—4E, 201, Last Seed, 19th, 6:00 a.m.

After a night's rest, Arthur and a few Redguards were back on their way early in the morning.

Arthur was not too surprised that the Red Guard woman, who called herself "Satya", could kill the wolf with her bare hands.

Because he has the impression that many women can easily do this...... No, wait, did he come into contact with any powerful women other than the town guards?

At that time, Arthur was entangled in his own memories, and the two Red Guard swordsmen had no way to ask for help, and were detained by Satya as servants in the name of "offending the nobles".

Due to the effects of the ongoing war in the Hammer Province and Somo, many of the Red Guard nobles moved to other provinces to escape the war, and only a few of them were able to maintain their status in the provinces of Cellodil or Skyrim, and most of them had to hide their identities and work in various jobs after losing their wealth.

To people in other provinces, the Redguards may only be proud and aggressive, but if there is a conflict between the two Redguards, they will basically declare their status in the province and try to take advantage of the dispute.

The two scimitars were unlucky, they were just mercenaries even in the Falling Hammer Province, and this Satya lady was a descendant of an old aristocratic bloodline, and even though she was now working as an innkeeper in Snowman, she was strong enough to subdue the two mercenaries - mainly because of the latter, of course.

"You're going to Xueman too?" Satya said to Arthur, "Can I hire you to protect me?" ”

After passing through the junction leading to Phocles, Rift City, and Snowy City, the four of them were still together, perhaps the two Redguard Scimitars didn't want to go, but they didn't have a choice at this point.

"Of course," replied Arthur, "but I think you have enough strength to defend yourself." ”

"If the nobles do it themselves, wouldn't it seem that the guards are very incompetent?" Satya glanced at the scimitar figure who was exploring the path in front of him, "I'm just asking you to strike after the two of them are dead." ”

It seems that she is still very unhappy that these two guys forced her to go into battle herself.

"Of course, but how are you going to place them?" Arthur looked at Satya's outfit: "There won't be any servants in the inn, right?" ”

"I will go to their leader and ask him to make amends for the offending to the nobility, and my work has been seriously disrupted by their fanfare for finding a 'Red Guard Woman' with such fanfare." Satya said: "It just so happens that the money to buy a house in Xueman is still a little short. ”

"Hehe, Kematu is not a small character like us," one of the scimitars sneered back, "even in a cave, he can beat seven of us alone." ”

"Huh." Satya sneered back.

"You don't believe it? I'm telling you, Captain, he's—" the Redguard continued.

"You've revealed all the information about your team." Arthur sighed and reminded the swordsman, who still hadn't realized what he had said.

A powerful warrior named Kematu led seven men of the same caliber as the ill-headed scimitar in front of him to find a certain Red Guard woman who was currently anchored in a cave.

"Uh...... Ah......h

He didn't seem to dare to make a move with Satya and Arthur, and slashed at a passing long-haired cow with his backhand.

It was just an ordinary cow, and it was slashed to death before it had time to react, and the scimitar man who did it was still proud.

By the way, the blue pattern on the cow seemed familiar, Arthur thought, as if he had seen it on some mammoth giant elephant?

"Woo-" A loud, mournful roar rang out in the direction in which the cow had appeared, a little further off the road.

——9:00——

As the northernmost province of the Tamarel continent, the temperature in Skyrim Province has always been very low, even in summer, the snow line of the mountain peaks rises by dozens of meters at most, and the crops cannot grow at all without the care of farmers.

So, what looks like a "steppe" on the snowy plains is actually just tundra, and no herbivores can survive except rabbits, and goats and deer are active close to the snowy mountains, where at least a large number of hardy plants grow even if they have to endure the cold.

Above the tundra, however, live the largest animal in the sky, mammoth elephants, taller than houses, shaking the ground violently as they walk, and their thick fur and sharp tusks and nimble trunks are their weapons - and they are coveted by poachers.

They dig holes in the ground, arrange spikes, place mammoth-eating grass fruits around the traps, and try to attract the huge creatures that dare to roam around because they have no natural predators to approach the traps, and then it's time to get ivory, trunks, and furs.

These hunters who hunt mammoths are called poachers because almost all mammoths have a lord, and this owner is not a lord or a king, but a giant.

The Giant is a humanoid creature with natural powers, gray skin, thick and powerful limbs, huge palms and soles, and thick gray-brown hair, their clothes are made of mammoth fur, decorated with the bones of their prey, and the weapons they use are generally mammoth thigh bones.

The average giant is three to five meters tall, and ten meters or more is rare, and there are legends that there are forty meters tall giants, and most people take it as a joke.

Although the giants are a major threat to travelers, because they have basic intelligence and only care about the mammoths they raise, if they don't get too close, they will be completely ignored, and the real ones who die at their hands are some bold but unlucky poachers who don't escape in time after killing the mammoths, so the lords everywhere pretend that they don't exist.

The blue pattern that Arthur saw was that the giant crushed a blue plant and used it as paint to apply to the mammoth he owned, and basically, if he saw a mammoth with such a pattern on his body, he would definitely see a giant with the same pattern on his chest nearby.

Arthur remembered that his adoptive father had warned him not to provoke a giant, because that would be tantamount to death, and if he accidentally angered a giant, it was best to flee without hesitation—in fact, the two Red Guard swordsmen did just that.

The giant that burst out of the jungle by the roadside was just over two meters tall and looked like a giant cub, with the same blue pattern on its chest as the cow.

"Whew!!" It stood beside the carcass of the long-haired cow and roared loudly, while the two Redguard scimitars had run away without looking back, and Arthur couldn't move forward for the time being because it was stuck in the way, and might have to retreat backwards—well, no.

Satya was completely stunned, and stared at the giant motionless with wide eyes: "The Holy Spirit is above, what kind of monster is that, I have never seen it." ”

Obviously, this kind of Skyrim Province specialty does not exist in Falling Hammer Province, she has been living in the town since she came to Skyrim Province, and she has never seen it, but even if she can move, she can't deal with such a huge thing with her bare hands.

"Hey......" Arthur sighed again, because of such a delay, the giant had recovered from the grief of losing his "trumpet mammoth", picked up the bone stick on his waist, and stared at the two of them with murderous killing intent in his eyes, and in Arthur's field of vision, Satya's body instantly gathered a black "death vortex" like a tornado.

"Well," Arthur said, unleashing the steel two-handed greatsword behind his back, slightly shorter, "I've always loved hunting big prey, but I didn't expect it to be this big. ”

"Roar!" Naturally, the giant didn't care what he said, and strode over while waving the bone stick in his hand.

Stride and kick the prey with your legs raised, swing the stick from top to bottom to hammer the prey, sweep the stick from left to right to sweep the prey, and repeat if you don't succeed.

Giants only have this simple attack, but due to their size, these attacks are all extremely deadly, and no one can parry them with weapons or block them with shields, which will only blow or smash themselves like fallen leaves, and Arthur is not going to try to meet the rod even if he is wearing iron armor.

He only took advantage of the inertia of the charge to make a stroke, and slashed past the running giant's side, although the giant saw Arthur's movements, but he didn't have time to react, and the bone rod that smashed into the ground did not hit the target at all, but was left by the steel sword on the outside of its leg.

Arthur saw that at that moment, the "aura of death" on Satya's body had completely disappeared, and if he could see himself, he should have transferred it all to himself.

Apparently, the giant's goal had shifted from "killing the mammoth's red-skinned human" to "hurting its own iron shell", and it stood still, raising its bone-band and roaring at Arthur.

"It looks like it's just scratched skin." Arthur looked at the giant who was not sluggish in his movements, put away his greatsword and raised his longbow, and fired three arrows at the giant in a row, all of which hit, but there was no effect, the arrows stuck in the giant's arms, shoulders and chest swayed and did not fall, but they had no effect at all except to make the giant more angry.

"Then, I can only continue to escape, hoping that there are guards patrolling outside the city." Arthur, who had completely attracted the giant's attention, turned and ran, and the giant, as he had guessed, did not hesitate to abandon the closer Satya and chase after him.

"Let's hope no hero will fight it head-on," Arthur thought as he turned back and shot a few arrows at the giant to prevent it from turning back after Satya, "It would be better if there were strong archers." ”

At the end of the downhill road, the snow-filled plains, the White River, and the farms and mills along the river are clearly visible.