It's been six hours, and Dad hasn't come back yet.

Leaning against the warm fire, little Lim looked out the window and sighed deeply.

Looking down from the window on the second floor of her house, the small mountain town of Francois was covered in snow. There were no people walking around the streets, and all the storefronts were closed.

The snowflakes that began to fall in March last year have not stopped to this day. With the arrival of the New Year in the year 917 of the Gods, countless people died in the deep mountains covered with snow and ice.

Those who slipped and fell to their deaths, those who were bitten to death by winter wolves, and those who were trapped outside the city for various reasons and froze to death. Every year when winter arrives, more than a dozen families in this small city are in the throes of losing their loved ones.

It's only three or four o'clock in the afternoon, and it's already dark outside. Snowflakes fell quietly, and the houses were pitch black, and there was not a single fire in them.

It feels like the end of the world. Although there are no ruins, at first glance, it looks like a decade after the extinction of mankind. The street was buried in a blanket of snow, the white reminiscent of a shroud.

Of course, not all the families who didn't light the fire died in the snow, so they didn't light the fire. The correct answer is to save not a lot of fire.

According to the experience of previous years, the long snow season lasts for more than half a month. The cold snap that sweeps through the whole territory of Francos from mid-March can drive the mountain animals into hibernation within a few days, and the heavy snow that falls at the end of the year lasts for two weeks in a row. In these two weeks, let alone going out. Even if you are cleaning the snow piled up at the door and by the window on a daily basis, you can't open the door for more than two seconds.

Otherwise. The heat that has been built up will be extinguished in an instant.

A stove fire reserve alone is simply not enough to survive such a cold winter.

So. The mountain people of Sodom have been bringing several families together for many years during the winter. Families lived in one room, pooling together the supplies they had accumulated, especially firewood, to save the fire and survive the difficult month.

The same goes for Little Lim's family. Because her family's house is relatively large, there are people living in her house every year in winter.

The people who live in her house this year are old Peter, the best blacksmith in Sodom, and the baker's family who can make soft and sweet white bread.

Old Peter was a lame winter dwarf who loved to drink and brag. The voice was loud and hoarse, and a pair of big scary hands were red like a soldering iron, hard to the touch, and there were some hard scars like calluses on the palms of the hands. He always liked to come up to little Lim and tell stories in her unbearable voice, which she had never heard before, but which didn't seem to be of any use.

Little Lim didn't really like Old Uncle Peter very much. Rather, she hated the rude old dwarf a little.

Compared to Old Peter, the baker who can still make soft and sweet white bread is much better. At least he had a clean beard, his hair was not oily, he had a nice smell like Uncle Joel, and he had a nice voice and told jokes. Even if his wife, who was fat and soft like white bread, spoke too sharply. Even if his son cries at night and likes to pee on the ground, little Lim is willing to let the family live here.

If it weren't for her father's respect for Old Peter, Master Lim wouldn't have graced this rude old dwarf to move in!

…… But when will Daddy come back?

Thinking of this, little Lim sighed again.

She leaned against the window. I stared blankly at the unchanging snow scene outside the window.

Mom told her that her father was going to do something great - in fact, even though she was only six years old this year, she could still roughly understand what her father was doing.

A week ago. A dozen of Sodom's warriors, inspired by Roda Khan, traveled to the White Tower to exterminate the evil sorcerers. And under the protection of Lord Roda Khan, he successfully defeated him, pushing the evil White Tower to the ground. Cut off the wizard's legacy as well.

This cannot but be said to be a brilliant victory.

But something embarrassing arose - because after the victory of the war, the warriors delayed the White Tower for too long in order to completely destroy the evil inheritance of the White Tower. By the time the warriors who had gone to the White Tower to defeat the wizards returned, the heavy snow had blocked their path.

In such a cold winter, even the knights with strong bodies did not dare to climb through the snow more than half a meter high to rush back. It's better to say that the tin cans on their bodies can directly bury them.

When the baker said this to little Lim with his eyebrows fluttering, little Lim almost laughed and her stomach hurt.

However, in order to prevent them from being buried, Lim Jr.'s father and a few other experienced hunters went to the eastern trail to pick up the Templars who had almost been buried.

Speaking of which, it is necessary to mention the pride of little Lim - her father Kantin, the white wolf of the Coruman family, Kantin, is a well-known old hunter. He once hunted a wurm monster alone, and thus received the favor of Lorda Khan and the power to perform magical magic.

The famous battle of the white wolf Conding has been adapted into various legendary stories that have been circulated in other places. Four years ago, he killed nine winter wolves with six throwing axes, and then a pot of arrows was even more unmissed, and he completely repelled the wolf tide near the end of the snow season in the wilderness.

In the end, after all the weapons were used up, he fought the wolf king for a day and a night with hand-to-hand combat skills, and finally the wolf king admitted defeat and led the wolf tide to retreat from the city of Sodom, and since then he has not come back every winter.

Konding the White Wolf, Konding the Wolf King, Konding the Wolf King - his father's growing fame eventually attracted the bards of Caral to cross the mountains to collect Cantin's stories and compile them into poems.

The White Wolf Konding is the patron saint of Sodom, a legendary hunter who has been rewarded by Lorda Khan, and the pride of little Lim.

She never believed that her father would be hurt in such a level of snow. It's only the beginning of January, and the coldest time is near the end of the snow season in mid-January. My father had defeated the Wolf King at that time, so how could he be injured in a heavy snow of this level?

"Huh? That's ......"

Just then, little Lim saw something strange.

Her eyes widened, she pressed her tiny face against the window, and held her breath.

As little Lim focused, she finally saw the true body of the black dot that was moving around.

It was a man in a black cloak.

In the snowy weather that was enough to freeze a man to death, the man made a difficult trek through the heavy snow, moving slowly and lonely.

Even if he didn't enter the city, he didn't mean to turn on Sodom's side, but little Lim had an inexplicable feeling that the man was coming towards Sodom.

If you look closely, it seems that there is still a person behind him......

Little Lim's eyes and mouth gradually widened, and she let out an incredible cry:

"-Daddy?!" (To be continued.) )