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Bang!

The abdomen of the monster snow bear was directly penetrated by the dummy bullet, and then the fragmented shell was frantically torn and destroyed in the snow bear's body, and a large amount of flesh and blood were blown into pieces by the explosion under the fragments of the ammunition.

"Roar...... Woo......"

The snow bear roared angrily at first, but seconds later there was a heart-wrenching wail of pain.

A large amount of blood rushed out of the broken pores on the snow bear's shell, accumulating into a huge pool of blood under the snow bear's body, and the snow bear lost consciousness with convulsions in its limbs after a few poofs, and completely lost its breath.

Those few seconds before his life must be the most painful time in his life.

"Not bad." Lin Xu said indifferently. Called flintlock rifles were returned to Münster and Petrograd. "Let the members of the Tiandong Order who are preparing to go to war practice a few more bullets. There is also a batch of explosives packs, and when the time comes, we can have the Winter Snow Wolf drop it to the Dusa family's station.

"Yes."

Lin Xu nodded in satisfaction. As for the explosives package, with the technical basis that the world has been able to make ornamental fireworks, coupled with the research of bullets and gunpowder by the industrial team under Lin Xu for more than half a year, it is not a problem to prepare a finished product with a better effect.

"Master."

At this time, Curry teleported directly from the upper Dark Sea Dock to the Dark Blacksmith.

"Your Highness Victoria, I hope we can release Miss Jing and be her bridesmaid at the engagement banquet."

Curry asked Lin for advice.

"Engagement receptions also need bridesmaids?"

Lin Xu asked strangely.

"In these remote tribes it is possible to have this custom."

"Okay. Notify Esmeralda and let Esmeralda embrace Jingchu as a descendant of the blood clan to prevent Victoria. Then Zola will be my best man. Linster is also too old. When the time comes, the officiant of the engagement banquet will be arranged by Curry and Linster. ”

……

The core settlement of the Snow Wolf Tribe, Villadusag.

In the center of Villadusag is the most important meeting place of the entire tribe, with a huge meeting square where the entire tribe can be paraded, as well as a huge meeting hall with a ceremonial hall for important tribal banquets and festivals.

In addition to the Senate Tower on the eastern side of the valley where Villadusag is located, the rooms behind the hall of the council hall are the most important places for the political meetings of the entire tribe.

The Great Hall behind the Square is wide and lofty, with thirty large dark black round stone columns arranged in two rows, extending from the front of the guests to the castle, supporting this magnificent space with a height of more than 20 meters. The floor is also made of snow jade, and a wide scarlet floor stretches through the hall to the end of the hall. At the other end of the stall, the same snow jade stone was built into a five-meter-high, thirty-meter-square altar, and the middle of the altar was empty, and it was impossible to tell that it was a sacrifice or something. The altar is also decorated with blood-colored stripes, and from a distance it looks like a flowing river of blood, just like the bloody mass that has been performed at the Xuezhen Temple in the past! This should have been a simple decoration, but in the perception of the knightly level of the guests, it seemed to smell a strong smell of blood, and it seemed that the usual bloody mass in the Snow Temple had been going on in a corner of the underground of the altar, making the altar have a feeling of gushing blood.

These days, the meeting hall has been redecorated with a new staffing of the cadres of the revolutionary army under the command of Lin Xu. The whole decoration process, in addition to the traditional style of the snow wolf tribe, also has a more suitable blood smell of the blood knights of the revolutionary army.

Since the other day, some residents of Vila Dusag have received an invitation to a celebratory banquet to be held in the council hall.

The invitation did not state what the theme of the banquet was, but it only stated that it was a banquet organized by Victoria, the royal daughter of the Snow Wolf Tribe, and Lin Xu, the patriarch of the Tiandong Order, and the invitation came from His Royal Highness Lin Xu.

The vast majority of these residents are official parishioners who have registered with the Tiandong Order for most of the past six months and have participated in several bloody masses in the Xue Zhen Temple, and they already have a great sense of identity with the eclectic and open religious atmosphere of the Xue Zhen Temple. This time, the Order held a banquet in a place of status and glory in Villadusag, and of course it was glad to attend.

The invitation suggested that the congregants should bring their own family members, even if they were not members of the Tenwinter Order.

This was certainly a joyous news for Gem, who was the first to join the Winter Order. Born in a distant branch of the Ge family, he was over thirty years old but still doing nothing, and it wasn't until he joined the Celestial Winter Order that his life changed dramatically. The Order provides many benefits of life, every festival day after attending religious Mass in the Order, you can receive sweet gifts and food, the Order also provides a variety of jobs, as a place that plays a role in the trade between the Snow Wolf Tribe and the Lynshu Snow Wolf Territory, there is always a need to recruit people during the trade season of the year, Gem participated in these works as a parishioner, received a considerable reward, and gradually improved his status in the Order.

Most importantly, for Gem, he had faith, and for the first time he felt that the Wolf God was so close to his faith. Gem came from a family with a long history in Villadusag, and for the self-proclaimed family of the tribe, it was undoubtedly more precious for him to be able to realize his self-worth in his faith.

In this way, Gem became a devout member of the Winter Order. In some tea parties organized by the Order, Gem, who was the first to join the Order and enter the state, is also qualified to lead everyone to organize prayers, sharing, confessions and masses, and to use his inner piety or fanaticism to infect more people in the tribe who have nothing to rely on.

For this feast, Gem brought with him a distant cousin, a female elder whom he greatly respected, who had given him much ideological guidance and material help at a young age. A banquet in the council hall must have been an important celebration within the Order, and Gem had to bring his most trusted relatives with him. His past life was not successful, and the relatives around him who were originally closest to him left him one by one, or deliberately alienated him. Only this cousin was as just as relieved and helpful as he was a child, and this was the highest status elder in Gem's heart.

The banquet was a dinner party, but an hour after noon, Gem brought his distant cousins and elders to the council hall.

As he walked into the front of the hall, Gem saw the theme of the banquet displayed on the side of the hall door with a pedestal carved in relief.

"To—the engagement banquet of Her Royal Highness Victoria, the noble princess of the Snow Wolf Tribe, and His Royal Highness Lin Xu, the chief priest of the Druid Temple, the Patriarch of the Celestial Winter Order......"

"Engaged!"

"Patriarch!"

Gem looked at the inscriptions on the relief pedestal with some surprise. For this mysterious Patriarch, Gem had heard of it in the Snow Temple. Gem often dealt with Curry, the pastor of the Snow Temple. Curry the Shepherd is a silent religious man, but he has a calm temperament, and when he wears a black robe, he has a noble temperament that makes him ashamed (the charm value added by the Red Moon Blood), and Lord Curry is proficient in esoteric enchantment, not to mention the religious spells cast by Lord Curry. Even the priests of the Winter Snow Wolf Temple are nothing more than that. And Patriarch Lin Xu is a big man whom His Excellency Curry respects very much.

As early as when His Royal Highness returned from the Holy Mountain Trial, contracted the Phantom Beast Ice Tide Emperor, subdued the Demon Wolf King, and then concluded an alliance with the Druid Temple, he had heard of His Royal Highness the Druid Priest of the noble Viking family, and in the Snow Temple for most of the year, he was even more exposed to the demeanor of the shepherds in the Order, and his admiration for the figures he worshiped gradually migrated to Patriarch Lin Xu, the leader of all the Order's pastors.

"What a glorious ceremony! Glorious Royal Highness! Glorious Patriarch! ”

Gem couldn't help but admire.

……

As the time approached dusk, more and more people entered the chamber. There were the attendants and soldiers arranged by Lin Xu to participate in this banquet, as well as the invited people of the Tiandong Order and their families.

All the people of the invited Snow Wolf Tribe were shocked by the news of the engagement banquet between Her Royal Highness the Princesses and Her Royal Highness the Patriarch.

At this time, the news of the marriage between Victoria of the Viking family and Dusa of the Dussa family, which had been decided by the Senate ten days earlier, had not yet been confirmed and filed with the Viking family. (Even if it is a marriage, it will not be arranged until the beginning of winter this year) Some news about the upcoming marriage of His Royal Highness Victoria and Dusain, a young talent of the Dussa family, has only been quietly passed on to the upper echelons of the entire tribe.

His Royal Highness Victoria himself was also very secretive about this news, and he was not very reluctant, no nobleman of the Snow Wolf tribe would chew his tongue at will to offend this noble Highness who will have two major families standing behind him in the future.

Therefore, the people of the Tiandong Order, who got the truth about the banquet, were themselves civilians of the tribe, and after learning the news, they were more surprised that they could personally experience this glorious moment, and they didn't know about the other news.

Curry, who organized the banquet, arranged for waiters to distribute ceremonial robes or armor with Viking family coats of arms at the entrance of the banquet hall. Most of the people attending the meeting were tribal commoners, and there were very few people like Gem who were related to the upper family. In the Snow Wolf tribe, the dress code for marriage-related events was indeed different from that of ordinary banquets, and the costume with the Viking family crest was often a status symbol, so most people began to change into banquet dresses.

A small number of the Order's parishioners have been replaced with the standard armor of the Viking family. As a long-standing tribe that has been bred from the Winter Mountains, it's not surprising that festivals wear armor and robes. The only strange thing is that those who put on armor often carry a strange black iron pipe on their backs.

For almost all tribal civilians, this is indeed an iron pipe.

For Gem, who had read a lot of family books in his youth, the iron pipes seemed to have some resemblance to a weapon of an ancient race.

It's just that the charm is somewhat similar, but in terms of shape and structure, it is indeed very different.

Gem recalls that the weapon of that ancient race seemed to be called a musket.