When Sawyer got the news of the battle in Snow City, it was already more than half a month later. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

When he learned about the bandit crisis of Xue Man Leader in Morning Star City, no matter how anxious Sawa was, he knew in his heart that it was impossible for him to rush back to Xue Man in time, and even if he could catch up with the decisive battle in Snow Man City, he would not be able to provide much help in such a large-scale battle, after all, his strength was still too weak.

What's more, as the lord of the Snow Man, Sawa knows very well the background of the Snow Man, even if this group of robbers has any special hole cards, they can't take down Snow Man City, at most they can cause some damage to the walls of Snow Man City.

After thinking clearly about the stakes, Sawa and the others put aside their worries, took advantage of the half-price discount on the Warrior's Day to buy a lot, and then went back to the hotel to sleep with peace of mind.

It is worth mentioning that, for some unknown reason, Sawyer did not see Elandur, the priest who turned away from Valmina and joined Akai, at the hotel, and the residents of Morningstar City were not plagued by nightmares.

"Looks like we don't have to worry about rotting the skull for the time being."

Sawyer muttered, and fell asleep peacefully.

After leaving Morningstar, Sawyer's team headed north, and only after they saw the coastline on the ice field did they turn east and set off in the direction of Winterhold.

The road of the ice field is not easy to walk, or rather, there is no road on the ice field, and there are no landmark places in sight on the endless ice field, and Sawyer can only rely on the coastline to make sure that he has not deviated from the direction, which is why Sawyer continued to hurry after seeing the coastline.

But the greater difficulty is finding the ice grass.

In order to complete Ms. Lamy's task, which originally only took four or five days to travel, Soya walked for nineteen days, but even if it took an extra half a month, Soya only found twenty-three strains of Ice Grass, and only eleven of them were successfully collected.

Most of the ice weeds that had no choice but to give up grew in the ice below half a meter, and even if they could be found, Sawyer would not be able to break through the ice that was harder than steel.

In addition to looking for the ice weed, Sawyer and they have also experienced more than ten battles large and small, they fought with ice wolves, snow bears, three-toothed dolphins and even snow trolls, escaped under the pursuit of three ice wolves, and even encountered a dragon that hunted for food, everyone in the team was seriously injured at least once, as warriors Felina and Ah Ye, they would be seriously injured almost every two days, if it weren't for the doctor's treatment skills enough, maybe they would need to send a few companions to the Hall of the Dead in Wintercastle.

The intensive battle has also made everyone have a huge improvement, the most level increase is Ah Ye, from level 14 when he left Morning Star City, all the way to level 21, Filina has been promoted three levels in a row to level 20, and is asking Ah Ye how to awaken the "energy" in his body, as for Rick, he has only increased by 1 level, reaching level 27, but he is still the highest level in the team.

Sawyer's progress is similar to that of Filina, who has also increased from level 17 to level 20, and by the way, he has filled up most of the experience bar of level 20, and has also received the "privilege escalation task" issued by the system.

【Privilege Escalation Task】

[Requirement 1: Complete Awakening]

[Requirement 2: Unknown]

【Reward: Unknown】

After seeing the task requirements, Soya's head was big, and he didn't know how long he would be stuck just after an awakening, and he heard Ah Ye say that he was stuck for a month and a half, and then after a chance, he luckily awakened his "battle qi".

In addition, the thing that makes Sawyer even more headache is that he doesn't know what direction he should work towards, the so-called "awakening" is too complicated, and everyone's awakening direction is different, just the rough division of the big categories, there are more than ten.

For example, Ah Ye's reawakening of the "Axe Gang" is the "battle qi" that belongs to the direction of melee attack, while the direction of Filina's efforts is the "power of qi and blood" that is biased towards defense, or the "internal strength" that takes into account both defense and offense.

For Sawyer, he prefers the "Arrow Spirit" in the direction of long-distance penetration, but now it seems that the "Sword Intent" that combines dexterity and sharpness also seems to be suitable for him, but no matter which direction it is, he has no clue at all.

Awakening is a completely new realm for Sawyer, he has seen the power of awakening many times, but he doesn't know anything about how to awaken, including the knowledge of the elf king Serua, which is only a little generalized, and in addition, what he knows is only what he heard from Ah Ye and Rick.

Different directions of awakening have completely different methods, and except for the most popular and banal "qi", other directions need the assistance of external objects when awakening. In addition, there is also the problem of compatibility and endurance that needs to be considered, once the physique is incompatible, or the physique is too poor to bear, it will be seriously injured and downgraded, and it will be death on the spot.

For example, Ah Ye's awakened "axe", even in the awakening of melee direction, is also a kind of great destructiveness, awakening in addition to the awakened person has a deep understanding of axe weapons, an altar and a powerful axe as a sacrifice, but also needs an extremely powerful body, otherwise when operating energy, the "axe" in the body will instantly tear the user's body apart.

If Sawyer wants to awaken the "arrow spirit", he needs a special altar and a powerful set of bows and arrows, and the sandalwood bow and elven arrows in his hand are very suitable, but after the awakening is completed, it is estimated that the remaining elven arrows will all be destroyed, and the sandalwood bow will also need to be overhauled almost recast.

And if it is the awakening of the "sword intent", the elf sword in Sawyer's hand is also a suitable sacrifice, and the longsword with the [Legendary] label only needs to be "rested" for a while after the awakening ceremony to fully recover.

However, all this is only if he can find a way to awaken, and find enough materials to build a suitable altar.

Luckily, the Vault of the Winterhold Academy of Spells is the largest library in the entire sky, and once he joins the Academy, he will be able to find the knowledge he needs in the Vault.

In addition to the intense fighting, the greater test was deadly cold and very little sleep.

In the beginning, with the equipment provided by Ms. Lamy, the cold was not a serious problem, and even in the coldest of the mornings, the thick clothing kept everyone warm, and the team had enough time to find a suitable campsite.

However, as the journey continued, after one battle after another, the snow bear's fur made of clothing became more and more torn, and Sawyer, who was the only blacksmith who could do the work, had to temporarily tann the fur of his prey and roughly repair the holes in his clothes, but the clothes were inevitably getting worse and worse in keeping out the cold.

After encountering a wandering dragon in one of the ice fields, three sets of clothing were completely destroyed, and the makeshift fur clothing simply did not provide enough protection from the cold, so that everyone had to spend more than an hour every day looking for a warmer shelter from the wind.

On top of that, there are fewer traces of civilization and the terrain is becoming more complex, so Sawyer's team needs more time to find a place to camp, and when they do find a suitable place, they often encounter wandering predators in the middle of the night - ice wolves, snow bears, frost wraiths and even snow trolls, often having to get up and fight after only four or five hours of sleep.

After provoking a large group of ice wolves, everyone had no time to rest, and they were often chased by the wolves after just two hours of sleep, and finally even fled for two days in a row, until they encountered the wandering dragon, and the wolves were dispersed by the dragon.

However, they were exhausted by two days of fleeing, and they suffered heavy losses against the dragon, and only after paying the price of one person being seriously injured and unconscious, and four seriously injured, they barely managed to kill the dragon.

After the war, even with the treatment of the doctor, everyone only barely recovered their mobility, and the squad with almost zero combat effectiveness did not dare to delay any longer, and set off at full speed after a few hours of sleepless travel, and finally completed the journey that lasted for more than half a month on the evening of the 10th of the night and arrived at Wintercastle.

The members of the team, who were physically and mentally exhausted and thirsty, devoured a dinner for ten people, and had no interest in chatting, so they went back to their houses to sleep.

This sleep, I slept until noon the next day, and by the time Sawa got up to call for lunch, Rick and Ah Huan had not woken up yet.

Sawyer, who was a little dazed in his sleep, suddenly heard the words "Battle of Snow Man" in the troubadour's song while drinking soup, and after asking the innkeeper about it, he learned that the battle in Snow Man City was over on the day they had just left Morning Star City.

The drinkers in the tavern were also provoked by Sawyer, and talked about the battle in Xueman City in a mess, of course, there was never definite news in the mouths of these drinkers, it was all exaggerated rumors, and Sawyer even heard the saying that "200,000 troops will fight in Xueman", and almost squirted a mouthful of ale on the waiter.

However, listening to the discussion of this group of drinkers, Sawyer gradually gathered the scattered news, and generally understood the entire battle of Snow City.

"Eighth Uncle really can't bear it, Ireles and those knights were suppressed by the enemy, and they didn't send out the Snow Man Guard, so they were stunned and kept as hole cards to the end."

Sawyer swallowed a mouthful of hot soup and couldn't stop admiring.

However, the rumors could not fully restore the facts, and although in the mouths of merchants and troubadours, it was Lord Barguf who was wise and calculating, but in reality, the commander-in-chief of the entire campaign was the little-known Nodia.

Contrary to the rumors, Barguv not only did not press the Snow Man Guards to the end, but also constantly ordered Nodia to send this trump card to determine the battle in one fell swoop.

On the contrary, it was Nodia who withstood the pressure and resisted orders for almost the entire battle, but achieved a brilliant victory.

According to the statistics of Xueman's side, in this battle, the 800 city guards were almost completely lost, the defenders of the 1,000 urn city were killed 600, and the survivors were seriously injured, but the guards of the inner city only killed more than 500 people, in addition to 12 knights killed in battle, 8 knights were seriously injured, the head of the guard Irelais was seriously injured, about 30 Xueman guards were slightly injured, and the mage legion was all out of strength.

On the other hand, on the bandit side, almost all of the 15,000 robbers were killed, and only when attacking the outer city and the outer walls, a few hundred robbers escaped, and the battle loss ratio was as high as 1 to 7, and if you count the battle loss ratio of the regular army and above, it reached a ratio of 1 to 9!

According to the news of the caravan, Xueman's army only cultivated for three days, and then attacked again with a great victory, and it only took a week to wipe out all the robbers in Xueman's territory, but they did not lose a single soldier, of course, no loss is definitely an exaggeration, but it can also be seen that the operation went smoothly.

After this battle, the Xue Manling also jumped from the territory with the worst security before to the territory with the best security in the whole territory, and there was no one, the remaining robbers fled to the outer territory, and the robbers of the outer territory did not dare to enter the Xue Manling for a while, so that the Xue Manling had a rare opportunity for peace.