Chapter 1: A Bitter Wind
The snow-capped mountains looked so dazzling in the sunlight that Kashui pulled up the hood of his white cloak to block out the sunlight that pierced his eyes. Everything around the pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info is white, large swaths of white, sandwiched with black, that is the appearance of the mountains covered with snow, the snow on the ground overflows the calves, and even the air is filled with white snowflakes. Kasiu let out a sigh, the biting cold wind carrying snowflakes and blowing his hood open, his neck shrunching, his hands folded over his shoulders, his teeth fighting.
"We shouldn't have left the Orlsberg Fortress. Cassius complained, wearing a thick bearskin coat over his robes, a white bear unique to the northern part of the province of Tux, white robes, white bearskin coats, and a pure white shield that made him look like he was at one with his surroundings.
"Don't complain, Cassiu, we're here to scout, and we'll be back in a minute. Gu Linhao looked Kaxiu up and down, "You look like a white bear, are you really that cold?"
"You're an ice mage, running naked in the snow isn't your forte. Kashew raised his pure white shield, slapped his sword, and pulled open his bearskin coat, which was still wearing chain mail, "In the ice and snow, I wore chain mail and carried cold weapons, it was really my own sin. Hey, man, it's so unkind to laugh at me as an iron magician. ”
Fat Wilson, who was wearing a black fluffy coat and laughing like a little black bear, patted Cassius on the shoulder and asked, "How about I put a fire on you?"
Gu Linhao immediately lowered his face and lowered his voice: "Put away your little juggler, fat man, this is the battlefield, the northern part of the empire. Do you know what we're dealing with? Don't expose yourself. ”
"Yes, yes, we deal with the polar people, those monsters with huge bodies. Wilson shrugged and pointed to the 10 soldiers behind him, "To be honest, I feel a little unconvinced, why do you need to send out three magicians to detect such a small thing? ”
Gu Linhao looked up at the towering cliff, and Kaxiu looked up, the cliff was hundreds of meters high, extremely steep, and there was ice on it, and the icicles shone with colorful light under the sun.
"Climb up, the polar people have built a bunker on it, we have to find a way to cross the Ice God Peak, and explore the way for the large army to take the bunker. Gu Linhao looked serious and looked back at everyone, "It's all ready, take out the hammer, nails, and rope, fall down, and die without a place to bury." With a wave of his hand, the ice on the mountain rumbled, and the ice turned into steps of different sizes and irregular shapes.
"Hey, I think the military department should send a team of ice magicians to turn this cliff into a hillside with ice, and the big army will rush up, isn't it over?" Wilson blinked and looked up at Gu Linhao.
Cassius shuddered, carefully stepping up the steps, the ice was a little slippery, and he hammered the nail to the cliff, tied the rope around his waist, and handed the other end of the rope to Wilson. "Are you a magician also mass-produced?Or do you want the polar people to skate down the hillside and give us a big charge? Damn, why are you so heavy? Tell you to eat less, you're too fat!"
The wind was getting stronger and stronger, and it was blowing non-stop. Snowflakes fall on Cassiu's nose. The only proof that Cassiu still feels alive is the teeth that keep fighting. He climbed the cliff and lay down on all fours.
On the Ice God Peak, to Kassiu's surprise, there were still trees, and the trees were full of snow and falling icicles, undulating, and white and endless. Looking down from here, the mountains are layered on top of each other, and under the snow, some sounds are faintly heard.
"That's a fir, not like you, so afraid of the cold. A local soldier from the fortress of the Orlsy Mountains smiled and looked at Cassiu, "Sir, your nose is like a carrot, don't fall asleep, the little animals here will eat it clean." ”
Kasiu subconsciously covered his nose, causing everyone to laugh.
"Bastard, Ka Xiu is the owner of the white robe, which is equivalent to Shao Zuo. Is there anyone who talks to the chief like this?" Gu Linhao was the only one who didn't smile, and he lowered his face.
The soldier immediately blushed, stood up straight, and gave a military salute: "I'm sorry!
Kaxiu sniffed, exhaled hot air, and patted the soldier's shoulder: "Don't learn from Lieutenant Gu Linhao, his face is serious and easy to wrinkle." ”
Gu Lin Hao bared his teeth, and he raised his voice: "In the army, there should be military discipline......"
"Yes, so, I'm Shaozo, you're a lieutenant, you listen to me," Kaxiu paused for a moment, "Lieutenant Gu Linhao, I order you to laugh one." ”
"Shao Zuo......" Gu Linhao looked embarrassed, and he scratched his face.
"Forget it, Cassiu, seriously, we're scouting in the enemy's bunker area. "Wilson stopped Cathew's prank, and added at the end," said Lieutenant Gulinhao, who had forehead lines on his head and looked older. ”
As soon as the words ended, everyone laughed. Gu Lin Hao walked forward angrily.
Although Cassius loves to joke, he has a good heart and purely adjusts the atmosphere. Exhausted as he climbed the cliff, the group was now exposed to snow and woods, and if he didn't ease his tension, he feared that the soldiers would lose their proper judgment.
The snow rustled under his feet, and with each step, the snow was compacted. They had gone deep into the fir forest, and had seen the results of the battle of the previous days: the ground was littered with weapons, Wilson had lost his humor, frowned, and stepped over a corpse, to be exact, the upper body of a soldier, the blood on the ground covered with snow, and the entrails had been eaten by animals. A horse was crushed by a fallen fir and had long since died.
"Sir, it's too cold, and we must find a place to hide before evening. One soldier said, gesturing to the horse that had been crushed by the firs, "I'll go and see, maybe I can cut some horse meat." ”
Wilson went with the soldiers, and Cassius ordered the others to be on guard.
"White Bear!" Gu Linhao shouted.
"Don't call me that. Cassius took the shield on his left arm and drew the sword from his waist.
"It's a white bear!" the soldiers pointed in Wilson's direction, only to see a white bear glaring at Wilson, yelling, and running over.
Wilson thought the fire magic, and suddenly, a spear as thick as an adult man's arm pierced the white bear's body, and the white bear roared in rage, flapping its limbs, and blood gushing even harder.
A deafening roar sounded on the right side of the white bear, a polar man about 3 meters tall, wearing fur and chain mail, his nose was the size of a bull's nose, his eyes were as big as copper bells, and his skin was slightly blue, and he ran angrily, and with an axe, he split the soldiers beside Wilson diagonally from top to bottom.
"Polar people!" Cassius shouted, knowing something was wrong.
The soldiers roared and rushed at the polar man. The great axe collided with the dagger with a crisp metallic sound that echoed through the forest. A soldier went around the back of the polar man and stabbed his sword into the inside of the polar man's knee, the polar man roared, grabbed the soldier's neck with his left hand, and picked up the soldier as a shield, the poor soldier was pierced in the back by his companion's sword, and that companion was cut off by a giant axe with his left foot.
"Die!" Wilson stretched out his hands and chanted his magic, "Fireball!" The fireball whistled and smashed into the polar man's face, the flames immediately enveloped his face, he roared, flapped the flames, and the soldiers worked together to stab their swords into his body from different directions.
"Hey, look, that's the benefit of having a magician!" Wilson waved his hands complacently.
"Get down!" Cassiu sprang over and threw out his shield, but it was too late, and the spear thrown from the other direction pierced Wilson's body from behind, and a piece of internal organs hung on the top of the spear, steaming. Wilson muttered something and collapsed.
The three polar people roared, they were more and more angry one by one, and the sword that humans needed to hold with both hands became a one-handed sword in their hands, and with every step they ran, the snow sank into it and went half a meter.
"Run!" shouted Gu Linhao, "We can't deal with so many polar people!" He unleashed his frost magic, turning the ground slippery and slowing down the polar people's run. A human soldier cried and ran backwards, his bow and arrow piercing his chest.
"There's still there!" Gu Lin Hao pointed in the direction of 9 o'clock, "Quickly retreat! Go to the cliff! I will use my magic to create a steep slope and slide down!"
"I'll cover you!" Cassius turned over and picked up the shield, the giant sword slashed his head and covered his face, he subconsciously blocked it, and with a bang, his head was violently slammed, and the polar man pointed at his chest and plunged into the giant sword.
Knock - Ka Xiu leaned and found himself on the ground, with papers scattered on his chair and desk.
The adjutant knocked on the door and came in, looking at Cassiu in surprise: "Your Excellency Dazuo, you seem to have been shouting......"
Kahew stood up, touched his forehead, quietly wiped the saliva off the table, and replied, "Yes, I'm practicing my voice." ”
"Practice your voice?" the adjutant repeated suspiciously, looking at the papers.
"Hmm. In a little more than a month, the Empire will hold a centennial celebration, and I wonder if I should make a choir show. Kasiu changed the subject, "Is there a problem? Adjutant?"
"Podolik Shaozo has set off to pick up the new batch of graduates of the Imperial Academy of Magic. The adjutant raised his head and reported seriously.
"Okay. Well...... Let's get out, I still want to ...... Continue to train your voice. Cassius waved his hand, and the adjutant gave a military salute, turned away, and locked the door.
In the 96th year of the imperial calendar, the huge polar people invaded the north and east of the empire respectively, and the northern invading polar people were blocked by the majestic Orr Snow Mountain. In the spring of 97 A.D., after a few months of stalemate, the Polar Regions suspended a large-scale invasion. The imperial calendar of 96-97 years is known as the "One Year War". Humanity paid the blood of millions of soldiers for a brief period of peace.
"It's been three years since the end of the one-year war. Cassius pushed open the window, and at the beginning of April of the 100th year of the imperial calendar, the middle of the empire already had the breath of spring.
"The second batch of magic graduates, I wish they never went to war. Cassius remembered the dream he had just had, of the more than 20 magic graduates who had been put into the war during the year, and that Wilson was the first magician graduate to be killed.
He suddenly felt very cold, and hurriedly closed the window, as if the cold wind had not stopped.