Carlos pondered for a moment, then suddenly looked up at the sky, and through the flying snowflakes, he patrolled the endless gray and gloomy sky.

After a few moments, Carlos had a look on his face.

In the depths of his vision, through the gaps in the dark clouds, he vaguely saw a behemoth Yuxue heading in the direction of the Droni Mountains.

The night watchman led Carlos to the small square of the town, and Carlos saw several scruffy figures, huddled in a snowy clearing, guarded by a wooden frame.

Carlos first recognized the swordsman Anderson, who had not been seen for six months, his face was covered with thick stubble, Carlos stepped on the creaking snow, and the black cat lying on his shoulder raised his head and opened his big watery eyes and meowed vigilantly.

Coming to them and looking at the tattered appearance of several people, Carlos frowned, put his hand into the cuff of the cotton coat and asked, "How did you make yourself look like this?"

Murray, the short man, raised his head with difficulty when he heard this, and his expression was a little lonely, "I'm sorry, Master Carlos, your mission was messed up. ”

The tall man Soleon looked at his cheeks, which he didn't know whether they were red from freezing or red, and said, "It's all my fault, the herbs were abandoned in a deep ravine when they camped at night, and the snow came suddenly, and when they woke up, they were covered with snow half a man's height, I'm sorry." ”

Carlos was a little disappointed, but he quickly put it down, it was a miracle that he could come back alive on a snowy day, and then he asked about more important things.

"It's okay, Soli, you don't have to blame yourself. Have they arrived at their home in the mountains, my guests?"

Anderson squirmed his throat, his lips twitched, and he looked helpless.

"In fact, we owe them a lot of money to them for surviving death. ”

Carlos looked at Conrad's seemingly devastated expression, and his heart fluttered.

"Oh, what's going on?"

Conrad the Fat Hunter cleared his throat," Master Carlos, when we arrived at the depths of the mountain range, there seemed to be something strange happening there, we followed your instructions, entered and passed through a valley along the mouth of the mountain range, and found that there were countless groups of demonic beasts inside, they gathered together, and completely occupied the entire valley, we could not move on, we wanted to ask your guests, but found that the carriage was empty, and the people inside seemed to have quietly left, and we didn't know what to do at that time, so we could only continue the next task of searching for alchemical herbs, and after that, it was the heavy snow that covered the mountain and we got lost in the mountain full of thick snow。 ”

"And how did you get back?"

Conrad blushed and said, "Actually, we don't know, we didn't know that we slept in a tree hole last night, and when we woke up in the morning, we had already arrived at the entrance of the town, and then ...... You also know the next thing, young master......"

Anderson glanced at the fat hunter angrily, and said coldly: "Yesterday I arranged for you to be on guard at night, but you didn't know anything. ”

Carlos felt the cold wind blowing on his face, tightened the neckline around his neck, thought for a moment, and roughly understood what was going on, but with the awakened demonic beast of the two-headed dragon, it was not a big problem.

Thinking about it, he sighed secretly and reassured: "It seems that the story is still very long, let's go back first, drink hot and then continue." ”

Anderson, with his sword on his back, looked a little heavy, and slowly stood up and shrugged.

"Master Carlos, you don't need to entertain us, you can't complete the task and be mocked and mocked, maybe it can make us feel better. ”

Watching Anderson pat the snowflakes on his body and stand up.

Carlos's thin lips drew a smile and said, "Cheer up, I don't want to go south with a complaining swordsman." ”

"Would you like to take me to the Central Province?" said Anderson, surprised.

Carlos, who had seen the figure of the two-headed dragon before, knew that the orcs Cook and Vivien should be safe, otherwise the two-headed dragon would not be so kind to escort Anderson back to Salt Well Town.

From the warm cuffs, he pulled out his hand and said, "Why not, your escort task is completed, and I naturally have to fulfill my promise." ”

The swordsman Anderson was stunned, hugged the black cat on his shoulder in his arms, pinched its forehead and said slowly: "It's done? It seems that you are hiding a lot from us about this mission?"

Carlos shook his head, turned around and walked forward with the Night Watchman beside him, without replying.

"Go back to the fire, clean yourselves up, and we'll talk later." ”

Anderson pouted, kicked the tall man in a daze, and said, "Don't pretend to be pitiful, this kid doesn't eat this at all!"

Murray said expressionlessly: "I don't need you to remind you, you have completed the task, but the three of us brothers have not, enjoy your wine, we plan to pack up our equipment and continue to look for those herbs buried in the snow." ”

Anderson showed an expression of hatred for iron and steel, rolled his eyelids and said, "I really deserve to be a fool, I was lucky that I was not killed by you this trip." ”

Night falls.

The interior of Blackstone Castle is brightly lit.

It is like two distinct worlds, the world in complete darkness comes from West Cyprus below the castle, and the black stone fortress on the hill of Loya Avenue Pass is a lively scene with brilliant lights.

Winter Twilight, this is the grandest festival in the northwest to see off the coming winter away, even in the frontier frontline, people can't avoid a sense of peace on their faces.

Yet splendor is a blasphemy against the night.

On the edge of Blackstone Castle, outside the cliffs at the other end of the Castle Mountains, a whirlwind of ghostly bats swept towards the castle.

Suddenly, the group of bats suddenly stopped, spun violently in place, and finally turned into hundreds of human figures, all of them pale, without any blood, wearing a wide black cloak, with a cold breath, like a dead man who had just climbed out of a grave, lying on the protruding rock of the cliff, not to be lit by flame or to restrain the breath, but to hide in a wide cloak, inside was a black iron sword with a cold light.

The Black Iron Dwarves prepare to raid the Blackstone Fortress, the first and most important line of defense in Eastern Cyprus, on the day of the Winter Veil.

To this end, the Black Iron Dwarf King made a pact with the Batrider to form a temporary alliance.

As long as East Cyprus is completely captured, it will not only deal a heavy blow to the morale of the Yuguang Empire, but also completely divide Cyprus into the palm of the hand, and rule the Western Strait with the Yuguang Empire.

And the Knights of the ancient race of Batmen joining the dispute, the newly promoted Duke Murray knows nothing.

He was in the castle with a headache for the four mercenary legions that had just arrived, nearly 20,000 people for supplies at the end of winter.

He predicted that when the snow fell, the Black Iron Dwarves' forces would try to attack Loya Avenue, and he needed to be well prepared for the Spring Festival War.