build something like this.

The gate cannot be used at all now so these new reinforcements better be worth it. It has kept the soldiers busy and at the moment that is enough.

Speaking of soldiers, I guess that I should also tell you that shamon has failed at getting any reinforcements. The frozen peak is useless at the moment, as anything or anybody that they will send will have to travel a week at the very least. While the storms are not particularly intense it is more than enough to make the process of travelling through it quite hard.

The remaining temporary forts are a different matter. Based on my understanding of their conversations, the other forts have not been attacked as intensely as they are usually attacked. This is what makes shamon think that all the troops that have been attacking us have been redirected from the forces that were meant to attack these places.

Regardless of how true this is he has been making very good use of this rhetoric to try and get a few soldiers here. Not that he has been particularly succesful at this process.

This politics I understand at the very least. The other forts are trying to save their own hides. They have more than enough soldiers to spare but they are not going to do so. It is a simpler process to keep their soldiers with them rather than commit them to some random fort whose success would not even help them.

After all even if this fort lasted, it would not really help them out in any manner. Instead, if they were to commit their troops to help us and their fort was lost it would just make their own work that much harder.

Also, the situation this time is more chaotic than usual. There is a clear lack of nobles in this place. Normally, at the very least one set of nobles are sent to these forts. That usually creates a pretty clear chain of command. It would also be quite easy to send multiple noble factions to this place. (This is what must happen usually.) This would also create a pretty structured chain of command. Two to three forts at the very least would be able to work together.

This time there is nothing of that sort. Not a single faction of the nobles have been given command. That has led to a certain amount of chaos. No fort is acting as the center for this battlefield so that means that all the forts are acting on their own. It has also led to another problem, which is the lack of mages in the temporary forts.

Based on shamon's estimate there are only seven mages in total here, including me. One for each fort. That is an abyssmal amount. In the previous years, every fort at the very least had four to five mages to help hold of the enemy.

Well, I will leave the politics of this to the scholars. The only thing that I care about at the moment is this fort of mine. As long as it lasts all the other forts can fall for all I care.