The situation in the winter of Sloitt this year was very different from previous years, and the Legion of the North Wind took very tough measures against the barbarians who crossed the Galloping Horse River from the ice and tundra to the south, and the new commander of the Legion, Jing Yue.
Duke Ellie no longer ordered the legions to hold on to the banks of the White Elephant River and the south bank of the Galloping River, as the previous commander of the North Wind Legion had done.In the past, because this defense line was too long, the North Wind Legion only held the defense line of Sloit City and Star Sea City in previous years.Among them, the vast area around El City and Ziqing Mountain City is in the upper reaches of the Running Horse River, and the defense line of the North Wind Legion does not involve here.Duke Jingyue Aili ordered thirty Constructed Knights under his command to start a small-scale siege and annihilation battle with the barbarians on the territory of Sloitt Province, but the thirty Constructed Knights entered the vast territory of the Northern Province, just like thirty fish swimming into Daze, although there were many good news, but still could not completely drive out the barbarians who entered the northern border, and the role of these Constructed Knights was only to contain a large group of barbarian tribes.For those small streams of barbarians scattered in the mountains and wilderness, they can still only be the spontaneously organized killing squads in various cities to resist stubbornly, these eagle squads and these barbarians are on the outskirts of the city, relying on the familiar terrain to maneuver and fight, because they have the city as a backing, these killing squads are very flexible in the wild, each city has its own eagle squad, maybe other cities are not called eagles, they have other loud names.In the city of El, the eagle is the hero of the city.Of course, not every Eagle Squad will have a win in the long winter, hunting barbarians is a very risky activity, because even an ordinary barbarian warrior's own strength is almost equivalent to a first-turn warrior, and when a barbarian has a war cry, it is even more courageous, even if it is a second-turn warrior of the Grimm Empire, it is difficult to say that he has full confidence to defeat the leader of a small group of barbarian teams.Many eagle squads are like snowflakes in the sky, fluttering in people's field of vision, and then falling into the fishing lake, and then they will not even see the slightest splash, and disappear without a trace.Many of the eagles were so miserable that in the end they could not even find their carcasses.The Eagle of the Northern Province is the most dangerous profession for the warlords.In the winter, when the river freezes over the Galloping Horse, the barbarians of the Ice and Tundra bypass the defense zone of the Borean Legion and enter the hinterland of the Sloit Province to plunder the men of the Sloit Province and bring them back to the Ice and Tundra to serve as miners.The former barbarian slave hunters were able to find the principle that they would not wantonly kill women and old men, but only adult men and boys.Ever since the Storm Bears tribes of the Icy Tundra Extreme North occupied the vast territory of the Celtic tribes, they have not been so gentle with the Imperial people of Sloit, and they have a habit of cannibalism, or rather, of course, when they are hungry, as long as they are not companions, they eat almost anything.The Northerners did not regret that they had drowned thirty-five thousand young Celtic barbarian warriors in the Galloping Horse River four years ago, but they were even more hostile to the Storm Bear Barbarians, who had replaced the Celtic Barbarians.In the past two years, the eagles of Elci have discovered that the Barbarians of the Storm Bear Tribe are more impulsive and irritable, and many of them like to lure the Barbarians to the Antian Mountains, taking advantage of the difficult terrain to lead the Barbarians into the traps of the ambush circle, and then kill them.Three years ago, the barbarians of the Storm Bear tribe besieged the city for months and failed to capture the city, so in the last two winters, they have not been able to muster the courage to try to storm the strong walls of the city again, so the barbarians near the city of El are mainly concentrated in two areas, one is the Antian Mountains, and the other is the fishing lake and the large apple orchards on the surrounding hills.Actually, according to my idea, I would prefer to go to the mountainous mountains of Antia, where we are used to dealing with savages, but Karantso suggested that I take a walk around the fishing lake, for the simple reason that this year we have new members, Katerina and Deborah.For an assassin like Katarina, there is no obvious difference between the woods and the mountains, but for Deborah, the hilly terrain with a better view is more suitable for her pre-battle reconnaissance, so I chose the area near the fishing lake for this time.Our group walked out of the shantytown outside the city.Dressed in a suit of tight-fitting leather armor made of wind snake leather, Deborah shivered in the cold wind, and she stared at Karantso pitifully with wide eyes.When this set of skinny leather armor was made, there were also considerations to protect against the cold, but this Nizi believed Xiao Ella's words, in order to show off the delicate curves of the body, the sleeves of the tight leather armor were completely reduced, and the neckline also became the style of a large V-shaped cardigan, and a good pair of skinny leather pants were cut off by her all the fabric below the knee.She didn't even have a decent pair of thick leather boots, so she had to stand barefoot in the snow and use one of her wings to wrap her body tightly around her to protect herself from the cold.As a harpy, Deborah is not afraid of the cold.The pure white feathers on her wings give her the ability to resist the cold wind, but the problem is that the other half of her fleshy wings belong to the body of the succubus, for the succubus, she has the power of black flame in her body, so the succubus itself is not afraid of the cold, but Deborah belongs to a harpy, even if she awakens the bloodline talent in her body, she can only master some primary wind magic such as wind resistance and wind blades.When I took Deborah to find the Hindji University scholars, in order to save Deborah, the Hindji University scholars replaced her with the body of a succubus from the head down, so that although she had a devilish body, she lost her fair skin and a few tail feathers, and was replaced by a dark dark gray skin, smooth and delicate, making her look like a beautiful black pearl.Deborah didn't have the Black Flame Power bloodline talent to awaken the enchantment, which made her stand in the cold wind for a short time before her face turned blue.Karantso glanced at Deborah, then put his leather cloak over Deborah's body, and then looked at me, and I knew what Karantso meant, so he took a pair of leather boots from his magical fanny pack and threw them to Deborah.These boots were originally a spare pair of my boots, but now they can only be worn temporarily for Deborah.Deborah hurriedly put her leather boots on her feet, still looking very cold.Karantso looked up and saw a black crow passing through the sky, so he reached out and rubbed Deborah's fair face, and said to her, "Fly, maybe it won't be so cold." ”Seeing a fine froth of snow blowing from the city, Deborah shook her head desperately, she liked to hide behind Karantso like little Ella.The Minotaur on the Pai Plateau had a different physique from ordinary people, so the Minotaur Ruka was not very afraid of the cold.In El City, even on the coldest days of the year, Ruka can lie down in the snow and sleep without anything just wearing a thin layer of leather armor, but this time to hunt the barbarians in the mountains, Ruka cautiously put the full-covered demonic essence armor on his body, and the demonic patterns on the metal armor exude a faint luster, making the minotaur Ruka look imposing.Caterina was wearing a wurm light leather armor suit with a single Earth Shield magic pattern structure and an imperial squid skin armor battle skirt, and stood side by side with Karantso in the cold wind.Karantso donned the Spider-Man Overseer's hard leather armor, black hard leather armor with thorny spikes at the joints, and she carried a double-edged greatsword on her back, like a female swordsman from Bena Province.Wearing the Wrath of the Earth Demon Pattern Construct given to me by the Yerkes Scholar, it is like red lava flowing along the magic pattern on the leather armor, and the faint magic halo makes me exude a faint heat, this winter seems to feel less cold, the Earth Fury This set of Demon Pattern Architecture has a total of three very unique magic effects, the first one is specially designed for me by the Yerkes Scholar, and all the aura magic effect attributes are enhanced.The four-series stone drum totem kept rotating around my waist, and the two magic auras of wind galloping and petrified skin quickly spread over everyone in the team, and when I had this set of magic pattern structures, I found that the mana recovery effect brought to me by the sapphire stone drum totem also worked on everyone in the team.Although Karantso, Katerina, and Ruka the Minotaur do not have a magic pool, and they cannot store the magic elements drawn by mana recovery, another feeling that mana recovery gives me is that it can be applied to the mana consumption of the magic pattern construction, and the mana recovery can reduce the mana absorption of the magic crystal on the gem pedestal of the magic pattern construction, and prolong the use time of the magic crystal.The four of us were all dressed as warriors, only Deborah, who had wings, did not have a decent magic pattern, although the tight leather armor on her body had a magic pattern circle for wind resistance, but when the sleeves of the tight armor were cut off by her, the magic pattern circle on the leather armor was also destroyed by her.Out of the slum shackles outside the city, we came to the main road at the gate of the city of El, which connected to the trade road to the Pai Plateau to the west, and to the east the main road to the city of Sloit.Recently, there has been no trace of barbarians around the city of El, and some wanderers hiding in the city will also take the opportunity to run to the snow outside the city to collect some food and firewood, and the scouts in the knights of the guard battalion will also take advantage of this time to go out of the city to explore the movements of the barbarians in the mountains and fields outside the city, and some adventure groups, demons and eagle squads will take advantage of the good weather to go out of the city to hunt barbarians.The four of them stepped on their skis and headed towards the fishing lake area, and they also saw several eagle squads along the way, but the equipment on these eagle squads was much worse than the four of us, at best, they were wearing one or two single-piece magic pattern structures, they didn't have a complete set of magic pattern structures like us, so their eyes fell on us with a look of envy.Deborah didn't spread her wings and fly, she was like a kitten lying on Karantso's back, only revealing a pure little face, she exhaled a cloud of white water vapor against the wind and snow, the water vapor quickly dissipated in the wind, the long silver hair on her head fluttered in the wind, and she was draped in a leather cloak, maybe because she was lying on Karantso's back, or maybe because she adapted to the surrounding environment, her face had recovered, and she no longer shivered in the cold wind.When the shadows of the guards on the walls of Ell have become blurred, we do not continue along the main road, just as we hunt the barbarians, the barbarians of the ice and tundra hunt us, and they will also carefully ambush some of the main roads to intercept passers-by.Although we now have the strength to face a small group of barbarians head-on, I still don't want to fight the barbarians so recklessly, and it is better to use ice magic to pit them.Leaving the main road, the mountains are covered with snow-covered hills, even if we have skis, it is still not easy for us to walk.
Leg climbing, every step with both feet stepping on not too big.
In the snow on the legs, each step requires great physical effort.I kind of regret it, maybe I should have prepared a sled.Entering the vast suburbs, I don't know how many eagle squads there are in the fishing lake area, but the fishing lake area is still too large, and the entire lake is dozens of square kilometers so vast that if one team and another team can meet in the mountains, it can be regarded as great luck.Deborah had been driven to the sky by Karantso, at first she was still a little afraid of the cold, worried that if she took off her cloak and flew into the sky, she would freeze her hands and feet stiff and fall from the sky, but since the first time she flew, Deborah has been challenging new flight altitudes, she flies very high, and there is no such restriction here as the Xinliu Valley, which belongs to the floating mountains, which is a broken and incomplete small world, where once she flies too high, she will touch the edge of the world in Xinliu Valley.Flying seemed to be a very physically demanding affair, so it could generate a lot of heat, which was enough for her to keep out the cold, and Deborah flew in the air, and without her whining and whining, the team immediately became much quieter.Fearing that Deborah would be killed by the barbarians on the ground throwing spears, I warned her not to fly too low.There is a stark contrast between one of her gray flesh wings and one white wing, and in the sky, Deborah's vision is very wide, and her eyesight has inherited the characteristics of the harpy, and she can see the wind wolf running on the surface several kilometers away.Not long after, Deborah flew back from the distance, and saw her circling three times above our heads, and then flying straight in one direction.This is the code we have set, which means that Deborah has found the target in the air, and it is only three hills away from us, and the length of the gently sloping hills that reach a height of several hundred meters can stretch for several kilometers, and if the three hills are combined, it means that the target is more than ten kilometers away.Kalanso and I looked at each other, and Ruka lifted me to his shoulders without saying a word, then gathered my skis and his skis together, slung them on the other shoulder, and strode towards the top of the hill.Karantso was the first to glide in front, and she was a power fighter who had no problem sliding uphill on skis and handsticks.Katarina's skiing skills are still very average, and she has no problem gliding on the streets of the imperial capital, but it is not enough to see in the complex terrain of the mountains, so she also learned from Ruka, carrying skis and following Luka, and running hard to the top of the hilly slope.When we reached the top of the hill and swooped down on our skis, we experienced a thrill that the wind couldn't catch up.Deborah in the sky had only a few black specks left, and she was hovering high in the air in front of her.We climbed two hills in a row, and when we reached the top of the third hill, Karantso fell into the snow at once, and after him, Ruka didn't run to the top of the slope at all, so he put me off my shoulder and farted.
Sitting on the snow on the back slope, panting and regaining strength, Katerina and I bent over to Karantso, crouched behind a chestnut tree at the top of the hill, and looked down with her