In the far north, the sky is cold and the earth is frozen, and everything is withering, but even the ice field within the Arctic Circle was once the frontier of the "gods" in the mythological era. To this day, the mystical forces of the Age of the Gods still reverberate in the depths of this ice, like ghosts stubbornly haunting this planet, hollowly calling out the glory of the Age of Mythology in the cold of winter - and this is truly the ultimate bastion of witchers.

It's not the first time they've stepped into the Arctic Circle, but they've never gone so far north as they do today: they're aiming for the North Pole, one of the coldest extremes in the world. As she stood on this endless ice field and listened to the cold wind howling in her ears, Vivien seemed to recall the most distant fragments of her memory—the years after the last ice age on Earth, the cold had not completely left the world, and large swaths of land and sea were still covered in ice, and Vivien woke up on such ice fields.

"Could it be that the place where you first woke up was in the North Pole?" After hearing Vivian's emotion, Hao Ren asked curiously, "Then let's dig down in this place, can we still dig out your relics?" ”

"It's just an ice field, who knows if it's the North Pole," Vivien shook her head, "and what a relic is, I'm still alive." ”

On the vast Arctic ice field, a rustic Big Dipper car was parked behind a steep ice rock, and Hao Ren and his companions left the car to observe the surrounding situation outside. But there's really nothing to see in this place: nothing but a dull and monotonous sheet of ice and snow as far as the eye can see, and a quiet ice field that has not been inhabited for thousands of years. Although human beings have set foot in the north and south poles, this is a bitter cold place that is difficult to survive in. On the Arctic ice sheet, there are still most places that no one has ever set foot in: and Hao Ren and his family must have taken this route.

In this empty place. It's really not even a hair.

White Fire was still wearing her somewhat tattered witcher uniform, only with an extra velvet underneath. This thin outfit really doesn't look like what it should be in the Arctic Circle, but the people on the scene are all supermen who are not afraid of heat and cold, and no one cares about the sense of disobedience in this dress. The witcher girl didn't pay attention to Hao Ren and Vivian's discussion, she just stood not far away and looked up at the starry sky quietly, silently calculating something from the position of the stars and the state of the starlight.

At this time, the North Pole is under the cover of the polar night, and it is the darkest hour, the stars in the sky are clearly discerned, and the exceptionally clear atmosphere makes it very easy to observe the stars. Bai Huo looked up at the stars and breathed a sigh of relief: "The stars are not chaotic yet. The Ancient Armament of Colpers should not have been activated yet. It seems that the Elder Order has not been able to bring down all the energy nodes. ”

"Can you tell by looking at the stars?" Hao Ren also used to look at the sky side by side with Bai Huo, but the stars in his eyes were stars, and he himself didn't quite understand the principle of astrological magic, "I run a lot in space, those are just glowing stars, thousands of light years away from the earth, what power can really provide to your magic?" ”

"The power of the stars lies not in the stars themselves, but in the artificial meaning given to them with the stars as a chessboard. Even if the stars aren't there, the astrological magic can still work," Bai Huo casually explained, "In fact, we're just using the stars as a coordinate system to construct the technique. ”

"Industrial leather. After that, it becomes difficult to use astral magic in some areas. Vivien muttered beside her, "The coordinate system has become blurry, and the hand-drawn astrolabe is inaccurate. Keeping track of all the stars from memory was too brain-burning, and many wizards living in Europe gave up on the project. ”

Hao Ren didn't react at once: "Why? ”

"Air pollution. In modern times, there is also light pollution, which is a terrible thing. You have to use half a pound of eye drops to make a horoscope. Several astrological masters have become cataracts because of staring at the sky," Vivien pouted, "I admire humans for everything else, but I can't admire this, they don't give astrologers a way to live......"

Hao Ren was speechless for a moment, coughed dryly twice to expose this somewhat strange topic, and began to ask Bai Huo about his next move: "We have arrived here, how far is it from the 'fortress' you said?" ”

Bai Huo looked at the ice field under the dark night, ordinary people would probably lose their way immediately when they stood here, but she had lived on this ice field since she was a child, and she had been trained on this ice field, and she could accurately locate everything on the ice field with her intuition alone. She pointed in a certain direction: "Go that way, about ten kilometers will reach the 'mesolayer' of the ice fortress." Judging by the astrological signs, the Ice Fortress should still be in our hands at the moment. ”

"What does that ice fortress have to do with 'Colpers'?" Hao Ren was very interested in the demon hunter's base camp, and he still didn't understand what kind of logic this god was talking about being a hidden space and an ancient secret realm, "It's the gate?" ”

"Suffice it to say," White Fire nodded slightly, "Colpers is a space that has existed since ancient times, just like Tartarus, Asgard, and Olympus in the past, but it is more stable, more expansive, and more mysterious, so to speak, this incredible space is also one of the important factors for the witchers to gain the upper hand in the battle for the end of myths. The entrance to Colpers is located at the North Pole and is completely fixed in that position, so in order to defend their fortress, the first demon hunters built a tower with powerful magic at the entrance and exit of the other dimension, called the 'Tower of the Stars', which is partly in the real world and partly extends to Colpers, which functions as a passage. Later, as the power of the witchers grew, the predecessors began to expand the real-world part of the Tower of the Stars, and slowly the tower was expanded into a huge fortress - that is, the Ice Fortress. ”

Lily's ears twitched: "So now the Elder Order is equivalent to being suppressed by you in the Colpers space?" Although they have an advantage in combat power, as long as the Ice Fortress and the Star Tower are still in the hands of the 'normal demon hunters', the Elder Order will not be able to escape? ”

"That's right, that's our only advantage," White Fire smiled bitterly, "We gathered our brothers and sisters from all over the world to send the Elder Order back from the entrance to Colpers, and it cost nearly 10,000 people to defend the Tower of Stars. ”

Hao Ren didn't say anything, just squatted down and scratched on the ice and snow with his fingers, and raised his head after a while: "It's not safe to open the gate of the legion in the Ice Fortress, there is the entrance to Colpers, the spatial structure may be unstable, and when the door is opened, it may give the Elder Order a chance to take advantage of." If you don't have a problem, I think this is a good place to start. ”

Bai Huo had a question that had been held all the way, and at this time he finally couldn't help it: "So you're going to use the portal to pass your 'army' over?" Do you really have an army? ”

"Nonsense, it's all here, do you still think we plan to use these few people to cut down the 100,000 elder group?" Hao Ren rolled his eyes, and then looked at a few friends around him, except for the cat taking care of the fish at home, he brought out all the thugs of the "Hao Ren Shelter" this time, and even Nangong's parents were not left behind, but these are still not the main force of the operation, the main force of the operation is still on the new Erim star eight hundred light years away, and is preparing under the organization of La Nina, waiting for the moment when the portal opens, "My centaurs are far away from here, to be honest, If it weren't for the fact that your Elders would have been a nuisance to me once they activated that ancient armament, I wouldn't have used such a big deal - you have to owe me a great favor. ”

Bai Huo listened to Hao Ren in a daze, and nodded very seriously: "I will keep in mind, as long as you can help the demon hunter through this crisis, I am willing to swear allegiance to you." ”

Hao Renxin said that what age is this still popular to swear allegiance, and if it is to be carried out according to the normal script, he should let the defeated girl in front of him promise him at this time, but he felt that if he really wanted to say this, he would be easily killed on the spot, so he swallowed back those unrealistic thoughts and began to pour all kinds of bits and pieces out of his personal space.

It would be his biggest ever operation on Earth:

Build a demon portal and summon an army of 100,000 from an alien planet!

Oh no, according to the work report, he's going to call in 100,000 peacekeepers - that's a lot better to say.

(The manuscript can't be made up again...... I'm brewing a big news by the way...... (To be continued.) )