Winter overnight.

In the vast grasslands of northern Xinjiang, the temperature will plummet every time winter comes, and snowflakes can be seen everywhere. At this time, on the grassland of northern Xinjiang, all day long is the white scenery of thousands of miles of ice and snow, which will soon make people feel tired and disoriented after watching for a long time.

This is true of people, and so it is of animals.

A snowy griffon, returning from foraging, let out an anxious cry, soared through the lead-clouded sky, and flew along the endless snow-capped mountains under the thick clouds, searching for the snowy peak where its eagle's nest was built on the steep mountain wall.

The snowy griffin only moved here in late spring this year, and is not yet familiar with the surrounding terrain. Heavy snow covered the mountains, changing the surrounding scenery and causing it to get lost.

It only remembered that its eagle's nest was built on a snow-covered cliff that would not melt all year round, and even in the hot summer, the snow below the snow line of the rest of the surrounding peaks had all melted, revealing the dark green that was as lush as ink, but the entire snow-capped peak was still covered with ice and snow, and it was dazzlingly white. Moreover, when the sun shines directly on the peak, there will be colorful brilliance.

However, this heavy snowfall changed everything.

Finally, after unremitting efforts, the snowfield griffin found the snow peak with its own eagle nest in the towering snow peaks, and also found the eagle nest built on the steep mountain wall to the north of the snow peak.

Just as the snowy griffin was about to fly back to its warm vulture nest and sleep comfortably, it froze.

The snowy griffin saw a figure dressed in colorful silk on the vertical ice wall to the north of the snow peak, stepping on the vertical ice wall with both feet, completely unaffected by gravity, and walking almost parallel to the earth step by step towards the top of the snow peak.

And its vulture nest was just in the way of the rainbow man, only a few meters away from him, and the man in color clothes seemed to have no intention of bypassing the eagle nest at all, and was ready to step on the eagle's nest like this.

Seeing that its home was about to be destroyed, the griffon, which was a little grumpy, immediately let out an angry chirp, spreading its claws and wings

With a bang, he desperately rushed towards the man in color who was walking on the vertical ice wall, ready to tear the intruder who dared to invade its territory to shreds.

Just as the Snow Griffin rushed to within about three meters of the Colorful Clothed Man, a materialized and shining circular force field shield suddenly appeared, and the Snow Griffin slammed into the force field shield, and suddenly let out a terrible cry, its body shattered, and its flesh and blood splashed, and it was suddenly crushed to pieces by the powerful power contained in the force field shield.

The battle was short and uneventful, as if it had never happened. But the feathers that the loser spilled in the sky are a reminder that this battle did take place.

In the sky, the snow began to slowly fall again. This time, along with the snowflakes, there were also patches of white feathers stained with blood.

The man in the colored coat, who had been walking with his head bored as if he had never done anything, suddenly stopped walking in front of the snowy griffin's nest on the cliff wall. But after a momentary pause, he stepped again, stepping on the snowy griffon's nest that stood at his feet, and walked to the top of the snowy peak.

The wind and snow suddenly roared angrily!

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Located in the northeast of the Northern Xinjiang Grassland, at the foot of the Tanggula Mountains, Rapids Fort is the largest city in the Northern Xinjiang Grassland. The city gets its name from the fact that the Maraput River, a fast-flowing river that originates in the Tanggula Mountains, passes through the city.

With a population of about 150,000, Fort Riptide is a multi-racial city with a predominantly human race. Terrans make up more than 80 percent of the city's population, while less than 20 percent of the population is composed mainly of dwarves, gnomes, and orcs, and there are a small number of elves and orcs in the city. In fact, there were more orcs than Terrans living in this city, and it was the second largest race in the city after Terrans. However, after the city was captured by the Red Flame Fire Dragon Mercenary Regiment, the most powerful mercenary group in the northern grasslands a few years ago, the orcs fled in large numbers, and the proportion of orcs remaining in the city has retreated to the dwarves and gnomes.

The Red Flame Fire Dragon Mercenary Regiment has tens of thousands of people, and it is the largest mercenary group in the entire Northern Xinjiang Grassland. The Red Flame Fire Dragon Mercenary Group is not only superior to other mercenary groups on the grassland in terms of the number of mercenaries, but it is even more amazing

What is surprising is that the mercenaries in this mercenary group are generally well-equipped, not only far superior to the mercenaries of other mercenary groups on the grassland, but even the equipment of the regular army of the Beamon Empire cannot be compared with the mercenaries in the Red Flame Fire Dragon Mercenary Group.

The Beamon Empire has always suspected that there are human countries in the Eastern Continent secretly supporting the Red Flame Fire Dragon Mercenary Regiment, otherwise how can the Red Flame Fire Dragon Mercenary Group have equipment that is superior to the regular army of the Empire? After all, to have the strength to support more than 10,000 people with sophisticated equipment, it is absolutely impossible for private individuals to do it, only the power of the state can do it. Moreover, the Beamon Empire targeted its suspicions at the Byzantine Empire, its thousand-year-old enemy bordering its eastern border. Because of the racial composition of the entire northern grassland, the human race is close to two-thirds, and the Byzantine Empire, as the leader of the human world in the Eastern Continent, has not wanted to get involved in the northern grassland for a day or two.

If you ask which is the largest mercenary union in the northern grasslands, the vast majority of people will choose the Riptide Fort mercenary union.

Although the mercenary union recognized by the Beamon Empire does not recognize those mercenary groups that oppose the Beamon Empire in the northern grasslands as real mercenary groups, but calls them bandit groups, this does not prevent these mercenary groups from uniting to form their own mercenary unions. As the largest city in the Northern Xinjiang Grassland, the Mercenary Union in the city is naturally considered by most people on the grassland to be the largest mercenary union in the Northern Xinjiang Grassland.

In Rapids Fort, these days are extremely lively. Even if it is a cold winter with snowflakes flying, you can feel the hustle and bustle everywhere in the city.

Since it was rumored that the Red Flame Fire Dragon Mercenary Regiment held a mercenary conference in the name of the Riptide Fort Mercenary Guild and was about to release a 3A-level mission, the mercenary world in the entire Northern Xinjiang Grassland was boiling. In addition to the mercenaries who were invited by the 'Hero Post' of the Red Flame Fire Dragon Mercenary Group, many nameless mercenaries who were not invited by the 'Hero Post' also ran to Torrent Castle City to join in the fun, wanting to see what the 3A-level mission that will be released at this mercenary conference is.

Senna and his three men, who set out from Fort Glory in the southwest of the prairie, finally braved the wind and snow to rush to Fort Rapids the day before the mercenary conference, and found a hotel called 'House of the Brave' in the city to stay.