Chapter 12: The Tide of Strife
【Freljord Southwest-Silver-White Heath】
The snowflakes were so big that they pierced his eyes, and Udir narrowed his eyes tightly, the darkness and flying snow preventing him from seeing the road ahead. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE。 info
Entering Freljord at night was a risky act, and unfortunately it happened to be hit by an ice storm...... It can be regarded as making this arrogant guy suffer a little.
Udir raised his hand to cover his eyes so as not to be blinded by the wind and snow, and kept an eye on the road under his feet.
When I was in Gaode Town just now, it was still quiet at night, and now the wind is blowing and the sky is snowing, and I am afraid that Jax will not be able to meet such a situation.
Because Freljord is a region shrouded in magical power, the climate is also cut off from the surrounding area by powerful magical energy, and there is no sense of gradual terrain.
Now they seem to be moving blindly, their sight and judgment almost out of order.
In the midst of the blizzard, the only thing to rely on is the magic compass in Jax's hand.
Said to be a magic compass, this description seems too much like the real thing, and this swaying, guiding them in the direction is a purely magical creation, suspended in nothingness, the falling snow directly through this layer of magic light fell on Jax's bandaged palm, the wind could not change the direction of the compass needle, but the needle was still trembling, as if it would be blown by the wind at any time.
His instincts told Udil that this guy's compass needle was definitely not pointing south.
Jax strode forward, the weight of the magic to keep him from being blown away by the wind, while Udir walked like a cheetah in the middle of a dense forest, hunched down through knee-deep snow.
The wind was blowing, and Udir realized that this was not an unusual change in the weather, and the snow on the ground was lifted one after another, forming a tornado in mid-air.
This is unusual.
The cold makes the air heavy, and the weary gases accumulate on the ground, and it is impossible to raise a large amount of sand and dust into the air like a hot desert, so it is impossible to form such a tornado, and such a vision can only be...... A product of magic.
If it weren't for the proximity, perhaps even a dozen paces away, Udir might not have realized that it was a strange phenomenon caused by magic, and the blizzard quietly swallowed the secret in a low roar. The rising wind rose from the surface, and a layer of hard snow that had accumulated for the entire season was torn and broken, and flew into the air, crushed by the swirling wind, and looked like fresh snow.
The snow gradually could not hide the hidden secret, and gradually revealed an abrupt stone slab. The slab is located in the windy part of a boulder, which is easy to pile up with snow and is half-covered by the boulders on it, making it even more difficult to find.
Jax pulled out a black flat stone from his sleeve and embedded it in the groove of the slate. "Come on." He beckoned to Udir, and stepped on the slate, and although the stone he had just embedded fit perfectly with the recess, the slab did not look like it had changed, but Jax's feet disappeared into the slab, and his body entered the slab as well.
Udir hurriedly followed, the magic energy in the black flat stone seemed to be exhausted, he didn't want to get half of his body stuck in it, and jumped over, but he still subconsciously closed his eyes when he passed through the stone slab.
The landing site was not very deep, and the stone slab that covered the entrance was not very high above his head, or rather, it was actually the entrance. Jax didn't seem to be idle for a moment, the compass in his hand was gone, and he carried a magic lantern in each hand, and the heatless light emitted a cold light.
"From this secret passage, you can get through the outer wasteland faster. This is information that Ms. LeBlanc gave me. Jax explained, handing him a lamp, and he suddenly sat down cross-legged and unhurried. Come, Udil, and tell me about Freljord. ”
"Oh? Not in a hurry? Udir was still haunted by the wine he hadn't finished in the tavern, and in the darkness Jax had thrown something over, as if it was a short stick for self-defense, and when he held it in his hand, he realized that it was half a long hard loaf of bread, without honey or anything like that, and had excellent antiseptic properties, so it was often used as dry food for travel.
"It's just to shake off the 'tail'."
"You're being followed?"
"Covert operations have never been possible to be done in secret." Jax shrugged.
Udir heard the sound of chewing hard bread, but the magic lamp was on the ground, and the other man's face was in the dark, and he couldn't see how Jax was eating with the mask on.
"Freljord......" Udil took a bite of bread, his eyes staring at the deep darkness, and slowly becoming deeper. There have always been many tribes living here, at war with each other, and here can never be unified, the differences are too great, and the cold and blizzard are the best fortifications, unless there is a supreme force. ”
"I just want to know, whose territory is it in the northeast direction, which exudes abnormal magic fluctuations?" Jax coldly interrupted his rambling.
"Princess Mafula in the northeast, Ash in the south, and Sejuani in the northwest are the three most powerful tribes, and all three princesses are said to have icy bloodlines and are qualified to become the kings of the northlands. We enter from the southwest entrance of Freljord, and to the northeast is either Ash or Mafule's territory, but Freljord has too much disputed territory, so the clue is too vague for the mere direction. ”
"If you really have to find them one by one......" Jax stood up, the magic light swaying as he got up, "Since you don't have any clue, let's go first." ”
It seems that this task is indeed not easy to accomplish. Jax sighed at the drudgery, as the enforcer of the alliance, he didn't need to solve too trivial things, thank God, otherwise those guys would have tossed him to death.
"I have a very valuable clue. I think. Udir followed, footsteps echoing through the dark underground passages as the sound of talking.
"What?" Jax's pace slowed slightly, as if he was afraid that he would miss something useful if he walked too fast.
"The person who will make a big move in the North recently is ...... Princess Ash. ”
"What? Big moves? ”
"It's not clear yet, but it seems that she's bringing together the many tribes of Freljord for a negotiation about the future of Freljord as a whole, but I don't think it's that simple. It's not a simple phenomenon, and it's clear what she's been preparing. Udil paused, and then he slowly told the riddle. Her goal is to rule here, but success is not so simple. ”
"Tell me more about these three princesses."