The stars are bright and the night breeze is cold.

The wet ground of the Frost Fortress was frosty.

Today is May's third year here as a border guard.

Dressed in a pair of steel chain mail and holding a sharp spear in her right hand, she performed her duty, patrolling the outer edge of the fortress's inner walls towards the fortress's war halls.

In the braziers around them, the everlasting oil brought from the alchemy workshop of Haoyue City was burning.

They burned silently, shining with a white glow.

dragged her figure long.

Mei glanced at it expressionlessly, straightened her body, and continued to walk forward.

Iron boots made shallow footprints on the damp mossy ground.

It's really ironic to say that these ever-bright lamp oils, they ordinary people can't afford to use them at all.

May remembers that when she was a child, her mother used to mend their clothes under the dim kerosene lamp, and the choking flames and the pale green smoke that filled the house made her and her young sister often have trouble breathing and coughing all night.

The ever-bright lamp oil refined by the magicians is bright and smells good.

Even as a child, Mei often wondered if the glittering priests who lived in the temple had crushed the moon in the sky and sprinkled it in the everlasting lamp oil.

It's a pity that the price of that kind of thing is not at all what they can afford.

And according to the neighbors, they don't need that kind of thing at all.

Yes. They don't need it.

I can't afford to use it either.

However, from this point, May had to admire Duke Rosa Lind.

When she first arrived at the Frost Keep, there were only torches, braziers burning with black smoke, and the flames were dimly lit and the range of light was extremely limited.

So at night, the Frost Fortress had to line up a whole line of braziers on the walls and important strongholds.

It wasn't until two years ago that Lord Rosa Lind used an extremely tough attitude to make the magicians in Haoyue City compromise.

Yes, May remembers that there was a terrible war at that time.

A small group of magicians from López made their way through the walls, dodging the dim lights, and then stole important letters from Lord Rosalind's desk.

After they had retreated, Lord Rosalind rode her most loyal lightning bolt to Bright Moon City.

Yes, Lightning, she remembered that name.

The horse was the best she had ever seen, blue and white, like clouds in the sky.

And it does deserve the name Lightning.

When Lord Rosalind rode it, it sped away like lightning.

May believes that nothing can catch up with it except the arrows of the legendary Wind Weepers.

When the Thunder Knight Rosa Lind returned from Bright Moon City on a lightning ride, the everlasting oil lamps began to be installed here.

They were better equipped, and even the humble miscellaneous soldier who patrolled at night had her own chain mail and the sharp spear in her hand.

In addition to this, Lord Rosalind also brought back several magicians and set up a so-called magical cordon here......

Well......

Or maybe it's called a magical enchantment?

Mei looked up suspiciously, no longer dwelling.

Those advanced things are not something that low-level soldiers like them can understand.

Overall, the entire Frost Fortress was safer, and there were no further infiltration incidents.

But......

Mei pursed her lips and looked back and forth in her eyes.

She walked in a neat stride, taking a precise step forward as she did every day.

From the east base of the wall, it takes 563 steps to walk the entire wall, and from there, it takes about 2,289 steps to walk along the corner in the direction of the war hall.

She's confident in it, and she's never made a mistake.

Mei is proud of her control of distance and meticulousness in the surrounding grass and trees.

The entire Frost Fortress was as familiar to her as the lines in the palm of her hand.

She had no doubt that she could outperform the magic guards.

If there really is any anomaly that can escape the detection of the magic guards, then it must not be able to escape her eyes.

It's a pity that when she told her companions about it, they always laughed at her for not being able to do it for herself.

"Hmph." A sneering smile appeared on Mei's face.

That's because they're too stupid to understand how good she is.

Just give her a chance to prove it......

It was at this moment that Mei's gaze flickered slightly.

Because she noticed that where the green pine trees were planted in front, the soil below was a little loose.

To be precise, it blends in perfectly with the surrounding land.

So much so that when she looked at it, she didn't think there was a problem at all.

But in Mei's memory, it shouldn't have been like this, and last night because of the frost that had congealed at the roots of the tree, she remembered that Fei had fallen heavily here.

At the time, they didn't even think to deal with it.

Then, according to the normal situation, there should be a trace of being crushed in that place now......

No.

Everything seems to have been restored, and it has been taken care of by an inexplicable big hand.

It's a particularly strange feeling.

The more perfect it was, the more it made her feel that something was wrong.

Mei's heart jumped wildly, and her eyes lit up.

She took a deep breath and didn't go any closer to the place, but instinctively opened her mouth—

"Hmmm......"

There was great horror in Mei's eyes, and she clutched her neck with her hands in pain.

She struggled to open her mouth wide, unable to make any sound other than grunt.

The blood gushing from her nose stopped her screaming.

From her chest, a stream of blood burst open from the inside out like a sword.

With a stream of bright red, the warrior fell silently.

Her spear lay beside her, her eyes glazed out.

Blood soaked her body, staining the silver-shimmering chainmail red.

In front of him, in the black dirt that Mei stared at before she died, a black current surged up, condensing a human figure in the air-

One of the three forbidden spellmasters of the Blasphemer, known as Sirius, Vyven stepped lightly over her corpse, his brow furrowed slightly.

"Stupid soldier ......"

She shook her head and said the last word.

"You shouldn't have found me."

I have to admit that the soldier's keen insight was completely unexpected by her.

But May couldn't hear it anymore.

The last thought that flashed through her mind before she completely lost thinking was-

[Look, those incompetent mage guards.] 】

With the pace of Weaving forward.

The corpses of the soldiers in the back turned into pools of blood.

Then quickly melt into the ground.

……