Chapter 1 The Last Hunt at the End of the Year (1) The Traveler in the Wind and Snow

Under the wind and snow, a small amount of cooking smoke rose from the green pine village, and the village was surrounded by a scene of snow, and the last pine trees on the distant mountains that refused to fade their green were now buried under the white. In the last days of the year, the residents of the north enjoy the warmth and harvest around the fire, and pray to the mother of life for next year's harvest and the safety of their families.

In such weather, almost no one was willing to leave the house, but the village chief stood at the village gate and waited. He sat on the stone platform, and above him was the eaves of the neighbor's house, and he sat on the stone steps of the house, and the heavy snow had covered the footprints of his arrival, so he must have been here for a long time. The village chief was dressed in a heavy cotton jacket and cotton pants, and wore a felt hat on top of his head, but even with such a dress, he still could not withstand the cold wind. The snow had reached his knees, and he was small enough to hug himself into a ball for warmth, his hands in his cuffs, shivering incessantly. The hostess of the house behind him had been watching the window for a long time, her face still stained with tears, and her eyes were already red and swollen from crying. They kept looking in the direction of the village gate, as if they were expecting something.

After a while, the wind and snow were noticeably smaller, and a figure in the distance walked slowly in the snow. The village chief had frost on his eyelashes, but he did see it. He turned to the woman at the window and said something, and then the woman immediately left the room and stared at the figure in the distance, her eyes full of anticipation, and the figure became more and more excited every time the figure came closer, and she almost cried out when the figure was about to reach the village.

When the figure could finally make out the outline, the woman's eyes were full of anticipation and immediately turned into disappointment, and the village chief smiled, although the cold made his smile almost undetectable, and at first glance he thought it was a muscle twitch, but he was really happy to see the man.

I saw that the man was riding a horse with black fur and large white spots, and it can be said that the horse was almost walking with its belly against the snow. The rider above it was tall, wearing a black hooded cloak, his head completely covered, and his eyes covered by the cloak, revealing only his nose and mouth. The left shoulder of the cloak was raised high, the highest bulge was about as high as the top of his head, but it appeared elongated, it was a sword. It can be seen that this mysterious visitor is the person that the village has been waiting for for a long time, the Demon Envoy!

The world of Renezer is full of threats, from cursed vampires to savage and violent barbarians or ferocious monsters, they fill the whole world, whether it is the world's largest continent, the dwarven living in the burning Iceland, or the dark trenches in the depths of the ocean, the threat is everywhere! In order to prevent mortal species from being wiped out by evil, people of various races have set up demon hunting organizations, such as the Dwarven Blade Demon Team, the Silver Shadow Assassin of the Western Kuikai and the Demon Envoy of the Eastern Sang Empire.

The Demon Sealing Envoy is divided into four branches, they are: the Silent Word Sect, the Shadow Martyrdom Sect, the Canghai Sect and the Qiankun Sect.

The Emperor personally supervised the Silent Sect, which in turn supervised the other three factions. The Silent Word Sect is an assassin group and does not personally carry out demon eradication tasks, mainly responsible for the assassination tasks assigned by the emperor, they act quickly, whether the target is a monster or a target that needs to be assassinated, they can always complete the task quickly, and what is even more terrifying is that almost no one knows their true faces, and it can even be said that no one has seen them except the emperor.

The Silent Sect would sometimes hear about magic from the Emperor or local spies, and they would appoint an intermediary to deliver the news to the Shadow Clan. The Shadow Warriors deal with the consequences of magical disasters or anomalous creatures created by magic, but sometimes they also have soothsayers prophesy about major events that will happen in the future.

The Canghai faction is different from any other faction, their behavior is more free, because the target is mainly the huge dark creatures in the ocean, so they are equipped with a large number of ships and heavy weapons, so the Canghai faction also has the largest number of personnel, currently more than 30,000 horses, in addition to the largest artillery in the entire Renize world: the giant sniper cannon. The cannon was placed on the main island of the Tearstained Islands, and its range covered almost the entire territorial waters of the Sang Empire, and if it hit, it could often kill the target with a single shot.

The Qiankun faction is mainly managed by the nine kings of the nine provinces under the emperor, and the sect is mainly responsible for fighting against the tasks assigned by the kings to deal with the monsters on the land. The sect is divided into two posts, namely the safari post and the stationed post at the gate. The on-the-job time of the two posts is one year, and it is rotated once a year. The Safari Gang is to go to the Imperial Province and other Nine Kings Provinces to take a break, and deal with the various monsters or enemies that threaten the empire, and require that every time you go to a town, you must write a letter to the headquarters of the Qiankun faction in Lishan City, Imperial Province, to report your whereabouts, if the demon envoy of the hunt fails to report her whereabouts within two months, it will be captured by the Shadow Martyrdom faction. The stationed guard is responsible for training apprentices within the headquarters and receiving requests from various provinces to carry out demon removal tasks at designated locations. The training of the Qiankun faction is the hardest, and almost no one will send their children to suffer, so the Qiankun faction mainly recruits local orphans, and will recruit two hundred people every year, at least half of them will find a way to escape, the remaining half will die in training, and the rest will die or be arrested in the future when performing tasks, so there will be no more than five orphans who become master-level demon envoys every year!

The envoy dismounted unhurriedly, and in the sunlight, only the bearded chin could be seen under the hood. He said slowly, "Are you the head of this village?"

The village chief had been waiting in the cold wind for a long time, the muscles in his face were already frozen, and he still barely managed to squeeze out a smile: "Yes...... Yes, my lord, I sent the previous letter of entrustment. ”

"Hmm. The envoy took off the hood from his cloak, and the village chief expected to see a middle-aged man, but he didn't expect the man under the hood to look so young: under his short black hair was thick but slender eyebrows, and under those eyebrows were a pair of rare grape eyes. There were three scratches on his right eye from some small creature, which obviously hurt his eyes, but surprisingly, the Demon Sealer did not lose his sight because of this, thanks to the sage of the Shadow Sect. And under these bright and fearsome eyes, his cheeks did not turn red from the cold wind, which was caused by years of struggle to survive in extreme conditions. However, the Demon Sealer's mouth was also cracked due to dryness, and he must have been on the road for many days, and even the spotted horse had red eyes, and it seemed that he hadn't rested for a long time.

"Then, village chief, let's go to the inn first. The Demon Sealer said.

The village chief hurriedly agreed, and led the demon envoy to the center of the village.