The snow outside El covered everything on the ground, and it was just white in front of me.According to the general outline of the terrain outside the city, it is also possible to tell where the road is smooth, and no one wants to go out of the city at this time.The road outside the city, the ridges in the wheat fields, the gravel on the slopes, the drainage ditches on the roadside, everything was buried by the snow.On the way out of the city, there were only two thin ruts and horseshoe prints, which were left by the night watchmen who had cleared the rubbish and snow outside the city.The road to the southern part of the northern province was long and arduous, and skis were only used when chasing the barbarians, and it was impossible to travel such a long distance without horses, and we had a sled, which was obviously much more convenient for the journey.Karantso rode at the front of the line on his horse, which struggled to walk through knee-deep snow.From time to time, the horses snorted, and long white vapor erupted from their nostrils.Katerina and I rode behind Karantso on two Gubolai horses, which were very endurable but not very well adapted to the northern environment.The legs of the Guboren horses are wrapped in cold-proof leather and crunch when they step on the snow.There are no Agui beasts in El City, otherwise you can buy a mount for Ruka.Now, Ruka can only follow the group on foot, occasionally on the shelf at the end of the sled when he is going downhill.The docile long-haired peony pulled the sleigh and followed me, and from time to time there was the sound of excited chatter on the sled, and the cold north wind could not completely calm Noah's excitement, and I warned Noah and Shirley.
Newman, don't stare at the glaring snow for too long, it's bad if you get snow blindness.Ten orc warriors rode on their horses to protect the sides of the team, they wore the demonic pattern of white rock rhinoceros hard leather armor, and the outer cover was covered with a layer of white cold cloak, if you don't carefully distinguish their faces, they are no different from the Grimm Empire's constructed knights.Deborah flew in the north wind and spouted the barbarians who were sneaking through the area around the city of El.According to the information provided by Deborah, we quickly found a lone barbarian, the barbarian's large footprints were clearly imprinted on the snow, and his stride was so large that he could walk more than two meters in one step.He walked along a mountain road all the way to the south, stopping and stopping along the way, but the speed was very fast, our team chased for most of the day, only to see his vague figure in the wind and snow in the distance, Noah saw the barbarian in the wind and snow from a distance, jumped off the sleigh excitedly, ran in front of me, and asked me, "Jijia, when are we going to start?"
”I hurriedly grabbed the reins of the Kubolaima, who stopped and said to Noah, "Don't worry, this snow is falling too much, and it will not be easy for the team to catch up with the barbarian, and we will maintain this speed to see when the barbarian can rest for a while." ”"Let's ski and go hunt him down!"
Noah suggested to me.As I spoke, the figure of the barbarian disappeared from my field of vision, and I said to Noah, "Let's see where the road ahead leads, I don't want to go around in circles with him in the area of El City." ”Actually, according to my idea, our team is going to the south of the North in search of a large number of barbarians, so I don't plan to stay in the vicinity of El City for too long.If we are on the same line as this barbarian, then of course I will have to clean him up.But if the path he took in front of him deviated from our current established route, then we must weigh the pros and cons, and if we detour too far, there is really no need to affect our entire capture plan for the sake of a lone barbarian.However, seeing Noah's excitement, I didn't tell him that if the barbarian didn't get along with us, I wasn't really interested in killing him at all, and I shouted to Karantso, who was riding in front, "Karantso, help me check the map." ”Karantso took the reins and raised his right hand high, and the ten orc warriors stopped neatly, and the long-haired sleigh was caught in the middle, and also followed us to stop, and Karantso said to everyone, "Let's rest first!"
”There were no rocks or snow hills to shelter from the wind, so we had to stop on the unsheltered snow, the north wind was howling and blowing by, the temperature here was very low, and the snow particles that were brought up would hurt very much when they fell on our faces, and the eyebrows, beards, and hair of those orc warriors were covered with ice and snow, like old men with white beards.Little by little, the north wind carried away the temperature of our bodies, and under the freezing cold, there was almost nothing but snow in this wilderness.In the distance, there were only a few golden apple and chestnut trees on the hills, and even the low bushes were hidden from the heavy snow.Karantso commanded: "Huck, take some fodder and feed the horses, and boil some warm water!"
”The orc warriors jumped off their horses, they were well-trained to perform their duties, some took out the fire-gathering magic talisman board to make a fire and boil water, and some took out the forage mixed with beans and grains from their bags to feed the horses, in this extremely cold weather, they were worried that the horses would be frostbitten, so they wrapped a layer of raw cowhide on the horse's legs, covered the horse's back with a thick blanket, and even wore a leather hood on the horse's head.After most of the day's journey, the horses needed a break.I also jumped down from the Gubolai horse, drew a small mallet from the saddle, and began to knock off the thin crust of ice that had congealed on the horse's legs.The Minotaur came up from behind, and a thick layer of snow and ice had condensed on the hair and horns on his head, and the Minotaur warrior shook his head fiercely, and shook off the ice and snow on his head with all his might, and then said to me: "The weather in the north this year is colder than usual. ”Karantso beckoned Deborah, who was scouting the enemy's tracks in the sky, to come down and rest for a while, Deborah circled in the air, and then gathered her wings in the air and plunged down, like a falling object from a high altitude, falling down quickly, until she was only a few dozen meters away from the ground, and then reopened her wings to stop the rapidly falling body.She spread her wings and fell to the snow, the strong wind brought by the wings blew up the snow, Karantso pulled out a thick blanket from the package on horseback and threw it to Deborah, Deborah, whose face was so cold that she stiffened her hands and feet, and huddled together with several orc constructs to make a fire, it seemed that Deborah was familiar with these orc constructors, and the orc constructors handed her a cup of hot water."
It's colder here than in El City."
Noah sat on the sleigh, wrapped in a thick blanket with Shirley, shivering from the cold.He stretched out his hand to condense a flame, but unfortunately the north wind blew, and the magic flame in his palm was actually blown out by the wind."
And the fire magic elements here are very thin, I finally know why there are so many excellent water magicians in the north, this is completely the battlefield of water magicians!"
He looked at the flames blown away by the wind in his palm, and said with a sigh.Shirley by her side.
Newman said: "It seems that the bloodline talent of the Ellie family who really controls the north is the power to control thunder and lightning, and there are not many water magicians in Sloit Province!"
”"Well, I guess we should make a fire to warm up, too!"
Noah said to Shirley.Shirley also tried to condense fire magic in the wind and snow, and it seemed that she was struggling.Helena and Becky were cleaning the thick layer of snow and ice from the long-haired peony's legs, and Ying Li was standing next to the sleigh, her face a little red from the cold wind, and I walked over and pulled the hat down on her head to warm her up.Ying Li raised his head, looked at me with a distressed expression, and said to me, "Is it that you hunted barbarians like this in the winter of previous years?"
”I nodded slightly, smiled and said, "It's about the same, but it wasn't so cold last year!"
”Ying Li hugged me tightly, threw himself into my arms, and whispered to me: "In the past, I always dreamed of being able to enter your life, but now, I really experienced your life, only to find that your life was so hard, and the merits that made you promoted to an earl turned out to be such a little bit of accumulation!"
”I reached out and put my backhand around the bloated Ying Li, her cold fur coat was very thick, which Fanny personally bought from the most famous tailor shop in the city of Eyre, I said to Ying Li: "What's so bitter about this, but it's just a little cold, I'm a water magician, I'm good at ice magic, so I'm not afraid of the cold!"
”Ying Li was amused by my words."
Why aren't water magicians who are good at ice magic afraid of the cold?
Because you are often exposed to ice magic, you are no longer afraid of the cold?
This is a ridiculous theory that the magic teacher has never talked about in class!
”She glared at me before she said, "What keeps you from being afraid of the cold is your own magical resistance. ”Oh, yes!
My magic resistance.Speaking of this topic, it reminds me of the days when I learned the general magic of old Kuru in the caravan, and I remember that the first magic skill I learned was magic defense.I affectionately touched the hat on Ying Li's head and said to her, "Okay, I'm from the North, it's like this every winter, we're all used to it."
In fact, the most powerful are the barbarians, who can fill in this kind of stuff and sit naked in the snow and bathe in the snow. ”At this time, Karantso unfolded a geographical map of the province of Sloyd, drawn on parchment, on a large package, and I went over it, and at first glance found the location of the city of El, and then drew a circle with a charcoal pen on the location of the city, and then drew a black line in the direction of the city.Karantso identified some of the surrounding features, dropped his finger on a location on the map, and said to me, "Our current location is here!"
”After saying that, she pointed to a mountain range across the map and said, "If we want to go further south, we can't risk climbing over the mountains ahead of us with such heavy snow, so we will take a detour to the valley road of this fault mountain, which will lead to Hamamatsu Fort, the northernmost town of Nato City, which is surrounded by low and barren fault mountains, where only a few chestnut trees grow, and the most famous thing in that town is tree rice." ”I didn't expect Karantso to be so familiar with the towns around El City, so I asked her curiously, "Are you familiar with that?"
”Karantso stroked the broken hair around his ears, with an expression of nostalgia for the past, exhaled deeply, and said to me: "I used to worry about how those young boys survived the long cold winter, and I always had to look around in the autumn for something cheap and filling. ”"You bought rice in that town?"
I finally understood why Karantso was going to that town.Karantso lowered his eyelids and seemed reluctant to say more: "I didn't buy it, and the people in that town were very repulsive to outsiders, especially looking down on wandering orcs, so the deal didn't work out." ”Hearing Karantso say this, I hurriedly said, "Why don't we choose another way south?"
There's no reason why the people in that town are treating you badly, and we're going to run over to help them fight the barbarians. ”After all, we still have to consider how Karantso feels, and with so many small towns in the southern part of the province of Sloit, there's no reason to choose a town that has been harsh on us."
It's been so long, I've almost forgotten, what can't I let go."
Karantso looked at me in surprise and said to me calmly, and then she carefully observed the map, it seemed that the surrounding roads needed to be climbed over the mountains, this kind of weather, such heavy snow, it was definitely a bad idea to climb over the mountains.She said to me, "Besides, we hunt the barbarians, and it's not all for them, this road is the closest road to the city of Nato, and the barbarian in front of him seems to have entered the valley of the fault mountain, and we will catch up with him at this time, and he will have nowhere to escape!"
”I hesitated, she stared at me, and said, "Even if you fulfill Noah's hunting wish, you must follow this road!"
”I looked at the map again, and I was actually quite familiar with the western part of Sloit, especially from El to the Hundred Falls Cliffs, but I was not familiar with this southern part of the country at all.However, since Karantso decided to pass through Hamamatsu Fort, I didn't have anything to say, so I said, "Okay, let's go to Hamamatsu Fort first, how long will it take us to get there?"
”Karantso tapped his forehead and thought for a moment before saying, "At the current rate, we will arrive in that town before it gets dark!"
”I exclaimed, "It seems to be quite far away, but I can't seem to see it on the map!"
”It was too cold and we were afraid that the horses would get frostbitten, so we didn't dare to rest in the snow for too long, and once we walked, the horses were not so cold.I wanted to ride the Gubolai horse again, but Noah wanted to experience the snow riding at this time, so he asked me to ride the sleigh, and he pulled Shirley.
Newman robbed me and Caterina of the Guborai, and I was happy to hide in the warm sleigh.The team continued to chase the footprints of the barbarian warriors and continued southward.Soon there was no longer a field in front of me, and there were some undulating hills in my sight, a fault mountain about sixty or seventy meters high, like a black belt, appearing between the white sky and the earth, and the black lines continued to the south, and finally disappeared into the snow.Our team stopped on the hillside, in front of which was the valley road leading to Hamamatsu Fort, where the barbarian warrior sat and rested under the cliff wall at the entrance to the valley road.He looked up as if he was aware of it, and at once he saw our team on the hillside.But this barbarian is not at all like the other barbarians, who rush towards us with their teeth and claws when they see someone appearing.Instead, he got up from the snow, patted the residual snow on his buttocks, turned around and ran into the valley road